I can't be the only one.... [Archive]

SageClaw

11-15-2004, 07:45 AM

While talking about a game that you remember very fondly with a group of friends they look at you like you are crazy. I am not talking about a group of non-gamer friends... because they always look at you that way when you start talking games. I am talking about the died in the wool, supposedly 'hardcore' 'old school' gamers... but when you say "Hey, remember Rolling Thunder?" and they give you a blank look.

What games are you sure that every gamer would know about but turns out it seems like you are the only one that remembers it?

Rolling Thunder is one arcade game that I loved but get the most amount of 'never heard of it.'.

Duality

11-15-2004, 09:13 AM

I am talking about the died in the wool, supposedly 'hardcore' 'old school' gamers... but when you say "Hey, remember Rolling Thunder?" and they give you a blank look.
Are you sure they're not looking at you like that because you enjoyed Rolling Thunder?

SageClaw

11-15-2004, 10:28 AM

Are you sure they're not looking at you like that because you enjoyed Rolling Thunder?

Heh.... no, I am sure. Blank look. Not the same look I get when I mention that I really enjoyed Time Traveler. : )

(Which I didn't but love to say that just to get conversations rolling sometimes.)

EDIT: Duality, are you telling me that you have never mentioned a game only to have people look at you like you are imagining things?

DarkKnightCecil

11-15-2004, 01:24 PM

Rolling Thunder! If you can time your ducks right, you own the game. :)

I remember it fondly. I was a bigger fan of Rolling Thunder 2 and I'm surprised no one has tried to update it for the new systems. I expected at least a GBA port.

The game I get the most "huh?!" looks is Sewer Shark for Sega CD. I know, most considered it FMV rubbish but I still love it. Anyone who remembers Sega CD, only remembers Night Trap.

Blackwolf

11-15-2004, 01:33 PM

I still have Sewer Shark, and I joke about it being the best game on the system.

Key word is "joke", because that's what that game was. :>

I actually remember being at a friend's place right before PC4 (Mr. The Claw might remember this one) and playing Frog Bog on their Intellivision. I talked about how it was my favorite game as a four year old.

Their ten year old kid looked at me and said "How the hell can you like THIS game, even when you're FOUR?"

Ah, good times.

Duality

11-15-2004, 02:43 PM

Duality, are you telling me that you have never mentioned a game only to have people look at you like you are imagining things?
I don't know any other gamers! I really don't talk about games to anybody because they will have absolutely no clue what I'm talking about.

I do, however; get plenty of those same looks when I'm wearing a tshirt with a gaming reference on it. For example, my llama tee that has crosshairs over the silhouette of a llama. Try explaining that one to someone and they just sorta start inching away from you ...

Octocamo

11-15-2004, 02:59 PM

I don't know any other gamers! I really don't talk about games to anybody because they will have absolutely no clue what I'm talking about.

Imy llama tee that has crosshairs over the silhouette of a llama. Try explaining that one to someone and they just sorta start inching away from you ...

Lmfao man. That t-shirt must rule.

I don't really have any gamer friends either. But They look at me strange when reading Game mags during school..

I don't have any Game t-shirts, yet I want some.

Arandar

11-15-2004, 05:34 PM

Well I seem to be the only one who remembers, or has played it seems like for that matter, Snow Brothers for the original NES. I mention it in every single old school game thread and no one seems to say anything about it. That game was so much fun. To bad I don't have my NES anymore. And to make it wors eI still have my Game Boy but its like 17 bucks or something for the GB, if I can even find it to begin with.

Tulare

11-16-2004, 10:09 AM

I actually remember being at a friend's place right before PC4 (Mr. The Claw might remember this one) and playing Frog Bog on their Intellivision. I talked about how it was my favorite game as a four year old.

Their ten year old kid looked at me and said "How the hell can you like THIS game, even when you're FOUR?"

Ah, good times.

I remember when I thought Pitfall and River Raid were the greatest games I'd ever seen. I still kind of want to get an Em of Pitfall II. I think Pitfall II was when I realized, whoa, these things are just going to get better.

As for a game most people never seem to know what I'm talking about. On a Comodore 64 there was a game called Montezuma's Revenge that I loved.

Blackwolf

11-16-2004, 10:40 AM

SageClaw

11-16-2004, 11:26 AM

I remember Montezuma's Revenge.

