Videocravings

[Spiderdancer]

Awwww. It's just so CUTE.

My bad, Hucklebubba. I haven't played any of them except Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past. I watched Sibling 1 play through Chrono and Secret of Mana and probably a couple of others. It's all a blur of ponytailed girls and shag-haired guys with swords traveling in a straight line across heavily tiled terrain at this point.

[Lazario]

Every NES and SNES videogame I've ever played, and Sega too. Except for The Addams Family and that one with the Battle Toads or something with Toads in it - it was a popular animated series on TV for awhile at one point.

[PoolMan]

Oh, the Battletoads game was IMPOSSIBLE. Controller-throwing tough. Not to mention what a sad copy of TMNT the Toads were.

[Lazario]

Though that game sort of had 'cooler' graphics. I remember being a little more impressed with it than the Turtles games that came before it. Those Turtles games were really hard, though. But I loved the one where there was a level in a futuristic city, on this highway, where the 2 player (or 1) were hoverboarding over the highway and fighting the Foot that would come up and try to get them.

[Al]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles In Time. One of my all-time favorites. My friend Vin and I played in incessantly in high school. In our prime, we beat the game top to bottom on 'easy' in 22 minutes. There are still lines that come up in conversation now and again (just last week actually).

"Prehistoric Turtlesaurus!"
"Bury My Shell At Wounded Knee."
"Big Apple 3 A.M."

Ah, memories.

Al

[Lazario]

Oh yeah. Damn. I do miss that game, it was one of the coolest I ever played.

[DTH]

There are five games that were huge parts of my adolescence:

Streets of Rage (I - III) - Sega Megadrive/Genesis

So many happy memories playing those. I remember we played II so much that a couple of my friends played it through using only throws...

Moonstone - Commodore Amiga

Four knights roamed the land looking for the four keys that unlocked the boss. You were racing to find the keys, going to zones and having encounters. If you defeated the encounter, you walked away with a treasure, which had a chance of being a key.

The encounters varied depending on what area of the map you were at and each one of the opponents had an instant kill attack, if you put one foot wrong (the tall blue giants smashed you in to pieces with their clubs, the ratlings strangled you with their tails...).

It was bloody, violent and so much fun. What made it worse was that my Amiga 500 really didn't like the game and would crash completely at random. To this date, only one person has managed to complete it out of our circle, despite the many, many hours of play.

Jaguar XJ220 - Commodore Amiga

Man, I played this game to death. This game was one of the first where it actually remembered where the other cars were in relation to yourself (and your partner, if you were playing 2 UP).

Also, it was a really playable game and a lot of fun. Plus, you got to drive a Jaguar XJ220 which is not only a beautiful car, but also was the fastest performance car at its time.

Wings - Commodore Amiga

I played this game for hours and hours and hours. It was a World War I game where you played a pilot. It had a story that unfolded through your diary and you would get a diary entry before you went on a mission.

The missions were dogfights (played out like X-Wing or something), a bombing run (which was an isometric 3D thing) and something else (which I can't remember).

You had to play through all the years of the First World War to get the full story... I got through 3 years... so good

Space Crusade - Commodore Amiga

Based on the MB game, this was a superlative computer version. My friends and I played it hella lot and certainly got our money's worth out of it!

[Lazario]

Doing my best to remember...


Friday the 13th for NES - I used to play that game psychotically because, we owned it and didn't have to rent it, and because I hadn't seen more than maybe 1 or 2 of the movies by that point and I was obsessed with the idea of all these horror movies I hadn't seen yet (Cinemax singularly took care of that - for which I'll be eternally grateful!), and this was my way of getting to know what they took their inspiration from. That maybe the characters in the game were in the movies somewhere (a good 70% weren't, so it didn't matter in the least). And I'll never forget that music. And the game actually managed to spook me a little. Because I had a very active imagination and I hadn't seen too many horror movies by that time - I was still renting Disney movies.


