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netizen posted:Yes. My elementary school bus driver was named Zeke and he was cool as hell and played Ice Ice Baby non-stop. He loved Vanilla Ice. I guess as a bus driver you just have to play PG tracks over and over so as not to get fired. Clone High told me they were Canadian! Ashley Olsen from otown coming live from the sunny beaches of Canada!
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we had one bus driver who would sometimes play metallica. Another old guy that would play big band stuff.
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lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JjLd3MufCEquote:Except for the first iteration of the series featuring O-Town, all seasons of Making the Band have been overseen by Diddy, acting as the man of the house who makes the final decision on who will be in the band. Did I just mentally block this out of my head? I feel like I should have seen this show.
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Anyone remember that MTV show that was a parody of a boy band? I remember one of them was named QT, and one of them played the bully from Napoleon Dynamite and grew up in a town I lived in. I think they even had a hit.
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credburn posted:Anyone remember that MTV show that was a parody of a boy band? I remember one of them was named QT, and one of them played the bully from Napoleon Dynamite and grew up in a town I lived in. I think they even had a hit. I have bad news, friend. Rest in peace, Q.T. e. drat that's actually pretty sad. He died when he was just 16. netizen has a new favorite as of 20:22 on Mar 17, 2024 |
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2ge+her 4 EVR Yeah turns out the joke about him having a terminal disease wasn't much of a joke! 2 Plus-Sign 2 Equalsign Us! Also Deelahn got real salty about that Chapelle Show skit.
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drat, U + Me = Us isn't half bad as far as 00's era boy bands go.
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netizen posted:I have bad news, friend. Well, goddamn 
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netizen posted:I have bad news, friend. Huh, I must have conflated O-Town with their parody because I thought one of them died
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root beer posted:Huh, I must have conflated O-Town with their parody because I thought one of them died The only thing I remember about that reality show is that one of the chosen band members vanished in between episodes and was replaced, no explanation given.
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FilthyImp posted:Also Deelahn got real salty about that Chapelle Show skit. People only remember him at all because of that, lol.
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The GBA Harry Potter was ten bucks more than the PC version?
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Heath posted:The GBA Harry Potter was ten bucks more than the PC version? Yes, your math is correct. As indicated in the ad, the pc version is $29.99 while the Game Boy Advance version is $39.99. That’s a difference of $10.
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Heath posted:The GBA Harry Potter was ten bucks more than the PC version? You have to pay Nintendo for the hardware in each and every cartridge and license to publish on a Nintendo platform, while for PC you just press a few hundred thousand DVDs for next to nothing.
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But on the other hand the gbc game was guaranteed to work whereas the pc game poo poo would just not work or hang and crash and you'd ask jeeves about it and the answer would be "maybe drivers?"
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It's also worth remembering that each cartridge was a complete pcb and solid state storage when getting more than a couple dozen megabits of storage was a huge deal, the cost of that vs ultra-bulk optical media pressing really adds up. They both had custom packaging and usually manual booklets, though i really miss the big box pc game goodies. The software was only a portion of what you were buying
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It's just weird to think about that the lovely portable version is 1/3 more expensive than a PC version even though it makes total sense (I'm sure the market share of HP fans is much higher on the portable Nintendo system)
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Heath posted:It's just weird to think about that the lovely portable version is 1/3 more expensive than a PC version even though it makes total sense (I'm sure the market share of HP fans is much higher on the portable Nintendo system) How do you know the Gameboy version isn't much better than the PC version? They're going to be different games altogether and it happened quite often.
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That's true. Though while there's definitely some great gba games but I don't know of any that released at the same time and were better than their pc "counterparts"
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3D Megadoodoo posted:How do you know the Gameboy version isn't much better than the PC version? They're going to be different games altogether and it happened quite often. I am an 80s/90s child and I have longstanding trauma regarding licensed titles
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Heath posted:I am an 80s/90s child and I have longstanding trauma regarding licensed titles So much garbage. So much garbage.
