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Sapper posted:As others have said, sloppy programming/poor optimization. There was also a glitch that caused the screen to flicker when you got too many sprites per line. I don't think that was a "glitch," just the only thing the NES could do: there was a sprite limit, so if you had more, they had to take turns being drawn.
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Cnut the Great posted:Sounds like they had a pretty good racket going. I salute them. I think they ended up having to send a $5 credit to a bunch of NES owners as a result of this, though, to settle some suit being brought against them due to this practice.
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# ? Sep 18, 2016 18:38 |
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Testikles posted:I did. I couldn't figure out how to progress in Super Metroid and he told me to just plant a powerbomb in the glass tube in Brinstar and Maridia Took me forever to figure this out.
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# ? Sep 18, 2016 18:55 |
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This is pretty neat- there is a website called The Cuttingroom Floor that analyzes all the leftover content they found in games: https://tcrf.net/The_Cutting_Room_Floor Some NES games had tons of leftover content.
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# ? Sep 18, 2016 19:00 |
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I grew up playing NES. My family would travel to the States (I'm from BC) every summer and my sister and I would buy games at Fred Meyer's. We would just pick them based on box art or recognized licencing. That's how I ended up with the horrible (and impossible) Back to the Future game, and Timelords. But sometimes we wound up with a gem, like Low-G-Man. I could never play most of them now though. Like someone previously said, I have enough frustration in my real life, I need my games to be chill and constantly rewarding to bother with them. Fun fact: the awesome game (with killer music as well), 'Journey to Silius', was originally the Terminator game, but they lost the licencing before release so they just tossed together a similar story and released it. It's dope though. Listen to this track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6sjYt6EJVw
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# ? Sep 18, 2016 19:02 |
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Rape Stink posted:Simon's Quest was the best Castlevania on NES. Castlevania 3 exists, what's wrong with you?
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# ? Sep 18, 2016 19:05 |
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Rape Stink posted:Simon's Quest was the best Castlevania on NES. What a horrible night to have a bad opinion
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# ? Sep 18, 2016 19:13 |
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nes games were loving expensive...
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# ? Sep 18, 2016 19:18 |
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Why did every game have a sewer level?
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# ? Sep 18, 2016 19:30 |
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The Legend of Kage even depicts the open canal sewer tech of ancient Japan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXMoNWk3jS4
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# ? Sep 18, 2016 19:34 |
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FogHelmut posted:Why did every game have a sewer level? ninja turtles were very popular in the late 80s
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# ? Sep 18, 2016 19:39 |
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It's crazy the changes some games went through or how they became different things entirely when coming from Japan to America, especially when you played those games all the time as a kid and assumed they just like any other game. Everyone knows about the Final Fantasy games being renamed but I only found out recently that The Adventures of Lolo is actually something Japan never actually saw, and is just a complication of levels from other older Eggerland titles on systems that the US may not have even had (I think). Also, Fire n' Ice was actually a sequel to Solomon's Key and was called Solomon No Kagi 2 in japan. Holy poo poo did that game look good though.
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# ? Sep 18, 2016 19:40 |
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FogHelmut posted:Why did every game have a sewer level? for the same reason most games had a sky, ice, and water level, even games where it did not make any sense.
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# ? Sep 18, 2016 19:41 |
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DavidAlltheTime posted:I grew up playing NES. My family would travel to the States (I'm from BC) every summer and my sister and I would buy games at Fred Meyer's. We would just pick them based on box art or recognized licencing. That's how I ended up with the horrible (and impossible) Back to the Future game, and Timelords. But sometimes we wound up with a gem, like Low-G-Man. I rented Journey to Silius as a kid and that game was awesome! It's tough but really fun. I fired it up on an emulator recently and it held up quite well. I sure suck at it now, though.
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# ? Sep 18, 2016 19:41 |
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Three-Phase posted:This is pretty neat- there is a website called The Cuttingroom Floor that analyzes all the leftover content they found in games: I've lost entire days to TCRF. Some of the stuff they find is insane, like all the developer rants.
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# ? Sep 18, 2016 19:42 |
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FogHelmut posted:Why did every game have a sewer level? Because to every child who grew up in the 80s and 90s, the sewer was a place redolent with the allure of adventure and mystery.
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# ? Sep 18, 2016 19:48 |
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FogHelmut posted:Why did every game have a sewer level? After the NES era, this was replaced by the obligatory Mine Cart level. That is a subject for another thread, however
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# ? Sep 18, 2016 19:49 |
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# ? Sep 18, 2016 19:52 |
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Thats the game I was talking about. Fuckers. I got stuck on the sewer/water/ship level
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# ? Sep 18, 2016 19:58 |
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http://www.avclub.com/article/what-was-it-be-nintendo-game-play-counselor-224289 There's a cool interview with a couple of former Nintendo Help Line game counselors. Pretty cool look into what it was like for them.
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# ? Sep 18, 2016 20:18 |
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Xanei.exe posted:It's crazy the changes some games went through or how they became different things entirely when coming from Japan to America, especially when you played those games all the time as a kid and assumed they just like any other game. You have to see the Japanese release of Maniac Mansion. It looks like a completely different game. I've never seen such a drastic difference between releases overseas.
