Irish connections in games

Retr0gamer · 14-05-2011 09:56PM

Hmm.. was told different. Would explain how he did it so well then

CiDeRmAn · 14-05-2011 10:56PM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Was it Arcade? That was a quality magazine and comparing it to Edge isn't right, it was far better and more fun to read that boring Edge.

That Gunstar Heroes score still burning away in your heart, is it??
Must write Edge a letter asking for a correction, just to ease your pain!

CiDeRmAn · 14-05-2011 11:00PM

Actually heard that too, didn't they have a guy lined up but he wasn't as good as some Irish guy they had standing in as a temp voice? Something like that, and so the reason using it with his name credited was because he wasn't "In the Union" so to speak.

7sr2z3fely84g5 · 14-05-2011 11:26PM

"learner driver" in destruction derby 2 was irish wasnt he?.

Retr0gamer · 14-05-2011 11:59PM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

That Gunstar Heroes score still burning away in your heart, is it??
Must write Edge a letter asking for a correction, just to ease your pain!

It's a combination of their arrogant attitude and the fact that their magazine is so boring I can never finish it when I buy it.

Pyongyang · 15-05-2011 12:21AM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

It's a combination of their arrogant attitude and the fact that their magazine is so boring I can never finish it when I buy it.

I Stopped reading Edge when I found this magazine a more entertaining read

Skerries · 15-05-2011 12:30AM

well there was Celtic Tales: Balor of the evil eye

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAnV3eAKajU

and Sean Devlin The Saboteur was Irish also Colin Moriarty fromFallout 3
Jack O’Hara from Commandos and the Malaria infected Frank Bilders from Far Cry 2

jesus_thats_gre · 15-05-2011 01:57AM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I preferred the C&VG from the mid 80's to the change in the late 80's, didn't like it all after that and it never got it's cred back imho.

As for the latter mag, the one that appeared in the early-mid 90's, that mag was Maximum, a great great magazine, it had great articles on the upcoming Saturn and Playstation with brilliant features on Wipeout and GunGriffon.
The style was very like Edge but the art was amazing in it, not japanese or cheesy western stuff, more a cool technical style, wireframe of the various Wipeout tracks in the background of the text, that sort of thing.

I bought each issue as it was published, think it only lasted something like 6 issues before it vanished with a promise to return someday, still waiting!!

It was indeed Maximum! I remember is just disappeared too

Read about 4/5 mags a month from front to back religiously for about 8 years. Used to love the CES editions. Thinking about them is making me wish I kept them all.

jesus_thats_gre · 15-05-2011 01:59AM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Was it Arcade? That was a quality magazine and comparing it to Edge isn't right, it was far better and more fun to read that boring Edge.

It was defo Maximum. I cannot remember Arcade at all.

Edge was pretty good in the mid 90's in fairness - if I remember rightly. I used to love the industry features.

honru · 15-05-2011 02:17AM

One of the new characters in King of Fighters XI (Oswald) is from Ireland.

Azure_sky · 15-05-2011 09:15AM

Aran Ryan from the Punch Out series is Irish. A lot of the music in Secret of Mana and the Suikoden games seem to be inspired from Irish music and the name of the protagonist from the first Suikoden game is called Tir McDohl-the plot even centers around raising an army to create a Republic and overthrow an oppressive Empire....maybe I'm reading too much into that one. Epona from the Legend of Zelda series is named after an Enya album and some Celtic mythological creature. Cait Sith from FFVII, or Cait Sidhe, is a Irish/Scottish mythological creature. Half of the characters names from Clash of Heroes are Gaelic. One of the early bosses in Dragon Quest VIII has a Dublin accent. And if Legend of Chun Li is considered canon M. Bison is Irish.

Oh and I agree that Edge is a steaming pile of pretentious crap.

horgan_p · 15-05-2011 06:08PM

Tir na nog on the Amstrad / speccy / c64.
There was a sequel but the name escapes me. edit : Dun Darach.

Dun Darach :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx59CjKtCDc

Tir Na Nog :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bj0_-vaO3I

evillive · 15-05-2011 10:16PM

I and a load of pals and fictional characters all appear on the starting high score credits for the levels in Championship Motocross 2001 featuring Rick Rarmichael - was made here by a company called Funcom and a friend who was one of the programmers stuck our names into the game - still waiting on the royalty cheque

evillive · 15-05-2011 10:27PM

there were a number of Irish levels in Tomb Raider Chronicles complete with dodgy priest (to be sure to be sure) and i think there may even have been leprechauns, i have a horrible feeling that there may even have been a cut scene of lara taking off her clothes that just stopped before her cartoon puppies were revealed - i think it was set on an island she was visiting as a young one - sorry wont be rebooting the game to confirm - can remember being not too impressed with it overall

a few very dated screen shots

http://www.tombraiderchronicles.com/tr5/screenshots.html

Azure_sky · 16-05-2011 05:36AM

evillive wrote: »

there were a number of Irish levels in Tomb Raider Chronicles complete with dodgy priest (to be sure to be sure) and i think there may even have been leprechauns, i have a horrible feeling that there may even have been a cut scene of lara taking off her clothes that just stopped before her cartoon puppies were revealed - i think it was set on an island she was visiting as a young one -

http://www.tombraiderchronicles.com/tr5/screenshots.html

Not a good combo. :pac:

Funglegunk · 16-05-2011 05:54AM

Not a game (though it features in hundreds of games), but the Havok Physics engine was originally developed in Ireland.

