The controls are one of the best parts of the game, I figure. the loosnes of 'em is just so rad! one of the more addicting parts of the game.
I've been playing the game off and on since about... 97/98, when someone in my computer class at the time downloaded it. it was wildly popular in my school and damn near everyone who had any computer classes or could get into the computer lab during lunch would play it. Of course this was when it was called Action Supercross (or, as everyone called it "across"). It's one of the best damned games I've ever played and well worth 10 bucks. I just had to download it again.
on a pure fun factor, it and worms are very close together... but elasto mania is more addicting.
This is the first 3D game, it's not first person, but it does use rendered polygons for everything. Unless a 3D game means it has to be first person, of course...
Games as Adds (like Yo Noid!, which I actually liked... but I've only ever eaten domino's pizza once ever, and Spot, which was mentioned as is totally kickass, even had 4 players on the NES, with 2 controllers. it rocked. Then there's cool spot, it was horrible...).
And there were 2 versions of Tapper, one with Budweiser product Placement (Tapper) and the kids version, Root Beer Tapper (without Budweiser product placement). Tis a damned fun game either way though.
I'm not sure if those 2 are older than Pole Position, but who knows...
It probably has to do with the fact that all a "modern" game needs to sell an assload of copies is to look pretty. having lots of space to make things pretty sort of does that. Original 2600 games were limited to 2k in size. And, many of the standard game types weren't invented yet (the shooter, the maze game, and the porn video game were basically it, oh and the single screen platformer and racing game). To make a game sell a lot o' copies, it had to be fun, cause it looked like ass. Which is why Custer's Revenge wasn't the best selling 2600 hundred game, and many E.T. carts currently occupy a nice, big, landfill. Those 2 games sucked.
Fun games are fun, even if they look like my ass. I'd rather play Super Breakout and Yars Revenge than most games released these days. Or even Dodge 'em.
But that would require a vcr without a fastforward button. Which would make all the porn viewers angry. Since sales of porn on video are higher than sales of legitimate movies, among those with expendable cash (not kids), that would cause the vcr without the fastforward button to never be purchased.
And that there's a higher cost to actually manufacture 10000 VHS tapes than to manufacture 10000 DVD's. I'd be more impressed if it played BETA cassettes... Both tapes and dvd's are equally easy to destroy though, just with different methods.
But just because we don't/can't find another planet with life doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It also doesn't mean it does exist. It just means we can't find it.
BUT... Honestly, it's damn near impossible for us, as in the human race, to find out everything about everything, seeing as how at some point it is possible that much of our current knowledge will be proven wrong. As has happened constantly through history (though at the time things seemed correct). What is right now will most likely be wrong later.
The fact isn't that there is one known planet with life, but that <i>we</i> only know of one planet with life. It's not much of a difference, but it is a difference. It does, however, rely on the fact that either past knowledge of this has been forgotten or that there are other planets with life that is sentient. Knowing what we know now, the former is probably more likely to be correct out of the two, though secret option number 3, we's alone, is even more likely to be correct.
Sure, Science is the search for knowledge, but since mathematics is a field of science, and statistics is a field of mathematics, then statistics is a field of science. And statiticians make estimates, that makes them scientists and makes their guesses "scientific calculations"... in a way. And we all know that a statiticians job is to pull numbers out of their ass.
Statistically speaking, there is a high probability that an assload of planets that can possibly support life exist besides our own.
To summarize: The only way we'll know for sure that life sustaining planets with intelligent life exist elsewhere in the universe is to find one, otherwise we can never be sure one way or the other, unless we find all planets in the universe and determine that they are all lifeless.
Anyone who believes that there is not an assload of planets that could possibly support sentient life is incredibly arrogant.
Anyone who believes that a "god-like being" would only create life on a singular planet is even more arrogant.
Anyone who believes that we will be able to easily find them within the next century is naive.
Anyone who thinks that people will be sent to any such planets found within the current century is a tool.
Remember, the earth is not the center of the universe (unless of course, all points in the universe are equidistant from every other point, then every point is the center of the universe, which would really mean it has no center. But what are the odds of that...).
That being said... I wouldn't mind taking a ride on a monkey fueled liquid nitrogen cooled rocket sleigh to some far off planet and get it on with alien chicks with 2 bellybuttons, like William Shatner.
It's bloomin' rad is what it is. It's actually nice when a city provides, what's seen as, neccessary infrastructure to the businesses in the city.
But, uhhhh... think of all the sheep porn going over those cables, man! The amount of sick, New Zealand sheep porn you can get on the internet will increase a billion fold once they get all 1000 Kiwi's on the network.
New Zealand - Where men are men and sheep are nervous.
