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The 10 Worst Games of All Time
Glaine:
--- Quote from: expert level 7 on November 13, 2006, 07:36:47 pm ---That smurf game blew me away when i was a kid. Top gun on the nes should have been in there plus superman 64.
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I still like Top Gun a little bit, know at least one person who asks for it when they come over.
This list just shows as usual popular media focuses on generally popular things in their vague sense of technology. But what really cheeses me off is when the news talks about a new virus or worm and they make all these "poke-your-eyes-out" lame jokes like - "No, not the kind of worms you find in the back yard, these are INSIDE your computer!". A part of me dies when popular media tries to relate to me.
Texasmame:
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--- Quote from: missioncontrol on November 13, 2006, 12:12:54 pm ---also so was Pac-Man for its time and technology
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There were other Pac games released on the 2600. Ms Pac-Man and Pac-Man Jr. These were far superior to Pac-Man in many ways, including color choices, sprites, music. Pretty much the 2600 version of Pac-Man was rushed out just so they could say 'here it is, buy me.'
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Exactly and that's why is should go down as the worst game of all time. Not because the hardware/software of the 2600 made it impossible to do justice to the original, but because rushing it out the door, in a half-assed finished state was a more important priority and getting it done right.
For the TREMENDOUS job Atari did on Space Invaders, they did an equally poor job on poor old Pac.
monkeybomb:
As far as sports games go and technology not being there yet, Madden '95 was one of the most disappointing gifts I have ever received. We went from very fun cartoon football to block people and it was not better by a long shot. Obviously it was the start of something cool, but I played it twice and it's still in a closet somewhere. I was stunned to see they remade that as a classic.
ahofle:
--- Quote from: Texasmame on November 16, 2006, 05:49:30 pm ---
--- Quote from: Peale on November 13, 2006, 08:25:26 pm ---
--- Quote from: missioncontrol on November 13, 2006, 12:12:54 pm ---also so was Pac-Man for its time and technology
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There were other Pac games released on the 2600. Ms Pac-Man and Pac-Man Jr. These were far superior to Pac-Man in many ways, including color choices, sprites, music. Pretty much the 2600 version of Pac-Man was rushed out just so they could say 'here it is, buy me.'
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Exactly and that's why is should go down as the worst game of all time. Not because the hardware/software of the 2600 made it impossible to do justice to the original, but because rushing it out the door, in a half-assed finished state was a more important priority and getting it done right.
For the TREMENDOUS job Atari did on Space Invaders, they did an equally poor job on poor old Pac.
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To be fair, most of the cartridges of that time (when the first Pacman came out) were still around 2K-4K in size. Some of the better games were 8K or even 16K carts and came along in later years (presumably when the cost of memory dropped enough to make them feasible). So I imagine the Pacman developers basically had half the resources to work with. Still, could they not have made his f**kin head turn when going up and down? :laugh2:
EDIT: You're right about Space Invaders, which was a 4K cart. OK, they have no excuse haha.
MinerAl:
--- Quote from: More Cowbell on November 14, 2006, 10:56:30 am ---What about Journey Escape for the 2600? I hated that game. If you get the manager, you're invincible, game over, you win. Got old after playing it about 3 times.
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Seconded. I remember when my friend got this, and after the first 5 minutes we had to turn the sound off or we would've begun killing people. "Don't stop believing" has a great bass line, until you've heard the first 4 bars of it over and over and over...