It wouldn't have but when mame.dk went database only it's existence was pointless.
Ah, mame.dk, there's a blast from the past. It was great in those first few months of discovering MAME and trying to recall all those arcade cabinets you'd played as a kid.
Looks good... I'm assuming that you spotted it in RG? Might have to download a decent mame rom set if I can find one..
The problem with playing it on MAME is that it's a trackball game and unless you have a trackball (I don't) it's pretty hard to controll. Well, I've never been able to play any trackball game properly anyway :(
I found this game through The Games Room on XboxLive. It's very playable on there, but I'm not even sure if it's still going? I've not looked at it for years anyway.
I downloaded Jet Set Radio HD and it's pretty much the same as before. i was never a big fan if it in the first place. The levels were confusing, the controlls were a bit iffy and it was a bit hard IIRC. It may be worth 400 points if it's in a sale, but I won't be spending 800 points on it.
Same with Fire Pro Wrestling. I was very excited when I saw this game in the arcade list, but very disapointed to find out that it's an avatar game and not one of the old school 2D titles of the same name :( Fire Pro wrestling D on the Dreamcast is still one of my all time favorite wrestling games (along with WWF Wrestlefest and Showdown: Legends of Wrestling 3). But this one is rather poor. It looks like it needs alot of playing through to unlock anything decent and it looks and plays like an Indie game. Deffo not worth the 800 points :-(
Well, having finished Sleeping Dogs (except for a few side bits I'll get back to another time), I've decided to return to the PS3 for a while. I've picked up Uncharted from where I left off, around chapter 19-20. While it is by no means a bad game, it is somewhat repetitive at the mo (shoot baddies, solve puzzle, find new room, shoot baddies, solve puzzle, find new room etc.). I've been told the sequel is much better though (I have that too), so I'll keep at it just to see where the story goes...
JuanF. Ramirez, good to see you holding up the retro gaming flag up amongst all this 100%/achievement bullmanure which plagues modern gaming ... I've played a lot of these arcade/console games (or similar ones) you've mentioned over the last few months.
Also nice to see screenshots along with your posts. People have mentioned it before so I can just repeat - the 2D graphics of the arcade games from about 1987 (CPS1 generation and onward) to the early 90s hold up really well.
Have you played "Exerion"? It's a shoot'em'up that looked really ace when it came out first. Played it about 1984/1985 in a local kiosk, good old days before all arcade machines got banished from public space and were forced into actual arcades (18+ to enter) due to a stupid change in law over here.
On-topic, I'm playing Hellgate:London again. Yeah, one of those game no one on WOS has ever heard of, I guess ;)
Thanks, XTM! :-) Whenever I find a good (and sometimes unknown for me) MAME rom, I want to share that find with people here, if someone have played it, opinions, etc, ...
I downloaded Jet Set Radio HD and it's pretty much the same as before. i was never a big fan if it in the first place. The levels were confusing, the controlls were a bit iffy and it was a bit hard IIRC. It may be worth 400 points if it's in a sale, but I won't be spending 800 points on it.
Pity it's not on the PS Network, I'd defo hook my PS3 up for that.
Jet Set/Grind Radio was one of the best DC titles, and could be the sole cause of my DC breaking. The game was well easy as well, the only levels that were hard were the chase levels when you had to tag the rival gangs backs, and even then they weren't that hard, you got more than enough time to do it. I liked the controls as well, it was easy to get around, easy to do chain combos with grinding, and I liked the QTE style spraypainting. Not being anything like the first game is what ruined it's sequel Jet Set Future.
Had a quick play of Liberty City Stories yesterday, seems like it'll be quite fun. Looks dog rough though you can really tell this was meant for a handheld, the framerate whilst driving seems a little twitchy as well, and am I right in thinking the planes have had their wings clipped in Liberty City again? Anyway I accidentally picked up a hidden item, and then it all flooded into my head. 100 hidden items, firefighter, vigilante, paramedic, and whatever else this game is going to throw at me, and so it was turned off and San Andreas got put back in the machine.
But this morning things are going a lot better on San Andreas, I finished the Driving school off earlier, and I've just picked up the last Oyster, they were an absolute c**t to find. But hey there's no need for me to celebrate yet as I now have to find another 48 horseshoes (I picked 2 up on my search for the last few oysters). I have my suspicions it's those sodding Mountain Bike Races that'll stop me from getting the 100%, although I have a got a trick I'm going to try if I don't come first in those races now :D
Still have to finish off taxi driver, that's some mega procrastination right there, I started doing that before I even started the story missions, and I still need to drop of another 38 passengers (in a month 12/50 is quite pathetic :D) :lol:
Need to do the last gym get another 44 snapshots, maybe do the last ammunation shooting challenge (but I don't know if you actually need to do those for the 100%?), vigilante, boat school, flying school, and I think the rest is mostly all story after that lot? Did this game have parachuting missions to do? Or was that Gay Tony, or both?
am I right in thinking the planes have had their wings clipped in Liberty City again?
If I remember rightly, they took them out altogether, I'm not sure if there are even helicopters in there (there are helicopters in VCS though).
