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On the C64 I had the game "The Mask of the Sun" and could never get out of the first part of it because of a timed jump across lava that I could never do, and it would make the game go back to an earlier scene. I've carried this grudge for like 25 years or so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mask_of_the_Sun
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titties posted:I still have my copy of baldur's gate and the tales of the sword coast expansion but i could never even finish the first dungeon because my whole party was always instantly wiped by the wizard and i could never figure out what i was doing wrong (You may, however, be talking about Baldur's Gate II, though the wizard does not attack you directly in the opening dungeon [there is no opening dungeon in either of the other two]) CaptainSarcastic posted:On the C64 I had the game "The Mask of the Sun" and could never get out of the first part of it because of a timed jump across lava that I could never do, and it would make the game go back to an earlier scene. I've carried this grudge for like 25 years or so. I saved three different copies from three different systems of one random picture of two dudes talking from that game and kept almost using it as an avatar oh here it is 
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Dr. Quarex posted:As the world's foremost expert on Baldur's Gate, I think you are not talking about Baldur's Gate. Oh my God, is that Raoul? I got so frustrated at the game and since it required text entry for commands (like "go north") I kept trying things like "kick Raoul," "punch Raoul," "kill Raoul" to see how it would respond. Also, I forget hold old I am - this grudge is at least 35 years old.
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azurite posted:Up until the Switch version, the 32X version was the only one with this banger (Replay BGM) That rules
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I thought the BN in town had Double Indemnity and Moonrise Kingdom. Then I got an email canceling my order. Guess I’ll have to have them shipped.
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Imagine how many different things a time traveler who came back to 1989 would have to explain to you in order to tell you what ended up happening to RadioShack: RadioShack's Twitter Wasn't Hacked, It's Just a Crypto Shill Now quote:This week, the Twitter account for RadioShack went from just weird to totally apeshit. In short order, the company’s entire feed became a veritable trove of NSFW material, including musings about vibrators, “big tittes” (misspelling theirs), and tweets trolling celebrities and other corporate accounts. Remarks ranged from “sometimes i just feel like i should do more coke with @elonmusk” to “Lick ma balls @Wendys.”
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History Comes Inside! posted:Did the 32x have any killer games? Maybe if you hit someone really hard with one
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The Last Ninja's apple ii port had what I believe was an impossible jump at the end of the first level, with the dragon. There are a ton of literal pixel-perfect jumps to get to that point, and it frustrated the hell out of me. That game should've been the best thing ever at the time and ten year old me was livid that he couldn't get past that goddamned dragon
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Dr. Quarex posted:Oh my god, someone talking about the game I accidentally stumbled onto once when looking into 1980s computer games I had never heard of and realizing I really missed the boat on graphical interactive fiction I played a lot of Dallas Quest as a kid. It's gets pretty weird towards the end, when you get out of Southfork. It's somewhat weird even in Southfork.
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flavor.flv posted:That's better than the dos port, in which you could not get to the dam level at all because there's a jump in an early sewer level that's too long to clear, and nobody noticed until after the game shipped Displaced Gamers did a video on this a few years ago https://youtu.be/cZLed1krEEQ
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If it did support two player with the nearby seat, that would be the best inflight entertainment ever.
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I've been on a plane that had a very similar in-seat entertainment system, but with much simpler games. There was a snake clone, a tetris clone, solitaire, and some other stuff. There was however a leaderboard for snake and tetris, which displayed different names and numbers as the flight went on, leading me to believe that at least the leaderboard was shared between the different seats. There was no one on that plane who could challenge my Tetris skills 
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why does it have a smell button (well, SMEL)
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I inherited my parents' old Nokia TV tuner. It has Snake.
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Was anyone here into 90s Amiga mods/trackers/demos? I'm trying to find a dance/techno track that had a vocal that said "What. Is. Love". It wasn't sung, it was said as 3 separate words. Not Haddaway or Howard Jones samples, either. I thought Human Target or Jesus on Es, and it's not those but definitely from that period. Around the time of 9 Fingers, Hardwired, etc, but I don't think it was a demo, just a music track. The drat thing is going through my head the last few days and I'd love to find it so at least my brain isn't feeding me just that sample and some drum beats.
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Gromit posted:Was anyone here into 90s Amiga mods/trackers/demos? I'm trying to find a dance/techno track that had a vocal that said "What. Is. Love". It wasn't sung, it was said as 3 separate words. Not Haddaway or Howard Jones samples, either. That said, it would not surprise me if the track's title were some combination of those words, given the logic tracker musicians generally paid to their vocal samples due to their relative rarity. So... check Demozoo with my starting suggestion, haha. Lots of potential, but of course they could all just be Haddaway covers. You could also check Exotica though when tracking down artist information for my own random collection I usually had better luck with Demozoo.
