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  5. Posted

    No problems here.. I have all the games.. I'm curious as to why Winter Games is on the good list and Summer Games is on the bad list.. And why Klax isn't on the rare list.. Although that would be super bad ass if we get to play that one.. :)

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    I actually prefer F-14 the most. It was easy for me to play back in the day. I also remember scoring the Top Gun rank more than once back then. Shortly afterward...my cart also died. At any rate I think the most difficult has to be Ace of Aces. So many different missions..and the controls are very confusing to use like changing the views and such. F-18 wasn't bad..considering it is using actual rastered Polys...but...the flight mechanics are so bad that it feels more like your playing a primitive space sim shooter like Star Voyager.

     

    I used to create challenges in F-18 like landing on the islands...or land and then blow up the tanks since they don't really shoot at you and such.

     

    Yeah man totally! I never played F-14 too much but the mechanics were far superior I remember that much.. more like you're actually flying as the screen tilted with your movement... F-18 never did that.. it was a weird tank-like movement...

     

    But F-18 was fun for me only because of the "freedom," if you will of the terrain.. You could play one of the same 4 missions over and over again yet do something different each time.. Like you were saying, landing different spots, blowing this and that up, etc.. :)

     

    Funny thing you say about the cart dying.. mine did too! More than one copy!! Were Absolute carts cheaply made or something?

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    No, the bits are NOT judged by the biggest bit component, they are judged by the buss bandwidth, if, you reduced all the Jaguar's chips to on single chip, it WOULD be a 64-bit chip, on a 64-bit buss with 64-bit memory. The Xbox has a 32-bit buss and a 32-bit intel chip in it, but it also has a 128-bit graphics chip, but, it's still a 32-bit system, becuase it has a 32-bit buss. The Jaguar is 64-bit becuase it has a 64-bit buss and memory, as well as a couple processors that are 64-bit, plus two 32-bit and on 16-bit co-processor. The TRUE CPU chip is a 64-bit chip, is the "TOM" chip, which is labeled on the chip as the Jaguar CPU. They are 64-bit proccessor becuase they use all of the 64-bit buss and can handle 64-bits of the 64-bit memory at once. What Jagcris is refering to with "Big Irons" is that besides this chip, no other chips proccess 64-bit NUMBERS and calculations, they still do the calculations and number crunching in 32-bits or less.

     

    Kind of dumb question here because the answer seems too obvious.. but are there any parts or chips on the Jaguar that are more powerful than the Xbox? Or Gamecube, PS2, DC? All the numbers are confusing me..

     

    And I didn't quite get the Big Irons thing.. so Big Irons is a main CPU for our modern PCs? Where does a chip like that compare with a chip on the Jaguar? Or is this an apples/oranges thing? Where could you begin to compare these? Like the Jag's CPU vs. any particular Pentium? How do they stack up against each other?

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    I think FLIGHT SIMULATORS in general don't mix with consoles ... too complicated, too slow, too little fun. I was always surprised that there were so many on the 7800 - especially given its small libary.

     

    You know! I never thought about that but you're totally right! What the hell is with all these simulators for the 7800?? Ace of Aces, Super Huey, F-14, F-18... some of them were pretty bad.. F-18 took me forever to figure out. Basically all you do is fly from point A to point B and that's it.. You could, however, depending on your style, create pretty cool flying situations... like diving under bridges, flying through tunnels, narrowly flying in between two walls, and blasting bridges and tanks away... Anyway, that part was pretty cool.... :)

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    I enjoy the Final Fight series too! It lost its magic a little quick because I thought of it as a slightly improved Double Dragon. I generally like the some of Capcom's themed successors more like Aliens Vs. Predator and the Punisher. Those were great!

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    So wait? How did the INTV get brough up in a Doom forum? Is there a version of Doom out there for the powerful 16-bit giant? I mean, SNES is 16 bit and has a version of Doom for it! Why can't the Intellivision?

     

     

    :P

  20. Posted

    Yeah, according to all the websites I've ever seen the INTV listed on, the INTV is indeed a 16-bit system. Using the General Instruments CP1610.

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    I believe the 8th Passenger is correctly referring to both Alien games for the C64. Although there is an "Alien" for the C64, it has nothing to do with the movie.

     

    No, the C64 Alien has the names right and a plotline similar to the movie's (though who's the android is variable)...

     

    DOH!!

     

    Sorry, I was thinking of a different one with the same name.

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    Can somebody either confirm or deny?

     

    In the latest special edition Reservoir Dogs DVD, in the deleted scenes section, the one titled "Background Check." After the circular shot of Mr. Orange, a female cop is at a computer and the function keys look awfully familiar!

     

    It has a few other close-ups but it never shows the Atari ST anywhere. So what do you guys think?

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    I have to say my favorite games so far are Rayman, Raiden, Blue Lightning, and Zool 2.  

     

     

    Well, well, look at that, someone comes along with no preconceptions or expectations of what a game should be like, and he picks BLUE LIGHTNING as one of his current faves... 8)

     

    Gees! What's his problem!? :P

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