I really enjoy Perfect Dark Zero on the 360. It plays very much like the N64 version (dual function weaponry, simbots on multi-player, no jump, etc.). Some of the same weapons even come back (hooray for the laptop gun and Superdragon)!

It's not a next-gen looking game, but it plays beautifully and has excellent backgrounds and effects. And the X-Box Live work for it is just awesome! Dark-Ops is way fun and multi-player has many cool options and up to 32 people online at once per match!

But, Dead or Alive 4 is FRICKIN' BRILLIANT!!!! What an incredible game!!!! Graphically, it's the first game on the system (next to Call of Duty 2) that looks like a TRUE next-gen game! The backgrounds and fighting arenas are just gorgeous! Plus, you can play as a Spartan from Halo (complete with a stage straight out of Halo 2 and the theme music)!

Not only that, but the online play is fast and load times are only 4 to 5 seconds EVERY match!

However, the true killer app for X-Box 360 is X-Box Live! If you haven't played Geometry Wars Advanced, you're missing on of the coolest old-school play/next-gen effects games out there! Being able to download high-def online versions of the arcade classics Joust, Gauntlet, Smash TV, etc. is way cool! Playing online and chatting with a fellow Jouster is too fun! Downloading high-def trailers for games and movies is cool, along with demos for games so you can tell if you want to buy them or not. Great stuff!

But back onto the Atari 2600 - Combat. Period. GREATEST.GAME.EVER.ON.ATARI. 100 different modes and plenty of variations on battle!

And oh how I love the Super NES! I still have mine and yes, StarFox is one of the greats and I have the first stage theme music - Corneria - on my cell phone as a ringer! F-Zero is my favorite racing franchise ever, though! The first time I saw Mode-7 scaling, I freaked!

GOD, I love videogames!

Ok, Traahn - I squeezed in some time in Asteroids just after work today. And I did manage to flip the score! Woo hoo! I haven't done that in at least 25 years!

I was playing on mode 10 (or whatever they call it when you select which game number to play on) and with the difficulty setting on hard (so I get the little UFO's that shoot at you). I managed to get 134,510 before circuming to the insanity of the never-ending asteroid field... and because of my sore Atari-thumb. My rapid-fire action slowed way down toward the end.

Funny thing I had forgotten - the game pretty much starts over again at 100,000 points. It doesn't just flip the score - you end up in a simple and not so cluttered asteroid field after it flips, and with the larger UFO's again too. After about 10,000 points in to the flipped game, the background sound slowed down to where it starts off in the beginning too.

Man - Atari Asteroids is one addictive game! I only wish my thumb could handle it a little better. Funny - Atari-thumb didn't seem as bad when I was 12! Aging sucks. But in some ways, I can turn back time when I enjoy my Atari Flashback 2! I swear - it makes me feel like a kid again. Even at work today, I was all excited about getting home and spending a little time on it! It reminds me of being a kid in school, daydreaming about getting out of school to race home and play Atari. I'm enjoying this thing WAY too much!
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The PimpDragon Wrote:Well, I'd give Combat the award for best game ever on the Atari because it had so many different play modes and it was a game you could pick up and play anytime.

Remember suckering in your friend who had never played combat into being the giant B-52 bomber, when you were the little jet? hehhehehhe

The PimpDragon Wrote: Does anyone here still have (or ever had) a Sega Dreamcast? Talk about one of the all-time great systems! I dearly love my Dreamcast (still have it and break it out from time to time). Shenmue is still one of the greatest games ever! Those of you who played it will get this statement I always said for it: "If my father's killer shows up in the arcade, he better not play me in darts for I'll have my revenge!"

I stillhave my DC, it's out in the garage with the rest of my stuff. To this day, I loves me some Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 and Space Chanel 5
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Boingo_Buzzard Wrote:Remember suckering in your friend who had never played combat into being the giant B-52 bomber, when you were the little jet? hehhehehhe

LMAO!!!

I swear someone pulled that on me before I had my own Atari... or something similar at least. I got suckered in to many things when playing Atari with friends before I got my own. Didn't care much though - I was just happy to be playing Atari!

The PimpDragon Wrote: God I love videogames!

Amen! I am playing Rachett: Deadlocked right now (along with GTA:LCS)

After a long day at work I just enjoy coming home and blowing sh** up.

DAMN!

After enjoying many, many hours on my Atari Flashback 2, I decided I just HAD to hook up my old, vintage Atari VCS, with the simulated woodgrain front.

BUT I don't have anything to hook it up with! The old RF converter has two wires that need to be screwed in to the antenna screws on a TV. Well, I don't have a TV with those kind of connections anymore (not a color one anyway). No problem, right? I have a few of those adapters that convert the two wires to a coax cable male port. Unfortunately, I have no clue where to find them. I just killed almost two hours randomly searching in storage boxes I thought they might be in. But found nothing... except a bunch of old photographs of me and various girlfriends from the 80's. Holy crap did that bring back a lot of memories! And what a beautiful mullet I had too!

I know, I just need to go down to Radio Shack and pick up a more modern RF converter... but that's not going to happen tonight. Damn - and I SO wanted to play crappy Atari Pac Man on a REAL TV, like back in the day! And Defender, and Ms. Pac Man, and Raiders of the Lost Arc, and even ET! Grrrr!

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Traahn Wrote: TheReelTodd wrote: Ok, Traahn - I squeezed in some time in Asteroids just after work today. And I did manage to flip the score! Woo hoo! I haven't done that in at least 25 years! WELL DONE!!! Isn't that a great feeling? How cool! I notice that version of asteroids isn't exactly how I remember it being, though. I remember solid colored asteroids, rather than just the perimeter of them colored. I wonder why they Flashback2 asteroids aren't filled-in...

Yep - great feeling! I was very proud of myself. And along the way, it was really funny how serious I was about the game - I haven't put that much effort in to game play in so many years. I was playing as if my life depended on it!

And the look of Asteroids was changed for some reason. I think they wanted it to look a tad more like the arcade Asteroids so the changed the solid objects to outlines like the arcade version. I would have rather had the original Atari Asteroids also, but the game play seemed dead on, so I didn't mind much.

I found something to help out with Pitfall a bit. Do not click this link if you really want to spend time figuring out the boards and which tunnels to take on your own. This is the best chart of the game I've ever seen.

http://members.tripod.com/~PitfallHarry/MapRoom/PitfallMap.html
I looked at it closely, and then played the game, but couldn't remember much more than the first couple of tunnel routes. I just HAVE to solve the game. Never did as a kid, so I fee like I have to do it now. Just so damn curious if anything happens. It probably just ends (like freezes)... or even worse - it just keeps going until the timer runs out! Oh well - whatever. I must experience it for myself!

Oh - and before anyone who actually knows what happens at the end - please do not post it, or at least use the spoiler tags if you do. I just want to find out for myself on this one.

I'm peeved. My JAKKS Atari joystick version of Adventure has two major flaws:

1) The "dot" is actually visable in the Black Castle.
2) You're only rewarded with "TEXT?" when you use the dot.

wtf??!

TheReelTodd Wrote:I was doing so good and then I got Atari-thumb and started sucking big time.

Ah yes.. I remember Atari-Thumb syndrome. I used to get it a lot on my left thumb, whereas now, with today's controlers (with analog sticks) I get it in my right thumb.

However the left thumb problem has cropped back up with the PSP's poorly positioned analog stick. It's a little too low on the PSP for me to be able to use it for very long before my thumb starts to hurt.