Video Games - They Don't Make Them Like They Used To...

Billy86

Just stumbled upon this, apparently this game was quite popular and widely sold in shops on the old Atari back in the mid-80s:

And in Japan, these guys featured in 'Vendetta' - a 1991 'Streets of Rage' type game that was made by Konami, one of the biggest games developers of the last 20-odd years.

Well, that's it really. Enjoy your day everybody!

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytP19NH-qiM

Tombo2001

1942.

That is all.

Brego888

Flimbos quest on commodore 64. Now that was a game.

SEPT 23 1989

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujgy2ziBF8w

Mr Benevolent

How can anyone be nostalgic for video games? They just keep getting better and better year after year.

Billy86

Mr Benevolent wrote: »

How can anyone be nostalgic for video games? They just keep getting better and better year after year.

I'm just talking about the content in the ones I posted - the sole aim in the first one is to cross a 'path' in order to rape a tied up native American woman (as a cowboy or whatnot), while in the latter gay S&M characters literally ass-rape you to death.

So much for people moaning about the negative effects of showing prostitutes or sex in GTA-type games, I guess.

Amazingly, not one person seems to have noticed haha!

FatherLen

Stumbled across this game recently after searching for years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m02kIUVLWoE

krudler

Mr Benevolent wrote: »

How can anyone be nostalgic for video games? They just keep getting better and better year after year.

A great game will remain a great game forever though, stuff like Super Mario World or Tetris are as playable today as they were back then.

GorillaRising

The Last Ninja games on the Commodore 64 were great! Bloody difficult though!

R-Type - anyone ever finish this game?

Also I'm pretty sure the Ninja Turtles game on the NES was made impossible to beat!!!

I plan on getting a 3DS so I can play all the old Nintendo games like Mario Bros. etc.

FatherLen

also, just in case you are unaware of this website.

nevermind

krudler

GorillaRising wrote: »

The Last Ninja games on the Commodore 64 were great! Bloody difficult though!

R-Type - anyone ever finish this game?

Also I'm pretty sure the Ninja Turtles game on the NES was made impossible to beat!!!

I plan on getting a 3DS so I can play all the old Nintendo games like Mario Bros. etc.

Those bloody underwater levels with the bombs :mad:

GorillaRising

krudler wrote: »

Those bloody underwater levels with the bombs :mad:

I HATE water levels! :mad:

Myrddin

Mr Benevolent wrote: »

How can anyone be nostalgic for video games? They just keep getting better and better year after year.

Better graphics do not make better games. Do you have the same opinion of film too, better cgi/effects makes better films?

lertsnim

Mr Benevolent wrote: »

How can anyone be nostalgic for video games? They just keep getting better and better year after year.

Nonsense. A great game will always be great.

Irish Halo

GorillaRising wrote: »

I HATE water levels! :mad:

Slippy, Slidey Ice Worlds are just as bad.

Mr Benevolent

EnterNow wrote: »

Better graphics do not make better games. Do you have the same opinion of film too, better cgi/effects makes better films?

I'm talking about gameplay, not graphics. The sandbox concept has made games many times more playable than they have ever been.

super_furry

That Custer's Revenge was never popular or widely available. It was a dodgy bootleg sold in sex shops.

FatherLen

the music from sonic when he is nearly out of breath under water still haunts my dreams.

readyletsgo

GorillaRising wrote: »

The Last Ninja games on the Commodore 64 were great! Bloody difficult though!

R-Type - anyone ever finish this game?

Also I'm pretty sure the Ninja Turtles game on the NES was made impossible to beat!!!

I plan on getting a 3DS so I can play all the old Nintendo games like Mario Bros. etc.

You wont regret getting a 3ds, my advice, get the 3DS XL, NES and GB/C games look awesome on the bigger screen along with all the games made for the system. New Zelda out next month, old style top down in 3D too! Can not wait!


As for the topic, yes, classic games will always a a place in peoples hearts to play forever, but you can say that also about games that have come out this gen too. Too many to mention tbh. Thank god for VC

johnny_knoxvile

Is that game historically correct?

Did Custer walk around naked with a massive bone killing indians?

massdebater

Not sure what counts as 'old' but Ocarina of Time is the best game that was ever made.

GorillaRising

readyletsgo wrote: »

You wont regret getting a 3ds, my advice, get the 3DS XL, NES and GB/C games look awesome on the bigger screen along with all the games made for the system. New Zelda out next month, old style top down in 3D too! Can not wait!

Definitely going for the XL.

GLaDOS

massdebater wrote: »

Not sure what counts as 'old' but Ocarina of Time is the best game that was ever made.

