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Cheers all. Issue 28: Probably badly mispronouncing "Gymnopédie" Issue 25 may now have ads because it got flagged up for using 30 seconds of music from a decades-old children's TV show for a silly joke. Super!
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This thread doesn't seem to get many comments which is a real shame, it's really entertaining. Suffice to say I enjoy every video posted, it's interesting to see these games and hear their really good soundtracks.
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A lot of the cooler threads are also the most silent ones for some reason.
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Because when people post in them they become less cool  . Seconding that this thread is really nice, I've never seen anything from the C64 so getting to see all these demos is pretty interesting. That herobot game in particular looked like it'd be neat to see a full play through of, if not to actually play it.
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That first game looks like the seed of the idea that became Blast Corps.
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Oh man, I never knew Bounder got a sequel. I think the first one might have been the first game where I was completely at a loss for how the Hell they got the 64 to do this thing that it was clearly doing.
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Iirc, in PC version of Arnie 2 you could change weapons by pressing Enter key. Subterranea was a clone of another game, I think. Sanxion, maybe? There was a lot of those scrolling shooters with waves of five differently colored enemies - Atrax, Warflame, Zytron...
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God, I remember having a visceral hatred for Cauldron 2 back in the day. I'd played plenty of bad games, but that one had that something special where even remembering it existed made me vaguely annoyed. Nice to know I wasn't completely irrational. Really enjoying this LP, so much of my early gaming was from CF covertapes (I preferred it to ZZap).
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Catellite posted:God, I remember having a visceral hatred for Cauldron 2 back in the day. I'd played plenty of bad games, but that one had that something special where even remembering it existed made me vaguely annoyed. Nice to know I wasn't completely irrational.   I'm not sure I ever got very far in the first Cauldron, but Cauldron 2 was ridiculous. Exactly as frustrating as shown. Thanks a lot.
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Watching Monster Mash, all I could think of was the theme for Trogdor. I mean, there was some major burninating going on there.
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Hirayuki posted:
The music is nice though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQOR3k72S34 Cauldron 1 was a lot of fun as long as you stayed away from the platforming sections and just buzzed around killing bats. That witches laugh from 2 is ingrained in my memory though. Hank Morgan fucked around with this message at 22:24 on Apr 3, 2016 |
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Issue 33 is the second winner of the coveted "too boring to talk about" award, featuring Snack Man: A Pac-man clone ATA: A Tetris clone Coyra part 2 and Water Polo. No, really. Meanwhile:  Issue 34: Banana Bullets Prenton fucked around with this message at 17:55 on May 2, 2016 |
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Oops. Yes, yes I do.
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What were those little smiling pieces of...bread? in Shellshock? Or were they supposed to be skulls?
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I'd assumed they were skulls, and that stepping on them would kill me. But, after further testing, it turns out they do nothing at all. So: dunno?
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Prenton posted:I'd assumed they were skulls, and that stepping on them would kill me. But, after further testing, it turns out they do nothing at all. So: dunno? They are indeed most likely skulls, as you can see something quite similar with Stryker's Run on the BBC Micro. It seemed to be one of the low pixel ways to draw skulls. 
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Aw, they're cute! 
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Arac got an odd pseudo-sequel called Heatseeker, where you controlled a basketball attached to a mannequin leg. It had a similar 'interesting idea, really clumsy execution' feel , IIRC, but with even less direction than Arac.
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Catellite posted:odd pseudo-sequel called Heatseeker  What the
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TheMcD posted:Sounds to me like a developer got a set of encyclopedias as a present, got really drunk, wrote down his favorite words, and then decided to make a game story out of them. Seems like as good an explanation as any. Honestly, it seemed like half the games at the time had plots like "You are the last Bioroid of the enslaved planet Iacon. Gather the long-lost Soulfire Shards to defeat the armies of the time-travelling warlord Kranix". Then you load it up and it's Pacman.
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Catellite posted:Honestly, it seemed like half the games at the time had plots like "You are the last Bioroid of the enslaved planet Iacon. Gather the long-lost Soulfire Shards to defeat the armies of the time-travelling warlord Kranix". P. much. Gotta have a story, or it won't sell! See also The Story Of The Compulsive Collector Eggman and His Similarly Eggy Friends (Dizzy), The Diamond Miner Who Also Has Other Collectathon Adventures (Boulderdash), The Monster-Soap Making Monster (Bonecruncher), and The Surrealist Tale Of Two Shields Captured By A Douchey Logic Gate (XOR) Oh, and Magic Mushrooms. Let us never forget Magic Mushrooms, and the protagonist's suspicious resemblance to Fat Freddy of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers.
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Go play DOOM everyone Issue 35: Still better than the original Gameboy version
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I'm glad that this is still alive.
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Breakthrough apes Armalyte's graphics so much it hurts.
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Oh no Britain appears to have caught fire. Meanwhile: Issue 37: The Big One
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I vaguely remember playing a preview (or a bizzare cracked version of it) of Mayhem that started at the "happy" side of the level.
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It's pretty strange seeing the tail end of the C64. Shameless cash-ins right next to Mayhem, which was at least technically quite sophisticated.
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For some reason Freddy Hardest reminded me of the Bucky O'Hare game on the NES. Only, y'know, shittier.
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Dinamic's games were really bad, but looked great on screenshots.
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While it's plainly not great unless you're really into pixel-perfect jumps, I have a soft spot for Freddy Hardest. It was one of my first c64 games, the first games I ever finished and one of the first games I'd seen where progress had meaning. The second half of the game abandons platforming for running around a maze finding passcodes or something to put in computers to steal a ship, and it's somewhat better than the first part, but not massively. Still, good times.
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I'm kind of pretty late in finding this, but it's surprising how many games I remember from my childhood that show up on these tapes, although all of our games were disk-based and virtually everything was copied from other people. A decent chunk also came with trainers and cheats as a result of being cracked. Battleships was one of my favorite games back in the day, I spent entirely too much time on that, and I will always instantly recognize the Cosmic Causeway music. Cauldron 2 is one of the most frustrating games I've ever played because of the controls, even with a trainer it's pretty much impossible and it's far too easy to get stuck at the bottom of the castle with no real way out.
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I want to Ireland again and drank even more Guinness. Meanwhile: Issue 39: Acme Diamond Co.
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