This is good old fashioned gaming info. gets
my approval.
Karl Kuras
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Feldhamer, Stuart
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Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 8:14
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Subject: [SWCollect] Lure of the
Temptress
target for action.
Karl Kuras
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From: Edward Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 5:32 AM
Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Software collecting videos
On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 02:51 PM, Jim Leonard wrote:
[Snip]
I wasn't
guessing it'll reflect our
age.
I'm mainly (virtually only) C64 and Amiga stuff. How about the rest of you?
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I remember buying Garbage Pail Kids...they sure were garbage, weren't
they?
Oh that brings back memories... heck I even bought those when I lived in
Argentina (called Basuritas there). What ever happened to collectable
trading cards that weren't sports or CCGs?
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by specific joystick and fire button combos. It seems that any
game that tells a story and has the character influence that story in any
way beyond just jumping and running would be an IF. That just completely
ignores the actual play mechanics which are what a Genre is supposed to be
defining.
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category and let's face it, that is like saying that The French
Connection, Rambo and Hard Boiled are all action movies, but they really
have little to nothing in common and probably wouldn't even appeal to the
same group of people.
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include animated sprites representing the characters).
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I didn't know that the SCI version was rare... the Amiga and ST ports both
used that graphic set... most likely due to the porting happening later.
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, they could really exist without
the images.
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adventure arena), but because you just lack the animation. At the end of
the Black Cauldron when the little furry guy runs right into the pot, that's
a moment that will stick with me forever... much more so then a paragraph
describing it.
Karl Kuras
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Yeah
Well, it wasn't FMV, but digitized actors in games started with games like
Pitfighter, some weird WWF game (don't ask me for the title, can't remember)
and Free DC. So, did they want to know about actual film footage or just
digitized sprites?
Karl
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From: Hugh Falk
Nope, still there... they just had some conflict over their domain name and
now are found at http://www.the-underdogs.org (added a hyphen).
Karl Kuras
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From: C.E. Forman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 5:03 AM
Subject: [SWCollect
Can't say I know much about this game, although the reference to the camera
sorta rings of the Spiderman adventure (Peter Parker being a photographer
and all).
As for the general idea of text adventures in the UK back in the early to
mid 80's, yes they were VERY popular. Mainly because they
.
Karl Kuras
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From: Pedro Quaresma [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 4:18 AM
Subject: [SWCollect] More ramblings
Hi everyone,
Being ill for some days has its advantages. For starters, you can always
read those books you never
Just testing to see if my address change
worked
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been a lot
easier, and less funny, if you could just storm the building with guns
blazing).
Karl Kuras
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From: Jim Leonard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 2:12 PM
Subject: Re: [SWCollect] More ramblings
Karl Kuras wrote:
All
Not me... the game is good and all, but it's just another shooter (albeit a
beautiful one). If there's a collectors tin for No One Lives Forever 2 or
Deus Ex 2 then we can start talking.
Karl Kuras
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From: Lee K. Seitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Software Collecting
I don't know about the US releases, but the European releases included the
movie on tape.
Only reason to buy the thing (really was an aweful game).
Karl Kuras
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gaming could really use. The ability to network consoles is great (I
remember playing networked WipeoutXL on the old PS1, it was blast) and the
harddrive, when used right will add a whole new dimension to the games, that
I don't think gamers will be willing to do without from now on.
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a friend who manages an EB and he said that a whole batch of
the CD's were bad, causing the problem to be huge. Not a software glitch
(as far as coding).
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on a respectable site like maybe gamespot or ign.
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such as harddrives and network cards,
and there is no reason (or financial sense) in reinventing the wheel when
these things already exist.
(p.s. notice that I make no mention of my terrible spelling error from the
last post) :-)
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running, and believe me it won't crash either.
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designing the Saturn.
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Fodder and Settlers which were only 3
disks each.
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ever been worth $200, let alone $300 bucks
to me. But I may just be cheap. :-)
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an RGB monitor)
the picture looks much better. Same thing goes for game consoles (I love
hooking up PSX to my old Amiga monitors... looks great!)
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The texture memory (4 MB, that's it?!) is indeed a joke. Geez, even the
Dreamcast has 8mb.
And while speaking of PS2 weaknesses, what's the deal with only 2 controller
ports?
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But how many multitaps really sell? I have yet to meet (other then you)
someone who bought one (but don't know a single N64 owner who didn't have at
least 3 or 4 controllers... working ones!) It can't be more then maybe 3-5%
of the console owning population.
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a Wolfenstein style game with PC sprites) was a
surprisingly good effort.
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just didn't return it).
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the PC got such a bad rap in those days.
First gen games almost always suck for the most part (with the big push game
exceptions) and the PC had that phase as well when it went from workhorse to
all purpose home computer. It's not something to be ashamed of, just a
reality.
