Keep Calm And Discuss Retro Generally!

CiDeRmAn

And so it begins!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82E7vhtLxNs

And a link to past glories!

CiDeRmAn

Dale Parish

It's such a quality poster that there's one now hanging in my room :pac:

Atavan-Halen

Woo new thread!

*cracks open absinthe to celebrate*

Dr Bob

Hurray!

Dr Bob

New thread!
If anyones interested legend of grimrock is a fiver in the steam sale , its very very similar to dungeon master, bloodwych, that kind of thing.. Only modern looking like..:)

safetyboy

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

Gonna play some Rygar on mame.

Bought it on NES too but am yet to play it.

the groutch

you went with that title? really???
may as well have a Union Jack as your avatar

Retr0gamer

Rygar on arcade is only ok, was never too fond of it. Rygar on the NES though is amazing, one of those NES games were they didn't decide to copy the arcade game. It's like a mix of zelda with side scrolling bits and works great.

Sparks43

So New thread Same old story

Boulder Dash Is the best Game of all time:D:D

Pyongyang

may as well have a Union Jack as your avatar

Nowt wrong with a neapolitan ice cream forum! God Save Adultappleflavouredbeveragemale!

Sparks43 wrote: »

Darius Burst Another Chronicle EX is the best Game of all time

FYP.

Doge

Doge

This may have been posted here already, or whatevs:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-video-game-console

the groutch

waveform wrote: »

This may have been posted here already, or whatevs:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-video-game-console

"In other news, Sony announce they are going to break into the console market with something they call a Play Station."


but seriously it is a great concept, a console that doesnt just pander to the CoD generation of gamers is always welcome.
it's only my 2nd Kickstarter backing, the other being Redux: Dark Matters for the Dreamcast

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JUCfX1P1ik

oh and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvT4mlOuTfk

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

a reminder that there's a retro beers on tomorrow >link<

Steve X2

Prometheus, damn good movie
Not perfect but none are and I'm glad I eventually got to see it in the cinema.

Don't read the spoiler if you've not seen the movie.

I was trying to discuss with my girlfriend the whole "what (supposedly) happened around 2000 years ago on earth that they would be pi$$ed off with us all".
But I think it was falling on deaf ears. "Did anyone maybe die 2000 years ago" etc etc. A discussion for another forum me thinks.

Steve X2

http://www.theverge.com/gaming/2012/7/12/3121233/johnny-cage-20-years-later

CiDeRmAn

Steve SI wrote: »

Prometheus, damn good movie
Not perfect but none are and I'm glad I eventually got to see it in the cinema.

Yeah, I enjoyed it the two times I saw it.
Plenty of D'Oh! moments, plus there is the magic small rock scene,

the one that saves our heroine despite the massive starship crushing everything else in it's path!

But, it's really a big setup for the next one, too much distance between the ending of Prometheus and the story of Alien to be bridged without another film.
Plus, we need it to stop the narrative space being filled with p1ss poor fan fiction.

safetyboy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV2hslJjs9U

2 Gameboy advance vrs TR-808

OwaynOTT

I don't like this thread, it's all too clean and new and I don't feel comfortable. We need someone to come in and wreck it up a bit with talk of old men in cinemas and some pictures of retrogamers all cosplayed up.

Retr0gamer

OwaynOTT wrote: »

I don't like this thread, it's all too clean and new and I don't feel comfortable. We need someone to come in and wreck it up a bit with talk of old men in cinemas and some pictures of retrogamers all cosplayed up.

Hopefully we'll have some new ones next week :P

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

OwaynOTT wrote: »

We need someone to come in and wreck it up a bit with talk of old men in cinemas and some pictures of retrogamers all cosplayed up.

I can tell stories about gay Pat that always comes into the shop

CiDeRmAn

He doesn't dress up as an unconvincing school girl does he because I know another guy who does that, on occasion....

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

He doesn't dress up as an unconvincing school girl does he because I know another guy who does that, on occasion....

no he's this owld fella with black teeth and white hair and he calls me Princess and buys books that have little girls or women's cleavage on them. My sister knows him as well since in the 90s he used to buy women's bras second hand

Dr Bob

http://store.steampowered.com/app/207170/
I know I mentioned it earlier but..
Legend of grimrock , been playing this since I got it last night , it's plays like a remake of all those Amiga/ST Dungeon crawlers like 'dungeon master 'or 'EoTB'.
Nice and hard too, it's 5.50 for the next few hours so if you prefer your RPGs with a team of four adventurers and loads of gridpaper* rather than the spikey haired japanese protagonists and gunswords variety its worth getting.

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

*there is actually an old school mode included with no map option

o1s1n

Brilliant game that. I gave up before finishing it though, some of the later levels became frustrating.

Andrew76

Yeah it's well worth getting if you like that type of game and especially at that price.

Retr0gamer

Dr Bob wrote: »

Nice and hard too, it's 5.50 for the next few hours so if you prefer your RPGs with a team of four adventurers and loads of gridpaper* rather than the spikey haired japanese protagonists and gunswords variety its worth getting.

No fair! Japan actually makes some of the best dungeon crawlers available!

