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  Topic: Master of Illusion: nintendo playing cards!
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 26
Views: 17576

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 10:24 am   Subject: Master of Illusion: nintendo playing cards!
One time in a random dollar store I found a bunch of Nintendo playing cards, made by, I think, TOPPS. They were somewhat like lottery tickets, in that there was some kind of "game" and you had to scra ...
  Topic: what if you woke up one day and you were a pokemon?
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 84
Views: 48107

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 10:06 pm   Subject: what if you woke up one day and you were a pokemon?
I'm going to pick Trapinch because you spend part of your lifecycle digging pits and the other part growing wings and flying and probably having lots of sex. If I'm going to be railroaded into becomin ...
  Topic: Thread Topics that are too lame to warrant their own thread
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 88
Views: 58283

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 9:10 am   Subject: Thread Topics that are too lame to warrant their own thread
If anyone is interested, I have a much better list of bang-able cartoon hotties.

No man maybe you shouldn't. I read that thread and now I can't watch those Esurance commercials anymore.
  Topic: Trans representation in videogames
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 36
Views: 32044

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 6:19 am   Subject: Trans representation in videogames
This isn't a real post; just something I was typing at Select Button's nonsense forum until I realized it kinda applied to this discussion. Ignore the insensitivity and the flamebait comments in this ...
  Topic: LET'S MAKE SHOOTING GAME (dezaemon thread)
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 40
Views: 234361

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 12:48 am   Subject: LET'S MAKE SHOOTING GAME (dezaemon thread)
[url=http://stage6.divx.com/DEZAEMON-PLUS-SELECT-100/video/1075128/PS:DEZAEMON-PLUS-SELECT-100-Night-Mare-1,623,150pt-]This is really beautiful. The game itself is uninteresting, and actually made me ...
  Topic: Mass Effect looks like shit
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 103
Views: 63048

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:42 pm   Subject: Mass Effect looks like shit
I support games looking like bad movies on the sci-fi channel if Bruce Campbell is involved at least.

Also, no matter how terrible, it will be impossible for me to not watch a series based on the F ...
  Topic: YOU'RE THAT CREEP, NOIMAN CASCADE (midboss thread)
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 45
Views: 42402

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:08 pm   Subject: YOU'RE THAT CREEP, NOIMAN CASCADE (midboss thread)
All three of the bosses you fight in Jet Force Gemini at the end of each character's path are really great. For those of you who haven't experienced the awesomeness that is Jet Force Gemini, there are ...
  Topic: What the hell do I want?!
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 33
Views: 23972

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 11:26 am   Subject: What the hell do I want?!
Grim Grimoire doesn't seem like a real game to me. I look at screenshots and it looks like some kind of pipedream beta that will never be released. I can't actually convince myself to spend money on s ...
  Topic: Let's all play Ogre Battle, okay?
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 26
Views: 23202

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 6:30 pm   Subject: Let's all play Ogre Battle, okay?
Ah, good. I can go into this with no regrets, then!

Speaking of Deneb: anyone else wanna bet she's the same blonde witch interacting with pumpkins as the witch in Magical Chase?
  Topic: Let's all play Ogre Battle, okay?
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 26
Views: 23202

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 4:26 pm   Subject: Let's all play Ogre Battle, okay?
Once I finish some stuff I have been wanting to finish I will do this.

I've been afraid of playing because it's apparently the choice between a good guy, or a bad guy with Deneb the Witch on your t ...
  Topic: The I'm sick of Dess lording her crap over me thread
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 36
Views: 27583

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 4:19 pm   Subject: The I'm sick of Dess lording her crap over me thread
Do a review of the Pocket Sakura for TGQ. C'mon. C'mon. C'mon. Do it!
  Topic: The House of Games! (DOS 450 Games)
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 21
Views: 17566

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 10:54 am   Subject: The House of Games! (DOS 450 Games)
Just the other day, I picked up a DOS shareware CD at a used bookstore for $3 called "Best Of... MEGA GAMES." To give you an idea as to the quality: One of the screenshots on its cover is of

I wa ...
  Topic: Quake: the Fight for Justice
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 81
Views: 50103

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 10:46 am   Subject: Quake: the Fight for Justice
I played Quake for the first time last year. Multiplayer against someone who had been playing for years, too.

