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What a strange game. I've never even heard of that before, and that's saying something. Kinda a cross between mario and bubble bobble?
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Choco1980 posted:What a strange game. I've never even heard of that before, and that's saying something. Kinda a cross between mario and bubble bobble? nb: there is a sequel, but to gaze upon its like is to confront a black font of madness. We'll probably do it next "season."
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Jul 4, 2015 05:37
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I'm not hearing any game audio at all. 
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Jul 4, 2015 06:43
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When you're tired of Hardhead, you're tired of life.
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FredMSloniker posted:I'm not hearing any game audio at all. Hmmm... I gave it a listen, there seems to be audio, you can dimly hear menu tones and such. I dont recall if this game was just really quiet or at, maybe Kyle mixed it weird. I know the three mic setup had some weird issues, I'll ask about it.
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Jul 6, 2015 12:13
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsULR76I8-8 Seriously though, who can ever get enough NZS? Part 2 this fine day.
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Jul 8, 2015 00:09
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Oh man, that's the frozen whale boss. I was stuck on that guy forever as a kid. However, the stages got even harder after so I never made it much farther.
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edit: Sorry, this has nothing to do with trains! It's just gangsters. Part Battlefield, part Bioshock, all ahead of its time, it's DEAD CONNECTION: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMMjtOUHjtU Lemma fucked around with this message at 04:15 on Jul 10, 2015 |
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Jul 9, 2015 20:18
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It's Tuesday! I think. At least, I am pretty sure it is still Tuesday somewhere. Anyway, this week we begin the arduous process of playing a coinop Megaman game. This me, the nerd shoe is on Kyle's sweaty foot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V64MzZsL3lk
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Jul 15, 2015 06:15
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For the record, the game disabled continuing during the final countdown battle, so his failure was not in being unable to find the start button but in dying right before Wily did.
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Jul 16, 2015 05:17
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It's not that uncommon to happen in a lot of old arcade games too. Makes it really frustrating when you're just coasting through the game on just quarter feeding then you just get smacked by a game over. The mafia type setting is really cool in Dead Connection. Not many games really do it. Besides that though, I love how the environments just start exploding in different ways. Only shooting gallery type games like Blood Bros. or Cabal really did that.
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Yeah, worry not , we give it another go and try the later generation MegaMan bosses. For now, though, here's a strange little piece of the past: Berlin Wall the game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FChRHlQnTnk I heard about this being a thing on Game Gear a long time ago, and wondering what in the world it could possibly have been. Well, here is the presumably "premium" coinop version, and it is... not at all what I envisioned all those years ago. Enjoy?
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Unglaublich. Games should bring back the random photo backgrounds. Especially if they tie them into current events.
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Sorry for the belated update today, I forgot which side of the IDL I'm on. Here is Megaman part ii: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKrFKQM9x7s Kangra: I've seen photo games in Japan mostly, but they tend to be of a pornographic nature. Not so surprising I guess.
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OK, now prepare to have your lives changed by one of our most wonderful finds yet: THE CLIFFHANGER: Edward Randy! This JP-only title deserves infinite renown for being amazing. I hope it gets all the legal releases possible somehow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqmeYDr0CZw If anyone knows the fb group nerd talk, this got posted there, too. Spread the word! The word of Ed Randy.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgqLy2Y6Y0U Ed Randy part 2 is up, witness the thrilling conclusion. FredMSloniker: In regards to the hardhead audio, we believe it's mixed in, although it's quiet. A few videos had an issue where the game software played demo sounds from another arcade game along with the game being played, which we didn't noticr at first. I think ithappens a few times in the Deadconnection video. If there's areas with little or no game audio, it may be because Kyle quieted it down to make it less noticeable.
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It's pretty obvious to see the Indiana Jones inspiration for this game. Data East and other companies really loved to ape popular movies at the time. However, mostly the war hero type characters that Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jean Claude Van Damme. Just check out the intro to Contra. But for my money, my favorite references were from another game from Data East called Sly Spy.
