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Mar 27, 2004 3:46:32 GMT -5
Post by Asher on Mar 27, 2004 3:46:32 GMT -5
Video games are cool, I like computer games better tho.
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Mar 27, 2004 12:31:12 GMT -5
Post by Golyadkin on Mar 27, 2004 12:31:12 GMT -5
Bleh.
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Mar 27, 2004 20:16:40 GMT -5
Post by TitanianAnthrax on Mar 27, 2004 20:16:40 GMT -5
i like computer games but i HATE computers
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May 9, 2004 18:53:15 GMT -5
Post by Golyadkin on May 9, 2004 18:53:15 GMT -5
I believe the term for that is irony.
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Maddalo
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May 12, 2004 17:34:34 GMT -5
Post by Maddalo on May 12, 2004 17:34:34 GMT -5
These games are a bit outdated and old fashioned, but I think they're still classics.
Greatest racing game : Gran Turismo.
Greatest Platformer : Sonic 3.
Greatest shoot 'em up : Doom.
Greatest game ever : It still has to be Tomb Raider 2 - Beautiful graphics, great locations; fiendishly difficult and endlessly enjoyable.
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May 12, 2004 19:17:59 GMT -5
Post by Golyadkin on May 12, 2004 19:17:59 GMT -5
You want outdated? Try this: Pong Frogger Asteroids Brick Attack Ah, the original Atari, the most addicting piece-of-crap games in history.
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Maddalo
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May 13, 2004 17:55:51 GMT -5
Post by Maddalo on May 13, 2004 17:55:51 GMT -5
You brought back some memories with all those old Atari games. I remember the old Atari system of the early eighties.
Even more prehistoric was the Commodore 64 of the mid-late eighties. I don't think it was available in the U.S. A tape based system, you had wait for sometimes nearly an hour for the game to load (imagine todays kids doing that!) - oh the excitment when it did finally appear!
Great games included Manic Miner, Shinobi, Golden Axe, Ghostbusters, Batman, Pole Position, Sas Combat, and contless others lodged in my fading memory.
Ahh the sniff of misplaced nostalgia!
I also loved the first Sega system, The Master System and then the dubiously named Mega Drive.
My videogame days ended with the beginning of the Playstation 2. Perhaps I just grew out of them, perhaps they were too addictive; or perhaps something of the magic is lost when the graphics are so realistic that you don't need as much imagination to take you into the game.
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May 14, 2004 9:28:37 GMT -5
Post by Golyadkin on May 14, 2004 9:28:37 GMT -5
It's nice to be able to see modern video games from the perspetive of someone who was around for the systems of the '80s. And no, we did not have that "tape-based" system here in America. A non-existant attention span is a genetic thing among Americans. Just like being the most powerful country in the world and gloating about it is a genetic thing. (Note to anyone in Great Britian: At least we aren't so egotistical that we put the word "Great" in out name ).
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Maddalo
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May 14, 2004 15:34:35 GMT -5
Post by Maddalo on May 14, 2004 15:34:35 GMT -5
About the 'Great' Britain thing - I have to agree. It was a seventeenth century invention of the very egotistical Stuart monarchy.
Today the very idea of 'Great' Britain and the 'United' Kingdom, although very commonly used terms in the wider world, is slowly but surely fading with the granting of a parliament to Scotland and an assembly to Wales and (when they can agree) Northern Ireland. There is even talk of regional (a bit like federal) parliaments for parts of England, or even a seperate English Parliament.
To many Scottish , Welsh and Northern Irish this vain title has long been defunct wirh the rise of a new sense of nationhood in the wider European community.
Whoops ! I've just turned this into a politics deabte. Dohhhhh!
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