AWKWARD ZOMBIE

It's the thighs, eh?

Found my dad's old computer the other day. He still has D&D transcript files on his tape drives. Does this make my dad God tier nerd? or just oldest of old oldfag?

YOU ARE ALL OLD.

yeah my first console was the GBA.
I've never seen a SNES, NES, or whatever irl. Only untill last year did I see and play on a N64.



no but serious now (not that I was lying before - that's all true) I suppose I am rather late to the video game thing now, and it's weird whenever my sister and I see a new game (like the golden sun one) and reminisce, when others remember Pit (who I have only played as in brawl, not on his own games).

HOW CAN THIS EVEN BE POSSIBLE

he is like 13/14

My first console...

was the PC

I'm 18 though, so...

Hey guys, ready to kill me...?

I'M PLAYING OCARINA OF TIME FOR THE FIRST TIME. I'm playing it on an N64 and it is awesome.

I spent the whole summer going through my old N64 games. I played Donkey Kong 64 again and got twice as far as my original file in half the time. So, mathematically, I'm four times better at gaming than I was before.

Special shout out goes to Beetle Adventure Racing for being an awesome game that no one else has heard of.

At least you are playing it, I knew I kid that had never heard of it...and I killed him.

That, along with your signature, is creep city.

My friend kept hounding me for years to play it, but all the used game stores that had it (and not many stores keep N64 games anymore) had it for like $40 or more. Finally she broke down and gave me a copy for my birthday.

I am now tasked with discovering which "version" of the game it is. (The one with red blood, tunic colored blood, or green blood for Ganondorf.)

Sonic 3 & Knuckles is seizure-inducing goodness.

o/ PC bros.
I still have copies of Need for speed 2. Yes, from when it was good.

KIRBY TILT AND TUMBLE.

I keep coming back to Master of Orion. Not really that much special there, just another 4x. Well, I say that with no context in mind; it was an early one, so it probably did tread some new ground for its time, I'm not sure. Colonise planets, design ships, research new technologies... all the stock standards. Where it gets interesting, though, is the council they have. It's just some generic galatic council gambit, done a thousand times over. They convene every few dozen turns or so to vote on the next Master of Orion - see what they did there? So the council elects two different races, and then every race gets to vote for either, or just abstain.

In other games I've played with a similar system, when you lose the vote you just have a straight up game over. You do, however, have the chance of disagreeing. You can just say no, refuse to be a part of the alliance. Which is fantastic. So, the winning race becomes said Master, and every other race in the game gathers together in this new alliance to wipe out the independents; i.e., you. The maps could be maybe 80 planets wide, so if everybody is on about the same level, then at this point, that's seventy colonies against your ten. Including all the other factors; resources, technologies, fleets, then your chances aren't looking great. That doesn't matter, though. It isn't about winning at this point, it's about making a choice. It's about being able to say "no, I don't want to do that." It's about player control. Sure, it's probably going to boil down to a game over anyway, but it's a game over within the game's context. You haven't just lost because the game says "you lose", you've died because the galactic council has driven you out of all your colonies and killed every last one of your people. That's an important distinction. It leads to the same place, of course, but it's about losing your colonies instead of losing the game.

THE RAGE THE PAIN....THE FUN

what's the date frontier that puts a game in the "old" or "not old" side of the line, i wonder?