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twistedmentat posted:Moonsweeper's artwork looks like the poster for Apollo 18. What was the one that was arcade only where you had three screens and were a fighter pilot? That ruled even though I think I could only ever afford to play it once.
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jojoinnit posted:What was the one that was arcade only where you had three screens and were a fighter pilot? That ruled even though I think I could only ever afford to play it once. I believe that was the difficult-to-google, succinctly-titled "Star Wars Arcade" (1993). It did get a release on the Sega 32X, but anyone would be forgiven for not knowing that.
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Pastry of the Year posted:I believe that was the difficult-to-google, succinctly-titled "Star Wars Arcade" (1993). Lmao thanks. I guess I dismiss the obvious sometimes, plus if we all googled everything we'd never end up with things to discuss! I kinda have memories of wishfully looking at the 32X version in toys r us since they were all bring discounted heavily at the time and we only had a Genesis forever but very glad we avoided that and saved for the N64 instead.
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jojoinnit posted:Lmao thanks. I guess I dismiss the obvious sometimes, plus if we all googled everything we'd never end up with things to discuss! Oh, I wasn't being sarcastic. Googling Star Wars Arcade - even assuming you remember that extremely minimal name - brings up about a million things that aren't that specific game.
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Pastry of the Year posted:Oh, I wasn't being sarcastic. Googling Star Wars Arcade - even assuming you remember that extremely minimal name - brings up about a million things that aren't that specific game. No worries, I didn't think you were! I just straight up didn't even think to Google it, I just mentally remembered the cabinet and didn't ever think to look for what it might have been called because goons trump Google when it comes to this stuff.
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Pastry of the Year posted:Oh, I wasn't being sarcastic. Googling Star Wars Arcade - even assuming you remember that extremely minimal name - brings up about a million things that aren't that specific game. Yea, it's like trying to google the band Night Club without knowing the title of any of their songs. I like how that had different levels including speeder chase and fighting Vader.
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Zanzibar Ham posted:Image reminded me of H.E.R.O. so maybe that's also what you're looking for? Definitely not HERO. Played plenty of that on the Atari 2600
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twistedmentat posted:Yea, it's like trying to google the band Night Club without knowing the title of any of their songs. Or the band "Cumshots". Good luck with that. (Real band, have released albums and stuff.)
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twistedmentat posted:Yea, it's like trying to google the band Night Club without knowing the title of any of their songs. I remember picking up a second-hand single from a band called "Cybermen" and when I tried to find some info on them on-line all I got was gay porn and gay dating sites. Times have changed, though, and now all you get is Doctor Who poo poo.
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twistedmentat posted:Yea, it's like trying to google the band Night Club without knowing the title of any of their songs. Groke posted:Or the band "Cumshots". Good luck with that. (Real band, have released albums and stuff.) Jerry Cotton posted:I remember picking up a second-hand single from a band called "Cybermen" and when I tried to find some info on them on-line all I got was gay porn and gay dating sites. Times have changed, though, and now all you get is Doctor Who poo poo. All of these plus the word band give relevant results
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Someone needs to start a band called "Guy Glues A Thumbtack To A Mousetrap Then Sticks His Cock In It."
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The Butthole Surfers have disbanded, sorry
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Ziv Zulander posted:All of these plus the word band give relevant results Way back a few years ago before they were better known it was really hard to google them. Once they did the music for Moonbeam City they were easier to google, but before that, haha. Good Luck. Try search for them on youtube back then too, or google play. I got a SNES classic yesterday, and I think its funny how up until a few years ago, earthbound was a pretty obscure game. Like No one would have played it back in the 90s because its ads sucked, you had no idea what it was, and why would you rent that when you could rent mario kart or street fighter? But then in the last, I'd say 5 or so years, its gotten a lot more attention. Like I knew it as "that game with the gross ad" but now its "really weird JRPG that is also fantastic".
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It's kind of a range of 10 to 6 years ago Yume nikki was released in 2004, but didn't get popular until, like 2007. Mother 3 came out 2006 and was translated like two years later or so. OFF came out 2008. LISA the first came out 2012, and Lisa the painful and Undertale were out 2015. Homestuck was launched 2009. Undertale started development around 2012, I think... And in 2004, a bunch of people got me to play Earthbound as one of my first emulated SNES games. The Earthbound-like game genre seemed to have sort of gotten popular 2012 and onward, and I think it's firmly on the map because of Undertale, but there was a sort of an awareness of the game that started earlier as a niche internet interest, like the rest of the net
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I watched some videos on the Lisa games and holy poo poo that poo poo is fuuuucked up  But yea I realized recently when watching videos about that recent Undertale game that they share a lot of similarities to Earthbound.