The next one is a game for NES that, as God is my witness (or not, ha ha *private joke*), I can't remember the name of. It sounds a lot like Mad Max. Something with a Max in it - Metal Max? Or Metal Mech - that could be it. I don't remember it very well. But I was obsessed with it.


Super Mario World for SNES - the most addictive video game I've ever played in my entire life. I called one of those Video Game Help hotlines and racked up a bill over $100 in less than a week (for which my parents were very displeased). Sometimes I find myself playing it in my head.


Mortal Kombat for SNES - I loved all these games and could probably name off all the characters from parts 1-3 and the Ultimate MK3. I played them incessantly too. I loved the violence and the look of the games were so advanced (especially the first one) and cool and realistic-looking. And I had so much fun playing those games. As II and III came along, they got more violent and I loved that too. It's fun performing those fatality moves and killing people by chopping off their heads and ripping / slicing their torso's in half, freezing them to death, freezing them then chopping them up... How I could go on, right. And the Frienship, Babality, and Animality moves were pretty darn cool as well. Video games were one of the things I think that make me so critical of filmmakers' lack of imagination.


And any Mighty Morphin Power Rangers game I could get my hands on. I just thought the lore of the show was cool (I was still a kid, back then) and the costumes and the monsters (and I had low standards back then, so I ate this stuff up). But I still love these games (even though I can't play them without an SNES). Especially The Movie game for SNES. I especially loved the 3rd and 4th levels snowboarding and riding on a train. But actually, all the levels were very cool (the 5th was the hardest, even harder than the 6th and the final battle with Ivan Ooze).

[Spiderdancer]

Warcraft II. When death knights were DEATH KNIGHTS, not pansy live guys wussy enough to let a sword steal their soul. Pah. Dang youngsters is ruinin' the franchise with their dang mulitplayer online gamin'. Also I was fond of the ogre magi.

[Lazario]

So, when did that game come out? And what were the Death Knights like back then? (I've never played or even heard of this game - but I'm very interested in that game title and the name of these game characters)

[Spiderdancer]

Hmmm. I first played it well after WCIII came out, so I really don't know. (A friend introduced me to it, and then III, in college.) It has to have been sometime in the late 90s. They're PC titles, not console. WCI and II are basically Humans vs. Orcs, with some supporting characters and races. The Orcs' supporting spellcasters are the death knights (primaries being ogre magi). They were basically armored skeletons on horseback with mage-style staves who could cast whirlwinds, death coil (a life-stealing attack), an energy shield, raise skeletons from enemy corpses, etc. In III many of their abilities are split between the new Death Knights and the Liches.

III has far more races, but the storyline is a downer, and you don't get to choose the ending or really a race, either - the storyline progresses through all the races in a linear fashion.

I have a soft spot in my heart for the old knights, because I just like skeletons. In III I'm far more fond of the Liches than the Death Knights.

[blinkfan]

lazario said:

Mortal Kombat for SNES - I loved all these games and could probably name off all the characters from parts 1-3 and the Ultimate MK3. I played them incessantly too. I loved the violence and the look of the games were so advanced (especially the first one) and cool and realistic-looking. And I had so much fun playing those games. As II and III came along, they got more violent and I loved that too. It's fun performing those fatality moves and killing people by chopping off their heads and ripping / slicing their torso's in half, freezing them to death, freezing them then chopping them up... How I could go on, right. And the Frienship, Babality, and Animality moves were pretty darn cool as well. Video games were one of the things I think that make me so critical of filmmakers' lack of imagination.

Yay mortal Kombat. LONG LIVE JOHNNY CAGE.

[Head Mutant]

Con... sole?

[PoolMan]

Y'know, those funny machines that are designed for video games, instead of file management.

[Head Mutant]

I thought they were designed for impact testing, as frustrated gamers could whip them across the room at high velocities. Safety cages for the internal gerbil unit.