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everyone knows they're called vid-cons. sheesh
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Tetrabor posted:For a different kind of scare, Eternal Darkness got me several times with the sanity gimmicks. I remember throwing my controller when it did the fake save screen wipe, and then again when it faked the controller disconnect while monsters attacked you. I bought Eternal Darkness used and they absolutely got me with the screen thanking you for playing the demo and telling you to buy the full game once it's released. It wouldn't have been the first time GameStop did that to me.
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Feb 26, 2024 01:05
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My grandmother calls them gameboys, we should call all video games gameboys from now on
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Feb 26, 2024 01:13
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They're either nintendos or gameboys and that's the harsh reality of it.
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Feb 26, 2024 01:15
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They're just advanced DVD menus
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Feb 26, 2024 01:16
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DVD menus have always sucked rear end and I wish they didn't exist. Like we seriously need to pass a loving law to get rid of that bullshit.
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Tetrabor posted:For a different kind of scare, Eternal Darkness got me several times with the sanity gimmicks. I remember throwing my controller when it did the fake save screen wipe, and then again when it faked the controller disconnect while monsters attacked you. That game ruled! It admittedly wasn't that scary (although the bathtub jumpscare did get me), but the sanity stuff was really unique and fun. It was way too easy to regain your sanity, though. Edit: Where's our remaster, Nintendo?
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Feb 26, 2024 01:32
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Is a text based mud a video game?
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Feb 26, 2024 01:54
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QuarkJets posted:DVD menus have always sucked rear end and I wish they didn't exist. Like we seriously need to pass a loving law to get rid of that bullshit. I was very impressed as a teen when I saw a dvd menu playing videos from several chapters at once, then later I realized it wasn’t reading multiple streams off the disc, it was just a looping custom video
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Feb 26, 2024 02:02
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My games are organized by console and alphabetically. But I've been thinking of merging PS4/PS5 games and DS/3DS together. I've also considered rearranging by series/genre/whatever. So all the Marios together, console be damned.
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Feb 26, 2024 04:25
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Dinkum is very aptly named as the last time my gf was over, we just played that.
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Feb 26, 2024 06:02
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JollyBoyJohn posted:I showed Doom (1993) to a 12 year old family friend and they bought it on their own steam the next day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlCQp0HzS8Y&t=2s
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Feb 26, 2024 06:06
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BeastOfTheEdelwood posted:Edit: Where's our remaster, Nintendo? Pretty sure it’s never gonna happen unfortunately, because the project lead’s been more or less blacklisted from the industry and the lead writer is a convicted sex offender. Which is a shame because yeah, drat good game.
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Feb 26, 2024 06:46
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syntaxfunction posted:They're either nintendos or gameboys and that's the harsh reality of it. I think you mean Atari you punk rear end kid.
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Feb 26, 2024 07:10
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baalaagaa posted:I think you mean Atari you punk rear end kid. Yeah! To Hell to those children who didn't have Pac-Man on an Atari 2600
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Feb 26, 2024 07:19
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baalaagaa posted:I think you mean Atari you punk rear end kid. Imagine saying this out loud and just attacking yourself like this jfc I'm so sorry
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Feb 26, 2024 07:25
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pac man on Atari was mid breakout > tank > donkey kong > missile command > pac man
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Feb 26, 2024 07:38
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Pac Man on Atari made cool sounds. And moved weird. And was apparently programmed in like 3 days or something insane like that.
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Feb 26, 2024 07:39
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yeah the sounds were pretty good
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Feb 26, 2024 07:41
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Pac Man on the 2600 was laughably bad, like how do you gently caress up Pac Man? Now that I think about it, the only good 2600 games were Kaboom and Defender
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hawowanlawow posted:pac man on Atari was mid I think you used the > when you meant to use the < donkey kong is still in the middle
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Companies outside Atari seemed to be able to do some cool games for the limits of the hardware. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entombed_(Atari_2600) I remember playing this a lot as a kid and was surprised a few years ago when I read an article about people studying this obscure game some 30+ years after it came out.
