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post #1051 of 1112
11/18/08 at 10:29am
Decent Sims that were overlooked:
'Caesar III'
'Pharaoh'

RTS games:
'Stronghold'
'Majesty'
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post #1052 of 1112
11/18/08 at 11:19am
No Minesweeper? This draft is invalid.
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post #1053 of 1112
11/18/08 at 12:13pm
Minesweeper? Christ, why not suggest Solitare on there?
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post #1054 of 1112
11/18/08 at 12:24pm
Minesweeper is barely better than NARC.
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post #1055 of 1112
11/18/08 at 12:25pm
for all of the times that I've played 'Minesweeper' while waiting for shit to compile, I should have picked it as my number one choice.
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post #1056 of 1112
11/18/08 at 12:54pm
Holy fuck, I somehow forgot one of my favorite shooters ever, Choplifter. Such a cool game. I seriously think I got good enough at the arcade version that I could have been in tournaments. No idea if it holds up though, unfortunately.
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Originally Posted by cheftournel View Post
And re:Nexus, I take it you don't play on emulators?
Nah I don't fuck with them. I need to get a decent USB "Nintendo-like" controller, then maybe I'll change my tune.
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post #1057 of 1112
11/18/08 at 1:35pm
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Originally Posted by Nexus-7 View Post
Nah I don't f*k with them. I need to get a decent USB "Nintendo-like" controller, then maybe I'll change my tune.
Although there's a couple of allround joypad-to-usb adapters around (allowing the use of the original controllers), I do all my gaming on a regular ps2 style Dualshock controller. Works for me, and frankly- with all respect to the original machines, I wouldn't want to go back to retrogaming without instant quicksave/load function. Life's too short for that sh*t.
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post #1058 of 1112
11/18/08 at 1:36pm
Now, the fact that no one drafted Puzzle Fighter. Criminal, that.
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post #1059 of 1112
11/18/08 at 1:39pm
I'm surprised the classic arcade gammers never selected Tapper. The only game whose joystick was a beer tap.
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post #1060 of 1112
11/18/08 at 1:41pm
No Sierra love? Kings Quest, Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry? Wow.

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post #1061 of 1112
11/18/08 at 1:42pm
Yeah, but 'Tapper' wasn't all that fun, frankly.
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post #1062 of 1112
11/18/08 at 1:42pm
Thread Starter 
Lesuire Suit Larry was a contender, but ultimately, Lucas was king back then.
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post #1063 of 1112
11/18/08 at 1:45pm
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Originally Posted by Judas Booth View Post
Yeah, but 'Tapper' wasn't all that fun, frankly.
I would agree with that.

Still, it was the only game I ever came across that in-game advertising from Budweiser.
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post #1064 of 1112
11/18/08 at 1:45pm
A humble question: How the fuck did 6 days of this go by, some with multiple picks, and NONE of the Prince of Persia games got drafted?
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post #1065 of 1112
11/18/08 at 1:48pm
Or Top Skater. Not that I knew how to play that game. But no Time Crisis? None? Or Virtua Cop?
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post #1066 of 1112
11/18/08 at 1:53pm
if we're talking skating games, I'll kindly direct your attention to '720 Degrees' as pretty much the definitive arcade game.

Another 'Gauntlet' like quarter hog that was fun: 'Quartet'. Unlike 'Guantlet', this one was a side-scroller where you controlled a futuristic warrior with a jetpack and different weaponry, but the concept was the same: Get your 4 guys to the next level, inserting as many quarters as necessary.
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post #1067 of 1112
11/18/08 at 1:55pm
I'll see your 720 Degrees and raise you SSX 3 and Tricky. For me, the two games that did for snowboarding what NBA Jam did for basketball.
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post #1068 of 1112
11/18/08 at 1:55pm
At least Golden Tee wasn't selected. Fuck that noise.
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post #1069 of 1112
11/18/08 at 1:56pm
Yeah... Also, surprised that Prince of Persia was not picked. In fact, the SNES port was a superior version that I would have applauded.

