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Old 10-18-2010, 02:05 PM   #81
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Good ol' Custer's revenge. I actually did a report on video games back in my Computers and Technology course at the U of C that included this game. I also made mention of the original Wolfenstein, which features yellow stick men with Swastikas on the middle of their bodies.



I think this one ages pretty well
A lot of great things in that game. The ability to stick a gun in a nazi's back and steal his uniform to sneak around was amazing until an SS officer walked into the room and you couldn't fool those guys.

Tossing grenades around the corner. Head shot executions.

That game was amazing from a you have to really think your way through it instead of guns blazing like later versions.
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Old 10-18-2010, 02:47 PM   #82
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I've been playing through the old NES games, and there are a few that I played that really didn't age very well. Three I have fond memories of that really don't work nowadays are Bayou Billy, Faxanadu, and Metal Gear. Things that made sense to me playing these games as a kid don't make sense anymore. There isn't the need to do a workaround anymore, cause you have more than two buttons, and proper interfaces.
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Old 10-18-2010, 05:26 PM   #83
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I emptied so many quarters in this arcade game when I was younger. Tried it again in MAME and it can be a bit brutal. It's only good for nostalgia methinks. Damn you Andre!!



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Old 10-18-2010, 08:14 PM   #84
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If you have a decent arcade stick, it makes all the difference in the world for playing MAME.
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Old 10-18-2010, 08:16 PM   #85
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Old 10-20-2010, 01:41 PM   #86
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Tecmo Bowl was and still is a great game. After a few games and you get a feel for the game again, all the old strategies come back.
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Without a doubt my favorite game of all time. More than Zelda, Mario, DW, FF, Starcraft, and Halo put together.

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Old 10-20-2010, 03:23 PM   #88
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Every once in awhile i'll set up my old system(s) and play some old school games.

The original Starfox is the one that sticks out as a game I can't stand anymore. I played the crap out of it when I was younger.

On an aside. I really wish I still had my Turbo Grafx 16. I loved playing that system and there are alot of games I want to play for nostalgia sake. The Ys series and Bonk ones come to mind. I also remember loving their wrestling game. Just writing about it makes me want it so bad, lol.
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Get it for the old games!
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Every once in awhile i'll set up my old system(s) and play some old school games.

The original Starfox is the one that sticks out as a game I can't stand anymore. I played the crap out of it when I was younger.

On an aside. I really wish I still had my Turbo Grafx 16. I loved playing that system and there are alot of games I want to play for nostalgia sake. The Ys series and Bonk ones come to mind. I also remember loving their wrestling game. Just writing about it makes me want it so bad, lol.
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This site is a good one to go to if your into playing games on the Turbo Grafx 16/Atari 2600/NES/SNES/Sega/N64 (The turbografx 16 has 21 pages of games dedicated to it including Bonk) all of which you can play for free. Provided you create an account.

I stumbled across the site a few months ago, and have found it a great place to replay games that I really enjoyed as a kid. Its kind of neat playing some of the classics "ie Zelda A Link To The Past" with an xbox controller.

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Old 10-21-2010, 12:13 PM   #91
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This site is a good one to go to if your into playing games on the Turbo Grafx 16/Atari 2600/NES/SNES/Sega/N64 (The turbografx 16 has 21 pages of games dedicated to it including Bonk) all of which you can play for free. Provided you create an account.

I stumbled across the site a few months ago, and have found it a great place to replay games that I really enjoyed as a kid. Its kind of neat playing some of the classics "ie Zelda A Link To The Past" with an xbox controller.
Cool, thanks for the link i'll definately check that out to get my fix. I'll still want the physical system one day as I prefer to have the old system around.

Been working in a pawn shop off and on for 12 years and have yet to see a Turbo Grafx walk in the door
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Cool, thanks for the link i'll definately check that out to get my fix. I'll still want the physical system one day as I prefer to have the old system around.

