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ruddiger posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ifNTb1Xx_I Jammin' Julian Jumping' Perez
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The first two Bubsy games got a Steam re-release. I was gifted it.  I made powerful enemies I assume.
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:The first two Bubsy games got a Steam re-release. Doesn't steam allow you to deny gifts? It seems like your own fault, really.
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It's also just two SNES ROMs wrapped in an emulator.
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Travis343 posted:Your post illustrates this pretty well, if a SNES game was an original IP it was much more likely to be good than if it was based on an existing property (a movie, tv series, or Shaq), and that chance goes up again if the game is a SNES exclusive (Secret of Mana was better than Earthworm Jim) True we know that now, but back then licensed games had an attraction that original IPs wouldn't. Everyone knows who Batman is, but who knows what Secret of Mana is unless someone told you about it?
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Wanamingo posted:Doesn't steam allow you to deny gifts? It seems like your own fault, really. I never said I wasn't my own enemy.
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Slightly 80s, but does anyone remember the 3-2-1 Contact magazine? I distinctly remember a small comic strip at the bottom of some of the pages featuring various bugs, including twin sister ants and an earthworm wearing a bandaid. I swear it exists but can't find any proof, if someone could please corroborate my memory I'd be infinitely grateful.
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twistedmentat posted:True we know that now, but back then licensed games had an attraction that original IPs wouldn't. Everyone knows who Batman is, but who knows what Secret of Mana is unless someone told you about it? That was also before the internet really came into full swing. Word got around that a game was garbage pretty slowly so you could plan on a certain number of guaranteed sales. So long as you didn't make a game that was as completely atrocious as, say, E.T. on Atari you could expect not much word of mouth tanking sales. Now that the internet exists word gets around about a game being very good or very bad pretty quickly. Same for movies or well...anything, really. Then you could make a neat enough early game for the magazines to say "yeah this is OK," make a few ads and nice screenshots, and sell enough copies to make a profit. All you really had to do was make sure the game was forgettable. Now, though, the internet will absolutely not forget and reviews are a Google search away.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:That was also before the internet really came into full swing. Word got around that a game was garbage pretty slowly so you could plan on a certain number of guaranteed sales. So long as you didn't make a game that was as completely atrocious as, say, E.T. on Atari you could expect not much word of mouth tanking sales. Yep, and that is killing presales now. EB/Gamestop has built their entire profit structure on getting presales because its either a guaranteed sale or in the case someone doens't pick it up, its still money in their pockets. Things like CoD, Battlefield, Batman and Assassins Creed games were all solid sellers and got lots and lots of pre orders, but with recent installments being unplayable, way to short, or all around super lovely, no one wants to risk pre ordering now. Though I remember you pretty much had to pre order games in the Playstation/n64 era, because stores would only carry enough to support their pre orders, even for big stuff. I literally had to wait weeks to get Final Fantasy 7 because of that. Oh big box stores would have tons, but if you lived somewhere where there wasn't one, hah gently caress you. And magazines at the time didn't help either. I believed if a game had a cover story in nintendo power, it had to be good! I think thats why I dumped nintendo and want nothing to do with them, i spend actual money on Fester Quest. The only games I buy day 1 these days are GTA, Fallout, and Civ games. though Bioware won me back with having Inquisition being really good. I big part of my teenage years was watching electric circus on much music. For many reasons, not just the sight of lots of hot women in sexy clothes. Hey there was no internet at that time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3PWT53_hdQ Seriously, there was really no place you could hear/see electronic music in any forum for someone who wasn't old enough to go to clubs or what not.
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Anyone remember that thing Nickelodeon did when they broadcast a bunch of episodes of their shows in 3D and gave away glasses in cereal boxes? I just thought about it for the first time in years and it occurred to me that it's one hell of a marketing gimmick. I have a vivid memory of begging my mother to get a box of honeycomb for the glasses because it was the least sugary looking thing that they came with. She wasn't persuaded.
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Semisponge posted:Slightly 80s, but does anyone remember the 3-2-1 Contact magazine? I distinctly remember a small comic strip at the bottom of some of the pages featuring various bugs, including twin sister ants and an earthworm wearing a bandaid. I swear it exists but can't find any proof, if someone could please corroborate my memory I'd be infinitely grateful. I had a subscription to that magazine in elementary school, but I don't remember anything about it, sadly. E: Hm, maybe I'm imagining having a subscription, but I DID have copies of the magazine. PacoTheThird has a new favorite as of 12:38 on Feb 4, 2016 |
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While we're talking about 90's gaming. This was my youth in magazine form:
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Gamepro and EGM for me.
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Plavski posted:While we're talking about 90's gaming. This was my youth in magazine form: *is instantly transported back to childhood* I think I still have the little address/notebook thing at my parent's place that they gave away with one of the first 3 issues. It has the name and phone number of the girl I used to like.
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whiteyfats posted:Gamepro and EGM for me. EGM is post the most 2000s thing you can find
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I wish she was in my dad's closet, all I found was really lame softcore porn, like not even X-rated stuff, like half-X-rated.
