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General Arcade and Retro Chat - Insert Coin -

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,551 o1s1n
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    safetyboy wrote: »
    Mitch Murder also made these classics

    Just been checking out this guy's stuff, amazing video.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 the groutch
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    for me there's only one "Interceptor"



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,665 johnny_ultimate
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    When exactly did cheesy 1980s crap become something to be celebrated and resurrected rather than forgotten in the strongest possible manner? :pac:

    (Mostly I just have a low tolerance for the ever more common throwback satires that are awful on purpose - missing the weird sincerity of the originals. Garth Marenghi's Dark Place is an exception and awesome).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,912 Steve X2
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    When exactly did cheesy 1980s crap become something to be celebrated and resurrected rather than forgotten in the strongest possible manner? :pac:

    (Mostly I just have a low tolerance for the ever more common throwback satires that are awful on purpose - missing the weird sincerity of the originals. Garth Marenghi's Dark Place is an exception and awesome).

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,021 Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy
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    Dr Bob wrote: »

    Humble Bundle :'Hey nintendo , want to be charitable and do a humble bundle?"
    Nintendo ."..uh maybe ..is there any way I can use this to f$%k over Europe?, maybe just straight exclude them"
    HB:'...I ..I guess but I dont know why you'd wa.."
    Nin:"yeah..yeah I'm in ... f£$k those guys"
    HB:"..but ....you'll lose money , we'll lose money thats less charity"
    Nin:"...heh hehe ..excellent"
    HB:"..and the only way we can work it is removing japan as well it'd be just crazy"
    Nin:" do it ..DO IT!!! muhahahaha"
    To do with region locking I suppose? only thing I can think of it it's EU and JP excluded (and isn't Aus PAL too? Brazil is also excluded).
    A friend in PocketGamer says they might do EU codes in future but don't hold your breath.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,081 safetyboy
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    o1s1n wrote: »
    Just been checking out this guy's stuff, amazing video.



    Chexx this


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 11,049 Andrew76
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    When exactly did cheesy 1980s crap become something to be celebrated and resurrected rather than forgotten in the strongest possible manner? :pac:

    Nostaglia is a big factor in anything retro you know that. :)

    On a similar vein, saw the new Mad Max yesterday, wasn't blown away by it all. The action sequences were ok but that was it, maybe it was because I didn't think much of the originals. Off topic but who the feck would pay 12.90 to watch anything in Cineworld, thieving feckers! (Versus 6.50 in the Lighthouse.)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,798 Jack burton
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    Finally some retro wave synth music love. This makes up about 70% of the music I listen to, anytime I have a few hours of work to do I just throw on a playlist

    https://www.youtube.com/user/NewRetroWave

    https://www.youtube.com/user/LuigiDonatello

    https://www.youtube.com/user/ManiacSynth

    Those 3 channels are full of some some awesome music


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 Myrddin
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    Anyone know if Dealz still sell the Wii RGB Scart cables? I had one before & gave it away, not knowing that some VC stuff won't work through component :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,928 TechnoFreek
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    Check out neros77 channel on YouTube.
    He sets synthwave tunes to 80s and 90s tv and movie clips.



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 632 Forest Demon
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    That clip reminded me of something. Did you know that the predator DLC for MKX includes a Carl Weathers skin for jax?

    Love that retro synth music and have done a bit of it myself. Must give it a go again.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,021 Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy
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    Just went onto Twitter (it's rare) and it says "Chibi Robo is trending"
    What? What? What!?

    I love the older games but I'll take any Chibi Robo action I can get, I have to get that Amiibo


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,790 CiDeRmAn
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    I really must play those Chibi Robo games, I've got both the GC and DS games and they've gone largely unplayed :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,021 Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy
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    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    I really must play those Chibi Robo games, I've got both the GC and DS games and they've gone largely unplayed :(
    The GC one is the better of the 2, I liked the NDS one a lot, it's so much fun but so far haven't heard much good from others who played it.
    There's a photo one in the 3DS shop as well, haven't played any of it yet.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,631 Hank Scorpio
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    Thought this was class.. Console is timeless



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 664 Tomo.Murphy
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    As of early this morning I now own 4 games for a console I don't own yet. I don't suppose there's some sort of A&R AA I should be looking into, is there?