For what it's worth - I selected Flashback, which - in some ways - is a futuristic, cyberpunk version. Wouldn't you agree?
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post #1070 of 1112
11/18/08 at 1:57pm
Thread Starter 
I got Prince of Persia.
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post #1071 of 1112
11/18/08 at 1:59pm
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Originally Posted by Justin Clark View Post
A humble question: How the f*k did 6 days of this go by, some with multiple picks, and NONE of the Prince of Persia games got drafted?
DOH! And me as the lonely voice in the desert who claims the much maligned Warrior Within to be the best of the series. I'm more and more regretting my draft of Jak3 (but I will stand by it!).

ETA awright, and Tati got it covered then. Although of course the 3D versions are an entirely different beast.
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post #1072 of 1112
11/18/08 at 2:00pm
Ah, I see it. Chosen list hadn't updated.

Sands Of Time's a far superior game, but the original deserves the respect.
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post #1073 of 1112
11/18/08 at 2:01pm
Indeed.

As for the Sierra question, I hated these textual input games. 1st, my English kinda sucked then, and 2nd, it always ended up me typing retarded stuff like:

The merchant is selling all kind of weapons and armors.
> I inquire for the price of an axe.
The merchant will sell you the axe for 6 pieces of gold.
>Fuck that. At this rate, I take his daughter right here and there and assfuck the bitch on the counter.
Wrong input
> I know that. Being a knight, I hammer forth the woman in the name of Justice.
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post #1074 of 1112
11/18/08 at 2:05pm
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Originally Posted by Martin Savage View Post
The merchant is selling all kind of weapons and armors.
> I inquire for the price of an axe.
The merchant will sell you the axe for 6 pieces of gold.
>Fuck that. At this rate, I take his daughter right here and there and assfuck the bitch on the counter.
Wrong input
> I know that. Being a knight, I hammer forth the woman in the name of Justice.
In the name of all that is holy, will somebody please sig this?

Regarding the Chosen List: When I get 5 hours of free fucking time again, I'll update it. Tati is a cruel taskmaster...
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post #1075 of 1112
11/18/08 at 2:13pm
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Originally Posted by Martin Savage View Post
Indeed.

As for the Sierra question, I hated these textual input games. 1st, my English kinda sucked then, and 2nd, it always ended up me typing retarded stuff like:

The merchant is selling all kind of weapons and armors.
> I inquire for the price of an axe.
The merchant will sell you the axe for 6 pieces of gold.
>F*ck that. At this rate, I take his daughter right here and there and assf*ck the b*tch on the counter.
Wrong input
> I know that. Being a knight, I hammer forth the woman in the name of Justice.
Back then I had this type-in book by Peter Gerrard, 'Exploring Adventures on the C64'. I was yer typical Basic learning affair, but also contained a survey of adventure gaming history. After heaping praise on the works of Douglas Adams for about 100 pages, the final chapter talked about the emergence of 'graphic text adventures'. Remember, this was in 1987 or so. Basically he was very doubtful that the integration of graphics in text adventures would ever catch on. Because, to paraphrase: 'a text will always paint a thousand pictures'.
I would like to see that creep eat his words now. I spent hours finding the typos in his stupid program printouts.
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post #1076 of 1112
11/18/08 at 2:18pm
TAKE TORCH - (it is already on!) - DOWN - (knee-deep in CANAL water!! Trent
now joins you after escaping safely) - NW - N - CLAP - NE - E - CLAP - HOP
- NE - NE - CLAP - SAY "KWEEPA" - SE - DOWN - CLAP - HOP - NW - NE - CLAP -
SAY "KWEEPA" - N - S - HOP - CLAP - NE - UP - CLAP - NW - SAY "KWEEPA" -
HOP - CLAP - TAKE DIRECTORY - (one of Trent's 'parts') - NW - CLAP - S - SE
- HOP - CLAP - SE - SAY "KWEEPA" - DOWN - CLAP - NE - HOP - W - CLAP - SAY
"KWEEPA" - E - W - HOP - CLAP - SW - SW - CLAP - SAY "KWEEPA" - HOP - TAKE
RAFT - N - CLAP - NE - E - HOP - CLAP - SAY "KWEEPA" - NW - CLAP - HOP - N
- UP - (you eventually arrive back in the Laundry Room!).

