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- DonCreech, on 07/05/2008, -1/+54"2004 Nintendo PSP in 2005."
Wait a minute... there's a whole lot going wrong with this sentence. - YancyFryJr, on 07/13/2008, -1/+43Instead of shooting where I was, you should have shot at where I was going to be!
- benroy, on 07/07/2008, -0/+14I recently found my old Super Nintendo in my Mom's garage. After playing Super Mario World for about three hours I was frustrated and bewildered as to why this game that I used to be so good at when I was twelve, is kicking my ass now at thirty.
After some self-examination I realized that I'm not bad at old video games, I'm just good at new ones.
I've forgotten what it's like to play in two dimensions (three, if you include time.)
There was no weapon selection, no quick save, no control setup, no audio adjustments, etc.
I have forgotten what is simple. I know how pretentious it is to even begin to preach about simplicity in gaming, yet...here we are.
And for irony's sake, I'm half-way through my second Mass Effect 'career'. - Greengoo, on 07/07/2008, -1/+13Don't forget your all-Rush mix tape!
- benburned, on 07/07/2008, -1/+13I actually got distracted by one of the articles on the side--
Atheists' nightmares.
How peanut butter disproves the theory of evolution.
*facepalms* - ScipiosLegion, on 07/07/2008, -0/+9good article but lots of typos in it.
- screwfanboys1, on 07/07/2008, -0/+7Space Invaders Extreme is awesome, pick it up if you have a chance
- zadadka, on 07/07/2008, -1/+7Huh?
Atari : Battlezone, 1980. - AboveandBeyond, on 07/07/2008, -1/+6li ke wh at?
- Nin10dude, on 07/07/2008, -0/+5I hope I'm missing some sort of vague sarcasm.
- AboveandBeyond, on 07/07/2008, -1/+6wow, I thought I was the only one to read the article, as I'm assuming 99% of people spent the time playing space invaders widget.
- RickyTheRiot, on 07/07/2008, -0/+5"Now that PC gaming is dead" ?
Yeh, because you can't get things like PES, CoD4 or WoW on the PC... *confused*
Sure, it's hardly in it's ascendency, but it's far from dead. That is, until you can surf pr0n on a console with the same level of relevant ease as a PC. ;) - jbonner71, on 07/07/2008, -0/+5I remember it well when Space Invaders came to my home town. It was early in 1979, still damn cold outside but we (my friends and I) would walk a good mile or so to the pizza place (yes, a pizza place...Franco's, if I am remembering correctly) that had a cocktail (i.e. sit down) version of Space Invaders. I had seen and played PONG before (on my cousin's TV set) but this was my introduction, my gateway, if you will, to "real" video games and I was hooked from the first quarter I dropped. Good times... :^)
Now, a few days ago I beat a reviewed MGS 4. I would have loved to have seen my reaction to that game as a nine year old...my age when I first saw Space Invaders. It probably would have blown the back of my head off...
- bananaspiders, on 07/07/2008, -3/+8I dont know what I'd do without videogames. I cant imagine going outside to do sports or some silly nonesense like that...
- Greengoo, on 07/07/2008, -0/+5I have no date, a 2 liter bottle of Shasta, and my all Rush Mix Tape...let's rock.
- h0ly, on 07/07/2008, -0/+3But now you can just grab Wii Fit
- hamesy, on 07/07/2008, -0/+3I spent more time playing the flash game at the top of the article than reading the article itself.
- SubmittedBai, on 07/07/2008, -2/+5I'm still enjoying Space Invaders on my iPhone from time to time.
- KayMan2k, on 07/07/2008, -0/+3"2006 Next-gen consoles Xbox 360 and PS3, plus the Nintendo Wii. "
Ouch!
Oh, and didn't the 360 come out in 2005? Yup, pretty sure it did. - ostracize, on 07/07/2008, -0/+3Increase speed, drop down and reverse direction!
- SkippyDoorknob, on 07/07/2008, -1/+4My brother always gets the last one for me!
- Greengoo, on 07/07/2008, -1/+4Point of interest: also your last.
- SkippyDoorknob, on 07/07/2008, -0/+2Space Invaders pre-dates Asteroids.
One of the main articles in the first issue of Electronic Games magazine (not to be confused with EGM) was "Can Asteroids Conquer Space Invaders?". - Thuktun, on 07/07/2008, -0/+2Tell me again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes?
- KingGorilla, on 07/07/2008, -1/+3I was going to read the article but then they let me play space invaders. I kinda got distracted. Ah heh heh heh
- evil-doer, on 07/07/2008, -0/+2this is one of the only good reasons i like being as old as i am. i got to see space invaders when it first came out and watch the evolution of videogames through the years. other than that tho, it pretty much sucks.
- revjustin2, on 07/07/2008, -0/+2Gamers love to declare things they don't like "dead". My 2 cent analysis is that this somehow makes them feel better about something missing from their lives.
- NecroSexy, on 07/07/2008, -2/+3Ah, playing Space Invaders on my TI-86...good times.
- Greengoo, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1Anybody remember the games-platform for the 85? Z-Shell?