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My earthbound story is that I remember it being mentioned a bunch in Nintendo Power in the mid-late 90s and liked the overall look of it, then I unlocked Ness in smash 64 and thought he was cool as poo poo and desperately wished I had a snes instead of an n64, then in 2001 I found out about emulation through guys playing DBZ fighting games on the school library computers, and soon afterward I had the idea to hunt down an earthbound rom and I fell in love with the game and ended up posting obsessively on starmen.net for like a year after. I didn't even know what kind of game it was, at that point pokemon was the closest thing to an RPG I'd played. Even around when the Mother 3 translation finally came out there didn't seem to be that much buzz about it so I'm super pleased that the series has seemingly built up a lot of cultural momentum through word of mouth over the past decade. The rise of youtube game critic type people has definitely been instrumental in that process. Makes me wonder just how much better it could have done if the people who were enthusiastic about it when it was new had been able to easily broadcast their feelings like we can now.
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Dr. Video Games 0081 posted:What scent did they use in Gamepro etc. for the Earthbound ads? Patchouli? Garlic, onion, and one that was supposed to be pizza if I remember right. It smelled like someone farted on a spice rack. Those ads were cool.
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For those too young to remember, this is how they chose to advertise Earthbound Yea, why would you want to check that game out? Before ads were all EXXXXXTREME they were going for "lets be real gross", actually a lot of mid 90s stuff aimed at kids were based around snot and smile and mud and implied puke and poop. Ads featuring a gross old lady with a giant gross meatloaf or a jar full of toenail clippings were in Nintendo Power. I was a teen at this time, and that poo poo just turned me off.
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I went with a friend to a Babbages so he could trade in his giant copy of EarthBound (it came with a Nintendo Power strategy guide, a poster and some other collectible poo poo). He got like 15 bucks for it which we used to buy some skunk rear end weed. A year or so later he was farting around on E-bay and saw copies going for 2 grand and they only went up after that.
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Neither Earthbound or Chrono Trigger got a release in Australia on the SNES. I remember the Australia Nintendo Power magazine did a cover story and huge feature on Chrono Trigger anyway. All the time complaining about how it wasn't getting a local release.
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Pocket Billiards posted:Neither Earthbound or Chrono Trigger got a release in Australia on the SNES. That's pretty smart though, because it increases general awareness of those games existing, and might've encouraged Nintendo to consider releasing it outside of the US from a whole bunch of people asking when and how they can buy them.
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Pocket Billiards posted:Neither Earthbound or Chrono Trigger got a release in Australia on the SNES. That's alright we got Terranigma, which is a much better game than either
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Miss posted:That's alright we got Terranigma, which is a much better game than either Terranigma is a great game but this opinion HAS AN ECONOMIC GROWTH INDEX OF 0 PERCENT
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twistedmentat posted:I watched some videos on the Lisa games and holy poo poo that poo poo is fuuuucked up You can safely skip the first Lisa game (the one that's Yume Nikki but about child abuse, not the one on Steam) and not miss anything. The one that's a full RPG is hosed up, but mostly in a darkly comical way and is definitely worth playing.
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I'd suggest skipping the DLC campaign, The Joyful, though. It ruins a lot of what made The Painful so fantastic, its more stupidly edgy and completely undermines the themes the base game set up. The combat is also much more limiting and punishing.
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Twitch posted:You can safely skip the first Lisa game (the one that's Yume Nikki but about child abuse, not the one on Steam) and not miss anything. The one that's a full RPG is hosed up, but mostly in a darkly comical way and is definitely worth playing. Maybe I'm just oversensitive or misunderstanding the idea behind it (it is a game where the premise is that there's only one remaining girl/woman in the world), but I couldn't get into Lisa: The Painful cause I found there to be tons and tons of homophobic humor. Like, it was a significantly large part of the game. Although I haven't seen many other people complaining about it, so it could totally be just me. That's a heads up if you think it might bug you. Casey Finnigan has a new favorite as of 21:35 on Nov 19, 2018 |
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Casey Finnigan posted:Maybe I'm just oversensitive or misunderstanding the idea behind it (it is a game where the premise is that there's only one remaining girl/woman in the world), but I couldn't get into Lisa: The Painful cause I found there to be tons and tons of homophobic humor. Like, it was a significantly large part of the game. Although I haven't seen many other people complaining about it, so it could totally be just me. That's a heads up if you think it might bug you.
