Son Of General Retro Discussion

Retr0gamer

Batman on the NES is really good as well. I liked the Gameboy one as well even if Batman had a gun which was weird.

Retr0gamer

The spiderman PS1 games as mentioned were great and of course there's yahtzees favourite, Spiderman 2 on PS2.

Professey Chin

Retr0gamer wrote: »

The spiderman PS1 games as mentioned were great and of course there's yahtzees favourite, Spiderman 2 on PS2.

I actually had so much fun with that game! Spent a stupid amount of time doing spins through fire escapes and just arsing around
That and Incredible Hulk

Retr0gamer

Have a few more. Riddick Escape from Butchers Bay was better than the film. The Warriors is the best thing Rockstar has done that isn't called Bully. Tron 2.0 on the PC is a forgotten gem that had a lot in common with Deus Ex.

Batman games seem to be quite high quality thinking about it. I loved Teh Adventures of Batman and Robin on the SNES and the Gameboy even if the GB one was rock hard, a friend of mine broke his GB when he head butt it while playing that game.

Retr0gamer

The Great Chinholio wrote: »

That and Incredible Hulk

Ultimate Destruction? That game was such a blast, really great open world playground to mess about it. The creators went on to make Prototype.

Professey Chin

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Ultimate Destruction? That game was such a blast, really great open world playground to mess about it. The creators went on to make Prototype.

Yep. This car is now boxing gloves! HULK SMASH!!!
Prototype is fun enough but its not the Hulk

DinoRex

King Kong on the 360 was pretty damn good... although the levels at the end controlling Kong in New York were rubbish.

Retr0gamer

I played it on the original Xbox and I enjoyed it although it felt really rushed. It had some nice ideas like the way there was no HUD and you could really use the environment to your advantage. I heard the 360 game had a problem where it's unplayable in HD since there's a bug where the screen is way too dark.

DinoRex

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I played it on the original Xbox and I enjoyed it although it felt really rushed. It had some nice ideas like the way there was no HUD and you could really use the environment to your advantage. I heard the 360 game had a problem where it's unplayable in HD since there's a bug where the screen is way too dark.

That was if you were playing on a standard definition TV. Was a big issue back then as it was a game very early in the life of the 360 and HD TVs were still a rarity.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

someone put this up last night

Retr0gamer

I'm in the library trying not the laugh

Doge

DinoRex wrote: »

Hated the vague have I completed it or not ending on Caped Crusader though.

Did love it though. It came with my C64 so it was one of the first games I played on the thing.

I thought it was self explanatory,
if it didn't say 100% FIN you gots some mo' work to do homie!

I actually managed to clear the first side of the tape back in the day, the one where you're up against the Penguins goons in the city.

The joker campaign (the funfair) was an absolute **** in comparison, I could never figure out how to untie Robin from the foundations of the Rollercoaster ride, tried using daggers, grenades, wire cutters, everything!

I still think to this day he enjoyed being tied up too much and didn't want to be set free.

I also didn't know you had to defuse every single bomb to get 100% in that campaign, until watching a gameplay video recently.


Was a pretty awesome game actually, the graphics and comic book style of the game were great.

Each scene popped up as a window, which faded into the background as you went onto the next scene. Must have been a challenge to fit it into 64k of memory.


All in all, was a cool early inventory based puzzle game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EhPUvEx7DE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YehPVWBP1M

Optimus Prime

waveform wrote: »

I could never figure out how to untie Robin from the foundations of the Rollercoaster ride, tried using daggers, grenades, wire cutters, everything!

Thats gas, i could never figure that out either! can you actually free him or what?

DinoRex

But didn't it just sort of keep going after you completed the 100%?

And you could never actually beat up the Joker or Penguin properly either.

Definitely did the Penguin one back in the day, but yeah... could never do the Joker one.

Doge

keithgeo wrote: »

Thats gas, i could never figure that out either! can you actually free him or what?

This guy managed to do it by using the rope? WTF?

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

That makes no sense whatsoever!


Someone replied in the comments to me before saying you should be able to do it with the dagger too,

but I doubt it.

Doge

After I uploaded gameplay videos of Platoon for the c64 a few years back, I got talking to a Finnish youtuber who's pretty big into his retro stuff.

He got his girlfriend to make do cross stitch artwork for the Platoon Title Sceen and it looks awesome:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fdjw7lBtP0

The info says it took several months to make.

You should also check out the hilarious "Sports Documentary" he filmed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phOjmGxK5EQ


You can turn on the English subtitles by hitting the CC button.

Doge

There's some really strange Finnish people out there o_O....

Check out user MarkoRepairs with his ultimate VCR collection that got him 1 million views...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z4iw8Ppo1o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWuyrlXI7nA

PSU in the sink, WTF?
The guy has about 1000 repair videos on his channel.


Whatever you do, DO NOT smoke cigarettes near him...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8oJnHBlXkA

He even made some finish rap video called "Anti Tobacco rap!"

I love when you find this obscure random **** on youtube.

Jack burton

Catherine with its non autosaving makes me feel really stupid

johnny_ultimate

Mr.Saturn wrote: »

Can anyone think of anything post generation 3 & 4? And no, not Goldeneye.

Scott Pilgrim was one of the few that seemed to have a deep understanding of the (admittedly not quite grade A) source material. And an awesome soundtrack. Was probably better than the film. Definitely was, actually.

Wasn't Gregory Horror Show an adaptation of something equally insane as well?

DinoRex

I don't like either of the Catherines... the waitress at the bar is cute though.

Retr0gamer

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Wasn't Gregory Horror Show an adaptation of something equally insane as well?

Yup think it was some weird anime show.

johnny_ultimate

Just recalled a surprising Street Pass exchange today.

Opened up my sleepy 3DS to discover a SP hit. Yay!

Into Mii Plaza, where I'm introduced to Amy.

'Hi my name is Amy!'

Hi Amy!

'Nice to meet you...'

You too!

'...rapist'

Not cool, Amy, not cool.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_CxFnKrMBw

johnny_ultimate

The girl in that sounds like Chunk from the Goonies at the end.

YOU GUYS!!

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYzDtoYx4vU

Dale Parish

Which should I hunt for first(next):
Compaq Portable II

or
Apple III

?

DinoRex

Trying out the Mass Effect 3 demo.

It looks lovely and really like how it cuts seamlessly from cut scenes to gameplay.

Sound doesn't seem very beefy though. I'd expect a planetary invasion by Reapers to be a bit louder but it's like these massive guys are just tip-toeing about the place.

Steve X2

My hosting is moved and I'm back online at last.
Two days to migrate all my data and services across to new servers, madness. They need to hire better people.

.

DinoRex

Pyongyang

Dale Parish wrote: »

Which should I hunt for first(next)?