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Rare was pretty hit-or-miss back in the NES days, and their games ranged wildly, from "Slalom" to "R.C. Pro-Am" to "Wizards & Warriors" to "Marble Madness" to even one of the three games I regard with a lot of disdain, "Taboo: The Sixth Sense," the "tarot card simulator."
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| # ¿ Jan 11, 2012 08:56 |
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| # ¿ May 23, 2013 05:07 |
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Sarchasm posted:Go play Rad Racer. Go play Rad Racer and realize what a terrible person you are. Rad Racer is a Square game. You sure you ain't thinking of R.C. Pro-Am? (R.C. Pro-Am rules)
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| # ¿ Jan 11, 2012 10:50 |
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Liku posted:I've always heard people talk poo poo about Kotaku but never any reasons; is there anything specific that makes them poo poo? Brian Ashcraft, Senior Contributing Editor for Kotaku, the blog about Gamer Culture (tm), writes a lot of articles about how much he loves Japan and their high school girls, Japan and their little girl anime character figurines, Japan and their cosplayers that he wants to oogle, etc. In fact, if you Google the name "Brian Ashcraft" this happens:  He's basically Tim Rogers, if you replace thousands of his words with pictures. Pictures of Japanese high school girls. Not to mention the bevy of other contributors that like to write articles about Gamer Culture, such as the news about a homeless man found dead near an arcade because it is totally about video games, and how Famous Actor found playing a DS MAYBE FAMOUS ACTOR IS A GAMER WHO KNOWS? EDIT: Without actually going to Kotaku, here's the hard-hitting journalism Kotaku is known for: Kenji Inafune, creator of Dead Rising and Onimusha, pulled a calf muscle playing tennis. Homeless man found dead near Japanese arcade. Some guy got arrested for trying to rob a Toys-R-Us with toy lightsabers or some poo poo. GAMER CULTURE! Mercury Crusader fucked around with this message at Jan 14, 2012 around 05:39 |
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zari-gani posted:I'm all right with Kotaku and read it casually. The Japan: It's Not Funny Anymore article is the only thing from there that's really bothered me, especially the part about the comedy. Sure, like any country, there are a lot of things wrong with Japan and I'd never want to live there myself, but that article is full of straight-up ignorance and intolerance. Why was this rant published there in the first place...? It's just Tim Rogers explaining how he is a unique snowflake that is bothered that Japanese society can't cater to his unique snowflakeness in a 10,000,000-word essay that ultimately is about nothing. Much like everything Tim Rogers has ever written.
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| # ¿ Jan 14, 2012 08:26 |
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Lock posted:Kotak, and ESPECIALLY its commenters, have earned at least some of the hate here I'm sure, but it feels like a lot of it also stems from people trying their best to say 'hey hey look I'm not a weeaboo I swear!' It's ok to be interested in Japan guys, many sane and rational people are. It's one thing to be interested in Japan, it's culture, etc. It's another thing to write an entire book about Japanese high school girls.
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| # ¿ Jan 14, 2012 11:37 |
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Gutcruncher posted:Theyre being passive aggressive. Everything is better with Zork.
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| # ¿ Jan 19, 2012 05:33 |
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Emalde posted:Flashback was okay, but the real treat was watching him decimate Championship Lode Runner. Growing up as a kid in the NES days and as a military brat, my old man got me one of those pirated multi-carts that seemed to be pretty common in the Philippines (Clark AB never forget). That was one of the games on the cart, and he used to be pretty drat good at it, as well as Bomberman. Puzzles seem to be the forte of middle aged men, I suppose.
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| # ¿ Jan 19, 2012 06:29 |
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SCNWC posted:I just wanted to say, you guys are amazing. I could watch 20 episodes non stop. Keep up the amazing work! I have no idea why you aren't paid for this. Did he Twitter that, or was that his review of King of Fighters XIII?
