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In Training
Jun 28, 2008

Erm maybe you are the women.

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Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?

Depends wether it's the weekend or not

someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007


Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:

Until this moment I didn't know if you played as the dude or the sluts.

you play as the sluts, when they catch all the semen they lick their lips before the next stage


there's also a gender-inverted version where you play as two prisoners who have to drink drops of a witch's breast milk

Orange Fluffy Sheep
Jul 26, 2008

Bad EXP received

Someone Awful! posted:

there's also a gender-inverted version where you play as two prisoners who have to drink drops of a witch's breast milk



I try to think about that as little as possible, you know.

Sleeveless
Dec 25, 2014

by Pragmatica

Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:

Until this moment I didn't know if you played as the dude or the sluts.

Make a pixel indie game where you play as the women and call it something like Slut Walk and bam instant indie gaming personality.

Shadow Hog
Feb 23, 2014

Avatar by Jon Davies

Haruharuharuko posted:

Maybe because so many dumb customers called L.A. Noire Lenore. Idiots the lot of 'em.
    Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December;
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
    Eagerly I wished the morrow;—vainly I had sought to borrow
    From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost L.A. Noire
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name L.A. Noire
            Nameless here for evermore.

bloodychill
May 8, 2004

And if the world
should end tonight,
I had a crazy, classic life
Exciting Lemon

Quote-Unquote posted:

I worked in a video game store when XIII came out. We sold many copies of ex eye eye eye, ex three and ex-ee.

zeeeeee dash eeeeee

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

Required by his programming!

kirbysuperstar posted:


US 'Zero Escape' rebrand reprint:


The US one in particular feels like 20 minutes in Photoshop.
reminds me of gone with the blastwave

megane
Jun 20, 2008



All right guys, we've got a problem. We've got six hours until release, and nobody in our focus groups knows what the gently caress "odium" means.

e: Or how to pronounce it.

megane fucked around with this message at 20:35 on Mar 10, 2016

Underwhelmed
Mar 7, 2004


Nap Ghost

laserghost posted:

I could go for those she-vampires, if you catch my drift :drac::fh:



I had this game, and it was pretty good. Atari 2600 games honestly never looked good, but the series of games that this one belonged to used a large cartridge add on that plugged into the 2600 and then you loaded it with the game from a tape player.

I had 4 of the 7 or 8 games that Starpath released for the 2600, and they were all exceptional for the 2600 anyway. I still have the cartridge packed away somewhere, but I lost the cassette tapes with the games on them long ago.

CMFOS was essentially a Galaga/space invaders hybrid.

swamp waste
Nov 4, 2009

There is some very sensual touching going on in the cutscene there. i don't actually think it means anything sexual but it's cool how it contrasts with modern ideas of what bad ass stuff should be like. It even seems authentic to some kind of chivalric masculine touching from a tyme longe gone

Someone Awful! posted:

there's also a gender-inverted version where you play as two prisoners who have to drink drops of a witch's breast milk



That's loving incredible.

Shadow Hog
Feb 23, 2014

Avatar by Jon Davies

"What game should I buy today? How about this Amiga game with the cigar-smoking arm-fish?"

Hihohe
Oct 4, 2008

Fuck you and the sun you live under


Shadow Hog posted:


"What game should I buy today? How about this Amiga game with the cigar-smoking arm-fish?"

"AAYY! Ahm swimmin' ova heah!"

Count Chocula
Dec 25, 2011

WE HAVE TO CONTROL OUR ENVIRONMENT
IF YOU SEE ME POSTING OUTSIDE OF THE AUSPOL THREAD PLEASE TELL ME THAT I'M MISSED AND TO START POSTING AGAIN
All these old games had really cool, artsy box art. When did it get replaced by bland angry dudes?

Accordion Man
Nov 7, 2012


Buglord

Count Chocula posted:

All these old games had really cool, artsy box art. When did it get replaced by bland angry dudes?
Halo and Call of Duty happened.

Shadow Hog
Feb 23, 2014

Avatar by Jon Davies

Count Chocula posted:

All these old games had really cool, artsy box art. When did it get replaced by bland angry dudes?
When investors, big money and focus groups got involved, I'd imagine.

Stux
Nov 17, 2006

Count Chocula posted:

All these old games had really cool, artsy box art. When did it get replaced by bland angry dudes?

because everyone thought they were bad, as shown by this thread where people are posting them as examples of bad box art

Count Chocula
Dec 25, 2011

WE HAVE TO CONTROL OUR ENVIRONMENT
IF YOU SEE ME POSTING OUTSIDE OF THE AUSPOL THREAD PLEASE TELL ME THAT I'M MISSED AND TO START POSTING AGAIN

Stux posted:

because everyone thought they were bad, as shown by this thread where people are posting them as examples of bad box art

They're not bad tho, they're really neat, and look like stuff I'd see in a gallery. There's that neat DADA one and a bunch of surrealism and vaporwave and minimalism. 'Bad' to me is more like Dark Souls, which gives no clue as to how good the game is, and fits in with a dozen other covers.

Stux
Nov 17, 2006

Count Chocula posted:

They're not bad tho, they're really neat, and look like stuff I'd see in a gallery. There's that neat DADA one and a bunch of surrealism and vaporwave and minimalism. 'Bad' to me is more like Dark Souls, which gives no clue as to how good the game is, and fits in with a dozen other covers.

nah theyre poo poo thats why theyre in the bad box art thread

Lurdiak
Feb 26, 2006

I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.


