Arcade Games & Random Gaming Nostalgia

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14524

A Tour of the Alpha 1 Classic Arcade Collection

https://arcadeblogger.com/2017/07/21/a- ... ollection/

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed May 13, 2020 18:29

I mentioned my mate ran The Arcade Vaults in Cardiff, where you can turn up and play on old (and new) consoles and ting. Doccy G and I went, it was pretty cool and turns out we suck at games.

Anyway, they're doing a videogames quiz on Friday. Turn up (virtually, obv) and shizz.

https://www.facebook.com/thearcadevault ... 0902687432

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14524

The story of Neo Geo

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14524

https://twitter.com/JohnAndersen21/stat ... 8895324160

A blogger has posted a ton of game center pictures from old Japanese resort/hotel brochures. They are a fascinating look at what you could do on a rainy day or in the evening after a day on the beach in mid-70's to early 80's. Link: https://t.co/9p2RJYqBpZ pic.twitter.com/1ZOXxrP6d7
— John Andersen (@JohnAndersen21) May 17, 2020

https://www.yomogi2017.xyz/archive/cate ... B%E5%83%8F

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14433

This is fucking brilliant! Street Fighter fight.

TheVision · **Posted:** Tue May 19, 2020 11:13

That's brilliant!

throughsilver · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6197

zaphod79 wrote:

The story of Neo Geo

Loved that. Thanks!

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14524

https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/18-fre ... io-3468202

These look to be not bad - solid list and information about a lot of different systems and currently free

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14524

https://twitter.com/katewillaert/status ... 8373775362

What do we define "software"? If it's just code, can it be written down in a book and still be considered software? Was GALAXY GAME the first commercially published computer game with cover art?

Again, more in the link:https://t.co/dv0Z82NaaN pic.twitter.com/nUXgnKCUuG
— "Critical Kate" WillÃ¦rt ðŸ¤˜ðŸ» (@katewillaert) May 21, 2020

https://www.acriticalhit.com/best-box-a ... ted-paper/

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14524

So yesterday (22nd May) was

The 40th anniversary of Pacman

https://twitter.com/katewillaert/status ... 1009655810

On the Pac-Man side of things,@Kotaku has a new history piece, and history account @365ofpac is promising some sort of announcement later today.https://t.co/Kfy7AhveWQ
— "Critical Kate" WillÃ¦rt ðŸ¤˜ðŸ» (@katewillaert) May 22, 2020

The 30th anniversary of the intial release of Microsoft solitaire and minesweeper

https://uk.pcmag.com/games/127086/micro ... ve-players

And the 20th anniversary of Perfect Dark

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020 ... 64-classic

TheVision · **Posted:** Sat May 23, 2020 23:17

I was working at Game when Perfect Dark came out. One of our customers had bought it from another shop in the morning, decided he didn't like it and traded it in at our store around lunch time.

He only lost about £30 on the whole deal.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14524

https://twitter.com/GameHistoryOrg/stat ... 3688967169

It was thought to be lost forever, but we managed to rescue and rebuild the unreleased "Days of Thunder" for the NES from a pile of dying floppy disks. In memory of its co-author Chris Oberth, here's the story of how it all came together: https://t.co/knXkMaJ6bJ pic.twitter.com/fREmHhsmR1
— Video Game History Foundation (@GameHistoryOrg) June 1, 2020

https://gamehistory.org/days-of-thunder-nes-unreleased/

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Jun 02, 2020 18:52

It looks a bit easy. Although the pit section had me clenching my butt with rage.

Findus Fop · **Joined:** 14th May, 2009 **Posts:** 4370

Well this is brilliantly insane

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-06-03-sega-celebrates-its-60th-anniversary-with-a-game-gear-micro

JBR · **Joined:** 2nd Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 3312

Findus Fop wrote:

Well this is brilliantly insane

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-06-03-sega-celebrates-its-60th-anniversary-with-a-game-gear-micro

This guy's summed it up. Kind - lost.

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romanista · **Posted:** Wed Jun 10, 2020 12:13

Well the game gear was an overrated peace of shit to begin with anyway...

Got my pc engine mini yesterday, as a pleasant surprise.. (have my amazon at an old mail address i rarely use so didn't have any shipping confirmation and it had been months since ordering)..

Played some nice shooters,, sapphire is really nice in an early nineties demo scene / air wolf kind of way ... (and aparantly difficult to get normally)... nice little discovery project for the next week..

