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Top Ten Most Collectible Video Games
Obiwan Kenobi writes "Gamespy has a new article up on the Top Ten All Time Rarest Video Games. This wacky list includes such gems as Chase the Chuck Wagon and Bubble Bath Babes, the only NES game with nudity (square nipples, anyone?). Makes me wonder what the top ten rarest PC games are..."
I love 8-bit pr0n....don't you?
The original 2-D Castle Wolfenstein, and others from the 8-bit famed Apple/Commodore/Atari machines.
The Zork series on 5 1/4 disks.
Original Ultima series games.
Those are the true collectables.
(first post?)
"Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives" should be a convenience store, not a government agency.
It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality,' which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to pedophilia.
What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:
I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.
Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'
As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.
And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!
Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:
'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'
Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?
We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and copyright of posters to Slashdot by gathering together their postings and publishing them en masse to further his twisted and manipulative journalistic agenda.
Sick, disgusting antichristian perverts, the lot of them.
In addition, many of the Linux distributions (a 'distribution' is the most common way to spread the faggots' wares) are run by faggot groups. The Slackware distro is named after the 'Slack-wear' fags wear to allow easy access to the anus for sexual purposes. Furthermore, Slackware is a close anagram of claw arse, a reference to the homosexual practise of anal fisting. The Mandrake product is run by a group of French faggot satanists, and is named after the faggot nickname for the vibrator. It was also chosen because it is an anagram for dark amen and ram naked, which is what they do.
Another 'distro,' (abbrieviated as such because it sounds a bit like 'Disco,' which is where homosexuals preyed on young boys in the 1970s), is Debian, an anagram of in a bed, which could be considered innocent enough (after all, a bed is both where we sleep and pray), until we realise what other names Debian uses to describe their foul wares. 'Woody' is obvious enough, being a term for the erect male penis, glistening with pre-cum. But far sicker is the phrase 'Frozen Potato' that they use. This filthy term, again found in the secret homosexual 'Sauce Code,' refers to the solo homosexual practice of defecating into a clear polythene bag, shaping the turd into a crude approximation of the male phallus, then leaving it in the freezer overnight until it becomes solid. The practitioner then proceeds to push the frozen 'potato' up his own rectum, squeezing it in and out until his tight young balls erupt in a screaming orgasm.
And Red Hat is secret homo slang for the tip of a penis that is soaked in blood from a freshly violated underage ringpiece.
The fags have even invented special tools to aid their faggotry! For example, the 'supermount' tool was devised to allow deeper penetration, which is good for fags because it gives more pressure on the prostate gland. 'Automount' is used, on the other hand, because Linux users are all fat and gay, and need to mount each other automatically.
The depths of their depravity can be seen in their use of 'mount points.' These are, plainly speaking, the different points of penetration. The main one is obviously /anus, but there are others. Militant fags even say 'there is no /opt mount point' because for these dirty perverts faggotry is not optional but a way of life.
More evidence is in the fact that Linux users say how much they love `man`, even going so far as to say that all new Linux users (who are in fact just innocent heterosexuals indoctrinated by the gay propaganda) should try out `man`. In no other system do users boast of their frequent recourse to a man.
Other areas of the system also show Linux's inherit gayness. For example, people are often told of the 'FAQ,' but how many innocent heterosexual Windows users know what this actually means. The answer is shocking: Faggot Anal Quest: the voyage of discovery for newly converted fags!
Even the title 'Slashdot' originally referred to a homosexual practice. Slashdot of course refers to the popular gay practice of blood-letting. The Slashbots, of course are those super-zealous homosexuals who take this perversion to its extreme by ripping open their anuses, as seen on the site most popular with Slashdot users, the depraved work of Satan, http://www.eff.org/.
The editors of Slashdot also have homosexual names: 'Hemos' is obvious in itself, being one vowel away from 'Homos.' But even more sickening is 'Commander Taco' which sounds a bit like 'Commode in Taco,' filthy gay slang for a pair of spreadeagled buttocks that are caked with excrement. (The best form of lubrication, they insist.) Sometimes, these 'Taco Commodes' have special 'Salsa Sauce' (blood from a ruptured rectum) and 'Cheese' (rancid flakes of penis discharge) toppings. And to make it even worse, Slashdot runs on Apache!
The Apache server, whose use among fags is as prevalent as AIDS, is named after homosexual activity -- as everyone knows, popular faggot band, the Village People, featured an Apache Indian, and it is for him that this gay program is named.
And that's not forgetting the use of patches in the Linux fag world -- patches are used to make the anus accessible for repeated anal sex even after its rupture by a session of fisting.
To summarise: Linux is gay. 'Slash -- Dot' is the graphical description of the space between a young boy's scrotum and anus. And BeOS is for hermaphrodites and disabled 'stumpers.'
FEEDBACK
Well, the only reason I know all about this is because I had the misfortune to read the Linux 'Sauce code' once. Although publicised as the computer code needed to get Linux up and running on a computer (and haven't you always been worried about the phrase 'Monolithic Kernel'?), this foul document is actually a detailed and graphic description of every conceivable degrading perversion known to the human race, as well as a few of the major animal species. It has shocked and disturbed me, to the point of needing to shock and disturb the common man to warn them of the impending homo-calypse which threatens to engulf our planet.
Doesn't it give you a hard-on to imagine your thick strong poker ramming it's way up my most sacred of sphincters? You're beyond help, my friend, as the only thing you can imagine is the foul penetrative violation of another man. Are you sure you're not Eric Raymond? The government, being populated by limp-wristed liberals, could never stem the sickening tide of homosexual child molesting Linux advocacy. Hell, they've given NAMBLA free reign for years!
Thank you for your kind words of support. However, this document shall only ever be posted anonymously. This is because the 'Open Sauce' movement is a sham, proposing homoerotic cults of hero worshipping in the name of freedom. I speak for the common man. For any man who prefers the warm, enveloping velvet folds of a woman's vagina to the tight puckered ringpiece of a child. These men, being common, decent folk, don't have a say in the political hypocrisy that is Slashdot culture. I am the unknown liberator.
We shouldn't hate them, we should pity them for the misguided fools they are... Fanatical Linux zeal-outs need to be herded into camps for re-education and subsequent rehabilitation into normal heterosexual society. This re-education shall be achieved by forcing them to watch repeats of Baywatch until the very mention of Pamela Anderson causes them to fill their pants with healthy heterosexual jism.
Well, it just goes to show that even the holy Linux 'sauce code' is riddled with bugs that need fixing. (The irony of Jon Katz not even being able to inflate his scrotum correctly has not been lost on me.) The Linux pervert elite already acknowledge this, with their queer slogan: 'Given enough arms, all rectums are shallow.' And anyway, the PS2 sucks major cock and isn't worth the money. Intellivision forever!
For one thing, whilst Linux is a cavalcade of queer propaganda masquerading as the future of computing, NT is used by people who think nothing better of encasing their genitals in quick setting plaster then going to see a really dirty porno film, enjoying the restriction enforced onto them. Remember, a wasted arousal is a sin in the eyes of the Catholic church. Clearly, the only god-fearing Christian operating system in existence is CP/M -- The Christian Program Monitor. All computer users should immediately ask their local pastor to install this fine OS onto their systems. It is the only route to salvation.
Secondly, this message is for every man. Computers know no colour. Not only that, but one of the finest websites in the world is maintained by a Black Man . Now fuck off you racist donkey felcher.
Although there is nothing unholy about the fine heterosexual act of ejaculating between a woman's breasts, squirting one's load up towards her neck and chin area, it should be noted that Perl (standing for Pansies Entering Rectums Locally) is also close to 'Pearl Monocle,' 'Pearl Nosering,' and the ubiquitous 'Pearl Enema.'
One scary thing about Perl is that it contains hidden homosexual messages. Take the following code: LWP::Simple -- It looks innocuous enough, doesn't it? But look at the line closely: There are two colons next to each other! As Larry 'Balls to the' Wall would openly admit in the Perl Documentation, Perl was designed from the ground up to indoctrinate it's programmers into performing unnatural sexual acts -- having two colons so closely together is clearly a reference to the perverse sickening act of 'colon kissing,' whereby two homosexual queers spread their buttocks wide, pressing their filthy torn sphincters together. They then share small round objects like marbles or golfballs by passing them from one rectum to another using muscle contraction alone. This is also referred to in programming 'circles' as 'Parameter Passing.'
And PHP stands for Perverted Homosexual Penetration. Didn't you know?
Well, I don't know about terraforming Mars, but I do know that homosexual Linux Advocates have been probing Uranus for years.
*sniff* That brings a tear to my eye. Thank you once more for your kind support. I have taken faith in the knowledge that I am doing the Good Lord's work, but it is encouraging to know that I am helping out the common man here.
However, I should be cautious about revealing your name 'Cerberus' on such a filthy den of depravity as Slashdot. It is a well known fact that the 'Kerberos' documentation from Microsoft is a detailed manual describing, in intimate, exacting detail, how to sexually penetrate a variety of unwilling canine animals; be they domesticated, wild, or mythical. Slashdot posters have taken great pleasure in illegally spreading this documentation far and wide, treating it as an 'extension' to the Linux 'Sauce Code,' for the sake of 'interoperability.' (The slang term they use for nonconsensual intercourse -- their favourite kind.)
In fact, sick twisted Linux deviants are known to have LAN parties, (Love of Anal Naughtiness, needless to say.), wherein they entice a stray dog, known as the 'Samba Mount,' into their homes. Up to four of these filth-sodden blasphemers against nature take turns to plunge their erect, throbbing, uncircumcised members, conkers-deep, into the rectum, mouth, and other fleshy orifices of the poor animal. Eventually, the 'Samba Mount' collapses due to 'overload,' and needs to be 'rebooted.' (i.e., kicked out into the street, and left to fend for itself.) Many Linux users boast about their 'uptime' in such situations.
If only indeed. You can help our brave cause by moderating this message up as often as possible. I recommend '+1, Underrated,' as that will protect your precious Karma in Metamoderation. Only then can we break through the glass ceiling of Homosexual Slashdot Culture. Is it any wonder that the new version of Slashcode has been christened 'Bender'???
If we can get just one of these postings up to at least '+1,' then it will be archived forever! Others will learn of our struggle, and join with us in our battle for freedom!
