Son Of General Retro Discussion

Jack burton wrote: »

One for Pyongyang

Hmm, he doesn't sniff his games.

That said, he is spot on about Lords Of Thunder. If I won the lotto I'd hook my PC Engine Duo-R up to this and crank the volume up to MAXIMUM.



Essentially this is the world's loudest speaker. Cranks out a bowel-shattering 165 decibels of pure AWESOME.

Put in to context:

125 decibels is the human pain threshold of noise
130 decibels is the equivalent of standing next to a jet engine without wearing ear protectors.
150 decibels will vibrate the walls of your chest and is equivalent to a space shuttle taking off.


165 decibels (this speaker) will literally melt the wax in your ears.


Now put it in this context on the db scale:

- at 135 dB you experience a slight cooling sensation from the air

- at 140 dB your throat and vocal chords start to vibrate

- at 142 dB your chest starts to pound intensely

- at 148 dB the vibration because uncomfortable and even painful

- at 150 dB you experience the overwhelming sensation of being compressed as if underwater

- at 155 dB the compression and expansion from vibration is felt to the "core"

- at 158 dB the vibration is violent, and nausea becomes intense

- at 190 dB eardrums rupture 50% of the time

- at 198 dB human death from sound (shock wave) alone

So in essence, Lords of Thunder, to be experienced at it's very best, requires the player to have a sound system of 197.9 decibels.

165db will do though, such is the sheer brilliance of that game and that soundtrack.

The scene after Lords Of Thunder shows him repairing his Mega Drive. I assume it was a Mega Drive that fell off the top of his TV. If he's suggesting otherwise then it's kinda incorrect as Lords of Thunder only ever appeared on the PC Engine Super CD and Mega CD (I stand corrected, I was thinking of Gate Of Thunder). However the Mega CD soundtrack was inferior to the PC Engine version so if he had any sort of degree of taste, he'd have been playing the superior version.

He's also playing Blazing Star at the beginning that caused the finger injury. He could solve this with a JAMMA auto-fire PCB, but I'm glad he's keeping it as God intended.

He doesn't mention or have any Darius games in his collection. This is very disappointing.

A fine video Jacqueline Burtoli. Made me laugh!

edit: This is worth a read. A comparison of the PC Engine and Sega Mega CD versions of Lords Of Thunder.

http://pcenginefx.com/main/pcenginefx_com_-_feature_-_lor1.html

Whoever the person is called Kim Jong, that isn't me. Anyway, great podcast. I'd be keen to come along and bore you all to death about Winds/Lords of Thunder and how epic it is. Oh and scanlines and stuff.

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Any constructive criticism is welcome, was very nervous doing it and there's a lot I wanted to say and forgot.

Which one are you. Wogan or the bloke talking about polygons and RISC chips?

Retr0gamer wrote: »

The boring one talking about RISC chips and slagging Goldeneye. :P

Ah OK. I'm listening intently to catch whose armpit has tentacles wriggling under it.

Spot on show though. Next week, Dick Tracy on the C64.