And i can just switch cables with my ones mini so it doesn'take much space

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14524

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/2019 ... video-game

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The mysterious origins of an uncrackable video game

romanista · **Posted:** Wed Jun 17, 2020 16:00

Revstu has been buiding spme retropie stuff and collectionables http://wosland.podgamer.com/hacking-the-pie/

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14524

Restoring Satoru Iwata's 39 Year-Old VIC-20 Easter Egg

Dr Zoidberg · **Joined:** 15th Oct, 2010 **Posts:** 5485

This is very tempting
https://www.smythstoys.com/uk/en-gb/vid ... t/p/191617

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14524

Dr Zoidberg wrote:

This is very tempting
https://www.smythstoys.com/uk/en-gb/vid ... t/p/191617

They are really trying for that sit down cabinet feeling here :-)

romanista · **Posted:** Tue Jun 30, 2020 17:29

Billy Mitchel reinstated... ‘new evidence’ without stating what the evidence is.
L except that they don’t think a mamecapable computer would fit in a donkey kong cabinet. Something http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/0 ... ld_records

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14524

I think this is a good answer to that

https://twitter.com/sprinter461/status/ ... 6260811777

Let me clear this up regarding my opinion on Billy Mitchell and whether he cheated.

I didn't want to believe he cheated. I've known Billy since we were teens. But overwhelming evidence showed he DID cheat.

So until I see new "evidence" proving otherwise... he cheated. OK?
— Tim McVey (@sprinter461) June 22, 2020

Basically all the evidence says he cheated - even evidence which had sat online for 10+ years showed the game loading levels up in the exact same broken way that *only* MAME did

No one is saying he's not a great player or that he could not do some / all of this stuff legit what is being said is the videos that he sent to 'prove' this to Twin Galaxys were created using MAME

Some other old / interesting reading (you'll probably need to click through to read the thread)

https://twitter.com/CatDeSpira/status/1 ... 1091799042

So this was a pretty advantageous position for Mitchell to be in; both owning Twin Galaxies AND having Walter Day on the editorial board of Guinness Book of World Records. It's worth noting at the time that Mitchell DID NOT have the world record on Donkey Kong Junior or Pac-Man.
— Catherine DeSpira (@CatDeSpira) June 22, 2020

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14524

https://twitter.com/AmigaL0ve/status/12 ... 5228413955

"30 years later, here are all the files from my last Amiga hard drive. Full Agony sources are there, accompanied by some prototypes I did at the end of my Amiga programing era." -- Yves Grolet. Over 170MB archived of HDD dev files and more for download: https://t.co/rSVem9xHp2 pic.twitter.com/ldbT0cp2OF
— Amiga Love â¤ (@AmigaL0ve) July 6, 2020

Hearthly · **Joined:** 11th May, 2008 **Posts:** 13386

This thread is about the best match I can think of for this.

I bought COMMAND & CONQUER REMASTERED the other day (£18 on Origin) because I do like a bit of gaming nostalgia. Amazingly, as I was playing it Mrs Hearthly came in from the other room and said 'Is that Command & Conquer?', she hadn't even seen it, she literally just recognised the music and voices, on a game I last played sometime in the late 1990s.

Anyway, I digress, the SINISTER ALGORITHMS that rule our lives suggested this NoClip documentary on YouTube to me this morning, and I know some folks here like his stuff.

Enjoy, it's a fascinating and informative watch!

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14524

Quote:

Sega's New Astro City Micro-Console Is Packed With 36 Arcade Gems

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/ ... rcade_gems

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14524

https://twitter.com/GoldS_TCRF/status/1 ... 5350679553

Finished an article on the unused graphics, sounds, and changes between the five currently dumped versions of Jungle Hunt, fka Jungle King.https://t.co/RmqAl6ms1u pic.twitter.com/OdO52sjrjw
— GoldS (@GoldS_TCRF) July 8, 2020

The sight behind this is fascinating - just looking at unused and hidden information in old games and comparing different revisions

devilman · **Posted:** Wed Jul 15, 2020 17:14

I'd always play Jungle King if I saw it in an arcade. Simple, but fun gameplay and there wasn't much else around with the sampled sound effect at the start. If I wasn't playing that, I'd be looking for a Phoenix cabinet.

GazChap · **Posted:** Wed Jul 15, 2020 18:07

zaphod79 wrote:

https://twitter.com/GoldS_TCRF/status/1281008755350679553

romanista · **Posted:** Fri Aug 07, 2020 8:56

New netflix video games doc airs next week... narrated by mario
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/ ... e_of_mario

(Mario's voice is nice for mario, not sure about 1,5hrs of Charles Martinet though)

romanista · **Posted:** Fri Aug 07, 2020 9:01

zaphod79 wrote:

I think this is a good answer to that

https://twitter.com/sprinter461/status/ ... 6260811777

Let me clear this up regarding my opinion on Billy Mitchell and whether he cheated.

I didn't want to believe he cheated. I've known Billy since we were teens. But overwhelming evidence showed he DID cheat.

