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Author Topic: Video Games Jeremy Weigel Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1062 From: Edmond, OK, USA Registered: Mar 2007 posted 04-06-2008 08:19 PM                     The only game consoles I owned were the Atari 2600 (with just about every game published) and NES (only had a handful of games). The last PC game I played all the way through was Star Wars Dark Forces. A few of my friends have been trying to talk me into joining World of War Craft, but so far I've resisted. Its hard enough to have a social life in this biz already.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-06-2008 08:56 PM                        quote: I had other games like Defender, Joust and Robotron. Defender was the 5200 game that really made me mad. It was an awful adaptation. (For example, you had to descend to the bottom of the screen and press FIRE in order to hyperspace.) I've never seen a re-creation of that game that matched the arcade version for playability. It was probably the arcade game I was best at back in the day. A couple of years ago I downloaded a version of it online, but it sucked because it used the arrow keys for thrust, reverse, and up/down... you couldn't use more than one at a time, so it ruined the game. I got a catalog not long ago that features an arcade-style cabinet with like 150 classic games in it, including Defender....I'd love to buy it, but who knows if the controls would be like the original? Besides the thing is $3500 plus shipping, and then I'd have to find time to play with it.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 04-06-2008 09:32 PM                     The Shockwave Arcade adaptations of the classic Williams Electronics games like Defender, Robotron: 2084 and Joust are about as good as it can get -without having a gaming cabinet equipped with all the original controls. The graphics and sound effects are identical to the originals. It just takes finding out some way to adjust to the adaptation. I managed to roll the Shockwave version of Robotron: 2084 using the combination of a Logitech joystick and keyboard arrow keys. The XBox and Playstation3 have offered some emulations of classic coin op games, but often have pretty hit/miss results. Haven't heard good things about the PS3 downloadable version of Joust. It would be awesome to have a coin op cabinet loaded with lots of classic coin-op games. But, yeah, it's tricky to get controls to work right with all those games. Basically you would need some setup that could adapt well to everything -which means having a bunch of shit installed on the controls panel. You need at least two joysticks for games like Robotron, a track ball for games like Centipede, a dial for games like Tempest and lots of assignable buttons.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 04-07-2008 01:42 AM                     quote: Bobby Henderson to have a coin op cabinet loaded with lots of classic coin-op games At one time, and I can't remember now who released this stand-up consumer purchased "fake" coin-op game and Costco had this for sale during the holiday season, but it was loaded with over 200 classic arcade classics - and the unit did have dual controls for such oddity requirements of certain games - for Robotron, TRON and others. Oh, One hour went by rather quickly while I was playing it .. BUT, if you want to do classic gaming on your desktop or laptop with a fast processor speed and video, check out MAME32 to download this emulator and ROMS of all the games you can remember -Monte  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Weigel Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1062 From: Edmond, OK, USA Registered: Mar 2007 posted 04-07-2008 12:08 PM                     Since we're talking classic video games, here's an awesome video: Arcade '84 Sit back and crank it up!  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 04-07-2008 12:53 PM                     Real good site there. I used to destroy ten-dollar roll of quarters at my home town arcade twice a week - one of the better and larger arcades in the area....and leave my initials in the high-score page of the games. And the description of TV's and music was true as well - TV's blatting away with MTv MusicVideos (when at that time, MTv was playing MusicVideos and a great station), or hearing great 80's music through their Muzak systems...  |  IP: Logged Dwayne Benallie Film Handler Posts: 19 From: tempe, Arizona / USA Registered: Aug 2007 posted 04-07-2008 01:08 PM                        I play WOW a lot, I have a Level 70 Warrior, Warlock, Hunter and a Mage; all of them on Alliance faction. I'm working on a Druid and a Paladin, hoping to level all of them and Ebay them so I can partially pay my tuition in the fall. I have a Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360 and a PS3, the best games for me will have to be the Zelda francise and Halo. Used to have the older systems (NES, Atari and Sega) but I gutted them and replace the insides with updated PC parts and sold them to a local computer store for college book cost.  |  IP: Logged Tom Mundell Expert Film Handler Posts: 120 From: Silver Spring, MD, USA Registered: Nov 2007 posted 04-07-2008 01:26 PM                        quote: Mike Blakesley Defender was the 5200 game that really made me mad. It was an awful adaptation. (For example, you had to descend to the bottom of the screen and press FIRE in order to hyperspace.) I don't think you're thinking of the 5200 version here; on the 5200 you could activate hyperspace anywhere on the screen by pressing any button on the keypad. Probably you're thinking of the 2600 version which utilized this technique due to the controller only having a single button.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-07-2008 04:11 PM                        Ah yes, you're right. I guess the 5200 version must have had some other major difference that made me hate it.  |  IP: Logged Rachel Craven Madam Moderator Posts: 2190 From: Pensacola, FL Registered: Dec 2000 posted 04-08-2008 08:12 PM                     quote: Mike Olpin (Anyone down for UNO?) Totally, just let me know when! =) quote: Dwayne Benallie I play WOW a lot, I have a Level 70 Warrior, Warlock, Hunter and a Mage; all of them on Alliance faction. I'm working on a Druid and a Paladin, hoping to level all of them and Ebay them so I can partially pay my tuition in the fall. Yeah, you can get some gooooood money off selling them! I don't have a patience to level one to sell though, it took me long enough to level my main! If you ever feel like going Horde, make a toon on Gilneas and msg me, Saniea... =)  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 04-09-2008 09:35 PM                     but with all of the fun we all had with our early systems, one drastic and horrible game that was ever released was ATARI's "E.T" for the 2600. How many of us remember this one? There's quite the story from the deep dark caverns of ATARI that can be told about this game - it's creation, writing, releasing and its final destruction..  |  IP: Logged Tom Mundell Expert Film Handler Posts: 120 From: Silver Spring, MD, USA Registered: Nov 2007 posted 04-10-2008 09:14 AM                        Everyone picks on Atari 2600 E.T. when there were many, many games released for the 2600 that were far worse! I guess E.T. had the misfortune of being heavily promoted due to the movie tie in and was published by Atari. Most of the other really bad games were from relatively no-name companies and didn't sell very well so few people remember them.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 04-10-2008 05:33 PM                        Atari Porn Yes, there were porn games on Atari. Watch that video.  |  IP: Logged Mike Schulz Expert Film Handler Posts: 122 From: Los Angeles, CA Registered: May 2007 posted 04-10-2008 06:14 PM                     ^^^ Wow. That's just..... wow.  |  IP: Logged Allison Parsons Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 630 From: East Peoria, IL Registered: Oct 2004 posted 04-10-2008 07:00 PM                        I'm going to second that, Mike.  |  IP: Logged

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