OT: NES 20 Year Anniversary

Mr_Vindictive · March 22, 2006, 07:31:58 PM

LH-C,

LOL. I used to play 7th Guest on my first PC, right around 94-95. I remember thinking how awesome it was, way back when "Full Motion Video" was the new next best thing. I also played the sequel, The 11th Hour quite a bit as well. Every now and then you'll still find a game that uses in game video. I'm not sure why, since most of the games sucked.

Do you by any chance remember the most infamous of all "Full Motion Video" offenders: Night Trap? It had Dana Plato, and is the reason why we now have ESRB ratings on all games.

Night Trap: http://www.mobygames.com/game/sega-cd/night-trap

LH-C · March 22, 2006, 07:44:09 PM

I remember hearing of 'Night Trap' at the time (and in years since), but never played it.

Neville · March 23, 2006, 04:44:56 AM

From what I've learned about it, it caused quite a controversy back when it was first released. Something about being too violent, or something like that. Of course, it wasn't a big departure to the games of the time, but what really concerned the censors was that being a FMV they imagined the same acts portrayed in other games would be far more accurate.

You can still grab the SegaCD version on the net, and play it via Fusion or Gens32, which now are the best emulators for that systems, but I never bothered to try it. Grainy video and limited gameplay has lost its appeal since those days.

When I finally bough my first PC around the early 90s I almost inmediately became hooked to stuff like "F-29 Retaliator", "Stunts" (aka "4D Sports Driving") or "Syndicate". They had the kind of long-term gameplay other systems lacked at that moment.

plan9superfan · March 23, 2006, 05:57:48 AM

Besides, you never get to see Dana Plato nude...

Neville · March 23, 2006, 06:14:35 AM

plan9superfan Wrote:
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> Besides, you never get to see Dana Plato nude...

LOL much ado about nothing, then.

Mr_Vindictive · March 23, 2006, 08:19:45 AM

Neville Wrote:
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> When I finally bough my first PC around the early
> 90s I almost inmediately became hooked to stuff
> like "F-29 Retaliator", "Stunts" (aka "4D Sports
> Driving") or "Syndicate". They had the kind of
> long-term gameplay other systems lacked at that
> moment.
>

Syndicate. I used to have a Super Nintendo port of that game. There is no telling how many hours I spent playing it. Great game!

Neville · March 23, 2006, 08:58:10 AM

Then you should try the mouse-controlled, un-censored PC/Amiga versions. Still one of my favourite games ever.

Ash · March 23, 2006, 09:48:02 AM

I was wondering....
Did any of you watch that video on Gamespot.com?

It's really good!

daveblackeye15 · March 23, 2006, 01:27:23 PM

I did it was good!

Even if they didn't mention the Godzilla game!

LH-C · March 23, 2006, 01:49:45 PM

But back about the NES -

Recently on 'I Love Toys' on VH1 (yeah just like 'I Love The '80s' or '70s' or '90s' or 'Holidays' - and I don't know why in the hell I even watched any of them), when they got to the NES (or was it just Super Mario Brothers I can't remember) on the countdown, Wil Wheaton was singing the music to the first Super Mario Brother game. I was absolutely dying, it was that funny.

dean · March 23, 2006, 07:59:09 PM

Man I want one of those console alarm clocks... That's so cool...

BTM · March 23, 2006, 08:38:02 PM

Funny you should say that, it reminds me of this video I d/led once, I dunno if it was a "real" commercial or not, but because it showed a bunch of people in both scenes "singing" the two themes to Super Mario Bros (the "above" world and "below" world them) and they'd mimic it perfect (without a musical accompaniment, mind you) and then the video simply said, "Nintendo, raising your children."

Hehe...

If you want I could even email it ya, it was pretty funny... :)

BTM · March 23, 2006, 08:49:58 PM

Wow, what can I say that hasn't already been said?

AHHH the NES, how many hours of my youth did I waste with thee? Hehe.. How many triangle-shaped dents did I put in the wall by throwing the controller against the soft plaster?

I tell ya, what's really funny is with emulation I managed to get a chance to play all those games I only HEARD about but (for various reasons) never got to play.

Weird, I didn't think I'd miss any of the 8bit games when I sold my system, but I discovered emulating, I was d/ling as many games as possible... :)

I tell ya though, funny thing about NES games is that, at one point, I they become so cheap to make, that's they were literally making ANYTHING into a game. I mean, they had a Tom Sawyer game, a Barbie game, Seasame Street, even a freaking New Kids on the Block game!! And I didn't just play the "official" Nintendo games, I played a few from some knock-off companies, ones that came in blue cartridges. Hehe.

Ahh.. what else can I say? Great memories all around...