kisrael

Seconded! Let's get some of those pictures up! I think next time we should have a proper tourney again, maybe return to that one format where people pick hopefully obscure games and we use a rough point system. It takes more prep but it really introduced people to some neat new stuff...

Great link... http://mightygodking.com/index.php/2008/04...from-yesterday/ basically he retitled a bunch of atari games based on their cover art... funny stuff....

Hey man, nice meeting you today! Is 2old2play mostly about PC gaming? Sometimes I think I'd love that to be the theme of a local Arlington/Boston group for consoles... just a little reverse age discrimination :-)

YOU BACKING OUT LOSERS!!! i kid, i kid LETS DO THIS!!!

Sorry man, that's why I posted on the old thread complaining about not having a meet, sorry it missed you. Hope this time is bad karma free for you and your family.

Dr. Mario will not likely to be released on the vc. Dr. Mario is already released Japan as a wiiware game as Dr. Mario &Bacteria Extermination. The game futures online play. Sometimes I really hate Nintendo. Not only do they miss the joy and delight of four player Dr Mario in person, their whole online thing is such a bland child-friendly mess of endless numbers to type in. ONLINE SHMONLINE I MIGHT AS WELL BE PLAYING A G'DAMN COMPUTER! DUH! retards.

Yoshi's Cookie, huh? I wonder if this WiiWare thing is making them hold off on Dr. Mario. I'm tired of keeping around a GC just for four player Dr. Mario on that import Puzzle Collection! And I'm not even sure if this new WiiWare thing will have 4 player support or not :-(

WII HAVE A MEET (link from here for people like me who mostly use the "View My Posts" option)

OK ENOUGH OF THIS! I'm changing "we need a meet" to "WII HAVE A MEET" because it's WAY overdue. Christian you offered to host as long as it was a Sunday... 27th OK? That should be the release day for the new Mario Kart. I've got it pre-ordered. Plus I have the new Smash Bros, and the usual assortment of Nintendo goodness. I'm not sure what kind of tourney we'll have, but we'll come up with something. We can also wire up some old classic stuff just for kicks. If there's any tradeing per se it's gonna be pretty light, so don't go crazy... If I remember rightly the attic worked pretty well for my projector? WHO IS WITH ME??? (err hopefull Christian or else we can have it at my place)

So someone asked me if "Qotile" means anything. I know there are jokes in Yar's Revenge, like it being "Ray" backwards and all that, but is there any joke with Qotile?

I could hide the background color changer at the bottom of each page, but then most people wouldn't know it existed. What would you do if you had a background color changer? I might've considered making it a less distracting single text link, in about the same place, something like "click here to change colors" Accessibility is a tough issue, you have to find the balance among mkaing good aesthetic choices for your core audience and making sure you don't too much exclude people with challenges while making a site that you can keep up and keep interesting. There's not always a clear answer. Well, as people in general get more net-saavy, you don't see this very often. IMO. Maybe I just hang out on the wrong (or right) sites.

Yep, we wouldn't want to give users a choice. We should have learned that after all of those years of playing games that had no options. What was I thinking? I've learned my lesson and I know exactly what to do. On each of my pages I'll add loud music that can't be turned off. That's extremely retro, so everyone should love it. well, we're getting off-topic, but: A. too much choice is almost as bad as not enough choice. B. you don't even offer a meaningful choice, which would be either A. light text on dark for people who dig that or B. changing the font C. You've made an extremely visually distracting widget that has a prominent spot on every page, a little lego box of pastel colors - I can't imagine that's considered a plus for dyslexic or other wise challenged viewers. I don't know why you brought the idea of music on every page up; although I would say it falls under the same category of things people thought were cool/useful in the mid-90s. (It reminds me a bit of the UI tragedy that is PCAEWin - solid emulation, could record movies, but the UI to wire up control was horrendous, and then the options were like pages of pages of details about the display list of games.)

The old "Bruce Lee" for the C=64 is a must-see classic; you get to play the titular hero against ninjas and a Sumo...

Hey! Nice to see someone else pimpin' out the 'Wrecks site. First off... it's funny how striking the margin problem is on the front page, innit? Should be a small little thing but it really stands out, and kind of echoes the site's theme of bold ideas gone kind of wrong. (Tee-hee, not to be TOO much of a jerk but I think putting a color changer on every page kind of falls in the same category ) And I would say Segataritensoftii is incorrect...... Attempts at Glory on the 2600 would be MORE than welcome at Glorious Trainwrecks! You should just plan to explain what emulator folks should use. But they'd LOVE it.... So there's a Klik of the Month where everyone has 2 hours to make the best worst game they can, but other projects are welcome to be posted there, no matter how long they took to make, as long as they meet the criteria of trying REALLY hard if not quite succeeding... and I think Batari BASIC games tend to fall in this category (I'm tempted to relearn batariBASIC and see if I can't do a new game in 2 hours for the KotM event (I wouldn't want to relearn bB AND do a game in 2 hours though, that'd be too tough)) Anyway, I think the regular event is the 3rd Saturday of the month, 7PM Eastern time (though it has people all around the world there) So a lot of the people there do code in Klik and Play, which is that game kit from the 90s. I've been doing about 2/3 of my stuff in Java/Processing, and a few people do stuff in The Games Factory, which is more powerful. So bB would be weclome... even stuff for the C=64 in Gary Kitchen's Gamemaker, as long as you could tell people where to grab an emulator and run your masterpiece. It's kind of tougher to describe the spirit of the place. I mean, it's not JUST a supportive place for homebrews and attempt to get people's creative juices flowing, but it is that; there is that whole mid-90s "shareware" vibe of doing crazy stuff on screen just because you can. Hang out there for a bit and you should get the idea. I wrote some of the FAQs you see when you click on Wiki on the left side...

