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PostRe: General Retro Gaming Thread
by Gemini73 » Wed May 16, 2012 10:15 am

Sly 2 doesn't seem to have an issue with double jump or camera angles, however as enjoyable as it is being predominantly for kids it's far to easy.

Played a couple of retro titles last night.

Road Blasters - Used to think it was great when I was younger. Sadly it's not aged very well.

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Kung Fu Master - Still awesome, still rock hard.

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PostRe: General Retro Gaming Thread
by Peter Crisp » Wed May 16, 2012 10:26 am

Kung Fu Master was indeed a thing of rare beauty. Even though I was piss poor at it I always felt the fault was mine when I died rather than the game being unfair which is why I kept playing. It's one of my fondest gaming memories and I've bought many games down the years trying to regain the feeling of playing it.

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PostRe: General Retro Gaming Thread
by Christopher » Wed May 16, 2012 10:42 am

Been playing the gooseberry fool out of Super Hang On for Virtual Console over the past few days :datass:

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PostRe: General Retro Gaming Thread
by Eighthours » Wed May 16, 2012 12:44 pm

Peter Crisp wrote:Kung Fu Master was indeed a thing of rare beauty. Even though I was piss poor at it I always felt the fault was mine when I died rather than the game being unfair which is why I kept playing. It's one of my fondest gaming memories and I've bought many games down the years trying to regain the feeling of playing it.


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PostRe: General Retro Gaming Thread
by Gemini73 » Wed May 16, 2012 5:44 pm


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PostRe: General Retro Gaming Thread
by SEP » Wed May 16, 2012 10:42 pm

Found my old N64, with all the leads and everything. Except I can't find any of my games. Fucksake.

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PostRe: General Retro Gaming Thread
by Mockmaster » Wed May 16, 2012 11:02 pm

Wait, Kung Fu on the NES was a port? Mind blown.

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PostRe: General Retro Gaming Thread
by TheTurnipKing » Thu May 17, 2012 1:22 pm

DaddyBrown wrote:Sly 2 doesn't seem to have an issue with double jump or camera angles, however as enjoyable as it is being predominantly for kids it's far to easy.

Played a couple of retro titles last night.

Road Blasters - Used to think it was great when I was younger. Sadly it's not aged very well.

Road Blasters was one of those games that kind of lived and died by it's steering wheel.

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PostRe: General Retro Gaming Thread
by TheTurnipKing » Thu May 17, 2012 1:23 pm

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Got the NES version of this with a NES Advantage. Amazing game.

The Atari 2600 version is a work of art, though. Getting the VCS to capture that much of the gameplay must have been a real nightmare.


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PostRe: General Retro Gaming Thread
by Dig Dug » Thu May 17, 2012 3:07 pm

That is pretty strawberry floating amazing for an atari port, way ahead of the curve in terms of the games I have seen on the system.

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PostRe: General Retro Gaming Thread
by Drunken_Master » Thu May 17, 2012 3:26 pm

Kung Fu master reminds me of the rock hard Vigilante. Nigh on impossible game.

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PostRe: General Retro Gaming Thread
by Gemini73 » Thu May 17, 2012 6:36 pm

Vigilante is a quality game, but yes it's rock hard. A lot of trial and error.

For a time there used to be a Vigilante cab in our local cafe in the hometown where I grew up.

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PostRe: General Retro Gaming Thread
by Rubix » Fri May 18, 2012 1:51 pm


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PostRe: General Retro Gaming Thread
by Gario » Fri May 18, 2012 2:30 pm

I must confess I've been playing Crash Bandicoot all over again, which I bought on the PS3 for a few quid. Truth be told the D-pad control is tedious and I wish it used the analogue stick. But it's a good little game after all these years!

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PostRe: General Retro Gaming Thread
by Dangerblade » Sat May 19, 2012 1:52 pm

Was hoping Retro Gamer 103 would have arrived by now :(

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PostRe: General Retro Gaming Thread
by TheTurnipKing » Sat May 19, 2012 8:05 pm

Drunken_Master wrote:Kung Fu master reminds me of the rock hard Vigilante. Nigh on impossible game.

According to Wiki it's actually a spiritual sequel of sorts. I didn't realise that.

I mean, now that you mention it and I see them side by side, yeah, it makes perfect sense. Especially given that they both came from Data East.

But then, when I think of Vigilante, this is what pops into my head.
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PostRe: General Retro Gaming Thread
by kommissarboris » Sat May 19, 2012 8:20 pm

i've been playing a bit of urban strike on the megadrive.

the oil rig levels where you have to walk about are strawberry floating rock hard, those controls :fp:

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PostRe: General Retro Gaming Thread
by Gemini73 » Sat May 19, 2012 8:25 pm

TheTurnipKing wrote:
But then, when I think of Vigilante, this is what pops into my head.
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That poster. :lol:

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PostRe: General Retro Gaming Thread
by Gemini73 » Sun May 20, 2012 3:21 pm

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Um...

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PostRe: General Retro Gaming Thread
by Herdanos » Sun May 20, 2012 4:33 pm

DaddyBrown wrote:Um...


:lol:

Is that the same game as the "classic coin-op"? Because if so, then they definitely outsourced that cover production. To someone who'd clearly never played the game.

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