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Minwah:

--- Quote from: maxim_recoil on September 10, 2005, 02:44:01 am ---it looked like it was hovering above the road rather than being in contact with it; and those too-wide wheels jutting out from the wheel wells looked corny, like some cheap Matchbox or Hotwheels knock-off.

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This comment made me laugh as RoadBlasters WAS based on a Matchbox series of cars!  Or at least the Matchbox cars were released at the same time as the game IIRC.

I disagree with the guy about RoadBlasters...I was 8 at the time and I absolutely loved the game, to the extent my cabinet now is based on the same cab (I'm not too keen on the other System1 games).  I was no good at it, and I couldn't reach the yoke very well but I can vividly remember trying to catch the special weapon (& failing most of the time).  I loved the gamplay, graphics & sound and still do  ;D  Must build my RB wheel panel...
Skadar:
Hmmm... I *liked* Road Blasters.  Heck, a driving game where you could shoot using Star Wars controls.  I thought it was a really fun game.  Just a little bit weird though how that UFO would come down and mysteriously provide weapons for your car.
MaximRecoil:

--- Quote ---Ah yes, many time I sit back and reflect on all those times in the 80's where I, for some unknown reason, found myself in some back alley smashing cars and fighting wave after wave of ninjas!
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paigeoliver:
Donkey Kong doesn't compare very favorably with later games in the same genre. It's popularity is driven entirely by nostalgia. Kind of like Galaxian, when it was new everyone was so stoked about it, then the gameplay was totally eclipsed later on.
paigeoliver:
Also, to be perfectly honest, the "80s" started around 1984, that is when the pop culture change seemed to happen.

Prior to 1984 the culture, music, movies, and even videogames were a holdover from the 1970s.

Around 1984 though the new wave 80s music really started taking hold, all those classic "80s" movies really started coming out, a new era of more complex video games emerged, and don't forget all that wonderful 80s fashions.

The early 80s are either a separate era, or an extension of the 70s. I vote 70s extension myself.

Now we have another 15 years until we have any sort of decade that can have an associated culture again. As the 0s and 10s have no easy way to reference them, thus they are ignored as a group.
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