Games

Post by **dng** » Wed Apr 02, 2025 4:05 pm

(Mario kart looks quite nice)

Post by **endar** » Wed Apr 02, 2025 5:19 pm

Gary O'Fart more like

CandyDarling · Post by **CandyDarling** » Fri Apr 04, 2025 1:26 pm

I have discovered a great site:

https://library.gamehistory.org/

It is a load of scanned documents / video recordings / etc from the archives of various video games devs / companies. They're slowly adding more stuff as time allows.

Here's something I found in a game design document relating to a proposed game from Mindscape called "The Beast", from the mid 90s. It has the most amazing description of anything ever

: the_beast_excerpt.png (195.66 KiB) Viewed 8716 times

Post by **dng** » Fri Apr 04, 2025 1:51 pm

excellent

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Apr 04, 2025 2:24 pm

The ambience section of the design document for Emlyn Hughes International Soccer is identical to that.

Post by **endar** » Fri Apr 04, 2025 3:27 pm

Referee!

Post by **blombluss** » Tue May 06, 2025 2:01 am

blombluss wrote: Tue Sep 13, 2022 7:29 pm Cosmic Payback on the Spectrum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlTiwhYopvE&t=254s

That pseudo 3D effect is rather cool!

And now on the ZX81 (with the 16k rampack)!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwL3a7M1nz4

Absolut amazebaals onna ZX81!

An Unicorn · Post by **An Unicorn** » Sun May 11, 2025 5:04 am

vom wrote: Fri Feb 28, 2025 7:23 am
dng wrote: Thu Feb 27, 2025 5:52 pm i bought my dad a couple of niel young albums for his birthday (on the beach and harvest. i'd never really listend to neil young before (except the dead man soundtrack) but it turns out he was pretty good
I've been listening through the "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die" list with a friend and this has also led me to properly listen to Neil Young for the first time. "After the Gold Rush" is my favourite album from the list so far that I hadn't heard before, it's wonderful

I had such a Neil Young phase when I was in my teenaged years! I even had physical copies of After the Gold Rush, Harvest, and Rust Never Sleeps, and burned versions of Tonight's the Night and Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere.

Also i was told i kinda looked like him when I was boy, grew hair out.

An Unicorn · Post by **An Unicorn** » Sun May 11, 2025 5:08 am

Neil Young is now videogames

Post by **vom** » Sun May 11, 2025 1:50 pm

Similar to most video games, I will never 100% Neil Young

Post by **dng** » Mon May 12, 2025 11:12 am

I got a few more neil young albums. the best one is definitey an absolutely terrible one from 2003 or whenever where he is so angry about the iraq war he forgets how to make decent music entirely

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqS9iaaWflE

An Unicorn · Post by **An Unicorn** » Fri May 16, 2025 2:47 am

vom wrote: Sun May 11, 2025 1:50 pm Similar to most video games, I will never 100% Neil Young

It is impossible

He keeps releasing DLC (obscure archival live recordings)

Post by **dng** » Tue Jul 08, 2025 11:20 am

i played that new mairo kart last weekend. it was good it was mairo kart

Post by **dng** » Tue Jul 08, 2025 11:20 am

you can be a cow now

Post by **blombluss** » Tue Jul 15, 2025 7:46 pm

Some 'nana is trying to revive the ye olde Commodore brand in a bid to take on Sony and Nintendo, I presume.

Let it goooooooooooooo, pal.

Post by **endar** » Mon Aug 04, 2025 1:02 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liqWAiKb-Aw

tevin koms mootball fanager

Post by **dng** » Tue Aug 05, 2025 1:30 am

christ

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Aug 08, 2025 3:26 pm

Hoepfully Tevin Koms will resurrect his other two huge hits - Software Star and President!!!!!!