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| # ¿ Jan 19, 2012 06:57 |
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SCNWC posted:It was his review Super Mario Land 3D, actually. I wish I could make a living reviewing games like they were 500-word high school essays that I wasn't graded on, and pad them out with bullshit nobody cares about. "As I was waiting for my 3DS to charge so I could get through my first playthrough of Super Mario 3D Land, I flipped the TV on and Moonshiners was on. 'Goddamnit, Tickle,' I thought, 'you didn't break your ribs making moonshine, you broke your ribs because you're a drunk idiot.' Seeing him drink that moonshine got me thirsty; do I have any bourbon left? As I arose from my couch, the Big Mouth Billy Bass on my wall started singing. I still have some Old Crow. Super Mario 3D Land is a must-play experience, much like the movie 'Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector' is a much-watch. I'm confused, is he a cable guy or a health inspector? I know he ain't a plumber, which Mario is." Give me money, Games Journalism.
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| # ¿ Jan 19, 2012 19:43 |
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Wasn't Super Mario Kart already translated before? Though now that I look at the file I already have compared to the one I'm downloading, this new one is larger in size. Higher quality video?
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| # ¿ Jan 29, 2012 21:58 |
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I know the US got the TV show Takeshi's Castle in the form of MXC, but I remember it being aired in the Philippines well over a decade before MXC showed up. First time I saw MXC, I was like "I remember that from the PI!" and nostagia'd the hell out.
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| # ¿ Jan 30, 2012 19:18 |
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During the tamage section of the Takeshi's Castle episode, at around 9:58, they played a few seconds of the opening theme song of Koutetsu Jeeg. So maybe I am a bit too much of an old school super robot fan.
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| # ¿ Feb 7, 2012 01:18 |
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ponzicar posted:Off the top of my head, the majority of good games for the NES, SNES, and other consoles contemporary to them seem to be made by Japanese developers. I think western developers were focused more on computers at that time. That's pretty much how it was. The NES may have revitalized the US video game market after the crash of '83, but western developers for the most part moved on to computers or arcades. I don't recall many western-developed console games until around the late '80s/early '90s timeframe, and a good number of those were either arcade ports (Paperboy, Joust) or computer ports (Maniac Mansion, the ICOM MacVenture titles). Mercury Crusader fucked around with this message at Feb 8, 2012 around 10:26 |
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techknight posted:I went back to watch a few of the season 1 short episodes that I'd skipped, and came across a neat game. This was one of the many games that appeared in my old "110-in-1" multigame Famicom pirate cart, and it is indeed fun. I love watching the quick segments where they show a few games from a certain year, because a good number of the early games they show appear in a lot of those multigame carts. It also kind of bums me out, though, because I "collect" NES games, and a lot of those games just weren't released in the US.
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| # ¿ Feb 9, 2012 03:12 |
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Tyma posted:The NES version is incredibly rare, and easily worth over $500, The Famicom version is about $200? I was going to say that it never came out, but then I remembered there's a PAL version. Seems like the only folks that were releasing NES games in the US near the tail end were Nintendo, Taito, and random unlicensed companies.
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| # ¿ Feb 16, 2012 03:07 |
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Awesome! Pac-Man 2 was, well, I always thought it was weird and complained that it wasn't Pac-Man-ish enough. Not like Pac-Mania, the true future of Pac-Man.
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| # ¿ Feb 23, 2012 04:37 |
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techknight posted:How the hell do so many of you have a 3DS? Fun fact: the 3D is optional and you can shut it off any time.
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| # ¿ Feb 23, 2012 08:02 |
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techknight posted:I know, I know, but then it's like "well why am I going to spend $170 on a 3D console if I can't use the 3D?". I tried Mario Kart 7 at EB with the setting very low and it was still extremely uncomfortable. Well, think of it like this: there are some folks that bought a DS for games that didn't really utilize the touch screen. v  v
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| # ¿ Feb 23, 2012 08:06 |
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Yes, it's a horrible shame that those Valis games had to exist, but look at the bright side: Telenet Japan died in the process, and it showed there was no market for Valis porn. Now the next time somebody things to revive a franchise in that manner, they can rethink their position by looking at how Valis turned out. Valis died so that others may live (or not be turned to porn).
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| # ¿ Feb 27, 2012 04:11 |
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Gutcruncher posted:A friend sold me both it and Panzer Dragoon Saga for 200 bucks. 200 for 2 games might sound like a lot, but for those gently caress no it aint! $200 for both of those games is a steal. You were literally stealing those games from your friend. I wish somebody would sell me a complete Steel Battalion set for a ten dollars, because I'm assuming that the copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga you bought was at least $190 in that transaction.