I am compelled to document the foulness and carnal depravity that is Linux, in order that we may prepare ourselves for the great holy war that is to follow. It is my solemn duty to peel back the foreskin of ignorance and apply the wire brush of enlightenment.
I could make an arrogant, childish comment along the lines of 'Every time someone asks for 2.0, I won't release it for another 24 hours,' but the truth of the matter is that I'm quite nervous of releasing a 'number two,' as I can guarantee some filthy shit-slurping Linux pervert would want to suck it straight out of my anus before I've even had chance to wipe.
I sincerely hope you're Natalie Portman.
What the fuck?
Well bugger me!
Fuck right off!
IMPORTANT: This message needs to be heard (Not HURD, which is an acronym for 'Huge Unclean Rectal Dilator') across the whole community, so it has been released into the Public Domain. You know, that licence that we all had before those homoerotic crypto-fascists came out with the GPL (Gay Penetration License) that is no more than an excuse to see who's got the biggest feces-encrusted cock. I would have put this up on Freshmeat, but that name is known to be a euphemism for the tight rump of a young boy.
Come to think of it, the whole concept of 'Source Control' unnerves me, because it sounds a bit like 'Sauce Control,' which is a description of the homosexual practice of holding the base of the cock shaft tightly upon the point of ejaculation, thus causing a build up of semenal fluid that is only released upon entry into an incision made into the base of the receiver's scrotum. And 'Open Sauce' is the act of ejaculating into another mans face or perhaps a biscuit to be shared later. Obviously, 'Closed Sauce' is the only Christian thing to do, as evidenced by the fact that it is what Cathedrals are all about.
Contributors: (although not to the eternal game of 'soggy biscuit' that open 'sauce' development has become) Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, phee, Anonymous Coward, mighty jebus, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, double_h, Anonymous Coward, Eimernase, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward. Further contributions are welcome.
Current changes: This version sent to FreeWIPO by 'Bring BackATV' as plain text. Reformatted everything, added all links back in (that we could match from the previous version), many new ones (Slashbot bait links). Even more spelling fixed. Who wrote this thing, CmdrTaco himself?
Previous changes: Yet more changes added. Spelling fixed. Feedback added. Explanation of 'distro' system. 'Mount Point' syntax described. More filth regarding `man` and Slashdot. Yet more fucking spelling fixed. 'Fetchmail' uncovered further. More Slashbot baiting. Apache exposed. Distribution licence at foot of document.
ANUX -- A full Linux distribution... Up your ass!
While slashdot talks about games on obsolete gamess consoles which no body gives a FLYING DOG SHIT ABOUT! Here are some REAL NEWS! From better news sources like google news and fark(!).
yet another linux migration story
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Nasa to look at snow flakes!
DRM to be used on water supplies
Jackasses are dumbasses
I am 371673R than j00!
Piracy determines performance...
Police Quest I, Kings Quest I, Space Quest I, and Leisure Suit Larry!
Original EGA versions, not that mouse-controlled VGA shit! I'm talking about typing commands at the ] prompt.
Spanish Ninjas II
Can't believe that my floppy disk version of the original Doom (4 disks) that I had to order directly from id isn't worth something. Still have the box and it's in mint condition.
:)
I would ebay it if someone wants to make an offer.
(I have 71 + comments, 0 negatives)
Oh wait, they haven't changed since then, so I guess they don't qualify as rare. Unless you are talking about the number of people who play them. :)
The origional X-Com is also fairly impossible to find.
Anyone want to grab some karma and post the list. GameSpy is blocked by my client's firewall.
I don't care, before PC-gaming there was NES and SNES. I started playing them when I was a kid, and they're still all I can't stop playing. The Super Marios and the Zeldas are not the most rare, but in my book the graphics and gameplay make them GREAT.
I love toying with the emulators of the two consoles as well.
...on cassette tape, for a TI 994a!
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Graphic design services
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I'll just stick to ones I know. First, Space War on the old Fairchild Channel 1 (remember that one?). Second, maybe Battle Tank??? Third, that one game where you play the colonizers, trade, and profit!
No, not Colonization, the Civ-related game, the Commodore 64 game.
There aren't any, thanks to the widespread abandonware sites !
I patented screwing your mom. But it got revoked for "prior art."
I can see collecting vintage video games becoming a hobby much the same as people who collect vinyl and record players.
Sure, you can always get the emulated version of the game or the mp3 version of the album.. but it's just not the same.
My favorite rare game was written by a now dead transsexual for the Apple ][. And I am not trolling, Cytron Masters rocked and transsexuals wrote a lot of games during the 80s! Weird but true...
For those of you who, like me, are stupid enough to have flash enabled. I got a nice noisy flash advert popping up and screaming sound when I loaded the page. Those of you at work be warned.
If guns kill people, then CmdrTaco's keyboard misspells words.
seriously, that system is more of a one hit wonder than the saturn was
I read over the list at Gamespy (I know, this is slashdot, but I wanted to see the list).
... sad, I know, but true.
Quite frankly I didn't see a game there that looked worth playing. Is that why they're rare?
As far as the 2600 goes, I'd have to say Pitfall and Dragster where the best there.
Rare games for the PC: I have, in my posession, the full boxed version [with manual] of "Solo Flight" on 5 1/4" disk written by none other than Sid Meier!
You know you're a geek if you've ever replied to a tagline.
The article isn't so much about the 10 rarest games, as it is the 10 most collectible/sought after games. And considering "Prototypes" is #2, it's not even much of a top 10 list at that
Oh, and for anyone interested in that Gold NES cart - yes, it's been dumped. I know I won't be shelling out $6k+ anytime soon to play the real thing.
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
Loved it on the old Apple ][+
the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur - A.N. White
I forget the name. It supports mutiple IM services (AIM, MSN, ICQ, etc.)
1. 1990 Nintendo World Championship Cartridge (Nintendo Entertainment System)
;)
I just sold my copy last week for $.25 at a yard sale... I thought it was funny the guy took off laughing after I took his money.
With geek items like this, the half-life is even shorter. Magic The Gathering cards are already past their prime in terms of collectable value; once the people who played the NES in their youth are past the age of buying this stuff, watch the prices plummet.
-BbT
Nerds!!!
Ahem.
Sorry about that. This story just triggered something inside.
Collecting old video games??? I mean Jesus! What are people thinking??? Paying $6500 for a goddamn Nintendo cartridge???
Oops. Sorry about that again.
Anyone remeber the porn games vivid made for the 3do back in the day? those are pretty rare and on a rare system.. anyone remeber a series of games for the 2600 all with world at the end of the title ? 'waterworld, fireworld, earthworld' etc? i had these as a kid and loved them.. i remeber them as being mostly puzzles of some kind.. can someone help me out with the name of these?
the TI-92+!!!!
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
Where the hell is "Custer's Revenge" for the 2600??? Talk about rare! Offensive and controversial in the early 80s...talk about being ahead of its time!!!
obviously.
I wonder if my original 1979 version of Atari's Star Raiders for the Atari 400/800 is worth something. The game play is still good to this day. Only 8K of code too.
woah.. that mega drive phantasy star makes me drool. I didn't even know about it. I have the original SMS Phantasy Star 1, which is not all that rare but is nice to have. I am guessing the Mega Drive one is just an emulated one, or did they enhance it in any way? And why only 1000? That is a classic.
if you would pay $6500.00 for that #1 on their list.. I actually played that game it sucked, and just to get your hands on one of the gold-plated ones someone paid more than the cost of a Kia Rio!
Holy cow, I though I was wacked for wanting my home computer automated... I dont feel bad now for spending 1/2 that and actually having something I can use!
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
'Chase the Chuckwagon?' WTF I would have thrown that game away with other favorites like 'Avoid the Noid' and '7-up Spot'. Seriously...
Top Ten Games that Don't Suck and I'd still willingly pay money for:
Doom - PC - FPS Grandaddy.
Battlezone - 2600 or any other platform since.
Super Mario Bros. 3 - NES, SNES - Miyamoto's best work, IMHO.
Metroid - NES. I once saw a prototype/display cartridge at Sears Roebuck in which Samus had a heart meter instead of a power meter.
Burgertime - Colecovision? Arcade classic, at any rate. I can still play Burgertime for hours at a time on Mame.
Galaga - Ditto.
Legend of Zelda - NES - Excellent game design by Miyamoto before there really was such a thing.
ChronoTrigger - SNes - All kinds of RPG Goodness from Square.
Sonic the Hedgehog - Genesis. The first 'Twitch' game I ever played. Sonic rocked my world.
Excitebike - NES - One of the first games you could truly edit. My friends and I would spend hours making nasty, yet well designed tracks to race through. We went so far as to write the letter/number track parts down because the save feature never worked quite right. I always assumed it was for the floppy-endabled Famicom.
The next Slashdot story will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and slashdot the links early!
But the real find would be the European version, called Another World.
Anybody esle remember adds for "Flesh Gorden" in the mag EG?
They were black and white ads in the back....Never played it my self.
The game was for the atari 2600.
My vote for the rarest games is an arcade machine. It was a Laser disk game whose name i can't remeber, About a spy. At one point you were jumping over these barrars. Then there was this sceen in a clock.
Good game though.
The rearest game must be ANY game from the original Odyssey system. I never even saw that system.
D.A.K.D.A.E.---- Deny all Knowledge, Destroy All Evidence
What's so odd about that?
I would want to collect these :
- Unreal Tournament 2044
- Doom CXVII
- Ultima Online '72
- Grand Theft Aircar 16
- Age of Empires 13 - the 20th Century
- Quake IIIIIIIIII
- LOTR 12 - The return of the grandson of the guy who heard about the king (Live 5-d action)
- Wolfenstein 16-d (Now with time-travel gameplay)
- Medal of Honor 9 : Assault the Allies
Oh...and Starcraft 2, for crying out loud.
Any sufficiently well-organized Government is indistinguishable from bullshit.
I'd say Pac-Man for the ColecoVision is pretty damn collectible. It was so much better than the 2600 version that AtariSoft never released it to the masses.
The rarest, most special, never before seen game that would trounce them all. The non-sucky version of E.T. for the 2600.
