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Retro Game of the Week, Week 3

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,265 ✭✭✭Doge


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    Worst port of Street Fighter II?

    As much as I love the C64, that has the worst port imo!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,014 ✭✭✭✭Corholio


    I remember playing it in the arcades with one of those hacks that Ryu/Ken could do about 3 layers of fireballs. Was pretty mad to watch at the time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,716 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    My first encounter with SFII was my friend's brothers "normal" copy. I loved it, but wasn't much good at it. It took me forever to master the special moves. Later, he got the Turbo edition and when I got a SNES I would borrow that copy quite often. At first I thought the full speed (7 stars?) was way too fast but once I got used to it I couldn't go back.

    To try and improve my skill I would cycle through disabling the heavy, medium and light kicks and punches in order to force me to learn a fighter's full range of moves but truth be told once I turned them all back on I went back to using the heavy kick and punch almost exclusively (the L and R buttons were so satisfying to press).

    Eventually, when I had enough money, 30 quid if I recall, I went and bought Super SFII in HMV on Grafton Street. It didn't have the same range of speed options though and the new characters though mostly well designed (I couldn't stand T-Hawk) only muddied the experience without quite freshening it enough.

    For me, the Turbo edition will always be the best. Everything about it, from the graphics, the sound, the speed, the controls, even the pause button "theme" just felt right. SFII is a zen like experience in terms of how well balanced the characters are and I always felt the computer "AI" did a great job of being just unpredictable enough to provide me with a continual challenge. A true classic that resulted in some of my fondest gaming memories.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,723 Mod ✭✭✭✭Andrew76


    Picked these up sometime around the mid 90's I think. Figured I could try learn some of the fancier combos etc. Nope. :o

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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,715 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    I never got it, I suppose as a solo gamer I didn't get the attraction of multiplayer games, and that has persisted until the present day.
    I can still play any given fighting game for a few rounds before the computer opponent kicks my ass and I give up.
    Only The Last Blade, its sequel and Samurai Shodown were different.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,265 ✭✭✭Doge


    Corholio wrote: »
    I remember playing it in the arcades with one of those hacks that Ryu/Ken could do about 3 layers of fireballs. Was pretty mad to watch at the time.

    Was that the one in the Savoy by any chance?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,014 ✭✭✭✭Corholio


    Doge wrote: »
    Was that the one in the Savoy by any chance?

    No, it was down here in East Cork. Small place, long gone now.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,715 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Still no Doom...
    I'm getting worried now...


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 52,734 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Speaking of which, we should do Doom for the next one. John Romero just this week released a new Doom level which pretty crazy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,789 ✭✭✭eddhorse


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Speaking of which, we should do Doom for the next one. John Romero just this week released a new Doom level which pretty crazy.

    Yeah i follow him on Twitter:

    John Romero:
    It's been 21 years since I made a DOOM level. Here's my version of E1M8 using DOOM1.WAD.
    https://www.dropbox.com/s/2x2ee3r51986dkt/e1m8b.zip?dl=0


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,715 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    I'll close this one now so, and we can get started on a discussion of Doom, and it's epic-ness!


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