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May 24, 2013 12:15 PM
Manhattan Buckeye;1447649 wrote:The only game I remember with the paddle was Warlords.
Think the Breakout games also used the paddle because I owned Super Breakout and I'm pretty sure that game was the reason I owned paddles.
May 24, 2013 12:15pm
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May 24, 2013 12:27 PM
Heretic;1447824 wrote:Think the Breakout games also used the paddle because I owned Super Breakout and I'm pretty sure that game was the reason I owned paddles.
LOLO you mention you played it?
Want level did you achieve?
I can't be sure but there where three games level I think I got to the third level and something like game 33

Hours and hours, notes and notes late into the evening....
May 24, 2013 12:27pm
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May 24, 2013 12:28 PM
Heretic;1447823 wrote:As opposed to Beat 'Em and Eat 'Em, which is a low-budget porn version of Kaboom.
Awesome.

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May 24, 2013 12:28pm
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May 24, 2013 12:31 PM
Scarlet_Buckeye;1447490 wrote:Gosh... probably a Sega video-game??? I'm going to go with...







Scarlet_Buckeye;1447498 wrote:Other "honorable mentions" include:






All these fucking games were awesome. X-Men 2 was better than the original though. Also Mutant League Football is the best football game every made. Gotta love paying off the ref to penalize the other team 5 yards for flicking boogers. I also lol'd when I would win a game by killing too many of their players.

I would always get pissed off playing the Germany course in road rash.
May 24, 2013 12:31pm
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May 24, 2013 12:33 PM
Loved this game.

May 24, 2013 12:33pm
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May 24, 2013 12:35 PM
like_that;1447841 wrote: Also Mutant League Football is the best football game every made.
Nope, NFL2K5 was the best thanks.

May 24, 2013 12:35pm
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May 24, 2013 12:35 PM
RedRider1;1447561 wrote:Rented Ikari Warriors on the NES & probably played it for 4 hours straight as like a 10 year old.
That game was so damn hard. You def needed the cheat code to gain numerous continues to defeat the game. I would get so pissed if I made it far in the game and then the nintendo froze.
May 24, 2013 12:35pm
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May 24, 2013 12:36 PM
justincredible;1447845 wrote:Loved this game.

+1, they need to make another baseball game like this.
Commander of Awesome;1447846 wrote:Nope, NFL2K5 was the best thanks.
You never played mutant league football then. GFY.
May 24, 2013 12:36pm
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May 24, 2013 12:36 PM
like_that;1447847 wrote:That game was so damn hard. You def needed the cheat code to gain numerous continues to defeat the game. I would get so pissed if I made it far in the game and then the nintendo froze.
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May 24, 2013 12:36pm
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May 24, 2013 12:37 PM
Looking back, it is pretty funny how acceptable it was for a nintendo to freeze. Good ol blow in the cartridge (I blew threw my shirt) trick. No way in hell a console could get away with such a flaw these days.
May 24, 2013 12:37pm
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May 24, 2013 12:37 PM
like_that;1447851 wrote:+1, they need to make another baseball game like this.



You never played mutant league football then. GFY.
Not true at all. I played it, was solid. Pwned by Tecmo Bowl and 2k5. You like that fail game better? Good For You.
May 24, 2013 12:37pm
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May 24, 2013 12:41 PM
Belly35;1447835 wrote:LOLO you mention you played it?
Want level did you achieve?
I can't be sure but there where three games level I think I got to the third level and something like game 33

Hours and hours, notes and notes late into the evening....
I only played the first game, but I think I got to the third group of 10 levels or maybe the fourth. It was getting to the point where I realized I was spending as much time reading solutions online as I was playing, so I went with something a bit less cerebral after that.

Favorite game with puzzles for me in the day was Lufia II for the SNES. Was a typical J-RPG, but all the dungeons had puzzles to solve and some of them were just brutal.



That one isn't so bad. The optional 100-level randomly generated dungeon was a bitch, though. Had the best equipment in the game, but after you got down to 60-70 floors into it, the monsters were tougher than anything in the actual game.



Nothing like playing something for six damn hours, running into a couple of the above Archfiends and watching all that time go to waste when they nuke the hell out of you with spells.
May 24, 2013 12:41pm
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May 24, 2013 12:46 PM
justincredible;1447845 wrote:Loved this game.

This was my baseball game from the day.



The pros: you could customize your own team and keep stats for a full 165-game season. The game was fun.

The negs: computer sim'd games took a few minutes to process, so you had to have a book or something handy to kill time. The "ultra mode" was cheap and dumb, since you could run-rule every team in one inning by just spamming all your ultra move points immediately.

At least the "down time while waiting for computer to sim games" was corrected by the time they released it again for the SNES. And I mean "released it again" since all there was was a minor graphical upgrade and other than that, it was essentially the exact same game.
May 24, 2013 12:46pm
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May 24, 2013 1:39 PM
Heretic;1447860 wrote:This was my baseball game from the day.



The pros: you could customize your own team and keep stats for a full 165-game season. The game was fun.