Clones are IN!
Hollywood Loves Clones!
Clones Boom, Phantoms Bust!
Everyone loves a Clone!
then 50 movies come out with "clones" in the title, or some derivitave of the word (Clone-o-saur, Clone Stampede, The Clone I Loved). They will all flop. Then, in Variety...
Clones are DEAD!
Clones Bad, Non-Clones GOOD!
Remember kids, just because the title is a giant pile of fuck doesn't mean the movie will be (Just look at Cybercity... errr... wait, don't. that movie sucks donkey dong).
oOOOOOOOH... Maybe they'll do the same thing in the new indiana jones movie that they did in this movie. put the ending in the middle and change the entire script during editing because they realized it sucked after filming, but still fail to make it suck less! YAY!
Indiana Jones and the Lost Medic Alert Bracelet
Indiana jones has Fallen and He Cannot Get Up
Indiana Jones and the Quest for Preperation H
Indiana Jones and the Evil Pharmacist who wont' perscribe Viagra
Indiana Jones and The Search for Depends.
Yes, I realize those are all incredibly lame, but i'm bored damnit.
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Games didn't have to be fun to get to market, they just had to be fun to have any chance of making money.
You can count the number of good liscenced games on one hand. You need a whole army of hands to count the bad ones.
There are still good, simple, fun games... Mr. Driller (and the ones the other guy mentioned) and more!
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The controls are one of the best parts of the game, I figure. the loosnes of 'em is just so rad! one of the more addicting parts of the game.
I've been playing the game off and on since about... 97/98, when someone in my computer class at the time downloaded it. it was wildly popular in my school and damn near everyone who had any computer classes or could get into the computer lab during lunch would play it. Of course this was when it was called Action Supercross (or, as everyone called it "across"). It's one of the best damned games I've ever played and well worth 10 bucks. I just had to download it again.
on a pure fun factor, it and worms are very close together... but elasto mania is more addicting.
Inuit, not Eskimo, Inuit. Language is Inuktitut.
In Inuktitut, there are a bunch'o words for snow.
And the Ferengi have no word for "crispy". That should put this on topic.
I, Robot
You're wrong.
This is the first 3D game, it's not first person, but it does use rendered polygons for everything. Unless a 3D game means it has to be first person, of course...
Kool Aid Man (year unkown)
Chase the Chuck Wagon (Ralston-Purina)
Games as Adds (like Yo Noid!, which I actually liked... but I've only ever eaten domino's pizza once ever, and Spot, which was mentioned as is totally kickass, even had 4 players on the NES, with 2 controllers. it rocked. Then there's cool spot, it was horrible...).
And there were 2 versions of Tapper, one with Budweiser product Placement (Tapper) and the kids version, Root Beer Tapper (without Budweiser product placement). Tis a damned fun game either way though.
I'm not sure if those 2 are older than Pole Position, but who knows...
it's odd... this is one of the funniest posts I've EVER seen on slashdot. Even if it is ludicrously offtopci... reading at 0 is fun and exciting!
It probably has to do with the fact that all a "modern" game needs to sell an assload of copies is to look pretty. having lots of space to make things pretty sort of does that. Original 2600 games were limited to 2k in size. And, many of the standard game types weren't invented yet (the shooter, the maze game, and the porn video game were basically it, oh and the single screen platformer and racing game). To make a game sell a lot o' copies, it had to be fun, cause it looked like ass. Which is why Custer's Revenge wasn't the best selling 2600 hundred game, and many E.T. carts currently occupy a nice, big, landfill. Those 2 games sucked.
Fun games are fun, even if they look like my ass. I'd rather play Super Breakout and Yars Revenge than most games released these days. Or even Dodge 'em.
Simple, they are evil sinful things that exploit women!
har.
the same way that burlesque ain't considered "legitimate theater".
But that would require a vcr without a fastforward button. Which would make all the porn viewers angry. Since sales of porn on video are higher than sales of legitimate movies, among those with expendable cash (not kids), that would cause the vcr without the fastforward button to never be purchased.
And that there's a higher cost to actually manufacture 10000 VHS tapes than to manufacture 10000 DVD's. I'd be more impressed if it played BETA cassettes... Both tapes and dvd's are equally easy to destroy though, just with different methods.
You sir, are correct.
But just because we don't/can't find another planet with life doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It also doesn't mean it does exist. It just means we can't find it.
BUT... Honestly, it's damn near impossible for us, as in the human race, to find out everything about everything, seeing as how at some point it is possible that much of our current knowledge will be proven wrong. As has happened constantly through history (though at the time things seemed correct). What is right now will most likely be wrong later.