Hells yes. - TomMusicThing, on 07/07/2008, -1/+2The Neave remake is actually embedded in the article linked to...
- zero21xxx, on 07/07/2008, -1/+2I buried you immediately after reading your first ill-informed statement. You "buried the lead," as they say...
- Jenadae, on 07/07/2008, -2/+3The space invaders on that site is wrong, the movement on it raised by time rather then the amount of invaders left :(
- jstem1994, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1Damn, now I need a Pasquale's Pizza.
- revjustin2, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1In my defense, I based my use of the term on the fact that you hold some knowledgeable information/opinions about the gaming industry. It is likely that your opinions are based on inferences from previous comments, so my apologies.
That being said, you have to admit that there are a lot of people out there who seem to jump on the opportunity to proclaim a platform/technology "dead" (I see this all the time here on Digg - PS3, Wii, PC, BluRay). My comment was directed at those who seem to be jumping on some some kind of bandwagon of indirect self-promotion, which I am guessing you are not really trying to do, so I also apologize for inferring that you were doing this as well. My bad. - xekko, on 07/07/2008, -1/+2Full screen retro Space Invaders action: http://www.neave.com/games/spaceinvaders/play.php - a Flash remake but a pretty accurate one
- h0ly, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1There's much yet still to come. For example, think how much in-game physics can still improve. Considering the "realism" route, we still don't have advanced rendering techniques usually present on pre-rendered CG, such as radiosity and subsurface scaterring... And artificial intelligence has not evolved much beyond simple, physically oriented behaviors (and we won't have real "thinking" characters/NPCs any time soon, IMHO).
But I'm not sure people really want all of that, maybe people will want to just play a simple game once a certain realism plateau has been reached... time will tell I guess. - hiPpymIck, on 07/07/2008, -1/+2cycling is fun...
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at a low risk
while just doing what you do anyway - Stevethegreat, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1I'm not a gamer
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http://jeniya.info - 10000000, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1That statement quickly caused me to throw everything i had just read out the window
- reekon, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1You don't really get sarcasm do you,
- hiPpymIck, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1they lazy..
didnt do the space ships right either - every 21 shots
i never did master the best technique
shoot up your barriers to maximize your shots - get the most points for spacecraft
leave four right to the end and shoot them at the very last second
maximum points per screen
i used to get round the clock on fast bombs by just (...carefully)
shooting the ***** out of them - Sizzor, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1"....he's hooked he's hooked, his goose is cooked....."
- Stevethegreat, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1I'm directly involved in the industry, though, at least in its next phase and the migration to consoles is pretty threatening to the future of gaming as immersive medium.
- TheSlinky, on 07/07/2008, -0/+0A history of gaming timeline and nothing about PC gaming is mentioned? Bah.
- TheSlinky, on 07/07/2008, -0/+0While my friends played their SNES I played Star Wars games with my joystick on DOS, roamed thousands of in-game square kilometres in The Elder Scrolls exploring uncountable dungeons, played one of many races each with different units, building structures, tactics and spells to rival most of today's RTS games in Master of Magic and yet somehow PC gaming is not significant enough to mention in the history of gaming? What madness is this?
- TheSlinky, on 07/07/2008, -0/+0While my friends played their SNES I played Star Wars games with my joystick on DOS, roamed thousands of in-game square kilometres in The Elder Scrolls exploring uncountable dungeons, played one of many races each with different units, building structures, tactics and spells to rival most of today's RTS games in Master of Magic, slayed pig cops from an alien planet while paying strippers to show me their ***** in Duke Nukem 3D, chainsawed Cacodemons in Doom, blew ***** up with my BFG in Quake, established vast empires with Civilization, survived in a post-apocalyptic world where aliens have taken over in X-COM: UFO Defense, played the first ever RPG on a digital medium with Zork, had gunfights with genetically enhanced mutants in Fallout, all this while everyone played some puzzle platformer and yet somehow PC gaming is not significant enough to mention in the history of gaming? What madness is this?
- jaythewise, on 07/07/2008, -0/+0I recall simcity being mentioned but no starcraft or civ1
- TheSlinky, on 07/07/2008, -0/+0While my friends played their SNES I played Star Wars games with my joystick on DOS, roamed thousands of in-game square kilometres in The Elder Scrolls exploring uncountable dungeons, played one of many races each with different units, building structures, tactics and spells to rival most of today's RTS games in Master of Magic, slayed pig cops from an alien planet while paying strippers to show me their ***** in Duke Nukem 3D, chainsawed Cacodemons in Doom, blew ***** up with my BFG in Quake, established vast empires with Civilization, survived in a post-apocalyptic world where aliens have taken over in X-COM: UFO Defense, played the first ever RPG on a digital medium with Zork, had gunfights with genetically enhanced mutants in Fallout, all this while everyone played some puzzle platformer and yet somehow PC gaming is not significant enough to mention in the history of gaming? What madness is this?
- crowbarred, on 07/07/2008, -2/+2I hate being the only person on the planet who still plays "sensible soccer" [gooooooooooooaaaaaaaalllllll]
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