Agreed! That would be fantastic. Whens the DVD coming out?

I'll have to check it out later. I snarfed the whole archive from somewhere, but I guess the disks aren't quite the same as the originals.

I thought I tried that, w/o the leaving off the 1... maybe not. I vauguely remember there was something weird about it but not quite what...nothing there seems especially menu-y, or like LOAD"GAZETTE",8,1 or whatever...

So, odd... I have all these disk images from Compute's Gazette but I can't figure out how to start the menu program that I think is on there... load"*",8,1 doesn't do it... Here's what the disk listing is . I can run games directly, with the *load programs... any ideas? ++aug 1987++ 128 percussion complex sound give'n'take load give 'n' take front line load front line.bas front line.ml bounty hunter sprite magic sprite flip sprite flip demo sprite stamp starter sprite data skel multisprite multisprite boot sector edit boot sector.bas sector.ml dynamusic dynamusic player dynamusic custm. elite demo relative fl demo mod.drill progrm

I made a Klik & Play parody/tribute to this game called Earth Defense Force 1817.

That's a cool list. (I like some of the art you can d'load from that site) I've now beaten the single player on easy (well, not quite, I should go back and do the early levels on easy that I cleared on Normal) and am now starting from scratch at a friends doing two player; I guess I have a better understanding of farming stamina, and can use these charts to be thoughtful about weapons. Would love to see a Cascade 2 :-)

is it better to actually make this, no matter how short of the dream it will fall, or should the thread and hope go on and on like don quixote?

Heh. Like around... 15 or so? Yeah, a few things: 1. you can turn off the screenshake 2. you can't actually kill the walker on the level, it's just survival I've been switching to easy mode. At least for one player, it's just too much, at least w/ my current weapon set...

I got mine for 20 at Gamestop. I'm guessing they send about the same number of guys at you in Co-Op? It sounds like it's easier, what with double the firepower and the chance to have two big targets for the enemy hoards... I tried the spider intro level on Harder and then Hard and couldn't get anywhere. Not sure if my health and guns are up to snuff yet :-)

I know I'm coming to the party late... Earth Defense Force 2017 is more wonderful than I expected. I'm only up to level 15 , but Wow. (Heh, it reminds me a bit of Alien Front Online for the DC, but is at LEAST eight times as fantastic) It touches so many sci fi movie and literature tropes: 50s B-movie, with the scaled up insects Godzilla, setting wise Starship Troopers (the book) the being swarmed by feeling, and going into the dark insect nest War of the Worlds (the book) with the walkers trudging through the water Independence Day, giant silent enemy starships hanging over the earth (I know some of these images may have had their origins elsewhere, but that's where I know 'em from) And the scale of these things! Like that giant walker on Levels 14 and 15... does SotC get bigger than that? (I sadly couldn't get into SotC) It's the first game that... I dunno, gives me a walker that is to me now what the AT-ATs were in Empire Strikes Back to me as an 7 year old. I tried the first level a week ago, but wasn't grabbed by it... I think I got killed near the end by my own rocket, but I didn't know it was the en of the level, and I had that feeling of "where is this game going with this" I sometimes get -- especially w/ the item drops, and that's the same problem I had with Bioshock... games that have a plethora of pickups (as opposed to say, classic DOOM with just a few distinct weapons and ammos), and that encouragement to grab all these damn items, because you don't know if they're useful to later. I have to let go of Obsessive/Compulsive urges to do it "perfect", weapon wise, and just find something that seems effective and run with it. Also, it took me a while to accept that it's ok to level buildings. This game is at an interesting point of "realness" and arcadeness, and sometimes it's not clear what you should fix and what should roll with. Same with your buddies getting killed. I like that they are useful in combat. Though like some other games with destructible environments (Hulk) and non-immortal team mates, if a level goes on too long you find yourself walking in a burned out wasteland. I'm also sad that vehicles have no crosshairs and (I think) ignore any setting to use inverted aiming. So I think the single best images for me is made when you destroy one of those small bipedal walkers in a huge explosion, and then its brother starts breaking through the fiery smoke, guns blazing. A lot of the old talk here was about the weapons, but I don't see that as being such a problem. (Actually between the "2 weapon limit" and the loading screens explaining the game it reminds me a bit of Mercenaries) I do wish there were a cheat or savegame way to get all the weapons, but I think I'm getting enough to get by...

I'm calling shenanigans. Even as the conversation drifted towards what's acceptable terminology, most people tried to talk about how they feel about long cut scenes. Claiming people are being too PC ("playing the race card") is just as much BS as being too PC. I'm a giant Nintendo fanboy, though I have a DS but haven't ended up liking it all that much, because either A. I'm at home and can use a more high powered console or B. I'm on a bus or subway or whatever and can read a book instead...