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
anyone remember masterblaster?
ooh those simulated 3d levels gave me a hardon, and just the pure challenge. I could play masterblaster all day.
have to say it once more: MasterBlaster
"If you are going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill
Duke Nukem Forever
... you get the idea.
Master of Orion III
Team Fortress II
Half-life II
Counter-strike II
Everquest II
I think ive go those!!
All Troll + "offtopic" mods are meta moderated as "Unfair", because you abused the system.
in all the 22 years of playing games never heard of one of those, heck some of those systesm i never heard of
More info on the Nintendo World Championship ROM available here.
Anyone got a copy of the ROM?
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Does anyone actually have a copy of Zero Wing? THat would be quite a holy grail of gaming. How about the E.T. Game that they buried thousands of in the desert? Does anybody have that one?
The Uncoveror: It's the real news.
I'm sure that $6,500 is more than the cost of
a lot of things, but what is a "Kia Rio"?
It has always been crap, and even it's creator has stated that it's not a good game. Just because something is rare doesn't mean it's worth collecting.
Kid Icarus had a female flying creature that was topless. I don't think I ever got to that level in the game, though.
I have a metal-boxed copy of Quake III for Linux! I guess it can't be that rare, about 2 months ago i actually (i'm 100% serious about this) bought it at the Dollar Store, for a dollar!!! They had all the usual crappy $1 Store games there, and a stack of Q3A for Linux sitting on the bottom shelf. I should have bought 5 and kept them shrink wrapped!
May you be touched by His Noodly Appendage. RAmen.
Activision recently released Activision Anthology for PS2. In addition to almost all the Activision line, some Imagic, and an Atari game or two, it has a couple games called Kabobber and Thwacker that were either not USA releases, as they don't sound American, or they were prototypes.
This shows that: 1) there is a market for crappy old games, 2) there is a way to get crappy old unreleased games, 3) the rarest games are still out there, and 4) I'm dumb enough to buy it.
I can't say I'm not enjoying the old stuff, but Laser Blast is way too boring to go for the !!!!!!! score. I can't believe I ever did that.
Excitebike was one of my favorite NES games, I wasted many an hour designing tracks and then slaghtering the computer players. There was nothing more fun than smacking the computer players into an oil patch or off the track.
Degaussing scares the bad magnetism out of the monitor and fills it with good karma.
square nipples, anyone
women don't actually have square nipples?
DAMN I need to get out more.
I guess I am getting old.
From the last page:
"There are far more than 10 holy grails out there..."
Arthur and his knights went to all that trouble and they never even found one of them???
I hereby place the above post in the public domain.
Anyone know where I can get a copy of King's Quest? This was one of the first EGA colored games I ever played, and one of the very early adventure games. You had free reign to do anything you wanted (to a certain extent), so this one felt really ground breaking to me. Anyone have a copy of this sucker? I've long since lost the box (actually, this one was distributed in a plastic case for the IBM PCjr by IBM themselves).
I can still remember wanking it to a CGA strip poker back in 4th or 5th grade or so. looking back on it, they were basically drawings... but hot damn, hormones makes it allllll better.
http://gaim.sf.net/
Blackjack for Linux.
Linux - Because Mommy taught me to Share.
I have a Copy of Chrono Trigger for SNES. I bought it for $80 and I still play it
I Even got all of the endings...
This site here has a lot of links to old games that aren't published anymore. Not the same as owning the orginal but if your dying to play an old game of Jumpman this is a place you can find it and a lot of other old games.
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Um, sorry but you don't know what you're talking about. The first Castle Wolfenstein game was made by id Software and was called "Wolfenstein-3D." It was this game that eventually inspired them to make their classics "Doom" and "Quake" and most recently, "Return to Castle Wolfenstein." In terms of 2-D games, I'm virtually certain you're thinking of "Castlevania", which was a 2-D side scroller where you had to take out Count Dracula. That was a little before my time though, and probably before the time of most Slashdot readers. :) However it had many great sequels that are a little more in modern times.
I'm pretty sure you mean M.U.L.E.
u csd.edu/~amany/mule.html
http://www.eidolons-inn.de/mule/
http://weber.
I wasted _many_ an hour playing this game as a kid...
How about battlezone for PC? Came out in 1997 as a sort of combination RTS/Action, but it tanked (forgive the pun) because it was too far ahead of its time. Play it now, you'll be amazed by the graphics, the music, the gameplay, and even the voice acting was above par.
Okay, they listed a Sega Saturn game... as long as we're listing games for systems that flopped big time, what about Insmouse for Virtual Boy, or some of the other ultra-rare Japan-only released VB titles? (I have all the US released titles, but I'm obviously not a real collector, because I just can't bring myself to shell out $500 for one of these.)
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I have Planetfall and some of the others in the original packaging. Later on, they switched to the generic "gray boxes" but these are the originals.
Somehow I still can't bring myself to get rid of them. They were great games.
I still have Wolf3D installed and I play it now and then. The graphics are obviously lousy compared to newer games, but it still feels good. "I am Death Incarnate" using just a gun in any night mission is still a hell of a good game. :)
A text based game called 'Kabul Spy' for the Apple II. Suddenly it seems amazingly ahead of it's time. I don't remember much from it except that you spent a lot of time in a jeep up in the mountains looking for caves.
I've hit Karma 50 and gotten a Score:5, Troll... I win!
was the Tengen version of Tetris that came in the snazzy black cartridge that all Tengen games came in. Nintendo tried to put the clamps on Tengen because they refused to get licenses to make games for the NES.
As a result, I remember that game being very hard to acquire even way back when. It would typically go for $100 at Funco...back when Funco only existed as a mail order company that advertised in the gaming mags.
Bill Clinton: Pimp we can believe in. - The Shirt!!!
How about The Texas chainsaw massacre game for Atari 2600. Apparently this game was banned from a lot of retailers for violence (pixelated blood!) I've seen it go for well over $100 on ebay. Not sure if its worthy of making that top-10 list, but certainly a worthy mention.
...a good one?
There was a game out around 1993/4-ish that was one of the best of its time. It was a top-down scrolling space shooter where you'd compete in various levels.
Each level began by a big set of "doors" opening across the screen and they'd close again at the end of the level. It was highly addictive and had a great SoundBlaster (and Gravis) soundtrack of techno music.
Anyone remember the name?
Does anyone remember that Starfox competition that Nintendo sponsored? It featured a custom StarFox cart for the SNES that you could play in all of the major toy stores. Gamers could play as many times as they liked to compete for the high score, and at the end, all of the high scores were submitted to Nintendo.
.rom for my emulator, but I'd imagine the cart itself is pretty rare. I thought that it was a pretty cool contest. (possibly due to the fact I took home a nice big StarFox jacket, which I never wore in order to avoid getting beaten up).
The winner of each store took home a black StarFox bomber jacket, top ten got a T-shirt, and everyone got pin for playing. The grandprize winner scored a trip to Hawii. In my neighborhood, it caused a huge stir about StarFox and I'm willing to bet Nintendo sold a boatload of copies.
I've managed to get the
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Excitebike - NES - One of the first games you could truly edit. My friends and I would spend hours making nasty, yet well designed tracks to race
:)
I have Excitebike in a 10 in 1 Nintendo cabinet (along with Mario Brothers, Super Mario Brothers, and Duck Hunt among others). What a great toy, I gladly sacrifice half of my home office space for it.
Nothing insightful, just bragging...
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Actually, you're not quite right, either. The real FPS grandaddy is actually Hovertank, with Catacomb 3D coming shortly after that. Catacomb 3D evolved from Hovertank's engine, and Wolf3D evolved from Catacomb's.
Now, I'm sure you can find some other first-person shooting game prior to 1991 if you really dig (Battlezone, perhaps?), but that's the history of the FPS and id.
also what about Dev kits, im supriseed theyre not rare. id love a xbox dev kit or a ps2 dev kit. rare in 20, hell yeah.
I want 2D games back.
Duke Nukem Forever...
That was relased what, 3 years ago, or, wait, its still "When its done!"
What are we going to do tonight Brain?
Video games collect YOU.
Police Quest was so cool. Even though the story line was linear, the text command interface and real-life duties and police situations made it feel like you were in a living world.
Also, walking in on someone in the shower in the locker room and listening to them complain was my first experience of virtual sexual harassment.
why run from Vincenzo?
How about the lunar lander game that was in the back of the TRS-80 model one manual? I blew about 3months of lunches in High School (yeah I'm getting old) programing this in, as well as learning to type. Half the period was spent loading it and then backing it up on the cassette deck storage unit...... oh and after it's all said and done, no pictures...just numbers....
CRASH
~corporate tool, but employed~
And they say Nintendo doesn't aim for the adult crowd...
GenX falls into the category of Colecovision AND Nintendo .. GenY is after Nintendo...
What are you talking about?
Solitaire is the main reason people have computers!!!
In fact, the only way MS will start to lose market share is if they stop including solitaire.
nbfn
The best thing about that game was the flame wars on usenet between the creator and all the suckers that shelled out for it. Ah, Derek Smart, where art thou?
There are 01 kinds of cars in the world. The General Lee, and everything else.
These are, of course, the rarest/most "collectable" games, rather than the best. Despite being the only porno NES game, Bubble Bath Babes is CRAP. It's just another derivative 'line up the colored ___s' game with pr0n in the background. Of the lot, Phantasy Star was one of the few that stood out as actually being a GOOD game.
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If you don't mind, I'll go back to playing all the FUN classics now (all the Marios, Zeldas, Guardian Legend & the good RPGs) somewhere that supports our right to fair use (consoleclassix.com)
This is true! My goofy neighbor bought Quake III for Linux at the dollar store only to discover that the game did not run on windows. When he asked me why laptop looked all funny, I said it ran Linux. Subsequently, he gave me the game, but he lost the tin. I was amazed that any retail outlet carried Linux games, let alone the dollar store.
my suggestion is find who purchased it. These will have teh most value to someone who has a set or best yet all of these cartagies. e-mail the person who wrote the article, and follow the lead to who purchased it. more than likely they have teh same cash to pay for yours. Having two of a set of collector item definately raises the individual value of each.
Oddly enough, I never played Excitebike until I bought Animal Crossing. Animal Crossing, while being a very strange game in itself, contains both a NES emulator and 8 (I think just 8) NES games. But they're hard as hell to get a hold of in the game.
