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Son Of General Retro Discussion

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    #7742
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    waveform wrote: »
    Angry Video Game Nerd's first reviews....

    as a child in the late 80s, early 90's....


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRNfPAA9pqY

    They're really having to dig deep on Cinemassacre for filler. Sooner the better he gets back from Cal....iforn....ia


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    #7743
    a5y
    Registered Users Posts: 944 ✭✭✭a5y


    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    There's some ****ing bat**** motion cabs in Joypolis, Sega's odd (and really rather expensive) indoor amusement park in Tokyo. Check out the 360 Storm-G stuff at 7:30 in the video below. Day I was there unfortunately the queues were two hours long for it. Watched an insane and very loud Japanese guy play House of the Dead 4 instead. First time I've ever seen Japanese people laugh at someone rather than with them.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InPcNcrBVk8

    7:30
    Never before have I wanted to know how to shout "Do a barrel roll!" in Japanese so, so badly. :D


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    #7744
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,166 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    a5y wrote: »
    7:30
    Never before have I wanted to know how to shout "Do a barrel roll!" in Japanese so, so badly. :D

    I really want to know what the loud Japanese woman is shouting all the while. Or perhap the confusing mystery is best kept that way.


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    #7745
    Augmerson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,162 ✭✭✭Augmerson


    Does anyone have a picture of the time in Gamestop on Henry Street with all the copies of Rayman for Playstation 1? I'll give you 10 internets for it.


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    #7746
    Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,019 ✭✭✭Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lEelz0iUJo


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    #7747
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,541 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Augmerson wrote: »
    Does anyone have a picture of the time in Gamestop on Henry Street with all the copies of Rayman for Playstation 1? I'll give you 10 internets for it.

    Hello stranger!
    Long time no post!


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    #7748
    James Howlett
    Registered Users Posts: 1,599 ✭✭✭James Howlett


    Some here might be interested this episode of VGMpire podcast which celebrates the music of Earthbound:
    http://www.vgmpire.com/2012/05/09/vgmpire-episode-21-happy-mothers-day/

    VGMpire is a pretty cool podcast and worth checking out. I only really listen to episodes of games I am familiar with but then discovered some great songs in this rpg battle sampler mix:
    http://www.vgmpire.com/2012/02/23/vgmpire-episode-15-battle-sampler/


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    #7749
    o1s1n
    Registered Users Posts: 34,551 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Any of you here playing DayZ? It's a multiplayer mod for Arma 2 but it's meant to be absolutely amazing.

    Apparantly it is by far the best zombie survival game ever made. Good thread about it on boards.

    I've just purchased Arma 2 on steam to give it a go. Really can't wait!

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056634133


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    #7750
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    o1s1n wrote: »
    Any of you here playing DayZ? It's a multiplayer mod for Arma 2 but it's meant to be absolutely amazing.

    Apparantly it is by far the best zombie survival game ever made. Good thread about it on boards.

    I've just purchased Arma 2 on steam to give it a go. Really can't wait!

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056634133

    Is it a 'game' per se, or just a huge map filled with swearing Americans?


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    #7751
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,166 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    The creepy-as Japanese plant things are coming to 3DS! Nightmares for all!

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    #7752
    o1s1n
    Registered Users Posts: 34,551 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    EnterNow wrote: »
    Is it a 'game' per se, or just a huge map filled with swearing Americans?

    Hah! I know I know, the same reason I don't really play online games myself.

    But just read this, it sounds too interesting to pass up -

    http://kotaku.com/5908753/this-might-be-the-greatest-zombie-game-ever-made

    It's a bleak, brutal game, playing like some strange hybrid of STALKER, Fallout and Left 4 Dead. There's no map until you actually find one. No prompts showing you the location of other survivors. All you hear is the wind and the birds. Because it's built on such a realistic engine, if you want to go somewhere, you have to walk. If you want to pick stuff up, you can only take what you can carry.

    If that wasn't making things hard enough, the mod's developers have added extra survival elements, like the need to eat and drink water. Two things which you'll want to do, since you take the role of a persistent player; leave a game and, if you're still alive, you'll come back in the same spot with the same gear. Die, though, and that's it. The weapons and tins of beans you worked so hard to get are gone.
    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    The creepy-as Japanese plant things are coming to 3DS! Nightmares for all!

    I thought you meant that ghost hunting game - WTF is that ****? That's far scarier than ghosts!


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    #7753
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,166 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    o1s1n wrote: »
    I thought you meant that ghost hunting game - WTF is that ****? That's far scarier than ghosts!

