Giant Bomb Thread The Third: #TeamBrad

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Megasoum said:
Watching that video made me realize that I never had a Gameboy lol...
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I didn't either, but my friend did. He was gone for a week on a family vacation once and let me borrow it. I played and beat Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle on the thing. I freaking hated that game, but I was bound and determined to not let it get the better of me.
It was only years later I realized that simply playing the game meant I had already lost.


Really liked this feature, and I'm glad Jeff finally kicked it off. I can't wait to see what all he ends up highlighting.
 
I like the "jeff talks about old ass games he likes / hates" concept of Encyclopedia Bombastica but he needs to film it in the office or at least do it more in a classic game room style where its like a video review.
 
Krabboss said:
He switched to easy and said it was still hard.
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Yikes. Normally not one to get on someone for not being all pro at games, but that's not a great look. His peers all seemed to manage ok, and from my experience XCOM is a challenge on Normal but not "see me in 3 weeks" tough. Not sure I can take his review too seriously if it ends up boiling down to "but it's haaaard" knowing that.
 
Ryan was talking about being stuck at the final mission due do a game breaking bug on Twitter a few days ago, not sure if that's the main reason for the lack of a review, but it's more than likely a large factor.

...or maybe I'm thinking of Kessler...time to go double check.

Totally thinking of Kessler.
 
Dany M said:
Then thats software not hte games fault.
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Regardless of where the limitation comes from, it's an issue that needs to at least be addressed. Every time I've used Kinect it's been fine and I'm sure most people will be fine so it shouldn't go so far as to drop a whole star, but still it at least needs to be brought up that depending on your setup the game may just not work.
 
There's a part in the music in Motocross that sounds exactly like a song from MST3K. I don't remember which movie it's from though, but it plays CONSTANTLY and Tom Servo starts singing to it based on what's going on screen. It's really freaky how similar they are.
 
Man I remember when I got some like 50 in 1 gameboy cartridge and Motocross was one of the first games I played on my GBC. I was like 8 or something and had no idea how it worked but fuck I was determined to beat that game. When I finally beat the first track I was so happy, then I realized I would never beat the second track. :(
 
Encyclopedia Bombastica is a great name. It's so perfect for a retro games QL series by GB.

Danielsan said:
Vinny's Ryan impression cracked me up.
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Curufinwe said:
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I figured it out! It's only for a short while, but the two tracks, at one point, are similar enough. I even linked to the specific time where they sound similar.

Motocross Maniacs
Theme

MST3K
Puma Man

I knew I wasn't crazy!
 
Dragonzord said:
I figured it out! It's only for a short while, but the two tracks, at one point, are similar enough. I even linked to the specific time where they sound similar.

Motocross Maniacs
Theme

MST3K
Puma Man

I knew I wasn't crazy!
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It sounds like it's totally the same song, go back earlier in the motocross one and you can hear the other part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfnG8MS3xz0

burn an old man, singe all his flesh off...snyder drug, we're busting up prices...
 
Ventilaator said:
Encyclopedia Bombastica is for showing older games? What...what were Quick Look Throwbacks then?
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It's not for showing older games per se, it's Jeff's hall of fame. It's his personal favorite games. He does that "on his own time" alone from home. That's why it's a bit "low budget" and this is as intented. He talked about that many times during his past jar times.
 
Megasoum said:
It's not for showing older games per se, it's Jeff's hall of fame. It's his personal favorite games. He does that "on his own time" alone from home. That's why it's a bit "low budget" and this is as intented. He talked about that many times during his past jar times.
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He has talked about making a hall of fame, sure, but this video doesn't seem to be that

From their Facebook page:

This is something that Vinny and I have been talking about in one form or another for a pretty long time. After debating the different ways to approach this topic, I decided we should just start doin' it. The goal is simple: Giant Bomb should have video of every game ever made on it. It's an encyclopedia, right? So Brad came up with the name and here we are. More soon! - Jeff
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He's describing this as nothing more than a look at an old game.
 
Ventilaator said:
He has talked about making a hall of fame, sure, but this video doesn't seem to be that

From their Facebook page:



He's describing this as nothing more than a look at an old game.
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Awww, if he doesn't mean from the staff and just gameplay, I could have provided a shit load of NES basketball games a couple months ago.
 
I had to turn off Encyclopedia Bombastica after a minute because Jeff sounded pretty sick

They waited this long, they could have waited an extra day for Jeff to get better

[/endless gaf bitching]
 
It sounds like a cool idea, got the feeling is going to be pretty community driven. Altought It would be amusing if they actually try to do it all by themselves (specially with the niche otaku ones)
 
Just watched the ILM vid, & I was wondering what Americans/Non-Europeans used instead of Scart connectors? It was pretty shocking to see them not know what one was(I can't even imagine how bad my PS2 would have looked without the official RGB cable).
 
Patryn said:
If we're talking about the era between RF and HDMI, yeah, it's composite, s-video, vga and component.
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You guys were getting Component cables before the Xbox/GC had them? Those were the first consoles I saw with those, whereas Scart was around during the SNES era(admittedly not RGB, but it was still a Scart cable).
 
Cerebral Assassin said:
You guys were getting Component cables before the Xbox/GC had them? Those were the first consoles I saw with those, whereas Scart was around during the SNES era(admittedly not RGB, but it was still a Scart cable).
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PS2 was the first console I remember owning component cables for. SNES/Genesis and Playstation/N64 all used Composite/RF as far as I was aware of.
 
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