It's a little wrong to say a tomato is a vegetable. It's a lot wrong to say it's a suspension bridge.
If you ask me there is no competition:
;) ) and they have BOXES of 'em.
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the 2600
A local electronics shop is selling them for PENNIES ($CDN!
Anyone else remember how unfun, and unlike the movie that game was? You would fall down a hole and just get stuck with that stupid flower - god I hated that game!!!
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I would ebay it if someone wants to make an offer.
Apparently 'ebay' is now a verb. (The infinitive form must be 'to ebay'.) I guess enough precedent was set with 'leverage', 'antique'*, and 'blog', and I know all nouns can be verbed, but still... Oh, well.
('To antique' means to go looking/shopping for antiques.)
I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.
Duke Nukem Forever....
nbfn
Interestingly, back at UCSC in the early '80s (83-84), I had some buddies who were working on an FPH&S (First Person Hack & Slash) game, running on ASCII terminals (ADM3a at 1200 bps anyone)?
Fascism starts when the efficiency of the government becomes more important than the rights of the people.
You wouldn't care to put money on that, would you? I can remember the surreptitious Wolfenstein games being played on the Apple ][ machines in my high school's computer lab back in 1983. I never could understand what the horrible noise emanating from the little speaker was saying.
Yup, I've got a few that I've picked up...surprisingly cheap a few years ago when the arcades were really going through tough times
My best pieces are:
Tempest cocktail
Battlezone - yup, with the sticks and periscope
Kiss pinball
Wacko cabinet
The Tempest machine, BTW, is largely considered the 'Holy Grail' of this search.
Imagine for a moment a world without hypothetical situations...
Did that ever come out? Back in university I had a friend who would play Wing Commander incessantly. We kept seeing the ads for Strike Commander in magazines, but I wasn't a big gamer so I never went looking for it (not that it would have run on my 386SX at the time anyway ;)
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
Okay, god, jeez, stop jumping all over me. SORRRRRRRY. I had no idea that this many Slashdot readers were so old. :P After looking at some of those links though, it looks like those first two games were not id Software games? So why should they be considered "official" Wolfenstein games then? I guess I'll always consider the first one to be Wolf 3D, since it's from id Software and is the one I played as a little kid. But there are apparently two that are older, whether they are "real" Wolfenstein games depends on your point of view I guess!
Has recreated the VGA version of KQ1. They also had the person who voice acted Graham in KQ5 & 6 do the voice for him.
Overall it's a great free game. It's not a nostalgic as playing the 16 color AGI version; however, it's the same game in a prettier package.
As for an original copy of King's Quest, your going to need to use eBay. Sierra has unfortantely stopped selling the Collector's Editions that included all these classics. You should be able to get just KQ1 for a few buck; however, a Collector's Edition can easily hit $50 or more.
Yeah, it was good for single player.
Playing online sucked, though. Gotta be the only game in the world where high ping/packet loss increased your chances of winning.
When someone's connection started to go sour, everyone else saw their tank jittering and disappearing, and it was impossible to hit.
Then, the rampant cheating began...
I quit playing after that.
"Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives" should be a convenience store, not a government agency.
That has got to be one of the rarities out there, at least in terms of finding an original boxed version. I remember being absolutely engrossed by that game back in 1986 when it firsrt game out. Even though it had to run on primitive hardware of the time (CGA graphics, PC speaker sound), it was still a both a design and a technical masterpiece (they fit a whole universe of 300+ star systems, 20 sentinent alien races, 1000+ planets, each individually mapped, with unique terrain, artifacts, economies, etc.) on two 360K floppy discs. It was amazingly open ended and non linear, and yet had a completely fleshed out history, storyline, and universe.
I remember many happy hours spent mining, trying to get the most money, upgrade my ship, find out all the secrets, make alliances with alien races, etc. Very fun, and almost impossible to find now (not counting downloading it from a abandonwarez site, of course.)
There's 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
Oh, but you can't leave out these games:
NES
Mega Man 1 - 6 (Need to kill a saturday afternoon? Pull out any of these titles.)
Zelda II (How could you forget this one!)
Super NES
Mega Man 7 (Costly on Ebay but well worth it)
A Link to the Past (Obvious)
Star Fox (Not the regular cart but the one distributed with the 15 minute timer.)
Sega CD
Snatcher (Never played it and still am dying to try.)
Willy Beamish (Full talkie.. fun as hell if you don't mind being patient with load times.)
Final Fight CD (Not much coverage on this but an excellent port. One of the truly best fighters of it's time.)
Sega Saturn
X-Mas Nights (Does anything other than the demo exist?)
Die Hard (This one was truly the arcade version.)
Silpheed?
--Sonic the Hedgehog - Genesis. The first 'Twitch' game I ever played. Sonic rocked my world.--
Chronic the Hemphog was cool too!
Original Elite on the Acorn Electron. With box, tape, manual and Dark Wheel Story. A true classic it must be worth somthing.
PC games, what about the great titles for Commodore 64 and Atari 800, back in the day?
My favorite old game was M.U.L.E. for C=64. Great gameplay (including one-to-four-player mode!) plus an infectious SID soundtrack.
A close second was the Sentinel, a pretty damn spooky strategy game with interesting polygon grafix.
Or "Elite," a 3D graphix game along the lines of "Space Trader."
Well, that game mentioned in the blurb above might be the only AMERICAN pr0n game for the NES, but as I was downloading ROMS the other night, I came across one called Pussy City Pimps for the NES emulator (it was part of a whole pack of ROMS with the JNES emulator). You run around like a miniature double dragon type character punching and kicking dudes with their pee-pee's sticking straight out of their pants (your peepee sticks straight out of your pants too), and beating up naked strippers and ho's. It's a pretty retarded game, but you're apparently trying to save all the ho's from your Pussy City High School where everyone "bangs and screws in giant orgies all day long."
Knew about Catacomb 3D, didn't know about Hovertank. But, at least around CMU campus back then, nobody really knew about any of these until Wolf3D. That was the one that popularized the genre, at least here.
""Chasing the Chuck Wagon" has become a synonym for hunting for rare games in thrift stores, pawn shops and other such locations."
oh...i had ANOTHER meaning for that...
There is a store in Nebraska that still has old games like this on the shelf for $10 a pop. Instruction manual and everything. They are classics, but rare, lord no.
Bubble Bath Babes, the only NES game with nudity
There are two other games for the NES that contain nudity. There's Peek a Boo Poker which, as the title suggests, is a strip poker game and there's Hot Slots which is a stip slot machine game. Roms of all three of these games can easily be found.
There was this company called Active Enterprises. It basically amounted to a guy in his garage making games. They had a cart called Action 52 for the NES which had 52 games on it. Of course to call these things "games" was a stretch - most were like quick coding excercises. The idea was that they would make up for in quantity what they lacked in quantity. At an asking price of $199.99 its unclear if his target audience was Blockbuster (which is used to getting hosed with rental pricing) or parents who figured that 52 games at the price of four was a deal.
One of the games on Action 52 was The Cheetahmen. Apparently Active Enterprises also wrote a game called Cheetahmen II . I say apparently because Active never released it. It appears that what happened was Active ordered 1,000 copies of Cheetahmen II and then couldn't pay the manufacturer for the carts, so after a year or two the manufacturer just sold them to people (which is legal).
So, Cheetahmen II is probably one of the rarest cartridges ever made.
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Until they reissued it, Final Fantasy Tactics for the Playstation was quite the collectors item too. I remember I bought it used twice for about $10 at my local blockbuster, and both times sold it for $40-50 on eBay. I remember seeing auctions for new versions of it go as high as $120. And of course now you can buy it at pretty much any Wal-Mart for about $14.99.
2.) Obtain small cult-like following
3.) ????
4.) Profit!!! ( 20 years later )
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http://sarien.sourceforge.net/
This is not an emulator. Those old Sierra games were developed with a system called AGI. Pretty much the same data files were used on all supported systems with an AGI interpreter tweaked to run the data files. Sarien is a GENERAL AGI interpreter and works quite well. As a matter of fact, I finished Leisure Suit Larry on my Debian box last week. I also tried out but haven't seriously played Kings Quest I and Space Quest with it as well. If you still have some old IBM PC versions of these games laying around (or aren't above some abandonware digging...) then Sarien will take care of you.
One pisser is that it only has one save game slot but there is a workaround. The saved games can be copied and renamed elsewhere allowing arbitrarily many games to be saved albeit in a PITA fashion.
Oh yeah, If you try this be sure to get the ID database file. It is a separate download for some reason and Sarien won't correctly run most games without it.
Cheers!
Panzer Dragoon Saga (US Version) for Sega Saturn
Steam Hearts (TurboDuo - Japanese)
Arcade Card (TurboDuo)
Kisado Adaptor (Not a game - a Jap/US adaptor for TurboDuo - pricey and rare as hell)
Virtually any PC-FX game
and some pseudo-rarities
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out (quickly replaced by regular 'Punch Out' after Mike became a rapist and lunatic)
A whole slew of unofficial bible games for NES by some company (i forget now) that found a way around the NES' boot method.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Defense command - it actually played sounds out the cassette port ("PREPARE TO DIE, HUMAN").
SpaceWar - ran in 4K total memory.
Paddle Pinball - Not only was this a fairly cool little game, but I have a fond memory of playing it with a couple of friends. Bit was ahead, Darren was behind, but catching up. In the heat of the game, Darren says:
I'm coming up on your ass.
Bit, for once not being a bastard, decides to let him have a second chance
Excuse me?
Darren repeats his mistake:
I'm coming up on your ass!
Bit reverted to normal form:
I know, and it's getting sticky
By some strange co-incidence, Darren lost the ball shortly thereafter....
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Clowns and Balloons. An Atari home computer game, a clown with a pin is bounced from a trampoline (trampolines?) to pop balloons. Simple and addictive. This would probably make a good phone game or even a GBA version would be fun.
Excitebike was one of my favorite NES games, I wasted many an hour designing tracks and then slaghtering the computer players
I remember spending a couple of hours with a friend on Mr. Robot (Atari 8-bit computers) to design a level that would use conveyer belts, magnets and trampolines to move Mr. Robot automatically around the screen collecting everything without human intervernsion.