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Arivia posted:why does it have a smell button (well, SMEL) lol i think that's SMBL for symbol tho
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Gromit posted:Was anyone here into 90s Amiga mods/trackers/demos? I'm trying to find a dance/techno track that had a vocal that said "What. Is. Love". It wasn't sung, it was said as 3 separate words. How sure are you that it wasn't (one of the many versions of) "What Time is Love" by the KLF? I know you said three words, but we're talking 30 years ago and memory is a fickle bastard.
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Trabant posted:How sure are you that it wasn't (one of the many versions of) "What Time is Love" by the KLF? Oh yeah, no chance it's the KLF. I was a huge fan and would have spotted that a mile out. @Dr. Quarex - yeah I've tried searching based on title but it's all Haddaway all the time, and taking that out doesn't get me any closer. I was hoping it would be a popular track so would immediately ring some bells, but perhaps not.
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what are your favorite mods from back then? the ones I remembered listening to the most are ## stink-bomb ## and Achmed the turk
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I have hundreds of favorite Demoscene songs but I am delighted to see Achmed the Turk mentioned given the odds of any individual person having heard any individual track written by a junior high student in Finland in 1997 or whatever are so incredibly low (I have no idea if Kung is Finnish or was 13 in 1997) Let me think of some of my favorites and see what Last.FM says my favorites of the last ~15 years are Dr. Awesome - Fantastic Voyage (Brain Level) Dr. Awesome - Cubulus 1 (Laidback 1) Jogeir Liljedahl - Variations Fleshbrain - Soothsayer Ranger Rick - Alpha Gate Ranger Rick - Emborian Krystall - In Transit Ghetto - Eye C.C.Catch - Sonic BoOoOoM! C.C.Catch - -=Into Another World=- C.C.Catch - -)Twilight Peaks(- Skaven - 1980 Autonomous Walkman - Creative Human Walkman - We're the Devils Dirk - Transform<Chip.V> Skorpik - My Styles Bruno - On the Road Acidline - I Put Robot in You Heatbeat - Anette ????? - Dumber Bumber ????? - Depressions2 Tempest - Acidjazzed Evening (thanks Timbaland) Cyb0rg Jeff - Waterworld Dolphinkingdom Lizardking & Codec - Heartland Lizardking - Ogle-V quarex - warriors of the wind Beathoven - Flying on the Wings ELC - Patzga MARK SALUD - INSTANTLY MAGIC~! Radix - Plopalou Virt - Blast Off Forever Eco - Thunderforce '91 Infinity - Digital Dreamer Theron - Sound Device Ghidorah - Kom igen och dansa! Mutley - Boneless Greatfox - If Life (oh no I need to stop, will stop on this track that blew me away as much from someone properly syncing up lyrics in FastTracker as anything else) A lot of the songs I initially thought were Demoscene when looking at my favorites are actually modern SID remixes, which...sort of feel like they count but I do think of them as distinct genres
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Boesendorfer P.S.S. rules forever. I'm looking for a mod that has a sample from some movie or actual Crowley like ritual, and it says "I am the blade... I am the [whatever]" real doom and gloom type stuff, and can't remember anything else other than it's a 4-channel MOD
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I tend to separate tracker music into a couple of different categories: 1) Chip tunes, which are interesting due to the size limitations and technical aspects 2) Demo music, which is cool and fun, but not something I would buy on a CD 3) "Real music" which is something that worked/works alongside actual released music There were a few years in the 90s when me and some friends largely listened to tracker music because it was free and it was cool because it was done by normal people. A lot like bandcamp and soundcloud now. Some of my favorites in the "real music" mods: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjOQainaQP4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcuPkym_CS4 Also ton of jungle music which is the music genre that is best suited for Amiga mods: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NjqNwHidpk
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Gromit posted:Was anyone here into 90s Amiga mods/trackers/demos? I'm trying to find a dance/techno track that had a vocal that said "What. Is. Love". It wasn't sung, it was said as 3 separate words. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD71055315c I think this was the b track on the groove is in the heart single. It sounds itself not too dissimilar to what could be done in a tracker, but on the other hand also really an easy to sample snippet, so idk if it's the track (or a remix of it) that you're actually thinking of.
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I used to hate the chiptune songs on bootleg game installers, but I've totally come around to them and now I let them play out past the time of install.
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Flipperwaldt posted:Like the sample on the beginning of this? Christ on a cracker, that's pretty much it! It's a much harder bassline but is exactly that sample and the following riffs. Cheers mate - that makes it a lot easier to find. It's definitely not just a remake of that track, but it uses a ton of it. e: A quick bit of Googling has not shown anything, as I'm sure the mod had no mention on Deee-Lite in the name. I'd remember that as I'm really not a fan of theirs at all. But still, getting closer. Gromit has a new favorite as of 14:07 on Jul 5, 2022 |
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Dr. Quarex posted:As the world's foremost expert on Baldur's Gate, I think you are not talking about Baldur's Gate. The packaging definitely says Baldur's Gate, I'm probably just remembering it incorrectly. E: is possible that i got bg, bg2, and tales in a bundle at a software swap meet or flea market. titties has a new favorite as of 16:43 on Jul 5, 2022 |
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Dr. Quarex posted:As the world's foremost expert on Baldur's Gate, I think you are not talking about Baldur's Gate. I think they may be confusing the first dungeon with Friendly Arm Inn, where a wizard confronts you and almost always fears your party and kills someone unless you get lucky with interrupts from your party or the guards you can get help from.
