Post by: ressurectionx on September 16, 2009, 08:53:00 AM
http://www.theonion....tent/node/36593
Post by: Bomb Bloke on September 16, 2009, 09:01:00 PM
I don't remember anything like that being in Adventure...
(Mostly I just fell down holes in the dark.)
Post by: ressurectionx on October 16, 2009, 05:35:00 PM
What... nobody thinks this is funny??????
Post by: ressurectionx on October 16, 2009, 06:08:00 PM
I don't know... I had that game as a kid. I thought it was great. Sure, those holes were annoying, but they were easy enough to figure out.
Post by: ressurectionx on October 16, 2009, 06:29:00 PM
There was a ton of crap for the 2600, but what made it worse was that since there were seemingly no copyrights in the wild west of home console gaming, there would be about 7 different titles for the same game. There really was only about 450 to 500 unique games during the system's life. (Trust me... I went through all of them to make the Xtras already).
Try Seaquest, Oink! and Termoil if you haven't played them yet. My old man was pretty good at picking the winners on the 2600 back in the day. We had a lot of good ones.
Post by: ressurectionx on October 16, 2009, 09:25:00 PM
I only knew one person who had the Commodore 64 personally, and that was the only gaming computer any of my friends had. His old man must have had 1,000 games pirated on that. I remember all the blank disks that had game names hand written on the labels.
I couldn't say about how popular it was in the US though. I can only speak for the area I grew up in.
We always had new games, and the systems were already on sale. I actually didn't even know anything about the crash until a few years back reading about it online. I'm sure a bunch of rich people became poor over it, but the market must have been so flooded with games that there were never any shortages while people were getting fired.
Post by: Bomb Bloke on October 17, 2009, 07:36:00 PM
QUOTE(ressurectionx @ Oct 17 2009, 11:25 AM) 
We always had new games, and the systems were already on sale. I actually didn't even know anything about the crash until a few years back reading about it online. I'm sure a bunch of rich people became poor over it, but the market must have been so flooded with games that there were never any shortages while people were getting fired.
That was part of the problem: Supply far outweighed demand, especially once new competitors started appearing.
As a result, those games that weren't sent back to their suppliers were instead sold very cheaply.
Post by: ressurectionx on October 17, 2009, 08:10:00 PM
If it ain't one bubble it's the next.
Where there are humans, there is no balance.
Post by: BlueSlingShot on October 17, 2009, 09:44:00 PM
When i read that article in EGM i almost died. I had no idea that happened and like someone stated previously because it was posted that got the rep on the net of being the most disastrous game of all time.
Post by: Retroplay on October 17, 2009, 10:22:00 PM
Edit by BB: Please link to giant images. That one was 2.3mb...