What other games had great editing abilities? I remember the pinball construction set (Remember the BBS area full of CGA pinball games, all alike?)
OK there was a NES game that I played called Solomon's Key or something like that.
Did anyone else play this game, it turned out to be one of my favorites.
Ever even hear of it?
Doom made two huge improvements that created the FPS genre we know now, non-grid based maps, and the DeathMatch (and put that term into our vocabularies). Those two things really paved the way for the mainstream popularity of the hundreds of FPS games released since.
-B
Silpheed did indeed rock. But it was produced by Sierra and only had Adlib & Roland MT-32 support (albeit beautiful sound...used on the MT-32 demo tape even), but no...
The game I'm remembering came out a while later and had better graphics and I *think* was a shareware game by one of the bigger players at the time.
I've tried a couple times to buy M.U.L.E. with the original packaging, manual, disk, etc. on eBay and see it regularly surpass $35. When accounting for inflation it's still lost some value, but I can't imagine an E.T. VCS cartridge doing better, what with 10 million or so of them disposed of. ("Just when did Earth get that second moon?")
I've still got a stack of Apple magazines from 80-81 and a couple promotional posters, one for Sneakers and the other, IIRC, for Beer Run. Rest assured, they're safely stowed.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
"Ultima: Escape from Mount Drash"
This is the biggest Ultima rarity in existance. A cartridge-game done by Sierra without Garriott's knowledge, using the Ultima name.
Quite frankly I didn't see a game there that looked worth playing.
Phantasy Star is a great rpg series by Sega. Phantasy Star 2, 3, and 4 were made for the Genesis (PS3 had you play characters and their children over three generations; PS4 was the largest game cartridge (96megs?) of its time and quite expensive when it came out - $99.99 anyone?). Phantasy Star Online was made for the Dreamcast. Phantasy Star Online 2 is out now for the Gamecube, and I think its also coming for the PS2 and Xbox as well. It was Sega's "answer" to the Final Fantasy Series and I always found it to be more entralling than the FFs.
I have also heard nothing but great things about Radiant Silvergun. Never got the chance to try it out myself since I didn't have "connections" in Japan like many of those people on a BBS I frequented.
Support bacteria! It's the only culture most people seem to get.
My mother is still addicted to Teddy Boy on the Sega Genesis. One of the only card-cartridge games I ever saw...
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None of those improvements were particularly innovative though - mere incremental improvements, easily predicted. Right angles get boring quickly, and playing against others is an idea as old as the game itself. I'd believe the same ideas were in simultaneous development already when Doom came out... if it hadn't been Doom, it would've been another game.
I remember back in the day playing a game called indiana jones and the last crusade or whatever, it was an old SCUMM engine game, like day of the tentacle, etc, I have looked far and wide for this game, and cannot find it anywhere, the only thing I could find was another game with the same name that was a sidescroller. Anyone know where I could get this game?
You should have told him you'd pay him $20 for it. He'd be happy, and you could be six grand richer! No one plans ahead...
Quzah.
Tyrian ?
It was originally distributed by Epic Megagames (of Unreal Tournament fame) but I don't know who has the rights to it now.
This is *definitely* one game which I would buy again if it was updated to run on Linux (or worst case, Win32).
"Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting wuntime ewwors!" - Elmer Fudd
I was cleaning up my folks' basement earlier this year and found my Atari 2600, complete with joysticks and tons of carts. I have to wonder if this thing's worth anything out there.
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It won all sorts of awards at the E3 in '99 and I totally can't get enough of it!!!
I think it was totally awesome of Valve to build it with Prey technology because it really makes the most of my Glaze3D.
Easy does it!
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I own a copy of "Street Cop" an A+ rare Nintendo game, that people don't believe existed. Its not listed at Funco Land, its rarely listed anywhere. Here's why, its a powerpad game, you're a fat cop, and you have to chase the bad guys, with Uban Champ graphics...
Only like a few hundred were made, and my mother drove 3 hours to get it...
I still love that game...
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Same thing with some of the early games. Star Con 2 went opensource recently and the original PC source is gone. Fortunately there is a workable base to use but I'm not sure that's the case with the early Sierra games and the early Epix games. Sierra is out of business, they aren't doing games any more. The legend will live on for ages. Too bad the games won't. There was some real craft to games back in the day, in retrospect I'm amazed that TestDrive one fit on a floppy disk.
Look at what Doom and Quake did. The availability of that code changed the gaming world, the benchmark got raised alot and you can get Doom or quake on just about any platform around.
It's not just games either. There have been times when I'd kill to have Bank Street Writer or Dr. Halo on Linux. I know there are better things today but damn if it wasn't simple and fast. Maybe I'm just rememeber the past in too good of terms but BSW fit on 2 disks (you only needed the first, it had a 60,000 word dictionary and all the basic editing and word processing you could use. Or 1-2-3...
I dunno, but I always remember hearing how rare of a find this Cart is. Now with E-bay, it seems to be fairly easy to get...but still, i'm sure there werent that many released in the US..plus, Dragon Warrior kicks ass!!!
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Any one remember the hidden easter egg game in the Master System. If you turned on the system with out any cartridge in it and pressed the correct keys you would play Snail Maze where you were a snail that had to find its way out of the maze! The Master System was pretty good system with both cartidge and card based media, and games like Phantasy Star and R-type.
Raptor. It was huge in the BBS world.
http://www.3drealms.com/raptor/index.html
Where's Doki Doki Panic, otherwise known as a re-packaged Super Mario Bros. 2 in the States?
There are a huge number of yeast infections in this county. Probably because we're downriver from the bread factory.
On my TRS-80....
Sargon (yeah!!)
Lunar Lander (course I remember this on magnetic tape for that old TI calculator as well).
Then there was a third I can't remember, think it was an adventure game on a few tapes. Help me out out, someone.
- OrbNobz
In Soviet Russia...The bombs set up Us!
It was given away free with a Mountain Dew knock-off called Kick around 1995. The only commercial Doom level ever, it has Mel Torme as a bad guy shouting "take it baby" as he attacks you, and it ends with this huge Alpine Spew can with double machine guns.
The level design was actually done by Tim Willits (lead level designer for Doom III) before he even worked for id.
Surreal, and yes, I have a copy. Anybody wants one can email me at dave@dma.net.
The only acceptable defense of scientific results is to say that they were the product of the Scientific Method.
Did you collect money and have to pay for repair and upgrades at the end of every level?
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When I was a kid my parents gave a couple of these to me for Christmas. As lame as they may sound, they were actually fun. One of them was a Noah's Ark game. You were sent to different levels to collect animals with a lot of obstacles in the way. The birds were tough! The other game had something to do with Moses, but I don't remember much else. They came on blue cartridges which were obviously not authorized by Nintendo. Are these actually worth anything? They're probably still down in my parents' basement somewhere.
Tyrian has within it one of the best [mini]games I've ever played. I can't remember what it's called, perhaps just 'Assault,' but it's like a version of Scorched Earth on steroids. Both this game and Raptor are indeed awesome, awesome games. Someone needs to take this concept by the reigns and make a rehash for the new era. Unfortunately, it seems as if these kinds of games only fly in Japan first (ala Raiden).
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Does "Stellar 7" qualify as a FPS? Methinks it must, and was certainly around before 1991.
Anyone else think that slashdot has slipped a couple of nothes in recent months? First, it's the repeat of articles, now it's the borrowing of other sites' data :/
It doesn't help that I'm commingling the video characters and Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo. Oh, that's bad.
Hmm... I'm pretty sure that Midimaze for the Atari ST preceded Hovertank and Catacomb 3d. If not the first FPS it was probably the first networked multiplayer FPS (using the built in MIDI ports on the ST (hence the name)).
-- kwashiorkor --
Leaps in Logic
should not be confused with
Jumping to Conclusions.
Herzog Zwei is one of my favorite games of old times. I believe the real time strategy aspect of the game was the first of it's genre.
One time (no not in band camp) I played a game head to head with a friend for four hours with neither of us doing much damage to each other's main base. Had to quit the game.
Life moves pretty fast; if you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. -FB
Haha..yeah I helped grind it to a halt with my 9600 baud slip connection in college too. Oh wait...I was getting max throughput...nm.
;) (Back when version Xa meant alpha and Xb meant beta).
I remember finding Doom in college before I even knew what it was. My roommates & I played for weeks on twisted pair 1Mb NICs before the hype was made public. What a nice thing to find in alpha
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one the bus load of girls just went down.
Raptor was nice, but that's a scroller (and it came out later I think)
In this game, your ship was on the bottom of the screen and big gray "blast doors" would open to reveal the enemies upcoming. It was also purely set in space, no ground scenery.
Your Sig is incorrect. Socrates wasn't banished; he was made to drink hemlock tea. Hemlock, when ingested, causes the body to go into spasms so violent that eventually the spine snaps, killing the victim. He was actually broken out of jail (so the story goes) on the night before his execution, by his students. However, due to his rather absolutist view of Justice, he made them leave him there, and went ahead and drank the tea the next morning, which, of course, killed him. Talk about putting it on the line for your principles... Anyway, you probably won't even read this, but I thought you should know. After all, it's an interesting story.
I didn't see any last time I was there..(they used to be out by the registers, for impulse buys)
------ Work is so much easier when you don't
I remember it well. It came preloaded(along with Duke Nukem 1, Commander Keen 4, a bunch of Moraffware, and about 20 other games) on my dad's first computer - a 486DX 33MHz.
You flew with the mouse, fired shots that took out ships of varying sizes/speeds/power, used a grappling hook to grab powerups like missiles and bombs, and by the 5th level you got your rear handed to you by about a half dozen of the large ships. It started out with a news report about how the ACME Toothpick Co. had cut down the last tree in the rainforest.
I don't remember it having any music(then again, that fancy VESA Bus-equipped 486 had a pro sound editing card in it, so it wouldn't work with a SB in it), but there were PC speaker sound effects. It had VGA(256 color! woohoo!) graphics.
I'm pretty sure the name was Galactix... I'm sure it *wasn't* Galaga, Galaxian, Gyruss, or any of several other console game names.
Nope, but looks interesting. Same idea, but there were no ground targets, etc.
MMORPG Middle Earth
Ok, so it was only briefly, but if you finished Metroid quickly enough, the dude would strip and turn into a chick. I'm pretty sure I saw some nipples in the process too.
