Petran79

I own Virtual Pool 3 for 8 years, play at least once a week and it never gets boring, considering I have not played any online game yet. Amazing game. I prefer the cd version but i use the download version because it has an updated engine. Even the toughest opponents make errors once they are pushed and the game is unpredictable.

I like movies in games but at least use cheesy live actors like in the 90s, not mediocre cgi scenes.

The golden years of fighter games for me were when i was playing mk 1,2 and street fighter 2 on the pc and ultimate body blows. And time slaughter. On the arcades as well. Of course games like karateka and international karate tournament previously on the amiga were my introduction to the genre. I played the 3d versions of mortal kombat, sf, tekken, soulcalibur but i prefer the 2d fighters, especially neo geo. MvC was an abomination, guilty gear was too anime looking for my taste (samurai shodown and last blade were ok) and most the vs series have supposedly something new to offer but end always in the same things When fighters began to have a fanbase (ruy,scorpion,akuma etc) things got worse. I have also sf3 3rd strike on dreamcast but it requires a steep learning curve. My favorite games now are platformers anyway and i play occasonaly fighters on mame with an arcade joystick and keyboard buttons. Rage of the dragon is currently my favourite

I would have liked to own an amiga for the games, but never did. The nes and atari2600 were a present so we discovered the games afterwards. We bought gameboy for tetris, tmnt, super mario land, castlevania etc. I bought a dreamcast for virtua tennis 2(saw it im the arcades) but found other great games like soulcalibur, pinball trilogy and jet set radio I found a nintendods and bought 2 professor layton games. I bought the castlevania ecclesia game too but r and l triggers do rarely respond.

50 gb! Better download 50 pc isos than 1 ps3 game. While i am away my bro installed pro evolution soccer 2009 on my pc. I do not play new simulated footie games so i thought ok let him have a game to play. But when i heard the game took 8 gb of space i felt annoyed. It feels like bloatware. An encyclopedia or an astronomy programm take less. Irony is that it still requires the dvd for authentification! My only gripe is that the eye candy in modern games is very distracting. They are very tiresome for my eyes. Even the games i had as a teen were not like the games now. I had bought morrowind a couple of years ago. It took me 20 minutes to walk from one place to another without doing anything! Just walking in real time admiring the landscape! Total boredom! I compared this to thunderscape or daggerfall. The pacing there is much faster. There are a lot of players who now prefer to walk around admiring the scenery. Game tourism really

A little relevant but i read in a director's blog that every year out of 85000 scripts only 85 are accepted in the movie industry and the majority is based on comics and video games while only 10-15 movies differ, though they are written by already established writers. Piracy existed from the floppy disk games already and was more rampant, compared to the cd and dvd era. Problem lies more in the fact that there are now only 3 companies controlling the console market, not leaving room for innovation.this has been said many times hasnt it? Also that drm and dlc seems incompatible with most teen players who hate to be controlled. Perhaps it is time to switch from gb to mb again and make a great game as it happens on the pc and make cheaper downloadable games. I also prefer real systems to emulated ones.eg playing a dreamcast game on the pc is taking the fun away. I will order a new region free dreamcast shooter that was developed by two people and took them 7 years to make! I hope that such indie games wil appear on the new consoles more often.I mostly use emulation for games and systems that i missed, trying to avoid save states. On mame games i use an arcade looking joystick as well. Main problem is that you have to return to a previous era to play the game so it has to do with mentality Just as you can not find old summer cinemas anymore to watch films below the stars and moon, but have to go to the multiroom digital 3d ones

Scary and sick: Harvester (PC) Especially the moments where there is night in the town. The scenes later in the lodge were not that scary. Scary and funny: Ecstatica 1 (PC) If it were not for that funny ellipsoid 3d design you would think this was a children's title, but it is not! Scary and tense: Bad Mojo (PC) Being a cockroach and crawling in various realistic dirty places of a building makes it very tense. Though they edited the toilet to make it look clean! When i was a kid i was scared by the platform game Warlock's Quest for the Amiga. When you are used to Mario.... Also as an adult the horror trilogy Elvira 1, jaws of cerberus and waxworks scared me a lot in some scenes. Reminded me of all those great 80s horror flicks, before movies and video games started copying saw and hostel for good. I have to try Personal Nightmare and some text based horror games since nothing is scarier than your imagination.

Since my speedy reflexes when i was a teen took down the drain, i recently completed 'Professor Layton and the Lost Future' for the Nintendo DS. You just have to think, taking all the time you need. I solved around hundred puzzles by myself. First time i weeped in a games ending, thankfully not out of frustration. Amazing. Playing now pandora's box. Also will finish Virtual Pool 3 carreer mode, when i get home in a few days.

I find modern fps and sports simulators incredibly hard with so many buttons and quick reflexes. If they had not so many save points... Eg for fifa you have to read 15 pages of player control moves! While we played football games with 2-3 buttons. Really better to play real football. Less tiresome and there is a better chance to perform those tricks! I agree about commodore.