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Feb 26, 2024 07:54
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Even if you grew up in the nes era, atari was totally unplayable
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unpopular video game opinion: some atari games were fun
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SilvergunSuperman posted:Even if you grew up in the nes era, atari was totally unplayable lol, seaquest and chopper command were a lot of fun; I own the Activision Hits UMD for my PSP and some of the games are still kind of fun.
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i had a sinclair spectrum when i was like a young young kid, my over abiding memory of it is my parents convincing me it could hear my voice because they'd put on what I think was Trivial Pursuit and when I called out the right answer on the multi choice quizz they'd be standing behind me hitting the buttons and convincing me it was magic my folks did that kind of poo poo all the time, we have a monument in the centre of our village and my Mum told me it was of the guy that shot the bullet that killed Hitler, she also told me that Scotland were cheated out of victory by England in the 1966 World Cup (the famous, they think it's all over goal) - for one it wasn't Scotland it was Germany and for 2 the goal put them 4-2 up so it was inconsequential. with parents lying to me like that its no wonder i latched onto videogames so hard
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JollyBoyJohn posted:we have a monument in the centre of our village and my Mum told me it was of the guy that shot the bullet that killed Hitler One would think they told you it was an Ancient that the village needs to protect from enemy creeps.
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Feb 26, 2024 10:27
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tango alpha delta posted:lol, seaquest and chopper command were a lot of fun; I own the Activision Hits UMD for my PSP and some of the games are still kind of fun. Are you trying to convince me or you?
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Feb 26, 2024 10:35
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I simply started at the first generation of consoles with an OG Xbox.
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Adventure was the pinnacle of 2600 gaming
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didn't expect to mention Tunnel Runner twice in a couple of days ITT but here we are
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SilvergunSuperman posted:Are you trying to convince me or you? I remember going through an atari/coleco phase on my ps2 because used retro game rereleases were practically free. I must have enjoyed them but also I doubt I've put a serious effort into playing any pre-NES console games in the subsequent two decades.
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SilvergunSuperman posted:Are you trying to convince me or you? Yes
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credburn posted:I only play computer games. what's a computer
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I had an Atari 800XL well after the NES came out because we found one for cheap somewhere and I couldn't afford an NES. I played the usual Pac Man (good version), Donkey Kong, DigDug, Space Invaders, Missile Command. One of the more interesting games was a text adventure Guild of Thieves. I never made it anywhere but it was good about trying to represent the nonsense I typed as a kid as something my character was doing. The computer came with about a million pirated games on floppy so I played all that old garbage as a desperate kid. I don't know, besides Pac Man and nostalgia I don't think there was anything from that era worth revisiting. Anything before Super Mario Bros. is pretty rough.
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JollyBoyJohn posted:i had a sinclair spectrum when i was like a young young kid, my over abiding memory of it is my parents convincing me it could hear my voice because they'd put on what I think was Trivial Pursuit and when I called out the right answer on the multi choice quizz they'd be standing behind me hitting the buttons and convincing me it was magic This explains so so much.
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Waltzing Along posted:This explains so so much. Yeah, the statue of the guy who shot Hitler is actually in Inverness, much further north.
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Devils Affricate posted:Pac Man on the 2600 was laughably bad, like how do you gently caress up Pac Man? Easy, they tried putting it on console and it came out console quality. Plus people's hardware was so crappy the game had to run at a tiny resolution since they couldn't fit it all on one screen. Nothing has changed really, games are still held back by consoles and people lazily continue to rely on inferior off the shelf hardware for their computers.
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Feb 26, 2024 17:19
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Keeping up with, understanding and implementing computer upgrades is a hobby in itself. Which is fine, but a lot of people can't be hosed with it and just want to know Bloodborne or Zelda will work when they sit down on the sofa to play it. If people aren't "into" computers, they'll have a laptop or even a tablet that's plenty for their non-gaming needs.
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Ms Pacman for the 2600 was alright, it plays fairly close to the arcade and while it still looks and sounds like poo poo, it at least vaguely resembles the original game. If they had gotten it as good the first time around, it'd probably be well regarded. The game crash would still have happened though. Pitfall II's game design is pretty modern, it's not labyrinthian to the point of being annoying, there's some light puzzle solving, the collision and game feel are tight. It is the only good Atari 2600 game.
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