Want to see it yourself? Enter "justin bailey" in passcode area (use 12 spaces to fill in the last 12 spaces) and you will start in very good shape. Just get the freeze gun, the power tank (the one closest to the start of the game) and go kill Mother Brain.
I loved a lot of things about that game, how you'd have to randomly discover what controls would do for you in certain situations - like kicking a gaurd in "a most effective spot" to put it politley, or even better when you are trapped inside of the vehicle in the arena! Few moments in gaming have brought me such glee as that, though Half-Life came pretty close. I also loved the ending, possibly the best ending I've ever experienced in a game.
I played it on an Atari ST though, not a PC... and it was still called "Another World" at that point as I remember.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Was anybody else surprised not to see the SNES game Noah's Arc 3-D on the list?
Major Stryker?
You do understand that supply and demand are a big factor on prices.
For all the games you listed. There is a large enough supply and small enough demand to keep the prices low on those items.
There were actually a fair number of games for the Famicom (the real name of the NES before the name was changed for the American market) in Japan that had nudity -- and even sex. The trick was that they were all for the Famicom Disk System, the floppy disk add-on, that wasn't released in the States.
:-) you can find quite a few adult games for the FDS for download.
These games were sold without Nintendo's approval, but they are full, original games, not simple ROM hacks with changed graphics.
If you do some searching (searching in Japanese helps
Anyway the article's list seems kind of U.S.-centric... It does list a couple of Japanese games, but there are in fact much harder games to find (that constitute a much greater prize) than those. ^_^ Well, aside from Phantasy Star for the Megadrive, which really IS rather hard to find.
Quite a few ArcadeCD (as opposed to SuperCD) PCEngine games are rather rare. The Arcade Card games were among the best ports of many arcade games, (very notably among them, the best version of Strider).
No matter what the origin though, rare games are expensive. ^_^ It's fun to find all the great hard-to-find classics (like Suchie Pai Remix for the Saturn, which undid the censorship of the original Suchie Pai port -- Suchie Pai Special, but was produced in far smaller numbers).
I thought the "dude" in Metroid was always assumed to be a woman?
Besides, most guys I know have nipples, too.
My other computer is your Windows box
Damn do I miss that game.........
:(
Can't be found on any freeware archives either
Infogrames got the rights to Hasbro's video game thing/division/subsidiary/whatever.
I think the coolest, rarest game I ever saw an advert for was Attack Of The Mutant Zombie Flesh Eating Chickens From Mars (starring Zippo the Dog) for the old Spectrum (Timex-Sinclair 1000). The vapourware advert cassette cover art was amazing -- anyone who somehow still has a copy please scan it!
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samus IS a chick
My uncle used to work for Magnovox, and somehow got a prototype of this game for me... wonder what it is worth/how much it would fetch on the open market... this article can't hurt the situation! hehe
One of my favorite console games was a boat/water based action game, where you would drive your boat around, shoot things & hit ramps. Does anybody remember what this one is called? I've searched the whole net over looking for it...
Samus Aran is a chick.
There were no nipples.
JUSTIN BAILEY
------ ------
Is the code you are refering to. Caps are required, as are the dashes.
Alternatively, this code can be used.
y19ZVz YMRU83
WB--00 0000Zg
It starts one off in BRINSTAR with Ice Beam and leaves the Energy Tank three sections to the right and hidden in the ceiling just before the large wall that can only be passed using Maru Mari. Getting this tank will refill Samus's energy allowing the player go to straight up in Brinstar to Tourin and defeat Mother Brain. (The Zeebetites are already destroyed).
"Everything you know is wrong. (And stupid.)"
Moderation Totals: Wrong=2, Stupid=3, Total=5.
I hate to reply to myself -- but I should clear one bit up...
Samus Aran --IS-- a Chick, as I said.
Defeating the game once in a set amount of time will have her remove her power suit.
Defeating it again without the power suit will end the game with her in a Bikini.
Using the codes provided will allow one to play her without the Power Suit and start the game with enough time remaining for the player to get the final energy tank, trek up to mother-brain, and still see the Bikini ending.
There are no nipples.
"Everything you know is wrong. (And stupid.)"
Moderation Totals: Wrong=2, Stupid=3, Total=5.
Everyone else already did. So I'll just say that Castlevania (I played it on NES) was a ruling series of games. I can't remember if I ever played the original or not, but this was a little while ago (1988-ish?).
They didn't even mention the vectrex - best console of all time! I have one and almost all the carts, and the light pen and 3d imager. Them puppies bring in decent $$ if you sell them.
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Speaking of video game pr0n, anyone remember Sex Games for Commodore 64? I have fond memories of that as a child. I may still have the disk. Hmm, what could that be worth...
Karma: Excellent (In Soviet Russia, karma pimps YOU)
There was nothing more fun than smacking the computer players into an oil patch or off the track.
:-)
Spoken like someone who's never played the later games in the Road Rash series (on Genesis, or even better, 3DO). Don't get me wrong, I liked Excitebike a lot at one time-- but taking a pipe, chain, or nunchucks to the head of one of your fellow riders, or kicking him/her into the path of an oncoming car, is much more enjoyable.
~Philly
In my opinion, King's Quest III is the greatest game of all time. Hero's Quest (as a side note, when they were forced to rename it to "Quest for Glory", I also had the impression things were going downhill) was also pretty good.
The Space Quests and Police Quests were okay I guess, but I was more of a D&D geek for sure.
*YAWN*
oh boy, they sure had some hard to find hot games in their top ten list, must've taken the author about half an hour to put that article together!
This is most likely the game I have the fondest memories of. Reviews found here (no pics) and here (German, but with pics). The last one sums it up nicely: "Absolute Kult-Flugsimulation, leider mit recht wenig Missionen [sadly with too few missions]". An absolute classic, that one, indeed.
ISO certified == THX certified
I used to have an Atari ST. There were some great games for it; anyone remember ST Raiders? It was kinda like the great, great, great grandaddy of descent (except y'know.... GOOD). other favourites included International Karate (the great grandaddy of Street Fighter, back when games had discipline!) and Ninja Mission. Star Wars was also pretty neat, tho it had harsh copy protection that vaped the disk if you so much as looked at it cross-eyed. Unfortunately I don't have much in the way of packaging for these games as I pirated most of 'em from a buddy and the ones i did own (uh... ST Raiders?) have long since been overcome by random clutter and lost to the sanitary world.
hm. i see now i also don't have a working power supply for my ST. god damn external power supplies. who the fsck puts the computer in the KEYBOARD, anyway? not the soviet russians, i tell you what. *waits for it*
I surely hope you played the original Jumpman (try it on a C64 emulator for best experience), to which Jumpman Jr. was sort of a less-inspired sequel. Amazing game.
Let's not stir that bag of worms...
Anyone remember this game??? I think it was on the Apple ][e, and it rocked! I used to love playing it, esp the part where if you cursed it brought you to a mirrored-room that said "You shouldn't've said that - there are mirrors all around!"
It sounds like Xenon2 (I guess if I had Xenon2 then there is a Xenon1). Levels began with sliding bay doors and levels would end with a shop where you could buy ridiculously large weapons for your ship going into the next level. "Boss" creatures included big space snails and octapi etc.. Soundtrack was by "Bomb the Bass" and was great for getting pumped during levels. I have urges to play it again but its somewhere in amongst all the 5.25's. z3ngine
I therefore think I am.
kiloblaster?(or shooter or whatever the name was, KILO however was in the name, had some freaky drumm menu or something to play some sounds too.)
;)) didn't have any scrolling if i can remember right..
by epic megames..
just suggesting because didn't see you got the right answer yet... and kiloblaster(fighter? i'm having doubts of the second word in the name
never digged it too much.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
So rare it was never released. The game was finished, but the NES was at its end, so they scrapped it and remade it for the SNES. Somebody got hold of the rom, ripped it, and now you can play it on an emulator.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. --Edmund Burke
Intellevision? I especially loved B-17 Bomber, Bomb Squad, and Astrosmash. I never hear about this console. Does anyone still play it?
Holy crap that game ruled! It had a sequel - didn't it?
These lists are never accurate at all in terms of rarity, and so much of what constitutes the term "collectible" is subjective. Take Radiant Silvergun, for instance - is a game so easily available really all that rare? It may be desirable, but it's hardly a rare game. Contrast that with Chase the Chuckwagon, which I've seen maybe once in the entire time I've been checking out Ebay (and it sold for around $500, if I recall), and you see the obvious difference.
A lot of games are rarer than any of those on this list, but nobody wants them because either a) there's no story behind the game (this is why people want Chase the Chuckwagon), b) the game sucks, or c) both. On the other hand, a lot of games are a lot more desirable to most people than any of these, but they're quite common. When coming up with a list like this, you're obviously trying to find the balance of games that are ultra-desirable and at least fairly rare - but then I don't think the intro of this list (where the rarity alone is hyped) is all that descriptive of what the list really represents.
If I sound overly analytical, it's because I am one of these collectors myself. When deciding how much is a fair price for a game you really, really want that you know you'll probably never see again, these are the kinds of questions you mull over.
As far as PC games go... no way Zork, Wolfenstein, Leisure Suit Larry or any number of other games I've seen mentioned here are in the same league as a game like Chase the Chuckwagon in terms of rarity. These games were on regular store shelves for years and hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people bought them. All of my friends had them, and I still have them. They're obviously somewhat rarer *now* than they were at the time - but think about it. Chase the Chuckwagon was rare when it was produced (and by "rare" I mean you could not ever walk into a store and buy it, you could not and cannot find it at flea markets or garage sales, you cannot find it online). Just imagine how rare it is now 20 years later.
Regardless, "rare" PC games are generally not nearly as collectible as console games because they're not as much of a commodity. I've never personally seen anyone pay $500 or even $200 for a rare PC game, although it's possible someone has at some point.
Huh? What's this about a timer?
I'd rather be lucky than good.
All your collectibles are belong to zero wing!
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
And there's the auction I won it in. I'm not sure where it ranks with some of those, but this is "rarest" games in the article, not "most valuable"... This one is a mix... one of the most valuable famicom games, one of the rarest official famicom games, and definitely one of the best. It had a production run that was cut short by the death of the 8 bit systems and possibly money trouble at technos. Cost me a bit over $100 (cart only) to get it in, and even more to ship, but it was definitely worth it.
