Random Gaming Thoughts

[Xeogred]

Haha, our few years apart must make it different.

I remember it like yesterday that my dad's friend brought one over and it was probably the last time graphics seriously wowed me (Madden 2001 of all things). I still don't really see the PS2 as retro, but yeah.

The 360's era being 200 years long makes it all feel weird I guess.

[ElkinFencer10]

I was in....third grade, I think, when the PS2 came out. Third or fourth. I vividly remember the Wii's launch, though; it was the beginning of my freshman year of high school, and I was SO jealous that a two of my friends got one for Christmas. Since mom was a single parent with a barely-better-than-minimum-wage job, it took a couple years of saving and waiting for a great sale for me to get one.

[Markies]

What about not feeling like something is as old as it is? People were celebrating the PS2's 16th birthday the other day. WTF was all I could think haha.

That Generation will always feel young to me, no matter what.

Like, I was in college when the PS2 came out. My college roommate brought his PS2 to the dorm with games like Final Fantasy X, Grand Theft Auto III & Vice City along with Final Fantasy VII, VIII & IX. I brought up my Nintendo 64 and Ocarina, Majora, Mario Kart, Smash Brothers & Mario Party 3.

Needless to say, we both failed out of college and both of us graduated somewhere else.

That was the year that I decided to focus solely on games in my life.

[pierrot]

From the title, Laplace no Ma sounds like it should be about a monster that forces people to do Laplace transforms all day--"By parts!" he'd yell, and, "Do it again!" he'd exclaim, while stifling his desire to cackle madly; and just when his victim thinks it's over, L'Hospital shows up. Going only off of some of the covers for the game, I feel like I'm not wrong.

[MrPopo]

I used to drive my Calculus teacher crazy by pronouncing L'Hospital as if it were an English word.

[RCBH928]

Do you ever feel shocked and surprised by specific release dates?

Like, Metal Slug came out in 1996. It "feels" older to me - 1993 or so.

I'll think of more later.

I thought MS was 1993 too. One of the more shocking games is RE1. It was released with Mario RPG for SNES. The 2 games look from 2 different eras. The PSX looks like it was more powerful than PCs in 94-95.

Neo Geo was released before SNES (Wikipedia), and 3DO looks like a console from 97-98 and not 1993.

What about not feeling like something is as old as it is? People were celebrating the PS2's 16th birthday the other day. WTF was all I could think haha.

I feel the same about the 360. It feels so recent and the games still look modern. I just feel its old when I remember the first time I saw it was in 2005, almost 2 years before the iphone was ever introduced!

Interesting that PS2 celebrates 16 years but 360 is 11 years, such a short gap such a high jump.

[laurenhiya21]

Do you ever feel shocked and surprised by specific release dates?

Like, Metal Slug came out in 1996. It "feels" older to me - 1993 or so.

The first King's Field game was released before Chrono Trigger.

The final retail Atari 2600 games were released in 1990. This is the same year the TurboGrafx CD hit shelves.

I'll think of more later.

I don't normally think about that sort of thing since I'm bad at remembering dates, but one odd one I do remember is for the original Tokimeki Memorial.

Assuming that wikipedia isn't a big liar, it was originally released in 1994 for the PC Engine, and then the first remake (for the PS1) was released in 1995. The odd thing though, was that a Super Famicom version was made the year after (1996).

Maybe this isn't such an odd thing (I'm not super familiar with a lot of SNES stuff unfortunately), but it just seems really odd to me that it got ported backwards like that.

[BoneSnapDeez]

The order of port release dates can be weird and is determined by many factors. Sometimes the "inferior" ones are released at the end.

Take Xenophobe, the old Midway arcade game. It was ported to the NES, then the Atari 7800, and then the Atari 2600.

Here's one I just thought of that probably won't interest anyone outside of retro JRPG nerds: the original Japanese version of the Saturn Magic Knight Rayearth was released a month before the Super Famicom game of the same name. The Saturn one feels much more modern, not only because it's on 5th gen hardware but because it wasn't localized until 1998.

[pierrot]

I used to drive my Calculus teacher crazy by pronouncing L'Hospital as if it were an English word.

Yeah, that's definitely a tough urge to fight. I have this sneaking suspicion that it was a factor in the French spelling being changed.

[Sarge]

I think ActRaiser 2 might be a secret Super Ghouls 'N' Ghosts sequel. It's not quite the same, but it's got a lot of the feel of a game in the series. And I think it might be even harder.