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| # ¿ Feb 28, 2012 00:36 |
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cronox2 posted:Picking Bart vs the Space Mutants as a challenge absolutely killed that thread. One of these days I want to relaunch it with better organization and scoreboards and such. It's still a great idea. I thought it was that last game, the PC one, that killed the thread. I believe it was the only game on the list I didn't have, so I didn't participate in it. And then shortly after that game was announced, the thread just kinda disappeared. It also gave me a dumb excuse to take pictures of my video game collection. Because I see it in person every day, I don't think it's that large, and then I take a picture of it, look at said picture, and think "wow, that's too much crap, is that really my stuff?" Fun times. If I remember, I gave up on Bart vs. the Space Mutants after two days, because the controls were really bad, and there was no continues (and no save states on real hardware). And I gave up on Kid Chameleon after about four days I think because I kept making level progression mistakes and would lose all of my lives on one particular level I kept accidentally wandering into.
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| # ¿ Mar 7, 2012 00:10 |
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Mayor McCheese posted:Zaku's are from Gundam, right? What's the context of that line, anyhow? It's a quote from Zeon ace Ramba Ral. The short of it is, up until Amuro's fight with Ral, he had been fighting nothing but Zakus. Ral, on the other hand, is rolling around in a Gouf, which at that point is Zeon's
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| # ¿ Mar 8, 2012 12:36 |
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zari-gani posted:I have Championship Lode Runner and it's practically impossible for me to get through even a single stage. It's incredible how Arino figured out the very first stage all by himself (though he did have a lot of practice with regular Lode Runner). This take me back again to my old multigame Famicom bootleg cart. In addition to being good at Bomberman, my father was also really good at Lode Runner, as well as Championship Lode Runner. Puzzle-esque games must be easier when you get middle-aged.  It's probably true, though, because I'm 28 and I'm slowly finding myself playing more and more puzzle games than other genres lately. I've become strangely addicted to the Professor Layton series. By the time I hit my mid-30s, who knows what kind of wacky puzzle shenanigans I'll be hooked on to.
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| # ¿ Mar 14, 2012 23:33 |
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Sweet William posted:I remember reading in one of the eaaaaarly early Nintendo Power magazines (we're talking scary Simon's Quest Dracula head cover era) about how Zelda 2 was being delayed past its original North American release date, but as I recall it didn't go into specific detail on the reason for the delay. That issue, which I'm sure I have but I'd need to thumb through them all to recall which it was, claimed it was some sort of cartridge hardware shortage; a chip or something.
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| # ¿ Mar 17, 2012 00:34 |
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Fawf posted:Say what you will but the fewer people who know about Deadly Towers the better. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." And then we'd get a Deadly Towers remake that would be terrible as well. Although I'd rather play Deadly Towers than Rise of the Robots any day.
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| # ¿ Mar 19, 2012 00:46 |
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Xik posted:That reminds me, I don't suppose anyone knows of a Gauntlet type clone that was released for the Sega Master System do they? I have fond memories of this unknown game I used to play at a friends place. He had a SMS II with Alex Kidd built in and we always used to play some multiplayer game that looks vaguely similar to Gauntlet. I thought I knew of one, but then I remembered I was thinking of a TurboGrafx-16 game. However, there was a Sega Master System port of Gauntlet.
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| # ¿ Mar 19, 2012 18:34 |
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perianwyr posted:And now when I hear that, all I can hear is MC Chris rapping about getting high on cough syrup. drat, now I hear it, too! 
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| # ¿ Mar 19, 2012 21:16 |
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Somebody needs to tell them to check their bad anime fansubbing habits at the door. Next we'll get bouncing neon colored sing-a-long lyrics for songs and translators notes in every sentence. If they won't, somebody can reverse engineer their efforts. On the one hand, it's great they want to sub something that isn't moe-blob bullshit. On the other hand, they probably shouldn't sub something that isn't moe-blob bullshit as if it were moe-blob bullshit.
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| # ¿ Mar 31, 2012 20:10 |
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Yeah, I didn't download the episode, but fell for it. Considering how most fansub groups are, it was extremely believable. I am the fool of April.
