Simon's [chat]

Jacobkosh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJiwVKldv_4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjazC45Qkww

A lot of Angry Video Game Nerd wannabes bitch about this installment on youtube, and it's true; the translation is irrevocably fucked and the clues make no sense. But you know what? WHO CARES. Oh, you have to do some random shit like crouch in a certain place to get some random thing to happen? Welcome to like, half the adventure/puzzle/quest games on the NES! It's not like Mario 3 was seeded with cunning clues about which of, like, ten million blocks you had to burst to get a warp whistle or whatever.

There are like three dumb puzzles in Simon's Quest and the rest of the game is just good old-fashioned Castlevania werewolf-whipping action, combined with world exploration, and it's fun and the controls are solid and you get some cool powers, and it all looks good and is set to a pretty great soundtrack.

I AM A THIRTY-THREE YEAR OLD MAN WHO HAS PLAYED TOO MUCH NINTENDO AND I HAVE SPOKEN







And I guess someone has made a fan remake? I wonder if it's any good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsRRfGQf2m4

Nerdgasmic

Jacob we gotta play more bl2

Dunadan019

oh nintendo power...

I would have given anything to have a subscription to that as a kid.

Cinders

SKFM, I can't stop looking at weird appliances now.

Jacobkosh

Nerdgasmic wrote: »

Jacob we gotta play more bl2

I am going to a bar to watch the debates tonight but I will be totes up for some bl2 tomorrow

Podly

I don't even want to think how man hours I sunk into Symphony of the Night

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot

jacob gchat yo

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Handsome Costanza

I had a Nintendo Power subscription.


It was magical.

skippydumptruck

http://www.ebbets.com/category/BaseballJerseys/a

that atoms jersey is fly

Echo

Damn whippersnappers these days not understanding my "What a horrible night to have a <something>" references. Bah, humbug.

Organichu

today i totally bombed my practice exam for discrete math. i mean, if it were the real exam i'd have been lucky to get a 50%. proofs too stronk. today is gonna be studying for calc tomorrow but tomorrow i really need to study for this discrete exam on friday.

skippydumptruck

haha

the Hot Springs Bathers 1953

that is a name to strike fear into the visiting team's heart

skippydumptruck

Philadelphia Hebrews 1920 Road Jersey

@organichu

RMS Oceanic

Simon's Quest gave us geeks wot like music Bloody Tears.

Can't be terrible.

Cinders

This would have been awesome when I was a kid.

Jacobkosh

Nintendo Power in the late 80s was the fucking bomb. It used to be bimonthly, but then they did this thing where on the "off" months they would produce a special issue devoted entirely to one game, and holy shit those were awesome. They had huge complete guides to the game (usually excluding the last level or so), maps, enemy stats, and behind-the-scenes goodness.

They also had those hilariawesome photographic and painted covers.

skippydumptruck

Dunadan019 wrote: »

Dunadan019 wrote: »

oh nintendo power...

I would have given anything to have a subscription to that as a kid.

the library at school had a subscription

on the field trips (or class periods?) in the library, you had to be fast to get it first

then all your friends would crowd around and you would read it together

ronya

Echo wrote: »

Damn whippersnappers these days not understanding my "What a horrible night to have a <something>" references. Bah, humbug.

always seemed like a menstruation joke in my head

Organichu

The name "Spha" was originally an acronym, derived from South Philadelphia Hebrew Association, and naturally the team's players were primarily Jewish. Many pundits of the time tried to explain this on the basis of genetics, stating that Jews were naturally more dexterous, had better rhythm, and more intrinsic athletic ability, exactly the same sort of comments that would later be made about basketball with regard to African Americans in later years. At times writers used more specifically (and derogatory) Jewish stereotypes: Paul Gallico stated that they did well because "the game places a premium on an alert, scheming mind".[1]

Variable

I have a ff poster that might have been from that issue. came with some game I got on ebay ages ago.

skippydumptruck

Organichu wrote: »

The name "Spha" was originally an acronym, derived from South Philadelphia Hebrew Association, and naturally the team's players were primarily Jewish. Many pundits of the time tried to explain this on the basis of genetics, stating that Jews were naturally more dexterous, had better rhythm, and more intrinsic athletic ability, exactly the same sort of comments that would later be made about basketball with regard to African Americans in later years. At times writers used more specifically (and derogatory) Jewish stereotypes: Paul Gallico stated that they did well because "the game places a premium on an alert, scheming mind".[1]

it pleases me that the stereotypes you joke about applying to black folks actually apply to you!