So until I see new "evidence" proving otherwise... he cheated. OK?
— Tim McVey (@sprinter461) June 22, 2020

Oh I agree, hence my use of inveted comments… last time this came up i spent hours reading all the threads and subtreads about the evidnce (which you probaby posted;)).. This is just some corrupt hand wrestling

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14433

I’ve got one of those C64 minis. It’s a nice bit of plastic but, fuck me, I’ve no idea how I played games back in t’day because joysticks suck balls. And this hasn’t got any plastic suction cups on the bottom neither so it’s bloody annoying to control.

Playing Boulderdash (fuck me I love this game) I’d just about managed until I need to actually move accurately and quickly then it was a joyless bag of shit because the little twat wouldn’t go where I wanted him to; the fiddly piece of shit joystick being the culprit.

And how the fuck did anyone get off the first 3 screens of Cybernoid with a joystick? Fuck me. Shooting AND moving? No you ain’t.

I suppose what I’m saying is? RMD alternative controllers to play on this please because it fucking stinks at the minute when I clearly should be having all sorts of groovy retro fun.

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14433

Also, what’s all them buttons on Mission Impossible during the lift screen? I can’t remember using them as a yoof and I sure as shit can’t remember now since I ain’t got an instruction manual.

romanista · **Posted:** Sat Aug 15, 2020 12:03

Satsuma wrote:

Also, what’s all them buttons on Mission Impossible during the lift screen? I can’t remember using them as a yoof and I sure as shit can’t remember now since I ain’t got an instruction manual.

The button are you used for entering the code you'll find when completing levels... can't remember it is just for the level of for the whole game

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14524

https://www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/202 ... cade-game/

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Enter Your Initials: Preserving The Source Code of Star Fire, a Forty Year Old Arcade Game

romanista · **Posted:** Mon Sep 07, 2020 10:36

a new version of samurai showdown found.. great story.. want to play this now..

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020 ... holy-grail

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14524

romanista wrote:

a new version of samurai showdown found.. great story.. want to play this now..

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020 ... holy-grail

Thanks - that's a great story

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14524

https://twitter.com/patrickklepek/statu ... 1727072258

The â€œgigaleakâ€ is over, but Nintendoâ€™s secrets continue to quietly spill into the open via anonymous 4chan links.

They contain answers to questions we didnâ€™t even know to ask. Hereâ€™s what youâ€™ve missed. https://t.co/O4Um48IE4S
— Patrick Klepek (@patrickklepek) September 11, 2020

Main thing from the leak there was an unreleased Ed the Duck game for the GB

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Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Oct 14, 2020 22:24

Ashens watch 2020:

TheVision · **Posted:** Wed Oct 14, 2020 22:48

That looks terrible and I'm basing that on 1) the trailer not being funny. Was it supposed to be? and 2) That guy with the beard in the thumbnail. He's a YouTuber and I find him immensely annoying.

Still, best of luck to Ashens. He's doing alright for himself it seems.

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14433

When I see these things and those guys I’m reminded of The Nostalgia Critic.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14524

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14524

https://twitter.com/_daledriver/status/ ... 6148631565

This might be the biggest gamble I've ever taken at @IGN

If you have a spare 20 minutes this weekend, please check out this mad journey I went on to find the man behind a sound effect I've been hearing for 22 years.

Written: https://t.co/zlx20onvwk
YT: https://t.co/CgPtjOcBsN pic.twitter.com/lHqVD5MB2M
— Dale Driver (@_daledriver) October 31, 2020

Tracking down an old obscure sound file from Resident Evil (and other places)

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Nov 03, 2020 17:10

There are so many sounds like that. The one of the baby laughing, the "metal crunch" sound when something crashes, castle thunder, etc. Obviously the Wilhelm scream is probably the most famous.

TheVision · **Posted:** Tue Nov 03, 2020 17:24

The baby laughing is off the Lenor advert and also featured in Trolls on the Amiga. Really annoying.

The gate opening squeak/sound is the one that follows me around. You'd know it if you heard it.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Nov 03, 2020 17:33

TheVision wrote:

The baby laughing is off the Lenor advert

Was it there first, though? WHO KNOWS?

Someone knows.

TheVision · **Posted:** Tue Nov 03, 2020 17:36

Grim... wrote:

TheVision wrote:

The baby laughing is off the Lenor advert

Was it there first, though? WHO KNOWS?

Someone knows.

The baby is old enough to tell you him or her self. We should ask them.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38716

Doom door opening noise

Malc · **Posted:** Tue Nov 03, 2020 20:31

kestrel/eagle/vulture screeching noise

GazChap · **Posted:** Tue Nov 03, 2020 20:42

A *lot* of the sounds in Gloom on the Amiga were sampled pretty much wholesale from Aliens - the doors opening/closing is the stasis tubes opening/closing, the grunts screaming when you shoot them comes from the nest attack sequence or when Bishop is being impaled etc.

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