Gaming room (It's a geeks paradise)

[Floating Onion]

Not yet! Last night was the first time I'd played the series for a few years. Currently lacking broadband. Should be sorted in a couple of weeks.

[lozzyloz]

Get plenty of practice in first. Took me 3 days before I got my first kill!

[SeanMacGabhann]

there is nothing like going online to realise just how hopeless you are is there - when some 12 year old punk from Boise beats you 15-0

[lozzyloz]

Especially when its an American 12 year old from Texas with a limited vocabulary based on 50 Cent lyrics.

[Floating Onion]

Still missing my mouse! Really enjoy the 360, but after years of playing with a mouse & keyboard it is taking a while to get used to little sticks!

[mockney piers]

80s Elite, chuckie egg

90s Street fighter, NHLPA '92, Mario Karts, Legend of Zelda

00s HL, HL2, Total War, Prject Gotham

likewise to name but a few

[SeanMacGabhann]

word, loz. true dat

[Floating Onion]

Civ1, Doom, Privateer, Warcraft 1 & 2, Quake, Starcraft, HL1

They are the main culprits for me spending too much time in front of a PC.

[SeanMacGabhann]

yeah just seing of the names

Doom

Metropolis Street Racer (which became Project Githam)

Shenmue

Zelda's various adventures

[mockney piers]

Eeek, WoW. Apparently a good month of my life was spent there, and that was just one of my 6 characters.

[lozzyloz]

I could probably add a couple of years to my life if I never played the following games:

Defender (Arcade)

Asteroids (Arcade)

Prince of Persia (commodore 64)

PGA Golf (PC)

Civilization (PS2)

PGR (Xbox)

Age of Empires (Mac)

Civ 4 (Mac)

GT1, GT2, GT3, GT4 Prologue, GT4, GT5 demo (PS1,2&3)

[Floating Onion]

Not tried WoW. Mainly because I'd probably get too addicted!

Doom has always been fun. An old mate of mine & I would normally blast through the whole thing on coop after a pile of beers.

[Floating Onion]

Oh yeah, Neverwinter Nights consumed vast amounts of time.

[SeanMacGabhann]

I spend many a weekend with the first 2 GT's and was salivating over the 3rd... but by then I realised apart from the graphics I wasn't seeing enough evolution. Keeping an open mind for 5 tho

anyone play Microprose Golf on the Amiga - That was the golf game for me. Then I went on to PGA, and when I sqw PGA 486 on the PC I thought it would be impossible for them to get any better

[mockney piers]

Oh noooooo, Baldurs Gate 1 & 2. God I ended up dreaming all those little phrases

[SeanMacGabhann]

you know you can download Doom on the 360 Onion?

about ?3 but you get to do the achievements!

[SeanMacGabhann]

Baldur's Gate on hard!! yes!

"Just. Lie. Down. And. Die!!!"

[Floating Onion]

You can still play it on the PC. There's a bunch of engines that will play the old files for you.

Also Microprose jogged my memory. X-Com. How could I have forgotten! I still enjoy playing it. I haven't found a game since that does that kind of squad based combat.

[Brendan]

I managed to go through the breakup of a year long relationship without noticing much due to Baldur?s Gate and Icewind Dale.

I emerged from my screen one day and she just wasn't there anymore.

[mockney piers]

A colleague's brother looked up from his WoW addiction to find himself divorced!

I suspect though that it was his retreat from a bad marriage.

[woodie]

I play quake 3, a mod of it called Threewave and a mod of call of duty called united offensive. Somehow i got into it from a demo off a cd i was given..quake 3 . Guess it was about 2001. I liked tomb raider 3. So my nearest and dearest thought I would enjoy the proper version of quake 3. Initially was into 'how it all works' but a couple of years later I was pumping my broad band , tweaking for accuracy and have been to Lan parties in california,50 or so people connected in one building. Am an admin on some gameservers and have some very fun friends all from these games. Now I have less time for this tho. i usually play in high ping scenarios (usa gameservers where my gaming friends are)but if anyone fancies a go on uk servers of quake/call of duty/unreal Im up fo it. Only play off computer though.Message me or whatever and we'll find a server.

[Shu.Kurimu.Sensei]

Wow, hadn't noticed this before! Got a good 29 years of gaming behind me too, thankfully I study more and game less these days :)) the DS is great, but since the Saturn died I personally reckon that a good 90% of all games produced for consoles are boring and a complete waste of my time, hence sticking to the DS on the bus and Mame and its ilk for a decent pixel rush. I mean all that unlockable nonsense these days, and for what? Don't even get me started on RPGs and random battles..Is it really worth backtracking and repeating levels? Not really worth wasting any of my life on that nonsense. As the market has "matured" it seems cgi scenes and missions have replaced the entire point of games - to be fun. I know the PSP has improved a hell of a lot recently in terms of quality software, but for me the DS is an amazing bit of kit, especially for multiplayer games. Hell I'm even practising Yoga and Pilates by using DS software, there are also wine tasting, beauty and personality testing titles for it, but I digress.

Guess its that "getting old" thang. Meh so much for progress, I doubt the gaming scene will ever be as exiting as in the Pc Engine/Superfamicom/Megadrive era, that was a golden time indeed :)-D

This isn't a bad article, it is hardly accurate, but is a pleasant enough trip down memory lane:

http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/50arcadecabinets/default.php

For a quicker fix, this may cause spitting of rice:

http://gamerhelp.com/article_viewer.cfm?article_id=131560&type=feature

This is a great game:

http://www.gonintendo.com/?p=20179

I love it to bits, although its a shame they put more classical music rather than the old folk tunes they included on previous arcade and Playstation versions, probably due to the popularity of the Nodame Cantabile Drama http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Nodame_Cantabile (based on the comic) which I can also highly recommend.

Here is a nice video of the famous (and very much overpriced, thanks to the legions of French and American tourists who locust strip places like this to re-sell on ebay) Super Potato in Akihabara.

http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news-13757-Super+Potato%2C+THE+place+for+gamers%2C+HDTV.html

There are plenty of better and cheaper places, especially in the suburbs and outside Tokyo (there are a good few retro places in and around Sapporo for example who are far cheaper)...

Oh, did anyone else see "The king of Kong"? http://www.billyvssteve.com/ it starts out pretty boring but picks up momentum and if you grew up when the first games were black and white, then it's a really good watch. The whole cult of Twin Galaxies does look a bit creepy though to put it mildly. If you can't find it on dvd, like pretty much everything, it can be found in ye underwurdle :))

[Adam_W]

Anyone ever play the orignial Quake: Team Fortress? I hold that responsible for consuming most of my early gaming years. The game that really started it all was The Secret of Monkey Island, not many things have made me laugh so much. Ron "Monkey Island" Gilbert is working on a new game called Deathspank and I'm crossing my fingers and toes it'll be good.

Deathspank Site

[macker]

Adam_W Wrote:

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> Anyone ever play the orignial Quake: Team

> Fortress? I hold that responsible for consuming

> most of my early gaming years.

Mine too. I can still hear the whines that playing scout (rushing past everyone to release the gas in The Rock) is cheating!

[woodie]

q3 1.16n version? for adam_w? that the old one you mean? i still have it