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that Deadly Connection seemed pretty cool, kind of like Caliber .50 except you are only ever on one screen
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Edward Randy is gone but not forgotten, but now all we have to dwell on is the underwhelming Korean product Burglar X, which features neither burgling nor X, however you would be inclined to interpret the latter. Check it out on the good ol' Trouble Planet YT Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULXa4JI-B9Q PBnJamo: Funny you should mention SlySpy, I believe it is on the docket for games we're doing in the current (and as of today, ongoing!) recording session. We're gonna try to get around to as many requests as possible, too. We've recorded a few useable LPs so far and, let's just say, we've discovered some pretty wacky stuff already. It'll be a while before anyone gets to see them, though, since we're still deep into "series 1." Aces High posted:that Deadly Connection seemed pretty cool, kind of like Caliber .50 except you are only ever on one screen Yeah, we really genuinely enjoyed this game. There aren't a lot of games styled like it out there, and the amount of detail they put into the environments (what with how much you can destroy and set ablaze) adds pretty well to the entertainment value. Pretty fun for co-op, too.
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To begin, this week we begin a new let's play, the aberrant Die Hard Arcade. (It's got nothing to do with the movie series; it's just an oddball Japanese cop-themed beat-em-up/shooting gallery.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWoPmyE8tfo This is one of the older LPs recorded; we decided the game was oddball enough to share, just disregard mention of inebriation as an integral part of our modus operandi. This was an early business model that proved financially untenable. (Nick refused to settle for Red Label.) In other news, we got to recording some new LPs this past week while we were all in Orlando, and we got to as many requests as we could. It'll be a while before they are engineered and such, but I think we got some really good commentary out of them- I believe we managed to do at least one request from everyone who requested. Plus, we learned about some cool new games- Battle Balls in particular struck my fancy, being a longtime Puyo Puyo enthusiast. Thanks for the awesome recommendations guys! edit: Also, when we recorded, we mentioned the requester screen name in the intro- does that sound like it would be okay with everyone? Granted, we are a tiny channel, but it occurred to me to verify whether this sounds like a good idea or not. We basically just say something like "SA forums user [screenname] recommended this one." Lemma fucked around with this message at 21:38 on Aug 4, 2015 |
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For the record, I'm cool with that. And I'm glad you liked Battle Balls! e: one thing I'm curious about, watching the Die Hard Arcade thing: could two players cooperate to arrest guys all day by having one of them knock them down and the other swoop in while holding a handgun? There doesn't seem to be a maximum health requirement (though I assume bosses are immune), and that way the guy with the handgun wouldn't have to actually use it. FredMSloniker fucked around with this message at 01:18 on Aug 5, 2015 |
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aaaaaahh the Die Hard beat 'em up. I only ever saw this in one arcade when I was growing up, it was at a campground halfway across the country and I only had the opportunity to play it one time. Ever since I wondered what other places it might be but I could never find it, good to see it here though, now I can see the ending 
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As someone who gets shout outs so regularly by the guys doing the entire Final Fantasy series that I'm practically a guest star along the lines of a "wacky neighbor" character, I say call out whoever you want. It's not like you're using their real life name or anything.
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It's a special Thursday: today we have Iron Horse, an early Konami cowboy game. It's no Red Dead Redemption, but one can read some macabre themes into it if you want. I know of no other game where you can play as a faceless train-robbing ghoul. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vaFKN07Wk4 Our first request games will probably start owing out in early September.
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Quick request for future encodes: could you use a different smoothing algorithm? The one you're using right now makes things look weird. A simple bilinear resize would be less distracting.
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Well, at least it wasn't exactly a Streets of Rage side-scrolling brawler. Now quite, anyway.
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We are rapidly reaching the end of our first batch of LP's. I hope you have enjoyed our foray into the forgotten corners of arcade history, and have taken away some fun knowledge of the industry's weirdest footnotes. But lemme tell ya, nothing we've done so far quite compares to some of the new stuff we have coming up. Even without commentary, I'm pretty sure some of the games we discovered on this latest recording session are worthy of being shared more widely. If a bunch of you manage to already know about one of these games in particular, I'll be amazed. FredMSloniker posted:Quick request for future encodes: could you use a different smoothing algorithm? The one you're using right now makes things look weird. A simple bilinear resize would be less distracting. FredMSloniker: I believe Kyle (our main video guy) is examining ways to edit future videos and such, but I have no idea about any of that stuff. I'll either try to get a definitive reply from him or have him post whenever he gets around to making an SA account.
