Son Of General Retro Discussion

a5y

Steve SI wrote: »

Some great pics of retro gear.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/05/visualized-the-videogame-history-museums-touring-exhibit/


I really want a Neptune:


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If you ever do buy one, please, please be the first person to ever take a photo of one in both a biggish resolution and in focus.

Because I keep looking around for good reference images and I swear Sega could have called it the Sega Bigfoot or Sega Locknessmonster.

Steve X2

a5y wrote: »

If you ever do buy one, please, please be the first person to ever take a photo of one in both a biggish resolution and in focus.

Because I keep looking around for good reference images and I swear Sega could have called it the Sega Bigfoot or Sega Locknessmonster.

Not much of a chance of finding one I'm afraid, it is a very rare bird indeed. But if I do whip out the Nikon D3s and get some nice pics.

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Steve X2

My "Collection of the Damned" has increased by one this evening. Found a nice clean copy of the Rise of the Robots novel.



I know I'm going to hell for this collection but I'm looking at it as an art piece

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DinoRex

Steve SI wrote: »

My "Collection of the Damned" has increased by one this evening. Found a nice clean copy of the Rise of the Robots novel.



I know I'm going to hell for this collection but I'm looking at it as an art piece

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Can we read aloud from that on the podcast Jackanory style?

'Grrrr...' The mean robot said...

CiDeRmAn

I remember a stack of Rise of the Robots PC versions in the store room in Gamesworld on Abbey Street, back in the day.
I was, frankly, shocked by the amount of floppies inside!

Rise of the Robots novel?
"He crouch kicked" over and over again til the end, is it?
I'd say the most interesting thing about the book is the cover, pretty much the same as the game then....

DinoRex

Can you imagine how awesome a Dinorex novella would be though?

Booker prize here we come!

a5y

Steve SI wrote: »

My "Collection of the Damned" has increased by one this evening. Found a nice clean copy of the Rise of the Robots novel.



I know I'm going to hell for this collection but I'm looking at it as an art piece

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Isn't that judging a book by its cover, literally and figuratively? I think the book has a better chance of being less of the crushing disappointment and total stain the game was.

You want one of these bad bays for when you absolutely, positively got to make CiDeRmAn flee the book club. :pac:

Steve X2

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I remember a stack of Rise of the Robots PC versions in the store room in Gamesworld on Abbey Street, back in the day.
I was, frankly, shocked by the amount of floppies inside!

Rise of the Robots novel?
"He crouch kicked" over and over again til the end, is it?
I'd say the most interesting thing about the book is the cover, pretty much the same as the game then....

When the collection is complete I might organise a special burning party and record the whole thing.

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DinoRex

Oh... We've all seen the Wreck it Ralph trailer, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHDQHVkYq4g

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

DinoRex wrote: »

Oh... We've all seen the Wreck it Ralph trailer, right?

I didn't until now, very excited now, love Jane Lynch not from Glee but Criminal Minds, Talladega Nights (< with John C Reilly as well, yeah I know, hardly anyone liked that movie :rolleyes:) and like Sarah Silverman.

a5y

Sera wrote: »

I didn't until now, very excited now, love Jane Lynch not from Glee but Criminal Minds, Talladega Nights (< with John C Reilly as well, yeah I know, hardly anyone liked that movie :rolleyes:) and like Sarah Silverman.

Couldn't bring myself to see it because it could never live up to the Daytona USA film script I have in my head.

• 90 minutes
• 39 cars
• 2 actors (John Cleese and Christopher Walken)
• 1 Race horse
• 0 right hand turns
• And we shoot the whole thing in one take

Beautiful.

DinoRex

Talladega Nights was okay... but it was WAY too long for what it was.

Jane Lynch's best work is in Christopher Guest's mockumentaries.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

DinoRex wrote: »

Talladega Nights was okay... but it was WAY too long for what it was.

Jane Lynch's best work is in Christopher Guest's mockumentaries.

you have to say it's okay since they talked about monkeys in it :P
I definitely want to see more JL

Retr0gamer

Apparently there's a Game Centre CX based porno:

CiDeRmAn

Oh, I liked Talladega Nights, it was a lot of fun.
"Save me Tom Cruise, save me with your witching powers!"
"Shake'n Bake!"

