Perhaps read it like you did for reading literature at school and take as goal to write a summary. Polish it by finding a victim to read your summary to get feedback. Or use us.
And why not wiki your results ?
The Nostalgia Thread
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Perhaps read it like you did for reading literature at school and take as goal to write a summary. Polish it by finding a victim to read your summary to get feedback. Or use us.
And why not wiki your results ?
But it's worth a thought, for sure.
Zardnaar
Deity
Zardnaar
Deity
Catchy. They were kitsch not bad.
H4run
Deity
I would say this thread deserve an eternal pin, and highly underrated and under-use.
Anyone play out-run growing up?
Anyone play out-run growing up?
I tried steering a car in a computer game once.
I have no idea where I ended up, but it was nowhere near the road.
That told me that I had been correct in my decision years before that driving is something I shouldn't even think of doing, given the results of this game, plus the dream I had (40 years' hard labor on a prison planet for bumping into the curb near the strip mall on the East Hill (I must have been going to the video store, back when renting VHS tapes was a thing people did).
H4run
Deity
I have no idea where I ended up, but it was nowhere near the road.
lool are you too panic? or you find the task to be too, multitasking? I can imagine when you panic, and you need to figure out the gas, break, steer, road, adversaries and all of those stuff simultaneously, things can be very chaotic.
amadeus
Bishop of Bio-Dome
I’d be a lot more inclined to watch movies if they still came out on VHS and I could rent them.
I don’t want Netflix. I don’t want to scroll through a pain in the butt menu, or have things “suggested” to me. If I want a dramatic movie, there’s a drama section. Comedy, etc., it’s all there.
I want to look at the boxes, I don’t want to watch trailers, especially now that every movie trailer is the same. If I pick up a box, I can look at it and decide for myself—I don’t care what other people think about the movies. It’s like having other video store patrons come up to me and tell me their opinions. Hey buddy, I’m not you so get lost.
And I don’t want to have to go through a menu to watch something, especially when it has unskippable logos and all that crap. Especially for companies that are only like on the very periphery of the production; because the movie was produced by Goober & Snidely Productions it’s going to be good? Not likely! Anyone can put out a stinker.
The video store wasn’t just a place to rent movies, it was an experience in itself. Same reason I hate online shopping!
Memberships were insanely expensive when this first got started. Imagine paying $50 for a membership to give you the privilege of renting from them... oh, wait, that's basically what Costco does now, except you own what you buy.
I remember how we got our membership. It was for one year, and came about because my grandmother bought a VCR and there was a coupon for a 1-year membership at VideoView.
When we went there to claim it, they wouldn't allow it because my grandmother didn't have a credit card. So she and my dad and I pitched a fit that it was just not right to deny my grandmother the right to claim this, because after all, watching movies was why she'd purchased it, and the store would end up making $$$ from us if she had the membership...
So they finally gave in and put both her name and my name on the membership card (since I was the one who would be doing the fetch-and-return).
Well, eventually they dropped the membership requirement. They put in a "7 movies for 7 days" promotion, which was handy - I could pick a couple of movies that my grandmother would like, a couple for my dad, and the rest for me. It became a game to see if I could take the bus up there, get the movies returned, new ones picked and paid for, and get back to the bus stop on the other side of the street and get home (thus saving a separate bus fare, plus 15-20 minutes; that meant I had about 10-12 minutes in the store so decisions had to be quick).
Video stores are a thing of the past now. Second-hand VHS tapes are sold through Amazon Marketplace, and you really take your chances on whether it's a real one that someone is just selling, or if it's a counterfeit.
Two of my VHS prizes are the original Star Wars trilogy, before Lucas started "improving" them, and I also have The Martian Chronicles (TV miniseries based on Bradbury's anthology - this book was originally a series of short stories published in the pulps and was later collected together in novel form). The miniseries opted not to include the story "There Will Come Soft Rains" - probably a good decision, as that story is really distressing.