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That scene from jurassic park where malcom is banging his fists on the table rattling the crockery saying "you're selling it, you're selling it" and it's just 75% of the stuff with the JP logo slapped on it. Not rampage edition though, that game's great.
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People have Brunkeberg Bears'd themselves into thinking "licensed" games were poo poo back in the day. No, computer games were absolute dogshit back in the day. Only maybe half a dozen decent or good games were released every year. Some of them even were "licensed". Like Dallas Quest.
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The gbc "metal gear solid" is a weird one because it's not just a demake of mgs, it's a completely different game (it's called Metal Gear Ghost Babel in Japan), but it's also really good and also strange because you never foresee being emotionally moved by a game boy game. It's an inherently goofy platform
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Huh, so games were (slightly) cheaper back then? I honestly don't remember. It was a wondrous time, though. Before I got into consoles, I used to go to this place that would burn pirated copies of PC games. I think it was called Generation X or something, little cyber cafe in the front and a room in the back with a cutout wall, full of towers with CD burners in them. You'd go up and say "you guys have Medal of Honour: Allied Assault yet?" and they'd be like "Yep, come back in 20 minutes with $10." They'd hand you a jewel case with a matte-gold CDR in it and a sticker on the front of the cracked serial. Worked every time. I played GTA III, a couple of the Hitman games, Black & White, the aforementioned MOH:AA and a few others this way. I was generally late to the party with consoles. Back in the 90s I bought my N64 with $88 in pennies (and some bills, and obvi we had to go to several banks to get the pennies changed out) but didn't have a next-gen console until probably 2003 when I got a PS2. I did have the chill basement with the couches and enormous CRT TV through, so on weekends my buddy would often bring over his whole XBOX and we'd play Splinter Cell and other games until the wee hours of the morning. We also skipped school whenever a big title came out. Definitely for GTA: Vice City and San Andreas both, but there were probably others. We'd meet up outside the school and just ditch to go to the EB Games in the mall. How we were able to afford those games on our allowance money, and how they just sold them to us without any parents around, I still don't know. A related aside: When GTA4 came out, I asked my Mom for a copy for Christmas. She went to the mall with my little brother, back then a toddler. She said the clerk at the game store was like "Uhh, I don't think this game is appropriate for your son" and she laughed and told him she had an older son. The late 00s for me were a lot of Call of Duty 2. As a bit of a CHUD in my early 20s, I ate that poo poo up. Went to FanExpo with a buddy cosplayed as Soap and Ghost (complete with airsoft M4s - I have no idea how cops never stopped us on the way). All that stupid poo poo. My college roommates and I would take turns playing that and Halo, which I never liked nearly as much. I needed the tactical realism, you know? And the aggression was there too. I watch videos these days of Kyles livestreaming, destroying their keyboards and monitors. I get it. While I never did anything like that, I get being a hormonal 20-something male and getting frustrated at video games. I yelled at the screen a lot. EDIT: This popped up in my FB memories. We played a lot of Metal Gear Solid 2 in my basement as well. I think we beat it in one night, if you count being up until 8AM 'one night'. 
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Mister Speaker posted:Huh, so games were (slightly) cheaper back then? I honestly don't remember. It was a wondrous time, though. Ehh, not really. $299.99 in 2000 is worth ~$540 today, so consoles are roughly the same price now as they were back then. Games themselves are considerably less expensive these days, as $50 then is worth about $90 now. Controllers are a mixed bag, depending on the platform. That Xbox controller in the circular would cost just a bit more than the Switch Pro or PS5 controllers cost today, but is actually significantly cheaper than the original ($45 vs $72 in today’s money). I feel you on the rest, the N64 was the last console I bought new (on Black Friday in ‘96, even), and everything since then, including the PSX I ended up trading it in for, was secondhand. Hell, I didn’t even get the PS4 I have now until the pandemic. I’m way more well off now but I’m not even sure I’d get a PS6 at launch, seeing how PS5 scalpers were. root beer has a new favorite as of 19:17 on Mar 25, 2024 |
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Mister Speaker posted:Huh, so games were (slightly) cheaper back then? I honestly don't remember. It was a wondrous time, though. not quite 2000s posting but I vividly remember the absolute jaw dropping shock when Wing Commander: The Secret Missions for SNES dared to embrace the $59.99 price point
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Chrono Trigger was $99.99 if I remember right, in 1995/96 money.
