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Humphreys posted:drat it felt cool being the only kid with the full 'Aircraft Carrier Config' as we called it. Then we played some games and it was lovely and not worth the hype. Especially the games that required both 32x and SegaCD My brother and I had the whole setup too. Some of the Sega CD games were cool, but the 32x games generally sucked.
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EVIR Gibson posted:Around 2001, we were trying to network out apartment that was made of two floors. Getting ethernet wire to run all the way around was lovely, but I could hit everyone on the first floor. It was the upstairs people I couldn't get. Remember making modern art sculptures out of the connectors? 
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Dirk Squarejaw posted:My brother and I had the whole setup too. Some of the Sega CD games were cool, but the 32x games generally sucked. What were some games that required both the 32x and the CD? They better have been good enough to spend $300 on. God drat. The only 32x game I played was Afterburner, I think. Game was loving fast as hell and threw hundreds of explosions in your face every second. I'd fire it up and immediately die because I had no time to think. What were some decent 32x games besides Doom: Fart Soundtrack Edition?
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this is the flightsim that ate my childhood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr4B0kOdBXQ
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Anybody played Starfleet II: Krellan Commander?    and the intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsTlnQ5WnWM (this was played via PC-Beeper and I didn't find any other version of the intro music, it sounds pretty wrong and doesn't do the PC-Speaker I had justice to be honest, a classical piece and it sounded quite nice) It was a game mostly played in ASCII, but with a few graphic screens if you were to be so lucky as to have an EGA Card at least. You played basically a TOS-Era Klingon commanding a battleship, had to finish mission objectives (which got balls-hard towards the end) but could do all sort of neat things from space battle, to boarding ships, to enslaving/torturing/executing/interrogating people. You could also build bases, send away teams, infiltrate, invade (which was almost a game in itself) and bombard planets of varying technological level (starting from stone age) and allegiance. This game didn't become a classic because it was delivered in a very sorry and unfinished state, or so I heard. I don't know about that, I played the patched version. It also has a manual which is several hundred pages and a must-read to really get what's even going on in the game. The first game in the series had you in the role of the humans and was also pretty good if not that detailed, there also was kind of an successor called Star Legions which focused on the invasion part exclusively and apparently was what the invasion part was supposed to be but couldn't because of lack of time.
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Mak0rz posted:What were some decent 32x games besides Doom: Fart Soundtrack Edition? I remember liking that, Mortal Kombat 2, and Star Wars Arcade in particular. But of course I also liked most of those terrible FMV games, so might have just been an easily-amused child.
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Star Wars Arcade. I also bought the 32X enhanced version of Night Trap, mostly for notoriety's sake.
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Mak0rz posted:What were some games that required both the 32x and the CD? They better have been good enough to spend $300 on. God drat. There were only 6: Corpse Killer Fahrenheit Night Trap Slam City with Scottie Pippen Surgical Strike (Brazil only) Supreme Warrior The only 32x (not cd) games I remember playing off the top of my head are MKII, Virtua Fighter and Virtua Racing. MKII wasn't much better than the Genesis version, Virtua Fighter was cool at the time, and Virtua Racing felt like you were driving along at 20mph.
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Kolibri was ridiculously pretty. Sega CD version of Ecco had amazing soundtrack: https://youtu.be/PEiroXceWtU
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Comrade Koba posted:Oh man, Hind was the best sim ever. Why does he keep asking "Whatcha gonna do soldier?" from 2:26 on?
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Dirk Squarejaw posted:There were only 6: All FMV games. Nice.
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Some keyboards used to have little short pins near the function keys, so you could put little plastic cutouts with the shortcuts for the keys around them to remember what they were for. I remember using one like this with a WordPerfect overlay on it when I was in elementary school. Here is a "song" made with an ImageWriter II, which was a thing we were occasionally allowed to use in elementary school since INK IS EXPENSIVE!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0QHY7S-OtU
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My dad used to work nights, and wasn't really happy when I'd be in the room above my parents bedroom printing out dumb stuff from PrintShop on our 386's dot matrix printer.
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also, making those weird springy things by folding over the edges of the perforated stuff you tear off dot matrix paper. those were fun, and I still find myself doing it on the occasion that I get a receipt somewhere that still does it on dot matrix. (it's not as uncommon as you'd think it should be.)
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two forty posted:Some keyboards used to have little short pins near the function keys, so you could put little plastic cutouts with the shortcuts for the keys around them to remember what they were for. I remember using one like this with a WordPerfect overlay on it when I was in elementary school. What? I had keyboard overlays that didn't require those pin things. Don't tell me that even keyboard overlays weren't compatible between Apple & PC?
