The game that drove me insane was Tank command by Atlantis. Twice I got to the very last screen after weeks of steady progression only to be blown up by a gun turret! Agggg!! Ive never played it since!
On 2005-06-29 16:47, Malc74 wrote:
Nowadays I get frustrated with just about every game I play. At the moment it's GTA San Andreas, as I can't get past two missions at the moment (the Russian one where you're chased by a car transporter and the f$%?ing annoying stealth one in the DJ's house - which is only because I can't play stealth games to save my life). I like to punch something soft if I get frustrated nowadays though, like the sofa. Or the cat.
i was playing dun drach once, and at the start of the game one of the pickpockets can and took all my money. that got me very angry and i screamed at the spectrum.
When I was writing Jet Set Willy: The Lord of the Rings, "The Land of Shadow" reduced me to a gibbering wreck after 20 minutes of playtesting that room! :o
You're quoting Ashlee Simpson? I'd stick to obsessive Jet Set Willy disorder: the outlook is brighter, although society tends to look down upon both illnesses with a degree of disdain.
Great topic! It took me back to the 90s when I loved my Speccy the way I love my wife now! :)
In fact there was a weird problem and I'm hoping someone can explain this. As mentioned some keys on the keyboard wouldn't respond when I started the Speccy for the first time in the day. But after around 20 or 30 minutes of excercising the keyboard (by pressing the keys repeatedly) things would start improving and gradually life would flow back into the keyboard.
But I had to follow this ritual every single day for 3 months until one not-so-fine-day the Speccy just refused to co-operate!
Well I never hit or punched my Speccy because it was an original Speccy originally bought in Spain but I got it second hand from a boy who lived in Spain. So my Speccy would die if I hit it.
The most of the cassettes were so old that they loaded in 1 of 20 times.
The keys wouldn't respond after a year of everyday playing on Speccy then I opened it and put tin wires in the places in which the keys stopped to respond. One of the keys that didn't respond was the LOAD key! Imagine all the suffering I went through!
Another problem: I couldn't save my position in the game because the Speccy's signal was weak and my cassette recorder couldn't make a strong enough sound. So I've never completed a game on Speccy. Usually when it worked 4 or 5 hours especially in summer it just used to reset. So when I get to the most interesting part of the game for example in Heavy on the Magick, my Speccy resets and laughs at me: You retarded buffoon - eat this!
On 2005-07-11 00:36, Collie wrote:
You're quoting Ashlee Simpson? I'd stick to obsessive Jet Set Willy disorder: the outlook is brighter, although society tends to look down upon both illnesses with a degree of disdain.
Who cares what society thinks, when these so-called "illnesses" involve so much fun, technical enterprise, music-appeal and sex-appeal?
Playing Gyron once caused me to hurl the joystick at the wall (due to the game's erratic response to joystick movements) which shattered the joystick into a satisfying number of pieces. I subsequently realised that some games would work well with a particular joystick/interface combo but badly with another, so I labelled my joysticks with letters and my interfaces with numbers and my games with the letter/number combo which worked best.
The maddest I used to get was with trying to load Skool Daze. I really loved that game but it would only load once in about five attempts, so I developed some bizzare rituals which I hope would help the game load (e.g. leave the room, pray, kill chickens and smear blood, etc).
I think leaving the room was the standard ritual for avoiding loading errors. Either that, or making my Dad stand next to me and watch it load, only to make me look like a liar when it loaded perfectly. I think he intimidated it into working or something!
Arabian Nights....I'm sure I've told the story before....Possibly in a thread that came after this one, but I kicked the sh*t out of my Speccy over that game a few times, in one night.
In the end my ma came into my room after hearing the banging, and witnessed me going mental and swearing my head of....I was about to launch the Speccy off the wall. Needless to say she beat the living sh*t out of me and grounded me for 2 weeks.