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Accordion Man posted:The game is a huge takedown of toxic masculinity so its mainly making fun of dudes who are sex obsessed weirdos and not gay guys. Well, I mean, it'd be pretty lame if they didn't take on the topic of sexuality at all and most characters in the game are not portrayed too positively, no matter what. I didn't think any of it came from a place of malice or bigotry or anything, it just didn't gel with me.
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Pocket Billiards posted:Definitely not HERO. Played plenty of that on the Atari 2600 It's not The Covenant? http://cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=621 Someone on twitter was trying to find this earlier last week and their description of it reminded me of Exile, so I figure it's worth a shot.
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Captain Lavender posted:It's not a lost gem or anything, but a game I played with my dad when I was 4 was Moonsweeper. A cool Atari game where you fly around in a star system, and then run into a planet. The game then changes perspective to a faux 3D thing where you shoot enemies and save stranded dudes. I'd say it's a cross of Defender and Space Harrier. I played this game on my 7800 so I think it was slightly updated but I loved it
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Oh my god I've started playing For the Frog the Bell Tolls (fantranslation) after it was brought up in ThornBrain's portable Zelda lp thread and it's really charming so far (just got the Saws and shield at the town of A La Mode). There is a great gag because the main character is a prince, so at the start of the game needing to find his own boat due to his rear end in a top hat brother excluding him from a rescue mission, he tries to take a merchant's boat, who kicks him out - and the prince just buys the guys boat right there for 8,999,999 nuts (nuts are the currency), leaving himself 1 million. Then he gives the remaining money to a woman as a gift, and when she tries to be all "I couldn't possibly..." his response is just "Oh, it's literally nothing to me, see?" and another million shows up in his money counter. The only reason he isn't able to break the game is that a bit later someone claims he's with the villains and he gets mugged and robbed totally blind. It's a great game so far.
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Keru posted:It's not The Covenant? http://cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=621 I reckon that's it.
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I'm not sure if they count as old, but Battle For Middle-Earth 2 was a fun RTS. I should see if I still have my copy kicking around. It had an expansion that I hadn't picked up, unfortunately because of EA losing the license, it's not available anywhere except for ebay and Amazon resellers.
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Postal (1) Like so many other games at the time, it had a demo-as-shareware (with up to 15 player multiplayer). I've got some very fond memories of a summer animation class ~20 years ago where I got every one of the twelve of us to install it for a classroom deathmatch. I'd played it a bunch before so I was doing enough better than anyone else that I got accused of cheating. "Yeah, okay, if you type in 'QUICKEN' you can move faster." I could hear half the class type it in. "k" was the suicide button. It was glorious.
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Randalor posted:I'm not sure if they count as old, but Battle For Middle-Earth 2 was a fun RTS. I should see if I still have my copy kicking around. It had an expansion that I hadn't picked up, unfortunately because of EA losing the license, it's not available anywhere except for ebay and Amazon resellers. I have a phsyical copy of the complete, I wonder how much it sells for on Ebay 60bux? Holy poo poo I paid $10 for it!
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Accordion Man posted:I'd suggest skipping the DLC campaign, The Joyful, though. It ruins a lot of what made The Painful so fantastic, its more stupidly edgy and completely undermines the themes the base game set up. The combat is also much more limiting and punishing. In what way do you mean it undermined the original? I really like Buddy as a character, and the way she responded to her traumas by going in the complete opposite direction from Brad. Brad: I will not gently caress you up like my dad hosed me up, Buddy: a whole new kind of hosed up. I've seen criticism of the ending as coming on too quick/being unearned, but IMO the Joy vaccine sort of works as being the point of choosing to get better vs giving up on the world? I'd have liked to have seen more elaboration on the process of recovery but maybe that got outside the scope of what it was going for. At the least, Joyful has a bangin' soundtrack. Painful's music was good in context, but many of the tracks are ambience and/or discordance that don't make for moving listening on their own. Joyful though takes its ideas and weird instruments and builds a shorter but stronger OST imo. I still listen to them a lot, good ol' airhorns-as-instruments and all. 666 Kill Chop Deluxe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2tCvsH7MX8 Arrow to the Head: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0o-fBIjYjw
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