Cybergoth
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Ah, here on the TFT I can see something. At my home CRT the vid was pitch black
Is there any emu supporting this effect properly?
(The latest MESS seems to no longer run on Win 98 SE, it constantly crashes during the launch-scan it performs)
Hmmm... I wonder what this could look like on a 2600?
Some mock-ups were posted in this thread, but I'm sure that you could do much better!
Thanks Chris. I was remembering that I once read some ideas regarding replicating the effect on the 2600, but I couldn't find it myself.
Not sure if it's worth a try though, the PF seems way too coarse to me.
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Whoah... that's a lot of money!
Regarding KMFDM you mentioned above, I might actually see them live this summer. My wife asked me to check wether there's a good Open Air Festival this year and I'm leaning towards this years Amphi Festival in Cologne.
Besides KMFDM there's also Fields of the Nephilim, Front 242, Laibach and other interesting acts in the line-up:
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I guess now even in the comics though they took away Ms. Marvel's power from her (and the Carol Danvers neuroses that went with it). What's left? Oh hey... a character that can borrow other characters' powers. So that make her interesting for what... 30 seconds at a shot?Yup. Replace Rogue with a Teenager without powers and you end up with a Teenager without powers.
Of course, just a matter of budget at the time. Thank heavens X and X² paved the way to X³, so we got that brilliant AAA X-Men battle for the final
I didn't think the previous one was all that bad.Nothing beats a scientologist in playing the bad guy
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Is there a TV screenshot available somewhere? Would be interesting to see how it's supposed to look.
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Okay, regarding the Amiga version...
It sure looks best overall. It also plays roughly the same as the C64 version. I just thought it was missing the awesome from the C64 version. A rotating tower is just nothing special for the Amiga - on a machine with so much power it almost feels like a low-budget title
There's nothing wrong with it though, besides the flaws the game design generally has.
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(C'mon... Gambit?! Am I the only one who thinks he's completely lame?)In the comics Gambit only works together with Rogue. Of course, the movies version of Rogue doesn't work at all
It's interesting that Marvel seems interested in "rebooting" their movie franchises, as they did with the Hulk. I've read they're also considering doing that with the Fantastic Four and Daredevil.Hulk got the reboot amazingly fast. Also the Punisher. It probably didn't work for the later though - last thing I heard was that it'll get a straight DVD release in Europe, they're not even trying the big screen.
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I've just bought me a Trilogy package of the X-Men flicks and after watching them in a row again I'm now really looking forward to see a movie focusing on Wolvie
(Just hope they do a better Sabretooth this time than the laughable X1 fleabag...)
I'm also hyped regarding the Avengers movie. After the recruiting scenes in Iron Man and Hulk it seems they're introducing Thor next, then Captain America and even an Ant-Man movie is rumoured. In 2-3 years everything is ready to go for the Avengers. I so hope their adversary is Ultron
(Kinda hoping Ultron is introduced in Iron Man 2, albeit I think the Mandarin will be the main villain this time.)
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Hm... Wolverine?
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Thanks for the warning!
So did you skip "The Spirit" or is a review still coming?
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Just thought to mention that my next Wii gaming report will come a week late this time, on April the 8th. From now on, I'll link my report to the release dates of the German "Wii Magazin". The good bit about that is that there'll be ~6 reports a year now, albeit each probably slightly shorter.
Also it'll no longer have the WiiWare section, since I figured I'm a physical media junkie and owning games only virtually never felt right to me...
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Whoah! The best German song ever finally arrived on YouTube!
The Eternal Afflict - San Diego (The Tragical)
That's just the song, a video was never shot. Turn up the volume to the max for best experience
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Weren't there also ST/Amiga versions? Or am I misremembering?All in all there's probably a dozen versions, as I recall it was also ported to the Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum and MS-DOS in addition to the 68000 versions you mentioned. I'll have a look at the Miggy version tomorrow
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The playability of the 7800 version is there, albeit the tower effect looks slightly less impressive: The background is monochrome there, while the C64 uses 4 colors per line. Also all enemies look ugly, since they are drawn with a weird vertical venetian blinds technique. (Maria must have interesting technical limits here
)To my surprise I also found a NES version going by the name "Castelian". It's looking as good as the C64 version, but it's s...l...o...w...
=> The whole game feels as if it's running with half the speed or even less than the C64 version!
