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  3. Posted

    Favorite Companies:

     

    ATARI

    These guys made it happen. They made the most memorable and classic games around. If there was a problem, they tried thier best to fix it. You can almost never go wrong with these guys when it comes to fun.

     

    SEGA

    These guys made some of the best games to ever exist, including Zaxxon, Turbo, and Sonic. They had the gall to stand up to power hungry Nintendo back in the day.

     

    Least Favorite Companies:

     

    NINTENDO

    Yeah, they made a few gems (Donkey Kong, the original Legend of Zelda) but I can't stand the way they tried to dictate the entire gaming industry. They forced Midway to "sanitize" the SNES version of Mortal Kombat. That makes fumes fly from my nose, because Nintendo took it upon themselves to tell a developer what they could and couldn't develop. They limited the number of cartridges that could be released by a company in one year (back in the NES days).

    Okay, I'm done ranting about Nintendo now.

     

    SONY & M$

    They don't care at all about the crap that comes out for thier systems, just as long as they get cash. WAY too many rehashes and sequels. That just makes me sick.[/b]

  8. Posted

    I don't know about you guys, but playing Video Pinball in complete darkness causes splitting headaches (especially when you get that 1,000 point diamond between the two bottom bumpers)

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    nope don't care what anyone says its a classic and it brought gaming to were it is today  

    I hate the way the video game market is handled today. The NES marked the beggining of selling video games not by great gameplay, but almost entirely by marketing (in other words, video games could no longer sell themselves)

  13. Posted

    Actually, Nintendo sued Atari many times, mostly because they were making unliscensed NES titles (stupid, power hungry Nintendo). What was Nintendo thinking when they told a developer what they could or couldn't produce? You didn't see Commodore telling developers whether or not they could make a game for thier 64.

    Sorry about that, I was in the moment.

  14. Posted

     As such, in defining a 'classic' system, one should simply ask 'is it still being sold/produced'? If it ain't being sold... it's a classic imho. (ie: dreamcast & ps1 are classics to my way of thinking, as is snes & mega drive)

    So, by your way of thinking, the Game.Com and the Neo Geo Pocket Color is classic.

  15. Posted

    Now that I've thought about it some, I've actually come to the strange conclusion that it's a hybrid. It has an importaint history, I'll give it that. But even still, It's got more rehashes than even the 2600 (in my opinion) that sold well. Look at all the Double Dragon clones and the endless non original sequels (with the exception of Mario) that were released.

  16. Posted

    Why don't you have the number of the balls increase only to three, and then have the balls increase in speed as the game moves along? This way you should get a lot less flicker.

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    "Classic" does not mean that it's old. To me, a classic system should be called classic when it has two or more of these qualities:

    -The system has to have something revolutionary (i.e. ColecoVision having the "perfect" arcade conversion of Donkey Kong)

    -The system should have a interesting history, good or bad (i.e. MicroVision being the first handheld system, Atari 2600 and the biggest videogame bomb - ET)

    -The system must have many different, original games (the NES was full of rehashes and sequels that sold suprisingly well)

    I could think of some other points, but this was all I could think of for now.

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    It would be interesting to see an actual merger of all the Atari games though... the game could be based around a multi-character adventure style game (Remember Maniac Mansion?) where you could alternately control Indiana Jones, The Adventure Dot, and Pitfall Harry... in different spots, you'd have to fly space ships (Galaga, Asteroids, etc), drive tanks (Combat, Front Line), and cars (Indy 500, etc)... find various items (Chalice, Prizes from Pitfall, Crown from Mountain King, etc), run through a variety of mazes (Dungeons from Dark Chambers, Space Station from Secret Quest, etc), and interact with a variety of characters who might (or might not) help you... such as Yar, E.T., Panama Joe, etc. I don't know if a fusion of all this would work properly... it might just make everything a huge confusing mess... but I'm sure pretty much everyone on this board would think it was great :)

     

    --Zero

    That sounds like an interesting idea for an RPG...

  24. Posted

    It's been a while since the first of this "series," I thout it would be cool to ask again. Which game do you consider yourself to be game god at? I'm not too great at some games, but I did get 64,780 on Ms. Pac-Man, and I got 33 thousand something on Astroblast.

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