Arcade Games & Random Gaming Nostalgia

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14518

Don't miss today's exciting conclusion to season 1

https://twitter.com/shahidkamal/status/ ... 5362008064

EPISODE 7 starts in 2 minutes. Ready for the finale of season 1?
— Shahid Kamal Ahmad (@shahidkamal) September 17, 2021

Hearthly · **Joined:** 11th May, 2008 **Posts:** 13386

It's a great read but holy fuck Twitter isn't the place for it, hopefully there'll be an unroll or something.

romanista · **Posted:** Tue Dec 07, 2021 13:01

john oliver about snack branded video games

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Kfx2fANELo

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 26118

romanista wrote:

john oliver about snack branded video games

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Kfx2fANELo

There’s something in the delivery style of John Oliver, David Baddiel and Tom Scott that just makes me recoil. Stop shouting. Nothing you are saying is that sensational and you shouldn’t replace content with volume.

Squirt · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6615

I can manage Tom Scott in those little 4 minute youtube vids he does, but he was on Only Connect once and was the most annoying human ever.

Jem · **Posted:** Tue Dec 07, 2021 14:27

Squirt wrote:

I can manage Tom Scott in those little 4 minute youtube vids he does, but he was on Only Connect once and was the most annoying human ever.

How is that possible? The most annoying person on Only Connect is always Victoria whatsherface.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 26118

Jem wrote:

Squirt wrote:

I can manage Tom Scott in those little 4 minute youtube vids he does, but he was on Only Connect once and was the most annoying human ever.

How is that possible? The most annoying person on Only Connect is always Victoria whatsherface.

Jem woke up and she chose violence.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38669

Mimi wrote:

Jem wrote:

Squirt wrote:

I can manage Tom Scott in those little 4 minute youtube vids he does, but he was on Only Connect once and was the most annoying human ever.

How is that possible? The most annoying person on Only Connect is always Victoria whatsherface.

Jem woke up and she chose violence.

She's not wrong though.

Banhammer · **Joined:** 19th Aug, 2010 **Posts:** 37

Okay, okay, jeez, here I am, what's the big...

Jem wrote:

How is that possible? The most annoying person on Only Connect is always Victoria whatsherface.

WHAT THE FUCK

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22397

LEAVE VICTORIA ALONE!

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49246

Plus she can't help look better by comparison given that her brother is a putrid shitbag

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 26118

Cras wrote:

Plus she can't help look better by comparison given that her brother is a putrid shitbag

I often wonder how she feels about him. I hope she inwardly despises him.

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Dec 07, 2021 23:59

Mimi wrote:

Cras wrote:

Plus she can't help look better by comparison given that her brother is a putrid shitbag

I often wonder how she feels about him. I hope she inwardly despises him.

Oh it is more common than you think

Kern · **Posted:** Wed Dec 08, 2021 7:57

Can confirm.

romanista · **Posted:** Mon Dec 13, 2021 21:21

My overdrive just arrived.. nice concept, breautifully created cartridges... do wonder if I play it a lot..

(and tomorrow is pre order v2 for the analogue pocket.. now that's beautiful device

romanista · **Posted:** Mon Dec 20, 2021 9:16

Currently watching the xbox documentary.. quite nice
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/ ... -wii-craze

romanista · **Posted:** Tue Dec 21, 2021 14:27

Got a cofirmation of my analogue, am in group 2, so ónly'a year to wait..
(group 3 is somewhere in 2023)

romanista · **Posted:** Thu Jan 13, 2022 14:58

snesticle is liberated using a NSA rool.. weird.. https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2022/ ... g-nsa-tool

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14518

Weird - if you asked me I'd have said that i had *something* that was called Snesticle in the early emulation days (I definetly remember Nesticle) , but i guess just a hazy memory

The waypoint article has a bit more background on this :

https://www.vice.com/en/article/akvkyb/ ... or-from-ea

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14518

Interesting read on bringing Japanese only Arcade machines to the US

https://www.wired.com/story/gritty-unde ... des-to-us/

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14518

Some of these are the same as a post here : https://www.beexcellenttoeachother.com/ ... 4#p1071904