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Interesting, that looks identical to the 7800 game Tower Toppler. I wonder what the relationship is.Just a difference in name. For reasons unknown to me did Epyx (and later Atari) change it to "Tower Toppler" when importing it to the states. The original C64 version was written by John Phillips and released from Hewson.
Have you played any other versions of this? Which is best?Thanks for this question. I'll have a look at the 7800 version and will report my findings tonight
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That is a very cool idea!
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It took me a while to listen to all of them. (If I'd move any slower I'd be considered dead
)My favorite is Rainy Monday, just love that song
The B52's tune hit me by surprise, last time I heard from them was the BC 52's thing for the Flintstones movie. So they just had a comeback?
The Uh Huh Her vid has a weird side effect: I usually end up watching Shakespears Sisters on Youtube for an hour, whenever I try it
(BTW: My all-time favorite song about a vibrator:
)Considering current favourites, I love Amy MacDonald:
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YAY!
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And for the next deal on german amazon: I just ordered a copy of Opoona for €10.-
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Well, I was going to try to go through the entire month of February without a new blog entry* (just to see if I could)Interesting. What was the intention of that?
In my blog things just seem to happen. I had no entry for almost a whole month when I was all focused on playing Fire Emblem recently, but then there's times again when I write an entry almost every day
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Sounds like one could make an Atari 2600 game out of this game idea, no?Definitely, the thought had occurred to me as well. Several levels (approx. half of them) require more than 4 sprites though, so it'd probalby need intelligent flicker rather than a Rip-Off / Robot City 30Hz approach.
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So... as long time readers may remember, I'm limiting the Playing... experience usually to 5 days. I may extend that limit in case of an exceptional game, but I choose not to in this case
AR: The Dungeon is a pretty good RPG, in fact the best I featured in this series so far, but especially considering that it came out a mere 3 months before the quantum leaping Dungeon Master, I wouldn't call it "exceptional".
On this final night didn't happen anything special. I didn't get anywhere questing, but basically just did a little sightseeing in the 2nd dungeon level and upping my character to the 8th level.
Some future day the "Playing..." series may see another 3D RPG game in the form of "Might & Magic", but first it'll continue with something else.
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It seems the game has a couple of subquests forming a bigger story arc. I got the impression you can even beat it by compiling all parts of a certain magic staff.
Other than that not much happening today, besides that I killed both the goblin and the troll king to get two parts of a ring...
I'm very strong now, there's nothing in the top level of the dungeon that can still hurt me
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So is this an RPG with a story, or is it more of an open-ended, "go a-questing!" type of thing?That's a good question I can't answer yet. The past two days I didn't even see something similar to a quest, but today I found a prisoner I managed to free. He teleported me somewhere, asking me to solve "the riddle of the three doors" or something like that. I've no idea yet if this is a quest or part of a bigger storyline, we'll see tomorrow
I keep hearing about this game out of the corner of my ear. I didn't know it was on the C64, I thought it was always just an Atari title. Cool.The City and the Dungeon are both available on the C64, yes
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Not much to report today. Did some more exploring and I have a really mighty level 6 character now! Well, at least I'm not dying all the time anymore. I found tons of mysterious items, cloth and weapons, doing all sorts of funny effects. One demonic weapon I picked up got me in real trouble: I was getting attacked by fire demons every few steps, until I dropped it!
And another weapon with some evil enchantment tried to kill me while I was sleeping... Okay, actually it succeeded, but that's what save-states are for
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EDIT: Ah, just realized that you are playing The Dungeon, not The City.
It's still partially usefull info there - the games aren't that different from each other
Interesting enough, even the map isn't all worthless, since the dungeon is just one layer under the city, so some buildings extend down there, e.g. the Palace.
I have complete maps of the game though in my Power Play mags #2 and #3
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So today I went on doing some more "surviving". I mostly did that okay enough, just once did I panic when I found my character got diseased by a poisoned rat
I've been trying to do some sightseeing in the southeast corner of the map this time, but usually halfway down there I'd run out of supplies or similar. (I once even had some acid slime ruining my food rations...)
Also solved my money problems, when I figured that I can sell all those gems and jewels I was collecting
So my armor got a lot better now and I found dozens of new weapons. I'm having a hard time though to figure out how good which weapon is. They also have a tendency of breaking occasionally, so I'm carrying a lot of them around.
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