It was amazing how quickly I picked up the more obvious techniques, such as "find the a ...
  Topic: i found something. (images)
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 100
Views: 76445

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 5:48 pm   Subject: i found something. (images)
and for star control 2 lite, you can't beat solar winds.

I bought this game TWICE as a kid only to find that it would always freeze a few minutes in. Once I got to play just long enough to have som ...
  Topic: game description terms moratorium thread
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 60
Views: 49136

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 10:19 am   Subject: game description terms moratorium thread
"Too hard/too easy" --This is a totally useless description 99% of the time. I don't think it's too much to ask for game reviewers and megaton sites to post videos of them playing on the game's highes ...
  Topic: Requisite Photo Thread (56k users beware!)
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 405
Views: 438835

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 1:22 am   Subject: Requisite Photo Thread (56k users beware!)
Sentai/Giant Robot Song?

For Fucking Konami Week I went and played some bemani games (okay I do this every week) at SVGL. Toast and I played this song which sounded a lot like a sentai or giant rob ...
  Topic: Favourite current-gen game?
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 63
Views: 42393

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 5:25 pm   Subject: Favourite current-gen game?
Final Fantasy X-2

Nana, play Romancing SaGa for the PS2. If you stick through it beyond the traditional two hours of confusing SaGa-type gameplay, I promise that there is a very good chance that yo ...
  Topic: the very thorough crawl thread
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 317
Views: 490701

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:37 pm   Subject: the very thorough crawl thread
15 minute roguelikes are for wussies (Toups) and people who actually know what they're doing (Dessgeega).

For everyone else, there's the 15 second roguelike, [url=http://berserk.chaosforge.org/]Ber ...
  Topic: is this for real?
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 87
Views: 64872

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:33 pm   Subject: is this for real?
Viewing this topic with Nana's magical image changer thing has been an interesting experience, I must say.
  Topic: being a smart ass about naming your character
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 49
Views: 41752

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 8:21 pm   Subject: being a smart ass about naming your character
Thank god for this thread. I thought I was the only person to play Ocarina of Time as "I Stink" so that at the end Ganondorf would be all

CURSE YOU, I STINk!!!
  Topic: call the (genesis back-up device)!
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 6
Views: 7162

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 8:17 am   Subject: Re: call the (genesis back-up device)!
this is an info-soliciting thread.

i'm trying to get hold of a

Battle Mania 2...is that the same as what got translated by a romhacker as "Trouble Shooter Vintage"? If it is, then, uh, I guess ...
  Topic: Question About Human Evolution
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 76
Views: 66608

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 8:34 pm   Subject: Question About Human Evolution

3.)

I'm still going through this site now, but the ideas here are very interesting. Apes have been demonstrated to have the capacity to communicate some ideas through sign language; however, such ...
  Topic: Knytt
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 61
Views: 53151

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 8:16 pm   Subject: Knytt

anyway a knytt is like a troll except smaller and uh i don't really know much about them

Like a kobold or a goblin? Or a little larger than that, like an orc?
  Topic: Question About Human Evolution
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 76
Views: 66608

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 11:33 am   Subject: Question About Human Evolution
The recent dhex anthropology thread had me thinking about religion, which got me thinking about creationism, which got me thinking about evolution in the shower just now. Simply put, I find human inte ...
  Topic: Knytt
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 61
Views: 53151

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 6:16 am   Subject: Knytt
i cant say i like how that whole page is a giant bid for CRED or whatever. "Knytt is a free platform game for Windows featuring exploration and atmosphere." featuring atmosphere. besides that being ...
  Topic: please tell me about persona 3
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 20
Views: 18527

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 6:07 am   Subject: please tell me about persona 3
It has very nice music.

It was somewhat popular in Japon.