The Speccy ended up having to be repaired though, good job she caught me when she did, or it would've been beyond repair. The sad thing is that game is total crap, and not even worth wasting any time on, never mind the effort of beating your Speccy to death :))
While no game has driven to the point of physically assaulting my Spectrum/furniture/pet, waiting for over ten minutes for a 128k game to load only to crash was very frustrating, also any game with poor collision detection - Jack And The Beanstalk is a prime example.
Going back to the more recent past, I was once playing Premier Manager on the PC and after being threatened with the sack I won the next game 8-0 but still got the push! :-O
I remember getting really, really annoyed when trying to copy games on my sisters Tape-to-Tape stereo. For some reason you couldn't record Tape-to-Tape without having the volume way up. As you can imagine my sister was less than impress when she'd have to leave her room for 5 minutes whilst there was that god awful screeching being played at full volume. I'd get the copy, run into my bedroom to test it, find it didn't work and try again. I remember spending, what seemed like hours, trying to copy Critical Mass by Durrell and just getting R Tape Loading Error, 0:1 every single time. Each time I'd slam the buttons down on my sisters stereo to the point where it eventually broke. No more Sisters of Mercy for my sister after that.
Pretty sure I've told this before, but a mate of mine got pissed off at Target Renegade and punched his +2a. After that it just made a clicking noise on the +2 selection screen and he couldn't use it. I bought it off him a few months later for a fiver (which he was quite chuffed with as he thought it was knackered.)
My Dad and I popped the back off the keyboard and noticed that it had a bit if a ding in it.. Just put the flat if a chisel over the ding on a workbench and gave it a whack and stuck it back together and it worked again.
My mate was a bit pissed off, but it was his call to sell it. He took the fiver and bought 50 packs of 10p pickled onion Space Raiders, which he proceeded to eat in a single sitting and made himself sick.
I remember getting really, really annoyed when trying to copy games on my sisters Tape-to-Tape stereo. For some reason you couldn't record Tape-to-Tape without having the volume way up. As you can imagine my sister was less than impress when she'd have to leave her room for 5 minutes whilst there was that god awful screeching being played at full volume. I'd get the copy, run into my bedroom to test it, find it didn't work and try again. I remember spending, what seemed like hours, trying to copy Critical Mass by Durrell and just getting R Tape Loading Error, 0:1 every single time. Each time I'd slam the buttons down on my sisters stereo to the point where it eventually broke. No more Sisters of Mercy for my sister after that.
And that is what the headphone socket was for, or just unplug the speakers.
surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet...I'll say it with a gif :)
aaaarrgghhh
If memory serves, the way to beat 'Gus' (I think it was). Was to waggle your joystick in a slow rhythmic motion, completely different to the rest of the contestants. If you attacked him with your usual waggle (steady on...), he'd take you to the cleaners..as per gif.
Pretty sure I've told this before, but a mate of mine got pissed off at Target Renegade and punched his +2a. After that it just made a clicking noise on the +2 selection screen and he couldn't use it. I bought it off him a few Wow,lost a spectrum a later for a fiver (which he was quite chuffed with as he thought it was knackered.)
My Dad and I popped the back off the keyboard and noticed that it had a bit if a ding in it.. Just put the flat if a chisel over the ding on a workbench and gave it a whack and stuck it back together and it worked again.
My mate was a bit pissed off, but it was his call to sell it. He took the fiver and bought 50 packs of 10p pickled onion Space Raiders, which he proceeded to eat in a single sitting and made himself sick.
Airwolf aside, I didn't lose the rag too often. Although Flying Shark used to send me into a rage when a destroyed enemy would still shoot you (the enemy explosion sprite could still shoot which was just plain wrong) AAARGH!
My mate had an Atari 600XL (or perhaps an 800XL - can't remember). Anyway, he had been sipping a bottle of Orangina (remember the glass bottles?) and it was empty on his computer desk. Can't remember the game he was playing but he lost the plot totally and picked up the empty Orangina bottle and smashed it down onto the keyboard (what a dumbass!)