;) ...
As far as value goes, in the Famicom department, it is beat out by the gold Punch-Out cart, a few RPGs, Metal Slader Glory, handful of others.
As far as some of those "rare" non-Nintendo-authorized games... my opinion is that all of them sucked, and I don't care how rare they are, I wouldn't want to play or own them.
BTW, the Nekketsu games are the same line that "River City Ransom" and "Super Dodge Ball" came from. This was the last NES Nekketsu game.
Here's a javascript thingy I made for the passwords in the game. Also, check my site for Nekketsu Kakutou Densetsu info, and stuff you can use to rewire your Four Score to make it Famicom compatible
The 3 US games with nudity(Bubble Bath Babes, Hot Slots, and Peek-a-Boo Poker) were made by a company called Panesian. The reason there were VERY few US released games with adult content is that the US release nintendo was designed so the games had to have a special "authorization" chip built into them to be played. Nintendo would approve the games before giving the companies the use of the chips to use in the games, hence the infamous Nintendo Seal of Quality. Very few companies could figure out a way to get around the authorization chip, but panesian and Color Dreams/Wisdom Tree did. Panesian quit producing games after they were threated with a lawsuit from Nintendo of America, causing very few of these games to be made. Color Dreams/Wisdom Tree fought nintendo in court, and won, therefore allowing them to continue making unauthorized NES games.
"But the smell-o-scope is brilliant I tell you! Just think of the astronomical odors you'll smell thanks to me!
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ender-iii
The old round pal ;)
I remember that guy! Wow! I even remember him advertising those non-NES-sanctioned games! I remember wondering why the hell he'd endorse those crappy games. Oh well...
...was Custer's Revenge. I remember watching a discussion on Donahue about that game.
First of all, "Spot" was quite a nice version of Attaxx for the NES. If you are talking about the other 7-up games, though, I'm with ya! :)
On Excitebike, though... we got hosed. I'm pretty sure that was supposed to be a battery feature save, because the Famicom Disk System version is almost completely different. "Vs. Excitebike" (the name is only an homage to Vs. unisystem, I'm not talking about an arcade rom) featured a 2 player mode and the ability to save up to, if I recall, 10 tracks, each one with thier own spot on the disk.
This was the greatest game ever. Father of all RPG's to come, but alas its downfall is the stupid manual that came with it. It held the passwords to enter the game, and once it is gone the game is worthless.
Games are software.
Software is bits.
Bits are infinitely copyable.
Why is any game rare? If it is rare, it must mean few people are copying it. If few people are copying it, it must mean it's not popular. If it's not popular, chances are better than fair that it sucks.
I could give a ratfuck about the original packaging.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
If you beat Metroid in one life (and maybe under some number of minutes?) you'd get the good ending with the words M. Hadua or something similar (it's been awhile).
Anyone else remember this?
Radiant Silvergun may be one of the rarest games out there, but it sure as hell deserves to be bought. My flatmates (one of whom works in a videogames shop) managed to import a copy from America for £150, and for quite some time it became the most played game in our flat.
It's made by Treasure, who are responsible for other amazing games such Bangio (which feature all the missiles) and Ikaruga (essentially a much easier sequel to RS), as well as Sin & Punishment, Gunstar Heroes, Mischief Makers etc. Truly one of the greatest developers out there.
BTW, we are still no way near to completing RS - it's probably the most unfair game in existence, but the satisfaction of completing a level without dying rivals that completing most games. Well worth seeking out.
Ok, you're "sorrrrrrry" (but in all caps). Doesn't sound so apologetic, does it? You've got lots of reasons why you're not actually wrong, despite clearly being wrong factually.
I had no idea that this many Slashdot readers were so old. :P
Reason #1: Those who pointed out your mistake are "old".
After looking at some of those links though, it looks like those first two games were not id Software games? So why should they be considered "official" Wolfenstein games then?
Reason #2: The original game was made by Br0derbund, and since you don't really believe you're wrong (despite clear factual evidence), you'll now attempt to substitute the word "official" for "original". Yes, it's a desparate attempt, as the parent posts spoke of "original", but maybe, just maybe you can avoid being wrong.
I guess I'll always consider the first one to be Wolf 3D, since it's from id Software and is the one I played as a little kid.
Reason #3: It doesn't matter what the facts really are. It doesn't matter that the plain, undeniable truth might be. Because you played id's 3D version as a "little kid", you'll always consider it the first one. Truth and undisputable facts be damned.
But there are apparently two that are older, whether they are "real" Wolfenstein games depends on your point of view I guess!
Reason #4: If all else failes, as in reason #2, attempt to re-write history, this time subsitution the word "real" for "original".
As you said in the beginning "stop jumping all over me"... perhaps you should step back and look at yourself. I'm "jumping all over" you, not because you were wrong, but because even after being proven wrong, you post this crap claiming that even though you are factually wrong, it's somehow not so wrong, and you're "sorrrrrrry", yet not actually in the least bit sorry.
Since you're too young to remember 8-bit computers, you're probably also too young to have watched the old television sitcom "Happy Days". Briefly, "Fonzie" was one of the main characters who was ultra "cool". He road a bike, had girls hanging all over him, etc. In one famous episode, Fonzie was wrong about something, and he couldn't admit it. Every time he tried to, he'd say "I was wr, wr, wrrr" and couldn't say the word "wrong". It was quite humorous. Here's a page with a brief summary in the first paragraph, and then transitions onto a very christian-oriented sermon, which could do you some good.
Next time, when you respond, rather than telling people to get off your back, and then make a feable attempt to deny that you could have been wrong, try something like this:
Had you posted something along those line, many people including me would not be "jumping all over" you. I hope you can learn to understand this... if not today, perhaps when you grow older and have an opportunity to mature a bit.
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I'm surprised this article doesn't mention Tengen's Tetris.
This game represents the legal battles Nintendo fought with Atari, and it's better than Nintendo's version. "Game Over" by David Scheff explains it in depth, but basically, Atari thought they got the rights to make Tetris for the NES, but Nintendo actually got it, so although Atari's version (published under the Tengen label) was superior (various two player modes, better difficulty curve), Nintendo's version was legal. Before the court decision, Atari managed to sell about 100,000 copies. Afterwards, they had to recall the other several hundred thousand and destroy them.
About the same time, Nintendo and Atari were also fighting over the legality of the NES's "lockout chip", which let Nintendo create artificial regions, fee and censor 3rd parties. Atari stole Nintendo's "10NES" (lockout chip) patent from the patent office and made their own unlicensed NES games that circumvented it. Nintendo sued and I believe won, not because Atari was making unlicensed games but because they stole a patent to do it. Other companies, such as Camerica and Color Dreams made games with reverse engineered lockout disablers.
Most of the posts I see for fav games are for Mario Bros 99999 & Shooting Guy in 3-D: the Extreme Bloody version.
I remember truly addicting games like Tetris (how many of you had nightmares about this?), Neuromancer for the C64 and Herzog Zwei for Sega Genesis (the best two person wargame EVER on 16-bit)
There's far more Nintendo games with nudity than that. First thing that comes to mind is a nudity hack for SMB.
I haven't even gotten started, though. Here's more.
If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
But to answer your question, you probably should ask daddy before installing any software on his computer.
of course the rarest PC game is "Leisure Suit Larry 4: The Missing Floppies" or "Leisure Suit Larry
4: The Case of the Missing Floppies"
it's so rare that no one know the real name
not even Al Lowe (Larry games creator)
some links about it:
http://www.allowe.com/L-4.htm
http://www.mo
http://member
http://www.rev
http://www.lysat
-- SouNerd.com
I was the only one with 10-yard fight, goes to show you thousands of other people got ripped off too...
http://www.vanillaafro.com - take me seriously and I will shoot you
Alpha Centauri: Alien Crossfire, the Alpha Centauri expansion pack is exceedingly rare and it's only 3 or so years old. I have never played it but only because I can't get my hands on a copy of it. Ebay always comes up dry and local video game stores never have used copies of it. I don't know why there were so few copies made, but demand for the game still far outstrips supply.
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I didn't want to leave this space blank.
Telearena - One of the greatest MBBS online D&D style RPG!
Trade Wars! - Who could forget this timeless classic. Crawl through the universe, setup your world(s), ships and all.
Legend Of The Red Dragon (LORD) - Another D&D style RPG. Oldie but goodie!
If you look around, there are interviews with the head of Sega America that indicate the last dreamcast shipped in North America had something special about it... something "more valuble than gold" ( in response to the reporters suggestion of a solid gold dreamcast! ).
This is killing me. What the hell was it? Did anyone ever find it, or is it still sitting on a shelf somewhere?
B.
You have to be talking about Xenon...and probably Xenon 2, at that. It scrolled vertically, and had a shop where you could buy upgrades. A truly great shmup :)
Bitmap brothers, I beleive. They also did the great Speedball 2 (they seem to be good at sequals) and are working on Speedball Arena...which I'm really looking forward to, but there hasn't been any news on it for a year or so.
-- Waht? Tehr's a preveiw buottn?
There was this special promotion. I believe it was called "The Star Fox Weekend" where Nintendo set up booths all over the US to see if gamers could beat Star Fox in 15 minutes. After this contest was over the game carts, with the special timers, were available to Nintendo Power subscribers for purchase. I, sadly, was unable to get my hands on one.
Same concept as the number 1 cart in this article, just different platform and a little more recent.
I beat E.T. plenty of times. It's not impossible.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
Remember The Bards Tale. For my Apple IIc.
I spent hours and hours resaving the game and doubling all my gold. (and getting lost in the sewers.)
Meatplow
...the original System Shock? It was far ahead of it's time, both technologically and as far as fun/fear factor. Just giving credit where credit is due.
And the masses cried out, "09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0!"
Got the save games around somewhere...
Original version of Choplifter for Apple.