    Big collectibles in Japan at the moment. Dwarf Encyclopedia seems to be one translation of the name. This should clear things up:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjpEoMX2em0


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    #7754
    Doge
    Registered Users Posts: 8,963 ✭✭✭Doge


    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    Big collectibles in Japan at the moment. Dwarf Encyclopedia seems to be one translation of the name. This should clear things up:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjpEoMX2em0


    *Note to self:

    Never take LSD in Japan. :/


    This was in the related videos:





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    #7755
    Doge
    Registered Users Posts: 8,963 ✭✭✭Doge




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    #7756
    DinoRex
    Registered Users Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭DinoRex


    Anyone else love this show as a kid?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGfzN730p8w


    It's sort of like the Crystal Maze, if the producers of the Crystal Maze had dropped a lot of acid.


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    #7757
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,541 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    I used to love that show!
    Brilliant stuff!
    The 70's kicked ass!
    And it made perfect sense, 8 year old kids don't need acid, they're tripping most of the time anyway!

    X-Bomber!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7GFU5ncKhU


    Check out the music in this thing!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6hJr6h7jOk


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    #7758
    Doge
    Registered Users Posts: 8,963 ✭✭✭Doge


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    8 year old kids don't need acid, they're tripping most of the time anyway!




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    #7759
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,541 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    The 70's, when Pong was only bettered by Ultra Pong....
    I'm sure developers had a slightly easier time coming up with sequel ideas then...
    "Well, for the next one, make the bats smaller blocks of white and make the ball block of white faster!"
    "Give that lad a bonus!"


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    #7760
    Atavan-Halen
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 15,183 Mod ✭✭✭✭Atavan-Halen


    So I'm home from the pub. Not drunk but not sober. A glass of vino should bring me to drunkzville!


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    #7761
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,541 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Man, your drinking habits are going to reduce you to some sort of Irish stereotype, don't do it!


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    #7762
    DinoRex
    Registered Users Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭DinoRex


    How a Dodrio flies:

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    #7763
    a5y
    Registered Users Posts: 944 ✭✭✭a5y


    Having just read the into of this I can safely predict the next 11 chapters will be f''king awful.

    And I'm talking about Street Fighter 2. I'm even going to pretend SoR could have a coherent storyline. Punching dustbins to remove gold bars and lifesaving christmas dinners from beneath was the series high point for realism.

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    Bad signs:

    Vega is written in such a way that I dunno if he's Spaniad mask wearing western release Vega or Japanese Thailand resident hat wearing Vega.

    Which one of them used a three foot katana to murder a mah jong player, slicing off a finger to steal a ring and stealing blood stained money, (presumably there will be an awful joke about laundering it coming up) and then throwing his head back and laughing evilly?

    Wait a minute...

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    Also: Chun Li is disguised as a Japanese peasant girl. In the small Japanese village of Mau Lau. Under a bamboo shelter.

    Best needless bit: murdered guy is called Snake Eyes (because why not drag GI-JOE into this mess too :pac:)


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    #7764
    Dr Bob
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 3,181 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dr Bob


    There was a few of those novels knocking about , I remember having a Road Rash one , other than the protaganist being called Alex Player I cant remember much else...


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    #7765
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Dr Bob wrote: »
    There was a few of those novels knocking about , I remember having a Road Rash one , other than the protaganist being called Alex Player I cant remember much else...

    Shiva killed him in the end


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    #7766
    a5y
    Registered Users Posts: 944 ✭✭✭a5y


    Dr Bob wrote: »
    There was a few of those novels knocking about , I remember having a Road Rash one , other than the protaganist being called Alex Player I cant remember much else...

    Alex Player? Maybe it has potential :D(Even has the helmet hair too)


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    #7767
    Steve X2
    Registered Users Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    Redux: Dark Matters shmup coming to Steam/XBLA/PSN AND Dreamcast :)

    http://www.joystiq.com/2012/05/10/kickstart-steam-xbla-psn-shmup-redux-to-get-a-dreamcast-version/

    .


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    #7768
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    The Dreamcast - Just gets cooler with age :cool:


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    #7769
    Andrew76
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,154 Mod ✭✭✭✭Andrew76


    Steve SI wrote: »
    Redux: Dark Matters shmup coming to Steam/XBLA/PSN AND Dreamcast :)

    http://www.joystiq.com/2012/05/10/kickstart-steam-xbla-psn-shmup-redux-to-get-a-dreamcast-version/

    .

    That Kickstarter thing - do you get your money back if the target isn't reached?


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    #7770
    Steve X2
    Registered Users Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    Andrew76 wrote: »
    That Kickstarter thing - do you get your money back if the target isn't reached?

    They only take the money if the target is met. So you pay nothing until then.

    .


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    #7771
    DinoRex
    Registered Users Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭DinoRex


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    Arcade and Retro Podcast Episode 10 : Tomb Raiding


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