I'm not going to be annoying and say "Oh shit, you never played Mega Man!?!!1!!". Instead, I'm just going to go through your list and say... It's a shame you missed out on Pitfall. It had great sound effects and colors. Another good Atari sidescroller was H.E.R.O. I do think it is pretty crazy you haven't played the Megaman series. That was the first game I remember really being obsessed with. Wait... naw, maybe Super Mario was, but Megaman was a bigger influence on my artistically than any other video game. The style of the figures was so different, considering I was used to reading Marvel comics, and so fresh. More inspired from modern design than manga or other video games, the designers somehow gave Megaman that cute/sad look with just a few pixels. Earthworm Jim wasn't that great of a game, but it was one of the first games that sort of had that "straight from a comic book" look to it that games like Sam and Max would later adopt. A fantastically animated game (for the time) whose game cartridge contained a whopping 24 megs. It looks like our gaming history's are a little different. I've always been a generation or two behind in terms of gaming, even when I was young. I was rocking my atari for a couple of years after the NES came out, since there were hardly any games being made anymore, I picked up hella games from yard sales. Eventually, my parents "splurged" and bought a used NES family set (with Rob the Robot and the light gun), but of course the Turbografx had been out for a while and the Genesis had just been released. Anyways, I recently got a modded xbox on ebay and I burned through a ton of games from about 3 years ago. there was some great stuff, like Psychonauts! Man I loved that game. Anyways... are you sure you haven't played Megaman?
Doctor Popular
· 1 year ago
btw, if you are interested, feel free to come talk about games at the next Game Theory. http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/467714/ It's just an informal get together, sometimes we play games, sometimes we talk about making new games, mostly we talk about pr0n.
Jason
· 1 year ago
Ha! I haven't tallied what games I've played to get a count yet, but Doc, Game Theory sounds totally up my alley and I'm going to try and make it out for it.
gamer_review
· 9 months ago
That's a nice list of games. Some of my classic games that are on the list are: Rayman, Pokemon, Myst and Donkey Kong Country.
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Instead, I'm just going to go through your list and say...
It's a shame you missed out on Pitfall. It had great sound effects and colors. Another good Atari sidescroller was H.E.R.O.
I do think it is pretty crazy you haven't played the Megaman series. That was the first game I remember really being obsessed with. Wait... naw, maybe Super Mario was, but Megaman was a bigger influence on my artistically than any other video game. The style of the figures was so different, considering I was used to reading Marvel comics, and so fresh. More inspired from modern design than manga or other video games, the designers somehow gave Megaman that cute/sad look with just a few pixels.
Earthworm Jim wasn't that great of a game, but it was one of the first games that sort of had that "straight from a comic book" look to it that games like Sam and Max would later adopt. A fantastically animated game (for the time) whose game cartridge contained a whopping 24 megs.
It looks like our gaming history's are a little different. I've always been a generation or two behind in terms of gaming, even when I was young. I was rocking my atari for a couple of years after the NES came out, since there were hardly any games being made anymore, I picked up hella games from yard sales. Eventually, my parents "splurged" and bought a used NES family set (with Rob the Robot and the light gun), but of course the Turbografx had been out for a while and the Genesis had just been released. Anyways, I recently got a modded xbox on ebay and I burned through a ton of games from about 3 years ago. there was some great stuff, like Psychonauts! Man I loved that game.
Anyways... are you sure you haven't played Megaman?
It's just an informal get together, sometimes we play games, sometimes we talk about making new games, mostly we talk about pr0n.