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o1s1n · 27-07-2011 03:38PM

After looking at some Akira blueray screenshots, it almost has me wanting to buy a player just to watch it! Looks gorgeous.

Pyongyang · 27-07-2011 03:45PM

Akira is a classic. For many it was the gateway to anime back in the late 80's/early 90's. I prefer the manga (which is also about 874 million times longer than the movie).

[straying OT]I got in to anime via Akira, Ah! Megamisama, Urusei Yatsura, Riding Bean and Ninja Scroll[/straying OT]

Don't watch anywhere near as enough anime as I used to though.

o1s1n · 27-07-2011 04:03PM

First time I saw Akira was thanks to Channel 4 in the very early 90s. I must have been about 8 or 9. My friend taped it off the tv one night and showed it to me. I'm pretty sure he just fast forwarded to all the violent parts. Couldn't believe what I was seeing.

Rented it out soon after in the video shop and my Akira obsession soon began.

Of all the anime/manga I've seen or read since, nothing tops that epic. It's just brilliant.

A close second for me is Berserk. Have you seen/read that? If you think the Akira Manga is long, this spans 30+ volumes. And it's still ongoing. I bought the first 14 volumes before realizing it would be far more economical to read PDF scans!

o1s1n · 27-07-2011 04:14PM

Got a few things in the post recently.

Slipheed (ps2)
Last Hope (DC)
karous (DC - unfortunately this one is a Jap region locked game. Need to burn off a region disc to switch it over to NTSC J)
Splatterhouse (360 - curiosity got the better of me! :eek:)

Pyongyang · 27-07-2011 04:23PM

Nice, I've been looking to get Last Hope and Pink Bullets but wasn't sure about them. Let us know how you get on with that one.

I have Splatterhouse, was oddly hard to get at the time. Not sure if it still is but it's a fun game, despite what the critics said about it.

I've heard of Beserk, it's on my list along with squillions of other titles I'll never get around to reading/watching/playing.

o1s1n · 27-07-2011 04:28PM

Last Hope is pretty mediocre. It looks like a Neo Geo shmup (not a bad thing), but there's something about it that just seems uninspired.

The main reason I got it was because it was on ebay.ie and the seller also had Karous..which is a lovely looking shmup. And the last ever official DC release..AND he was selling it for about half the normal going rate

Berserk is one of the most violent yet touching anime/manga I've ever seen. Really is a fantastic story. If there's one I'd recommend every time, it's that. Even just watch the first few episodes and you'll be hooked!

Pyongyang · 27-07-2011 04:31PM

Hmm, might leave Last Hope until last then and try and nab a copy of Pink Bullets, supposedly it's much better with the makeover.

Pyongyang · 27-07-2011 04:37PM

80s Synth Pop wrote: »

Retro on big screen thanks to this arrival today

Been meaning to order this for ages. Today I finally put in an order for:

1x Sync Strike (with case)
1x SLG 3000 (with case)
1x PCB Scaler (case only)

Can't wait for those to turn up now, especially with the Sync Strike finally released. Been following development of that on YouTube for an age. Should work nicely with my RGB'd Duo-R!

Retr0gamer · 27-07-2011 04:48PM

I have to second Beserk. Fantastic a anime. I wish they would do another series, alas maybe I should just read the manga. It's hyper violent but never seems to be hyperviolent for the sake of it. I wish anime was the same now as it was in the 80's

Moe ruins everything it touches.

Pyongyang · 27-07-2011 04:52PM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I wish anime was the same now as it was in the 80's

I completely agree. I've probably watched about 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% of material produced post 1997.

safetyboy · 27-07-2011 04:53PM

johnny_ultimate · 27-07-2011 05:26PM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I have to second Beserk. Fantastic a anime. I wish they would do another series, alas maybe I should just read the manga. It's hyper violent but never seems to be hyperviolent for the sake of it. I wish anime was the same now as it was in the 80's Moe ruins everything it touches.

TBH there's more for me in contemporary anime than 80s stuff. Satoshi Kon, Mamorou Hosoda (heart Summer Wars so very much) and Makoto Shinkai have made some of the finest animated films of all time, adore pretty much all of their works! And can't forget Ghibli, who have a new film out on Friday

I love Akira and Ghost in the Shell as much as the next anime fan, but I definitely deviate towards the non cyberpunkian, hyperviolent or 'big swords, big hair' stuff, as I do with all sorts of cinema. It seems unfair to me to write off contemporary anime when there's so many imaginative, innovative and engaging gems out there.

That said, I really must explore more anime shows, have only watched a handful of 'em.

Retr0gamer · 27-07-2011 05:36PM

Oh I like them as well but they just don't do anime shows and movies like they did in the 80's anymore. I'd actually say Ghibli is actually very close to the more light hearted animes of the 80's than any of the new ones. Sure I recently watched Dennou Coil and throughly enjoyed it, you should check it out or add it to your list.

Pyongyang · 27-07-2011 05:37PM

safetyboy wrote: »

Was ist das?

johnny_ultimate · 27-07-2011 05:42PM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Oh I like them as well but they just don't do anime shows and movies like they did in the 80's anymore. I'd actually say Ghibli is actually very close to the more light hearted animes of the 80's than any of the new ones. Sure I recently watched Dennou Coil and throughly enjoyed it, you should check it out or add it to your list.