Lurdiak posted:

:siren:please don't start arguments about thinking the bad box arts are actually good!:siren:

Sleeveless
Dec 25, 2014

by Pragmatica

Count Chocula posted:

All these old games had really cool, artsy box art. When did it get replaced by bland angry dudes?

This is almost 50 years of covers condensed into one thread. For every interesting old cover there were a million bland spaceships or angry dudes with weapons that nobody remembers or cares about.

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

Required by his programming!

Sleeveless posted:

This is almost 50 years of covers condensed into one thread. For every interesting old cover there were a million bland spaceships or angry dudes with weapons that nobody remembers or cares about.

this is also known as 'romanticizing the past' and is frequently done in other contexts as well, such as literally any time someone says a certain time past was a 'golden age'

Duckbox
Sep 7, 2007

I dunno, I'm pretty sure the Master system really was the golden age of graph paper.

you were warned
Jul 12, 2006

(the S is for skeleton)

Oh, jesus, I remember reading about that and some of the other "adult" 2600 games on Seanbaby, like 15 years ago. :wtc: all over again.

Behold, Custer's Revenge:



Wow, that's some incredibly sexy box art :stare:

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

Required by his programming!
swedish erotica is the name of my speed death metal band

Lodin
Jul 31, 2003

by Fluffdaddy
This is different. Here's the System Shock 2 DVD cover I made for a school project. This was back in 2001 if I remember.





I obviously just picked a bunch of random fan art and nicked poo poo from the games homepage but I still like it.

Doc Hawkins
Jun 15, 2010

Dashing? But I'm not even moving!


Shadow Hog posted:


"What game should I buy today? How about this Amiga game with the cigar-smoking arm-fish?"

For anyone else who, like me, had to know: you do play as the fish.

Lurdiak
Feb 26, 2006

I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.


you were warned posted:

Oh, jesus, I remember reading about that and some of the other "adult" 2600 games on Seanbaby, like 15 years ago. :wtc: all over again.

Behold, Custer's Revenge:



Wow, that's some incredibly sexy box art :stare:

Custer's revenge might be the worst game ever made.

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

Lurdiak posted:

Custer's revenge might be the worst game ever made.

Yeah like, aside from being offensive and gross in many ways it isn't even a good game.

Lurdiak
Feb 26, 2006

I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.


BattleMaster posted:

Yeah like, aside from being offensive and gross in many ways it isn't even a good game.

It's not a fun game, it is in no way 'arousing' so it also fails as creepy porn, looks terrible, and is pretty much the most offensive premise ever. You pretty much have to go to Newgrounds to find something genuinely worse.

torgo
Aug 13, 2003


Fun Shoe
Master System games usually have the worst art. This one is the worst I've ever seen(sorry for the crappy cell phone pic):



I picked this up at Goodwill over a decade ago. I've always wondered about it. Did the kid do new artwork for all his games? Or did he just have to replace the art on this one after some jerk he lent it to left it in the rain or something like that?

To be fair to the kid, if had drawn it on graph paper, you might mistake it for the real cover:

Plan Z
May 6, 2012

Samurai Sanders
Nov 4, 2003

Pillbug
I just have to talk momentarily about some good loving box art because look what just came in the mail (need to flatten it first)

edit: I almost never use SA's image upload system, how do I make it thumbnail?

Only registered members can see post attachments!

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Schurik
Sep 13, 2008


Sweet, where's you get that? Some official source or did you just get a high-res pic printed?

elf help book
Aug 5, 2004

Though the battle might be endless, I will never give up

Underwhelmed posted:

Atari 2600 games honestly never looked good, but the series of games that this one belonged to used a large cartridge add on that plugged into the 2600 and then you loaded it with the game from a tape player.


Woah.

The Kins
Oct 2, 2004



Originally, the Atari 2600 only supported 4kb of game ROM per-cartridge, with a mere 128 bytes of RAM. The Supercharger expanded the RAM by a whopping 6kb and allowed multiple game loads from an audio cassette, allowing for larger, more detailed games (so you could have, for example, 4kb of data per-level, instead of for the entire game!)

Over time, ROM chip prices lowered and developers mastered a technique called "bank-switching" that allowed instant swapping between multiple 4kb ROM banks in one cartridge. This eventually took care of any benefits of developing for a bulky, expensive add-on, and the Supercharger was confined to history.

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

The Atari 2600 has the wrong kind of RAM.

Samurai Sanders
Nov 4, 2003

Pillbug

Schurik posted:

Sweet, where's you get that? Some official source or did you just get a high-res pic printed?
From what appears to be the artist's home page but according to the time line, he passed away in 2013. I was half wondering if the site was nonfunctional and my order disappeared, but just tonight I had a knock on my door.

raditts
Feb 21, 2001

The Kwanzaa Bot is here to protect me.


Samurai Sanders posted:

From what appears to be the artist's home page but according to the time line, he passed away in 2013. I was half wondering if the site was nonfunctional and my order disappeared, but just tonight I had a knock on my door.

You ordered that 3+ years ago?

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ZogrimAteMyHamster
Dec 8, 2015

Has this one already been posted? Too late, it's here!

Edit:
Wow I didn't even think of how bad this one is. "Hey kids, now YOU can be an incompetent wall-climbing idiot too!"

ZogrimAteMyHamster fucked around with this message at 16:28 on Mar 11, 2016

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