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Re: Video game confessions...
« Reply #160 on: September 30, 2014, 07:10:50 pm »
Confession:  I always think something is wrong with my mouse when a post from lilshawn is on my screen.

Every single damn time!  I'm right there with ya!

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Re: Video game confessions...
« Reply #161 on: September 30, 2014, 07:13:40 pm »
I enjoy playing pacman on the 2600

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Re: Video game confessions...
« Reply #162 on: September 30, 2014, 08:21:33 pm »
I enjoy playing pacman on the 2600

Ok, now people are just making ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- up.










*I did do, BITD.  ;D
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Re: Video game confessions...
« Reply #163 on: September 30, 2014, 08:35:21 pm »
I believe that Goat Simulator is the single greatest game that will ever be made.  Ever.

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Re: Video game confessions...
« Reply #164 on: September 30, 2014, 08:44:32 pm »
I believe that Goat Simulator is the single greatest game that will ever be made.  Ever.
I second that.

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Re: Video game confessions...
« Reply #165 on: September 30, 2014, 08:46:38 pm »
You can keep your Goatse Simulator. 

Pervert.

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Re: Video game confessions...
« Reply #166 on: September 30, 2014, 08:49:59 pm »
You can keep your Goatse Simulator. 

Pervert.
don't judge until you have goated properly.

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Re: Video game confessions...
« Reply #167 on: September 30, 2014, 10:41:48 pm »
Since we've drifted into the old BBS days...

I was a total Trade Wars junky back in the day.  One of my local BBS's actually ran 4 (Yes, 4!!!) lines into his board and was a beta tester for multi client Trade Wars.  Man, that got messy sometimes.

I played Galactic Trader (which I believe was a Trade Wars clone) on the VAX system.  As well as MONSTER which was a PVP nightmare.

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Re: Video game confessions...
« Reply #168 on: September 30, 2014, 11:26:06 pm »
I bought a 3DO when it was released ($400).  Pretty sure I remember trading it and a handful of great games a few years later for... Jesus I can't even remember. 

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Re: Video game confessions...
« Reply #169 on: September 30, 2014, 11:28:11 pm »
I had an atari jaguar, AND LIKED IT. In fact, there's still a handful of games I love. AVP, Cannon Fodder, even Kasumi Ninja.

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Re: Video game confessions...
« Reply #170 on: September 30, 2014, 11:28:22 pm »
I enjoy playing pacman on the 2600

Ok, now people are just making ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- up.










*I did do, BITD.  ;D

I thought we were twins separated at birth until that confession.   ;D

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Re: Video game confessions...
« Reply #171 on: September 30, 2014, 11:33:08 pm »
I enjoy playing pacman on the 2600

Ok, now people are just making ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- up.










*I did do, BITD.  ;D

I thought we were twins separated at birth until that confession.   ;D

When I was a kid, I didn't realize I was supposed to hate 2600 Pac-Man, E.T. and Ewoks until they invented the Internet.
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Re: Video game confessions...
« Reply #172 on: September 30, 2014, 11:41:28 pm »
I enjoy playing pacman on the 2600

Ok, now people are just making ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- up.










*I did do, BITD.  ;D

I thought we were twins separated at birth until that confession.   ;D

When I was a kid, I didn't realize I was supposed to hate 2600 Pac-Man, E.T. and Ewoks until they invented the Internet.

I hated 2600 Pac-Man immediately.  I was off school with a doctors appointment and my mom stopped at Walgreens on "launch day"--we didn't call it launch day BITD.  I remember being so disappointed.   

I'm with you 100% on the EWOK's though.  Didn't know I was supposed to hate them until the Internet.

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Re: Video game confessions...
« Reply #173 on: October 01, 2014, 02:47:15 am »
I power up my C64 once in a while, not to play games but to listen to the game music. I do have a SID player on my PC but I prefer having the C64 with titlescreen graphic and music running in the background.

