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Squidslinger Gilder:
Ok here is one some might remember but most not because the game bombed in reviews. However, I never saw those reviews and was a JP nut from the Genesis days so I had gotten a copy.



Watch the opening of this for the best Dreamworks logo ever...
http://youtu.be/R4svzPI6lqI

If you want the most frustrating...infuriating...best game ever made, this was it. I kid you not, this game was a trial to play and even worse that you had to play through over half of it to get to the good parts. On top of that there was no save system. Everything worked with passcodes so you had to write them all down as you played and if you didn't, you'd have to go back through the nightmare again. Honestly, I never beat the game in it's natural form. I got to the last level as a T-Rex and gave up. Though I used a gameshark later to cheat and beat it.

Why am I so nostalgic about it? Because coming off the Genesis JP games, there was nothing more satisfying than being the Raptor or the T-Rex in full 3D and tearing people apart or eating them whole. You could also scare the crap out of them with raptor calls or Rex roars.

The music was beautiful and masterfully done too. If you put the game CD in a CD player, you could hear the entire score anytime you wanted. Course it was one entire song track and you had to fast forward through it to find songs since none of them were separated. But man, in high school, people would ask why I had PSX CDs in my player and I'd say..."Cause the music is awesome!"

Just, once I finished it with the shark, I never booted it again. Soo many hours wasted on it. I'd come home from school, pop it in, then threaten the TV with death by controller or practice colorful metaphors. It was so terribly balanced and overly difficult on some levels. You had to nail it just about flawlessly and the dinos didn't always control well enough to do it. The Compy levels...*shudder* Oh that little bugger was insane to control at times. I'd even purposely get it killed on some levels because I just got so mad at it. "F it, I don't care anymore, get eaten and die torn to shreds, you green lizard chicken that controls like a beached whale!"

Still, great moment in gaming that I almost missed due to reviews. Course I don't blame reviewers for the bad reviews. If I was one of them and had to spend an hour with the game, I'd have written the same. However, it did garner a few decent reviews back then. I'd guess because of either bribery or the reviewer actually endured it and got to the fun parts.

Piemanlives:
There are few things I remember about my days in elementary school, one of those was how every single classroom somehow managed to have several copies of The Oregon Trail.

It was one of those things that just happened to be available to us when the weather was bad enough here in Washington that we couldn't go outside for recess. We'd gather up a group of people and sit around a single computer, name party members after each other and see who would survive to the end. Of course we almost always died with frightening regularity but hey we were like 3rd and 4th graders so what did we know about efficiently planning a trip like that? Still it was one of those oddly enjoyable things that stuck around I guess.

Surette:
I loved Desert Strike and Legend of Dragoon.

How about this classic?

Dutch Vanya:

--- Quote from: Surette on February 02, 2015, 11:45:21 am ---I loved Desert Strike and Legend of Dragoon.

How about this classic?



--- End quote ---

I'm too much of a youngin to have played that, but i do like the music!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=301acFz0a_A

Hilary Briss:
Acorn atom

Zx spec urgh magazine typos for the fail!

Commodore tape stretched tapes made for interesting loads.

spectrum tape - spectrum128k disc

Wang industries 386mhz (ibm intel) dos blah

Console: Saturn game Panzer Dragons

Games well pc Dune, populous, Doom, Battle Of Britain F14 amongst others all with on / off lan or null modem

My favorite Platform game was TurricanII
 
Diablo 1996 then Diablo II Lod still have all my chars all fully legit and playable Highest is lvl 98 To Present day.
Only way to hit 99 is Bot and wont lose any accounts just because of cheating.



In the middle of that is my Smiterdin Giving the prime Evils what for.

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