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    I see that Minter is still suffering from T.M.S.O.S.S (Too Much Sh*t On Screen Syndrome). I have a huge amount of respect for him as a graphics programmer but think he has a lack of understanding when it comes to providing good, sensible gameplay. Tempest 2000 worked because he was forced into the successful existing gameplay design of Tempest. Even then though, gameplay was sometimes obscured by visual effects.

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    It actually is doable, just not with HD right now and games that require top of the line machines to play. For example, they could design a machine that would run multiple NES emulators and have each emu create an encoded stream that could be converted into video on the user's end. Their hype machine seems only willing to preach the impossible right now though.

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    The main plausibility issue came down to two things in my mind.

     

    They have to get an HD signal to the player with a small enough delay to avoid the controls feelbg like mush, and for every subscriber playing Crysis, for example, they would need a machine capable of runnng it, and the hardware to digitize and and out the signal. I feel this may have been a grab for investment cash.

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    Back in the May issue of GameInformer there was a thing on page 28 about this thing that streams games to a set-top console or a computer and you get a controller and a black box. It was supposed to be here this winter, but I haven't heard anything lately.

     

    The website is up and running, and I'm all for a cheap console for playing games one. But with no local storage (disk or cart or even ram) I don't see how it can work out. There's a LOT of streaming stuff now, and my DSL and the local cable internet takes a while to download stuff as it is, much less any kind of online gaming that depends totally on the streaming part of it all.

     

    The site is here, http://www.onlive.com/ and it seems to be recent. Also a bit surprised it wasn't mentioned here. Well, the time is coming and if something like this can work I'll be all for it. Thoughts?

     

    There was a huge thread about it back when it was first announced, complete with some strong opinions as to it's technical aspects, .etc.

  5. Posted · Edited by Kripto

    I can't remember the name of this game I saw in Queens NY around 1985 or so. It was a laserdisc-based game with rastor graphics superimposed over streamed anime-style visuals. Gameplay was a standard "death from above" shooter and I recall a video cutscene where a man with glasses would be melted "Raiders of the Lost Ark-style" by the aliens, just to show how deeply evil they could be.

     

    Anyone have any idea what this was?

     

    Never Mind, I found it. Bega's Battle. Looks like game play was weaker than I remember...

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmErdg2fVzg

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    I think that a large part of this country's weight issues have to do with food being thought of as one of our primary rewards. If you go to the mall, what is there to do? You can slowly pace about and buy things or sit still in the food court and eat some of the most calorically dense foods known to man.

     

    There's something else to the exercise debate as well. When I work out regularly, versus say a vacation period, I have much more energy to do things in general and DO lose weight. I don't know how these studies show otherwise, perhaps I am lucky.

  11. Posted · Edited by Kripto

    Most likely he just worked a bunch of different jobs. I mean, honestly...he was a ref in Punch Out :D

     

    Not only was Mario a ref in Punch Out, but he has been a doctor (Dr. Mario), in building demolition (Wrecking Crew), and a cement factory worker (Mario's Cement Factory, Game & Watch).

     

    Don't forget his brief job as a Orkin man.

     

    post-997-1250293642_thumb.jpg

     

    That's not Mario but some other guy who only appeared in DK3.

     

    Edit: His name is Stanley, as seen HERE

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    The economy is in the dumper, people are losing jobs left and right, companies laying people off by the thousands, 10% unemployment rate, and you guys are complaining that you might see one advertisement in a video game.

     

    Perspective, people. Can we have some?

     

    Those ads represent someone else having a job. In fact, they probably represent 100 people keeping their job.

     

    Creating products which upset consumers is not good for the economy. Reading this story gave me a negative vibe about Sony, this game and the advertiser, making me less likely to give my money to any of them.

  20. Posted

    The story on SiniStar, which I saw in a video included with a Williams classics collection on the Saturn, was that the arcade machine was initially made to be quite playable but that arcade operators demanded that the average game last two minutes or less(!) whereas most other machines provided an average playtime of a little over three minutes. So the programmers went back and changed the game into the evil, relentless monster that we all know today.

     

    One of the original programmers said that he probably has a copy of the original ROMs and would like to release them at some point as that he felt that was when the game was closest to perfection. I would imagine that the legality of his releasing them would be very unpleasant, but feel that they should be included on one of the countless classics collections released every year.

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