The Gamer's Quarter

[ryan]

[dessgeega]

anyone have any leads on finding the jill of the jungle soundtrack?

incidentally, this thread is the fifth google search result for "jill of the jungle" soundtrack.
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[Winged Assassins (1984)]

[dongle]

get a console -> usb adapter and the console controller of choice or the Sega Saturn USB pad

[Lestrade]

I had that pad, too. I remember tossing it out, actually, many years down the road (just because was over-zealously spring-cleaning). I remember buying it from the local PC shop in Pembroke, Ontario. It was my first computer game pad. I got it to play Mortal Kombat, I think.

[dessgeega]

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[a_plus]

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 has all of the registered levels of cosmo's cosmic adventure, well, i dunno.

[Cycle]

It's really not that hard to find full versions of Apogee or Epic games!
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[ApM]

I found the full version of Cosmo on some Geocities site, but then my shitty computer unrelatedly decided it didn't want to recognize my keyboard and mouse anymore, so I can't upload it for you ;_;

[Cycle]

Cosmo Trilogy
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[kirkjerk]

[dessgeega]

see, the M was added to the game so the developers could spell out "epic megagames" (one of the bonus icons is the flashing text "epic"), and their only behavior is to crash down from above. for some reason, though, a single letter M appears in one of the later stages in the first jill episode, crashing down from the sky and scaring the heebie-bejeezus out of you. it is a total non-sequitor until you realize it's one of the building blocks of a megagames logo, which the level designer just dragged over to that spot in the level editor in a fit of whimsy.

hey, are people still looking for electro cop / man / body? because it's supposedly freeware.
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[Cycle]

NEAT.
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[dongle]

I am going to play Alien Carnage today in honor of this thread.

[dessgeega]

so i played some xargon based entirely on a comparison to jill of the jungle. and yes: it was obviously put together using a modified version of the jill engine. i'm just not feeling it, though. partially i think it's because of the graphics: everything's less square, and it loses some of that cobbled-together-in-an-editor charm. i think the sprites are bigger, too, meaning you see less of the area around you (which also makes it harder to appreciate the level design). it also feels like there was an effort to boy everything up: instead of magical daggers we fire laser bullets, instead of hi-jump arrows we get super-cool brand name sneaks, instead of transforming into a fish we ride our ultra-futuristic metal sub dome thingie, instead of frogs and firebirds we fight robots blam ka-pow, instead of jill we have a nordic archaeologist man with a ridiculous name in a muscle shirt. i don't know, maybe i'm just too attached to jill.

i will say that it's frustrating how you have to start a stage over at death - because the stages are big and contain puzzles and keys and doors and secrets. in jill death returns you to the entrance to the stage, but doors you've unlocked stay open, puzzles you've solved stay solved, items you've found stay found, and enemies you've slain stay slain - allowing you to at least feel like you're making some measure of progress (friggin' demons).

i quit the game after falling in lava made me restart a huge stage.
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[dessgeega]

i found something.



that something being "evolve!", the game i described earlier in the thread. it's available for download on my site.
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[Cycle]

The third installment of Game Empire arrived today (along with my special edition of Fatman). More soon!

It seems to be mostly windows games which is cool.
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[dessgeega]

i have the first and second installments and will hopefully be posting them soon.
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[Cycle]

Turns out Epic has a FPS in the works before Unreal. Unless, this is what Unreal originally was.




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[Winged Assassins (1984)]

I remember reading that, I think I still have the issue of that particular magazine that it was featured in. Wasn't there also early shots of Shadow Warrior in there too?
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[Cycle]

Directly below it!

The early shots of Shadow Warrior looked kidna cooler than what we ended up with.
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[Winged Assassins (1984)]

Though it most likely didn't have Lo-Wang Speak™.
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[Swimmy]

I found something!

Fat Frog RPG.

It was the first OHRRPGCE game that was released commercially. This is the old demo. It is embarrassingly bad. Maybe some screenshots later? When you near death in battle, your frog gets very gory and gross. This game is hilarious.
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"Ayn Rand fans are the old school version of Xenogears fanboys."
-seryogin

[Harveyjames]

[Cycle]

if you made her duck, you could totally see down her top. it was hot!

i don't mind feeling like a creep. it's just a videogame, gosh!
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[Harveyjames]

His similar to when me and 9 friend went to our University anime club where they here screening "Love Hind", and we hod to leave 1/2 way through. In's writing this on q tablet pc, it's hard.

[Shapermc]

Yeah, about 7 or 8 years back I went to an "anime club" where there were like 40 guys in a room and they had a poster set up on the back wall and the lights were dim. I brought my girlfriend with. Everyone was just sitting around and waiting, and when it was supposed to start one kid got up and pointed at the poster he had just flipped over which said "Today we will be watching 'Strange Love' _Subtitled!_. Comments will be held until after."

My girlfriend and I walked out about 15 minutes into it.

I can play Jill of the Jungle no problem though!
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“The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!"