Post by **blombluss** » Sun Aug 10, 2025 4:07 pm

Cubix on the Spectrum - that 3D effect is really nice:
https://youtu.be/KHYcqwnwDEc?si=mGJNc1Etkcz5mKyA&t=339

Post by **endar** » Sun Aug 10, 2025 4:31 pm

it shouldn't be allowed

it's one of these https://yrgb.org/

all looks pretty good

Post by **vom** » Mon Aug 11, 2025 10:31 am

blombluss wrote: Sun Aug 10, 2025 4:07 pm Cubix on the Spectrum - that 3D effect is really nice:
https://youtu.be/KHYcqwnwDEc?si=mGJNc1Etkcz5mKyA&t=339

whoa that's really cool! just played it for a bit on the site and it works really well

then it got difficult and I gave up

Post by **dng** » Sat Aug 16, 2025 10:48 am

endar wrote: Mon Aug 04, 2025 1:02 am https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liqWAiKb-Aw

tevin koms mootball fanager

Tigers an interview with Kevin Toms in the guardian today for some reason

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/ ... kevin-toms

Post by **endar** » Sat Aug 16, 2025 11:04 am

Hooray

His games are slightly better than his singing at least

Post by **dng** » Sat Aug 16, 2025 11:22 am

Tigers? Well done autocorrect

Post by **vom** » Sat Aug 16, 2025 5:06 pm

Tigers

Post by **endar** » Sat Aug 16, 2025 6:23 pm

Hull Tigers

Post by **blombluss** » Sun Aug 17, 2025 12:58 am

“My problem wasn’t: do I need to buy a licence to use Manchester United? It was that there wasn’t enough memory to store the name.”

Best home-gaming era ever!

Post by **endar** » Sun Aug 17, 2025 1:11 am

Was there an Oric-1 version?

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Aug 27, 2025 7:48 pm

Yup, I think every 8 bit computer got a version!

Post by **dng** » Fri Aug 29, 2025 6:46 pm

hooray, the sequel to hollow knight is out next week

Post by **dng** » Fri Aug 29, 2025 6:46 pm

which means i'll be able to play it in 2029 when its £5

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Aug 29, 2025 7:44 pm

Imagine Tevin Toms Football Manager on the Vectrex.

With a screen colour overlay of Kevin Koms faece.

Beauteous.

Post by **vom** » Sat Aug 30, 2025 7:46 am

dng wrote: Fri Aug 29, 2025 6:46 pm hooray, the sequel to hollow knight is out next week

pretty crazy that this is actually finally happening

I think I might play it

Post by **dng** » Sat Aug 30, 2025 9:36 am

its on gamepass too (if you have gamepass)

Post by **vom** » Sun Aug 31, 2025 9:21 pm

Post by **dng** » Wed Sep 03, 2025 9:22 pm

oh, also its supposed to be £15 or something on everything else

Post by **dng** » Wed Sep 03, 2025 9:23 pm

i might buy it

Post by **dng** » Wed Sep 03, 2025 9:23 pm

first game i'll have bought at launch since breath of the wild or something

Post by **dng** » Thu Sep 04, 2025 6:05 pm

Hooray it's quite good

Post by **dng** » Thu Sep 04, 2025 6:05 pm

I have played it for about an hour

Post by **dng** » Thu Sep 04, 2025 6:09 pm

Also it was £16 not £15. Outrageous

Post by **vom** » Thu Sep 04, 2025 8:53 pm

I am also enjoying it! I like the way that it reminds me of Hollow Knight

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Sep 05, 2025 4:27 pm

Outrun on the Gameboy Color (2025 homebrew)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Us9vp6XqE

Very nice indeed!

Post by **dng** » Tue Sep 16, 2025 9:51 pm

silksong just seems to go on and on forever

Post by **dng** » Tue Sep 16, 2025 9:52 pm

which is good, but maybe also its a bit too big, really

Post by **dng** » Tue Sep 16, 2025 9:53 pm

and also maybe a bit too endlessly dispiritingly hard at times

Post by **dng** » Tue Sep 16, 2025 9:54 pm

(which you'd expect from the end game stuff, but at the start they maybe should have at least eased you into it a bit, instead of making every single boss do two hearts of damage every hit when you only have five hearts in total)

Post by **vom** » Wed Sep 17, 2025 5:24 am

It's pretty brutal. Basically every time I meet a new boss I consider quitting the game

Post by **vom** » Wed Sep 17, 2025 2:40 pm

I've almost made it to the Citadel but the boss preventing me from getting in might drive me to murder

Post by **dng** » Wed Sep 17, 2025 9:18 pm

that was definitely one of the ones i had the most problems with. it took me about 50 goes over two days in the end.

at least by then i could do that platforming bit on the approach really quickly i suppose