The negs: computer sim'd games took a few minutes to process, so you had to have a book or something handy to kill time. The "ultra mode" was cheap and dumb, since you could run-rule every team in one inning by just spamming all your ultra move points immediately.

At least the "down time while waiting for computer to sim games" was corrected by the time they released it again for the SNES. And I mean "released it again" since all there was was a minor graphical upgrade and other than that, it was essentially the exact same game.


I preferred SNK with the ability to create, keep stats, buy and fire players, play a season and earn cash.
May 24, 2013 1:39pm
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May 24, 2013 1:45 PM
Sonofanump;1447893 wrote:

I preferred SNK with the ability to create, keep stats, buy and fire players, play a season and earn cash.

This game was awesome as well. Ahead of its time for sports games IMO.
May 24, 2013 1:45pm
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May 24, 2013 3:02 PM
SEGA FTMFW!!

I was obsessed with Road Rash 2...brings back memories. I was a Genesis fanboi. Original NES was the only Nintendo system I owned then Genesis Master System for life!

I can vividly remember buying new Sega games at Toys R Us. Specific new releases were like $70...crazy thinking back now.

I remember beating Streets of Rage 2 from start to finish in one sitting with my neighbor. We were so fucking pumped. :laugh:
May 24, 2013 3:02pm
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May 24, 2013 3:11 PM
This thread is as good as any to show my excitement for the upcoming release of this son of a bitch. No release date announced yet, but it should be this year.

May 24, 2013 3:11pm
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May 24, 2013 3:18 PM
justincredible;1447959 wrote:This thread is as good as any to show my excitement for the upcoming release of this son of a bitch. No release date announced yet, but it should be this year.

How many games does it come with or do you have to e-Order them as you go? I don't know much about this, but it looks interesting.

Especially since, at least for Macs, GBA emulation is pretty shaky. One emulator isn't very customizable for controls, while the other was made mainly to run homebrew files (as opposed to commercial ones, which because of how the system was still active at the time, the designer considered too "pirate-y" for his tastes, so the compatibility is very blah.
May 24, 2013 3:18pm
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May 24, 2013 3:19 PM
Can you play old PS games on the PS3? This thread makes me want to play THPS2 again.
May 24, 2013 3:19pm
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May 24, 2013 3:20 PM
Heretic;1447963 wrote:How many games does it come with or do you have to e-Order them as you go? I don't know much about this, but it looks interesting.

Especially since, at least for Macs, GBA emulation is pretty shaky. One emulator isn't very customizable for controls, while the other was made mainly to run homebrew files (as opposed to commercial ones, which because of how the system was still active at the time, the designer considered too "pirate-y" for his tastes, so the compatibility is very blah.
It plays the original carts.
May 24, 2013 3:20pm
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May 24, 2013 3:22 PM
Heretic;1447963 wrote:How many games does it come with or do you have to e-Order them as you go? I don't know much about this, but it looks interesting.

Especially since, at least for Macs, GBA emulation is pretty shaky. One emulator isn't very customizable for controls, while the other was made mainly to run homebrew files (as opposed to commercial ones, which because of how the system was still active at the time, the designer considered too "pirate-y" for his tastes, so the compatibility is very blah.
Nevermind. Looked it up. Has cartridge slots, so it plays all the games you own for all those systems. But you have to own a hard copy of the game.
ernest_t_bass;1447964 wrote:Can you play old PS games on the PS3? This thread makes me want to play THPS2 again.
Looks like you can. From Wiki: The 40GB, 80GB re-release, 160GB, and the slim version of the PS3 are not backwards compatible with PS2 games because all hardware chips from the former console are omitted and there is no software emulation. However, all versions of the PS3 are able to play PS1 games. Although the Guitar Hero games themselves are compatible, the connector mounted on its special controller are not, due to the PS3's lack of ports for PS2 accessories. The guitars can only be used by utilizing third party USB-to-PS2 adapters.

I have a few PS discs I'd like to play again: Grandia, Legacy of Kain: SoulReaver, FF VII and Alundra, mainly.
May 24, 2013 3:22pm
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May 24, 2013 9:24 PM
Along those same lines, I have gotten a lot of use out of this bad boy. It is friendly to both NES and SNES original cartridges. The version I had, however, could also play Sega Genesis games. I also purchased genuine Super Nintendo controllers off eBay.




What I really want to get is an original Sega Saturn. I loved Sonic games growing up, but could only play them at friends' houses because I was a Nintendo kid and never got a Sega. So Sega has always kind of carried a mystique to it for me. It seemed that there were Nintendo kids and there were Sega kids, and you were either on one side or the other, but never both.
May 24, 2013 9:24pm
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May 26, 2013 8:45 AM
justincredible;1447845 wrote:Loved this game.

I loved Base Wars. Also, this:



all three Mario games, and this:

May 26, 2013 8:45am
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May 26, 2013 8:55 AM
I also loved me some Battletoads and Double Dragon but does anyone remember the combined game they came out with?? Fucking terrible!! Messed up what should of been a great thing assholes!!!
May 26, 2013 8:55am
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May 26, 2013 8:57 AM
Atari football
May 26, 2013 8:57am