Jimmy Bottlehead · 16-05-2011 07:18AM

Irish people who worked on numerous Activision games are listed on various games under the localisation credits. I worked on Guitar Hero 3: World Tour, but sadly they messed up and didn't include half the team that year. Not retro, but very irish!

Azure_sky · 21-05-2011 05:35AM

Morrigan from Darkstalkers is Irish really but is cited as Scottish in the game-though at one point Scotland was pretty much an Irish colony.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Morr%C3%ADgan

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Amalgam · 21-05-2011 07:52AM

Chyme Soft!

I had these as a kid, I can't remember how I got them, vague recollections of buying them from the Harry Moore at the bottom of Grafton Street. (a long while ago..)

Classic text adventures with (countdown clock) timed events and minimum\maximum move scenarios. There may have been coloured or modified character sets as well.

Some harsh sudden death maze like areas put me off Starprobe, I can't remember if I ever finished Captain's Log.

Chyme Music Ltd.
John F. Kennedy Drive
Naas Road
Dublin 12

---

Scans of inner and outer sleeves.

ChymeSoft.rar - 4.83MB

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UA5LA86F

Scans have a fixed width of 2000xHeight.

ChymesoftCaseTapes.jpg
StarProbe.jpg
StarProbe-Inner.jpg
CaptainsLog.jpg
CaptainsLog-Inner.jpg
ChymeSoftTapes.jpg

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 21-05-2011 02:35PM

evillive wrote: »

there were a number of Irish levels in Tomb Raider Chronicles complete with dodgy priest (to be sure to be sure) and i think there may even have been leprechauns

I forgot about that! Leprechauns lol I know what you're on about, thought they looked like sand worms with arms and legs, thought they were so funny! (17:50)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0l7V8ADh04

Retr0gamer · 21-05-2011 04:14PM

Tomb raider really got old fast. I remember by the third game it was looking awful and the level design was poor.

pdbhp · 21-05-2011 05:22PM

Never liked tomb raider at all, mostly because I don't have affection for that type of game too many issues with the camera / world geometery for my liking

Azure_sky · 22-05-2011 02:57AM

Tomb Raider was another over hyped game from the PS1 era. Take Lara out of it and replace her with a male character and it wouldn't have half the commercial success and acclaim it garnered.

Azure_sky · 22-05-2011 03:02AM

Ireland was featured as one of the fight locations in Samurai Shodown VI.
Don't know where it's supposed to be based on. At a guess I'd say Kilkenny city as there's a castle in the middle of the town.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5UYj5nKDOQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoV2swHPKys

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 22-05-2011 03:16AM

Retr0gamer wrote:

Tomb raider really got old fast. I remember by the third game it was looking awful and the level design was poor.

pdbhp wrote:

Never liked tomb raider at all

Azure_sky wrote: »

Tomb Raider was another over hyped game from the PS1 era.

I guess I'm the only one who likes Tomb Raider :cool: *hipster*

Retr0gamer · 22-05-2011 01:04PM

I really liked the first Tomb Raider and I'm sure it's still fun if a bit janky now. The series just lost the run of itself afterwards. I really didn't enjoy TR2 or TR3 and only played bits of the games after that and didn't care much for them. After the first game the level design got worse. It was just built around making the levels as annoying as possible with no sense of wonder or discovery. I can remember most of the levels from the original but the others it's very hazy.

paperwork · 22-05-2011 05:12PM

I really liked the second tomb raider, it was an improvement on the mechanics of the first. I remember the Opera House just blew me away when i first played it. i think things went downhill from the third onward... bleh, they were terrible.

Back on topic, has anyone mentioned Jaunty from shadowman64 (...c'mon, let us have that one, it was better on the 64 than any of the other formats.)

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maddymcmaddser · 31-05-2011 03:44PM

Not sure if it's been mentioned yet but Jaunty the snake in Shadowman was Irish and he was pretty funny as far as I can remember!

Dr Bob · 31-05-2011 04:58PM

maddymcmaddser wrote: »

Not sure if it's been mentioned yet but Jaunty the snake in Shadowman was Irish and he was pretty funny as far as I can remember!

its mentioned..IN THE FREAKIN' POST ABOVE YOURS!!!
..some people taking TLDR to a whole new level there

(cough, and I mentioned tomb raider and a few others on page 1

)

maddymcmaddser · 01-06-2011 08:33AM

luas_dublin wrote: »

its mentioned..IN THE FREAKIN' POST ABOVE YOURS!!!
..some people taking TLDR to a whole new level there
(cough, and I mentioned tomb raider and a few others on page 1 )

Lol, sorry about that, I was just skimming this in work and didn't finish the end of that post! Thought it was just another Tomb Raider one!!

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