It combines dungeon (really tower) exploration with those school-life sims that you hear about occasionally. Unlike most of them, this g ...
  Topic: Beautiful Tools
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 17
Views: 20648

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 6:27 am   Subject: Beautiful Tools
UNIX is love and there's nothing beautiful about UNIX.

It's a different kind of beauty for a different kind of love, I think. Kind of like old typewriters, and how some authors refuse to use comput ...
  Topic: Games you've never played
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 53
Views: 54870

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 11:20 pm   Subject: Re: Games you've never played

*ChronoCross: the 49 PC’s thing scared me, and the random encounters.

Out of curiousity, which random encounters are you referring to? From what I recall, encounters were set up pretty much like ...
  Topic: Games you've never played
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 53
Views: 54870

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 8:23 pm   Subject: Games you've never played
Having an appreciation for X helps X-2 a lot as it's basically fanservice wank for X fans.

Lies! My main beef with Final Fantasy X-2 is that it ruins everything that X did. FFX was a very fatalisti ...
  Topic: Movie vs game
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 45
Views: 38482

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 8:09 pm   Subject: Movie vs game
Cutscenes can occasionally be a strength. For whatever reason, I always think of Matsuno's Final Fantasy Tactics and Vagrant Story as having good cutscenes. Not because of their unique art style, but ...
  Topic: interview request (insert Credit)
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 42
Views: 37148

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 7:59 pm   Subject: interview request (insert Credit)
The depression is under control, so don't worry or anything if I suddenly disappear. Under treatment and all that! I probably should have said that in my original post. Sorry to worry you guys.

It' ...
  Topic: BETAMAX CHRONICLES.
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 13
Views: 15577

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 7:54 pm   Subject: BETAMAX CHRONICLES.
I wonder if there are betamax camcorders still around? Probably not cheap, even being useless, I'm guessing.

I would record a time capsule in Betamax. The payoff of a future generation finding a ne ...
  Topic: help me not make the final decision for the site name
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 40
Views: 40374

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 4:16 am   Subject: help me not make the final decision for the site name
Toastyfrog stole MY forum name: TALKING TIME.

Jesus, fuck YOU Jeremy Parish! Where the hell do you get off being the OTHER guy on the Internet who actually played Clash at Demonhead?

http://www. ...
  Topic: The Louisville NYE Party: Auld Lang Syne Motherfuckers
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 202
Views: 195010

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 4:13 am   Subject: The Louisville NYE Party: Auld Lang Syne Motherfuckers
i wish i could go very badly but i live in michigan and i am fourteen ;_;

have funs guys and drink a lot for me plz

Baron Patsy I would invite you over to my house but I'm pretty sure I would ju ...
  Topic: interview request (insert Credit)
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 42
Views: 37148

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 4:09 am   Subject: interview request (insert Credit)
dhex, please don't create a study of ic members. I think humanity might lose the will to continue. While I typically don't have much faith in the human race, that I would be indirectly responsible for ...
  Topic: Some new info on Suda's Heroes
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 20
Views: 15642

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 2:47 am   Subject: Some new info on Suda's Heroes
1up is down for maintanence. Thanks for breaking the internet, guys.

On the flip side, this is giving me a chance to think that by "showing up GTA" you mean that the main character will be an otaku ...
  Topic: David Jaffe drunk at the playboy mansion
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 86
Views: 59817

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 2:28 am   Subject: David Jaffe drunk at the playboy mansion
GAMEFACKS
  Topic: The Louisville NYE Party: Auld Lang Syne Motherfuckers
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 202
Views: 195010

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 10:03 pm   Subject: The Louisville NYE Party: Auld Lang Syne Motherfuckers
I am 900 miles away in MA but I guess if someone was passing through I could maybe make this a road trip? I've got the whole week off so hey

dark steve don't maybe beige and you and endlesschris a ...
  Topic: I just remembered another reason I hate Borat
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 25
Views: 22832

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 10:01 pm   Subject: I just remembered another reason I hate Borat
tgq general board /= forum axe

