Arcade and Retro General Chat in Karkariko Village Tavern: Live Ocarina Music

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

DinoRex wrote: »

New podcast...



http://arcadeandretro.com/arcade-and-retro-podcast-20-the-bloodening/

Its a great listen, if only I was painting the sitting room red lol.
The murderer you're trying to think of is the Otaku Killer I think https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_Miyazaki

CiDeRmAn

Nic Cage is..

All De Pokemons!

Nerdkiller1991

You mean to tell me that the internet still hasn't gotten fed up of the whole Nicholas Cage thing? Ugh. Having Chuck Norris be a meme was bad enough.

johnny_ultimate

The internet will never and should never give up on Nicolas Cage as long as his soul is still dancing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXNfHb9b6Y0

CiDeRmAn

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

The internet will never and should never give up on Nicolas Cage as long as his soul is still dancing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXNfHb9b6Y0

Wha Da Fffff

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

Nerdkiller1991 wrote: »

You mean to tell me that the internet still hasn't gotten fed up of the whole Nicholas Cage thing? Ugh. Having Chuck Norris be a meme was bad enough.

o1s1n

Ah!!! my heart

I'm just after setting up my projector again after buying a 2 metre blind in IKEA.

Nobody ever needs to see a 6 foot baby version of Nicholas Cage

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

o1s1n wrote: »

Ah!!! my heart

I'm just after setting up my projector again after buying a 2 metre blind in IKEA.

Nobody ever needs to see a 6 foot baby version of Nicholas Cage

Now I can go back to planet Kero Kero with Ex-Girl

Nerdkiller1991

Atavan's worst nightmare.

Atavan-Halen

That's replaced the whale in my nightmares.

Nerdkiller1991

This is the most awe inspiring sight I've ever seen. Giver of life. Mother of us all.

Jack burton

Nick Cage is god!

CiDeRmAn

Nerdkiller1991 wrote: »

This is the most awe inspiring sight I've ever seen. Giver of life. Mother of us all.

Some tell Richie!

The one area Sonic has managed to be superior to Mario.
The Mario movie pain is still felt and suffered by those poor unfortunates who have seen it.
It's a scarring experience, even Big the Cat can't eclipse the utter naffness of that bloody film.

I see they had to wait until Hoskins had run out of continues before releasing this on Blu though.

richymcdermott

Sonic met its doom with the countless terrible tv shows.

DinoRex

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtCtQpclpY8

Retr0gamer

richymcdermott wrote: »

Sonic met its doom with the countless terrible tv shows.

When Sera see's this she won't be happy.

Retr0gamer

Christ that sonic fan film was woeful. Sonic fans should just stick to yiffing behind closed doors so it's not inflicted on the rest of the world.

DinoRex

Doctor Kintobor! hahahaha...

Retr0gamer

When I was in school I used to write fan fiction where sonic was my best friend. I hate that Princes Elise kised sonic in Sonic 06, it should have been me.

DinoRex

I used to write comic strips about Steg the Slug and Zaks the Wizard from the Dizzy games.

MrVestek

I used to just play the games you fecking weirdos! :P

DinoRex

You had to do something to occupy yourself when being held back in detention.

CiDeRmAn

Retr0gamer wrote: »

When I was in school I used to write fan fiction where sonic was my best friend. I hate that Princes Elise kised sonic in Sonic 06, it should have been me.

You know, there are things that should never, ever be shared with others.
This is one of those things.

richymcdermott

mario galaxy is one of my favourite games of all time if not my fav platformer , i never played a game that each level was vastly different

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

richymcdermott wrote: »

Sonic met its doom with the countless terrible tv shows.

Sat AM series is terrible? You'll never get close to top Sonic fanboy with that attitude.
That's no good!

o1s1n

DinoRex wrote: »

I used to write comic strips about Steg the Slug and Zaks the Wizard from the Dizzy games.

I have an interesting one, when I was in 4th/5th class myself and a mate had a comic called VIOLENCE! with lots of red pen being abused.

One of the characters we had was a lone mercenary soldier called 'Lone Soldier' (I think it was around the same time we both watched Commando :pac:)

Anyway, I was clearing out some attic stuff and came across one of them, from about 93/94.

Here you go, for your enjoyment, from my slightly deranged 10 year old mind;



In 1996, 'Lone Soldier' came out on the PS1, I was so pissed off and was convinced they stole my idea

richymcdermott

That reminds me when I was 14 I think and I was in the car with my dad and said to him wouldnt be cool if you could plug your guitar into your playstation and play songs that teaches you. Low and behold not even a year later guitar hero was announced , I too was convinced activision stole my idea :mad:

Myrddin

richymcdermott wrote: »

That reminds me when I was 14 I think and I was in the car with my dad and said to him wouldnt be cool if you could plug your guitar into your playstation and play songs that teaches you. Low and behold not even a year later guitar hero was announced , I too was convinced activision stole my idea :mad:

Your idea sounds better, at least it would have been a real guitar & not a joypad shaped like a guitar

Retr0gamer

richymcdermott wrote: »

That reminds me when I was 14 I think and I was in the car with my dad and said to him wouldnt be cool if you could plug your guitar into your playstation and play songs that teaches you. Low and behold not even a year later guitar hero was announced , I too was convinced activision stole my idea :mad:

Well it wasn't just you that thought of the idea first. Konami were so surprised that their game Guitar Freak had been so comprehensively cloned that they somehow ended up in court over it :P

MrVestek

Myrddin wrote: »

Your idea sounds better, at least it would have been a real guitar & not a joypad shaped like a guitar

Like Rocksmith?