I have my suspicions it's those sodding Mountain Bike Races that'll stop me from getting the 100%, although I have a got a trick I'm going to try if I don't come first in those races now :D
Well don't leave us in suspense! Do tell! :D
EDIT: I finished Uncharted earlier. Gonna move onto the second one now... :smile:
Sniper rifle, shoot the other racers, I've managed to blow a couple of them up at the finsih line before. But if I try shooting them with a regular gun I get disqualified, but I think I managed to kill one of them with a silenced pistol once and I didn't get disqualified.
Sniper rifle, shoot the other racers, I've managed to blow a couple of them up at the finsih line before. But if I try shooting them with a regular gun I get disqualified, but I think I managed to kill one of them with a silenced pistol once and I didn't get disqualified.
I've definitely not tried that before. Let us know the results. :D
I've definitely not tried that before. Let us know the results. :D
Well so far now that I have a sniper rifle the other riders keep vanishing once they're finished? I think they all have to make it to the bottom to be there for some reason, but one of them died on the way down I think?
I played Torchlight rather excessively about 2 years ago when it was up on Steam for a low price. I used the Alchemist class (on Hard difficulty right away so it wouldn't be too easy) and finished the story line too, after which you could still continue by proceeding down the dungeons which kept getting harder.
Well, I did quite like the game but at some point I kept dying simply because the screen was a mess, what with all my minions and tons of enemies swarming the screen, often couldn't even see what killed me. Since then I haven't bothered trying to use the other 2 classes ...
Well so far now that I have a sniper rifle the other riders keep vanishing once they're finished? I think they all have to make it to the bottom to be there for some reason, but one of them died on the way down I think?
My god! Now that you describe it like that, I do seem to recall trying this and it working?! Or perhaps I'm just going a bit mental and I haven't tried it?!?! :lol: I'm nowhere near that part on my 360 save so I can't have a go just yet, unless of course I unpack the PS2...
Uncharted 2. Breathtaking stuff so far. Much more varied than the original...
My god! Now that you describe it like that, I do seem to recall trying this and it working?! Or perhaps I'm just going a bit mental and I haven't tried it?!?! :lol: I'm nowhere near that part on my 360 save so I can't have a go just yet, unless of course I unpack the PS2...
Well it does work, I got down to the bottom and clipped a fence, and ended up 2nd, so I waited next to the finish line til' I was 6th. Pulled the sniper rifle out killed the other 5 racers, and then I was 1st.
They don't even try to run (although I did notice when you throw grenades at them they scatter) :lol:
EDIT: Didn't work on the second race, only 2 of the other racers were there at the end, but I did take my sweet time as I didn't have a clue where I was going, and kept flying off the walkways. I decided to go and do something else.
Can't help but wonder if it was inspiration for Melbourne House's Knuckle Busters, it has the same unplayable type gameplay, and I like fighting games usually but Knuckle Joe is the pits.
Kind of like a westernised failure at Fist of the North Star, although hang on every westernised attempt at Fist of the North Star is a failure. Black Belt, Last Battle, Fist of the North Star the Movie :lol:
Zzyzzyxx on MAME. Another unknown game, clearly inspired by Frogger, where you must move through the gaps in a field of moving bricks, collecting items and avoiding baddies to reach the upper side of screen and rescue a girl.
@JuanF...Played all of these MAME games you've been playing! Some pretty good titles in that lot....
I went back to the Wii yesterday and played a bit more of Madworld and Disaster : Day Of Crisis.....really need to get my own Wii instead of using my mum's one, so I can give both these games a proper play....they're both really good fun!
Right now though, it's time to get ready for a month of nothing but spooky and horrific stuff as I start things off for my blog! :)
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It wouldn't have but when mame.dk went database only it's existence was pointless.
Ah, mame.dk, there's a blast from the past. It was great in those first few months of discovering MAME and trying to recall all those arcade cabinets you'd played as a kid.
The problem with playing it on MAME is that it's a trackball game and unless you have a trackball (I don't) it's pretty hard to controll. Well, I've never been able to play any trackball game properly anyway :(
I found this game through The Games Room on XboxLive. It's very playable on there, but I'm not even sure if it's still going? I've not looked at it for years anyway.
I downloaded Jet Set Radio HD and it's pretty much the same as before. i was never a big fan if it in the first place. The levels were confusing, the controlls were a bit iffy and it was a bit hard IIRC. It may be worth 400 points if it's in a sale, but I won't be spending 800 points on it.
Same with Fire Pro Wrestling. I was very excited when I saw this game in the arcade list, but very disapointed to find out that it's an avatar game and not one of the old school 2D titles of the same name :( Fire Pro wrestling D on the Dreamcast is still one of my all time favorite wrestling games (along with WWF Wrestlefest and Showdown: Legends of Wrestling 3). But this one is rather poor. It looks like it needs alot of playing through to unlock anything decent and it looks and plays like an Indie game. Deffo not worth the 800 points :-(
Dreamcast version:
Xbox Live version:
I never bothered with it as it looked a bit rubbish on the spec, i played the Master System version instead.
Also nice to see screenshots along with your posts. People have mentioned it before so I can just repeat - the 2D graphics of the arcade games from about 1987 (CPS1 generation and onward) to the early 90s hold up really well.
