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Re: Games

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 4:05 pm
by dng
(Mario kart looks quite nice)

Re: Games

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 5:19 pm
by endar
Gary O'Fart more like

Re: Games

Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2025 1:26 pm
by CandyDarling
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

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Re: Games

Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2025 1:51 pm
by dng
excellent

Re: Games

Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2025 2:24 pm
by blombluss
The ambience section of the design document for Emlyn Hughes International Soccer is identical to that. :D

Re: Games

Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2025 3:27 pm
by endar
Referee!

Re: Games

Posted: Tue May 06, 2025 2:01 am
by blombluss
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)! :o

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

Absolut amazebaals onna ZX81!

Re: Games

Posted: Sun May 11, 2025 5:04 am
by An Unicorn
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.

Re: Games

Posted: Sun May 11, 2025 5:08 am
by An Unicorn
Neil Young is now videogames

Re: Games

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

Re: Games

Posted: Mon May 12, 2025 11:12 am
by dng
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

Re: Games

Posted: Fri May 16, 2025 2:47 am
by An Unicorn
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)

Re: Games

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2025 11:20 am
by dng
i played that new mairo kart last weekend. it was good it was mairo kart

Re: Games

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2025 11:20 am
by dng
you can be a cow now

Re: Games

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2025 7:46 pm
by blombluss
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.

Re: Games

Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2025 1:02 am
by endar

Re: Games

Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2025 1:30 am
by dng
christ

Re: Games

Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2025 3:26 pm
by blombluss
Hoepfully Tevin Koms will resurrect his other two huge hits - Software Star and President!!!!!!

Re: Games

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

Re: Games

Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2025 4:31 pm
by endar
it shouldn't be allowed

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

all looks pretty good

Re: Games

Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2025 10:31 am
by vom
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

Re: Games

Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2025 10:48 am
by dng
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

Re: Games

Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2025 11:04 am
by endar
Hooray

His games are slightly better than his singing at least

Re: Games

Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2025 11:22 am
by dng
Tigers? Well done autocorrect

Re: Games

Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2025 5:06 pm
by vom
Tigers

Re: Games

Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2025 6:23 pm
by endar
Hull Tigers

Re: Games

Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2025 12:58 am
by blombluss
“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! :D

Re: Games

Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2025 1:11 am
by endar
Was there an Oric-1 version?

Re: Games

Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2025 7:48 pm
by blombluss
Yup, I think every 8 bit computer got a version! :)

Re: Games

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

Re: Games

Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2025 6:46 pm
by dng
which means i'll be able to play it in 2029 when its £5

Re: Games

Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2025 7:44 pm
by blombluss
Imagine Tevin Toms Football Manager on the Vectrex.

With a screen colour overlay of Kevin Koms faece.

Beauteous.

Re: Games

Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2025 7:46 am
by vom
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

Re: Games

Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2025 9:36 am
by dng
its on gamepass too (if you have gamepass)

Re: Games

Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2025 9:21 pm
by vom
I do

Re: Games

Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2025 9:22 pm
by dng
oh, also its supposed to be £15 or something on everything else

Re: Games

Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2025 9:23 pm
by dng
i might buy it

Re: Games

Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2025 9:23 pm
by dng
first game i'll have bought at launch since breath of the wild or something

Re: Games

Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2025 6:05 pm
by dng
Hooray it's quite good

Re: Games

Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2025 6:05 pm
by dng
I have played it for about an hour

Re: Games

Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2025 6:09 pm
by dng
Also it was £16 not £15. Outrageous

Re: Games

Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2025 8:53 pm
by vom
I am also enjoying it! I like the way that it reminds me of Hollow Knight

Re: Games

Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2025 4:27 pm
by blombluss
Outrun on the Gameboy Color (2025 homebrew)

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

Very nice indeed!

Re: Games

Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2025 9:51 pm
by dng
silksong just seems to go on and on forever

Re: Games

Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2025 9:52 pm
by dng
which is good, but maybe also its a bit too big, really

Re: Games

Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2025 9:53 pm
by dng
and also maybe a bit too endlessly dispiritingly hard at times

Re: Games

Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2025 9:54 pm
by dng
(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)

Re: Games

Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2025 5:24 am
by vom
It's pretty brutal. Basically every time I meet a new boss I consider quitting the game

Re: Games

Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2025 2:40 pm
by vom
I've almost made it to the Citadel but the boss preventing me from getting in might drive me to murder

Re: Games

Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2025 9:18 pm
by dng
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