The Last Bandit

Myrddin wrote: »

Your idea sounds better, at least it would have been a real guitar & not a joypad shaped like a guitar

They've one of them as well, can't remember the name of it but have one at home just plug it your (real) guitar and bash away.

o1s1n

Myrddin wrote: »

Your idea sounds better, at least it would have been a real guitar & not a joypad shaped like a guitar

Isn't Guitar Hero how you learned to play? :pac:

Nerdkiller1991

richymcdermott wrote: »

That reminds me when I was 14 I think and I was in the car with my dad and said to him wouldnt be cool if you could plug your guitar into your playstation and play songs that teaches you. Low and behold not even a year later guitar hero was announced , I too was convinced activision stole my idea :mad:

Activision didn't create the Guitar Hero series. They bought out the creators and milked that series for everything it was worth.

Besides, it's hardly teaching you guitar if it's just a bunch of buttons instead of strings. If you want a real rip off of your idea, just look at the guys behind Rocksmith, since they let you use your own electric guitar to play the game.

Myrddin

o1s1n wrote: »

Isn't Guitar Hero how you learned to play? :pac:

If Guitar Hero is another name for a book of chords then yes, yes it is The real guitar interface stuff is grand, the other instruments that are glorified joypads annoy me a bit though...you're not playing a guitar!!

o1s1n

It's a shame the Guitar Hero guitar couldn't be far less controller like alright.

When I was bashing away on one, my missus would play the Guitar Hero drumkit. It was pretty great fun.

She's now graduated to an Alesis DM10 while I'm wondering why I didn't just keep practicing my actual guitar

Tomo.Murphy

I put a lot of hours into Guitar hero 3 and 4 on the Wii. The World Tour drum kit is a nightmare though. I've had to fix it multiple times (even had to fix the left pad with an ice pop stick). Had to get Red Octane to send out a midi-USB cable and drum-tuning software to fiddle with the drum sensitivity too.

They were fun games, but it seemsed like every time you walked in to a game shop there was a new one out.

Haven't gotten around to Rocksmith yet, but I'd probably mostly only play that so I could use my TVs as amps, ha.

Nerdkiller1991

My childhood is officially complete.

CiDeRmAn

Nerdkiller1991 wrote: »

Activision didn't create the Guitar Hero series. They bought out the creators and milked that series for everything it was worth.

This is why the people who were in the know played Frequency and Amplitude from that company before any mention of Guitar Hero.
Also, the California synth pop band Freezepop feature in those games because one of their members was a director of Harmonix. Actually now a former member of the band Kasson Crooker.
Too much useless information in this noggin of mine.

But the two are great games, though I haven't seen them for sale in some time.

Retr0gamer

Most of the Harmonix people also worked at Looking Glass creating amazing games like Thief, System Shock and Terra Nova. And before that a few of them were in the band Tribe who are worth checking out if you like bands like the Pixies. Think there's a few of them that worked on Dishonored as well.

Nerdkiller1991

The Last Bandit

Anyone know of a USB video capture dohickey that accepts RGB/Scart signals ? Everything I can find only does composite or S-Video.

CiDeRmAn

DinoRex

This is great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRmRMnVULs8

o1s1n

Got the bus out to Dun Laoghaire with my sister last night to see Howl's Moving Castle.

Stupid 45a took far longer than it should have, over an hour - get there 20 minutes before the film though so thought we'd be grand.

Walk up the counter. 'Sorry, Howl literally just sold out this second'



Went to see Maze Runner instead. Bad idea, it was terrible. Should have just scrapped the cinema idea and drank cans with the winos on the pier instead.

DinoRex

So Maze Runner isn't as good as Labyrinth then?

safetyboy

an Apple 1 just sold for $905,000 http://businessetc.thejournal.ie/apple-1-mac-sold-for-905000-1741908-Oct2014/


Bit more than a candy cab

o1s1n

The fact that David Bowie isn't it in makes that an automatic 'no!'

It tries so hard to be a franchise/the next Hunger Games that you can almost hear the director pleading with you to buy into the idea of 5 sequels.

DinoRex

City of Ember is the only one of these 'Young Adult' fantasy/scifi movies that I've thought was any use. Too bad it didn't do well, don't think too many know about it. But it's pretty cool.

CiDeRmAn

DinoRex wrote: »

City of Ember is the only one of these 'Young Adult' fantasy/scifi movies that I've thought was any use. Too bad it didn't do well, don't think too many know about it. But it's pretty cool.

I have the books actually, the premise was intriguing as was the presence of the notoriously choosy Bill Murray in the cast. It wasn't bad but the book is much better and the sequel and prequel are pretty damn good.
You can borrow them if you like.

Andrew76

o1s1n wrote: »

Got the bus out to Dun Laoghaire with my sister last night to see Howl's Moving Castle.

Stupid 45a took far longer than it should have, over an hour - get there 20 minutes before the film though so thought we'd be grand.

Walk up the counter. 'Sorry, Howl literally just sold out this second'



Went to see Maze Runner instead. Bad idea, it was terrible. Should have just scrapped the cinema idea and drank cans with the winos on the pier instead.

Seriously man, when are you going to learn to drive?? Buses are for kids, students and pensioners. :P