I'm sure shaper doesn't mind if we ruin his web sight.
  Topic: The Louisville NYE Party: Auld Lang Syne Motherfuckers
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 202
Views: 195010

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 9:09 pm   Subject: The Louisville NYE Party: Auld Lang Syne Motherfuckers
The arch-bishop in Milwaukee can drink anyone under the table. He's irish, and there's a picture of him in like every single bar in Milwaukee.

thats racist oh god mods delete and lock DELETE AND LO ...
  Topic: The Louisville NYE Party: Auld Lang Syne Motherfuckers
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 202
Views: 195010

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 8:28 pm   Subject: The Louisville NYE Party: Auld Lang Syne Motherfuckers
I never understood the point of celebrating the new year.

It's an excuse to get dronk and makeout?

Maybe it's because I'm from Wisconsin, but who the fuck needs a goddamn excuse?

You were rai ...
  Topic: The Internet is really blowing my tiny mind tonight
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 46
Views: 41581

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 8:26 pm   Subject: The Internet is really blowing my tiny mind tonight
Also sup churippu I like your avatar.

I can't read poor churippu's posts. I'm too distracted. It's not the "animation" so much as it is the smile and hair, I think.
  Topic: the music in the new smash bros brawl trailer is amazing
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 174
Views: 130208

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 9:01 am   Subject: the music in the new smash bros brawl trailer is amazing
While we're talking about Rare soundtracks: Jet Force Gemini's makes the excuse that the N64 had too little ROM space for a high-quality soundtrack a total lie.

I can still hear Battlecruiser Sekhm ...
  Topic: Yet another "games are making children into killers&quo
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 109
Views: 91886

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 7:03 pm   Subject: Yet another "games are making children into killers&quo
The article never states it, of course, but it's tied with the kind of articles that accuse violent video games with violence; though the article never claims that video games cause violence, it does ...
  Topic: Corporate mascots- or, how to have your merch and eat it too
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 24
Views: 19357

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 6:51 pm   Subject: Corporate mascots- or, how to have your merch and eat it too
Biker Mice from Mars are my favorite TMNT clones. Street Sharks can go to hell. I never saw the Samurai Pizza Cats, so I can't make a definitive call on this, however.
  Topic: the music in the new smash bros brawl trailer is amazing
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 174
Views: 130208

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 6:47 pm   Subject: the music in the new smash bros brawl trailer is amazing
I remember an N64 AOL fansite I used to visit, where the DK Rap was professed to be the greatest thing ever for months. Well, that and the ROM Expansion Pak, which didn't go far to make DK64 a great ( ...
  Topic: Stung by Yggdra Union
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 17
Views: 15680

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 6:41 pm   Subject: Stung by Yggdra Union
I want this game so bad. I spent some time with the Japanese rom, and it essentially does the obvious to the SRPG: make the movement options worth agonizing over. You don't have a large grid of square ...
  Topic: Yet another "games are making children into killers&quo
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 109
Views: 91886

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 11:35 am   Subject: Yet another "games are making children into killers&quo

I'm more speaking to the anger that comes out every time one of these articles are released. This isn't some Jack Thompton-esque rant; it's just some data from from some study. I used to feel the ...
  Topic: Great action scenes in anime!
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 47
Views: 50610

PostForum: Quarterly Discussion   Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 4:13 am   Subject: Great action scenes in anime!
Gundam 08th MS Team's penultimate episode, and Gundam 0080 War in the Pocket's final episode. It says what the other Gundams were trying to say; that war really, really sucks. Usually, Gundam is too b ...
  Topic: Yet another "games are making children into killers&quo
TOLLMASTER

Replies: 109
Views: 91886

PostForum: Club for the Study and Appreciation of Interactive Audio Visual Media   Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 4:00 am   Subject: Yet another "games are making children into killers&quo


Will we ever stop and say "hey, perhaps we should seek out these emotionally unstable individuals and teach them how to deal with their anger?" No.

That's a great solution, I guess, but what do ...
 
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