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Humphreys posted:There was a game I used to play with a friend called 'Tumble Bugs' or similar. Every search I do comes up with some puzzle game unfortunately. The one I've been looking for was out sometime between 1998 and 2001. It was an Isometric shoot em up arena deathmatch game. Little planes/spaceships flying around the screen and you could play a 2 player deathmatch with both players sharing a keyboard if I remember correctly (could have been keyboard for one player and mouse for second). A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:I think that this is the Tumble Bugs you're looking for. Dang, I remember this, I also remember the medical aspect Dr.Caligari posted:I've seen mention of CD's shattering in the drive mentioned in this thread, and I can confirm this did happen. I had a CD of Final Fantasy Tactics that had a very tiny hairline crack on the center hole. I was trying to make a back up of it and it exploded in the drive. It wasn't too much of a mess and didn't damage anything but the disc, but it made a horrible noise I can't remember if I already posted but I did this while playing xcom apocalypse. Fucker disintergrated. Copied it for my friend and had to beg it back to make another copy for me. Still never beat that game. I played tactics via bleem for years. ShiroTheSniper posted:Best 8bits era song: Solstice Theme for the NES my memories of this are apparently not 8 bit but yeah that game was awesome PS http://www.blitter.com/~russtopia/MIDI/~jglatt/
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two forty posted:also, making those weird springy things by folding over the edges of the perforated stuff you tear off dot matrix paper. those were fun, and I still find myself doing it on the occasion that I get a receipt somewhere that still does it on dot matrix. (it's not as uncommon as you'd think it should be.) Like all the frickin auto part shops do that
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two forty posted:Here is a "song" made with an ImageWriter II, which was a thing we were occasionally allowed to use in elementary school since INK IS EXPENSIVE!! It gets better: they play that song live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmc97AZSlvM
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Dirk Squarejaw posted:There were only 6: corpse killer is good
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:Any mid-nineties Mac gamers around here? Oh yes. Yes yes yes yes yes. I play Destiny now for the Marathon allusions, which are (they're) everywhere. 
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laserghost posted:Kolibri was ridiculously pretty. Yessssss. Ecco may not have been one of the most popular games, but the Sega cd game had wonderful music that could be incredibly soothing or hauntingly beautiful.
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gently caress you and your spiders, Chip These two ruled, though   Windows 3.1 4 lyfe
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I had some weird clone of Chip's Challange on my school provided SuperMac (Remember Mac clones?). I didn't care for it much. Not sure where I got it from.
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Mak0rz posted:The only 32x game I played was Afterburner, I think. Game was loving fast as hell and threw hundreds of explosions in your face every second. I'd fire it up and immediately die because I had no time to think. What were some decent 32x games besides Doom: Fart Soundtrack Edition?  Kolibri has been mentioned a lot ITT. It was by the Ecco the Dolphin folks.  Virtua Fighter suffers from a lower polycount, but it plays better than the initial rushed Saturn port. 
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The Kins posted:Space Harrier's another good arcade port. This reminds me, what was the name of that Sega Saturn game that was a low polygon rail shooter? Cop something... crisis?
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Wicker Man posted:This reminds me, what was the name of that Sega Saturn game that was a low polygon rail shooter? Cop something... crisis? Time Crisis? I never had a Saturn, but there used to be a Time Crisis in every single arcade.
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That Kolibri game looks beautiful as hell but still lmao at the Genesis still being unable to do transparency effects even with the 32x.
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Wicker Man posted:This reminds me, what was the name of that Sega Saturn game that was a low polygon rail shooter? Cop something... crisis?  Time Crisis was Namco's answer. It had a big "ACTION" pedal that you stepped down on to jump out of cover, and let your foot off to reload dodge attacks.  EDIT: Oh yeah, I was going to post this but the lightgun game question distracted me and I forgot... one of the guys behind that awesome "8088mph" demo posted earlier converted a bunch of old computer fonts to a modern format that you can use in Windows and such. 
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The Kins posted:Virtua Cop was Sega's lightgun game. I had a copy of Virtua Cop of dodgy origins on PC back when it came out. For hte life of me I couldnt never get audio to work. I wonder if it was some kind of Bleem! conversion gone wrong.