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Re: Video game confessions...
« Reply #174 on: October 01, 2014, 08:07:06 am »

I never actually played Dragons Lair until about 7 years ago.
I remember walking into the local arcade in the early 80s and seeing it.
There was a huge crowd around it and I couldn't get close. Best I can do was
Watch the game play on the extra display they had mounted on top of
The machine.
I finally got to play it at Fun Spot (during one of the rare moments that it was working)
I was so excited, standing there, I put my coin in, giggled like a school girl and set into
play and........
It sucked

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Re: Video game confessions...
« Reply #175 on: October 01, 2014, 08:21:01 am »

I never actually played Dragons Lair until about 7 years ago.
I remember walking into the local arcade in the early 80s and seeing it.
There was a huge crowd around it and I couldn't get close. Best I can do was
Watch the game play on the extra display they had mounted on top of
The machine.
I finally got to play it at Fun Spot (during one of the rare moments that it was working)
I was so excited, standing there, I put my coin in, giggled like a school girl and set into
play and........
It sucked

That was my reaction on DLII.  I loved DL in the arcade.  Pumped a lot of quaters into it at Aladdin's Castle.  First time I played it I just tried to control Dirk like any other game and of course instantly died.  Took me a little time and a lot of watching other players but I got it, was able to usually make about 10 screen before I'd lose my first life.  Would time to time make it to the dragon's keep without a continue but never beat it just on 3 lifes. 

When DLII came out I was one of the first in line, was able to get out of the cottage but after that lost interest pretty quickly.  Still haven't finished that one.  I don't think I've even made it through the first time trip. 

Once DL came out on CD I remember playing it on my PII I think, 386 maybe.  Can't recall, at any rate, load times were redonkulous, would take like 45 minutes to get a game going.  Loved having it at home tho.  I never encountered the other Laser Disc greats in the wild but have a real love for them now, especially Super Don Quixote. 

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Re: Video game confessions...
« Reply #176 on: October 01, 2014, 08:58:16 am »
Thats a definite confession for me.  As much as I would love to play Dragons Lair I never took the time to play it.
At school for animation I really found Don Bluths style to be a great influence.

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Re: Video game confessions...
« Reply #177 on: October 01, 2014, 09:34:13 am »

Heh, I don't remember every having much to do with MUDs but I was one of the really early MOO users.  The MOO was just maturing when I was a freshman in college and much of the development was being done by guys I worked with in the cmpsci dept there.  Spent so many hours as a lab proctor as a MOO beta tester giving feedback on the user facing OO programming.

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Re: Video game confessions...
« Reply #178 on: October 01, 2014, 10:17:33 am »
I bought a 3DO when it was released ($400).  Pretty sure I remember trading it and a handful of great games a few years later for... Jesus I can't even remember.

Damn, dude.  When I hit college, I pondered going back to a lot of those failed systems just for kicks.  Got as far as Atari Jaguar before I threw in the towel on that adventure.


I managed to hit some of that BBS heyday.  Then all of the ones with the good downloads in Dallas vaporized really quickly.  Turned out it was this clown in Austin that scared the crap out of everyone:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyd_Blankenship

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Re: Video game confessions...
« Reply #179 on: October 01, 2014, 10:21:57 am »

When I was a kid, I didn't realize I was supposed to hate 2600 Pac-Man, E.T. and Ewoks until they invented the Internet.

I had E.T. for the Atari and I loved it.  I won the game many, many times.  I have heard the landfill story and all the stories on how it might have broken the industry.   But to me it was just a fun game that I owned, my experience of it was very different from the majority I guess.

I never had the Ewok game, but a movie related confession: I did enjoy the Ewok movies as a kid (I haven't really seen them since).

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Re: Video game confessions...
« Reply #180 on: October 01, 2014, 10:34:08 am »

What Ewok game?

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Re: Video game confessions...
« Reply #181 on: October 01, 2014, 10:43:55 am »
Ewok Adventures?  Was never released and the prototype was said to be found in '97.  Says its downloadable online.  Unless you are thinking of another Atari Star Wars title.

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« Reply #182 on: October 01, 2014, 10:48:21 am »
No, not a game. Apparently, the Ewoks supposedly dumbed down Jedi or something like that. Ten year old me didn't that at the time.
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« Reply #183 on: October 01, 2014, 11:16:22 am »
Ewok Adventures?  Was never released and the prototype was said to be found in '97.  Says its downloadable online.  Unless you are thinking of another Atari Star Wars title.


Yeah, a few of the protos have been found.  There was one found in the Boston area a while back and the NECG (New England Collector's Group, I think it was) had 50 repros made up with nice limited labels.  I'm pretty sure I still have one.  That was back when you had to have shells and PCBs custom made.

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Re: Video game confessions...
« Reply #184 on: October 01, 2014, 11:44:07 am »
I've been a member of this forum for over seven years and still haven't built my own arcade controls. :dunno

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« Reply #185 on: October 01, 2014, 12:41:41 pm »
No, not a game. Apparently, the Ewoks supposedly dumbed down Jedi or something like that. Ten year old me didn't that at the time.

They were supposed to be Wookies originally.  Then George decided to cut them in half and make them cute because Wookies were too technologically advanced for the story he wanted to tell.  He wanted a "native" culture with basic weapons to help defeat the Empire.  In reality it was his first attempt at marketing to younger kids.