The computer immediately switched off. Unscrewing the keyboard case revealed that the motherboard was in about 20 pieces! One completely destoryed Atari (he told his dad that it had just 'stopped working') :-)
Another one was my cousin, Think he was playing Kokotoni Wilf and he got so frustrated he pulled the joystick 'out' of it's base (think it was a QuickShot 1). It took us ages to get the handle back into the base - and when we did we realised we'd put it in upside down! It still worked though with up and down in reverse order!
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And he has.
Great, now I'm a fiver down.
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Well I never hit or punched my Speccy because it was an original Speccy originally bought in Spain but I got it second hand from a boy who lived in Spain. So my Speccy would die if I hit it.
The most of the cassettes were so old that they loaded in 1 of 20 times.
The keys wouldn't respond after a year of everyday playing on Speccy then I opened it and put tin wires in the places in which the keys stopped to respond. One of the keys that didn't respond was the LOAD key! Imagine all the suffering I went through!
Another problem: I couldn't save my position in the game because the Speccy's signal was weak and my cassette recorder couldn't make a strong enough sound. So I've never completed a game on Speccy. Usually when it worked 4 or 5 hours especially in summer it just used to reset. So when I get to the most interesting part of the game for example in Heavy on the Magick, my Speccy resets and laughs at me: You retarded buffoon - eat this!
Who cares what society thinks, when these so-called "illnesses" involve so much fun, technical enterprise, music-appeal and sex-appeal?
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Being able to breeze through the events until you had to do the combat with the instructor, then lasting about 20 seconds... :((
Multi-load makes it even worse...
I think leaving the room was the standard ritual for avoiding loading errors. Either that, or making my Dad stand next to me and watch it load, only to make me look like a liar when it loaded perfectly. I think he intimidated it into working or something!
In the end my ma came into my room after hearing the banging, and witnessed me going mental and swearing my head of....I was about to launch the Speccy off the wall. Needless to say she beat the living sh*t out of me and grounded me for 2 weeks.
The Speccy ended up having to be repaired though, good job she caught me when she did, or it would've been beyond repair. The sad thing is that game is total crap, and not even worth wasting any time on, never mind the effort of beating your Speccy to death :))
aaaarrgghhh
My Dad and I popped the back off the keyboard and noticed that it had a bit if a ding in it.. Just put the flat if a chisel over the ding on a workbench and gave it a whack and stuck it back together and it worked again.
My mate was a bit pissed off, but it was his call to sell it. He took the fiver and bought 50 packs of 10p pickled onion Space Raiders, which he proceeded to eat in a single sitting and made himself sick.
And that is what the headphone socket was for, or just unplug the speakers.
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If memory serves, the way to beat 'Gus' (I think it was). Was to waggle your joystick in a slow rhythmic motion, completely different to the rest of the contestants. If you attacked him with your usual waggle (steady on...), he'd take you to the cleaners..as per gif.
Looking forward to a good waggle of my joystick later :))
Wow, he screwed himself over twice
Yeah, but this was in about 1992 and he already had a SNES, so I didn't feel that sorry for him.
As for the Space Raiders.. Yeah, that was just frickin' dumb..
My mate had an Atari 600XL (or perhaps an 800XL - can't remember). Anyway, he had been sipping a bottle of Orangina (remember the glass bottles?) and it was empty on his computer desk. Can't remember the game he was playing but he lost the plot totally and picked up the empty Orangina bottle and smashed it down onto the keyboard (what a dumbass!)
The computer immediately switched off. Unscrewing the keyboard case revealed that the motherboard was in about 20 pieces! One completely destoryed Atari (he told his dad that it had just 'stopped working') :-)
Another one was my cousin, Think he was playing Kokotoni Wilf and he got so frustrated he pulled the joystick 'out' of it's base (think it was a QuickShot 1). It took us ages to get the handle back into the base - and when we did we realised we'd put it in upside down! It still worked though with up and down in reverse order!