Final Fantasy VII for me.

folan

they don't make nostalgia like they used to either.

Nostalgia was much better in my day.

FTA69

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Final Fantasy VII for me.

I completed it in 110 hours. Honestly like, what is that? Four and a half days of consecutive gameplay? Pure madness. First and second year in school are a blank to me. All I can remember from the years 1999 and 2000 is chocobos, Sephiroth and materia.

--Kaiser--

Games used to be waaaay harder. I remember playing many games where if you made one mistake, got hit once or made one wrong jump then you went all the way back to the start. No 'lives' no save games, just get on with it

Riesen_Meal

Ha ha

I have a faint memory of playing Custer's Revenge in a school mates house and not copping the games content til later life, another one was another Konami game called Mikey - you were a schoolboy who had to "love" the girls in the seats....

I remember Vendetta, used to play that in my local chipper as a kid, never quite copped the leather-bound men humping your leg at the time either...bless

So innocent....

--Kaiser--

massdebater wrote: »

Not sure what counts as 'old' but Ocarina of Time is the best game that was ever made.

That game was worth the price of the N64 many times over

gouche

Vendetta!! Local video shop had that when I was younger.
Remember going in after school and playing it to death.
Owner got it replaced when someone started shouting homophobic obscenities at the S&M dudes!

I'm talking about gameplay, not graphics. The sandbox concept has made games many times more playable than they have ever been.

I have to disagree with this comment. To an extent, I find sandbox games less playable. There's always a danger that if you give the gamer too much freedom and too many things to do they'll get bored.
I know that doesn't apply to everyone but it probably does me:pac:

krudler

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

Games used to be waaaay harder. I remember playing many games where if you made one mistake, got hit once or made one wrong jump then you went all the way back to the start. No 'lives' no save games, just get on with it

No tutorial modes either, just dumped into the game and you either read the manual or figured it out for yourself, the odd onscreen prompt for some new section and that was it. Now games give you achievements for turning around and walking 10 feet.

Corkfeen

Mr Benevolent wrote: »

How can anyone be nostalgic for video games? They just keep getting better and better year after year.

Some of my favourite recent games could have been developed for most of the old consoles with little impact upon the graphics or gameplay. (Super Meat Boy and The Binding of Isaac come to mind) Likewise I still play some of my favourite games that are decades old.

TheIrishGrover

Billy86 wrote: »

Just stumbled upon this, apparently this game was quite popular and widely sold in shops on the old Atari back in the mid-80s:

And in Japan, these guys featured in 'Vendetta' - a 1991 'Streets of Rage' type game that was made by Konami, one of the biggest games developers of the last 20-odd years.

Well, that's it really. Enjoy your day everybody!

I used to work in a video arcade in the 90's while in college. We had that Japanese version of Vendetta, thinking it was the hugely popular (but very different) western version. Nobody really played it as it wasn't the same game.
So one day I'm walking past the machine and a 10 or 11 yearold kid is playing it and I hear those two gimp lads. I think to meself "Yer just being a pervert, let's see what's really goiOHMYGOD!!!!!!!! The kid is pissing himself laughing but I give him his 20p back and switch off the machine. Myself and my boss turn it back on after closing to see what the rest is like. If I remember correctly there was a huge obese boss who shot flames out of her tits or used the flames like tassles etc. Bizarre.

Myrddin

Mr Benevolent wrote: »

I'm talking about gameplay, not graphics. The sandbox concept has made games many times more playable than they have ever been.

So you reckon GTAIV, is a better game than Zelda: Link to the Past say?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXJekFnFE7E

Mr Benevolent

EnterNow wrote: »

So you reckon GTAIV, is a better game than Zelda: Link to the Past say?

I've never played any of the Zeldas, but I've never liked that type of quest game anyway, so yes, GTA IV is better from my perspective.

BeerWolf

Games have really gone down hill ever sing Pong...

Myrddin

Mr Benevolent wrote: »

I've never played any of the Zeldas, but I've never liked that type of quest game anyway, so yes, GTA IV is better from my perspective.

Well personal taste is one thing, but arguing that sandbox games are automatically superior to linear games seems silly. What about Half Life 1/2, because they arn't sandbox games they're automatically not as good gameplay wise as sandbox games?

TheIrishGrover

Mr Benevolent wrote: »

How can anyone be nostalgic for video games? They just keep getting better and better year after year.

Yes, 'cos COD 2010 is RADICALLY different from COD 2011......