Been working in a pawn shop off and on for 12 years and have yet to see a Turbo Grafx walk in the door
I still have my Turbo Grafx.
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Old 10-25-2010, 01:27 AM   #93
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I took a trip down memory lane today and played some n64 games.

Jet Force Gemini, the San Francisco Rush series(1, 2, and 2049), Mortal Kombat 4, Perfect Dark, Beetle Adventure racing, and Ridge Racer definitely do not hold up well against time.

Wayne Gretzky 3D Hockey, Road Rash, and Harvest Moon are really hard on the eyes, but they are still really fun to play. F Zero X and Pilotwings are still playable by modern standards.

It's hard to beleive those games are old as hell now
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Old 10-25-2010, 09:07 AM   #94
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The best thing about Wayne Gretzky hockey is that you could buy the addon General Manager simulator which was quite awesome for its time.

I musta fired 10 coaches one year, not because my team sucks, but because I could.

I took over the Oilers and destroyed the franchise, I basically traded Wayne Gretzky for John Garrett.

HA HA HA HA HA
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Mortal Kombat II for the Genesis!! Still looks decent on an old tube TV but looks like complete garbage on my flatscreen. Great game though.
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Old 10-25-2010, 09:57 AM   #96
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I'm not a big gamer - but this is one game that I played for hundreds of hours when I was a teen. The graphics weren't great but I found the playability to be excellent. It's my favourite hockey game of all time.
Absolutely loved this game. I know a lot of people who didn't play it because of the graphics, but it had excellent game play. One of the harder things to do was lay somebody out with a body check, but it sure was satisfying when you could do it and you'd see a little stick man laying on the ice. I really liked how you made your own teams, edited the players rankings. You could use the teams that were pre-loaded but it was much more fun to keep the teams up to date. It worked with Hockey League Simulator, you could load games and rosters from HLS into WGH2.
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The best thing about Wayne Gretzky hockey is that you could buy the addon General Manager simulator which was quite awesome for its time.

I musta fired 10 coaches one year, not because my team sucks, but because I could.

I took over the Oilers and destroyed the franchise, I basically traded Wayne Gretzky for John Garrett.

HA HA HA HA HA
It was called Hockey League Simulator. My friend and I ran a fantasy GM hockey league with it. Each year we'd rank the players, sell the teams to our friends at school, and send out weekly reports on how their teams are doing.

Along with WGH2, I played HLS over and over again. I really enjoyed being the armchair GM. It was easy to manipulate the computer when making trades though... for example, the computer just won't trade away a player? Add in $1 and voila! You got the trade done. What I really enjoyed about HLS is just playing around with different styles of teams, and pairing up certain players. Based on how my friend and I ranked the players, the best line we ever created was Robitaille-Yzerman-Neely.

Another thing I found you could do is put a player on every line. I put Mario Lemieux on each line (ES, PP and SH) and he'd score 400 points in a season.
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Holy hell, did Final Fantasy ever fall off after 9.

So this entire thread came to be because I had a sudden unstoppable urge to play FF8. I scoured my friends for a PS and FF8 to borrow; I scoured Ebay for a decent priced computer version like I had done with FF7. After having zero luck I checked craigslist and wouldn't you know? They had a PS1/PS2 bundle with a stack of games for $80 that called my name and I bought it.

I also bought FF8, and FF Anthologies off EBay because they were cheap and packaged together. I already owned FF1/2; had 9 left over from the PSOne era; FFX that I ended up with when a friend hauked his PS2; and FF7 for the computer. So I decided I was going to play them all. Because FF8 hadn't arrived yet I started with 10.

**** me is this game no fun compared to the previous installments, or what? The first 10 to 15 hours I was loving it, then hours 20 to 30 I was going through the grinding motions of leveling (sphering?) that I go through in every FF game. It was at about hour 35/40 that I realized... I wasn't having any fun still. I wasn't doing the monotnous leveling but I still wasn't having fun again. I've put almost two days worth of playing into a game that I was not enjoying it.