Plus Gary Cole was in top form throughout, as was Sacha Baron Cohen and a great cameo from Andy Richter.

Oh, never drive with a wild cat in the back seat, it does not aid ones skills, not the time I tried it anyways....

CiDeRmAn

a5y wrote: »

You want one of these bad bays for when you absolutely, positively got to make CiDeRmAn flee the book club. :pac:

I am very against censorship.
Fascists and other scum trying to manipulate us by deciding what a culture should and should not be allowed to read or see or hear.
Book Burnings should be followed by the burning of the people that ordered them.
No sadder sight than a bunch of zealots being afraid of knowledge.

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That said.

I would take the hit on this one, for the good of the planet.

How many SoRII or RiseoftheRobot novels does the world need?

Is the worlds glory enriched by their presence?

Or, more likely, will the planet lose a certain smell of faecal matter once the offending pages are placed beyond anyones reach?

Yup, I say burn them, pass the gasoline!

safetyboy

CiDeRmAn

Reggie...

I wonder if he acts like that all the time?

Is he a robot?

An alien??

safetyboy

He really made a bags of Nintendo E3, i couldn't watch it through.

DinoRex

'I like French food!'

a5y

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Reggie...

I wonder if he acts like that all the time?

Is he a robot?

An alien??

I didn't watch, so my impression is the distorted one coming through the lens of the GIFs and memes.

But he kinda has the same thing that Bosco or Thunderbirds or Captain Scarlet had going on. That "I've got a hand up my arse, being a puppet is kinda a job necessity here" thing.

Except I've a fondness for Bosco. Nowadays the puppets aren't so charming, the strings are a bit thinker, and its awkwardly obvious when puppets are yanked this way and that. And I'm not just talking about that Reggie guy.

DinoRex

Here's the context of what he was doing:

Andrew76

Is that the Wii U controller yoke? Is it not wireless?

a5y

DinoRex wrote: »

Here's the context of what he was doing:

Its kinda cool, but its really only using AR to achieve what sticking a mirror in front of a young child making funny faces does.

It looks alarmingly like a tech demo for the next generation of play-it-once-and-forget-about-it-ware/shovelware frankly.

DinoRex

a5y wrote: »

Its kinda cool, but its really only using AR to achieve what sticking a mirror in front of a young child making funny faces does.

It looks alarmingly like a tech demo for the next generation of play-it-once-and-forget-about-it-ware/shovelware frankly.

It's a component of ZombiU from Ubisoft which actually looked like it was making use of the tablet in gameplay more so than other title on show. The gameplay all looked prerendered though, so not sure how it will actually work in the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coCQ7wTRizo

I just want to see a Metroid Prime game using that tablet.

Retr0gamer

a5y wrote: »

It looks alarmingly like a tech demo for the next generation of play-it-once-and-forget-about-it-ware/shovelware frankly.

I'd say at the worst the WiiU will be like the Wii, lots of shovelware but with plenty of great hidden gems. I actually rank the Wii higher as a console than the N64, far more good games on it.

DinoRex

This one from Platinum looks fantastic... Don't know why they didn't feature it in the conference:

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

Myrddin

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I'd say at the worst the WiiU will be like the Wii, lots of shovelware but with plenty of great hidden gems. I actually rank the Wii higher as a console than the N64, far more good games on it.

I'd agree with that in principle, but the lack of a proper controller ruins any potential it has. Some of the great games would have played so much better with a traditional pad rather than the wave in the air type approach.

I know there are controller variants & the classic controller etc, but it's not the same.

johnny_ultimate

DinoRex wrote: »

This one from Platinum looks fantastic... Don't know why they didn't feature it in the conference:

Pikmin meets The Last Guy meets Earth Defence Force.

I can live with that.

o1s1n

EnterNow wrote: »

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I'd say at the worst the WiiU will be like the Wii, lots of shovelware but with plenty of great hidden gems. I actually rank the Wii higher as a console than the N64, far more good games on it.

I'd agree with that in principle, but the lack of a proper controller ruins any potential it has. Some of the great games would have played so much better with a traditional pad rather than the wave in the air type approach.

I know there are controller variants & the classic controller etc, but it's not the same.

did you not see the xbox 360 lookalike controller?