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Video Game Chat / Re: Akward!!!

« on: January 09, 2008, 08:07:54 PM »

O RLY...

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Mario Chat / Re: Weirdest Mario Power-up

« on: January 09, 2008, 07:52:11 PM »

Anyway, I also forgot to mention that the Leaf and the Feather both pop out of blocks differently, specifically shooting up and floating down gently. The Carrot on the other hand just sits there like a Fire Flower, waiting to be plucked.

Isn't there some zonky glitch in "Super Mario Bros." where you can have a fire flower slide along like a mushroom?

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Site Discussion / Re: Deezer the Snowman

« on: January 09, 2008, 07:50:42 PM »

I thought I knew what "strange" was before this day.  ; )

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Video Game Chat / Re: Akward!!!

« on: January 09, 2008, 07:17:00 PM »

Does the ending of "Ghosts 'n' Goblins" count as awkward?

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

« on: January 06, 2008, 08:52:34 PM »

I think maybe the Dragon Warrior games on the NES (never could get ahold of II, though...).

Does it strike anyone else as odd that the "Dragon Warrior" games were huge back in the day, but are hardly ever mentioned today?  I wonder why that series didn't stick around the way "Legend of Zelda" and "Final Fantasy" have.

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

« on: January 06, 2008, 05:04:34 AM »

It was one of my first memories, "Power Quest" for the GBC.

Boy does this make me feel old!  I still think of Game Boy Color as a fairly recent development.

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Video Game Chat / Re: The Early Great Games

« on: January 06, 2008, 05:01:08 AM »

Just look for any abandonware sites (other than ROM sites). I suggest Abandonia and Home of the Underdogs, as I've gotten a large number of games from them.

I don't just want to download those 7 games.  I'm more concerned with finding out the titles of all the other games that were part of that package.

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Video Game Chat / Re: The Early Great Games

« on: January 04, 2008, 03:09:15 AM »

Heck, most DOS games aren't even more then a MegaByte. You could probably cram all of em' in one CD and take it everywhere...

I know.  I'm told 12,400 copies of "Alley Cat" could fit on a single C.D.-R.  The amount computer technology has advanced in my lifetime alone is mind-boggling.

But yeah, if anyone knows where I can find info on '80s D.O.S. game packages, let me know.

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Video Game Chat / Re: New Names

« on: January 04, 2008, 03:02:01 AM »

Okay, seriously now...

"Super Mario Bros.: The Koopa Incursion"
"Super Mario Bros. 2: Return of the Koopas" (Japanese version)
"Super Mario Bros. 2: The Dream Machine" (American version)
"Super Mario Bros. 3: The Doom Ships"
"Super Mario Bros. 4: The Revolution" or "Dinosaur Land" ("Super Mario World")
"Super Mario Bros. 5: A New Beginning" ("New Super Mario Bros.")
"Super Mario Land: The Intruder"
"Super Mario Land 2: The Usurper"
"Yoshi's Island: Mario's Untold Story" ("Super Mario World 2")
"Yoshi's Island 2: Between the Pages" ("Yoshi's Story")
"Mario and the Transcendental Castle" or "Mario and the Palace of Peril" ("Mario 64")

I'm having far too much fun with this.  : )

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Mario Chat / Re: Weirdest Mario Power-up

« on: January 04, 2008, 12:03:15 AM »

My reasoning was that they invented mushrooms, and kept them for many games.  Same with flowers.  So I would have thought that when they invented leaves/racoon power they would have kept it for subsequent games, too.

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Video Game Chat / Re: The Early Great Games

« on: January 03, 2008, 11:56:40 PM »

Back from when I used to download freeware games onto disks at the library. o_o

I constantly hear about people h4xx0ring on the early interweb and getting games on chunky floppy disks through BBSs before software pirating became illegal. Why didn't I get a chance to get in on that? I went through a bunch of my cousin's old floppy disks, and basically all of them are illegal copies with the names scrawled in Sharpie on VHS labels and masking tape.

Yeah, I remember how nobody used to care about the legality of copying games back in the day.

I just wish I had a C.D. copy of that good ol' 5¼".  I don't remember the names of all the games, but the ones I know are "Centipede," "Defender II: Stargate," "Miner 2049er," "Pac-Man," "Pengo," "Q-bert," "Space Invaders."  It was a killer mix of games.  I miss it.

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Mario Chat / Re: Weirdest Mario Power-up

« on: January 03, 2008, 11:30:22 PM »

Yeah, you don't really see Bunny Mario anymore... I guess SML2 wasn't popular enough to warrant that (that, and Nintendo is always coming up with new flight suits. Raccoon, bunny, cape, bee...).

That's always kind of annoyed me.  You'd think they'd come up with one flying power and stick with it.

Oddly enough, my friend swore he once played a stand-up arcade version of "World" where there was raccoon power instead of cape.  But, he had a tendency to make stuff up.

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

« on: January 03, 2008, 11:21:30 PM »

"Duck Hunt."  It had just come out on a 2-fer cartridge with "Super Mario Bros," and I played both with the girl next door (I never had an original Nintendo of my own).  I don't remember which one I played first, but I exclusively played "Duck Hunt" for a long time after my first attempt at "Mario" discouraged me.  Shooting stuff is a lot easier for a kid than navigating through a sidescroller.

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Video Game Chat / Re: The Early Great Games

« on: January 03, 2008, 11:18:05 PM »

I remember my Grandma's computer had a DOS game called Space Bats, which was pretty fun.

Greatest editainment game ever is Word Munchers.  I used to play it a lot on the old Apple computers in the elementary special ed room.

Holy mice!  I'd forgotten all about "Word Munchers."  That was the one with squares and monsters that could eat you, right?  I remember playing it on shabby Apple 2-Es in elementary school.  My favorite edutainment game was "Spellevator," mainly because of the increasingly cool evil vacuum cleaners.  Those things deserved a game of their own.  Most of the edutainment games I played were deathly boring, though (of course it didn't help that most of the computers could only display black and green).  Then there was "O'Dell Lake," which wasn't so much boring as it was frustrating and depressing.  "You have been snatched out of the water by an osprey through no fault of your own.  Would you like to play the horrible game that is a fish's life again?"  Ah, memories.

By the way, does anybody remember a computer port of "Breakout" that had rainbow-colored musical blocks?

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Video Game Chat / Re: The Early Great Games

« on: January 02, 2008, 02:19:37 AM »

One word: "Centipede."  Anyone who has not played this cannot fathom how much fun a person can get out of such a simple game.  I used to have it on a 5¼" floppy and I wasted incalculable hours of my life blasting those tricky chiliapoda.

"Alley Cat" is another immensely enjoyable early computer game, although it gets old much, much, much quicker.  So underrated.