OMG Old school VG Press vs.new school VG Press!
Cat fight!
Meow!
Plays would be equivalent to sport.
Early motion pictures would be comparable to the early arcade machines.
Talkies would be comparable to the first games with music.
Colour with colour.
Animation with scrolling levels.
Home video players with home consoles.
Though the timeline may not be perfect, at least be consistent. I highly doubt you'd consider a movie from 1890 of any particular value other than as a historical artifact, either.
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Ravenprose said:^ I never said they were equal, only that the gameplay is similar. Adventure even had a secret room to find! And no high scores!
I'll back up Raven to the following extent; there are basic appeals in gaming that remain unchanged. Twitch gaming is still twitch gaming. Puzzle solving. Grinding and weapon upgrade. All the basic appeals of gaming were there in the beginning and not a lot has changed significantly.
Yodariquo said:Resident pedant weighing in. So long as you're using an analogy, you must be consistent. The dependency on the comparison to the history of movies is dependent not on quality but progression past limitations.
Plays would be equivalent to sport.
Early motion pictures would be comparable to the early arcade machines.
Talkies would be comparable to the first games with music.
Colour with colour.
Animation with scrolling levels.
Home video players with home consoles.
Though the timeline may not be perfect, at least be consistent. I highly doubt you'd consider a movie from 1890 of any particular value other than as a historical artifact, either.
You ruined the fun.
Ravenprose said:^ I never said they were equal, only that the gameplay is similar. Adventure even had a secret room to find! And no high scores!
Yes. Yes. I know ALL about the Golden Flea and passing through the wall and seeing Warren Robinett's name...
I've been there since the beginning too, Hamster!
Mario and Mega Man spit upon your Pitfall Harry and Nameless Block Knight from Adventure!!!
Patooie!
phantom_leo said:Ravenprose said:^ I never said they were equal, only that the gameplay is similar. Adventure even had a secret room to find! And no high scores!Yes. Yes. I know ALL about the Golden Flea and passing through the wall and seeing Warren Robinett's name...
I've been there since the beginning too, Hamster!
Mario and Mega Man spit upon your Pitfall Harry and Nameless Block Knight from Adventure!!!
Patooie!
Yeah, I figured you knew about the secret, Leo. I was informing Vader and anyone else who denies the glorious awesomeness of Adventure! Adventure, a game where you must save your chalice of beer from an annoying yellow duck (see video above)! Saving a chalice of beer is far, far better than saving any silly princess!
Ravenprose said:Saving a chalice of beer is far, far better than saving any silly princess!
Riiight... and next you're going to say
is better than...
Ravenprose said:phantom_leo said:Ravenprose said:^ I never said they were equal, only that the gameplay is similar. Adventure even had a secret room to find! And no high scores!Yes. Yes. I know ALL about the Golden Flea and passing through the wall and seeing Warren Robinett's name...
I've been there since the beginning too, Hamster!
Mario and Mega Man spit upon your Pitfall Harry and Nameless Block Knight from Adventure!!!
Patooie!
Yeah, I figured you knew about the secret, Leo. I was informing Vader and anyone else who denies the glorious awesomeness of Adventure! Adventure, a game where you must save your chalice of beer from an annoying yellow duck (see video above)! Saving a chalice of beer is far, far better than saving any silly princess!
I know about Adventure, I didn't mention it cause it is the only example of a game that is sort of like what we have now. It was ahead of its time. It was still a bunch of blocks though.
*sigh* Yeah I knew about Adventure as well. It was, umm, interesting waaaaaaaay back when it first came out but it's certainly not even close to being something I'd sing any praises about today.
Note: I am not suggesting that everyone should like or play retro games, only that we respect that they are an important part of video gaming's history.
Yeah I can understand that. I mean everything has to start somewhere. I certainly wouldn't discredit them as video games because they most certainly are.
You and your opponent each have an island to rule. Points are accumulated based on the welfare of your island people. You can choose to be a benevolent ruler or an aggressive dictator. Your people need food, housing, and industry for clothing and other essentials. What you cannot manage are natural disasters. A single hurricane could wipe out your crops, sink your fishing fleet, destroy all the homes and factories you've built. Rebels may automatically appear should the welfare of the people drop. They could attack. Classic dilemmas in a game that is sure to become an absorbing classic in its own right.
- One or two can play, either competitively or cooperatively.
- Colorful computer graphics and special sound effects.
- Computer measures your people's well being through a sophisticated scoring system that weighs ALL island conditions.
...but you don't want me to call HIM do you...
OMG! He's already here!
R-U-N ! ! !
...AND HE'S BROUGHT ALLIES ! ! !
angrymonkey said:
Bleh!
Temple of Apshai was sooo much better!
Dvader said:gamingeek said:Euro crew was asleep.
This was up two days ago, you did not sleep all of yesterday.
I spent yesterday looking for a dick to hold, but I couldn't find one. 
Dvader said:gamingeek said:
Yeah we are the generation that has seen gaming evolve. It is so exciting. We are those guys that went to the first movie with no sound. Then one day got to experience sound, and later color. The silent era in movies was like the NES era, the start of so many genres. The 16 bit era went into the age of sound in movies. The start of 3D for gaming was like the golden age of film, Zelda: OoT is our Casablanca or Gone With the Wind. Right now we are in the mega epic movie era in gaming. Our games are like Spartacus, Ben-Hur, Cleopatra, the most expensive movies ever made at the time. Soon we will enter the 70s so our Spielberg and our Star Wars is coming in like 5-10 years. Can't wait.
(Where is Atari, Atari is like a play, it doesn't even count as a movie)
I think we're in the 80s action movie phase right now and have been for a while.
And WILL be for a while.
edgecrusher said:Dvader said:
We started like this:
Ended like this:
Yeah...look how far downhill we went! I kid...I kid...
You don't have to add "I kid" to the end, we're all thinking it.
The 00's had Dreamcast, GBA, DS, PS2, XB, PSP, PS3, Wii, 360 and GC and those games are all still playable and a good number of them are top shelf. Graphics may have plateued but the quality of the play itself has improved.