The Commodore 64 game I remember most is Impossible Mission. It started off with voice synthesis. "Another visitor! Stay a while...Stay FOREVER!!!!!!!!!" Sadly I sucked at it and never was able to beat it.

I remember the both. Impossible Mission was a great game and a great idea. I did beat it a few times (which kinda kills that whole Impossible part of it... much like the credit sequence for the Never Ending Story). Worse thing about that was when you only had that one last switch to do... the timer is at 00:04 and you know you will never make it. : )

Something like you had 5 or 6 hours to finish the game but everytime you messed it up it took time away from that.... man... I need to find that game again. : )

Another one, since we are talking about the C-64, wasn't so much a game but a program from Activision; Little Computer People. Another one where people look at me and go "Huh?" Basically The Sims for 1985... well The Sim.

Blackwolf

11-16-2004, 12:36 PM

LCP!!!!!!!!

I thought it was the coolest thing ever in 1985, unfortunately my game got corrupted and I could never play it a second time.

Let me explain for you kids: EACH DISK had a unique number on it, so each disk had a different "person" living on it. Unfortunately, the game was very easy to get the data corrupted, a bad power turnoff or a lockup could literally destroy the game. (People became so attached to their LCP, they would send their disks back to Activision and they would repair the disk and keep that person's unique number intact.)

I did finally get a disk image of it with one guys LCP and played it again a year or so ago. It wasn't as cool as I remembered it, but it was still the early precursor to the Sims. (Except your guy spoke english and would actually type you letters.)

DarkKnightCecil

11-16-2004, 01:37 PM

I remember LCP quite well. His name was Lionel and he had a dog...I can't remember the name of the dog though. The game was so cool for back then. It was a nice change of pace after a long day of RPGing in the Bard's tale.

The first time he knocked on the monitor screen I nearly jumped out of my chair!

Lord Moon

11-19-2004, 08:37 AM

LCP I really wanted that game. C64, I wish I had kept mine. I remember playing Test Drive, Winter Games, Summer Games, Sim City & all the Gold Box D&D games on mine.

Sim City on the C64 had to be the biggest joke ever. While the gameplay was the same, the graphical differance from the C64 version compared to the DOS or MAC version was huge. After I got that for my Commodore I knew the 64's days were numbered.

Tulare

11-20-2004, 01:23 PM

Komposit

11-21-2004, 09:57 PM

I remember key quest (think that's the name), but everybody else probably remembers it to. There was this stock market game for the C-64 that I really liked. I think the big stocks on it were AT&T and IBM. A lot of different types of stock on it.

I never played that but, I would really like to see a modernised version of that. Have like downloadable content (for new stocks).

Arandar

11-22-2004, 06:07 PM

I rest my case.

Lord Moon

11-24-2004, 09:19 PM

Mention practically any game from the Turbo Grafx 16 system & you get a lot of blank stares also.

Alien Crush
Devil's Crush
Military Maddness
Dungeon Explorer

Blackwolf

11-24-2004, 09:37 PM

That's because the only game from the Turbografx that was worth any salt was Bonk's Adventure. :>

Apulo

11-25-2004, 12:52 AM

This whole thread makes me want to dig through my closet and unearth a c64 and see what all those disks I have contain...

Emptythought

11-25-2004, 02:59 AM

This always disapoints me, i was talking to my friends about me getting a defender machine and they were like "wha?"

and these are people who had 2600's and NES's, and used to go to the arcades here all the time. its like there minds got formatted...

Lord Moon

11-25-2004, 05:57 PM

That's because the only game from the Turbografx that was worth any salt was Bonk's Adventure. :>

Actually there are a quite a few good ones on the TG16. :smt002

Devil's Crush is a the best damn video pinball game I have ever played. I have yet to find one that is better. I still throw this one in every once in a while hoping to get a legit finish. I finished it once (hit max score) but that was because I got the ball stuck & just left it stuck until it finished. Devil's Crush was successful enough to warrant a sequel, Alien Crush & was also ported over to the Sega Genesis as Dragon's Fury.

Military Maddness is basicly the same thing as Advance Wars. Only this is set on the moon. Lot of different units, large number of levels, multiplayer, great story, etc. This one was also successful enough to be ported over to the Playstation as Nectaris.

Bomberman......I love playing Bomberman.