I didn't mind the Ewoks at the time either.  I still have the live action Ewok movie on VMS somewhere.  My wife and I even named our first dog Wicket.  That being said I can understand the criticism now.   

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« Reply #186 on: October 01, 2014, 12:54:45 pm »
I didn't mind the Ewoks at the time either.  I still have the live action Ewok movie on VMS somewhere.  My wife and I even named our first dog Wicket. That being said I can understand the criticism now.   

  >:D
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« Reply #187 on: October 01, 2014, 01:55:29 pm »
The movie was very child orieneted.  I still want them to release it on a more current media.  DVD/Blu Ray

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« Reply #188 on: October 01, 2014, 02:33:26 pm »
I didn't mind the Ewoks at the time either.  I still have the live action Ewok movie on VMS somewhere.  My wife and I even named our first dog Wicket. That being said I can understand the criticism now.   

  >:D

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Re: Video game confessions...
« Reply #189 on: October 01, 2014, 05:20:43 pm »
I have no idea what a MUD,  a MOO or what Trade Wars is.   :dunno

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« Reply #190 on: October 01, 2014, 05:37:04 pm »
I have no idea what a MUD,  a MOO or what Trade Wars is.   :dunno

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« Reply #191 on: October 01, 2014, 05:42:47 pm »
Municipal Utilities District, Master of Orion, and some old bbs text game that is an incarnation of Hamurabi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamurabi

Hamurabi...  IN SPACE!!!!

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Re: Video game confessions...
« Reply #192 on: October 01, 2014, 06:08:11 pm »
I am way late to the game, so here are my top 10 confessions to catch me up:

1)  I wrote a game on the Vic20 in basic that was so big you had to press play on the data-cassette halfway through.  I think it was just over 5k, lol.  It was called "Maze of the Minotaur".

2)  I spent an entire summer playing Ultima 4 on the Apple 2c, and at the culmination I got to the volcano, blew the horn... and nothing happened because of a bug in the game. 

3)  I got hooked on a MUD called Realmsmud in 1991, got kicked out of the computer lab for playing too much (I was a CS minor, sorta needed to be there for school), spent 20 hours a day on the game, slept during class, and ended up dropping my GPA to 2.85, which cut off my funding and forced me to drop out of college. 
  3a)  I met a girl from California on that MUD, she ended up getting divorced because of the game (and because of me and some other guys).  She racked up over $100 per month in long distance talking to me and a couple other players on the phone, and her husband ended up disconnecting her modem.  I walked her through reconnecting it.  Then he took away her internet access (through his office), and I found a local company providing internet at home (rare back then since there was no world wide web yet) which I found through usenet.  I was planning to visit her at the end of the semester.  I never did visit her because dropping out of college sort of forced me to get a job and all that stupid stuff.

4)  The first time I played Diablo 2, I hated it, and Diablo was easily my favorite game ever at that point.  A year later I got hooked on hardcore D2 and played for 2 years straight usually until 2am or later every night (worked at 8 am and had 2-3 kids), had 6 accounts just to mule all my loot, and in all that time I never had a single SoJ drop.  I quit when the SoJ hack came out and it had become cheap currency, and I have not tried the game once since I stopped.

5)  I didn't even know there was a screen after the first in DK..

6)  I have spent money to play free to play games.  A lot of money. 

7)  I have sold game accounts for money.  A LOT of money.

8)  The only game I have played on a console after SNES was DOA on x-box for a few hours.  At PAX a couple years ago in Seattle I got in early with a handicapped friend and we were the first group through the Borderlands 2 booth and after the demo we got to play the game on the x-box for over a half hour (PAX hadn't opened yet and 50,000 people were waiting in line), but I was like the guy on The Office playing COD, I was stuck running into a wall while I got killed.  It was like trying to play a first person shooter with a touchpad on a laptop.

9)  In 1993, I got a hold of a pin number for a calling card for my dad's business so I could call long distance for "free".  Then I got into pirate BBS's, which were all long distance for me.  I pirated Mortal Kombat for the PC, which took many hours to download at 2400bps.  A few months later I got caught though because that card was no longer in use by employees, and I had racked up $400 in long distance charges pirating games.  Mortal Kombat still holds sentimental value for me because it cost me so much money. 