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Mr Blobby... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NngdWbvpztk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h37KQu64RY4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ecfm424WpZk
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sinking belle posted:Anyone remember that thing Nickelodeon did when they broadcast a bunch of episodes of their shows in 3D and gave away glasses in cereal boxes? I just thought about it for the first time in years and it occurred to me that it's one hell of a marketing gimmick. I have a vivid memory of begging my mother to get a box of honeycomb for the glasses because it was the least sugary looking thing that they came with. She wasn't persuaded. I remember that Fox did a Smell-o-Vision one night. fakeedit: apparently it was 1994 And here are some of the cards 
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RC and Moon Pie posted:I remember that Fox did a Smell-o-Vision one night. I'm pretty sure I still have those Fox-O-Rama "3D" glasses somewhere. The interesting thing about them was that the colored cellophane they used made just about any TV look 3D.
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Iron Crowned posted:I'm pretty sure I still have those Fox-O-Rama "3D" glasses somewhere. The interesting thing about them was that the colored cellophane they used made just about any TV look 3D.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:I remember that Fox did a Smell-o-Vision one night. drat, I remember when they used to allow black people on television.  
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sinking belle posted:The Nickelodeon ones (I think it was Nickelodeon) were the same! I always wondered how they worked. Or whether they worked at all. I suspect that what's happening is the dark lens tricks your brain into interpreting a deeper shadow and the illusion of a 3D object.
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beato posted:Mr Blobby... How is it english people never realized just how INSANELY creepy and weird this thing is? Like its almost nightmarish.
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Semisponge posted:Slightly 80s, but does anyone remember the 3-2-1 Contact magazine? I distinctly remember a small comic strip at the bottom of some of the pages featuring various bugs, including twin sister ants and an earthworm wearing a bandaid. I swear it exists but can't find any proof, if someone could please corroborate my memory I'd be infinitely grateful. Not only do I remember the magazine, I remember the show that started the magazine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2-LEBc2sO8 We used to watch it all the time in school (for me, Kindergarten and Pre-K) , and yeah it was an 80's thing. Very 80's.
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321 Contact was amazing. I loved that magazine so much.
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whiteyfats posted:Gamepro and EGM for me. I legitimately enjoyed the GamePro comics that came with each issue.
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Leon Einstein posted:321 Contact was amazing. I loved that magazine so much. Yeah I can't remember 2006-2012 but I can remember that the TIme Team used time machines powered by tachyon particles. And that drat bug comic strip. IT EXISTED IT SWEAR!
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Shot in the dark here, but RE: the bug comic, could you possibly be confusing 3-2-1-Contact with Cricket Magazine?
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twistedmentat posted:I legitimately enjoyed the GamePro comics that came with each issue. Early in the run, they had nice covers.
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twistedmentat posted:I legitimately enjoyed the GamePro comics that came with each issue.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:I remember that Fox did a Smell-o-Vision one night. drat, I remember this! I think I still have those cards in a high school era memento shoebox somewhere. A few years prior in 1991, I remember John Wayne's Hondo was shown on TV in 3D (the movie was originally shot in 3D). You could buy the 3D glasses at most retailers, and the proceeds went to charity if I'm not mistaken. John Wayne is one of my dad's heroes, so it was only fitting that I watch the movie in 3D with him. These glasses take me back to being 12 years old.  I had the Duke glasses, and my dad had the Apache ones.
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Grey Fox posted:That makes me think about how excited I was for new Nintendo Power issues when the Mario and Zelda comics were in them. Yea, those were really quite good. The Nester comics were really hit and miss though.
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twistedmentat posted:Yea, those were really quite good. The Nester comics were really hit and miss though.
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I dunno, I got the joke from issue 1. Howard was the guy representing the tip lines and Nintendo Power itself, with all the inside knowledge. NESter was the kid who didn't want to read the manual before playing and blamed the game when he messed up and thought it was stupid. (my older brother was one of those kids)
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 This is a Spanish pc gaming magazine. I remember reading it cover to cover, several times over. It also included those Cds with demos and stuff. It's the release of King Quest VII, so it's a long time ago. It's funny this is the first Google Image result I got when I googled the name, considering I only remember this cover and one with Alone in the Dark. Edit. Holy shiiiiit  I remember one of those demo Cds included a game that was basically moving a line in an empty square, forming a picture. There was a ball bouncing at the same time, and if it hit your line before you uncovered a part of the photo, you lost. Does that very weird description ring any bells? Redrum and Coke has a new favorite as of 04:54 on Feb 5, 2016 |
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That's a very old arcade game, Qix, which has been rehashed so many times, can't say for certain what you played.
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Choco1980 posted:Shot in the dark here, but RE: the bug comic, could you possibly be confusing 3-2-1-Contact with Cricket Magazine? MY GOD you're right!!!! quote:One distinct feature of Cricket is the illustrated cast of recurring characters that appears in the margins of each issue, similar to a comic strip. These characters include Cricket, Ladybug, and other friends, most of whom are also insects. The characters are involved in a storyline that runs throughout the issue, but also comment on the articles above them. They define difficult words, draw attention to unusual facts, and otherwise annotate the magazine's content. I love you.
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RagnarokAngel posted:That's a very old arcade game, Qix, which has been rehashed so many times, can't say for certain what you played. Oh my God thank you so much.
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Non Serviam posted:Oh my God thank you so much. There was also a lot of 'erotic' version of this where you'd uncover 90s blocky nude women as you went. I remember playing one version in Italy when I was about 12 (some 20 years ago). Apparently they were known as 'Gals Panic' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gals_Panic 
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