There were no sidequests to stretch out the main-quest (atleast until the very end which by that time why bother? The game can be ended); there was no world exploration (hell with the lack of a world map you'd have to wonder if there was a world at all); the mini-game was off-limits for extended periods (admitedly, I loves me some Blitzball); I couldn't go back, only forward; the monsters all looked the same; the sphere-grid, while a nice change, would get confusing and the path you wanted to take was always off-limits until you were well passed it.

But why did it take me so long to realize this? Well, I had the PS2 set up at my house and the playstation set up at my girlfriend's (one of the games that was in the bundle was the original Tomb Raider, which she had never played despite being a huge fan of the series). At her house was the original PS FF games and as the sole goal of this was to play FF8 I decided to start it even though I usually only do one game at a time.

Now, I hated FF8 when I was younger. Hated it. The junction and draw system was confusing and cumbersome to me. Having played FF7, the materia system was just so much simpler in my mind (I actually made my life more difficult when I was younger since I'd load up summoning materia on Cloud which would deepsix my attack and HP, but I thought it made me uber powerful. I'd always get stuck on the second to last boss because of that). I played 8 to about disc three and quit before starting on 7 again; eventually 9 came out and 8 never made back into my PS before I lost the discs and eventually the system to a moving accident. But I had it again, and I was playing it and I was loving it. The junction system made sense; drawing wasn't a pain; the GF abilities were fun and was much more complex and powerful than "Get boost, win game" (PROTIP: Doesn't work like that) as I had thought it was when I was younger. And then it hit me; I was exploring a continent for no reason other than I could. I wasn't being forced to follow a path from point A to point B. This was when FFX unravelled.

The cut-scenes were nice, not too long. The battles were funner and used a system that, not only was I more familiar with but, fit the game better; The leveling system was more traditional while still changing it up enough to make it not feel the exact same; The monsters in each area were different and more numerous. After 15 hours, and only being half-way through disc one I had already seen and done more (other than fight the same battle on the same long road) than I had in all of FFX.

So after this I went back to my place and picked up FFX again. All those minor niggles that had been bugging me since I started were not minor anymore. They were huge flaws in the gameplay. I didn't want to keep going forward. I didn't want to follow what was the equivalent of the TransCanada highway across this planet. I wanted to go off to the left and explore some of the forest. I wanted to get my airship and fly it back to Luca or to Besaid and land next to the settlement. Instead I am forced to wait until the last part of the game and I have to talk to Professor KeenBean who will land me in the general vicinity of the location and make me run there and, unless you got lucky and found a No-Encounters weapon, fight every level 1 monster that pops up with the same frequency as before (3 steps). I can't land on a part of the continent and explore. No-no, I can punch in the longitude and he'll take me there. I'm not an explorer in a fanciful world. I'm the geographer for the explorers, pinpointing where stuff is so they can find it later.


I had sworn to never play 12 after watching a friend engage in the auto-pilot battle system, and have heard 13 is just a stupid grind on the same type of highway as this one. So why OH WHY did the FF series take such a terrible turn after the last of the PSone games?

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Final Fantasy isn't as good as it used to be.
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I've just recently started 12, and I don't mind it so far. X was unbearable for me though, and I've heard that X-2 is the opposite....very non-linear, but it sounds like they just went the other way to please those of use who like to set our own paths more-so. If you find a cheap copy of 12, grab it to try it out (or borrow one if you know anyone who's got it)
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I had sworn to never play 12 after watching a friend engage in the auto-pilot battle system, and have heard 13 is just a stupid grind on the same type of highway as this one. So why OH WHY did the FF series take such a terrible turn after the last of the PSone games?
I actually liked 12 because of the gambit system, despite not being a fan of many of the previous games. Automating away the monotony of previous instalments was pretty fun for me, almost like a game within the game. By the end I could almost literally walk around without paying more than a minimum of attention, and actually levelled up to 99 for all characters while watching playoff hockey by more or less circling around between a few areas.
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