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Video Games - They Don't Make Them Like They Used To...

  • 28-08-2013 10:22AM
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭


    Just stumbled upon this, apparently this game was quite popular and widely sold in shops on the old Atari back in the mid-80s:



    And in Japan, these guys featured in 'Vendetta' - a 1991 'Streets of Rage' type game that was made by Konami, one of the biggest games developers of the last 20-odd years.



    Well, that's it really. Enjoy your day everybody!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,237 ✭✭✭Tombo2001


    1942.

    That is all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,330 ✭✭✭Brego888


    Flimbos quest on commodore 64. Now that was a game.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,433 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    How can anyone be nostalgic for video games? They just keep getting better and better year after year.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    How can anyone be nostalgic for video games? They just keep getting better and better year after year.
    I'm just talking about the content in the ones I posted - the sole aim in the first one is to cross a 'path' in order to rape a tied up native American woman (as a cowboy or whatnot), while in the latter gay S&M characters literally ass-rape you to death.

    So much for people moaning about the negative effects of showing prostitutes or sex in GTA-type games, I guess. :p

    Amazingly, not one person seems to have noticed haha!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    Stumbled across this game recently after searching for years.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    How can anyone be nostalgic for video games? They just keep getting better and better year after year.

    A great game will remain a great game forever though, stuff like Super Mario World or Tetris are as playable today as they were back then.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 293 ✭✭GorillaRising


    The Last Ninja games on the Commodore 64 were great! Bloody difficult though!

    R-Type - anyone ever finish this game?

    Also I'm pretty sure the Ninja Turtles game on the NES was made impossible to beat!!! :D

    I plan on getting a 3DS so I can play all the old Nintendo games like Mario Bros. etc.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    also, just in case you are unaware of this website.

    nevermind


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    The Last Ninja games on the Commodore 64 were great! Bloody difficult though!

    R-Type - anyone ever finish this game?

    Also I'm pretty sure the Ninja Turtles game on the NES was made impossible to beat!!! :D

    I plan on getting a 3DS so I can play all the old Nintendo games like Mario Bros. etc.

    Those bloody underwater levels with the bombs :mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 293 ✭✭GorillaRising


    krudler wrote: »
    Those bloody underwater levels with the bombs :mad:

    I HATE water levels! :mad:


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


    How can anyone be nostalgic for video games? They just keep getting better and better year after year.

    Better graphics do not make better games. Do you have the same opinion of film too, better cgi/effects makes better films?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,101 ✭✭✭✭lertsnim


    How can anyone be nostalgic for video games? They just keep getting better and better year after year.

    Nonsense. A great game will always be great.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,572 ✭✭✭Irish Halo


    I HATE water levels! :mad:
    Slippy, Slidey Ice Worlds are just as bad.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,433 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    EnterNow wrote: »
    Better graphics do not make better games. Do you have the same opinion of film too, better cgi/effects makes better films?

    I'm talking about gameplay, not graphics. The sandbox concept has made games many times more playable than they have ever been.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,387 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    That Custer's Revenge was never popular or widely available. It was a dodgy bootleg sold in sex shops.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    the music from sonic when he is nearly out of breath under water still haunts my dreams.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,276 ✭✭✭readyletsgo


    The Last Ninja games on the Commodore 64 were great! Bloody difficult though!

    R-Type - anyone ever finish this game?

    Also I'm pretty sure the Ninja Turtles game on the NES was made impossible to beat!!! :D

    I plan on getting a 3DS so I can play all the old Nintendo games like Mario Bros. etc.


    You wont regret getting a 3ds, my advice, get the 3DS XL, NES and GB/C games look awesome on the bigger screen along with all the games made for the system. New Zelda out next month, old style top down in 3D too! Can not wait!


    As for the topic, yes, classic games will always a a place in peoples hearts to play forever, but you can say that also about games that have come out this gen too. Too many to mention tbh. Thank god for VC :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,022 ✭✭✭johnny_knoxvile


    Is that game historically correct?

    Did Custer walk around naked with a massive bone killing indians?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭massdebater


    Not sure what counts as 'old' but Ocarina of Time is the best game that was ever made.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 293 ✭✭GorillaRising


    You wont regret getting a 3ds, my advice, get the 3DS XL, NES and GB/C games look awesome on the bigger screen along with all the games made for the system. New Zelda out next month, old style top down in 3D too! Can not wait!

    Definitely going for the XL. :)


  • Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,257 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Not sure what counts as 'old' but Ocarina of Time is the best game that was ever made.

    Final Fantasy VII for me.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭folan


    they don't make nostalgia like they used to either.

    Nostalgia was much better in my day.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,252 ✭✭✭FTA69


    Final Fantasy VII for me.

    I completed it in 110 hours. Honestly like, what is that? Four and a half days of consecutive gameplay? Pure madness. First and second year in school are a blank to me. All I can remember from the years 1999 and 2000 is chocobos, Sephiroth and materia.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    Games used to be waaaay harder. I remember playing many games where if you made one mistake, got hit once or made one wrong jump then you went all the way back to the start. No 'lives' no save games, just get on with it


  • Posts: 0 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Ha ha

    I have a faint memory of playing Custer's Revenge in a school mates house and not copping the games content til later life, another one was another Konami game called Mikey - you were a schoolboy who had to "love" the girls in the seats....

    I remember Vendetta, used to play that in my local chipper as a kid, never quite copped the leather-bound men humping your leg at the time either...bless

    So innocent....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    Not sure what counts as 'old' but Ocarina of Time is the best game that was ever made.

    That game was worth the price of the N64 many times over


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 422 ✭✭gouche


    Vendetta!! Local video shop had that when I was younger.
    Remember going in after school and playing it to death.
    Owner got it replaced when someone started shouting homophobic obscenities at the S&M dudes!
    I'm talking about gameplay, not graphics. The sandbox concept has made games many times more playable than they have ever been.

    I have to disagree with this comment. To an extent, I find sandbox games less playable. There's always a danger that if you give the gamer too much freedom and too many things to do they'll get bored.
    I know that doesn't apply to everyone but it probably does me:pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    --Kaiser-- wrote: »
    Games used to be waaaay harder. I remember playing many games where if you made one mistake, got hit once or made one wrong jump then you went all the way back to the start. No 'lives' no save games, just get on with it

    No tutorial modes either, just dumped into the game and you either read the manual or figured it out for yourself, the odd onscreen prompt for some new section and that was it. Now games give you achievements for turning around and walking 10 feet.


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