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Keep Calm And Discuss Retro Generally!

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  • #2
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,630 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    212606.png


  • #3
    Dale Parish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Dale Parish


    It's such a quality poster that there's one now hanging in my room :pac:


  • #4
    Atavan-Halen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,183 ✭✭✭✭Atavan-Halen


    Woo new thread!

    *cracks open absinthe to celebrate*


  • #5
    Dr Bob
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 3,184 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dr Bob


    Hurray!


  • #6
    Dr Bob
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 3,184 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dr Bob


    New thread!
    If anyones interested legend of grimrock is a fiver in the steam sale , its very very similar to dungeon master, bloodwych, that kind of thing.. Only modern looking like..:)


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  • #7
    safetyboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭safetyboy


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


    Gonna play some Rygar on mame.

    Bought it on NES too but am yet to play it.


  • #8
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    you went with that title? really???
    may as well have a Union Jack as your avatar


  • #9
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,829 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Rygar on arcade is only ok, was never too fond of it. Rygar on the NES though is amazing, one of those NES games were they didn't decide to copy the arcade game. It's like a mix of zelda with side scrolling bits and works great.
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  • #10
    Sparks43
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,056 ✭✭✭Sparks43


    So New thread Same old story

    Boulder Dash Is the best Game of all time:D:D


  • #11
    Pyongyang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    may as well have a Union Jack as your avatar

    Nowt wrong with a neapolitan ice cream forum! God Save Adultappleflavouredbeveragemale! :D
    Sparks43 wrote: »
    Darius Burst Another Chronicle EX is the best Game of all time

    FYP. :D


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  • #12
    Doge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,058 ✭✭✭Doge


    lego_china_tanks_tiananmen_square_desktop_3200x2000_hd-wallpaper-526049.jpg


  • #13
    Doge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,058 ✭✭✭Doge


    This may have been posted here already, or whatevs:

    http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-video-game-console


  • #14
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    waveform wrote: »
    This may have been posted here already, or whatevs:

    http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-video-game-console

    "In other news, Sony announce they are going to break into the console market with something they call a Play Station."


    but seriously it is a great concept, a console that doesnt just pander to the CoD generation of gamers is always welcome.
    it's only my 2nd Kickstarter backing, the other being Redux: Dark Matters for the Dreamcast


  • #15
    Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,019 ✭✭✭Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JUCfX1P1ik


    oh and

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvT4mlOuTfk


  • #16
    Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,019 ✭✭✭Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy


    a reminder that there's a retro beers on tomorrow >link<


  • #17
    Steve X2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,885 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    Prometheus, damn good movie :)
    Not perfect but none are and I'm glad I eventually got to see it in the cinema.

    Don't read the spoiler if you've not seen the movie.
    I was trying to discuss with my girlfriend the whole "what (supposedly) happened around 2000 years ago on earth that they would be pi$$ed off with us all".
    But I think it was falling on deaf ears. "Did anyone maybe die 2000 years ago" etc etc. A discussion for another forum me thinks.


  • #18
    Steve X2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,885 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    jcage.jpg

    http://www.theverge.com/gaming/2012/7/12/3121233/johnny-cage-20-years-later


  • #19
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,630 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Steve SI wrote: »
    Prometheus, damn good movie :)
    Not perfect but none are and I'm glad I eventually got to see it in the cinema.

    Yeah, I enjoyed it the two times I saw it.
    Plenty of D'Oh! moments, plus there is the magic small rock scene,
    the one that saves our heroine despite the massive starship crushing everything else in it's path!
    But, it's really a big setup for the next one, too much distance between the ending of Prometheus and the story of Alien to be bridged without another film.
    Plus, we need it to stop the narrative space being filled with p1ss poor fan fiction.


  • #20
    safetyboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭safetyboy


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV2hslJjs9U


    2 Gameboy advance vrs TR-808


  • #21
    OwaynOTT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,563 ✭✭✭✭OwaynOTT


    I don't like this thread, it's all too clean and new and I don't feel comfortable. We need someone to come in and wreck it up a bit with talk of old men in cinemas and some pictures of retrogamers all cosplayed up.


