So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

o1s1n · 14-12-2009 10:48PM

Yeah it's one of the few instances where the game came before the cartoon.

I take it that means you got that copy of Earthworm Jim finally sent out from the ebay seller who was giving you grief?

CCCP^ · 14-12-2009 11:25PM

Yeah. Took quite awhile to get it, and it was at the stage where I was giving it one more day to arrive, after waiting ages just to pay for it, that I was going to send him a message along the lines of "What the Fack?!" but it turned up eventually.

Was reading up on David Perry, who was head of Shiny Entertainment. Turns out he was from the North! He started making games when he was 16, mad eh?

Retr0gamer · 14-12-2009 11:32PM

CCCP^ wrote: »

Was reading up on David Perry, who was head of Shiny Entertainment. Turns out he was from the North! He started making games when he was 16, mad eh?

Thought that was common knowledge? He started on the good old ZX spectrum and made some absolute crackers for it. He's remaking one of them for a charity and will be released soon I think.

CiDeRmAn · 15-12-2009 12:38AM

I remember 3 Weeks In Paradise, the last of the Wally games, they made two versions, a standard 48k one and an expanded edition for the new 128k Spectrum, better sounds, more levels and so on.
Best game he ever made, MDK, man that game was superb, and implemented a sniper rifle before anyone else I think too.

As for the Norn Irn accent, it seems to have vanished 'neath a mid atlantic twang somewhat, although I bet he still can't say situation properly!

Atavan-Halen · 15-12-2009 12:52AM

Might get stuck into FFIV this week, I dunno, I'll see.

CCCP^ · 15-12-2009 12:56AM

Yeah, I think MDK is a game I will have to pick it, maybe for the Dreamcast. I remember it being a big deal when it came out and it looked really cool.

o1s1n · 15-12-2009 12:59AM

CCCP^ wrote: »

Yeah, I think MDK is a game I will have to pick it, maybe for the Dreamcast. I remember it being a big deal when it came out and it looked really cool.

I bought it when it came out for the ps1. Didn't think much of it at all!

Retr0gamer · 15-12-2009 01:27AM

Thats because the PS1 version was horse ****. The PC was the only way to play it. Looked gorgeous at the time with my High Tech Power VR graphics card

I think Outlaws got there first with the sniper rifle and some obscure games nobody cared about before that but MDK was very original in how it used it.

97i9y3941 · 15-12-2009 01:28AM

i have Daikatana lying around somewhere

o1s1n · 15-12-2009 01:31AM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Thats because the PS1 version was horse ****. The PC was the only way to play it. Looked gorgeous at the time with my High Tech Power VR graphics card I think Outlaws got there first with the sniper rifle and some obscure games nobody cared about before that but MDK was very original in how it used it.

Well that's good to know. At the time I thought everyone has just lost their minds.

CiDeRmAn · 15-12-2009 09:21AM

I had the PC version and it ran beautifully alright, so many great ideas, and as for the sniper rifle, knocking out those grunts as they danced and did obscene gestures as they thought, unwisely, they were safely out of range, HA, we showed them!
I do have it on the PS as well, and it's not quite that bad.
Must pick up the second one at some point..

Giants Citizen Kabuto is another insane videogame, bonkers to an extreme, the soldiers have a british accent, bringing to mind trips to Belfast circa the 1980's and bumping into a squad of Para's on the border!

ghostchant · 15-12-2009 11:15AM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Thought that was common knowledge? He started on the good old ZX spectrum and made some absolute crackers for it. He's remaking one of them for a charity and will be released soon I think.

I read that the other day, in either retrogamer or gamesTM, can't remember. Part of the OneBigGame project. Though I thought he said he hadn't even decided what game to do yet (mentioned something about a speccy remake though).

bildo · 15-12-2009 09:47PM

Legend of Zelda Ocarina of time, Epic!

CCCP^ · 17-12-2009 02:27AM

Had a Sega CD session, started out with Earthworm Jim, got passed the Heck level. Then stuck on Sol-Feace, got to the 3rd level and couldn't get any further. I know if I sat down for even 20 or 30 minutes on that level I could get past it, bit of a bitch.

Then, the piece de resistance! Road Avenger! I got really far today, further than I did almost 14 years back when I played it as a kid. I really love that game, it's deadly!

97i9y3941 · 17-12-2009 02:32AM

avenger was on the saturn aswell if i remb right,japan only release too..

CCCP^ · 17-12-2009 02:44AM

Fred83 wrote: »

avenger was on the saturn aswell if i remb right,japan only release too..

Just checked it out on YouTube, your right. It was called Road Blaster. It looks a million times better, the animation is bright, clear and smooth. It plays alot quicker too. However, it doesn't have the same music, and that was a big thing with the Sega CD version, especially the opening track...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S26317my3CQ

97i9y3941 · 17-12-2009 02:49AM

snatcher was on saturn/psone aswell,it looked really deadly with the color touch ups,shame i dont understand japanese tho

CiDeRmAn · 17-12-2009 06:11PM

Snatcher would make a great DS game I reckon, or would a Wii update suit it better, the risk being they'd put in a whole heap of nasty motion/gesture nonsense.

