Vic George 2K3

Ms. Pac-Man, Super Pac-Man, Pac-Mania, Hangly Man, Mazeman, and New Puc-One with the fluorescent monsters are my favorites. (The last three are clones of Pac-Man created by other companies.)

Donkey Kong Jr. played much better on the NES or Atari 7800 than it did on the ColecoVision. The second screen where you have to use the conveyor-belt vine to reach the leftmost series of vines that you have to navigate on while avoiding the parrots is a royal pain on the ColecoVision because reaching that vine ends up being hit or miss. Also there isn't a whole lot of room to navigate on the vines to avoid the parrots.

The Springfield Retirement Home windows would need the rockets, like the purple E in the Kwik-E-Mart sign, last that I know. You just have to know where to set up the rockets in order for them to hit their targets.

I had a similar controller for the Nintendo 64 and it was interesting to use with driving games, but I don't think I could recommend anything like that for a substitute paddle controller for games where a paddle controller rather than a steering wheel would benefit.

I have one from Radio Shack and it works without any problem. My computer simply reads the connection and it's ready for play.

It's called Williams Arcade Greatest Hits on the SNES, and frankly as far as controls are concerned, it's just as bad as trying to play Smash TV with the A, B, X, and Y buttons directing your firing instead of a second control stick. Same problem, and Midway only reproduced the same error with their Greatest Arcade Hits for the Nintendo 64 version of Robotron 2084.

I liked Tron Deadly Discs better on the Intellivision, despite having to use the keypad buttons to throw and retrieve Tron's disk. This was one game I would have wanted to see ported over to like the ColecoVision.

Doom II was included as part of Doom for Playstation, all that I know.

What Cafeman has in his Adventure II demo is good so far. Excellent 5200-quality graphics.

Not only did the game stink as far as gameplay goes, the movie that it was based on also stunk as far as anything remotely passing for humor goes. That and Cool World were the worst animated movies that 1992 had to offer, and apparently their gameware counterparts were no improvements.

Wasn't Jawbreaker out before Asterix (which was really Taz)? Actually, there's no real similarity at all between Jawbreaker and Asterix/Taz. The former game is based off of Pac-Man, the latter is based off of Fast Food by Telesys (the concept of retrieving flying food while avoiding what you shouldn't eat).

I like the game, though I don't play it very often. The Intellivision version is probably the best as far as arcade versimilitude goes. The Atari 2600 version has just the basic gameplay and quick responsive action, but the graphics make me feel like I'm playing Lock'N'Chase with Berzerk-type humanoids for the cops.

I don't think either Smash TV or Total Carnage deserve to have the Robotron name attached to them. Rather, just let them have their own names.

I find text adventure games like those published by Infocom, Scott Adams, et al. to be very difficult games to get into. Trying to get your character to do something by typing in commands can be a real chore in itself when you don't have a clue as what commands can be typed in to do something, which results in a lot of trial-and-error-and-no-fun. Sometimes you can get your character to move, but it will only be in the same few places that your character is allowed to go, which results in more trial-and-error-and-no-fun. Probably the only text adventure games I would find fun are the BASIC programming games of Creative Computing like Hunt The Wumpus, where the commands are simple and don't result in a lot of trial-and-error-and...you get the idea!

Well, if he was in a real hurry and carrying a sword, bombs, arrows, and a grappling hook, then I don't see what would be hard to believe about it Well, what if they can't see that you're carrying all that stuff around...which is pretty much what I would see NPCs seeing when they're looking at my player/character, thinking, "Is this person for real? Is what he's saying really going to happen?" Then again, this is videogames we're talking about. I guess some suspension of disbelief can probably be taken into account in the manner of what an NPC could see (or not see) a player/character carrying. And I personally don't know anything about a pick-your-nose minigame.

Very true, which is why I sometimes hate exclusive titles made for one particular system or for systems made by only one company. It just may inspire some people to create imitative works that have the potential to slip in some area of what game it's trying to imitate. (Though for like Jak & Daxter, which is an excellent Banjo-Kazooie/Super Mario 64 imitator, it may also surpass the original in more ways than one.) Like there aren't or would never be any PS2 or XBox games that would deserve the descriptor "gay"! Sometimes adult-oriented games can be just as vacuous or even more so than games that are made "for kids" or "gay".

Would you really be convinced if somebody told you the world was going to end today or tomorrow just right out of the blue? I don't think many of us would be. Most of us would ask for proof or something from the person making the claim in order to prove the validity of both the person and the claim. I think that NPCs that rely upon you to prove them wrong or prove yourself right is not a bad thing to include in a game, even if it does involve doing something for them that may reward you with an essential item that you can't solve a dungeon puzzle without. But having mini-games just for the sake of filling up a game with them is understandably bordering on excess.

Well, if you don't like remakes, don't buy them. If someone hasn't played the original game before, why should your buying habits bully others into not buying the same games you've already played and are not interested in replaying? A newness of a game doesn't always equal quality anymore than how long ago an old game was made. If all we have on our systems are just new games, what will there be for those who don't enjoy what you enjoy?

I'm not very fond of April Fool's Day nor making up any hoaxes for the sake of that day. There's always the possibility of someone pulling something really destructive to another person and then say it was just a joke, like these virus packages that some person with too much time on their hands and little moral consideration for someone else would develop.

Hoax or not, it's not a bad demo. Only wish it were a real game.

I lost interest in playing something like Smash TV. The SNES is a poor system for it, controller-wise, since the movement and firing requires two working sticks, and the diamond arrangement of the A, B, X, and Y buttons are a poor substitute for an eight-direction firing stick. (Same thing with Robotron 2084 on the Williams Arcade Greatest Hits for the same system.) I tried to get a friend of mine to play this with me and he wouldn't because it was too graphic for him. I prefer Robotron 2084 over Smash TV anyday.

Also Robotron 64 for the Nintendo 64, which made the best use of two thumbsticks on two separate controllers for double-fisted action...way better than Midway's conversion of Robotron 2084 in their Greatest Arcade Hits(?) collection for the same system. (Like they couldn't have the original game play with the same dual controller option. Go figure!)

To Tempest: I know what carting around an Adam Family Computer System was like, even when I bought it from Zayre's in Fall River, MA for half of what it originally cost (the standalone model) in 1985. I wasn't drunk, but it certainly was no picnic transporting that thing from the store to the group home I was living in. I had no car, but fortunately I had people who had transportation when I finally picked it up from being on layaway. My family took that thing home to Westfield, MA a week before I left the group home in 1986.

Seems interesting, whether it really is an April Fool's Joke or not. Then again, I'd prefer Activision's Enduro for the 2600.

That thing is more cheesy than a Kraft Macaroni & Cheese dinner party.