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johnny_ultimate · 22-10-2012 06:12PM

Spotted on Bray Main St. this evening. This Halloween, why don't you dress up as everyone's favourite Plumber's Mate? I'm presuming Plumber's Sibling was a copyright infringement too far.

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OwaynOTT · 22-10-2012 08:39PM

Quick question, how does one differentiate between US and EUR Neo Geo AES carts? Just going through mine, thinking of selling, and I see that's there is a price difference on some on some of the rarity guides.
Can't find any help with telling them apart though.

Retr0gamer · 22-10-2012 09:12PM

Corpse Party 2 just got announced for PSP in the US and EU shortly afterwards.

Nerdkiller1991 · 22-10-2012 09:32PM

In conjunction with the analogue shut off, Ceefax will be closing on the 24th.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19996372

I used to love dicking around it, Teletext and Aertel back in the 90's. So much to offer and to look up.

Professey Chin · 22-10-2012 09:33PM

Nothings ever beating Channel 4 teletext pg 152

Atavan-Halen · 22-10-2012 09:40PM

Nerdkiller1991 wrote: »

In conjunction with the analogue shut off, Ceefax will be closing on the 24th.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19996372

I used to love dicking around it, Teletext and Aertel back in the 90's. So much to offer and to look up.

Used to always look up the cinema times on teletext.

Also on the RTE one they used to have a games review page and a competition to win whatever game was out that week. Always enetered it because I thought no one else did. Unfortunately I never won anything

DinoRex · 22-10-2012 09:40PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4Og6kLvv5A

Myrddin · 22-10-2012 09:41PM

Teletext was the internet before the internet for us 80's kids

Atavan-Halen · 22-10-2012 09:43PM

On the thumbnail for that vid I see 40hz.

Retr0 will have a heart attack.

Retr0gamer · 22-10-2012 09:43PM

Digitiser and then Game Central on Channel 4 teletext were two of the greatest places for games journalism and news. RIP

Nerdkiller1991 · 22-10-2012 09:44PM

atavan-halen wrote: »

Used to always look up the cinema times on teletext.

Also on the RTE one they used to have a games review page and a competition to win whatever game was out that week. Always enetered it because I thought no one else did. Unfortunately I never won anything

Awww, man, I also used to look at that page. Didn't they also do cheats as well? I remember one for Pokemon Gold.

Atavan-Halen · 22-10-2012 09:45PM

Nerdkiller1991 wrote: »

Awww, man, I also used to look at that page. Didn't they also do cheats as well? I remember one for Pokemon Gold.

Think they might have!

Mr.Saturn · 22-10-2012 09:47PM

atavan-halen wrote: »

Used to always look up the cinema times on teletext.

Also on the RTE one they used to have a games review page and a competition to win whatever game was out that week. Always enetered it because I thought no one else did. Unfortunately I never won anything

I actually did win, got a GBA and a copy of Mario Kart. I shat bricks when the lady-rep called me. Thought it was a piss-take too, 'til the courier arrived the following Wednesday.

Nerdkiller1991 · 22-10-2012 09:55PM

http://www.rte.ie/aertel/
http://www.ceefax.tv/

While you still can, my friends. While you still can.

Atavan-Halen · 22-10-2012 09:56PM

Mr.Saturn wrote: »

I actually did win, got a GBA and a copy of Mario Kart. I shat bricks when the lady-rep called me. Thought it was a piss-take too, 'til the courier arrived the following Wednesday.

So you were my compeditor in those competitions!

You ruined my childhood and dashed my dreams of winning anything!

johnny_ultimate · 22-10-2012 11:26PM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Digitiser and then Game Central on Channel 4 teletext were two of the greatest places for games journalism and news. RIP

At least one of them still lives!

From the 1990s to the mid 2000s, you genuinely couldn't get better games journalism than Channel 4 teletext. Which is bizarre and wonderful in any number of ways. Gamescentral is still one of only a handful of sources I trust for honest reviews.

Retr0gamer · 22-10-2012 11:41PM

I loved the columns they had, you had the ultra serious stuff from the Edge contributors mixed with the genuinely entertaining stuff from violet berlin and the utterly crazy stuart campbell.