The fact isn't that there is one known planet with life, but that <i>we</i> only know of one planet with life. It's not much of a difference, but it is a difference. It does, however, rely on the fact that either past knowledge of this has been forgotten or that there are other planets with life that is sentient. Knowing what we know now, the former is probably more likely to be correct out of the two, though secret option number 3, we's alone, is even more likely to be correct.
Sure, Science is the search for knowledge, but since mathematics is a field of science, and statistics is a field of mathematics, then statistics is a field of science. And statiticians make estimates, that makes them scientists and makes their guesses "scientific calculations"... in a way. And we all know that a statiticians job is to pull numbers out of their ass.
Statistically speaking, there is a high probability that an assload of planets that can possibly support life exist besides our own.
To summarize: The only way we'll know for sure that life sustaining planets with intelligent life exist elsewhere in the universe is to find one, otherwise we can never be sure one way or the other, unless we find all planets in the universe and determine that they are all lifeless.
Honestly though, I'm just talking out of my ass.
Anyone who believes that there is not an assload of planets that could possibly support sentient life is incredibly arrogant.
Anyone who believes that a "god-like being" would only create life on a singular planet is even more arrogant.
Anyone who believes that we will be able to easily find them within the next century is naive.
Anyone who thinks that people will be sent to any such planets found within the current century is a tool.
Remember, the earth is not the center of the universe (unless of course, all points in the universe are equidistant from every other point, then every point is the center of the universe, which would really mean it has no center. But what are the odds of that...).
That being said... I wouldn't mind taking a ride on a monkey fueled liquid nitrogen cooled rocket sleigh to some far off planet and get it on with alien chicks with 2 bellybuttons, like William Shatner.
Everyone sleeps with sheep.
I do, and you do too (don't deny it, I KNOW it's true).
Sheep are just so fluffy and cuddly, how can you NOT sleep with them?
Sorry, I don't know what a "Mac" is. Unless you mean the trucks.
And an Apple is something you eat, right? or is it a record company?
OS X? Not sure what that is, but I do know a guy named Oz X. Dongswiller. The X stands for Ignacious. He's odd.
I read slashdot using an Etch-a-sketch, the original laptop, that I managed to install the Amiga OS on. Hooray for me!
Wouldn't that be a MAN, not a LAN?
It's bloomin' rad is what it is. It's actually nice when a city provides, what's seen as, neccessary infrastructure to the businesses in the city.
But, uhhhh... think of all the sheep porn going over those cables, man! The amount of sick, New Zealand sheep porn you can get on the internet will increase a billion fold once they get all 1000 Kiwi's on the network.
New Zealand - Where men are men and sheep are nervous.
Did you know that a simple name change could get more people to try FreeBSD, or at least get 'em interested in it.
FreeBDSM... Sure, they'd all be perferts, but hell... a user's a user.
Lame joke, I know. but I warned you.
From Variety:
Clones are IN!
Hollywood Loves Clones!
Clones Boom, Phantoms Bust!
Everyone loves a Clone!
then 50 movies come out with "clones" in the title, or some derivitave of the word (Clone-o-saur, Clone Stampede, The Clone I Loved). They will all flop. Then, in Variety...
Clones are DEAD!
Clones Bad, Non-Clones GOOD!
Remember kids, just because the title is a giant pile of fuck doesn't mean the movie will be (Just look at Cybercity... errr... wait, don't. that movie sucks donkey dong).
Sure, it's all shiney an' purty, but...
I'd rather bid on a lock of his hair.
So I could secretly make... A JOHN ROMERO CLONE WHO IS 10 TIMES SEXIER THAN THE ORIGINAL JOHN ROMERO!
I mean, just look at the man! Look at the mans hair! Does it not totally scream out how utterly and completely sexy he is, it is?
it's hard to try to make a joke when yer abs are cramping up from coughing.
Or superman 4.
TEH QWEST 4 PEACE!
oOOOOOOOH... Maybe they'll do the same thing in the new indiana jones movie that they did in this movie. put the ending in the middle and change the entire script during editing because they realized it sucked after filming, but still fail to make it suck less! YAY!
Indiana Jones and the Lost Medic Alert Bracelet
Indiana jones has Fallen and He Cannot Get Up
Indiana Jones and the Quest for Preperation H
Indiana Jones and the Evil Pharmacist who wont' perscribe Viagra
Indiana Jones and The Search for Depends.
Yes, I realize those are all incredibly lame, but i'm bored damnit.
Games didn't have to be fun to get to market, they just had to be fun to have any chance of making money. You can count the number of good liscenced games on one hand. You need a whole army of hands to count the bad ones. There are still good, simple, fun games... Mr. Driller (and the ones the other guy mentioned) and more!