97i9y3941 · 20-12-2009 02:24AM

playing terminator on mega cd,really puts the megadrive version to shame..

CCCP^ · 20-12-2009 02:42AM

Fred83 wrote: »

playing terminator on mega cd,really puts the megadrive version to shame..

Hoping to get that sometime soon. Had the Mega Drive version, absolute kack.

CiDeRmAn · 21-12-2009 07:50PM

The Megadrive version of The Terminator, I remember the pre-release hype going on for months, with magazines of the day packed with nearly an article a month on the animation, the licence, the music, on and on they went, and then when it was finally launched, ahead of any reviews might I add, it turned out to be a pile of donkey droppings.
I reckon that game was one of my top all time disappointments over my many years of gaming.
I never fell for the Rise of the Robots hype and PitFighter simply sucked, so no worries there.

CCCP^ · 21-12-2009 09:40PM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

The Megadrive version of The Terminator, I remember the pre-release hype going on for months, with magazines of the day packed with nearly an article a month on the animation, the licence, the music, on and on they went, and then when it was finally launched, ahead of any reviews might I add, it turned out to be a pile of donkey droppings.
I reckon that game was one of my top all time disappointments over my many years of gaming.
I never fell for the Rise of the Robots hype and PitFighter simply sucked, so no worries there.

+1

As a kid I played it, solely because it was Terminator. Actually what happened was this guy who used to drive around in a Van would rent out videotapes or games to us. I remember getting a good few games from him, but one day he just didn't come back. Wonder what happened, maybe he was caught and doing that kind of stuff was illegal? (Also remember some man would come round with a trailer selling Vegetables..*sigh* the good 'aul days)

Having come back to it years afterwards, I can say it was awful. If they had taken the time to develop a proper shoot 'em up with the brilliant material like the Terminator, the game they could have made would have been class. The last level in particular is ****ing cock and balls. You can't jump over the ****er even though you cleary can make it, and there are no continues....GRRR!

Robocop versus Terminator was so much better.

o1s1n · 21-12-2009 10:10PM

CCCP^ wrote: »

+1

As a kid I played it, solely because it was Terminator. Actually what happened was this guy who used to drive around in a Van would rent out videotapes or games to us. I remember getting a good few games from him, but one day he just didn't come back. Wonder what happened, maybe he was caught and doing that kind of stuff was illegal? (Also remember some man would come round with a trailer selling Vegetables..*sigh* the good 'aul days)

We had a guy out in Bray who did that too. If you were smart you'd get the games on Friday as he wouldn't come back around till Monday.

Dems were the days indeed.

CCCP^ wrote: »

Having come back to it years afterwards, I can say it was awful. If they had taken the time to develop a proper shoot 'em up with the brilliant material like the Terminator, the game they could have made would have been class. The last level in particular is ****ing cock and balls. You can't jump over the ****er even though you cleary can make it, and there are no continues....GRRR!

Robocop versus Terminator was so much better.

It's a shame they didn't make a proper Terminator game using the Robocop versus Terminator engine. Would have been great!

Atavan-Halen · 22-12-2009 02:02AM

Just been testing some PS1 games I've gotten over the past few weeks. Mostly playing Tekken 3 though.

97i9y3941 · 22-12-2009 02:03AM

brillant game,once again namco pulled out all the stops to give playstation owners value for money,i remember the big hype for it and playing it in the arcades it wowed me..

Atavan-Halen · 22-12-2009 02:52AM

Yep, super fun. I played it alot as a kid and it brings back some happy memories. Mostly memories of me getting beaten by others but they're still happy memories

97i9y3941 · 22-12-2009 02:55AM

kinda turblent time wasnt it,i mean the world was waiting for virtua fighter 3 then this came along,the knock out part was tekken 3 was done on the playstation,they coundnt port virtua fighter 3 to the saturn :eek:

Retr0gamer · 22-12-2009 11:42AM

It wasn't that they couldn't port Virtua Fighter 3 to the Saturn it's that they didn't bother. Sega cut their losses on the Saturn and cancelled a whole heap of projects. It's a shame because it could have been brilliant considering how much better Virtua Fighter 2 on the saturn was compared to Tekken 2. When VF2 came out though it was already too little too late, Sony already had an arcade perfect port of Tekken 1 and Tekken 2 on the way.

Tekken 3 came out in 1998 when the saturn was officially dead and the last few games like Radiant Silvergun and Panzer Dragoon Saga got their release. Hardly turbulent times, the PS1 was the clear winner.

CiDeRmAn · 23-12-2009 07:43PM

So many of my fave gamer were on the PS, Tekken 3, Metal Gear Solid, Descent, Doom, Colony Wars, F1'97, Colin McCrea, Gran Turismo, Driver, GTA all class.
Now I know that some were available on other platforms, but the PS was the console to own if you wanted to play all of them.
Much like the PS2 that followed it, the console was a real "everyman" machine.

Retr0gamer · 23-12-2009 08:31PM

I always thought the PC ports came off poorly. Anything made for the system exclusively was good but coming from playing the games in Hi-def 1024x768 or 1600x1200 and then seeing the 320x240 resolution PS ports was always horrible. That and the controls never translated well. You say you like Descent but it's a whole different game with the mouse.

So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

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