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Post by Shwoo on Jul 26, 2005 7:37:13 GMT
They were the Happy-Happiests. Blue blue...
I've been replaying the game recently. I'd never heard of it until I got Super Smash Brothers Melee.
The west cave has the freakiest music ever.
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Post by numbuheightbitstar on Jul 26, 2005 17:59:48 GMT
They were the Happy-Happiests. Blue blue... I've been replaying the game recently. I'd never heard of it until I got Super Smash Brothers Melee. The west cave has the freakiest music ever. I don't recall the music. I'll have to play the game again, possibly after I go through Final Fantasy IV again. |
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Post by Shwoo on Jul 27, 2005 3:54:46 GMT
It's this discordant trumpet thing, put on endless repeat.
In my latest game I called the main characters Wally, Kuki, Hoagy and Nigel. Poo, the fourth character, does not look like a Nigel.
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Post by numbuheightbitstar on Jul 28, 2005 1:42:35 GMT
Poor Abby, she didn't get mentioned... granted, it's because there's only one lead female, but still.
EDIT: Umm... this thread seems to have primarily turned into an Earthbound topic. Anyone want to mention any OTHER old-school games?
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Post by SAVE_US.WBTC on Jul 28, 2005 4:40:01 GMT
Back to the topic of Street Fighter, I picked up the anniversary collection yesterday, and on SF2, either the AI is really cheap, or I'm really rusty. I've actually been doing better on Third Strike. I just wish the very original Street Fighter (where you were always Ryu, and the other player was always Ken) was on that collection, as well as at least one of the Alpha games.
As for other fighting games, I always thought SNK put out quality products. I never really got into Art of Fighting, but always liked the Fatal Fury, King of Fighters, and Samurai Shodown series. I also hope SVC Chaos will be released for the PS2 in the US soon.
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Post by Shwoo on Jul 28, 2005 7:00:14 GMT
Does the Neverhood, a PC game released in '96, count as old school?
I remember playing the original Police Quest at after-school care.
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Post by getmepower on Jul 28, 2005 8:07:03 GMT
Well I also played the old-school arcades like Virtua Racing, Pole Position, After Burner, Rad Mobile, Lethal Enforcers and Galaga. Pole Position is my classic fave.
~Nismo
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Post by SAVE_US.WBTC on Jul 28, 2005 8:48:50 GMT
Any other Punch Out fans? IMO, that was the best NES game, and Super Punch Out for the SNES was also great. I may be in the minority of humanity, but I think a live action movie based on that game would be pretty good.
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Post by numbuheightbitstar on Jul 28, 2005 11:11:17 GMT
Does the Neverhood, a PC game released in '96, count as old school? I remember playing the original Police Quest at after-school care. *James' heart stops. All becomes silent as the world stops spinning for but a brief moment... then... Glomps Shwoo* Yes! Another Police Quest player! Sierra adventure games live on! Oh man.... I love Sierra. I hadn't played Police Quest until just recently (I bought the Collection off Ebay), but I've loved their other "Quest" games (King's Quest, Space Quest, Quest for Glory, etc) since my teen years. And yes, the Neverhood counts as old-school. Back to the topic of Street Fighter, I picked up the anniversary collection yesterday, and on SF2, either the AI is really cheap, or I'm really rusty. I've actually been doing better on Third Strike. I just wish the very original Street Fighter (where you were always Ryu, and the other player was always Ken) was on that collection, as well as at least one of the Alpha games. Actually, yes the AI is harder on the Anniversary Collection SF2 than on any other copy. I have Champion Edition for the Sega Genesis, which I can beat with my hands tied behind my back, but the AC gives me trouble just getting past the first opponent. Yea, I was a little miffed that SF1 wasn't on that collection either. HOWEVER, it IS available on the PC in a Capcom two-in-one collection featuring both it and SFII. I saw said two-pack at Hastings recently, but at the time I had more important goals so I didn't get it. SFI was also released on the TurboGrafx under the name "Fighting Street." ------------------------------------------ Now, I'd like to know if anyone here is familiar with The Ultima games. Ultima was a series of RPGs for the computer (though some of them were ported to the Nintendo and Super Nintendo as well, and also there were two spinoffs made specifically for the Gameboy). There were at least fifteen of them (not counting Ultima Online, which I'm not going to acknowledge for the sake of this discussion). In most of the Ultima games, you're a guy from Earth who is magically transported into a world called Sosaria (and later, Britannia) in order to save it. Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar is the most highly-noted game of the series, because it's probably the only RPG out there where you actually <i>aren't</i> trying to defeat an all-powerful villain and save the world. Instead, in Ultima IV you're trying to prove yourself worthy of becoming "the Avatar," the embodiment of virtue. The game is totally free-form, you can effectively do whatever you want, meaning the game counts on YOU to make the right decision and eventually become the Avatar. In a lot of ways, playing that game is a lot like going on a spiritual quest. All the games after Ultima IV maintain the virtue system, meaning that the main player has to be aware of his own actions and that there are serious consequences for deciding to be a bad guy (companions will abandon you, people will run you out of town, etc). In short, it's like Grand Theft Auto, but there's actual consequences for your actions. I've been playing these games a lot recently, and man, they're addictive. |
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Post by thuhjesheekuh on Jul 30, 2005 2:45:02 GMT
I've never heard of Ultima... but I wanted to get in on this topic so I come bearing Super Mario Bros. 3, Final Fantasy, Yoshi's Cookie, Legend of Zelda, and Tiny Toon Adventures for the NES. More important than those are probably Star Tropics and Star Tropics 2: Zoda's Revenge. IMHO, those were the two best NES games, but then I didn't play a lot of them. We didn't get our NES until SNES was already the big thing. We were always a little behind the world of pop culture in my house. We never even got an SNES, I had to wait until my cousin moved here from Florida to watch him play Super Mario RPG, Donkey Kong Country, and Bomber Man. Oh! And the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game! THAT was the bomb!!
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Post by himurakenshin on Jul 30, 2005 5:49:49 GMT
what's Yoshi's Cookie?
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Post by numbuheightbitstar on Jul 30, 2005 12:35:10 GMT
More important than those are probably Star Tropics and Star Tropics 2: Zoda's Revenge. I MHO, those were the two best NES games, but then I didn't play a lot of them. I. LOVE. StarTropics. You know, I found something kind of odd about those games... In 1997, I could still find NES games in many stored, but around 1998, it got to the point where the only NES games you could still buy new... were the StarTropics games. For $3. That's how I got both of them. I don't know why these two continued to be available new when every other NES game had made way for the upcoming Nintendo 64 and Playstation. Its this puzzle game where Yoshi runs a cookie factory and you have to sort the cookies out by type and send them out to be packaged. Or something like that. |
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Post by bootcamper on Aug 1, 2005 5:29:38 GMT
The best video game of all times was pong. The game will never end.  |
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Post by numbuheightbitstar on Aug 1, 2005 14:54:37 GMT
The best video game of all times was pong. The game will never end. Yea, but you could never beat me at it ^__^ |
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Post by himurakenshin on Aug 1, 2005 16:34:15 GMT
i can! that's how cool iam! Cool enoguh to beat you at pong |
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