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THE BAR posted:Hardwar. "The Martian Serviette"!
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Zathril posted:Is it Trucks? I thought it would have a simple title, but I didn't think it would be that straight-forward. But yes, it was Trucks. Thank you. Wow, 1997, eh? I think whoever made that video had trouble setting the game up, because I don't remember the performance being that bad. I didn't know how accurate me saying "early 3D" was tho, it looks really rough. Edit: I'm glad I made the previous post instead of my usual method of searching at Mobygames. It doesn't even seem to have a page on there. This game must have been more obscure than I originally thought. Mierenneuker fucked around with this message at 12:47 on Nov 26, 2021 |
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Nov 26, 2021 12:29
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Fat Samurai posted:That last post reminded me of a game that I can only define as "Freelancer in Mars(or some other planet, idk)". You drove a small customizable flying taxi/ship, doing mercenary work for several corporations. The world felt pretty alive (or at least it did to my 13 year old self), and there would be skirmishes between other taxi drivers as you went about your business. That's Hardwar and while the company that made it imploded 20 years ago, one of the developers is still releasing unofficial patches for it.
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kaschei posted:I hope this is close enough to a game: Was it Logo? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Logo Logo was a very popular drawing language in the 80s that you could find on just about every computer system out there back then.
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related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_graphics
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Gromit posted:Was it Logo? God, I spent about twenty minutes trying to think of this before. I was thinking Lotus? no... Locus? no... gah!!
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ToxicFrog posted:That's Hardwar and while the company that made it imploded 20 years ago, one of the developers is still releasing unofficial patches for it. I love Hardwar so much. Exploiting the physics to send some poor sap into a tunnel bouncing frenzy is one of my favourite things to do. 
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Gromit posted:Was it Logo? It wasn’t released on the 2600 though, so not sure it’s that or just the poster misremembering the platform
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ymgve posted:It wasn’t released on the 2600 though, so not sure it’s that or just the poster misremembering the platform I just assumed that a). no-one in their right mind would want to draw on a 2600 so a drawing program probably never existed, and b). someone's memory for a machine from 30-40 years ago is misremembering an 8-bit Atari computer that used cartridges that look exactly like those for a 2600.
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It was in fact an Atari XEGS, with a keyboard and light gun. But it was compatible with my parents' old games and they I guess kept calling it a 2600, hardly surprising given that they called every subsequent console a "Nintendo." I think it was LOGO! The manual sure didn't ring any bells but "Introduction to Programming Through Turtle Graphics" has at least the kind of examples I remember. Thanks!
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Yeah the XGS/65XE wasn't a very good computer, but as a computer it was light years ahead of the 2600 (proud former 600xl owner here) so it would have had some kind of primitive LOGO like implementation.
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I'm surprised to learn that the 2600 actually had a BASIC cart, seems kinda insane when you consider that the 2600 had 128 bytes of RAM
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ymgve posted:I'm surprised to learn that the 2600 actually had a BASIC cart, seems kinda insane when you consider that the 2600 had 128 bytes of RAM For anyone interested in programming language implementations, I found this blog post about the cart. The thing is hilariously useless for any practical application, but it has some wild features and ideas in there. My favorite is that IF is an expression that has the evaluated value of whichever branch was chosen. Like the blogger, I don't think I've seen that feature in any other imperative language. It'd be real useful as well, you could for example clamp a value with a readable and clean line like this: code:
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ymgve posted:I'm surprised to learn that the 2600 actually had a BASIC cart, seems kinda insane when you consider that the 2600 had 128 bytes of RAM That's all you'll ever need, really
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StoryTime posted:My favorite is that IF is an expression that has the evaluated value of whichever branch was chosen. Like the blogger, I don't think I've seen that feature in any other imperative language. I never know the definition of imperative, but Ruby does this, it’s a great scripting language. Everything has a meaningful return value. It also has nice syntactic sugar like ||= (meaning OR EQUALS) to set default values. It has some lineage going back to basic, I think.
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Windows 95/98 era PC game. I think it was called 'Crazy Cards' or something generically unsearchable like that? It was a collection of playing card games, where you played against a cartoon dog, parrot, and probably other animals. I remember it being fairly well animated and fully voice acted. There was a klondike solitaire where if you tried to make an invalid move the parrot would say "You can't do that!" I think the main menu was all of them sitting around a card table. No idea if the target audience was children but I only have vague memories because I was indeed a child. Might have been shareware? Killingyouguy! fucked around with this message at 20:49 on Nov 28, 2021 |
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Nov 28, 2021 20:45
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StoryTime posted:My favorite is that IF is an expression that has the evaluated value of whichever branch was chosen. Like the blogger, I don't think I've seen that feature in any other imperative language. This is the ?: operator in most C-likes. clamped = (clamped < min) ? min : ((clamped > max) ? max : clamped) The extra parens aren't strictly required, I'm pretty sure, but I don't like to assume I correctly remember the order of evaluation.
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Killingyouguy! posted:Windows 95/98 era PC game. I think it was called 'Crazy Cards' or something generically unsearchable like that? I think its Corel Wild Cards?
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Zathril posted:I think its Corel Wild Cards? Holy poo poo, yes it is, thank you!!