Spatterhouse is one everyone seems to know besides Bonk. Your girlfriend gets captured by monsters & you find a mask that when you wear it you look like Jason Vorheeves.

Dungeon Explorer was the token Gauntlet clone on the TG16, it was still damn fun & you could could play 5 players on it.

& MUCH MUCH MORE!!!!! :biggrin:

Tom the First

11-28-2004, 06:03 PM

Crystal Quest for Mac Classic II. I'm so hardcore no one knows what I am talking about.

SageClaw

12-08-2004, 12:50 PM

Just thought of another one.

It Came From the Desert.

I am guessing the reason I get a lot of blank looks is because of it being on the Amiga. Seriously loved that game. Damn shame no one ever thought to make an updated version... or at the very least steal the idea and make something close to it.

Leideia

12-13-2004, 01:05 PM

I've gotten that every time I mention a game, doesn't matter what it is. :(

The most recent one I suppose was R-Type (the first), which is on various older systems. Friends of mine were talking about it (and they own many of the systems it was on, C64, TG16..). As soon as I mentioned it, I got blank looks, and was asked if it was on Xbox of all things. Kinda strange.

Edit: Thought of another one. =0 Gabriel Knight, I remember spending so much time on it, but every time I mention it, people have no idea what I'm talking about. It's not exactly old but I was little so it's oldish to me. ;x

Baron von Brunk

12-18-2004, 03:02 AM

Arandar

12-18-2004, 03:07 AM

No one played (or beat) Mischeif Makers for N64, except me. Not exactly as much as a classic as per say Bad Dudes or Heavy Barrel for NES, but it's still highly underrated, and my friends draw a blank when I mention it.
I have heard of it, and can at least picture the character ont he front of the box. I think I even have a Nintendo Power magazine that covers that game. Damn that reminds me I need to renew now to get the January bonus pack issue thing. What type of game is that anyway? Isn't it an action type game? Or maybe an action/RPG type? I forget exactly.

The game I posted about however has been ignored. No one has even mentioned hearing about the game I wrote about. I think I win when it comes to classic games that no one else has heard about. While the rest of you reminise about all the older games you all know or at least have heard about, I have played the game that it seems like no one has ever heard about. Go me. :D

Baron von Brunk

12-18-2004, 03:13 AM

What type of game is that anyway? Isn't it an action type game? Or maybe an action/RPG type? I forget exactly.

2 and 1/2-D side scroller. You play as a robot woman named Marina Liteyears, who has to venture through the planet Clancer in search of the missing professor.

Arandar

12-18-2004, 03:23 AM

I was actually thinking of getting that game at one point. I saw the pictures in NP and I thought it looked kind of cool. If its really is that good then I suppose I'll pick up a copy at some point if I ever see it. Provided it doesn't cost to much of course. I may get a discount at GameStop, but that doesn't mean I want to go spend 30-40 bucks on a game I don't desperatly want.

kadosho

12-18-2004, 03:30 PM

Something i really need to confess..
I actually did get a chance to play Metal Gear 1&2 on the MSX. From a friend of mine who always imported alot of games. Only wish that MG1&2 may hopefully be released here.

*even as an easter egg or bonus disc.
**Metal Gear Twin Snakes (japan only) recieved a re-release edition of the MSX version.
Bummer it wasnt released for the US version.
:smt070

Amplifiar

12-18-2004, 05:15 PM

I do, however; get plenty of those same looks when I'm wearing a tshirt with a gaming reference on it. For example, my llama tee that has crosshairs over the silhouette of a llama. Try explaining that one to someone and they just sorta start inching away from you ...

Rofl. None of my friends are games either, no clue why. They play games, yeah but they don't play them most of the time like I do. I try to talk to them about Ico or something and they go back to talking about GTA. Its kinda annoying.

DarthEvilDude

12-18-2004, 06:20 PM

Gosh!

how can you guys forget A Boy and his Blob? (NES)

i could feed that bastard for HOURS on end.

trippy in game music too.

main overworld theme (http://www.boomspeed.com/omelette/music/blobearth.mid)

Baron von Brunk

12-18-2004, 06:26 PM

nekobun

12-18-2004, 07:46 PM

Did anyone else out there play much Wing War when it was in the arcades? I rocked the Harrier for the longest time until I discovered the pimpfest that was the Zero. My brother was more a helicopter man, though, and we kept pretty even when we still had access to the thing.