Somebody hacked my Netflix account, so I canceled it. Haven't had it in years. It was really annoying, given that I was watching some pretty good stuff at the time. But oh well... if I want it bad enough, most things eventually end up on Amazon.
You can already decide for yourself.
Though I've been guilty of offering my opinions about books to other people... if I hear them talking about it to whoever they're with, wondering what it's like, or if so-and-so would like it as a gift.
Coles Bookstore should really have paid me a commission for those Dragonlance books I convinced that couple to buy, not to mention the time I ended up in a 20-minute conversation about Dune.
H4run
Deity
The conversation at the rant thread made me entered to nostalgia mood once again.
When I was little we got sega, and we also have quite amount of games. But, I always looking to trade my sega for my cousin's snes for few days, even though he only have 2 cartridge's at that time: Street Fighter 2 Turbo and Mystical Ninja.
Mystical Ninja is somewhat my first rpg-ish experience. You grind money, play mini games, meeting new character, and save the town, even though in essence it's a beatem up game (edit: or platform?) with rpg elements.
It was an amazing game at that time. But there is no save-game available, we instead would be given a random series of code that we should write down in order we can continue the stage later.
But later on, I lost my sega during house robbery (glad we were all asleep at that time, but they carried most of our stuff). And after a year, my father bought for us snes.
When I was little we got sega, and we also have quite amount of games. But, I always looking to trade my sega for my cousin's snes for few days, even though he only have 2 cartridge's at that time: Street Fighter 2 Turbo and Mystical Ninja.
Mystical Ninja is somewhat my first rpg-ish experience. You grind money, play mini games, meeting new character, and save the town, even though in essence it's a beatem up game (edit: or platform?) with rpg elements.
It was an amazing game at that time. But there is no save-game available, we instead would be given a random series of code that we should write down in order we can continue the stage later.
But later on, I lost my sega during house robbery (glad we were all asleep at that time, but they carried most of our stuff). And after a year, my father bought for us snes.
Zardnaar
Deity
SNES was rare here we had Megadrive. RPGs things like Shining Force and Phantasy Star.
I still have my Megadrive with those games. PSP with the Megadrive collection does the job most of the time.
H4run
Deity
Man, we really bought weird games for our Sega, mostly my father and sister chose it for us, so I don't really have the chance to play legendary titles like Shining Force or Phantasy Star, PS might be to hardcore for me, it's a hardcore game I heard, but I would definitely like Shining Force.
Our sega's game were mostly platform game like Batman, sonic, insector, tatsujin, desert strike and many other weird failure game (except sonic perhaps). But we had altered beast, and that game is really really cool at that time.
When I own snes, that's where the real fun begin. I play most of snes rpg (bof series, chrono trigger, lufia, secret of mana, the 7th saga, anything you name it except earthbound) and many other great titles.
Broken_Erika
Play with me.
Ever played Starfleet Academy for the SNES?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Starfleet_Academy_–_Starship_Bridge_Simulator
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Starfleet_Academy_–_Starship_Bridge_Simulator
Zardnaar
Deity
Charging up the PSP now.
I think Phantasy Star IV would be easy to play in modern era and can be found on PS4/Xbox one afaik.
H4run
Deity
No I never, but dang this game look really good for that time:
But I've played "The Empire strikes back", if it's not due to the difficulty it can be a really great game.
The theme is basically like final fantasy meet star wars, this game deserve a remake imho, it's a nice game, from what I know the plot also very interesting.
Zardnaar
Deity
I did Phantasy Star III not to long ago on the GBA and PSP.
Yeah graphics very dated.
Shining Force and PSIV still pretty in a 16 bit retro way.
Zardnaar
Deity
H4run
Deity
GBA only have two button? I just know this, Golden Sun is on GBA right? that's a great jrpg, played that on emulator.
Zardnaar
Deity
I think it's bubble bobble.
PSIII on the left gba. Colours very washed out relative to Megadrive/PSP.