Like many kids, we had an atari 2600. I saw the nes in stores but was not that much impressed. I remember that in large department stores they had consoles like the nes for the kids to play and in specialized video game,electronics and computer hardware shops they had other systems like commodore (eg you would see a karateka demo). My dad bought us an nes as a surprise! It had the game ice climber. The seals were replaced with yetis in the euro version. After exchanging and buying nes games i was hooked to that console though i never played rpgs. But i must admit that the nintendo craze (aided by the cartoons) did not affect all and there was just so much hype. Mario to many was popular thanks to the silly cartoon. Eg i visited a lot of friends to play games and yet only 2 had an nes. The rest (older than me or had an older brother) had amigas, atarist,atari 2600, 8088 etc Nes was successful on a specific generation of players. I belong to that generation but thinking now backwards i prefered the other systems but could not afford those. Nes helped to make video games more accessible but at the cost of censorship (hamster in maniac mansion) and horrible localizations. When i became a teen it became too kiddy for my tastes so i sold it and moved on to pc games. I recently tried professor layton 3 on the nintendo ds (found the console abandoned!). I felt like the nes kid again!

When i was very young i liked almost any game. Two games were horrible,yet i played all levels.i loved gaming more than games. Kid icarus for the nes and marus mission on the gb are now horrible to my eyes. In the second game it had some lighting effects and for a few seconds i got epilepsy. In this age of mediocrity it is no surprise that due to my age i find modern games even worse than the older ones. At least the old ones were simple, the new games try to be everything, thus collapse more easily to my eyes, like a card tower, in case they fail.

I did not bother with nintendo64. That was for the generation who missed nes and snes, when 3d graphics were starting to take over. As i was used to 2d i felt awkward by seeing a blob mario. Gamecube was much better. We used to play ps2 a lot. When a friend bought ps3 some things made the game experience less than that of its predecessor.eg no split screen player cooperative mode in killzone 2 like in 1. Only online mode. Then you have to buy a new tv to enjoy the games. Scart output is mediocre. It feels as if sony forces some things without making any research what players want and already have. For better resolution and net there were pc games. You carry a console to play alone or together with friends. As a result after 1.5 year we got tired of it and he gave it to a younger friend. The games were more or less the same as the ps2 and even worse sometimes. As for linux support i can guarantee that only 1/100 % of users would care. Yet that 1% made more impact than the rest of the peaceful players.

From the context i guess they in a narrowminded way mean mostly music similar to that of the nes (chiptune music) and nothing else. Adlib and soundblaster came later with dos in the late 80s. Yes roland scc1 was a step forward in quality.

Where does all this leave pc gaming? Before a new console is announced i hope that pc gaming stops following console games. Console ports for pc have very high requirements, usually because most of them are not optimized correctly. Consoles and most of those ports follow directx 9 which is some years old. This had also lead to a degradation in pc games since developers focus now on consoles while pcs can outperform consoles easily. Innovation in narrative was helped greatly with pc games, now consoles are the spotlight. I hope that instead of new consoles we get innovative pc gaming, even though it requires some hardware and software knowledge and how to tinker with your os and hardware, something fit not for many

Gb tetris was one of the most addicting tetris games. Second was a tetris where there was an earthquake after every line, disorientating the player. I prefer atari 2600 dig dug over the arcade. Same goes for nes tmnt 2 which enhances the arcade version with two extra stages. Also turtles in time does the same to the snes, adding extra stages and bosses. I also prefer the amiga version of wonder boy in monster land and shinobi,due to the colors and the music.

Amiga games music 25 years ago was considered one of the best. Only in the 90s other systems began to catch up. The pc-engine games used a cd, the amiga games a few floppies. Big difference. As for good music, crap music ratio it was the same in every system. Game themes like Agony, Lotus, Turrican etc are still some of the best. That says a lot. The composer matters,not the system. On a side note, american and european nes fans were cheated since the nes lacked an extra sound chip.

I dont think this is completely true. Eg my bro and i loved our atari2600, adored our nes, but when we saw games on an amiga 2000 and an atariST, we were blown away. I loved duck tales, circus charlie, dragon ninja, shinobi, warlocks quest, mike the magic dragon, elvira motd, shadow of the beast,turrican, golden axe etc. They had something more mature plus the nes had almost no macabre content. With the exception of zelda 2, castlevania 3, smb3 i'd prefer the more expensive systems but i was too young for this. It was an era where the move from 8 to 16 bit made an impact, whereas now graphically all games are more or less the same, plus they all have cd music. As a teenager i remember i had the stamina to finish games like the epic little big adventure 1 and 2 but now i could not do that again. One unique game the kids would certainly love would be toonstruck,though it has many tough riddles.

japanese society and youth are completely different towards video games. Also not all western gamers accept anime-based videogames. Computer games in japan are not that popular in comparison to console games. Video games changed. Arcades changed. Now they rent instead internet games like warcraft or counterstrike. Youth prefer those games or the ones where you roam in 'realistic' virtual worlds Whereas in the past arcades where used for teenagers after or during school as a gathering place, now they are replaced by net cafes. Only large malls survive. The smaller arcades either shut down or were forced to change. I saw once a guy who played shinobi in a mame board perfectly. He looked like he belonged to another era. .