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@Ganner

Thinking back to being into video games in the 90s makes me also think of The Message from the movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas where he talks about the rise and fall of 60s counterculture.

Read it through the lens of the pre-internet 90s video game scene and some striking parallels shine through.

Sorry for the text wall, but it's a good one!!

"Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a main era - -the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.

There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.

And that, I think, was the handle - -that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting - -on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark - -the place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.

History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullsh--, but even without being sure of "history" it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time - and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened."

Bad Religion says 1000 more fools are born every f'n day, and I tend to agree.

I love how they assume everyone has abundant and readily available internet access. Screw the poor, I guess.

Wonder Flower turns the track into Bat Country (not the song).

They were h(a)emorrhaging several sows and bucks per week, had to call it a day.

I don't know, man. His introduction in Tears was pretty bitchin.

@Danipooo

Naw, it was just a reference to a sketch from the Dana Carvey Show from the 90s

Time for the indie darling crossover DLC with Untitled Gooch Game and Goat Stimulator

That's cool and everything, but what about Astral Chain? That game hauled balls.

This somehow reminds me of the Bill Hicks bit about the pitch for the new television show for the '92 season called, "Let's Hunt And Kill Billy Ray Cyrus".

@IronMan30 can I get a Hell Yeah?? You're the one with the Hicks avatar, right?

I still have one or two sick-azz posters for this game from old-school Club Nintendo. Yanking the code slips from cases at the used shizz shop and paying zero shipping costs. Ha, I wonder why they changed it?

Just found out I can't change the Family Plan with my ex-wife on it to an Individual Plan + Expansion until I renew next September. This sucks!!

@Truegamer79

Famicom Metroid could save because it was a Disk System title. The file select screen looks like Zelda 1.

Speculation on the game selection: these were all the Carbon Engine could handle.

But that doesn't explain the lack of Game Gear.

Biting my lip trying not to make a "one slim package" joke.

Mash all of the volumes into one collection and I am down like a clown in Chinat-t-t-town.

Nintendo 64

(Whispers)

After Dark

Now do Resident Evil 2!

A Mallow and Geno amiibo release would put it at 10. Have Hard Mode locked on them and the internet tears would nudge it to a solid 11!

@Samalik

Sorry you feel that way. Sometimes I feel like the only sane person in an insane world.

@Fazermint

Thank you, Jan!

Thank Jeebus, I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks this. And this is coming from someone who owns Deathsmiles 1&2!

There was a science class in Junior High where we had to build a small catapult and whoever could throw a tennis ball the longest distance won.... something.

A friend who lived on my block had a dad who was a carpenter. He looked up the specs on an old medieval trebuchet and scaled them down to knee-height.

The test area was the tennis court outside and this trebuchet flung the ball across the court and over the fence. Dang thing worked like a charm!

Aayyyyyyy!! (Yes, they are on the way.)

Played this at a friend's place all the way back in the day. All I remember is, "The Forkies have come to their senses!"

Ohhhhh snap, I completely forgot about the new/old Shantae!

Give me Pentarou or give me death!!

@Olliemar28

Not at all!

Being a musician of the more 'old-school' and 'underground' variety, I am just genuinely curious how people are moved by certain types of music.

Especially nowadays, where every style of music has been mashed together into a single entity. And then used to sell home and auto insurance.

Looks cool, but what was so great about the generically "epic" movie trailer music? Basically every television commercial that isn't for some pharmaceutical uses this exact style of music. My local grocery store uses a similar song to sell produce. I think a local roofing company does as well. So what does this song do that hasn't already been done by everyone everywhere?

@Axecon

I know, right? Astral Chain on the easiest difficulty setting says Hello!

Reminds me of how television in America is all like, "Yeah go ahead and saw her head off while spewing the full range of expletives, but don't you dare inadvertently expose a boob in the process!!"

POOORTAAAL KOMBAAAAAT

More 3D versions of 8-bit sprites like they did with NES Mario and Link. Quick Draw Kirby, Training Little Mac and Pink Jumpsuit Samus would rule!

"What the hell does that mean?!"

Sounds like some National Treasure meets Da Vinci Code biz-nazz.

Awww, my subtitle would have been "Heaven Can Wait".

Sick song from a sick record!

Sounds like Miyamoto put Tezuka through the same "Rockstar 101" training that Dave Mustaine put Jeff Young through before joining Megadeth, minus the heroin, of course.

"Here's your leather jacket, here's a bunch of psychedelics, now shut up and smoke this! Alright, let's lay down some code!"

Say it with me, now..

"Tecmo SUPER Bowl"

Ahhh, much better!

Hopefully the Switch version doesn't get the Spinal Tap two-word review: "Sh*t Twister"

Annapurna titles have always screamed "Art College final project" to me, so I suppose $200 makes sense. Art school is expensive!

Man, a version of Guitar Pro for Switch would be awesome..

With pettable dog and smokeable cigarettes!

I got another one

🎵 Drunk, drive, then you wail, you gotta
Drunk, drive, then you wail, you gotta
Drunk, drive, then you wail awaaayyy 🎵

🎵 And I'm street, street lethal
Poundin' down the back roads
Higher than a steeple 🎵

Metal Gear destroys every other title not named Zelda. It's sooooo good! Still worth the $100+ for a loose cartridge.

Here we go again....

.....again

Kurtwood Smith says, "Dumb*ss!"

The super rare randomly selected trading card from the Walmart pre-order will be more rare than this, I imagine. Fingers crossed for tomorrow!!

Anyone know the band Gama Bomb? They do a rad song about Fortified Zone for Game Boy.

This reminds me of another 16-bit game from a TV show that I need to track down.

Sgt. Saunders' Combat! for Super Famicom

The game probably sucks, but my goodness, that show rules!!!

Can't get Del Shannon out of my head

"Wah-Wah-Wah-Wah-Wonn-Derr"

Anyone else?

..... crickets ......

No, not Buddy Holly and the Crickets, I'm talkin about Del Shannon!

crickets intensify

After all of the fanart of Peach and/or Daisy riding the pipe, now Mario gets to have a go.

Zombie Ritual by Death
A Skeleton In The Closet by Anthrax
Ghosts of War by Slayer

All fantastic songs.. It's a tough call!!