Variable

skippydumptruck wrote: »

skippydumptruck wrote: »

Organichu wrote: »

The name "Spha" was originally an acronym, derived from South Philadelphia Hebrew Association, and naturally the team's players were primarily Jewish. Many pundits of the time tried to explain this on the basis of genetics, stating that Jews were naturally more dexterous, had better rhythm, and more intrinsic athletic ability, exactly the same sort of comments that would later be made about basketball with regard to African Americans in later years. At times writers used more specifically (and derogatory) Jewish stereotypes: Paul Gallico stated that they did well because "the game places a premium on an alert, scheming mind".[1]

it pleases me that the stereotypes you joke about applying to black folks actually apply to you!

the uhhhh

the something gene, I think there was a name for it.

skippydumptruck

nintendo power wasn't the only awesome publication in the 80s

see:

skippydumptruck

you also have the

Atlanta Crackers in the Southern Association and the Atlanta Black Crackers in the Negro Southern League

wat

skippydumptruck

these two are the best


1970


1966

Jacobkosh

remember Jeff Rovin's How to Win at Nintendo Games?



I really liked these. He was a grown-up playing these (often really shitty, primitive) NES games and offering kind of blunt and honest opinions of them along with the cheat codes. It was reading these books that it first occurred to me that maybe some games, it wasn't so much that I was bad at them as that they were actually just shitty.

Echo

Echo

skippydumptruck wrote: »

nintendo power wasn't the only awesome publication in the 80s

see:

Ha, they censored the gun.

skippydumptruck

Echo wrote: »

Ha, they censored the gun.

oh my god I never noticed that

Couscous

Memorials seem like a pretty damn shitty way to have a person remembered.

skippydumptruck

I remember the ghosts & goblins book being good too

RMS Oceanic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoQex8CB9eA

Echo

Castlevania 4 had awesome music.

Organichu

Jacobkosh wrote: »

remember Jeff Rovin's How to Win at Nintendo Games?

I really liked these. He was a grown-up playing these (often really shitty, primitive) NES games and offering kind of blunt and honest opinions of them along with the cheat codes. It was reading these books that it first occurred to me that maybe some games, it wasn't so much that I was bad at them as that they were actually just shitty.

you were probably really bad at them, too

you little nub

skippydumptruck

Sarksus

Echo, Nesta looks interesting but I am liking Jekyll and Octopress, although the theming is a solid pain in the ass. Took me forever to figure out how to change the background color of the content area.

Couscous

Naming streets after people is a great way to have a person name live on without any damn meaning attached to it outside of being the name of some road.

Jacobkosh

Organichu wrote: »

Jacobkosh wrote: »

remember Jeff Rovin's How to Win at Nintendo Games?

I really liked these. He was a grown-up playing these (often really shitty, primitive) NES games and offering kind of blunt and honest opinions of them along with the cheat codes. It was reading these books that it first occurred to me that maybe some games, it wasn't so much that I was bad at them as that they were actually just shitty.

you were probably really bad at them, too

you little nub

dude I ruled at Nintendo

modern video games, yeah, I am not the best. I am lost at fighting games or click-crazy RTSes or what have you.

but put me behind the gamepad of an NES Castlevania and I will compose you a symphony from the sounds of asses being whipped

Kalkino

Man alive I need lunch!

What is the origin of "man alive" I wonder?

Jacobkosh

Echo wrote: »

wait, is this actually a picture of the model they used for the cover? that's fucking rad