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Games
Do we have a games thread?
Look at this wonderfully melmed Terminator from the Master System version of Terminator 2

excellent

the Wee Barry thread is arguably the games thread but nobody seems sure

it looks a bit like that shit human/alien hybrid thing from alien 4

it's looking right at me

alien vs shit alien hybrid vs terminator vs predator vs predator alien vs human terminator predator alien

vom wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 3:34 pm the Wee Barry thread is arguably the games thread but nobody seems sure

i'm sure

It only took them 40 years!

thats my best ever joke

I haven't read the caption but that looks like Donkey Kong™ The Ape to me

Now to check if I'm right

richschnauzer wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 8:57 pm

Some of the games on the near identikit TRS-80 look rather neato:

Skiing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcHYt96h0wc

Dino Wars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8ccgHq26Qc

So many bargains on one page!

I remember when we replaced our old beloved C64 with the new white version which came with a cartridge Terminator 2. I was so excited to put the cartridge in. And then I played and urgh.

richschnauzer wrote: ↑Sat Apr 03, 2021 11:39 am

How many rival machines were around at one point? 13? 14?*

And peeps these days fret about whether to plump for the latest Sony, Microsoft, or Nintendo box! Bah! Whatever you go for, you're going to play lotsa great games, be part of a large and well supported gaming eco-system, and not end up being lumbered with a Color Genie, Laser 350, or an Aquarius. Now THAT was decision-making pressure!

*Sinclair Spectrum / Oric-1 / Acorn Electron / Camputers Lynx / TI 99 4/a / Dragon 32 / Atari 800 / Commodore 64 / BBC Model B / Amstrad CPC 464 / Sord M5 / Tandy CoCo / Spectravideo SV 318/328 / Memotech MTX

I've never even heard of some of these. But I'm prepared to bet anything that the Camputers Lynx is the machine to take us into a brighter future

vom wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 8:39 am I've never even heard of some of these. But I'm prepared to bet anything that the Camputers Lynx is the machine to take us into a brighter future

Ves, I expect it will do!

The Lynx was designed by a musician (John Shireff), so you'd expect it's sound capabilities to be good (a la Bob 'Ensoniq' Yannes creating the C64's SID chip), but alas, they were rotten.

My C64 was the Terminator 2 one and I loved that game

You leave it alone

I just finished Landlord Of The Woods

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1564 ... the_Woods/

It's a short (1hr ish) cheap thing in which you apply to become the Landlord Of The Woods, and it's weird and charming and bizarre.

hooray. that looks lovely

I am now playing Pacman 99, due to brain madness. I won a game.

Is that one of those massively multiplayer version things like the tetris one?

A bewildered 99 is the age I feel when watching that.

I can't bring myself to pay Nintendo for an online sub.

You need it for leaderboards. Leaderboards!

dng wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 11:34 pm Is that one of those massively multiplayer version things like the tetris one?

Ves. The weird thing is that I'm not great at normal Pacman and pretty good at normal Tetris, but I'm doing much better at Pacman 99 than Tetris 99.

I thought I was good at Tetris until I played online

I've lost my passion for it now

I liked the Massive Multiplayer Mairo they offered, but then they pulled the plug on it.

CANCEL CULTURE

whats the point of that?

removing it i mean

does everyone hate mairo now

I love(d) Mario 35, I was properly good at it too.

It was simultaneously hilarious and terrifying to be pootling around an average Mario level and then four Bowsers appeared.

I didn't like the Mario one at all for some reason, but I didn't realise they'd scrapped it. How odd.

I have installed the pac-man one but not tried it yet.

Bruce Sato wrote: ↑Thu Apr 15, 2021 10:44 pm I love(d) Mario 35, I was properly good at it too.

It was simultaneously hilarious and terrifying to be pootling around an average Mario level and then four Bowsers appeared.

It was so nice to have something I could actually win at.

Fuckers.

Do me a favour
Electrocute a neighbour

Accroding to the Bank Of Inglund's Inflation Calculator, those £25 games in 1987, would be, in todays roubles, selling for the equivalent of £72!?!

No wonder types like me stuck to home computers.

I won two more Pecmen 99. I might have to stop playing for a while, though, or I'll be glued to it.

I think we need to stage an intervention for Bruce...

chequered flag was the first game i got addicted to i think

Bless Smiths for their mention of educational software in the advert text. Like anyone really cares when that advert features four classic video games!

I've no idea how I missed this - Road Rash on the Amiga 500.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMLb1BhQoO8

I like the fact that its not super speedy, and you can take everything in.

I really wanna play this now!

3DO version was best

It's verr nice indeed.

Yeah I never knew an Amiga version was available!

I seem to recall U.S. Gold being one of the first games companies to push the games sales prices up from £6/£7/£8 to the £9/£10 that they remained for the remainder of the 8 bit tape era.

My feeling at the time, and I think it was shared by a fair few was - WOW! American games will definitely be better than UK/Australian/European titles, and whilst some were (Epyx titles in particular), most them were just... 'decent'.

US Gold were the masters of shit Sega ports