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KenToad:
Maybe NoOne=NBA= was just making the point that, without Donkey Kong, Nintendo might still just be a card company (just as a possibility and not to put words in anyone's mouth). ???  Without Donkey Kong, the history of video games would definitely be different.  However, Donkey Kong and Pac-Man are more or less bizarre incarnations of Japanese creative genius.  So the affect vs. effect point that maxim_recoil is making ... makes sense to me.  Defender, however, would definitely be a game that could fit in the list, but it's less concrete idealogically:  Tiny man in dinky spaceship rescues huge helpless humanoid icons from Galaga rejects.

What surprises me is how cheesy most top ten lists are.  And that I'm constantly drawn to read them.  It's a simple hook for the most average journalist.

Cheers,
KenToad

TurboC--:
Yes, it's a stupid list.  Glad you realized it.   ;D

MaximRecoil:

--- Quote from: MonitorGuru on September 10, 2005, 11:19:22 pm ---Lets see, not much variety when 5 of the games are the exact same genre (at least to me--perhaps it's because I dont like any of them)

2.5D Platform fighters:
Double Dragon
Bad Dudes
Final Fight
NARC
Rush N Attack

Vertical scrolling shooters:
Ikari Warriors
Tiger Heli

Aha.. at least 3 uniquely different ones made it:
Tetris
California Games
Road Blasters


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Rush'n Attack and Bad Dudes = strictly 2D, in the manner of Contra or whatever.

allroy1975:

--- Quote from: maxim_recoil on September 10, 2005, 04:45:52 pm ---
--- Quote from: NoOne=NBA= on September 10, 2005, 04:18:04 pm ---
--- Quote from: maxim_recoil on September 10, 2005, 01:49:28 pm ---
--- Quote ---Donkey Kong spawned the entire NES phase of the 80's, which was the largest event in 80's video games--bar none.
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How do you figure?
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Donkey Kong made Nintendo what it was (and is to this day).
It also introduced the character of Mario.
Mario was directly responsible for making the NES what it was, and has subsequently made every successive Nintendo console a hit.

If we are looking at 80's culture that spawned 80's culture, Donkey Kong spawning Mario/NES culture HAS to be included.
The key word in that is "spawn".
Fish don't "spawn" fingerlings, they spawn eggs that BECOME fingerlings, that BECOME fish.

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First off, my point was fully made here:


--- Quote from: maxim_recoil on September 10, 2005, 01:49:28 pm ---
--- Quote ---Donkey Kong and Pacman were the epitome of 80's culture though.
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I don't know if I would say "epitome"; but either way, they were not inspired by existing 80's culture; they created their own aspect of 80's culture. They don't really fit into the theme of that article.

--- Quote ---You only have to look at the amount of "non-arcade" products they spawned to see how integral they were to life in that era.
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Exactly; which is the opposite of what the article was focusing on. He wasn't looking for games that spawned culture; but rather; culture that spawned games.

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Now, as a side note I disagreed with your claim of:


--- Quote ---Donkey Kong spawned the entire NES phase of the 80's, which was the largest event in 80's video games--bar none.
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And I replied to it as a separate argument. But, the point remains; Donkey Kong has nothing to do with the 80's. The designers of the game didn't give Mario a mullet or high-top sneakers or a giant boom box for example. The girl he is trying to rescue doesn't have big hair, tight-rolled acid washed jeans and aerobic shoes on. There was no ongoing problems with apes kidnapping women and holding them hostage upon large steel structures in the 80's. There is nothing about the game that ties it to 80's culture or social/political events. It got meshed in with 80's culture after it was a success but like I said before, that is the opposite of what the author of the article was [semi-succesfully] focusing on.

Now, about
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Tailgunner:

--- Quote from: maxim_recoil on September 10, 2005, 02:44:01 am ---That's a great link; very amusing article. There was a Road Blasters in a forgotten corner of Space Port, the Bangor Mall's arcade, back in the mid-to-late 80's. I watched some kid play that seemed to be pretty good at it. It looked interesting but the car's graphics looked like crap to me; 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. I played it once and thought it sucked. I immediately noticed that it didn't hold a candle to Spy Hunter (which I liked immediately the first time I played) and I never gave it a second chance.

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I've always thought of RoadBlasters as the sequel Spy Hunter 2 should've been. ;)

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