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Lemma posted:FredMSloniker: I believe Kyle (our main video guy) is examining ways to edit future videos and such, but I have no idea about any of that stuff. I'll either try to get a definitive reply from him or have him post whenever he gets around to making an SA account. It might be an emulator setting, actually. Just as a test, you could boot up Iron Horse again and see if the pixels look like they've been smoothed like they look in the video.
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I hope your arcade has Virtua Cop 2, that game is the bomb... well, at least the first of three stages is.
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JcDent posted:I hope your arcade has Virtua Cop 2, that game is the bomb... well, at least the first of three stages is. No Virtual Cop as yet, although we do have some light gun games coming up. Some well-known, some… some are just, wow. Meanwhile, though, episode 2 of Die Hard is up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLw_9ZY06sA Soon, we stat getting into a pretty amazing collection of forgotten Konami games. They got up to some mischief those guys. FredMSloniker posted:It might be an emulator setting, actually. Just as a test, you could boot up Iron Horse again and see if the pixels look like they've been smoothed like they look in the video. Reportedly, we used to film in 16:9 and change it to 4:3. In our second recording session, reportedly, we didn't have that same issue. Lemma fucked around with this message at 22:02 on Aug 11, 2015 |
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I'm curious to know if anyone has heard of today's game: Growl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UgsbSjdD1I From what I managed to research, it's about park ranger types stopping a group of poachers in the jungle.
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I've heard of it, but you've already gone further than I've seen of it. It seems a little ludicrous in the best way.
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I've read a lot of HG101, Growl was a featured article at one point. There really is a special brand of insanity to this that other games can't quite replicate that makes it a joy to play, despite how simple it is. Especially with how ridiculous how the game gets later on. It's a pain in the rear end to actually beat, but getting to the final boss is worth it.
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Ah, Growl...it's part of the Taito Classics Collection. Quite indiscriminate the way it handles the poacher problem. Cadillacs and Dinosaurs probably explained the subject better, and also included hilarious mutations.
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Lemma posted:
Forgotten Konami games? Is it to much to expect Vendetta? Mr. T and Hulk Hogan team-ups?
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Domestic abuse was kinda Randy Savage's jam back in his cocaine days, so you're in the clear.
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Neige posted:Forgotten Konami games? Is it to much to expect Vendetta? Mr. T and Hulk Hogan team-ups? All I can say is… I'm kind of impressed that Konami is still around. That said, part 2 of Growl is up. It'll be a new game Thursday; aside from Sonic, we never lasted more than 2 episodes in the first recording run. That'll all change when the new videos start up, we'll probably have to increase the weekly schedule for at least some of them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhIrEcRzR70
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Well lately Konami's been trying to get out of the straight video game business (RIP so many franchises) and focusing on pachinko and slot machines. To be fair, that's a MUCH more lucrative area.
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Choco1980 posted:Well lately Konami's been trying to get out of the straight video game business (RIP so many franchises) and focusing on pachinko and slot machines. To be fair, that's a MUCH more lucrative area. Really? Going the way of Sega huh. I'm not that heartbroken; the last of my will was shattered when I played 5% of the way into Silent Hill: Downpour, which should probably be considered a violation of the Geneva convention or something. Then again, Metal Gear Rising was fun and silly. I guess they managed to stay above Sonic '06 levels of ignominy, but they seem like they are about out of ideas at this point. It'll be pretty fun to see some of the shinanegins they were up to the in the 80's and 90's.
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Lemma posted:Then again, Metal Gear Rising was fun and silly. You can probably chalk that up to Platinum. Also, if we're going down the Konami beatemup route, what about Metamorphic Force? That was pretty awesome, plus seeing a grizzly bear DDT a giant goat demon never gets old. As for other games you should try, go with Mutant Fighter/Death Brade. I hope your fingers are good for mashing.
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