    On a completely different note, I woke up this morning to find a Studio Ghibli movie on TV3. When did that become a thing??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,021 Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy
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    As of early this morning I now own 4 games for a console I don't own yet. I don't suppose there's some sort of A&R AA I should be looking into, is there?

    On a completely different note, I woke up this morning to find a Studio Ghibli movie on TV3. When did that become a thing??
    I probably have a few games there but no console to play them myself, but can't think atm.

    I'm sure I saw Arrietty on there a few times. Usually it's on Channel 4.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,790 CiDeRmAn
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    Thought this was class.. Console is timeless


    Sadly, if released as a game, there would be no bewbs and the blood would be green!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,551 o1s1n
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    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    Sadly, if released as a game, there would be no bewbs and the blood would be green!

    Unless you imported the Japanese version of course. Boobs and blood galore :pac:


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 53,408 Retr0gamer
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    o1s1n wrote: »
    Unless you imported the Japanese version of course. Boobs and blood galore :pac:

    Not anymore though thanks to the Cero rating system. Japanese games used to be awesome for stylised gore and violence but are totally neutered now where one decapitation can see the game end up on store shelves covered in a black wrapper and relegated to the porn section of shops.


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,790 CiDeRmAn
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    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Not anymore though thanks to the Cero rating system. Japanese games used to be awesome for stylised gore and violence but are totally neutered now where one decapitation can see the game end up on store shelves covered in a black wrapper and relegated to the porn section of shops.

    That's why you were in that section and you're sticking to that excuse!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,405 Doge
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    So the Dirt Rally early access is full of Rally Sim goodness.
    Things are looking really good for the game,
    So glad to have a proper Rally Sim on the market since Richard Burns Rally.
    Makes me wish I had a gaming PC though. :(



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,790 CiDeRmAn
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    Last time I had a really good time with a rally game was with these

    and


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,790 eddhorse
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    Network Q ah the memories. Blockly rolling cars. Was good though.

    I had a cracked no cd Colin McRae version too. Great game.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 Myrddin
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    Colin McRae 1 on the PS1 blew me away the first time i played it. Sand & mud sticking to the car as you progress through the stage was really cool to see


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 Myrddin
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    I finally got around to watching Interstellar over the weekend. Hmm, I was expecting a lot more from it tbh after the hype/praise I've heard. There was nothing really new in it, the concepts of the film I've all seen done before & apart form the scientific accuracy and impressive use of practical effects, I didn't find a whole lot else in it for me.

    Been a while since I've seen it, but I remember Contact being a much better sci-fi film.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 53,408 Retr0gamer
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    My problem with Interstellar is it went 2001 at the end but without any of the nuance that 2001 had. It just turned into utter nonsense in the end which is unfortunate because I enjoyed it up until that point.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,730 The Last Bandit
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    If I watch Sci-fi, I like to see cool space ships & aliens not a goddamn
    Spoiler
    book shelf
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  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 11,049 Andrew76
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    Myrddin wrote: »
    I finally got around to watching Interstellar over the weekend. Hmm, I was expecting a lot more from it tbh after the hype/praise I've heard. There was nothing really new in it, the concepts of the film I've all seen done before & apart form the scientific accuracy and impressive use of practical effects, I didn't find a whole lot else in it for me.

    Been a while since I've seen it, but I remember Contact being a much better sci-fi film.

    Contact is decent enough but I found all the religious BS too much, but I'm guessing that was to please the greater American public at the time.
    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    My problem with Interstellar is it went 2001 at the end but without any of the nuance that 2001 had. It just turned into utter nonsense in the end which is unfortunate because I enjoyed it up until that point.

    I can forgive the ending. Fabulous soundtrack too. But don't most sci-fi films contain some amount of nonsense in them, or at least have ideas that stretch belief. Wouldn't be sci-fi otherwise. ;)
    If I watch Sci-fi, I like to see cool space ships & aliens

    Guardians of the Galaxy is your fix there. :)


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 53,408 Retr0gamer
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    Andrew76 wrote: »
    But don't most sci-fi films contain some amount of nonsense in them, or at least have ideas that stretch belief. Wouldn't be sci-fi otherwise. ;)

    Yes they do but my problem with the ending is that it's all based on coincidence, it all works out because of that. That's not sci-fi, it's just bad writing.

    Also I'd file Gaurdians of the Galaxy under space opera. Interstellar would be proper sci-fi, just not a great one.


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