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Son Of General Retro Discussion

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  • #4262
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 54,082 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    You could try fishing resort, only out in america it seems.


  • #4263
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,811 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Oh, just get a DC and Sega Bass Fishing, it's great!

    Or this
    PECH%20C64%20jack%20charltons%20match%20fishing.jpg


  • #4264
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    DinoRex wrote: »
    He was no Zool!

    zool1.gif

    That game drove me fcuking mental on the MD. No idea how I used to be able to play it when I was younger


  • #4265
    Sparks43
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,074 ✭✭✭Sparks43


    Gonna give fishing resort a go nice 1 retro m8

    As for that Jack Charlton chit i'd much rather suffocate myself with a two-pound black ribbed nobler.


  • #4266
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,811 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Sparks43 wrote: »
    Gonna give fishing resort a go nice 1 retro m8

    As for that Jack Charlton chit i'd much rather suffocate myself with a two-pound black ribbed nobler.

    Pick it up at one of these, did you?
    ann-summers.jpg


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  • #4267
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    Pick it up at one of these, did you?
    ann-summers.jpg

    Getting rusty Cidey, getting rusty....

    From the episode Dimension Jump :cool:


  • #4268
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,811 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    I hang my head in shame...


    Although I think my joke was still funny and warrants a few little thanks clicks there, go on, do it, go on....


  • #4269
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    I hang my head in shame...


    Although I think my joke was still funny and warrants a few little thanks clicks there, go on, do it, go on....

    Of all the gags to forget, I shall now vent my disbelief by not clicking the thanks button :D


  • #4270
    Sparks43
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,074 ✭✭✭Sparks43


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    I hang my head in shame...


    Although I think my joke was still funny and warrants a few little thanks clicks there, go on, do it, go on....

    Sign this please :D



    not_funny_cert.jpg


  • #4271
    DinoRex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭DinoRex


    The Great Chinholio wrote: »
    That game drove me fcuking mental on the MD. No idea how I used to be able to play it when I was younger

    Zool was supposed to be the Amiga mascot. Felt so betrayed when they started whoring him out to every system under the sun.

    Pretty terrible games all the same though.


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  • #4272
    Andrew76
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 11,352 Mod ✭✭✭✭Andrew76


    DinoRex wrote: »
    Zool was supposed to be the Amiga mascot. Felt so betrayed when they started whoring him out to every system under the sun.

    Pretty terrible games all the same though.

    OI! They weren't that bad, Zool was pretty good I thought. Plenty of decent platformers on the Amiga actually: Superfrog, Flood, Fire & Ice, The Great Giana Sisters, James Pond... When you didn't have a Nintendo of some shape to play Mario then they were good enough. :)


  • #4273
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 54,082 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Only played Zool on the Megadrive. Remember being impressed with the amiga version in a friends but was really disappointed in the MD version.


  • #4274
    Andrew76
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 11,352 Mod ✭✭✭✭Andrew76


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Only played Zool on the Megadrive. Remember being impressed with the amiga version in a friends but was really disappointed in the MD version.

    Played it on the Amiga not too long ago and what surprised me most was that jumping using the joystick itself rather than a button felt alien to me. I had gotten used to using a button to jump since those Amiga days, button jumping which is probably standard on most console based platformers? Actually makes more sense that it would be the stick to jump if you use it to move left and right, but a button is much easier.


  • #4275
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 31,085 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    I think I got Zool 2 with a compilation disc for PC once that I bought solely for an ancient Warhammer 40K game contained within (this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsAYvg0JLyI). Even as a kid, the Chupa Chups advertising was dodgy as hell :P


  • #4276
    Atavan-Halen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,183 ✭✭✭✭Atavan-Halen


    An asian man just delivered my new iphone!

    I'm totes cool like but you've probably never heard of me.


  • #4277
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 31,085 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    atavan-halen wrote: »
    An asian man just delivered my new iphone!

    I'm totes cool like but you've probably never heard of me.

    You've already fallen victim to the first hipster rule of iPhone ownership ;)

    It's a slippery slope from here to posting up your Paper Toss high scores.


  • #4278
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 37,315 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Andrew76 wrote: »
    Played it on the Amiga not too long ago and what surprised me most was that jumping using the joystick itself rather than a button felt alien to me. I had gotten used to using a button to jump since those Amiga days, button jumping which is probably standard on most console based platformers? Actually makes more sense that it would be the stick to jump if you use it to move left and right, but a button is much easier.

