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Video Game Chat / Re: NES Game Prices

« on: January 13, 2008, 01:55:46 PM »

I've seen them go for anything between 99p to £15 dependent on what sort of game it is :).

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Video Game Chat / Mario Kart Meets GTA:SA Mod?

« on: January 13, 2008, 01:43:46 PM »

Hi,

To those of you that own Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and like Mario Kart 64. Wether this has been discovered already or not, but there is a Peach Circuit track mod that you add to the game. Here is a video of me driving on it in a FIRETRUCK! ;-).
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AU-pUh0sZqs

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Mario Chat / Re: New Yoshi Game

« on: January 13, 2008, 01:29:11 PM »

I would welcome another Yoshi game but I would like to see him have with a man's voice rather than that irritating baby'ish one, or revert him back to the dino noises that he used to make such as pre-Mario Kart 64 :). Also how about an old poppa-Yoshi?

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Video Game Chat / Re: What was your first non-Mario game?

« on: January 13, 2008, 01:19:35 PM »

For me, it was Duck Hunt if this includes the combined game carts, otherwise it was Micro Machines and Densha De Go! 1.

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Game Help / Re: Mario Kart Double Dash: Need help

« on: August 27, 2006, 11:04:05 PM »

I am having big trouble with winning the Flower Cup in 150cc. The closest I can get to is Silver Cup. I got a Nintendo Gamecube about a couple of weeks ago off ebay. 50cc is walk in the park and 100cc is fairly easy to beat as well. But 150cc is really hard for me though I did get gold in the Mushroom Cup race which I used Yoshi and good old Bowser with his car to win that race with. I have noticed that the handling is very different to Mario Kart 64 though :).

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Video Game Chat / Re: Should I get Action Replay for the DS?

« on: August 18, 2006, 04:18:04 AM »

I voted the "Yes" option because its really your decision. However although I own one on the PS2 I don't use it unless it is a last resort when I have been stuck on a level in a game for more than one month of solid gameplay. Or when I am frustrated enough to throw the console out of the window from my 30th floor flat in Glasgow. I would not reccommend using it to cheat online because most online servers now have anti-cheating software such as Punkbuster or similar to detect cheaters and you can get banned from certain servers for using them. However when playing against the AI offline. Who really cares? Its just you and the AI so it really don't matter which method you use to beat a game. In the end - you own the game and you have the right to explore its full potential and features. Prehaps if todays game developers didn't make the AI on some games so annoying and frustrating then fewer people would resort to using the AR or the Gameshark. If you want a couple of examples of annoying games then just play Soul Calibur 3 or Grand Theft Auto: LCS and you will know what I mean. Don't get me wrong - I like challenging games and to be honest I don't like playing short and easy games. But what game developers don't seem to realise is that there is a border between challenging games and frustrating games. It seems more and more games these days are crossing that border in to the frustation area which is bad news for casual gamers like myself that just don't have time to spend playing games 24/7 like game addicts might do.

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Video Game Chat / Re: Have video games ever made you cry?

« on: August 18, 2006, 03:43:32 AM »

No I haven't been reduced to tear from a Video game yet and I have been playing them since 1988. But who knows what the future games might bring?

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Mario Chat / Re: Lucky Moments in Mario Games

« on: August 10, 2006, 01:37:46 PM »

My lucky moment at one point was when I was playing Mario Kart 64 and I was using Bowser. Toad being the little ****er that he is renowned for dropped a Fake item block right in my path at the very last moment when I was about to overtake him and there was no way I could have avoided it as I was on the narrow bridge in Bowsers Castle. But his cockeyness cost him the lead and the race because I picked up a nice blue spiney shell and I waited until the last lap and then I let him have it right on the final turn from the home straight and shot him into the lava. He came 6th for his stupidity and arrogance and I came 1st ~_^. Revenge is a dish best served ice cold.

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Mario Chat / Re: Looks like I won't be buying Yoshi's Island 2...

« on: August 10, 2006, 01:17:15 PM »

I loved Playing Yoshi's Story on the Nintendo N64 but his baby squeaky voice got annoying after a while. I wish that Yoshi would have a gruff gangster voice similar to Nick Collins on the Getaway. Also Nintendo should employ actor Ricky Hards for Bowser's voice on the Mario games and have the gruff accent like the one he did for Charlie Jolson in the Getaway 1 on the PS2.

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Mario Chat / Re: How did you first hear of Mario?

« on: August 10, 2006, 01:50:44 AM »

I have known about Mario since 1988 when I got my NES for xmas. I had the NES Action pack which included Super Mario Bros and Duck Hunt. Duck Hunt was a very good in its day. But my interest for Mario soared in 1992 when I got my Super Nintedo console with Super Mario World which is still best Mario game around for me. Even though my SNES is starting to show its age now :). I tried the world of Sonic on the sega platforms but his series of games were nowhere near as much fun as Mario's game are - even now.