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Despite inflation and everything else, brand new AAA-level video games have typically been between $50 and $80 at launch for decades, at least on consoles. For a couple of examples, Nintendo 64 games had MSRP between $60 and $70 at release in various print things you can find online. Another many people will likely remember is The Simpsons episode with Bonestorm, "Marge Be Not Proud", where she comments that games can be as much as $70 and the sign in the store has Bonestorm as $60, and that was from 1995. IIRC the standard pricing for new games for 6th generation consoles (Xbox, PS2, GameCube, and Dreamcast) was usually $50 at release*, but it went back up to $60 for the 7th generation, and recently it's started being $70. *One of the most infamous examples of this is related to the whole Madden/2K story. Madden, an annual release, was the then normal price of $50, and Madden NFL 05 was due in August. ESPN NFL 2K5 got released a month earlier, and was given a lower price of only $20. When Madden dropped, EA quickly lowered the price to $30 to stay competitive. Both games sold well, but the NFL saw they were losing money, so they went to EA and offered them the exclusive rights to NFL video games. Madden became the only NFL game in town, so the next year EA could sell it at full price with no competition, and sadly its remained that way.
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I think Colin McRae Rally cost 429 marks when I bought it. A Sony Play Station home computer video game console cost maybe 1 995 marks?
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companies have been able to keep consumer prices for games mostly the same even as game budgets shot up because digital storefronts have massively cut the costs of distribution. its crept up again as AAA game budgets have gone to ridiculous numbers however. also manufacturing cds was much cheaper than cartridges, which is why n64 games were more expensive. n64 was a real mess of bad choices hardware wise.
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Yeah, man, I think I paid like $70 for loving Hexen on the N64, and I ended up hating that goddamn game. Shoulda bought Doom64 instead or whatever, but it didn’t matter, I ended up trading for a PSX in winter ‘98/’99 after playing Final Fantasy VII at my friend’s place. It was also for the best, as my cousin got an N64 the spring after I got mine, and when we were roommates in art school in ‘99 we had two consoles to work with for a while, until [a] I came to end up hating him and [b] I met my girlfriend and had more important and fun things to do.
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I (my parents) paid one hundred dollarydoos for the sega master system port of mortal kombat.
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field balm posted:I (my parents) paid one hundred dollarydoos for the sega master system port of mortal kombat. Layers to this one
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It was a massive bummer to drop that amount of money on a new game and beat it in like 6 hours. Reviews were pretty important at the time!
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je1 healthcare posted:It was a massive bummer to drop that amount of money on a new game and beat it in like 6 hours. Reviews were pretty important at the time! This is a '90s reply, but you've reminded me of one of the worst times I ever got burned on a videogame. Heimdall 2 on the Amiga. Was a completely fine isometric adventure game, but I was unemployed, broke, and living in a town where I knew literally nobody. I could afford one game, as a treat, and the review in some old gaming rag called Megazone said that the game would offer "months" of entertainment. I beat it in a day. And as an adventure game it basically had zero replayability. The bad old days of having to buy games based upon the opinions of random dudes in a magazine. This still applied to the 2000s as well, because it wasn't until the mid-2000s that we started getting gaming podcasts. And video? Almost non-existent. All I ever wanted was to see 10 minutes of gameplay and hear the views of someone who had a chance to have some hands on time, and that just didn't happen. Was only the 1Up show and then Giant Bomb that pushed video content of games forward. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TfK1tUrGJ4 The 1UP being (I believe) a little passion project after work hours for all involved made it getting cancelled all the harder. It was clunky and amateurish and trying to be a bit too serious about videogames at the time, but that was fine because there was never a serious show about videogames for adults before this. We only had things like Games Master where they'd let some 10 year olds play a game in a studio for a few minutes and then shove a microphone in their face to get a generic "yeah... it's good, I like the graphics" comments.
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