eds1275 2011-04-27 - 11:21am
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video games and "classic" gaming

Well if you read my post about my arcade machine I'm building you know I like the older games.

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It seems today that games are heading back in the direction of arcade-style gaming. Which of course is easy to play, hard to master. Ginormous example: Angry Birds. Anbother one - Trials HD.

I do love the newer games for example Mass Effect but rarely have time for games like that these days. It's true what they say about being self-employed - there are no days off, just days you don't get paid. On my down time in the evenings I do like to play some easy going games. I just wanted to share some rather ridiculous situations I've found myself in these past few weeks.

#1 - 2 weeks ago, I went to a birthday party for a friend, had a few drinks at the bar, and left the party early to visit some friends [I live on an island so when I go to the mainland I try to make my rounds visiting the friends I "left behind"]. I drank a ridiculous amount of beer... when mine was gone I dipped into my friends' wifes beer lol. We were up until 7:30 am playing N64 - WCW Vs Raw. It was glorious.

#2 - Last week I took an old computer [OLD - 600mhz celeron processor, 256 mb sd ram] and put on a bunch of emulators and games for my friend who had his xbox RROD. I got 2 wired xbox 360 controllers for cheap, and then we were up until 4am playing those old Sega Genesis games - Eternal Champions, Earthworm Jim, even Jeopardy Deluxe.

Those 2 "game days" were the most fun I've had playing video games in literally years.

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the_wylde_one 2011-04-28 - 6:07pm

the graphics on those old games may not be as nice to look at as the modern stuff, but I gotta admit those old games are still fun.

I remember there was one that we used to play in highschool that was a war game... i forget the name, but you had 5 tanks or turrets on each side and the terrain and wind speed/direction varied each round. Basically you had various weapons at your disposal to fire from your turret ranging from basic mortar rounds and grenades to nuclear weapons and the goal was to destroy all of your opponent's tanks/turrets.

It was great fun, and at times especially challenging. Like for example sometimes your opponent is on the other side of a valley and your turret is not only across the valley but also on the other side of a mountain at the base of a steep cliff. You had to find a way of doing damage to your opponent without blowing yourself up because you were forced to fire almost straight up and depending on the wind direction and speed, the slightest miscalculation resulted in either hitting the cliff too close to yourself and killing yourself or the weapon just goes straight up and back towards your own turrets.

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ibzRG 2011-04-30 - 1:44pm

Sounds like the basic idea that lives on through "Worms".

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the_wylde_one 2011-05-01 - 2:35am

I think the game was called scorched earth, but the modern versions of it I've found are not as fun as the original.

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Don 2011-05-03 - 7:46am

What about Tron - i spent more money on that then i care to mention....and now that the 2nd movie sucked, nearly as badly as the first, i'm thinking tron should come back

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Don
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the_wylde_one 2011-05-03 - 9:52pm

It's true, the movies sucked but that was a fun game. I had it for the Atari game system way back in the day.

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the_wylde_one 2011-05-03 - 10:17pm

is it just me or does that REALLY tell you how old I'm getting when I can remember the Atari and the fact that it was cutting edge technology when my family got one.

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ibzRG 2011-05-05 - 4:26am

Was never a big fan of arcades. Or anything that feeds on coins. Or subscriptions. They were on their way out of fashion anyway.
I only got hooked on games in the late 90s. And seeing the vid above, I'm bored. I'm not saying it is easy, just that I'd rather play the ME titles over and over for months than this type of game.

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dejesusriley 2011-10-11 - 5:15pm

Living in the past ITT

Lol lets go play some GALAGA pew pew pew

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