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Trying to remember the name of a game I remember seeing in a magazine in the late 90s. Premise was (I think) about a space ship/station that was going to blow up. Stands out in my memory that the crew and the ship were freely interactable with. It was 3D so not a traditional point and click.
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sounds like it's probably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Titanic?
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Hank Morgan posted:Trying to remember the name of a game I remember seeing in a magazine in the late 90s. Premise was (I think) about a space ship/station that was going to blow up. Stands out in my memory that the crew and the ship were freely interactable with. It was 3D so not a traditional point and click. Maybe Space Station: Silicon Valley for the N64? For some reason I doubt this is it but, amusingly, it does fit all your requirements
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Perhaps Sentient? https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaSPgE4K0SB2BfYFVQWQYc_igiW4H2h-N
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Light Gun Man posted:Perhaps Sentient? I think this is it. thanks
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ymgve posted:I'm surprised to learn that the 2600 actually had a BASIC cart, seems kinda insane when you consider that the 2600 had 128 bytes of RAM i had a 400, which had basic on a cartridge, then an 800xl, which had basic ONBOARD 
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Hank Morgan posted:I think this is it. thanks you're...welcome? it seems kind of awful but that LP i linked is entertaining. certainly a game that had some IDEAS, anyway.
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JPrime posted:i had a 400, which had basic on a cartridge, then an 800xl, which had basic ONBOARD The 400 had 8 kbytes of RAM though, that’s a lot compared to the 2600. This reply is too large to fit in the 2600’s RAM
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Here's one that's got me stumped. What the heck is the game that the shirtless guy is staring at? EDIT: Space Invaders Kamikaze, a Japanese cabinet, with Galaxian Part 4 running on it. delfin fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Dec 21, 2021 |
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Man feel like I should know that one, like I recognize that four wing design from somewhere. Is that Japanese chars in the middle of the header title?
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Scaramouche posted:Man feel like I should know that one, like I recognize that four wing design from somewhere. Is that Japanese chars in the middle of the header title? 100% sure it's in the Galaga, galaxian, gaplus etc series
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delfin posted:Here's one that's got me stumped. I saw this on reddit earlier and I've been trying to figure it out all evening
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The logo looks like Eagle (A 1980 knockoff of Moon Cresta). The game next to it looks like Asteroids, which would fit the time period.
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Found a slightly clearer version of the image, I think http://www.liketotally80s.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/arcade61111ty.jpg I think the last word of the game title might be GATE, but I haven't found any arcade games with that in the title and matching logos edit: Actually, I think the bottom word is KAMIKAZE, which is the name of a bootleg Galaxian game. Haven't found any pictures of the cabinet that match, though. ymgve fucked around with this message at 06:26 on Dec 21, 2021 |
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So this is going to sound like some sort of bizarre fever dream but I think it was actually a thing. Sometimes in the mid to late nineties, a much younger me saw what I assume was an ad playing on a TV in the window of a computer store, where some early-CGI guy with a pike sort of lined the pike up with his back and hopped backwards onto it, impaling himself through the back and dying, and then the camera panned out and there were a whole bunch of other similarly impaled people around him. Anyone got any idea what the hell this might have been about? It's been living rent-free in my psyche ever since. I figure it was probably an ad for a game but I suppose it could have been a bizarre 3d graphics tech demo.
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I may have gotten this completely mixed up somehow, but a few years ago an acquaintance had a playlist of old 8- and 16bit video game tracks, and one of then uncannily reminded me of a piece of music from A Chinese Ghost Story 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRLLdwyR8zA Any chance this reminds someone of a game from the early 90s?
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Tehan posted:So this is going to sound like some sort of bizarre fever dream but I think it was actually a thing. Sometimes in the mid to late nineties, a much younger me saw what I assume was an ad playing on a TV in the window of a computer store, where some early-CGI guy with a pike sort of lined the pike up with his back and hopped backwards onto it, impaling himself through the back and dying, and then the camera panned out and there were a whole bunch of other similarly impaled people around him. Anyone got any idea what the hell this might have been about? It's been living rent-free in my psyche ever since. I figure it was probably an ad for a game but I suppose it could have been a bizarre 3d graphics tech demo. Castlevania maybe? EDIT: Also the thing on that machine looks to me like a green moth but I can't find anything that old with moth in the title. The Joe Man fucked around with this message at 06:11 on Dec 21, 2021 |
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Found it!  Here's a sales listing with more pictures https://www.sbazar.cz/magicarcade/detail/120537641-zabavni-herni-hraci-automat-ggi-space-invader
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Tehan posted:So this is going to sound like some sort of bizarre fever dream but I think it was actually a thing. Sometimes in the mid to late nineties, a much younger me saw what I assume was an ad playing on a TV in the window of a computer store, where some early-CGI guy with a pike sort of lined the pike up with his back and hopped backwards onto it, impaling himself through the back and dying, and then the camera panned out and there were a whole bunch of other similarly impaled people around him. Anyone got any idea what the hell this might have been about? It's been living rent-free in my psyche ever since. I figure it was probably an ad for a game but I suppose it could have been a bizarre 3d graphics tech demo. Reminds me of the intro to Blood Omen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO2m38uayYE
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I'm trying to remember a game from the 90s or early 00s, console, probably an RPG, that had Kraken mis-translated as either "Clarken" or "Klarken".
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