SNES game "Parodious" - an excellent shooter that was banned in the United States because executives felt it was politically-incorrect (pilot your star ship between the legs of a Las Vegas showgirl in one of the scenes). In another scene, the boss is a red, white and blue Eagle that when defeated, loses it's feathers and crashes to the ground. (PS: Game is available via MAME tho)
Original Space Wars Arcade cabinet
http://home.hiwaay.net/~rgregg/ultima/collectibles /Title_Other.html#MtDrash
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http://members.aol.com/barbgame/Drash/drash.htm
May not be a good game, but it took years for the fairly massive ultima community to find one, and Sierra even released it!
when Push Comes to Shove
No, this post is (+5, Funny)
TheFrood
If you say "I'll probably get modded down for this..." then I will mod you down.
The Underdogs is an indispensible resource for those who enjoy retro PC gaming. Highly recommended.
If you say "I'll probably get modded down for this..." then I will mod you down.
I actually liked the 7-up Spot game, but I'm a bit weird, and wish they would make a 3D version.
You're right, the data itself can be copied indefinitely, but that has no bearing on its rarity, since most of these games have distinct physical aspects that can't be duplicated, or at least not quite so easily. Sure, you can MAME Pitfall all day long, but you'll never have the physical cartrige, box or manual that came with it. You got that CD-R of Metal Gear Orta, but you don't have the gold etched art CDROM it was original pressed to. It's not the data itself that determines rarity or how much/little it's played. It's the stuff you can't duplicate. You could give a ratfuck about the original packaging, but that's what makes it unique from the thousands of ROMs being played. For everybody else, it's just nostalgia.
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I was digging in a landfill in New Mexico and came across what I think was a prototype for a game called ELECTION TIME for the Atari 2600.
:-)
You play a hobbling little politician (who seems remarkably similar to Strom Thurmond). You wander around an unnamed town (though since everything is Green, I call it Greenville) and you collect money and "political favors".
Of course as time goes by, people become disenchanted with you. You can increase your popularity by spending the money you collect.
To help you in your quest is a young boy named Chad. He helps you in a few ways. If you collect nine donations you can give these to Chad and he will arrange a political favor for you. If your popularity ever falls to zero, Chad will come to your help and "merge" with you. I'm not sure if this is supposed to be a sexual merging or something like a photo-op. Chad will come and help you out three times before you have to retire. Chad is apparently an opium addict though, and if you find a flower and "revive" it Chad will come to your aid an extra time.
Working against you is an election official in a trenchcoat. If he touches you, he'll take one of your "political favors" that you've collected. Another fellow is apparently a doctor or judge of some sort. He's wearing a white robe and tries to take you back to do your real work in the capitol. You want to avoid him at all costs so you can keep collecting money and favors.
When you get three political favors you want to "call them in" which will ensure you get re-elected. What isn't obvious though is that the real point of the game is to collect money. Due to Chad's help you will ALWAYS win re-election if you get to the end of the round. Notice that Chad keeps going into the schoolhouse (and probably rigging the vote!)
Of course I'm only assumig that the name of the cartridge is "ELECTION TIME". The cartridge itself just has the initials E.T. on it. But the picture on the opening screen of the main character is a splitting image of Strom Thurmond.
I have this game for PSX and they sell for 150-250USD$ on ebay regularly. Only the american port is rare, the japanese one is quite abundant.
True genius is grasping a situation like a peice of fruit, and peircing it just right so that it drains dry.
... I used to play it on the C64 way back ... anyone know if it was ever ported to PC? I can't remember the authors name. It was a text-based adventure... damn it was fun.
Flying Bynites are approaching Watch out for the Saucers!! ( I thought the saucers were the hardest. ) MUCH better than Defender. And the speech synthesizer ( my neighbor had it not me :-( rocked! It sounded better than anything I've heard since!
16 K of PURE POWER!!!
And I could draw cool houses with PRINT statements in TI BASIC!
Load from casette player and play music tapes too!!
Adventure ruled too. ( The mongoose must've been a squirrel! HA! )
Great fun for my Kidnerdgarten-First Grade years...
Eat at Joe's.
I had this game called "Tas Times in Tone Town" where you'd chase this lizard guy via a text interface.
You would start in a house where you had to type:
throw switch
enter hoop
in order to enter the game
Anyone else remember this game? It was pretty cool for it's time (Apple II), and extremely hard to play well (I could never get anywhere really interesting, when I did, I couldn't get there again).
Makes me wonder what the top ten rarest PC games are...
Jesus.. makes me wonder if anyone on Slashdot has a fucking brain any more. Rare PC games? How the fuck exactly would you measure that, and why exactly would a PC Game be rare? Have you ever heard the term "abandonware", and seen the hits on those sites? No? Well, then you're in the right place, for Slashdot is where clueless, dickless, thoughtless fucks go to die.
Does anyone remember this Broderbund game. They made a sequel Ancient Art of War at Sea. I loved those games.
I thought that when you win, you play the subsequent game without the helmet, with long hair. But if you win quickly enough, then you play the next game in yellow spandex, or similar. at least that's what i vaguely remember.
make world, not war
The one that was just a console with knobs on it that YOU had to sit next to in order to play. Even then the idea of 3 or 4 seperate games being made out of basically one graphic and idea was coo. The fact that your TV could somehow broadcast that signal on channel 2 or 3 (what was it about these channels anyways?)was absolutely bizarre to me at the time.
I've got a few of the Atari ones done by Mystique.
The best/worst is Custer's Revenge. You're General Custer and you rape a squaw tied to a cactus. Arrows come from off screen and if they hit you, your boner shrinks and you die.
You play it and think, "man I can't believe they did that". But I guess back then, National Lampoon was a funny magazine in their non-pc way.
Another one was "Beat 'em and Eat 'em" where a guy is rockin' it on top of a building and you're three nekkid girls trying to catch the spooge.
The other 2 I have are Bachelor Party & Bachelorette Party knock-offs of Breakout.
They did a few others, but my all time favorite Atari game is still Yar's Revenge.
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Aaaahhhhhhh.... I still have 1 and 3 (I never got 2, I just never had money at the right time).
I should go find them and play them again. Damn they were fun. And no, I won't sell either of them to you : )
I think they are right next to my old "Sam & Max Hit the Road" disks...
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What timing - I just spent hours playing that on an Apple ][ emulator. Like Hours!
//c - pity i only have a greenscreen :(
Time to dust off the apple
Mega Man: nothing else like it. I never played the first one. I bought the second one, and from that day on, I kept waiting in vain for the first one to go down in price.
Zelda II: All I can say is that I'm glad there are two of us. (: I'd be willing to bet that the poster didn't forget Zelda II, that he/she just didn't like it. It was my favorite, but I've met hardly anyone that shares my views.
Never Played Mega Man 7. Are you sure you're not thinking of Mega Man X?
Link to the Past: Totally agree.
Star Fox competition version: I remember this one well! I had the regular cart the day it came out. And I remember coming home each day from school and practicing for the competition. I won a bunch of Star Fox swag, and I still have most of it.
I can't comment on the Sega CD or Saturn games, I never played those systems except for Sewer Shark on Sega CD.
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The game is Darklands. Try looking at darklands.net, hoping it is still available and abandoned.
I enjoyed leading my party of four amish warriors into a town of satan worshippers and I burn their hamlet to the ground. Of'course, one of them gets away and says he'll have his revenge on some day and I take note of that and where it takes place for future demon-slaying action. Then, I go up the hill a little ways with my three other buddies, "Hogget", "Helga", and "He-Man" and we call out the demon and grind him to hashes under our feet. As we leave the ruined hamlet, I always make sure nothing is left alive by going back in and...nothing. When I'm strong enough, I go looking for the dragon and the dragonslayer. I kill the dragonslayer to get his stuff, and then I slay the dragon and am more famous than the dragonslayer now anyways. Then there is the mine hauntings; full of gnomes, knockers, vulcans, and dwarves. Lots and lots of stuff and flexibility in this game.
It's a verry rare game and actually took a few historians to contribute to for (yes) historic accuracy on how all the fruitloops of a thousand years ago behaved. I think it was released in 1989, I'm not sure. First time I ever seen this kind of cool and fast VGA graphics on a blazingly fast 386 20MHz desktop, SoundBlaster, MIDI, with Mouse control on MSDOS. Then came *cough* Doom and I that evil Romero and Carmack fellas I hear about all the time forced me to upgrade. At least I played mostly Duke Nukem 3D more than Doom... And those were the history of my days in IBM PC DOS, Novel DOS, and MS DOS. :) FreeDOS is where it's at now!
But I'm sure you already Gnu that.
For the amount of hours spent blasting thargoids in witchspace, first on the Beeb, then the Spectrum anbd finally the PC.
I still fire it up now and then, but getting sound working in DOS is dying art...; )
Anyone got the Wolfenstein rom for an emulator?
All this talk is making me wax nostalgic.
The 3D first person shooter was certainly The Eidolon for the Atari800.
written by Steve Capps - a nice 3D figure of alice moves around on a chessboard being chased by chess pieces. make a wrong move, and she falls through a hole in the board. the 'menubar' is a 'cheshire cat'.
came out in 1983 for the original macintosh, in a nice little 'book volume' which contained the floppy disk.
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How about any game for the short lived but ultra-cool Virtual Boy from Nintendo?
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Yeah, those cart games were fun too. Probably my favorites were Scuba Venture and Mouser. IIRC, I only got up to the end of L2 or L3 in Scuba Venture and completed about 3 or 4 rooms of Mouser. This was as a 10-12 year old tho :)
I'm sure with my l33t gaming skillz now I can "pass" those games. LOL
Darn, now I got that Mouser music stuck in my head.
I wonder if anybody ever bought ALL of the available PCjr carts.
I know... there's already 600 comments on here, and no one is going to read this. BUT. I have spent a better part of the workday trying to play this game. I'm sure I'm not the only one who was a 13 year old kid at the time and has wanted to play it ever since. Hopefully someone will come back and read this and it will help them play the game.
The rom is available online. I'm not going to help you. Use google, you'll find it.
Once you do, use FCE Ultra, it seems to be the only emulator that is capable of dealing with this ROM.
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Alternately, you could pick up a Gamecube (I like Lik-Sang's modded Japanese Panasonic Q--import GC games and region-free DVD!) and GC game Animal Crossing, which includes Excitebike among other old NES titles (My favorite is Donkey Kong Jr. Math).
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that it took a disassembler for me to come up with SMOKE GRASS.
Thanks. And wow, beating Star Fox in 15 minutes sounds pretty tough!
I'd rather be lucky than good.
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