Favorite Video Games

Still bouncing between New Vegas and AVP,  AVP is just hard and today I completed the New Vegas expansion today that I haven't completed in a long time, its a little repetitive but the Courier (the player) finds out new things about themselves and gets some new perks that allows them to run faster and not be as impacted by all the radiation in the world.  

As for Zelda, I need to finish the SNES version one day, beat the first two but never finished the SNES one and never played any of the ones after that since the SNES was my last console.  Have you ever played any of the original Japanese Zelda or Mario?  They did remove things from the American versions since Japan isn't as censorship happy as the US.  Its odd, they're so old fashioned in so many things in Japan but when it comes to violence and sex in their films, games, and even cartoons, its all extreme.  I remember in the 80's Robotech got made for the US, it was based on the Japanese cartoon, and people died left and right in that cartoon, it was the only cartoon I saw as a kid where soldiers actually got shot up or blew up or what have you, GI Joe, He-Man and all the others, no one ever got more than a ouchie.  

The Japanese games usually just have some extra levels and the names may be different on some characters.  It really only makes a difference on Nintendo games made by Nintendo.  All the other companies like LJN, Konami, and others who made Nintendo games as well, there's no difference between their games in Japan or the US.  

And I'll give those Zelda games a shot down the road, still a very long list of games I need to try, like Alien: Isolation.

I have no doubt that they are fun, I can't imagine Link in a boring game. 

One thing that's kind of sad, the console industry kind of destroyed the arcade industry, which is a shame.  It was more of a fun social thing to do, go hang out your friends, hit the arcade, talk to girls, win prizes, bug the token guy all of the time, and other stuff.  Then there was the high score list, getting those initials on the top ten was the goal but I only got on those lists on a few games, Ms. Pac-Man and Centipede.  I was never that good at the fighting games at the arcade, I found it easier to play fighting games with a gamepad over a joystick, but I was like the master of Centipede.

There are still arcades but they're just there for retro purposes, not even sure what games they have because arcades are for kids and teens, would be kind of creepy if middle aged dudes were hanging at an arcade.  

Yard sales used to be where I came across old arcade games that worked rather well for decent prices but these days, very few have yard sales, California did limit the amount a person can do them every year so that play into it.  I had Q-Bert years and years ago but my dad sold it, sadly.  I didn't mind too much because I never really cared for the game, it was ok but I would have preferred Centipede.  Maybe one day I'll track down a tabletop version but for now, I don't have the room for it.  

Arcades were fun.  I think the last one I went to was this one that was in the Excalibur Hotel in Vegas, they had Wrestlefest and that was the last arcade game I played that I really liked, it was just a blast.  Oh wait, I did go to an arcade at the mall in Medford, Oregon, the girl I was with at the time challenged me to a game of Tekken and she kicked my a*s.  But I got my revenge, I kicked her a*s in Mortal Kombat.  I've really only dated one girl who liked action games, I mean I've dated tons of girls who are into those cell phone games that are about candy or bubbles or whatever, buts its rate to come across a hot girl who loves games like Duke Nukem or Fallout.  In fact, most women, one of the biggest pet peeves they have these days, are men who play video games too much.  It plays a huge role in why a lot of couples are in marriage counseling and why quite a few relationships go boom.  But to be fair, some of these guys go overboard.  That one girl who was into all the cool games, she didn't want to sit at home all day and play games, so we'd set aside hours where we'd play games, or watch a movie or go to a fancy place to eat, etc, and so on.  Still didn't work out but only because she had inner demons she had to tend with, and by the time she tended to them, it was too late to get back together. 

Anywho... games... relationships... relationships are kind of like games, its all about quests and picking the right dialog options to make sure things don't go boom.

I've been a gamer since Pac-Man originally came out, think it was 81 or 82.  However, my parents, they wouldn't allow me to have a console, they said I wouldn't do my school work.  So I had to go to my friends' houses to play their Atari 2600's, for awhile at least.  By the late 80's my dad finally caved and bought me an Atari 7800, which was cool at the time, it played all 7800 games and it was backwards compatible, it played all 2600 games as well.  Then a year later I got the NES and was hooked on that system for awhile, and then I got the Turbo Grafix 16, which I won in a contest but I didn't keep it long, traded it in for an SNES and kept that until I got my PC in 93.  Video games as a kid/teen were all about competition but as I got older, some games remained competitive but others were for pure escapism.  New Vegas is about escapism, same with Bloodlines, but while I dig Mortal Kombat, that's all about competition.  Wrestling games are a mix of the two, and far more fun than MK because in MK all one can do really is shoot things and kick and punch, in wrestling games the wrestlers have so many different moves, and each one has a few different moves than others.  One of my old favorites was the Undertaker, he could body slam, throw people around, and also do all these other wicked moves.

I don't bother with the new ones, they're too buggy and I don't really follow the shows anymore so I lost track but the old ones are still fun fighting games.

I need a new game down the road, but right now I'm testing some new computer fans to make sure they can handle the heat, so I'm using New Vegas as the testing game.  I'm waiting for the sequel to Retro City Rampage, I never finished the first one but I uninstalled it and lost my backup.  Actually, I think I'll look into sequel updates now and see whats up...

Ya never know these days....

I requested my last response to be deleted, hopefully it will be otherwise this may be very repetitive.

Retro City Rampage is an indie game, intentionally 8 bit, and it's a parody of GTA that also makes fun of TMNT, A-Team, Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, and other 80's and 90's franchises.  It is all done in a fun way, the developer doesn't hate those franchises, he just went the parody route.  It has a sequel but from what I've read about it, just seems to be more of the same but instead of 8 bit its 16 bit.

I'm currently playing Ghostbusters: The Arcade Game, which I think came out in 2009.  What some don't know about the game, the story/script is basically what they wanted to use for Ghostbusters 3 but the film never happened, so instead they used it for a game and the actors from the films did the voice acting.  A few core characters are missing but they got original Busters, just didn't get Ramis or Weaver as far as I can tell, maybe they appear later in the game.  There's an old Atari 2600 Ghostbusters game that's also a lot of fun to play for a very old game... little simplistic but it was the 80's.