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  • voidofman
    voidofman Posts: 4,009
    MayDay10 wrote:
    Yes. There are numerous NES and Sega Emulators.

    When I worked at Electronic Arts as a game tester the first thing they had us test was Madden 07 for the Wii. The funny thing was the Wii wasn't even out or ready for testing. We had to use an emulator, program files and a DOS based program to run the game.

    I was hired through a temp agency with 50 other people. We were supposed to be there for only a month to push madden, nfs, etc. More than half got let go after that month, I thought I was going to be one of them because I accidentally deleted the newer game files needed to be copied from the manager's root folder. Luckily he had a back up. I ended up staying there for a year. I worked on NHL 08 and found over 100 Severity A bugs which are mostly crashes and hangs.

    I was finally let go because my managers didn't like my sense of humor. A lot of the other testers were shocked and sad I was gone because I found so many weird bugs that nobody would think to do. I found a crash on Madden where I went into player appearance, put an afro haircut on a white player, saved it and it crashed. :lol:


    And this was the other video game thread. Last post was about 5 days ago, dimitris bumps so many threads every day that it drops off the front page fast. :mrgreen:

    viewtopic.php?f=14&t=137383
  • peacefrompaul
    peacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    MayDay10 wrote:
    There is a video game thread, although I havent seen it in awhile.

    As far as the classics: Tecmo Super Bowl, ToeJam & Earl, Battletoads, and Ice Hockey (NES) all are timeless in replayability, fun, and challenge.

    I searched and couldn't find it. If you are able to resurrect the old one let me know!
  • peacefrompaul
    peacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    Check this out! Anyone played it? It's sooo fun!


    http://www.amazon.com/Takin-It-The-Hoop ... B000WL1S3U
  • peacefrompaul
    peacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    voidofman wrote:
    MayDay10 wrote:
    Yes. There are numerous NES and Sega Emulators.

    When I worked at Electronic Arts as a game tester the first thing they had us test was Madden 07 for the Wii. The funny thing was the Wii wasn't even out or ready for testing. We had to use an emulator, program files and a DOS based program to run the game.

    I was hired through a temp agency with 50 other people. We were supposed to be there for only a month to push madden, nfs, etc. More than half got let go after that month, I thought I was going to be one of them because I accidentally deleted the newer game files needed to be copied from the manager's root folder. Luckily he had a back up. I ended up staying there for a year. I worked on NHL 08 and found over 100 Severity A bugs which are mostly crashes and hangs.

    I was finally let go because my managers didn't like my sense of humor. A lot of the other testers were shocked and sad I was gone because I found so many weird bugs that nobody would think to do. I found a crash on Madden where I went into player appearance, put an afro haircut on a white player, saved it and it crashed. :lol:


    And this was the other video game thread. Last post was about 5 days ago, dimitris bumps so many threads every day that it drops off the front page fast. :mrgreen:

    viewtopic.php?f=14&t=137383

    Thanks! Cool story! I'll bump the other one
  • peacefrompaul
    peacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    DewieCox wrote:
    Jason P wrote:
    DewieCox wrote:
    Baseball Stars>>greatest baseball game ever created,
    Except when the battery would reset your save file. :evil: :evil: :evil:

    Yep...Didn't you press the reset and power button at the same time for the saveable games? Crazy story regarding that...

    Several years after Legend of Zelda for NES came out I decided that I never officially beat it all the way through..I'd turned Ganon to red dust, but some older cousins had done alot of the quest. NES games were fucking hard and I finally made it through the final dungeon and had a couple potions ready to rock, right...Well, a friend decided to try his hand at some real Robin Hood shit with a nerf bow and arrow. He let one fly and I'll be damned if it didn't directly blast the power button, while I was in the room sluggin it out with Ganon. I waited awhile to avoid anything that could be construed as rapidly turning the game on and off, turned the game on and it was freakin completely wiped. I still haven't beat it or let him forget about it.

    Yes, NES games are super fucking hard
  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,327
    peacefrompaul wrote:
    Yes, NES games are super fucking hard
    I still consider beating Bionic Commando as one of my greatest gaming achievements ... along with kicking Mike Tyson's ass. 8-)
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  • peacefrompaul
    peacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    Jason P wrote:
    peacefrompaul wrote:
    Yes, NES games are super fucking hard
    I still consider beating Bionic Commando as one of my greatest gaming achievements ... along with kicking Mike Tyson's ass. 8-)

    Woot_Emoticon.gif:clap:
  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,398
    peacefrompaul wrote:
    I don't see a thread for this here

    did you use the search feature? ;):lol:

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  • peacefrompaul
    peacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    eeriepadave wrote:
    peacefrompaul wrote:
    I don't see a thread for this here

    did you use the search feature? ;):lol:

    viewtopic.php?f=14&t=137383

    Yes
  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,327
    Civ 5 expansion pack "Gods and Kings" was just released. It appears it has addressed quite a few issues in the game and made vast improvements.