Same photographer but also some new pics

https://britishculturearchive.co.uk/198 ... ge-wilson/

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14518

Super Mario World (any) speedrun , from start to ending screen in 41 seconds

https://ausretrogamer.com/super-mario-w ... un-record/

https://twitter.com/GWR/status/1501935541339639815

Fastest completion of Super Mario World (0 Exit) - 41.022 sec

Record holder @furious_ said the hardest part was placing Yoshi in the right spot to spit out the red shells ðŸ¢ #Mar10 pic.twitter.com/zwOQd94CM7
— Guinness World Records (@GWR) March 10, 2022

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14518

A really good (if long) overview of where the MISTer project is right now

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14518

Quote:

A History of Hup, the Jump Sound of Shooting Games
You can hear it in your head: the grunt your character makes when hopping a fence or leaping into battle. But no one quite remembers why it exists.

https://www.wired.com/story/hup-history ... deo-games/

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14518

https://www.antstream.com/post/not-so-h ... x-spectrum

Quote:

Not-so-humble: The Story of the ZX Spectrum

Hearthly · **Joined:** 11th May, 2008 **Posts:** 13386

I thought this project might be of interest to some of you. It's a 3D modelled arcade that you can walk around and play any game you want, it has both videogames and fruit machines in it.

Hearthly · **Joined:** 11th May, 2008 **Posts:** 13386

Here's a look inside the arcade itself.

Attachment:

aracde.JPG

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14518

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-o ... m-oblivion

(normally Newyorker articles are behind a firewall for me but this one opened up fine - if anyone wants to read this and has problems let me know)

Findus Fop · **Joined:** 14th May, 2009 **Posts:** 4358

Additionally, a crafty save to instapaper normally frees up paywalled New Yorker articles.

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Sep 13, 2022 18:56

Findus Fop wrote:

Additionally, a crafty save to instapaper normally frees up paywalled New Yorker articles.

Tell me do?

Findus Fop · **Joined:** 14th May, 2009 **Posts:** 4358

MaliA wrote:

Findus Fop wrote:

Additionally, a crafty save to instapaper normally frees up paywalled New Yorker articles.

Tell me do?

App that lets you save articles for later to read offline. But seems to (usually) pull in entire new Yorker articles, even if the New Yorker is asking you to sign up.

https://www.instapaper.com/

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14518

Two other sites which will bypass are :

https://12ft.io/

Which seems to have weird arrangements to not unblock some companies sites

and

https://www.printfriendly.com/

Which just gives you just about any webpage as a PDF and again bypasses most paywalls

Findus Fop · **Joined:** 14th May, 2009 **Posts:** 4358

zaphod79 wrote:

Two other sites which will bypass are :

https://12ft.io/

Which seems to have weird arrangements to not unblock some companies sites

and

https://www.printfriendly.com/

Which just gives you just about any webpage as a PDF and again bypasses most paywalls

Nice, thank you. Latter sounds useful for work too.

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Sep 14, 2022 11:18

Findus Fop wrote:

MaliA wrote:

Findus Fop wrote:

Additionally, a crafty save to instapaper normally frees up paywalled New Yorker articles.

Tell me do?

App that lets you save articles for later to read offline. But seems to (usually) pull in entire new Yorker articles, even if the New Yorker is asking you to sign up.

https://www.instapaper.com/

Ta

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Sep 14, 2022 11:18

zaphod79 wrote:

Two other sites which will bypass are :

https://12ft.io/

Which seems to have weird arrangements to not unblock some companies sites

and

https://www.printfriendly.com/

Which just gives you just about any webpage as a PDF and again bypasses most paywalls

Thank you

Sir Taxalot · **Joined:** 5th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 4850

zaphod79 wrote:

Two other sites which will bypass are :

https://12ft.io/

Which seems to have weird arrangements to not unblock some companies sites

and

https://www.printfriendly.com/

Which just gives you just about any webpage as a PDF and again bypasses most paywalls

Just when I was trying to spend less time reading articles and things on my phone >:(

But seriously, cheers.

romanista · **Posted:** Tue Nov 15, 2022 12:08

finally got the message my analogue pocket will ship next week, and that when more and more cores are coming

https://joshcampbell191.github.io/openf ... ocket.html

incredible list now already..