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deliver a fairly competent multiplayer lan game...
unfortunately they are all just big adventures and don't give you the
ability to play small self contained stories which can be played in an
afternoon (which was one of the initial promises of Legends of MM)
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on top of
it (don't do what I did and spend good money on that dog aaahhh!)
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. You have rescue the princess missions
and the like, but they are just like capturing the flag pretty much. In the
end the RPG elements are dressing at best. Very dissapointing.
Karl Kuras
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exceptional version of Street Fighter II... nice graphics, but a specced
Cool! I love pirate games written from scratch. I'll have to try to
find this.
Well this probably doesn't count as legit, but check out:
http://smspower.speedhost.com/
They have the rom file
finally died in the late 80's. Still
has a cult following in Japan though.
So, hope this was an informative trip down memory lane. :-)
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From: Pedro Quaresma [EMAIL PROTECTED
... that was a cold shiver running down your back.
So thought you might all like checking that out.
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From: Karl Kuras [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Thursday, October 25
. That was an
underappreciated machine if there ever was one (in Europe and the US at
least).
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From: Pedro Quaresma [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 3:29 AM
Subject
go:
Modern:
Max Payne (up until a few weeks ago when I beat it)
Crimson Skies
Monopoly Tycoon
Old:
North and South (Amiga - Emulated)
Nuclear War (Amiga -emulated)
GIJoe (MAME)
Super Pang (MAME)
Looking forward to seeing the taste variations here!
Karl Kuras
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Congratulations Hugh!
Karl Kuras
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From: Hugh Falk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 12:05 PM
Subject: RE: [SWCollect] Shrinkwrap again
That's great stuff...thanks, Jim. I haven't been responding the last
couple
of days
sounds a little like a game called Auchwitz, same concept.
Can anyone tell me if that one was sold commercially, or if it even
exists?
I've heard it identified as an urban legend.
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Sent: Saturday, August 25
for native speakers (who hasn't had hour long fights over what
a rule means?) :)
So, this explains why they never had rpg's unfortunately and also never
reviewed them in the mag first game I remember them reviewing, even
though it wasn't really an rpg was Heroes of the Lance.
Karl Kuras
http
have them in
Argentina). Spain was to my knowledge a little behind the rest of Europe in
upgrading out of the 8-bit generation. MicroMania didn't start reviewing
Amiga games till about 90 or 91 did they?
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most of Dinamic's early covers were
done by Aspiri and then later he went over to Topo and was replaced by Royo.
And for those uninitiated in the 80's Spanish software market (one of the
coolest and most innovative markets of the time) Dinamic is not Dynamix. :)
Karl Kuras
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What the heck is a terror game?
What I think he means are survival horror and similar games, designed to
spook you. Granted, there havent' been too many successes here, especially
in the the olden days (can really only think of two games that really scared
me, Project Firestart and Aliens).
I have to add a small bit of trivia here... Lord British, as well as Iolo
and many other names in the Ultima games were all characters that Garriott
and his friends played in their DD campaign. I learned this not from a
book, but back in my freshman year of college, I worked at the computer lab
of the graphics.
Karl Kuras
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So I suppose you don't want me to point out that your website is
incorrectly
spelled as sight -- unless that was intentional... :-)
Ok... there is a story behind the misspelling of site The page was
supposed to be C64 Site, but I goofed up on my second logo (the one which
was a mockup of
BEGIN!!!
(sarcasm added at no extra cost)
:)
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Yeah... window was slightly smaller (black bars on the side) but otherwise
ran beautfully... actually had 50 lemmings on screen once with no slow down.
There's a screen shot up on my C64 page
http://c64sight.trantornator.com
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Yes, in fact with the exception of a few 8 bit computers (spectrum, Amstrad,
MSX and Apple II) I can't think of a platform that DIDN'T have a version.
Gameboy had one, and even Master System... Wait! No NES version.
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No can do, but if anyone does have it I'd be more than happy to convert it
to
VideoCD for viewing on a DVD player. The following is only slightly
off-topic,
but I'll bring it around to software collecting in a bit:
Following up on the whole discussion of converting video to digital, have
you
earth... Is the planet REALLY worth saving?
Too bad the game wasn't as good as the ad campaign
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for an original on eBay now :-(
Hugh
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From: Karl Kuras [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 4:53 PM
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Subject: Re: [SWCollect] hypothetical question
Weird... your copy didn't come with a regular poster. Mine has not other
?
With the same...errr... box topic, I remember an arcade game called Entity.
Also, CE Forman has added on his page some information about Sex Vixens
from Space.
Karl Kuras
Pedro R. Quaresma
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of life...go for both if you can! I like
to have games like Barbarian (UK) and its USA counterpart (Death Sword) to
show the differences.
Hugh
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From: Karl Kuras [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 10:44 AM
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Another thing to remember about the shelflife of games at the time was that
the PC didn't have a whole lot of them. IF you landed a game that was good
it could survive for ages. This is still true today in many respects with
games like Quake still going for $30 in some places.
While video
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