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

Billy86 · 28-08-2013 10:22AM #1

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!

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 28-08-2013 10:35AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytP19NH-qiM

Tombo2001 · 28-08-2013 10:37AM

1942.

That is all.

Brego888 · 28-08-2013 10:39AM

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

SEPT 23 1989 · 28-08-2013 10:41AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujgy2ziBF8w

Mr Benevolent · 28-08-2013 10:42AM

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

Billy86 · 28-08-2013 10:46AM

Mr Benevolent wrote: »

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.

Amazingly, not one person seems to have noticed haha!

FatherLen · 28-08-2013 10:46AM

Stumbled across this game recently after searching for years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m02kIUVLWoE

krudler · 28-08-2013 10:47AM

Mr Benevolent wrote: »

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.

GorillaRising · 28-08-2013 10:48AM

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!!!

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

FatherLen · 28-08-2013 10:49AM

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

nevermind

krudler · 28-08-2013 10:49AM

GorillaRising wrote: »

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!!!

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:

GorillaRising · 28-08-2013 10:50AM

krudler wrote: »

Those bloody underwater levels with the bombs :mad:

I HATE water levels! :mad:

Myrddin · 28-08-2013 10:51AM

Mr Benevolent wrote: »

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?

lertsnim · 28-08-2013 10:52AM

Mr Benevolent wrote: »

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.

Irish Halo · 28-08-2013 10:54AM

GorillaRising wrote: »

I HATE water levels! :mad:

Slippy, Slidey Ice Worlds are just as bad.

Mr Benevolent · 28-08-2013 10:54AM

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.

super_furry · 28-08-2013 10:56AM

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

FatherLen · 28-08-2013 10:57AM

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

readyletsgo · 28-08-2013 10:58AM

GorillaRising wrote: »

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!!!

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

johnny_knoxvile · 28-08-2013 11:00AM

Is that game historically correct?

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

massdebater · 28-08-2013 11:01AM

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

GorillaRising · 28-08-2013 11:04AM

readyletsgo wrote: »

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.

GLaDOS · 28-08-2013 11:05AM

massdebater wrote: »

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

Final Fantasy VII for me.

folan · 28-08-2013 11:08AM

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

Nostalgia was much better in my day.

FTA69 · 28-08-2013 11:09AM

ScienceNerd wrote: »

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.

--Kaiser-- · 28-08-2013 11:09AM

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

28-08-2013 11:10AM

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....

--Kaiser-- · 28-08-2013 11:10AM

massdebater wrote: »

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

gouche · 28-08-2013 11:11AM

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:

krudler · 28-08-2013 11:11AM

--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.

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

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