Zaphod42 posted:

My first videogame ever was Donkey Kong, but I honestly am not sure what console it was on. It was at some friend of my parents' house.

In my memory, it has the graphics of NES donkey kong, but I distinctly remember controlling it with one of those simple black Atari joysticks with the one red button. The classic 2600 ones.

2600 Donkey Kong looks super ugly though, so maybe it was like a 5200?

I only played it the one time so its very foggy, I have the memory of the memory more than anything.

TheBombPhilosopher posted:

poo poo,

Inacio posted:

premium bedding. good deal actually

Mirificus posted:

Tippis posted:

It's time for these again, I think:


Note how he goes on about goraud-shaded polygonal models as if they were so insanely advanced it couldn't really be done yet.
Note that he calls the assumption that the power-to-price ratio of PCs would continue to decline a “risky” proposition.
Note that he mentions CES 1991 as the moment he accidentally tipped off the industry about the ability to use these fancy features.
Note that the actual game didn't come out until 1993.

Falcon 3.0 was released in 1991 (before CES) and featured goraud shading and texture mapping.
In 1993, before Strike Commander came out, SEGA would release it's Model 2, which featured hardware-accelerated goraud shading and texture mapping. They had been working on it long before that. There was some other things coming out in 1993 too, but they probably aren't as important.
In 1993, it was such a familiar technique that drunken Finnish louts in a loft were doing it in their spare time.

Also note that the 286 had come out in 1982, offering more power-to-price than the 8086/8088; that 386 had come out in 1985, offering more power-to-price than the 286; that the 486 had come out in 1989, offering more power-to-price than the 386; that the Pentium came out in 1993, offering more power-to-price than the 486; that there are primordial sea weed with no semblance of a nervous system that are better at pattern recognition than Mr. Risky Roberts here.

Chris has been singing the same song for almost 30 years now. It is always technology lagging behind him, somehow, even though what he's doing is — at best — contemporary with what everyone else is doing. The only difference is that those other people actually succeed and he does not.

Sarsapariller posted:

Chris waved his hands and said "Development is hard" and they did an hour-long video of devs muttering about what they'd like to do with AI "Resuming conversations" when the player steps away and then returns to them. To my knowledge they didn't explain anything or promise anything except more of these shows in the future, whenever they feel like it.

That should be enough, right?

Bootcha posted:

Roberts himself had the opportunity to buy the WC IP, but declined not to.

SeaDart posted:

Hello lads, I bought an account to ask the following:

1) Is this a game yet

2) What happened to the Battlefield mode

3) How much money have they collected till now? Their funding tracker says about $320 Million, and they got about $50 million from that South African. Were there any further investments/equity sales?

4) Should I buy this game

SeaDart posted:

Addenda

5) Where’s that Squadron game? I have a Starlancer itch

Inacio posted:

COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:

Did any of this happen

peter gabriel posted:

Living in tier 3 here, full lockdown pretty much...
Father in law and mother in law have covid.
Nephew and his Mum have it too, we've just been phoned by the NHS track and trace to let us know we have all been exposed.
Wife working from home in isolation, son off school in isolation, his year have all been sent home as some kids have covid.
To say the walls are closing in is an understatement.
Buy a fuckin Idris

DigitalPenny posted:

can i ask one of my more learned forum freinds here to explain the low tax thing.

He ran the site, then he sold the site. When i read the sticky at the top of the forums it sounds like getting rid of him was akin to overthrowing an evil dictator, is this just humor ?

IAbsolveMyself posted:

Yeah, well that's just, like, your narrative, man.

Mr. Peepers posted:

I definitely must have missed something in Obra Dinn because I thought it was supposed to be some puzzle-y investigation game but I just walked around looking at stuff and not really solving or investigating anything for an hour before giving up in boredom.

zebedy posted:

fully fizzicalized

BigglesSWE posted:

This reminds me of that documentary that came with the 2004 Star Wars DVD box, wherein Mark Hanukkah tells a story about how the studio men was worried when they were making the first film, that Chewbacca had no clothes on or as Hamill put it: “of all the things to worry about : The Wookiee has no pants.”

Phone decided that Hamill the first time was to be Hanukkah and who am I to judge?

Mirificus posted:

Danknificent posted:

i hereby claim that star citizen is not a scam

The Titanic posted:

Pretty pissed that you can just take stuff and it doesn't go away. The guy working there should restock it, and if he runs out of stock he has to close the shop and go on a radiant quest to get more food. During his quest I should be able to help him or hurt him, killing him closes the shop until a new owner arrives. But I should also be able to poison his supply, and laugh as people swoop in and buy a burrito and die of poison. This is how to be an assassin and should will be in the game as an option because it sounds like something you can do in Hitman and SC is like 50,000,000x more deep than Hitman and it's basically real life and

Nicholas posted:

CIG can you please start loving up in new and exciting ways?

Solarin posted:

star citizen is poo poo.

Sneaky Wombat posted:

More recruiting pitches from my buddy who sunk a lot into this game. What does the biggest ship cost? that is what he bought


IT'S WILD

Mirificus posted:

Mirificus posted:

Lord Stimperor posted:

In terms of good Space games, I'd like to throw a couple of less obvious ones in the ring:


Star Control II
Is an old DOS game. I came across it on an emulator many years ago and despite not knowing it from my childhood, I enjoyed it. Point being my enjoyment wasn't driven by nostalgia and it really held up. You're piloting an Ark through space to perform quests, modifying it, having space battles, and driving exploration vehicles over planetary surfaces. Really neat.

Serjeant Buzfuz posted:

Pfft, split screen StarCraft on N64 is where the true gamers dwell.

trucutru posted:

If you gave him unlimited funds to make a Tetris game he would first somehow have to hire some Hollywood A-listers to motion capture the tetrominos (Sandy gets to play the I piece). Then build multiple studies across the world to develop 24/7. Then hire Zurovek to be in charge of the team of German rocket scientists required for the code to rotate the pieces.