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  • #22
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,829 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    OwaynOTT wrote: »
    I don't like this thread, it's all too clean and new and I don't feel comfortable. We need someone to come in and wreck it up a bit with talk of old men in cinemas and some pictures of retrogamers all cosplayed up.

    Hopefully we'll have some new ones next week :P
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  • #23
    Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,019 ✭✭✭Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy


    OwaynOTT wrote: »
    We need someone to come in and wreck it up a bit with talk of old men in cinemas and some pictures of retrogamers all cosplayed up.
    I can tell stories about gay Pat that always comes into the shop


  • #24
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,630 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    He doesn't dress up as an unconvincing school girl does he because I know another guy who does that, on occasion....


  • #25
    Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,019 ✭✭✭Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    He doesn't dress up as an unconvincing school girl does he because I know another guy who does that, on occasion....
    no he's this owld fella with black teeth and white hair and he calls me Princess and buys books that have little girls or women's cleavage on them. My sister knows him as well since in the 90s he used to buy women's bras second hand


  • #26
    Dr Bob
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 3,184 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dr Bob


    http://store.steampowered.com/app/207170/
    I know I mentioned it earlier but..
    Legend of grimrock , been playing this since I got it last night , it's plays like a remake of all those Amiga/ST Dungeon crawlers like 'dungeon master 'or 'EoTB'.
    Nice and hard too, it's 5.50 for the next few hours so if you prefer your RPGs with a team of four adventurers and loads of gridpaper* rather than the spikey haired japanese protagonists and gunswords variety its worth getting.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae-SmQnTtUU

    *there is actually an old school mode included with no map option ;)


  • #27
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,253 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Brilliant game that. I gave up before finishing it though, some of the later levels became frustrating.


  • #28
    Andrew76
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,474 Mod ✭✭✭✭Andrew76


    Yeah it's well worth getting if you like that type of game and especially at that price.


  • #29
    Retr0gamer
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    Dr Bob wrote: »
    Nice and hard too, it's 5.50 for the next few hours so if you prefer your RPGs with a team of four adventurers and loads of gridpaper* rather than the spikey haired japanese protagonists and gunswords variety its worth getting.

    No fair! Japan actually makes some of the best dungeon crawlers available!
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  • #30
    Dr Bob
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 3,184 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dr Bob


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    No fair! Japan actually makes some of the best dungeon crawlers available!
    ah yeah , especially Atlus ones , like Etrian Odyssey or Dark Spire.
    It was a slightly unfair dig. But I was getting at the fact that is a real WRPG rather than a typical Jrpg though.


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  • #31
    Steve X2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,885 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    Stupid customs in Dublin :mad: Incompetent fools as usual.
    It should not take a week for 2 medium size boxes of games to clear customs.


  • #32
    valleyoftheunos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,332 ✭✭✭valleyoftheunos


    new thread! hurah!

    *pats dedicated posters on back*


  • #33
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,630 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Steve SI wrote: »
    Stupid customs in Dublin :mad: Incompetent fools as usual.
    It should not take a week for 2 medium size boxes of games to clear customs.

    You can just see them trying to figure out how much duty is due on a Shmup PCB and a bunch of Famicom carts! (I don't know what you are importing so forgiveness is begged)

    Some fierce Googling going on there I'd say!


  • #34
    Steve X2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,885 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    You can just see them trying to figure out how much duty is due on a Shmup PCB and a bunch of Famicom carts! (I don't know what you are importing so forgiveness is begged)

    Some fierce Googling going on there I'd say!

    Yeah, I rang them earlier and they wanted me to email on the paypal receipt.
    They definitely opened the boxes anyway as he was able to mention a few details about what I was getting without me telling him.


  • #35
    OwaynOTT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,563 ✭✭✭✭OwaynOTT


    Steve SI wrote: »
    Yeah, I rang them earlier and they wanted me to email on the paypal receipt.
    They definitely opened the boxes anyway as he was able to mention a few details about what I was getting without me telling him.

    Do they do that to everything or is it a random thing? I dont really mean opeing up the boxes but rather stop them in customs.


  • #36
    Steve X2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,885 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    OwaynOTT wrote: »
    Do they do that to everything or is it a random thing? I dont really mean opeing up the boxes but rather stop them in customs.

