The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[darjr]

Yar's Revenge was my jam!

I just watched a stream of dozens of new Atari 2600 games. It was wild. Some of them looked fun!

 

[prabe]

Really the only wrong way to do it is the way that makes yourself feel superior, at the cost of making someone else feel inferior.

These are opinions, not laws of thermodynamics.

I didn't mean to imply I feel superior for handling it how I'm handling it. If someone has time and energy to try things from the playtest packets, more power to 'em. I do persist in being puzzled that people expect everything in every playtest packet to make it to the published game, but that's probably just a difference in understanding of what "playtest" means.

 

[trappedslider]

Can some of you order from Jason's deli?

 

[billd91]

Someone sure is setting out to make friends around here. Sheesh.

 

[Bardic Dave]

Someone sure is setting out to make friends around here. Sheesh.

And how!

"You disagree with me? Well, it's only because you don't understand my irrefutable logic. You agree with me? Well, you aren't agreeing with me in the precise manner that I want you to, so have a few insults!"

 

[Homicidal_Squirrel]

Some of y'all haven't read the site's Terms and Rules and it shows.

Is there a rule that you can’t post pineapple pizza? Because if there isn’t, there should be. I’d like to report everyone that had favorably mentioned pineapple pizza.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Some of them looked fun!

Some of them actually were!

A lot of it was Stockholm Syndrome, though, since there weren't a lot of real choices (even the famous glut of Atari games mostly produced clones of other games) and the videogame form still was pretty primitive.

 

[trappedslider]

Someone sure is setting out to make friends around here. Sheesh.

 

[darjr]

Some of them actually were!

A lot of it was Stockholm Syndrome, though, since there weren't a lot of real choices (even the famous glut of Atari games mostly produced clones of other games) and the videogame form still was pretty primitive.

Somewhere I have my Adventure! expansions and alternate rooms.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Somewhere I have my Adventure! expansions and alternate rooms.

Adventure! is a great example. It gave us the first videogame Easter egg, and the game has a lot of nostalgic value for Baby Boomer and Gen X gamers, but by today's standards, it's worth playing once at most. (The janky duck-like dragons are still great, in a dorky way.)

In contrast, Space Invaders, Asteroids, Defender, Joust and a host of other first and second generation videogames are still legitimately fun today.