[sediment]

Hm, I still have copies of a bunch of old Apogee and Epic greats. Not too many full versions though, I was always kind of a poor kid. I do have the full install of Raptor: Call of the Shadows somewhere, that I know for sure.

I... also have a 3.5 somewhere with the demos for all the Exile games on there, and a couple of pirate 99-in-1 CDs with shareware demos all over the place.

Once I find the discs I could share my bounty, if anyone is yarr-interested. Like it's really piracy anymore though, I imagine most of these companies didn't sell the rights to their smaller titles.
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[boojiboy7]

One Must Fall: 2097,

Oh how I loved thee.

I originally played you such a long long time ago as a shareware game. I didn't have the money or the resources to be able to buy the full version of you, and the shareware version only had three or so robots, but I played the crap out of you. My friend down the street could kick my ass at you, but I still wanted to play against him every time I could. Neither of us had a game pad, but we crammed our hands onto a keyboard to fight as one giant weirdly designed robot against another.

Years later, I am a sophomore in college. As a result of your sequel getting put out (and unfortunately not being very good), your full version gets freewared on the internet. My computer can't run your sequel, but is more than capable of running you, so I jump on a download and boot you up. And you are way too fucking fast to play. At least, until I discover a slider in the menu that lets me crank it down a bit. And then, there it was. A toggle for juggling? What? Well, apparently whoever designed you, OMF:2097, decided that juggling was sweet, but had no clue how to balance it in a game, and so just made it an option. And turning it on made the single player game that much more awesome, as it became a game of seeing how many times I could bounce my opponent before he hit the ground.

One thing I have always loved about you is how you had characters the player played as, who then in turn piloted robots. There were only like 12 characters, so odds were good that they would meet up against each other. Before a match, the opposing pilots would taunt each other, and when luck would have it they were the same person, they said some pretty funny stuff. My personal favorite was when the one guy, who looked particularly anti-social and violent, would meet himself and the first one would say "Every time I think about you..." and the other one would follow up with "...I hit myself."

Oh OMF:2097, you were special to me.

Love,
Boojiboy7

[Harveyjames]

[dessgeega]

anime is pretty creepy.

i thought jill was pretty hot when i was little. it's probably the boots. and the way she stands.
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[Harveyjames]

[boojiboy7]

[Redeye]

This thread is called "I found something (images)"

Maybe there should be a general Found Image thread.


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I felt sheer anarchic joy when I ran over my first pedestrian.

[FortNinety]

Just came across this on my hard drive... I forget where its from:

[Redeye]

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I felt sheer anarchic joy when I ran over my first pedestrian.

[Cycle]

so i bought 20 issues of inside mac games.

my god, these are a fucking gold mine.

VIDEO INTERVIEWS WITH BUNGIE WHEN MARATHON WAS RELEASED

GAME NEWS FROM ALL PLATFORMS stuff i didn't even KNOW

LOTS OF INTEREVIEWS AND REVIEWS

like seriously, there is so much awesome stuff here, man
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[dessgeega]

[ryan]

[Cycle]

The IMG issues are from 1994-1996 (only 1995 is complete). It took a very long time for these to crop on ebay, and I got in a bidding war. The guy who lost offered me twice the money for them. I politely decliced!

I would like to archive these somehow, though. Damn thing won't let me copy/paste, unfortunately!

I'd love to get the CD that collected the first year or so, but like that's ever going to crop up.

I also have a large Next Generation collection, I'm hoping to find someone selling all the coverdisks someday because my mother threw them all out WHAT WAS SHE THINKING, JUST BECAUSE I DIDN'T TAKE THEM WITH ME DIDN'T MEAN I DIDN'T WANT THEM, GOD.

Also all most of my issues suffer from moisture damage because I didn't know keeping them in a cupboard for ten years would do that
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[Shapermc]

Cycle: use You Tube for marathon videos please.
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“The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!"

[Cycle]

they are super ancient quicktime, i wonder if they will work outside my mac emulator.

also most of the interview is text, with a couple video answers from Alex and Jason (as usual, Greg stays out of sight).

there is also a video of the mac games expo from 199...whatever, when bungie had a booth and was just about to release marathon. i'll see if i can put that up too, even though there is only a little bit of bungie (all the other booths are interesting too though! also everyoen hates being caught on camera).

i've only gone through a couple discs... sure to be lots more stuff on these.

real pain in the ass that i can't copy and paste, i'd like to post the original marathon review and whatnot.
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[Cycle]

i can't figure out how to get these onto windows and have it know what they are
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[Slonie]

[silentmatt]

Yeah, I could try converting them for you too (I'm also on a Mac)
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[aderack]

Whoa. Looks like I missed a thread here.
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[Cycle]

[Cycle]

ok i got them onto windows alright, but as i suspected, the codec is WAY too fucking old for ti to handle even VLC ain't cutting it!

i'll email them to slonie and see if he can do anything with them.
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[Slonie]

[Cycle]

here is the link incase anyone else wants a crack at them:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/ggda6z

note that these videos may be confusing because the questions were in text, while the answers where in the video. i'll post the questions that go with each video later.
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