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# ? Sep 18, 2016 20:23 |
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a dog from hell posted:I've been playing Earthbound on my phone during lunch breaks. It is a fun game. Emulator or what? There's been enough nostalgia posting about it I figure to try tracking it down.
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# ? Sep 18, 2016 20:24 |
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Most of my time spent on the NES was loving with games with Game Genie till no end. Just typing random codes, and when something cool happened, I kept track of that code and changed it a little bit to do something cooler. Eventually I could make Super Mario Bros look like a psychedelic drunken mess, with the graphics and sound. It may have done some damage to the cart or NES, I dunno.
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# ? Sep 18, 2016 20:35 |
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:You have to see the Japanese release of Maniac Mansion. It looks like a completely different game. I've never seen such a drastic difference between releases overseas. Wasn't that the game that was super bizarre and impossible to beat and also had the chainsaw without any gasoline. Gasoline being completely unavailable in the game as well. Starman Super DX fucked around with this message at 20:41 on Sep 18, 2016 |
# ? Sep 18, 2016 20:36 |
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This is a game I used to play. It was pretty k Captain Skyhawk is a vertical-scrolling shmup designed in that weird isometry-look that Rare also used in Cobra Triangle. Anymore, I just like the game for its boss and victory music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQYggKkxX5c&t=110s
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# ? Sep 18, 2016 20:42 |
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did anyone else have kickle cubicle as a kid or did I just straight invent that drat game lmao
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# ? Sep 18, 2016 20:43 |
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canyoneer posted:http://www.avclub.com/article/what-was-it-be-nintendo-game-play-counselor-224289 That last bit did. Not. Happen.
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# ? Sep 18, 2016 20:44 |
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idk it's more believable then if he were to say he had sex haha
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# ? Sep 18, 2016 20:45 |
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B!G_$W@NG@ posted:Emulator or what? There's been enough nostalgia posting about it I figure to try tracking it down. you can also get Mother 1 (now called Earthbound Beginnings) on wii u vc but i warn you, it's not that good. it's better than most NES RPGs which isn't saying much
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# ? Sep 18, 2016 20:48 |
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LP0 ON FIRE posted:Most of my time spent on the NES was loving with games with Game Genie till no end. Just typing random codes, and when something cool happened, I kept track of that code and changed it a little bit to do something cooler. Eventually I could make Super Mario Bros look like a psychedelic drunken mess, with the graphics and sound. It may have done some damage to the cart or NES, I dunno. http://youtu.be/0P3MV6K-pKg Unfortunately that video didn't have the "SPAALONE! BABAGUUSCOOTES" Zelda glitch.
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# ? Sep 18, 2016 20:49 |
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Three-Phase posted:That last bit did. Not. Happen. Read the article dude, guy said it's technically correct because he used the controller on the powerglove
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Celluloid Sam posted:did anyone else have kickle cubicle as a kid or did I just straight invent that drat game lmao I had Kickle and it rocked. So many puzzle games with ice theming it seems like.
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# ? Sep 18, 2016 20:50 |
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Xanei.exe posted:Wasn't that the game that was super bizarre and impossible to beat and also had the chainsaw without any gasoline. Gasoline being completely unavailable in the game as well. It was bizarre but not at all impossible to beat. As a matter of fact the game had like 20 endings. Maniac Mansion is incredible because I didn't play it until like 2004 so I know it wasn't nostalgia clouding my opinion.
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# ? Sep 18, 2016 20:51 |
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Y-Hat posted:snes game but i'll allow it. you can now buy it on virtual console for wii u and new 3ds. otherwise use an emulator I kinda wish I hadn't sold my Wii but they didn't have poo poo for NES games when I was looking. Oh well. I'll try Earthbound.
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# ? Sep 18, 2016 20:57 |
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:It was bizarre but not at all impossible to beat. As a matter of fact the game had like 20 endings. I'm pretty sure I wasn't really aware of it until I had read the Video Game Hoaxes and Urban Legends thread. Has to be one of my all time favorite threads tbh. Edit side note: I can't say I've played much of Mother, but I'm going through Earthbound for the first time (legitimately. I was bad and cheated on an emulator when I was a kid, but screwed myself when I saved at a place the game wouldn't let me continue) on the cartridge, and it's probably one of the most unique and funniest RPGs you'll ever play. I think the Mother 3 tag line describes the series best: "Strange, funny, and heartrending." Starman Super DX fucked around with this message at 21:05 on Sep 18, 2016 |
# ? Sep 18, 2016 20:59 |
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worst video game trick ever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZo35486ylk
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# ? Sep 18, 2016 21:00 |
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Let's talk about Faxanadu
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# ? Sep 18, 2016 21:03 |
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Kashuno posted:Let's talk about Faxanadu Let's talk about parallel universes and button half-presses.
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# ? Sep 18, 2016 21:10 |
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Three-Phase posted:http://youtu.be/0P3MV6K-pKg Oh my god, these are hilarious. And I found the one you're talking about. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukmAPZpJTSM
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I bought RGB modded NES and SNES consoles from Monitor Burn in SA-Mart. Combined with everdrive flashcarts, it's the perfect setup. Highly recommended.
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