Retr0gamer · 23-10-2012 12:25AM

Really enjoying Parasite Eve on the PS1, it really is a fantastic blend of action and RPG. It's funny reading the reviews of it complaining that it's 'only' 15 hours long. The length doesn't matter and now in an era where games are either filled to the gills with filler or over in 4 hours it feels wonderfully paced.

johnny_ultimate · 23-10-2012 12:56AM

I've said it many times before, but I have a real problem with the way 'length' (*insert penis joke here*) is used as a mark of quality in games. The games that are overlong, paceless messes significantly outnumber the games that are genuinely too short (e.g. Halo 2

). Even many really great games overstay their welcome as the imagination runs out over twenty plus hours. A game should be as long or short as its mechanics or story require - whether that be a ten minute long flash game or a 100+ hour RPG. I'd still hold both Portal games up as almost perfect examples of how long a game should be - a tightly considered dripfeed of new mechanics and gameplay twists as the game progress, where none of the puzzles are repetitious or filler.

Steve X2 · 23-10-2012 01:14AM

A little something for all the Star Trek TOS fans.
Every episode in one pic.

Click for the full size version

CiDeRmAn · 23-10-2012 06:45AM

I wonder if, in 45 years time, we'll get a similar picture about Dexter? Or Breaking Bad?

Jack burton · 23-10-2012 10:10AM

Bohemian Rhapsody with nintendo

http://thepunkeffect.com/?p=8425

Myrddin · 23-10-2012 10:24AM

Jack burton wrote: »

Bohemian Rhapsody with nintendo

http://thepunkeffect.com/?p=8425

That is so well done

Retr0gamer · 23-10-2012 11:27AM

Shoji Meguro is probably the best videogame composer at the moment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZtUKEdBnEw

23-10-2012 12:01PM

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

I'd still hold both Portal games up as almost perfect examples of how long a game should be - a tightly considered dripfeed of new mechanics and gameplay twists as the game progress, where none of the puzzles are repetitious or filler.

I must check them out, i've heard nothing but good things about them.

I actually used to own portal 1 on the orange box, but traded it. I never really appreciated the half life games the way most people rave about them. I guess i came to them late, after halo and COD had shaped my expectations of the FPS genre (for better or worse).

After i had been in the boots of a seven foot tall genetically enhanced supersoldier from the 26th century, playing as a skinny scientist named Gordon never really held my attention the same way...

Retr0gamer · 23-10-2012 12:10PM

Ah now, Half-Life 2 is far better than any of the Halo games. Same **** over and over again vs. a game with well told narrative, art design and constantly changes up it's gameplay. And the Gravity gun!

johnny_ultimate · 23-10-2012 12:20PM

Deleted User wrote: »

I must check them out, i've heard nothing but good things about them.

I actually used to own portal 1 on the orange box, but traded it. I never really appreciated the half life games the way most people rave about them. I guess i came to them late, after halo and COD had shaped my expectations of the FPS genre (for better or worse).

After i had been in the boots of a seven foot tall genetically enhanced supersoldier from the 26th century, playing as a skinny scientist named Gordon never really held my attention the same way...

Yep, have to agree with Retr0 here, Half-Life is simply the granddaddy of the FPS. Barring the Deus Ex / System Shock / Thief games - which are very different types of first-person experiences - nothing comes close to challenging HL1+2.

Still, Portal is a must play even if you're not a fan of its sister series. Short, sweet and absolutely ingenious. Don't know if I've ever heard of anyone who didn't like them. Apart from the 'too short' brigade, but they're as wrong as wrong can be

Myrddin · 23-10-2012 12:22PM

If CoD & Halo make you not enjoy Half Life, it's without a doubt a 'your doing it wrong' thing.

23-10-2012 12:49PM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Ah now, Half-Life 2 is far better than any of the Halo games...

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Yep, have to agree with Retr0 here, Half-Life is simply the granddaddy of the FPS...

I won't disagree with either of you, in fact i got the feeling that the problem was not Half life, it was more to do with me and how i had been conditioned to play shooters and what to expect.

I came into the FPS genre late, i never really played PC games, and so my first real FPS experiences were the console shooters like halo and gears of war and so on. Halo 2 in particular on the XBOX 1 was a yardstick for the genre for me, and i think because i wasnt playing half life back when it was new when there was nothing better around in comparison to it, when i picked it up 4 or 5 years back and it had all this hype attached to it, it just turned out to be less exciting than i was expecting.

Genres do move on, and the FPS genre was moving and innovating particularly fast around then before COD came along and stopped it in it's tracks. Every major FPS release was bringing something new to the party before everybody just started to copy what infinity ward was doing. I think it's easy to look at a 4 or 5 year old game (as half life was then) in that kind of a constantly evolving genre and see it as a little bit of an anachronism, especially if you've just dropped in to the genre midway through and have no points of reference for what has come before.

DinoRex · 23-10-2012 02:05PM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I wonder if, in 45 years time, we'll get a similar picture about Dexter?

I met one of the barrel girls from season 5 when I was in Hollywood. Not the strongest season but still...

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