Dr Bob

Retr0gamer wrote: »

No fair! Japan actually makes some of the best dungeon crawlers available!

ah yeah , especially Atlus ones , like Etrian Odyssey or Dark Spire.
It was a slightly unfair dig. But I was getting at the fact that is a real WRPG rather than a typical Jrpg though.

Steve X2

Stupid customs in Dublin :mad: Incompetent fools as usual.
It should not take a week for 2 medium size boxes of games to clear customs.

valleyoftheunos

new thread! hurah!

*pats dedicated posters on back*

CiDeRmAn

Steve SI wrote: »

Stupid customs in Dublin :mad: Incompetent fools as usual.
It should not take a week for 2 medium size boxes of games to clear customs.

You can just see them trying to figure out how much duty is due on a Shmup PCB and a bunch of Famicom carts! (I don't know what you are importing so forgiveness is begged)

Some fierce Googling going on there I'd say!

Steve X2

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

You can just see them trying to figure out how much duty is due on a Shmup PCB and a bunch of Famicom carts! (I don't know what you are importing so forgiveness is begged)

Some fierce Googling going on there I'd say!

Yeah, I rang them earlier and they wanted me to email on the paypal receipt.
They definitely opened the boxes anyway as he was able to mention a few details about what I was getting without me telling him.

OwaynOTT

Steve SI wrote: »

Yeah, I rang them earlier and they wanted me to email on the paypal receipt.
They definitely opened the boxes anyway as he was able to mention a few details about what I was getting without me telling him.

Do they do that to everything or is it a random thing? I dont really mean opeing up the boxes but rather stop them in customs.

Steve X2

OwaynOTT wrote: »

Do they do that to everything or is it a random thing? I dont really mean opeing up the boxes but rather stop them in customs.

It seems to depend on how it's sent. If you don't mind waiting a while you can send stuff via standard super slow 2-3 month post and it usually makes it over untouched. But if you send it airmail with tracking etc you're more likely to have it checked. At least with stuff from Japan anyway.

Pyongyang

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Shmup PCB

:eek:

Myrddin

Yay a new thread

I like the new title, so Retr0 eh? Who the hell likes dressing up in girls clothes surely he's gay?

Optimus Prime

First post in the new thread :pac:

Anyone watch Pawn stars? Might be old but i only started watching season one, the lad bought an original pacman cocktail for 175 dollars. I couldnt believe it, i wish we had arcade cabs floating around here like in the states.

James Howlett

Yeah that's a good show. I'm Vegas bound later this year and might have to take a peek at that place. There's a few great shows like that floating around the discovery (i think) channel... except for Hardcore Pawn, that show is pretty much footage of poor people being ripped off, and standing in the line for the opportunity for same.

CiDeRmAn

Those shows could ruin collecting at markets if they ever get popular over here.
Of course, if we could off load a bunch of non working Nes consoles on some of these entrepreneurs it could be worth it!

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

I know it's been posted lots of times, but it's so funny!

pdbhp

Wippee first post in the new thread....go me!!

Anybody play Project Zero 2 on Wii yet? saw it yesterday in HMV, it's a port of a 10 year old PS2 title though which made me hold off on buying it.


How come Gamestop in the Square is so shít. Was out in GS blanch last week and saw a much better selection of games including Onepiece on 3DS, had no monies so couldn't buy anything:(

Might try get back out today and get something.

DinoRex

If you've never played the PS2 version then it's definitely worth getting.

Sliding block puzzles killed it for me though... just can't do those things.

johnny_ultimate

AFK for a few days and I miss a new general discussion thread, a retro beers and the beginnings of a Steam sale. The world's a different place with much more dodgy Irish films and fish & chips when you have irregular internet access!

CiDeRmAn

Well, don't let it happen again, Johnny U!
We are a forgiving sort round here but you can only push us so far!

Retr0gamer

pdbhp wrote: »

Anybody play Project Zero 2 on Wii yet? saw it yesterday in HMV, it's a port of a 10 year old PS2 title though which made me hold off on buying it.

I heard the Wii version isn't great. The ghosts are nowhere near as scary and there's new control additions that kill the tension. You are better off getting the cheaper and apparently better PS2 or Xbox release.

johnny_ultimate

This may have been mentioned already, but this is worthy of a chuckle: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/118456-Koei-Accidentally-Published-the-Wrong-Game

Oh Koei! A potential collector's edition, though.

pdbhp

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I heard the Wii version isn't great. The ghosts are nowhere near as scary and there's new control additions that kill the tension. You are better off getting the cheaper and apparently better PS2 or Xbox release.

Well I went up to get it earlier but didn't bother again, might hold off and buy spirit camera for 3DS next week

o1s1n

Considering buying Spirit Camera myself. Mainly because I haven't had anything new to play on the 3DS since Kid Icarus. Needs more new games on a regular basis!

DinoRex

Crowd are super annoying but here's more from Wreck It Ralph:

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

pdbhp

o1s1n wrote: »

Considering buying Spirit Camera myself. Mainly because I haven't had anything new to play on the 3DS since Kid Icarus. Needs more new games on a regular basis!

Well it looks interesting enough with hopefully good use of AR.
I saw One Piece for 3DS out in Gamestop Blanch last week, should have bought it:(

That new Theatrythm Final Fantasy is out soon aswell, supposedly it is like Elite Beat Agents but RPG which should be a good thing?