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Stumbled across a PC XT compatible made in ex-Yu in 1989-ish. Not very notable besides having a rare (for PCs) wedge design that cribbed from Amiga/Atari of the time:
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Trabant posted:Stumbled across a PC XT compatible made in ex-Yu in 1989-ish. Not very notable besides having a rare (for PCs) wedge design that cribbed from Amiga/Atari of the time: There was also the more common Schneider Euro PC. Europeans were so used to the C64/Speccy/Amiga form factor that they tried to replicate it with PCs, but the thing that made PC eventually kill the micros was its expandability. And a baseline IBM compatible was worse than an Amiga.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schneider_Euro_PC
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lobsterminator posted:There was also the more common Schneider Euro PC. Europeans were so used to the C64/Speccy/Amiga form factor that they tried to replicate it with PCs, but the thing that made PC eventually kill the micros was its expandability. And a baseline IBM compatible was worse than an Amiga. At that point wasn't the 8088 obsolete? I remember my younger brother bought a computer in 1985 or so that had an 8088, but I think we had a 286 by 1989 or so.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:At that point wasn't the 8088 obsolete? I remember my younger brother bought a computer in 1985 or so that had an 8088, but I think we had a 286 by 1989 or so. If it runs the software you need to run, nothing is obsolete. Games were not a primary concern of IBM PC compatible microcomputer manufacturers or buyers in Europe at the time.
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Yeah, the PC was completely irrelevant as a games platform until probably the early-mid 90s. 8088 PCs stuck around for a long time in low-end models that were sold as cheap word processors or home business computers.
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Sweevo posted:Yeah, the PC was completely irrelevant as a games platform until probably the early-mid 90s. I remember the Jenkkilä (~"Yankville") column in Mikrobitti where it was reported that "In the US, there are shops that sell games for IBM PC compatibles and have nothing for the Commodore 64?!?!?".
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My family sold our Amiga 500 and got a PC in 1993. It was a good time to jump ship. Soundblaster and VGA were standard already and the kind of games I was moving towards (flight sims, adventure, strategy) were better on the PC. Amiga still had an edge in 2D action games for a while, but not long. And of course Wolf3D and Doom.
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lobsterminator posted:My family sold our Amiga 500 and got a PC in 1993. It was a good time to jump ship. That's around the same time my my family got a 486 as an upgrade to our Atari ST 1040. The ST had some great games (I had boxed copies of Defender of the Crown, a port of the 70s arcade Star Wars game and one called Psycho Pig, and then an entire floppy disk case of pirated stuff) but going from that what was on the PC at the time with games like Jazz Jackrabbit, Doom and X-Wing was kinda revelatory. My dad kept using the ST for music well into the 2000s though, eventually replaced the ST with a STacy. Those machines had amazing MIDI support and applications, Notator was a really cool program. Wish I had pictures of that machine, he bought it off a software developer so it was a hyper rare 4MB Ram + 40MB HDD model with a serial number of like 0000012. When he went to donate it to a computer museum the owner insisted on paying something like $1000 CDN for it.
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Actually, I wish we still had that 486 hanging around in an attic, it had a Gravis Ultrasound MAX in it and those things sell for like $350 on eBay these days.
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lobsterminator posted:There was also the more common Schneider Euro PC. Europeans were so used to the C64/Speccy/Amiga form factor that they tried to replicate it with PCs, but the thing that made PC eventually kill the micros was its expandability. And a baseline IBM compatible was worse than an Amiga. That's a neat design. I'll always associate Schneider with Amstrad and seeing something with the specs of one of their early PCW computers with a CPC style form factor seems very appropriate.
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Hellequin posted:That's around the same time my my family got a 486 as an upgrade to our Atari ST 1040. The ST had some great games (I had boxed copies of Defender of the Crown, a port of the 70s arcade Star Wars game and one called Psycho Pig, and then an entire floppy disk case of pirated stuff) but going from that what was on the PC at the time with games like Jazz Jackrabbit, Doom and X-Wing was kinda revelatory. My dad kept using the ST for music well into the 2000s though, eventually replaced the ST with a STacy. Those machines had amazing MIDI support and applications, Notator was a really cool program. Wish I had pictures of that machine, he bought it off a software developer so it was a hyper rare 4MB Ram + 40MB HDD model with a serial number of like 0000012. When he went to donate it to a computer museum the owner insisted on paying something like $1000 CDN for it. Notator became Logic, which I have used for 20+ years now. I've never used Atari or Notator, but based on screenshots and videos, there are still some UI elements that are recognizeable from the Atari original, although they have gotten less similar with every update, especially during Apple's reign. Logic was the reason I got an Apple in the 2000's because Apple bought Logic and dropped PC support and I just loved the software that much.
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