New, old video games.

[Bytor1958]

I checked shipping today. It should be in my mail box when I get off work.

I told my 9 yr old grandson about this. He's excited to play it. In 2 weeks he'll be up to spend the night at grandpas. Should be fun.

He was up this weekend and had a cheap yo-yo with him. I took him to Walmart and got him a few Duncans. Showed him a few tricks I knew and told him to practice.

 

[LeftyF2003]

I've been messing with emulators lately and found a good one for the Atari Jaguar. Most of the games for that console were not great, but it's worth it just to run Tempest 2000. Incredible game by Jeff Minter who was a legend on the Atari ST for his Llamatron game. In that one you end up shooting at toilets that fire poop balls at you, rolling papers, tea cups, and other crazy things while you collect llamas. It also had an option to run 2 joysticks so you could steer with one and fire with the other. Amazing stuff on very primitive hardware. Good times...

 

[Bytor1958]

I got this last week. I was playing this weekend. Fun times..

 

[Sledge]

Although the arcade version was lame, I wish they would come out with a new version of Battlezone for the Xbox. I used to play the PC version of Battlezone II, and loved it. Great combination of action and strategy

 

[DADGAD]

In 2000 I went to a video game auction and picked up Narc. The monitor has since crapped out
but I'm waiting to fix it. when you could get in a
car and run over people that was pretty awesome as a 12 year old.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

If I could afford one, I'd buy an old school "game room" Stargate game, that game was and is still the best game ever created. For those that don't remember it was a more advanced "Defender" game, again still the best.

"Defender" was the shit, Talk about information overload ... seven controls and a radar screen while Mutants were jumping your ass.

 

[NRBQ]

"Defender" was the shit, Talk about information overload ... seven controls and a radar screen while Mutants were jumping your ass.

What's really interesting is that the game itself must not be too hard to produce, I've seen it on multi game DVD's and the look and graphics are exactly the same. That's not the problem, it's the controllers, the buttons and levers that must be exactly the same for you to play the game as it was intended. I tried it with a hand held controller and it wasn't even close, not even the same game. You just can't recreate that game with a hand held controller, it has to be like the original. Wonder if people make that sort of thing to link up with a home version? I'd just like to find one somewhere just to give it a go. I'll bet that I can get on that machine and play it like I never missed a beat, just like 30 years ago. I know it, it's like riding a bicycle, you never loose your skill set. Pickup!

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Had Atari Anthology for PC, that was cool but just not the same.

Give me some old-school pinball any day ... Gorgar, Black Knight, Eight-Ball (and Eight-Ball Deluxe), Strikes and Spares, that's the shit.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

What's really interesting is that the game itself must not be too hard to produce, I've seen it on multi game DVD's and the look and graphics are exactly the same. That's not the problem, it's the controllers, the buttons and levers that must be exactly the same for you to play the game as it was intended. I tried it with a hand held controller and it wasn't even close, not even the same game. You just can't recreate that game with a hand held controller, it has to be like the original. Wonder if people make that sort of thing to link up with a home version? I'd just like to find one somewhere just to give it a go. I'll bet that I can get on that machine and play it like I never missed a beat, just like 30 years ago. I know it, it's like riding a bicycle, you never loose your skill set. Pickup!

Yannow? On Defender, that "hyperspace" slap you'd lay with your right hand ... can't do that on a hand-held, you'd be beating your meat, and not in a good way.

I'm sure they could, if they want to, design a controller that could interface Windows x; I mean, flight sims have very complex joysticks, rudder pedals, the whole nine yards. Thing is, how much of a market is there for something that would obviously be that expensive? A panel for Defender, and panel for Robotron, a panel for Tempest .... doesn't seem like the market would support those sorts of things.

I'm sure they could, but I doubt the money is there.

 

[NRBQ]

Yannow? On Defender, that "hyperspace" slap you'd lay with your right hand ... can't do that on a hand-held, you'd be beating your meat, and not in a good way.

I'm sure they could, if they want to, design a controller that could interface Windows x; I mean, flight sims have very complex joysticks, rudder pedals, the whole nine yards. Thing is, how much of a market is there for something that would obviously be that expensive? A anel for Defender, and panel for Robotron, a panel for Tempest .... doesn't seem like the market would support those sorts of things.

I'm sure they could, but I doubt the money is there.

Oh I'm sure you're right, to call it a limited market would be a mild understatement. The game is a niche within a niche within a niche within a time machine. If you've got the money and a pickup you can probably find a real one on Ebay for a bunch of cash. If I had one I'd play it and not just let it sit, but I'm not going to pay $1400 for a game, at least not in my current pre lottery win lifestyle. There's the BL and AL before lottery, and after lottery, in the AL lifestyle my Stargate machine is right next to my Lamborghini Countach and the wax figure of Farrah Faucet.

 

[Bytor1958]

I told my daughter to get this for me for Christmas.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

There's the BL and AL before lottery, and after lottery, in the AL lifestyle my Stargate machine is right next to my Lamborghini Countach and the wax figure of Farrah Faucet.

Yeah, I always reckoned if I won a good-sized jackpot my new home would include an old-school arcade.

 

[OldBenKenobi]

Wonder if people make that sort of thing to link up with a home version? I'd just like to find one somewhere just to give it a go. I'll bet that I can get on that machine and play it like I never missed a beat, just like 30 years ago. I know it, it's like riding a bicycle, you never loose your skill set. Pickup!

They absolutely do.

The majority of the market is for fighting game fans, so they're called fightsticks and made with Japanese controls:

The concept can be applied to any game, platform or genre though. It's just a joystick, buttons, a USB encoder (to interpret the button signals) and a USB port. Here are a pair made to replicate the old Neo Geo system, in American and Japanese variants:

Or if you want to go all out, you can built a mini Defender arcade cabinet that will sit on a table, bar or counter:

 

[NRBQ]

They absolutely do.

The majority of the market is for fighting game fans, so they're called fightsticks and made with Japanese controls:

The concept can be applied to any game, platform or genre though. It's just a joystick, buttons, a USB encoder (to interpret the button signals) and a USB port. Here are a pair made to replicate the old Neo Geo system, in American and Japanese variants:

Or if you want to go all out, you can built a mini Defender arcade cabinet that will sit on a table, bar or counter:

Man that is cool, I'd love to see one built.

 

[OldBenKenobi]

Man that is cool, I'd love to see one built.

I haven't seen one built but here is a similar cabinet built for another Williams game: