So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

Pyongyang · 13-07-2012 11:12pm

Darius Burst AC EX, Darius Gaiden, Gradius I, Gradius II, Mushihimesama, Deathsmiles, ESPGaluda.

So far anyway...

There is a Taito Game Station across the road from our hotel but it only has a Blast City with Gradius multi select in it. In the Shinjuku station game centre I watched a guy go for a Gradius 1cc. He had the top score but I left while he was still playing. Another guy was playing DDPSDOJ but he was really good so I left as I knew I wouldnt get my chance to play it any time soon. Going to play it at HEY! Today I hope.

My wife wanted to play Darius Burst AC EX with me so we threw in some credits and cleared the A route full run! That machine is something else, it really is. I'll save that for a review though.

She also played Dolphin Blue and got quite far on one credit, and she never plays games at all! I sense an undiscovered talent? She seems to love the Japanese baseball games too. I just stuck with the SHMUPS.

Heading to Akihabara at 10am, finally... Mecca awaits...

a5y · 14-07-2012 1:17pm

Pyongyang wrote: »

Heading to Akihabara at 10am, finally... Mecca awaits...

Pics or it Nirvana happened.

Pyongyang · 14-07-2012 3:40pm

a5y wrote: »

Pics or it Nirvana happened.

They are coming, soon. I didn't get to play DDPSDOJ today. Hey! Has 3 Egret II cabs set up with it, they were all occupied all night. I played Mushihimesama while my wife played Batsugun before proceeding to clean up on the crane games.

K.O.Kiki · 14-07-2012 9:45pm

I've recently taken to playing Vampire Savior on GGPO.net

Dunno why, I just felt slightly dissatisfied with "modern" fighters.

Also, I never realised just how gorgeous it looks & sounds in motion.

Casey120 · 14-07-2012 11:05pm

Been playing some Vanguard on Mame tonight , game is a little on the easy side and the option to rest your space ship in flying larva for bonus is weird .
The mix of horizontal , diagonal and vertical levels is refreshing and the end boss is nicely done .
Pretty good game for it's time and extra points from me because I played it in the local snack bar a long long time ago in a galaxy far ...... .

Had a go at Changes also , lovely maze game and the only video game ever that my brother actually played , we use to play it in a pub before it was replaced with Popeye :mad:

CiDeRmAn · 15-07-2012 10:04am

Mario Picross 2 on my GBA Ags-101 via emu, eveb better than the real thing!
It is playing on the best possible screen and it is running as it would on the Super Gameboy, so it's in colour too, playing it direct from a cart, even on a GB it is not as good looking.
A terribly addictive game too, just one more go and another 20 minutes have past!

Retr0gamer · 15-07-2012 10:13am

Playing Final Fantasy IV on the PSP through the complete collection. Played this game so many times and yet I'm back playing it. There's just something about it. The story is cliched old ****e but it's just so well paced and fun that you can't put it down. And then there's that soundtrack and thankfully Square have included the option to use the old snes OST as well as the arranged one.

Steve X2 · 16-07-2012 6:00pm

Playing my newly acquired Jetstrike CD32, on the, well, CD32.
I loved this game when it first came out and there is still joy to be had playing it

I've had the normal Amiga version for a long time but its just not the same as the CD32 one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TThH-rKKuQY

http://gamesdbase.com/game/commodore_amiga_cd32/jet_strike.aspx

Doge · 16-07-2012 6:36pm

Went back to Driver: Parallel Lines for the PS2 today, and recorded a race.

The video is a tad spoilerific if you haven't played the game before, it could potentially ruin a surprise, so don't watch if you don't know what the surprise is!

Anyways, I had a race on a stock motorbike against more powerful Racing cars for a good oul challenge:

Just a CAM recording, i actually have an Easy Cap capture device,
i might use but it has crackly audio when hot.

CiDeRmAn · 16-07-2012 10:16pm

Very underrated game, probably my favourite of the GTA clones from the last decade, very well done.
The cops are insane though, very persistent and will chase you for the smallest infraction.

OwaynOTT · 17-07-2012 1:00am

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Very underrated game, probably my favourite of the GTA clones from the last decade, very well done.
The cops are insane though, very persistent and will chase you for the smallest infraction.

Best kind of Garda though.

CiDeRmAn · 17-07-2012 11:41am

Not sure, most of the Garda I know are nursing a belly, not too much chasing you down there.

frankie connolly · 22-07-2012 3:53pm

today i will mostly be playing
Superside kicks 2 (neo geo) and Shadow of the collosus (ps2)
god i love lazy sundays

a5y · 22-07-2012 6:33pm

Finished 1200 sliding block puzzles on an Android app (Unlock Me FREE).

I've now discovered, that was 1200 of the easy puzzles. There's still the Intermediate, Advanced and Expert Puzzles to do. Yikes.

In other games I'm a new monitor, so I now NEED to get a graphics card to get through some of my Steam backlog that are completely unplayable. :rolleyes:

Myrddin · 22-07-2012 6:37pm

I really feel the need to finally see what Shadow Of The Collosus is like...never played it before & thats a sin I need to rectify. Which should I play first, that or Ico?

frankie connolly · 22-07-2012 7:33pm

if you've not ico, play that first... i only bought shadow of the collosus yesterday and am about half an hour into it, fantastic!!