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| # ¿ Apr 2, 2012 06:51 |
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:So buy the DVDs and reburn them without the dubbed audio track. Or don't. In fact, do absolutely anything you want, as long as you stop posting your incredibly uninteresting opinions. But if he buys it that means the distributors will think we want more bad dubs and then they'll license all the episodes and release them dub-only and we won't be able to download them off the internet for free unless he Google really hard, which is just as hard as pushing a few buttons on the DVD player he barely knows how to use! Also something about not buying something you can get for free. Here's something else that requires a few difficult button presses: putting him on ignore, because he's either the worst kind of obvious troll or a complete 
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| # ¿ Feb 10, 2013 19:42 |
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kimpira posted:Bonanza Bros. is really cool, and oddly enough I'd never even heard of it, even though it apparently got a US release. I have a physical copy of the game for my Genesis, it rules. Best if you have two players. It was originally an arcade game, and Sega was known for pretty much porting most of their arcade titles to home platforms when possible. See also: Gain Ground, Altered Beast, Out Run, etc.
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| # ¿ Feb 17, 2013 05:36 |
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Gutcruncher posted:But I already know the reason. Because Sumo owns and both Sega All-Stars Racing games own. Hell yeah! It's unfortunate that the Bonanza Bros. didn't get included in the latest game. Bonanza Bros. best bros.  
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| # ¿ Feb 17, 2013 07:27 |
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Lizard Wizard posted:It's an NES shootemup, man. There's a generation of gamers that have never experienced a world without a save feature. Makes me feel ancient.
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| # ¿ Mar 2, 2013 03:46 |
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So I'm guessing this'll more or less replace the existing fansub completely? As in, the game challenge has been retranslated or spliced in or whatever? My OCD for file management needs to know!
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| # ¿ Mar 3, 2013 03:04 |
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Mister Chief posted:They never translated the challenge. That was another group. I was asking if this new sub pretty much replaces the old TV Nihon sub that only had the challenge and nothing else, but after watching it I got my answer. Sorry if I didn't make myself clear on my last post. Guess I can scrap the TV Nihon sub now.
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| # ¿ Mar 3, 2013 06:04 |
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NarbYehoot posted:Bought the DVD. It owns. GCCX on my TV is a nice change of pace. I finally ordered the DVDs myself today, both as a show of support to the program, as well as to thank Discotek because they are apparently going to release DVDs of the classic 1970s Mazinger Z anime.  It's gonna be fun trying to splice these non-challenge segments into the challenges from the DVD. Guess I'll worry about that when I get it in the mail, but even if I can't figure it out, I can still watch the DVD.
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| # ¿ Mar 14, 2013 06:52 |
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Every time I hear about how expensive Earthbound is, and how it'll never show up on Virtual Console or some kind of re-release, I think it's a drat shame that more folks don't have easier access to the game that isn't just straight up  And then I remember I bought this years ago:  
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| # ¿ Mar 20, 2013 02:52 |
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It's not even a really rare game. It's mostly the highly obsessive Earthbound fanbase, combined with the price of physical SNES games going up thanks to nostalgia, as well as never seeing a re-release, that's keeping prices high and supply low. You don't see many copies in the wild because a lot of people are hoarding them in an attempt to sell them at crazy high prices that others are willing to pay. A complete-in-box copy of Earthbound goes for about as much as a complete-in-box copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga. The big difference between the two is that Panzer Dragoon Saga really did have a limited print run thanks to it being one of the last US-released Saturn games, with the Saturn being a distant third place in popularity compared to the PS1 and N64. Also, unlike Earthbound, which at least has a sliver of a chance to get re-released because it's a rather simple SNES game by a technical standpoint, Panzer Dragoon Saga will most likely never see a re-release ever due to how stupidly complicated Saturn games are to port.
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| # ¿ Mar 20, 2013 21:53 |
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flyboi posted:I don't know what you're talking about the 90s was a safe-haven of classic no-toilet humor quality!!! PO'ed is a fun game and one of my favorite 3DO games ever. I say this as somebody that owns a 3DO as well as somebody that enjoys mediocre FPS titles from the '90s.
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gunstarheroes posted:So, since Random was talking about episodes with weird games left, well i don't know if its crappy or not, what in the world connects Bonanza Brothers to Tanto-R? Tanto-R looks crazy and maybe a bit like Warioware. The first few games in the series share that weird character design style that Bonanza Bros. had. The first game was also re-released with Bonanza Bros. in one of those Sega Ages PS2 releases. Other than that, nothing really.
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