Dr Zoidberg · **Joined:** 15th Oct, 2010 **Posts:** 5418

Arcade Archive near Stroud opened today, so I stuck my head round the door while visiting The Cave in the same building.
It’s small, but perfectly formed and the machines are all in amazing condition.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14518

Quote:

Infinite lives: the company saving old arcade machines

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2022/ ... e-machines

https://twitter.com/keefstuart/status/1 ... 8180547585

Yesterday I wrote about my visit to Play Leisure, a company that restores and sells old arcade machines! Please give it a read here!https://t.co/jIXy0NwvkI
— Keith Stuart (@keefstuart) December 8, 2022

Dr Zoidberg · **Joined:** 15th Oct, 2010 **Posts:** 5418

I'm going to the Arcade Archive on the afternoon of Friday 30th December on the off chance that anyone else here fancies a few hours of gaming.
Happy to give a lift from Bromsgrove

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14518

https://www.theverge.com/23796894/john- ... obiography

Quote:

The birth of id Software
In 1990, John Romero, John Carmack, and Tom Hall were working at Louisiana software maker Softdisk. There, they had an idea that would change PC games forever.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14518

Quote:

These are the classic video games you can no longer play (Spoiler: It's most of them)

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/21/11894501 ... wtab-en-gb

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sat Aug 12, 2023 1:48

s'funny you bump this. Fusion are doing another book called Game Not Over - those systems to play before it is too late! if anyone wants to get it.

TheVision · **Posted:** Sat Aug 12, 2023 13:29

That's written by Craig Turner, the same guy who runs the Revival events.

He's the kind of guy who wouldn't bother using 3 words when several hundred would do.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14518

Quote:

Pitfall II's Secret Sequel
How a developer hid Pitfall III inside Pitfall II -- and how Activision almost made him delete it.

https://www.ign.com/articles/pitfall-iis-secret-sequel

As an Atari kid I thought the extra stuff was in all the games , not just in the 8bit one

TheVision · **Posted:** Wed Sep 27, 2023 15:23

Nice... I'll look forward to reading this. I've recently printed out a map and tried to complete Pitfall 2 but it's so hard. I just haven't got the patience.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14518

TheVision wrote:

Nice... I'll look forward to reading this. I've recently printed out a map and tried to complete Pitfall 2 but it's so hard. I just haven't got the patience.

I could do the first cave but never finished the second , the advantage is there is no death in the game , it just keeps going and returns you to the last checkpoint.

The *hard* bit on the first cave is the hidden balloon you need to get which is on one of the levels with bats , if you wait for them to go past a few times the bottom one turns into a balloon you take to the top of that part of the cavern (but i'm sure your map will show you that) good luck.

And after reading the article I have the music for the game going round in my head all afternoon

NervousPete · **Posted:** Tue Oct 03, 2023 14:21

So anybody played the new F-Zero 99 that popped onto the Nintendo Online thingy two weeks ago? I have, and I think it's pretty great despite me being a bit rubbish at racing games and terrified of looking awful in front of large groups of people. It's really clean and zippy and the music is great, and all the menu screens look incredibly charming and I love my little green car that looks like a Henry's Hoover with a couple of fins attached.

For those not in the know the basic mode is 99 people online race a course. You can boost but the boost drains your health bar, though parts of the track bring your energy back up. You can spin-attack into other cars and this damages them very slightly - and if you 'K.O!' another car that's mortally wounded (you can see bits of smoke coming out it) then it restores all your health and fills your boost bar. The ultimate victory is to be number 1 crossing the line, but to make up for 98 disappointed faces it also gives you a goal to beat four rivals it chooses for you in the race.

It's immense fun and I blasted away an hour on it before I knew what had happened. My top placing so far is 47 - still a long way to go!

(Uh, thought it should be this thread as an old game re-made and refreshed, but shrug.)

Joans · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8655

Unless my memory is letting me down, I can still remember the music from the Spectrum version, as well as the way when you got killed, the game dragged you back to your last checkpoint (while the music relentlessly carried on).

I think I only bought it because I liked the look of the original Pitfall (which I'm still not sure I've ever played), but it didn't really scratch that itch.

Oh right, should probably point out I'm talking about Pitfall II.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14518

You should already be following Technology Connections for their wonderful way of explaining just about everything out there but the latest video is all about Pinball

Be Excellent To Each Other

Arcade Games & Random Gaming Nostalgia

Who is online