The video game thread.

On a sad note, Disney is closing LucasArts. Star Wars 1313 looked very promising.

Report: Xbox 360 successor can tolerate only brief Internet interruptions

Kotaku is citing two unnamed sources that it says "have a perfect track record in getting these kinds of things right" to report that Microsoft's follow-up to the Xbox 360 will need a working Internet connection to start games and apps. And the site goes on to write that the system will only tolerate brief interruptions in that connection while the game or app is being used.

"Unless something has changed recently, Durango consumer units must have an active Internet connection to be used," one source told the site, referring to the internal code name for Microsoft's next system. "If there isn't a connection, no games or apps can be started. If the connection is interrupted, then after a period of time—currently three minutes, if I remember correctly—the game/app is suspended and the network troubleshooter started." Another source said this requirement was still in effect on development hardware as recently as two weeks ago.

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http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/04/report-xbox-360-successor-can-tolerate-only-brief-internet-interruptions/

This is some buuuuuuulshiiiiit. :fp:

peacefrompaul wrote:

PJ_Soul wrote:

peacefrompaul wrote:

Never mind

What?! Am I too old? :oops:

No!

Okay good.

I wonder if there are any arcades in Chicago? There aren't any left in Vancouver except once a year at the PNE fair. :(

I also have Super Mario Brothers for Nintendo 64 and really want to play it, but I can't figure out where the fucking feather for the hat so he can fly is. It's in the very first level, and there is no point in even proceeding to the 2nd without that thing, but I can't find it anywhere! Do any of you Super Mario people remember where in the hell that flight feather is??
(oh, and Mortal Kombat on N64 is also AWESOME, but only with 2 players, and no one will play with me ).

peacefrompaul wrote:

PJ_Soul wrote:

(oh, and Mortal Kombat on N64 is also AWESOME, but only with 2 players, and no one will play with me ).

I'd kick your ass

Quite possible, but I am pretty fucking skilled and frantically pressing random buttons until my player makes his signature killer move, so I'd give you a run for your money.

PJ_Soul wrote:

I also have Super Mario Brothers for Nintendo 64 and really want to play it, but I can't figure out where the fucking feather for the hat so he can fly is. It's in the very first level, and there is no point in even proceeding to the 2nd without that thing, but I can't find it anywhere! Do any of you Super Mario people remember where in the hell that flight feather is??

And here I thought my photographic memory of every inch of Princess Toadstool's Castle would never come in handy. lol, I played the shit out of this game back when it came out. Not only finding all 120 stars, but basically finding almost every COIN. I was obsessed. Goldeneye 64 as well. My favorite era of video gaming by a mile.

Anyway, so it sounds like you're trying to get the red switch so that all the flying hat boxes are filled in right? What ya have to do is get a couple stars. You can play other levels. You can totally proceed to other levels without the hat to fly. I don't know how many stars ya need (maybe 8?) but when ya get about that many, go out in front of the staircase in the main lobby of the castle. There should be a light shining down from the ceiling. Look up at the light and it'll take you to the red switch that will fill in all the red flying hat boxes.

Let me know how ya make out. I'll help ya take down Bowser.

Ledbetterman10 wrote:

PJ_Soul wrote:

I also have Super Mario Brothers for Nintendo 64 and really want to play it, but I can't figure out where the fucking feather for the hat so he can fly is. It's in the very first level, and there is no point in even proceeding to the 2nd without that thing, but I can't find it anywhere! Do any of you Super Mario people remember where in the hell that flight feather is??

And here I thought my photographic memory of every inch of Princess Toadstool's Castle would never come in handy. lol, I played the shit out of this game back when it came out. Not only finding all 120 stars, but basically finding almost every COIN. I was obsessed. Goldeneye 64 as well. My favorite era of video gaming by a mile.

Anyway, so it sounds like you're trying to get the red switch so that all the flying hat boxes are filled in right? What ya have to do is get a couple stars. You can play other levels. You can totally proceed to other levels without the hat to fly. I don't know how many stars ya need (maybe 8?) but when ya get about that many, go out in front of the staircase in the main lobby of the castle. There should be a light shining down from the ceiling. Look up at the light and it'll take you to the red switch that will fill in all the red flying hat boxes.

Let me know how ya make out. I'll help ya take down Bowser.

Oh my god, I didn't expect anyone to actually answer! I couldn't even find this info doing searches online! Thank you sooooo much - I will give it a try and let you know!

This arcade game was the shit ...

Jason P wrote:

This arcade game was the shit ...

Blast from my childhood past there. All the hick bars in Wisconsin had games like that.

Anyone finish Bioshock Infinite yet?

It sucked me in right until the end. What the "story" of a game should be.