    It seems to depend on how it's sent. If you don't mind waiting a while you can send stuff via standard super slow 2-3 month post and it usually makes it over untouched. But if you send it airmail with tracking etc you're more likely to have it checked. At least with stuff from Japan anyway.


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  • #37
    Pyongyang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    Shmup PCB

    :eek::confused:


  • #38
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Yay a new thread :)

    I like the new title, so Retr0 eh? Who the hell likes dressing up in girls clothes surely he's gay? :D:p


  • #39
    Optimus Prime
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 5,390 Mod ✭✭✭✭Optimus Prime


    First post in the new thread :pac:

    Anyone watch Pawn stars? Might be old but i only started watching season one, the lad bought an original pacman cocktail for 175 dollars. I couldnt believe it, i wish we had arcade cabs floating around here like in the states.


  • #40
    James Howlett
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,599 ✭✭✭James Howlett


    Yeah that's a good show. I'm Vegas bound later this year and might have to take a peek at that place. There's a few great shows like that floating around the discovery (i think) channel... except for Hardcore Pawn, that show is pretty much footage of poor people being ripped off, and standing in the line for the opportunity for same.


  • #41
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,630 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Those shows could ruin collecting at markets if they ever get popular over here.
    Of course, if we could off load a bunch of non working Nes consoles on some of these entrepreneurs it could be worth it!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owLeEOFTFOs

    I know it's been posted lots of times, but it's so funny!


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  • #42
    pdbhp
    Registered Users Posts: 2,041 ✭✭✭pdbhp


    Wippee first post in the new thread....go me!!

    Anybody play Project Zero 2 on Wii yet? saw it yesterday in HMV, it's a port of a 10 year old PS2 title though which made me hold off on buying it.


    How come Gamestop in the Square is so shít. Was out in GS blanch last week and saw a much better selection of games including Onepiece on 3DS, had no monies so couldn't buy anything:(

    Might try get back out today and get something.


  • #43
    DinoRex
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    If you've never played the PS2 version then it's definitely worth getting.

    Sliding block puzzles killed it for me though... just can't do those things.


  • #44
    johnny_ultimate
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    AFK for a few days and I miss a new general discussion thread, a retro beers and the beginnings of a Steam sale. The world's a different place with much more dodgy Irish films and fish & chips when you have irregular internet access!


  • #45
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,630 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Well, don't let it happen again, Johnny U!
    We are a forgiving sort round here but you can only push us so far!


  • #46
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,829 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    pdbhp wrote: »
    Anybody play Project Zero 2 on Wii yet? saw it yesterday in HMV, it's a port of a 10 year old PS2 title though which made me hold off on buying it.

    I heard the Wii version isn't great. The ghosts are nowhere near as scary and there's new control additions that kill the tension. You are better off getting the cheaper and apparently better PS2 or Xbox release.
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  • #47
    johnny_ultimate
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    This may have been mentioned already, but this is worthy of a chuckle: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/118456-Koei-Accidentally-Published-the-Wrong-Game

    Oh Koei! A potential collector's edition, though.


  • #48
    pdbhp
    Registered Users Posts: 2,041 ✭✭✭pdbhp


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    I heard the Wii version isn't great. The ghosts are nowhere near as scary and there's new control additions that kill the tension. You are better off getting the cheaper and apparently better PS2 or Xbox release.

    Well I went up to get it earlier but didn't bother again, might hold off and buy spirit camera for 3DS next week


  • #49
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,253 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Considering buying Spirit Camera myself. Mainly because I haven't had anything new to play on the 3DS since Kid Icarus. Needs more new games on a regular basis!


  • #50
    DinoRex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭DinoRex


    Crowd are super annoying but here's more from Wreck It Ralph:

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


  • #51
    pdbhp
    Registered Users Posts: 2,041 ✭✭✭pdbhp


    o1s1n wrote: »
    Considering buying Spirit Camera myself. Mainly because I haven't had anything new to play on the 3DS since Kid Icarus. Needs more new games on a regular basis!

    Well it looks interesting enough with hopefully good use of AR.
    I saw One Piece for 3DS out in Gamestop Blanch last week, should have bought it:(

    That new Theatrythm Final Fantasy is out soon aswell, supposedly it is like Elite Beat Agents but RPG which should be a good thing?


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