The Gamer's Quarter

being recently laid off means it's time to play dragon warrior 7!
i tried the game before and hated it, but for some reason now i'm enjoying myself quite a bit. i'm 45 or so hours in.
we had some so ...

also what's up with the gratuitous death animation and increasing scantily-cladiness of the games. (okay, i know the answer, but come on)

rambling/confusing i'm sure, and not to be 10-15 years late, or anything, but:

i went and played/beat super metroid for the first time the other day. i had no idea how much metroid prime owed to it ...

Speaking of commercials, there's a certain Olive Garden commercial where the host from Double Dare 2000 is sitting at the table ordering food. He's all, "Eh, I'll know what I want when I see it." As ...

i didn't read this thread, but there's a new wendy's commercial (the one where they're sucking down helium in the office) and i swear to god that the voice-over at the end of the commercial is the sam ...

so have any of you found any good levels to download? i wasn't overly impressed with the 3rd party pack that's no the main knytt stories page. dess, both of your levels are far better than any of thos ...

i never had much trouble gleaning meaning from shrapnel, myself.
shade, on the other hand, seems to make sense just under the surface but i can't figure out, what, if anything, it's all about. (bad t ...

a couple of short 'n' sweet ones:

shrapnel by adam cadre
shade by andrew plotkin

awesome!!

http://www.greylodge.org/tracker/gettorrent.php?info_hash=1cfbeb45cb49cbfec30521da6e7eee3e47b07303

.cbr file, viewable with http://www.geocities.com/davidayton/CDisplay

s. monkey i was just being facetious or something! it's all right.

and dracko!!! i've been looking for some voynich for a while. i had/have a torrent for a really high quality version of seraphinia ...

i don't care to play by your RULES, S. Monkey!

(the first three are some nice illustrations of a few sorts, and the last is a pretty nice visual guide to mycology. not the best source of info, but ...

http://michaelpaulus.com/gallery/v/character-Skeletons/

http://caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/~stueber/haeckel/kunstformen/natur.html

http://draves.org/pix/kdn/

http://www.rogersmushrooms.com/

i have a ton to learn, obviously, but at the moment it's really fun making abstract shapes, throwing and sticking random objects together. and the face modeler is great, too.

i just grabbed version 9 of this! it's pretty great, but i feel like there's a whole ton i don't know about, and i haven't really heard anyone talk about it except for right here. i can't find much of ...

just finished the statue of liberty in deus ex. everything from here on is brand new!

i've noticed i play this game in much the same way i did metal gear solid 2: conflicted about killing/stunning. ...

i just installed deus ex, again, after deciding to see what what selectbutton.net was all about* and reading a thread about the game.

i downloaded the demo of it years ago, beat it in one sitting a ...

hrm, dess, maybe it's just up to u4 that are awful on pc, then?
does the pc u5 have music/sound?

you may want to grab a C64 emulator for ultimas 1-5. the pc versions of them are much worse, audio-visually (4 color cga graphics, no music, etc).
i think there was an update for ultima 4 to add the ...

at some point this is just going to have to be TOO MUCH. eg today's entry:

Added about 70 new minerals today

... i mean, i like how fully fleshed out it is now. will it continue to be playable?

also, is that golgo 13 music in the hell temple?

yeah, i'd really like to watch that, but i can't take it for very long with the volume up :[[[[

super mario in hell is pretty hilarious, though!

ultima 7 ... combat

if i remember correctly, you can pretty easily outfit your entire crew with ridiculously powerful weapons (two-handed swords worked well for me) before the time you first get ...

kjahdgkad;d

:o

whose pit bull is this?

remember how in one of the last levels of the first part of jill the M comes crashing down for no good reason? and then how you didn't know what the M meant for over a decade?

also if anyone ha ...

love love love this thread!! i just downloaded the original zzt and will just into maz soonish...

so, hey, dess. how are you playing the games? i seem to remember, long long ago, in dos holding an ...

wow -- i never did play super zzt. are the graphics that smooshed, or is that an effect of dosbox's screenshotting?
i was pretty great at the original zzt, though. i'm going to have to find the fully ...

what the heck

jazz jackrabbit

epic pinball

oof, parts 2 and 3 of jill of the jungle are way more difficult than 1 ever was.

i definitely almost made that 'you are more ugly' banner

episode 1 is shareware and can probably be found easily

i'll post solar winds 2 if you post jillojun 2&3

god, i was obsessed with jill of the jungle as a kid! i could beat the first episode in one life, getting all the items and secrets in something like five seconds. i always really wanted to play the o ...

oh, you know, i really need to play undiscovered underground. i've known about it for ages and haven't looked into it..
i also found my old zork anthology cd -- the five text adventures (and planetfa ...

and for star control 2 lite, you can't beat solar winds.

i haven't been on the internet at all for a month, and i had a lot of time to play some old pc games. i'll try to remember them all...

i got real bored with the warcraft 3 expansion, real quick. it ...

it is a source of consternation that i cannot get the games to run correctly on this computer.

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net (!!)

i have so, so many fond memories of playing most, if not al ...

SH3 is pretty great for what it is, though -- a schlocky tense gore-filled action game. if you manage to play it on the pc, it looks 'n' sounds very nice too.

i more or less missed out on the ps2 e ...

last one for today

robot needs oil "volta"
i've been kinda obsessed with this song recently. it reminds me of orbital's "chime" but.... not. i dunno, i just love it

paul giovanni and magnet "willow's song"
from the soundtrack to the movie "the wicker man." the original UK one, not the useless recent remake with nicholas cage in it which DOESN'T EXIST. all pagan ...

i'm uploading stuff here and there. check this space!

mia "bird flu"
i think this just came out very recently. i've heard people who didn't like her first album really liking this one!

bibio ...

a pleasant surprise!

yahoo! thanks for the links, wes

and don't forget that paul ruebens (sp?) was the host of the ydkj tv show!

or, you know, not necessarily just "this game is coming out this day!" type stuff, but places with more in-depth looks at gaming, like that gaming quarters one or whatever it's called

the plot in warcraft 3 is totally disposable and stupid. why is everyone at war? why is the undead so intent on destroying the world? why do the orcs and humans hate each other? why is anything happen ...

i just realized that i've been relying on word of mouth to hear things about video games, and don't really know of any quality gaming resources/blogs/aggregators/etc! please post your usuals!

i use ...

no money until friday, so we're going to have a belated v-day thing this weekend. we're probably going to have some drinks and/or eat out at a restaurant (go with whatever meaning you want, there!)