Yeah...typing that is much more fun than interacting in anything visual...
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post #1077 of 1112
11/18/08 at 2:38pm
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Originally Posted by Martin Savage View Post
As for the Sierra question, I hated these textual input games. 1st, my English kinda sucked then, and 2nd, it always ended up me typing retarded stuff like:

The merchant is selling all kind of weapons and armors.
> I inquire for the price of an axe.
The merchant will sell you the axe for 6 pieces of gold.
>Fuck that. At this rate, I take his daughter right here and there and assfuck the bitch on the counter.
Wrong input
> I know that. Being a knight, I hammer forth the woman in the name of Justice.
Sierra was hardly that bad (ok perhaps some of the earlier KQ was close to the above). Granted they hold a soft spot due to them being the first PC-based games I played. Plus, Quest for Glory was one of the first games I can remember that allowed you to port your character from the previous series.
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post #1078 of 1112
11/18/08 at 2:48pm
Regarding Sierra...

The Police Quest series was always closest to my heart. Undoubtedly though, they were pioneers in that type of game and certainly deserve respect and admiration...

But, ultimately, Tati's right. LucasArts kind of took the crown.
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post #1079 of 1112
11/18/08 at 3:58pm
After months of trying to find a way of getting the Persian Rug from under the Dragon in 'Colossal Cave', I wasn't sure whether to give up on text adventures all-together...or percevere.
When I got finally it, it was due to frustration, and totally by accident...
...AND SO FUCKING SIMPLE!!!

...and I was on such a high, I vowed NEVER to be put-off by a text-based game again.

Then came HHGTTG...
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post #1080 of 1112
11/18/08 at 6:02pm
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Originally Posted by Martin Savage View Post
Minesweeper is barely better than NARC.
Cool it.
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post #1081 of 1112
11/18/08 at 6:19pm
I was kidding about Minesweeper. Geez....
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post #1082 of 1112
11/18/08 at 6:22pm
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Originally Posted by HunterTarantino View Post
Cool it.
NARC is that bad. Assume your shitty choices.
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post #1083 of 1112
11/18/08 at 6:28pm
A part of me would have gone "Hmmmm" if someone had actually picked Minesweeper - that thing can barely be called a game. BUT - I can't deny that I have spent many hours procrastinating on that shit at the office.

So I certainly would be unable to throw a stone, know what I mean?
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post #1084 of 1112
11/20/08 at 12:00pm
Thread Starter 
I almost picked World Of Goo for the bonus round. It's that good.
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post #1085 of 1112
11/20/08 at 12:04pm
I'm going to try and get to the final update for the Chosen List tonight.

Tati and cheftournel have been sending me links to downloadable versions of many of the games; I'll be updating those links as well. Please continue to send me links as you find them.
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post #1086 of 1112
11/20/08 at 1:20pm
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Originally Posted by Tati View Post
http://www.squakenet.com/

Probably all the Pc games drafted can be found/downloaded there!

If you can, send your links to Judas, he'll update the Chosen list so that everyone can play any game you want.
Just wanted to drop in and say thanks to Tati for that link.

I am now going to get lost in the wonderful world of pogosticks and tepees with Commander Keen 4. 576KB of greatness. The good ole' days.

Now it's just a matter of figuring out how to get it onto my Gateway 2000 (which miraculously still works).
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post #1087 of 1112
11/20/08 at 2:01pm
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Originally Posted by Tati View Post
I almost picked World Of Goo for the bonus round. It's that good.
Same here.
But I've only played the demo.
(You can't get it over STEAM in Europe 'til January...yeah, go figure.)
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post #1088 of 1112
11/20/08 at 2:02pm
Shit...I've just remembered 'Terminator: Future Shock'!!
GODDAMN IT!!!
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post #1089 of 1112
11/20/08 at 2:13pm
How are the emulator downloads from that site? I'm not really tech savy and I have an irrational fear of fucking up my computer.
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post #1090 of 1112
11/20/08 at 2:20pm
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Originally Posted by EdHocken View Post
How are the emulator downloads from that site? I'm not really tech savy and I have an irrational fear of fucking up my computer.
No viruses. if that's what you mean. I got Duke 3D to work under compatibility mode for Windows 95. No such luck with getting older DOS games like Commander Keen to run using Vista, I'm gonna have to dig out the old floppy drive and transfer it to my old DOS-based Gateway to play it.