Have you played "Exerion"? It's a shoot'em'up that looked really ace when it came out first. Played it about 1984/1985 in a local kiosk, good old days before all arcade machines got banished from public space and were forced into actual arcades (18+ to enter) due to a stupid change in law over here.
On-topic, I'm playing Hellgate:London again. Yeah, one of those game no one on WOS has ever heard of, I guess ;)
As for Exerion, I'll give it a try!
Pity it's not on the PS Network, I'd defo hook my PS3 up for that.
Jet Set/Grind Radio was one of the best DC titles, and could be the sole cause of my DC breaking. The game was well easy as well, the only levels that were hard were the chase levels when you had to tag the rival gangs backs, and even then they weren't that hard, you got more than enough time to do it. I liked the controls as well, it was easy to get around, easy to do chain combos with grinding, and I liked the QTE style spraypainting. Not being anything like the first game is what ruined it's sequel Jet Set Future.
This game is worth 800pts :p
But this morning things are going a lot better on San Andreas, I finished the Driving school off earlier, and I've just picked up the last Oyster, they were an absolute c**t to find. But hey there's no need for me to celebrate yet as I now have to find another 48 horseshoes (I picked 2 up on my search for the last few oysters). I have my suspicions it's those sodding Mountain Bike Races that'll stop me from getting the 100%, although I have a got a trick I'm going to try if I don't come first in those races now :D
Still have to finish off taxi driver, that's some mega procrastination right there, I started doing that before I even started the story missions, and I still need to drop of another 38 passengers (in a month 12/50 is quite pathetic :D) :lol:
Need to do the last gym get another 44 snapshots, maybe do the last ammunation shooting challenge (but I don't know if you actually need to do those for the 100%?), vigilante, boat school, flying school, and I think the rest is mostly all story after that lot? Did this game have parachuting missions to do? Or was that Gay Tony, or both?
If I remember rightly, they took them out altogether, I'm not sure if there are even helicopters in there (there are helicopters in VCS though).
Well don't leave us in suspense! Do tell! :D
EDIT: I finished Uncharted earlier. Gonna move onto the second one now... :smile:
Sniper rifle, shoot the other racers, I've managed to blow a couple of them up at the finsih line before. But if I try shooting them with a regular gun I get disqualified, but I think I managed to kill one of them with a silenced pistol once and I didn't get disqualified.
I've definitely not tried that before. Let us know the results. :D
Well so far now that I have a sniper rifle the other riders keep vanishing once they're finished? I think they all have to make it to the bottom to be there for some reason, but one of them died on the way down I think?
* Skyrim
* Red Faction: Guerrila
* Minecraft (okay played this on old PC but it's much better on the new one)
* Torchlight (fantabulous indie Diablo-alike currently going for whateveryouwanttopay as part of the Humble Indie Bundle 6)
* Half Life 2 (I'm only just discovering this believe it or not)
* Portal (see Half Life 2)
Well, I did quite like the game but at some point I kept dying simply because the screen was a mess, what with all my minions and tons of enemies swarming the screen, often couldn't even see what killed me. Since then I haven't bothered trying to use the other 2 classes ...
My god! Now that you describe it like that, I do seem to recall trying this and it working?! Or perhaps I'm just going a bit mental and I haven't tried it?!?! :lol: I'm nowhere near that part on my 360 save so I can't have a go just yet, unless of course I unpack the PS2...
Uncharted 2. Breathtaking stuff so far. Much more varied than the original...
Well it does work, I got down to the bottom and clipped a fence, and ended up 2nd, so I waited next to the finish line til' I was 6th. Pulled the sniper rifle out killed the other 5 racers, and then I was 1st.
They don't even try to run (although I did notice when you throw grenades at them they scatter) :lol:
EDIT: Didn't work on the second race, only 2 of the other racers were there at the end, but I did take my sweet time as I didn't have a clue where I was going, and kept flying off the walkways. I decided to go and do something else.
not massivly impressed. just looks like the last one.
i thought they were gonna rreboot the franchise?
...Nuff said! :D
Can't help but wonder if it was inspiration for Melbourne House's Knuckle Busters, it has the same unplayable type gameplay, and I like fighting games usually but Knuckle Joe is the pits.
Kind of like a westernised failure at Fist of the North Star, although hang on every westernised attempt at Fist of the North Star is a failure. Black Belt, Last Battle, Fist of the North Star the Movie :lol:
The Commode version of Knuckle Busters is bloody awful as well, but considerably better than the Speccy version.
*ducks incoming projectiles :D
it's not crap!
i like this one. i downloaded mame especially for this game, i used to play it when i was a kid.
i like this rummaging through the early eighties arcade games.
That was an arcade? I thought it was Amiga only?
Either way it was poo :p
I went back to the Wii yesterday and played a bit more of Madworld and Disaster : Day Of Crisis.....really need to get my own Wii instead of using my mum's one, so I can give both these games a proper play....they're both really good fun!
Right now though, it's time to get ready for a month of nothing but spooky and horrific stuff as I start things off for my blog! :)