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Wicker Man posted:Yessssss. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRgIKFYcgDE
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Sega ported a lot of their games to PC during the Saturn era, even relatively obscure Enemy Zero, which I luckily grabbed for cheap two years ago. Those ports were also really good and games looked way better than on Saturn. Too bad Die Hard Arcade and Nights were ommited, but we got... Bug!(?) Some Genesis games were also converted, all Sonic games, Comix Zone and CD version of Ecco.
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Ive only ever had two hdd outright fail on me. One was in a powerbook g4 which means it was either a hitachi or seagate i believe given the vintage). The other was a hitachi deskstar in one of my PCs. Lost a ton of important data in both cases. I personally always had good luck with western digitals before the ssd era. Unrelated story, when I was maybe 9 or 10 my family had bought our first proper home PC, a Micron running Win 95 iirc (0.75 gb of hdd space, i think 32mb of ram and prob like 100-200mhz processing power just going off memory):  You could alter an *.ini file to change the shell from explorer and I wanted to try geoshell. Well... It kinda sucked so when i went to switch back i accidentally saved it as "exporer.exe" which caused the system to kind of brick. I panicked because the os would no longer load. I eventually found a boot recovery disc that let me get to a dos prompt and i was able to fix the typo. I felt pretty craft since this was before you could just look up how to do anything technical on your phone 
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I had a Micron PC as well, that thing worked way longer than it had any right to. The thing was a beast when it came out, with a 2GB hard drive, 200mhz processor, and SCSI capabilities. I think we got it in 96 and didn't replace it until 2001, although buying a 3dfx card and a Jaz drive gave it enough life support to last that long. Looking back 5 years doesn't seem that long, I think my current PC is about that old and it's still incredibly capable, but back then technology progressed so fast that a computer that was 2 years old was nearly obsolete.
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gently caress, that's what it was, Virtua Cop! Had an old friend I'd hang out with to coop that game with. It used to be on display for anyone to try at the electronic store in the BX in Boise. About the failing hardrives, I heard part of the failure has to do with how often you erase then rewrite stuff on it. Is that true? If so, how often did you guys ever rewrite data on it? Or did you all sort of steadily add stuff overtime without erasing anything?
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thathonkey posted:You could alter an *.ini file to change the shell from explorer and I wanted to try geoshell. Well... It kinda sucked so when i went to switch back i accidentally saved it as "exporer.exe" which caused the system to kind of brick. I panicked because the os would no longer load. Oh come on, just boot in DOS and edit win.ini with edit.com. Or didn't the Windows 95 boot loader have the menu that let you choose between Windows, DOS, safe mode Windows, etc.? Or pop in the install disk... let me guess, you didn't have it, or installed from floppies. Sorry, speaking from my Windows 98 privilege
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Big Mean Jerk posted:gently caress you and your spiders, Chip Oh poo poo, I didn't remember those until now... also, content:  I had this "expansion" the only original game I had, and it was an expansion.
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two forty posted:also, making those weird springy things by folding over the edges of the perforated stuff you tear off dot matrix paper. those were fun, and I still find myself doing it on the occasion that I get a receipt somewhere that still does it on dot matrix. (it's not as uncommon as you'd think it should be.) Still the most sensible way to print things out in triplicate.
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Saw a 3d printer that glues layers of paper together and it uses sprocketed paper.
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hackbunny posted:Oh come on, just boot in DOS and edit win.ini with edit.com. Or didn't the Windows 95 boot loader have the menu that let you choose between Windows, DOS, safe mode Windows, etc.? Or pop in the install disk... let me guess, you didn't have it, or installed from floppies. Sorry, speaking from my Windows 98 privilege quote:I eventually found a boot recovery disc that let me get to a dos prompt and i was able to fix the typo. way to read my post idiot
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Back when the world was young and everything was fresh and new, my family often switched between America Online and CompuServe for internet services. I preferred spazzing out in AOL's chatrooms, but CompuServe had one thing going for it: online text-based games. My favorite was British Legends, an old MUD, basically one of the precursors to MMOs. The interface didn't look like this, but the text is the same. It seemed a lot more expansive and freeform than my 8 and 16-bit console games, and playing with people was intriguing if at times infuriating. Too bad it came at a time when AOL and CS were still charging by the hour or whatever their rate was. After a couple of months of unusually high bills, my parents made sure I never pulled that stunt again. I made do with free, single player text based games for a while, and then moved on. On a related note, I found an old floppy of mine wherein I had stored a text file describing my future plans. It basically consisted of 1. Getting job 2. Earning $10,000 3. Quit job 4. Play British Legends
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