Well it's like anything - mediums always move on. The 80s stuff is still there to enjoy, always will be. Sure, there's tonnes of absolute junk out there, but sure it was the same back then too! It's like silent film or classic gaming - we all feel the ache of nostalgia from time to time, but just because they 'don't make 'em like they used to' isn't always a bad thing. We can still watch Battleship Potemkin or play M.U.S.H.A., but it's always worth embracing 'good' change as well the past IMO. There'll always be diamonds amongst the ****.

Retr0gamer · 27-07-2011 05:50PM

Now you are really pulling at my heart strings with the death of the classic shmup for bullet hell. I'm not a praying man but if you can hear me Treasure please give me Gradius VI.

safetyboy · 27-07-2011 05:53PM

Pyongyang wrote: »

Was ist das?

The Danbo or the atari Lynx?

http://bazaarlee.co.uk/danboard/revoltech-mini-amazon-danboard-danbo

johnny_ultimate · 27-07-2011 05:53PM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Now you are really pulling at my heart strings with the death of the classic shmup for bullet hell. I'm not a praying man but if you can hear me Treasure please give me Gradius VI.

Go find a Darius Burst cab, it will fill your need for pretty old school shmups!

safetyboy · 27-07-2011 06:14PM

Rockin deathsmiles atm!

Jack burton · 27-07-2011 07:00PM

****, I always watned to get a little danbo. Got any links to a good place to get one?

safetyboy · 27-07-2011 07:29PM

Jack burton wrote: »

****, I always watned to get a little danbo. Got any links to a good place to get one?

I found it hard to get him then found this place whilst drunken spending

http://shop.ebay.ie/japan_shop511/m.html?_trksid=p4340.l2562

Got to me within 8/9 days

playing my x0xb0x

Optimus Prime · 27-07-2011 07:59PM

Picked up this lot of adverts tonight for 20quid.

Got this in the door too from ebay

Mr.Saturn · 27-07-2011 08:08PM

^Nice! Can the Pokemon carts still hold a save?

Pyongyang · 27-07-2011 08:09PM

Very nice stuff everyone! Loving that little chap on the EX2. Very nice.

Optimus Prime · 27-07-2011 08:11PM

Mr.Saturn wrote: »

^Nice! Can the Pokemon carts still hold a save?

Yeh looks like it, the guy who owned it previously, his games are still saved on them.

CiDeRmAn · 27-07-2011 09:46PM

I picked up Split Second for the 360 for 12.99 in HMV as well as Rayman 3D for the 3DS for 17.99.
The former is excellent, I owned it the first time around and thought it was much better than the more lauded Blur, so I bought it again after succumbing to the trade the new game in blues.
Rayman 3D was a favourite of mine on the N64, in fact I still own it, a criminally under-appreciated game, with a really "european" art style.
The game only gets better in 3D, although the effort is minimal in the conversion and the camera issues are still there only now they try to get your eyes to focus at very wrong objects in impossible dimensions.
Still a game well worth the 17.99 admission fee!

Found Portal 2 still labelled 19.99 in GS in Balbriggan and ran to the counter but the minion informed me it was supposed to be 29.99 and was mispriced.

Steve X2 · 27-07-2011 09:58PM

This arrived today after a couple of weeks in AN Post redirection hell.

It's the 9" version.

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Retr0gamer · 27-07-2011 09:59PM

Rayman 2 on the PC and Dreamcast is one of the best looking games of that generation. Really shows what good art can do despite technical limitations.

CiDeRmAn · 27-07-2011 11:20PM

It is a game that despite the vaselino vision on the N64 looks pretty good there.
Its a very linear platformer, no hubs here, so far more like SMB3 rather than SMW or SM64, and it's all the better for it, the levels were and still remain beautiful.
Being cheap feckers Ubisoft have changed nothing in the 3D version bar the 3D effect, just look at the sky box to see just how cheap they are!
As said already, it's a good thing then the source material was a cracker to begin with.
Plenty of nice sights, no issues with the old engine making platforming hard, the game was never too punishing to start with, including infinite chances to repeat difficult scenes and ample checkpoints.
I have to say if you own either an N64 or 3DS pick this up.
I know its another N64 reheat but so few people played it the first time it is a must have this gen around, a gentle, colourful adventure, a reminder that Rayman used to be in games that weren't glorified minigame collections with psychopathic extraterrestrial rabbits.

o1s1n · 27-07-2011 11:49PM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I have to second Beserk. Fantastic a anime. I wish they would do another series, alas maybe I should just read the manga. It's hyper violent but never seems to be hyperviolent for the sake of it. I wish anime was the same now as it was in the 80's Moe ruins everything it touches.

/whisper whisper - the Berserk anime is from 1997, it's not actually that old.

If you've been waiting for a new series as long as I have, this little teaser may make you happy -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0VENPA1_RI

I'm pretty sure it's a film project rather than a series though.

Oh, and read the Manga! It's bloody brilliant.

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