    I have Civ 5 but have yet to play it because it reminded me how awesome Civ 4 is and I just started playing it instead.
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  • MayDay10
    MayDay10 Posts: 11,865
    Civ 5 sucks ass. The whole build of the game is a colossal disappointment.

    Civ 4 on the other hand, IMO is about the greatest game ever made.

    I realize it is a hard act to follow, but there was room for improvements/changes without scrapping nearly everything the series progressed to... nor without making it just seem like an expansion for Civ 4.

    Kind of what GTA 4 did from San Andreas, but much worse.
  • Indifference71
    Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,915
    Just don't have the time to play much anymore. I'm pretty much reduced to buying the new NHL game every year and that's about it. I miss college.
  • peacefrompaul
    peacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    Indifference71 wrote:
    Just don't have the time to play much anymore. I'm pretty much reduced to buying the new NHL game every year and that's about it. I miss college.

    Yeah... College is awesome... Getting shit faced and playing x-box :lol:
  • bionicamy
    bionicamy Posts: 425
    Drowned Out wrote:
    Jason P wrote:
    Black Diamond wrote:
    Intellivision was my first system...

    Football was the best...

    But those plastic key pad guides were annoying...
    My friend had one. Remember playing Bump-in-Jump, Happy Trails, Burger Time and Lock-in-Chase. I agree that they had the worst controllers ever, even worse then the Atari 7800.
    holy shit! I hadn't thought of bump n jump in YEARS! I had that game....my neighbours had Burger Time, loved that one. Mine came with Astrosmash and Poker/Blackjack (great for the kids!)...There were some really dumb games...Frog Bog comes to mind. I had Snafu too.....The hockey was awesome. But ya, the baseball, having to select players on the keypad thing, it never worked well....
    I think my parents paid like $300 for that thing in the early 80's...crazy. Remember going downstairs and it was there, hooked up and ready to play on christmas morning, then having to bitch at my dad for a turn to play it :lol:

    I loved my Intellivision. Shark Shark and Pit Fall were my go to games. There was a surgery game that I remember being really hard but I was a kid and it was the 80's :lol:
    Those controllers would get hot ..... Metal disk :fp:
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  • mca47
    mca47 Posts: 13,337
    peacefrompaul wrote:
    Indifference71 wrote:
    Just don't have the time to play much anymore. I'm pretty much reduced to buying the new NHL game every year and that's about it. I miss college.

    Yeah... College is awesome... Getting shit faced and playing x-box :lol:
    We had NES RBI Baseball and Super Techmo Bowl tourneys my freshman year!! Drunken old school games were the best!!! :D
  • peacefrompaul
    peacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    mca47 wrote:
    peacefrompaul wrote:
    Indifference71 wrote:
    Just don't have the time to play much anymore. I'm pretty much reduced to buying the new NHL game every year and that's about it. I miss college.

    Yeah... College is awesome... Getting shit faced and playing x-box :lol:
    We had NES RBI Baseball and Super Techmo Bowl tourneys my freshman year!! Drunken old school games were the best!!! :D

    You lucky bastard :lol:

    I'll have to pick up an NES from the game store by my parents place.... There are usually a few sitting around
  • mca47
    mca47 Posts: 13,337
    peacefrompaul wrote:

    You lucky bastard :lol:

    I'll have to pick up an NES from the game store by my parents place.... There are usually a few sitting around
    There was quite a bit of haze in the air too! ;)

    I still fire mine up from time to time. Looks HORRIBLE on a 50" TV though!

    I still instinctively blow in the cartridge before I stick it in! :lol:
  • peacefrompaul
    peacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    mca47 wrote:
    peacefrompaul wrote:

    You lucky bastard :lol:

    I'll have to pick up an NES from the game store by my parents place.... There are usually a few sitting around
    There was quite a bit of haze in the air too! ;)

    I still fire mine up from time to time. Looks HORRIBLE on a 50" TV though!

    I still instinctively blow in the cartridge before I stick it in! :lol:

    There's always a haze in this place. :lol:
  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,327
    By the Nine Divines! There is a new Skyrim expansion available!

    :o:o:o

    http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2406345,00.asp
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  • Digital Twilight
    Digital Twilight Posts: 5,642
    Jason P wrote:
    Civ 5 expansion pack "Gods and Kings" was just released. It appears it has addressed quite a few issues in the game and made vast improvements.

    I have Civ 5 but have yet to play it because it reminded me how awesome Civ 4 is and I just started playing it instead.

    I just started playing civ 4.First civ game i've played. Pretty cool.

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