Was always more of a fan of arcade SHMUPS. Have been to a good few arcades in Japan and it's cool to see cutting edge, complex and innovative arcade machines sitting beside old school games in standard JAMMA cabinets and ALL being played. (And yes, even there placing your coins against the glass above the joystick/buttons is the universal language for "I'm next")

krudler

TheIrishGrover wrote: »

Yes, 'cos COD 2010 is RADICALLY different from COD 2011......


Was always more of a fan of arcade SHMUPS. Have been to a good few arcades in Japan and it's cool to see cutting edge, complex and innovative arcade machines sitting beside old school games in standard JAMMA cabinets and ALL being played. (And yes, even there placing your coins against the glass above the joystick/buttons is the universal language for "I'm next")

I miss real arcades, seasides here used to be great for them but they're all crappy driving games and coin dozers and stuff now, ages and ages ago I was in Tramore and spotted a working Double Dragon cabinet, guy wouldnt sell it to me though even though it was just sat there ignored

Riesen_Meal

Mr Benevolent wrote: »

I've never played any of the Zeldas, but I've never liked that type of quest game anyway, so yes, GTA IV is better from my perspective.

returnNull

TheIrishGrover wrote: »

(And yes, even there placing your coins against the glass above the joystick/buttons is the universal language for "I'm next")

I really miss that

gugleguy

krudler wrote: »

guy wouldnt sell it to me though even though it was just sat there ignored

Sounds a bit like a story about irish rail in their CIE heyday. A loco preservation enthusiast who told irish rail he wanted to buy a loco off cie that was surplus to requirements and being allowed to rust away then. Irish rail did nt wanna sell it and seemed to prefer to let the loco rot cos the enthuiast did'nt have the right connections etc.

SEPT 23 1989

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBeCJzg6L8I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ta6YDWDPjc

Cienciano

There was some class older games, but in general, games are better now imho. I said "in general" before the retro lads have a fit!
I downloaded streets of rage a while ago, it's actually fairly shíte.

o1s1n

Mr Benevolent wrote: »

I've never played any of the Zeldas, but I've never liked that type of quest game anyway, so yes, GTA IV is better from my perspective.

Eh..don't meant to point out the obvious, but how do you know you don't like a game if you've never played any of them?

FatherLen

The problem with modern games is people have become satisfied with mediocrity. For example, the COD franchise. Modern warfare came out and gave first person shooters a new feel but treyarch and infinity ward have been releasing the same game every year for six years and people seem to be ok with that.

Grand Theft auto 3 came out and blew peoples minds, again rockstar have been releasing the same game with minor changes to gameplay but huge changes to graphics and are calling it a new game.

Now to be fair to modern games, the things that can be done now are amazing. Graphics and engines have improved so much and make games phenomenal to look at but unfortunately this has been used as an excuse by some developers to get lazy with the story and gameplay.

My two favourite game companies now would have to be Bethesda and Valve. Half life and portal are, in my opinion some of the best games ever made and games like skyrim and oblivion are just amazing in every aspect.

BeerWolf

Know what I miss ? Point and click adventure games - they used to be big in the late 80s to early 90s... now they're effectively dead, save for a few.

Games from the likes produced off Sierra [e.g. King's Quest series, Gabriel Knight, etc. ], Lucas Arts (ABSOLUTELY LOVED THIS COMPANY) [ e.g. - Sam and Max, Monkey Island, etc. ], and Westwood [ e.g. The Legend of Kyrandia series ] to name some.

Pure classics!

krudler

BeerWolf wrote: »

Know what I miss ? Point and click adventure games - they used to be big in the late 80s to early 90s... now they're effectively dead, save for a few.

Games from the likes produced off Sierra [e.g. King's Quest series ], Lucas Arts [ e.g. - Sam and Max ], and Westwood [ e.g. The Legend of Kyrandia series ] to name some.

Pure classics!

try The Walking Dead, it's not purely point and click but there's a big element of it, and it's fantastic, pisses all over the tv series in terms of writing and emotional involvement.

BeerWolf

krudler wrote: »

try The Walking Dead, it's not purely point and click but there's a big element of it, and it's fantastic, pisses all over the tv series in terms of writing and emotional involvement.

Played it already - plan to get the next installment


If you're interested - go to AGD Interactive. You can download legal remakes of King's Quest 1, 2 and 3, and Quest for Glory II.

1ZRed

Looking back at old games 99% of them are terrible in comparison to games these days, of course there are exceptions.

Games are better today then they were. Red Dead Redemption, Uncharted and The Last of Us are amazing games in gameplay and in their immersion and story telling ability.

You've a lot of boring crap like COD, but they're only for a bit of fun in online MP. I don't think anyone thinks of COD as anything better than a time killer tbh.