CiDeRmAn · 23-07-2012 9:50am

EnterNow wrote: »

I really feel the need to finally see what Shadow Of The Collosus is like...never played it before & thats a sin I need to rectify. Which should I play first, that or Ico?

Doesn't matter what order as, while they are in the same universe, the stories are not linked, not on the surface anyway, there is some meta stuff there when you dig down but nothing that you may be conscious of until after you play them both.
Plus the gameplay is quite different.
I'd also suggest playing them on the original hardware but the PS3 has done a fine job running them in HD and without the framerate issues of the PS2 originals.
I know, it kills me to say nice things about the PS3!

Andrew76 · 23-07-2012 10:20am

@EnterNow: Holy mother of god that is shocking alright, almost as bad as finding out you had an unmodded Megadrive.

As Cidey says you're safe to play either first. I prefer Ico, just, but both are brilliant games. You're in for a treat ya lucky sod.

Myrddin · 23-07-2012 10:33am

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I'd also suggest playing them on the original hardware but the PS3 has done a fine job running them in HD and without the framerate issues of the PS2 originals.
I know, it kills me to say nice things about the PS3!

I havn't turned my PS3 on since last year, I don't intend on doing so any time soon either

PS2 all the way for this task!

Andrew76 wrote: »

@EnterNow: Holy mother of god that is shocking alright, almost as bad as finding out you had an unmodded Megadrive.

As Cidey says you're safe to play either first. I prefer Ico, just, but both are brilliant games. You're in for a treat ya lucky sod.

Lol, I know...pretty bad alright. There is one upside though, I get to play them for the first time soon :cool:

CiDeRmAn · 23-07-2012 3:10pm

Be prepared, Ico is pure brilliance, sensational stuff.
When I walk outside on a sunny morning, the sound of the wind and birds calling puts me always in mind of the outdoor scenes of Ico, magical stuff.

Mr.Saturn · 23-07-2012 3:51pm

I think it's a fine testament to Ico's brilliance that it takes one of gaming's most-deplored tasks, the escort mission, makes a game out of it, and still manages to remain evergreen.

Even more brilliant, nobody's ever noticed that it's also has the basic-plot of just about every Mario-platformer, with a bit of a re-jig.

CiDeRmAn · 23-07-2012 9:56pm

Except, of course, you have the princess in hand, in the one giant castle, rather than, well, you know, she being in another one.... the tart!
And, an escort mission?
Kinda underselling the puzzles and threats you meet along the way, not to mention the exquisite design of the world you inhabit..

Retr0gamer · 23-07-2012 10:33pm

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

And, an escort mission?
Kinda underselling the puzzles and threats you meet along the way, not to mention the exquisite design of the world you inhabit..

Escort Mission sums the majority of the game up though, unless you have another word that Edge made up to describe it?

It's still an escort mission. It also happens to be the most beautiful and enchanting escort mission as well. The only other escort missions that worked as well were Resi 4 which only worked because you could turf Ashley into a dumpster to keep her out of the way. Nothing that inelegant in Ico

johnny_ultimate · 23-07-2012 11:01pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Escort Mission sums the majority of the game up though, unless you have another word that Edge made up to describe it?

Squire's errant?
Gallant duty?
Warden sortie?
Chaperone クエスト?

a5y · 24-07-2012 1:35pm

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Squire's errant?
Gallant duty?
Warden sortie?
Chaperone クエスト?

Post-Fetch-Quest quest?

(When I was a kid, I thought RPGs stood for "Rescue Princess Games". No lie.)

ghostchant · 24-07-2012 2:17pm

Was playing Ico a few months ago, starting a new game. I managed to forget to pick up the stick in one of the first rooms which made fighting those shadows the single most frustrating thing I've ever experienced in my years of playing games. If you remember to pick up the damn stick the game's majestic though!

Andrew76 · 24-07-2012 2:43pm

ghostchant wrote: »

Was playing Ico a few months ago, starting a new game. I managed to forget to pick up the stick in one of the first rooms which made fighting those shadows the single most frustrating thing I've ever experienced in my years of playing games. If you remember to pick up the damn stick the game's majestic though!

Didn't even know the game was playable without it.

ghostchant · 24-07-2012 2:45pm

It's really not. It takes a ridiculous amount of time to kill one of the things without it. I was thinking that the game was absolute garbage, not at all like I'd remembered, until I realised my mistake

CiDeRmAn · 25-07-2012 10:44am

ghostchant wrote: »

It's really not. It takes a ridiculous amount of time to kill one of the things without it. I was thinking that the game was absolute garbage, not at all like I'd remembered, until I realised my mistake

Had to be a mistake, otherwise you'd be as misguided as Retr0!

And lay off Edge, 6/10 boy!

Retr0gamer · 25-07-2012 11:13am

Ico is such an Edge 6/10 game.

So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

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