10) (last one), I had a COD server at work hidden under my desk.  We had a guild mostly made up of employees.  I ended up changing internet providers for my company's VPN network but kept that old connection going as a failover, so it was exclusively used by the server.  I forgot about it after we stopped playing though, and 3 years later I was cleaning out some storage and came across it.  It was still running so I plugged it into my network to log in, but my password had been changed.  Turned out it had been hacked by some German hacker and the drive was packed to the brim with pirated x-box roms and had been a pirate file sharing site for 3 years.

BTW, every time I bring up this hobby, I end up inadvertently selling another arcade to someone.  Now I downplay it and change the subject because I am getting tired of building them for other people, lol.  Oh, and my local arcade was ALSO an Alladdin's Castle.. And the line out the door to play dragon's lair was insane.  I played it once when I went on a slow day, died in about 1.5 seconds, and never tried again.

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« Reply #193 on: October 01, 2014, 06:20:28 pm »
10) (last one), I had a COD server at work hidden under my desk.  We had a guild mostly made up of employees.  I ended up changing internet providers for my company's VPN network but kept that old connection going as a failover, so it was exclusively used by the server.  I forgot about it after we stopped playing though, and 3 years later I was cleaning out some storage and came across it.  It was still running so I plugged it into my network to log in, but my password had been changed.  Turned out it had been hacked by some German hacker and the drive was packed to the brim with pirated x-box roms and had been a pirate file sharing site for 3 years.

Best one by far.
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« Reply #194 on: October 01, 2014, 07:41:56 pm »
Last year I was doing some repairs for a customer.
I was repairing a monitor in an nfl blitz 2k.
He had a spare but was hoping to repair the one that was installed.
I had fixed a couple of cold solder joint and went to measure the
B+ voltage with my meter.
It had been a long day and I forget my meter was set for amp readings from a previous task.
I put one meter lead to the big resistor and the other lead to the case.....
BOOM!
I told him that monitor was way shot, lets use the spare.

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« Reply #195 on: October 02, 2014, 09:53:11 am »
WOW..

Some of you peeps have serious OCD issues :lol

thought of another confession:  I used to go to the library to get those PC mags with the game code in them that you had to enter.  I would spends hours entering in rows and rows of numbers to end up playing the WORST piece of ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- game for 5 minutes :applaud:

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Re: Video game confessions...
« Reply #196 on: October 02, 2014, 10:23:50 am »
I've always hated Super Mario Brothers, Mario Kart and Smash Brothers.......guessing I always will.

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Re: Video game confessions...
« Reply #197 on: October 02, 2014, 10:43:03 am »
Well, looks like we've already seen one borderline "those urban legends were about ME" post, which has me pondering another one.

Has anyone here ACTUALLY used packet radio for anything?  I've independently met 3-4 people, all vaguely from the Dallas area, that claimed they "downloaded new bootleg games from Japan."  Clearly this was some rumor going around in the early 90s in that area, but I've yet to encounter anyone that actually had a set up.  It was always "at some other guy's house."

I do wonder if the story got all munged up with that "Korean Edition" of Street Fighter 2 that was traded around in the area like was a suitcase full of drugs....

http://blog.hardcoregaming101.net/2010/11/lets-play-street-fighter-2.html

I had to request special permission from the Sysop to be allowed to log in for more than one hour at a time so that I could download the two 1MB files at 2400 baud.  Word got around so fast and deep that I had a copy in my neighborhood that the hoarder down the street emerged long enough to ask me to come over and bring the files on disk into his house.  We didn't even know the word hoarder back then, but I can remember the trails through the piles quite well in that house.


 


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Re: Video game confessions...
« Reply #198 on: October 02, 2014, 11:18:19 am »
http://blog.hardcoregaming101.net/2010/11/lets-play-street-fighter-2.html

Oh the feels! I used to work on an americanized version of SFLui/SFLim/SFiBM back in the day. Wonder what happened to Eggyolk from Australia ?
Any fart, SFiBM got replaced with SFR, which got replaced with UFGE , that got severely outshined by MUGEN.  I went by LLiNRAC back in those days, but Maximoff is still crankin out games with UFGE

http://maximoff.alreadyread.net/kowtf/

among others.  Good times.
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Re: Video game confessions...
« Reply #199 on: October 02, 2014, 11:55:07 am »
I have no idea what a MUD,  a MOO or what Trade Wars is.   :dunno

Municipal Utilities District, Master of Orion, and some old bbs text game that is an incarnation of Hamurabi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamurabi

lol close, but not quite.


for the record:

MUD - Multi User Dungeon (you+friends vs the dungeon enemies)

MOO/MUOO/MUOOO - Multi (user) one on one (PvP player vs player)

MUSH - Multi User Shared Holodeck (basically virtual world chat etc.)