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  1. Posted

    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

  12. Posted

    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.

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    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.

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    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.

  17. Posted

    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.

  18. Posted

    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?

  24. Posted

    I downloaded the newest free song (some sort of theme for the GH On Tour game?). After downloading it, when I go to select songs from the setlist, the everything is in French! I looked, and my 360 is set to English, and I've changed no other settings. Is this some sort of prank? I find no way to change any of the languages in the game itself. This happen to anybody else?

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