2600Lives

WTF? We're seeing a LOT of classic, VERY good games on this list! Super Mario Bros. (the fuck? Seriously? THE FUCK?) Mario 2 Metal Gear Castlevania 2 and 3 Double Dragon Duck Hunt Punch Out Mega Man Zelda II I mean DAMN guys. These are some of the staple games for the NES! Oh, well. To each his own, I suppose. My top 5 shitty NES games... 5. X-Men. Been stated before, but wow, what a stinker. 4. Dragon's Lair. Got suckered into buying this. Wish I could go back in time. One of the worst games of all time, period. 3. WWF Wrestlemania. Man, I was SO looking forward to this game. Man, did it ever suck BALLS. Pro Wrestling was the first, and still the best wrestling game for the NES, and that's the bottom line, cause I said so. 2. Raid 2020. What...a...piece...of...SHIT. 1. Fester's Quest. Again, gotta go with one that's been said before. I got this for my birthday, as I was a big Addam's Family fan. Not anymore! This bald douche can shove that gun up his pasty white butt. Stupid game...having great music making me wanna play it...but sucking at the same time...mumblegrumble.

Literally just got it, and am going through the first level. SO FREAKIN' COOOOOL.

Yeah, I was only half serious there, but look at the VCRs of that time period. My god those things were humongous. Electronics just seemed huge back in the late seventies and early eighties. The Odyssey 2 was one big ass console as well, as was one version of the CD-I.

Some games, like Ghostbusters and Raiders of the Lost Ark use the switches for very different things. In general, though, they make the games somewhat harder on the A setting. Take Video Olympics for example. It's like a souped-up version of Pong, and on the A setting, most of the time, your paddles are smaller and the balls move faster.

Always was and always will be a Mario fan.

I don't think they're worth much, though. Maybe 10 bucks each. I got offered that much for my Virtual Boy Blockbuster case a few years ago, but I said no, becuase I have nothing to keep my VB in if I sold it.

Even though he grew up with the NES, he's got a LOT of love for the 2600. Watch his Atari 5200 video sometime, and you'll see. I still can't wait for the eventual E.T. review. I was hoping it would be what him and the Critic reviewed together, but alas.

Atari's "failure" in the console market largely stemmed from Jack Tramiel's wish to transition from console to home computers. It's why the 7800 was shelved for as long as it was. The 360 isn't 360 bit, there are no "bits" anymore. Modern systems are measured like you would a modern computer, with processor speed, graphical chip power, and available onboard RAM. Bits pretty much went out with the PS1/Saturn/N64 era. And I don't think innovation was wasting money. Atari was at the forefront of gaming innovation for years. Things like the Mindlink may have been failed experiments, but they WERE experiments, and that's what drives the industry forward, the willingness to experiment and take risks. Atari was introducing us to new concepts and ideas in control that are today commonplace. You likely wouldn't be using a wireless 360 control had Atari not thought up the idea damn near 30 years ago. Look at now, with Microsoft introducing Natal. It may fail miserably when it's introduced, but it's still innovating and pushing the industry into new areas, and if you don't do things like that, the industry as a whole stagnates. Was it wasteful for Sony to release the revised PS1? The slimline PS2? The smaller Genesis 2 and 3? No, they are redesigns, and reimaginings of the earlier systems. The 2600 Jr. wasn't wasteful, it was Atari's attempt to recharge interest in the aging system, and it worked to a degree. It was cheap, had a very attractive design, and was small and unobtrusive. Definately not a waste of money. The 5200 was that big because Americans like big things. Look at VCRs of the day. HUGE. At the time, we liked stuff like big ass cars and stuff, so they probably went with that asthetic. The Colecovision was a pretty big system, too, as is the original X-Box. The 5200 also was graphically inferior to the Colecovision (but superior to the Intellivision with some things), and while the joysticks may have been poorly designed (there wasn't enough long term testing done on them, honestly), they were super innovative, adding both a pause button for the first time, and a fully analog stick.

Nice snag on the Wico, too. Those usually command a nice price.

Sweet holy hell, bringing back a 2 year old thread? No, the Nerdy Turd was a one-off character. The Nerd gets better with each video it seems.

Urg, Encyclopedia Dramatica. Didn't those jerkoffs run out of money and have to shut the site down? That was the las I heard. Kick them and Portal of Evil off the net and I'll be happy. Some things do deserve to be made fun of, others don't.

Yeah, Psalms 69 era Ministry would have been better. They REALLY mellowed later on. I loved the buzzsaw edge of stuff like Just One Fix. KMFDM would be a tough one, actually. Maybe something like Megalomaniacal or Juke Joint Jezebel. Wouldn't mind some freakin' Rammstein sometime. Buck Dich comes to mind, and possibly Amerika. GH needs some harder metal, actually. Getting sick of stuff like "Hey, this is Spongebob songs week!". Urg.

Never embarrassed to say it, and I say it with enthusiasm!

To me, it feels too much like karaoke to just sing. I'm a guitar player in these games. I'm ok on the drums, but never have been able to progress past medium/hard, as my hands and feet don't like doing things independently of each other.

The KGB was Russian, the Gestapo was the German secret police. All they're doing is depriving their economy of money in the long run.

Great, Maiden. Every song will completely suck ASS because they'll top tier difficulty and NO fun to play at all. I get to see one of my favorite bands ever butchered in the game, just like GH Metallica. And GH is giving us a ton of free songs lately. The Touch? AWESOME!!! RB has given us virtually no free stuff in months now. I played RB2 a little over last weekend, and I'm still not impressed in the least. While I did finish some of the later songs on Expert (the Testament song, Peace Sells, etc.), some of them are just so ungodly difficult and no fun to play, I just gave up.

I'm pretty sure this came from a 4chan picture and not a comedy show. Sounds like something my hero George Carlin would say, though. Anyway, don't want this moved to the P/R section, so everybody please stop with the debating? I actually had a lot of really derisive things to say, but kept the comments to myself.

Yeah, CoCo model 1s are common as dirt. There's a guy at a flea market where I live that has a whole tub full of them. He usually sells them for 5 bucks each. I got a CoCo 2 off him last year for like 7 bucks, fully functional, with a cartridge.

CoCo's are practically worthless comparitively. 10 bucks at most. If it's a TRS-80 model 1, fully functional, say, then you may have something worth a little bit. I have one myself, and got offered 200 bucks for it at a game convention, which I turned down as I wasn't selling my stuff, just exhibiting.

Robot Tank is awesome. I remember back in '84, I was walking to school and found the instruction manual on the ground. I put it in my bag and read it during lunch. After reading it, I wanted the game SOOOO badly. It wasn't until years and years later I found it (for a buck even), and when I got it home, I matched it with that instruction booklet and played the HELL out of it. So much fun. David Crane, where art thou?

I believe I got mine from an extra Stack-Up cart I had.

No, it was an actual song (that I'm guessing is the "theme song" for the new GH game getting ready to come out).

Sweet, I was looking for the fast track to hell. I guess sacrificing puppies and masturbating wasn't gonna get me there fast enough. Seriously, though, I'ma get this game now, simply because of this.

I think I'll wait for Pandora to finally hit. THAT will be the ultimate portable emulator system. They're even thinking of possibly releasing a set-top type system as well!