But I have yet to try this DOSBox program. I'll give it a shot and let you know.
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post #1091 of 1112
11/20/08 at 2:32pm
Good to hear because I would love to have Day of the Tentacle back in my hands.

No kidding, you played Commander Keen also eh? Him and the funny jump sounds he made.
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post #1092 of 1112
11/20/08 at 2:43pm
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Originally Posted by EdHocken View Post
Good to hear because I would love to have Day of the Tentacle back in my hands.

No kidding, you played Commander Keen also eh? Him and the funny jump sounds he made.
Oh hell yea, I loved CK back in the day. Monster Bash was another fave. <3 Old Apogee Games.

OK, so the emulator works, even though its a little tricky because it's DOS and its been AGES since I've used it. I followed this Wiki here:

http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Basic_Set...tion_of_DosBox

When installing it, just install in to your C: drive. Don't put in it program files cause that's just another command line you have to type out in DOS. After that, just follow the directions in the Wiki and you'll be good to go. I'm surprised how easy that was.

Time to play



Bwahahahaha



Paddle War, mother fuckers!
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post #1093 of 1112
11/20/08 at 3:13pm
InTheShadows: Thanks for taking point on this. It will be interesting to revisit some of these older games from my youth...
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post #1094 of 1112
11/20/08 at 3:20pm
No problem, Judas. If you guys have any problems let me know, but that Wiki should be able to lead you through it. There's so many games I remember from back then that I want to play through again, it's going to be fun.

And thanks Tati for turning us onto it!

Another forgotten classic side scroller - Monster Bash, starring Johnny Dash in his pajamas as you fight zombies and rescue the local pets.
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post #1095 of 1112
11/20/08 at 3:22pm
Thread Starter 
If only we could arrange some Worms multiplayer, i'd die happy.
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post #1096 of 1112
11/21/08 at 7:05am
I've seen some interest in emulation in a couple of posts... although the owning of ROMS is a legally shady area, emulation of the original hardware in software form is perfectly legit, and offers you many advantages. You can completely configure your controls & display, enter game genie (cheat) codes, and of course there's instant saves to finally crack that impossibly hard game you spent hours on as a kid.

I've taken the liberty to post a couple of links to my favourite emulator programs in the 'Button Mashers' thread, for those interested. Hope it helps.
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post #1097 of 1112
11/21/08 at 11:53am
A follow up on the Bonus Round:
- ED209 and Jcassady have yet to make picks. If/when they do, I will update the Chosen List.
- Anakin's Dad needs to make an alternate pick for 'Area 51'; that was drafted by the previous person. If/when he re-drafts, I will update the Chosen List.
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post #1098 of 1112
11/21/08 at 1:36pm
Totally missed Dan Baker taking Area 51. I guess I'll have to dump his body in the ravine next to Tati's.

New pick is up.
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post #1099 of 1112
11/22/08 at 12:54pm
Thread Starter 
Judas has updated the chosen list, i think he deserves one more congratulations and a big THANK YOU from all of us. His work was amazing.
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post #1100 of 1112
11/22/08 at 8:07pm
Great work Judas... And all those emulator links are sure to be helpful. I have a Mac and already own pretty good emulators for consoles. But Mame for Mac is not that great yet and we also still need to find a good Sega CD/32X emulator. Hope someone comes up with that soon.

For all you Mac users, a pretty good place to get emulators is www.bannister.org and there are plenty of good rom sites on the net. My personal favorite is www.romhustler.net

Happy hunting. This draft was a blast.
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