    Heh, I know what you mean! I still can't quite get used to that. And when you think about it, you use up to jump in fighters, so why not platformers?

    I'd love to mod an Amiga joystick so up was rewired to an extra button.


  • #4279
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    atavan-halen wrote: »
    An asian man just delivered my new iphone!

    I'm totes cool like but you've probably never heard of me.

    Id like to point out I thanked everything of this except the iphone part :pac:


  • #4280
    DinoRex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭DinoRex


    Last Friday we're playing Premiere on the CD32... christ the controls were utterly maddening!


  • #4281
    DinoRex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭DinoRex


    Oh my glob!

    Firaxis are making a new Xcom game!


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  • #4282
    Atavan-Halen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,183 ✭✭✭✭Atavan-Halen


    The Great Chinholio wrote: »
    Id like to point out I thanked everything of this except the iphone part :pac:

    But I can talk to siri who just doesn't understand me :'(


  • #4283
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 54,082 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    DinoRex wrote: »
    Oh my glob!

    Firaxis are making a new Xcom game!

    Is this the FPS game that Spoony was roaring 'Betrayal' at the developers over or is it an actual X-Com game?

    I only just picked up the X-Com complete pack from Steam during the sale. Heard lots of good things. I hope it's not an IOS game.


  • #4284
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 54,082 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    On another note, pressing up to jump can go die in a fire. It was **** on the 8-bits and it's not needed when you have 2 or more fire buttons.


  • #4285
    DinoRex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭DinoRex


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Is this the FPS game that Spoony was roaring 'Betrayal' at the developers over or is it an actual X-Com game?

    I only just picked up the X-Com complete pack from Steam during the sale. Heard lots of good things. I hope it's not an IOS game.

    No. This one was only just announced. I can't imagine Firaxis doing an FPS... they're want to do a Civilisation FPS first, surely?

    http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2012/01/05/february-cover-revealed-xcom-enemy-unknown.aspx


  • #4286
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 54,082 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    DinoRex wrote: »
    No. This one was only just announced. I can't imagine Firaxis doing an FPS... they're want to do a Civilisation FPS first, surely?

    http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2012/01/05/february-cover-revealed-xcom-enemy-unknown.aspx

    Colour me excited.


  • #4287
    Andrew76
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 11,352 Mod ✭✭✭✭Andrew76


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    On another note, pressing up to jump can go die in a fire. It was **** on the 8-bits and it's not needed when you have 2 or more fire buttons.

    But it's funny how that's what we were used to before Mario on the NES came along (or whatever was the first button to jump example). Pressing up was second nature back then. Respect to whoever implemented the button method though.


  • #4288
    pdbhp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,041 ✭✭✭pdbhp


    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAfsSA6_GrE

    How dare you even contemplate mocking the greatest Russian nay the greatest human to ever live, good old Uncle Joe will send your ass to the nearest gulag aka Roscommonn:pac:


  • #4289
    pdbhp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,041 ✭✭✭pdbhp


    atavan-halen wrote: »
    An asian man just delivered my new iphone!

    Hipster alert!!
    :pac::pac::pac:


  • #4290
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,387 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    2 or more fire buttons.
    I remember the old joysticks, just 1 button function but they were often littered buttons.

    joy021.jpg

    I used one like above but with even more buttons, I think 2 trigger ones and others on the sides.

    I did like the simplicity of single ones, I had these
    konix_navigator.jpghardware_joystick_konix_speedking.jpg

    More than 3 functioning buttons actually puts me off games as I like to be able to pick them up and figure it out, I wish some games had a dumbed down mode where you did not need the function of the button within the game.

    I was always surprised there were not more games with spinning joysticks like midnight resistance and ikari warriors. Midnight resistance was horrible to play with the 1 button joystick. And the 2 joystick karate champ.

    I think the jump is needed more in platforms (than fighting games) as you may have ladders where 'up' would be climbing. Also in platforms it is more likely to need finer control of left & right while jumping onto little platforms, while in some fighting games if you jump up you land strictly in only 3 places, with no real need for such fine control.


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  • #4291
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 54,082 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Andrew76 wrote: »
    But it's funny how that's what we were used to before Mario on the NES came along (or whatever was the first button to jump example). Pressing up was second nature back then. Respect to whoever implemented the button method though.

    Even when I owned the C64 I hated it. It took a few years to get used to it and when I finally migrated to Megadrive I couldn't go back. Sonic spoiled me :) I do love reading retro reviews by the yanks who go mental when they review a game where up is jump.


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