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[BugCatcher]

This guy took recordings of 15 different people playing the first level of Gradius and combined them into a single video, as a sort of experiment to see how different people handle the same situations in games. It's a bit messy to watch, but interesting nonetheless. I know it's pretty obvious to back up before a boss to get your options in a line, but I didn't realize how many people dance around like an idiot beforehand like me :lol

http://www.thenewgamer.com/archives/averaging_gradius.html

Direct link to video (26.4M): http://www.archive.org/download/AveragingGradius/AveragingGradius.mov

 

[leesmapman]

That just looks superb!

This might be the MSX version too, by the way.

 

[Wario64]

That just looks superb!

This might be the MSX version too, by the way.

Licesned by Nintendo?

 

[leesmapman]

In that case it isn't... I thought the NES version also had vertical scrolling like the arcade version.

 

[TRU]

looks cool... I miss old games like this..

 

[Jonnyram]

It's rather weird how they all destroy the core at exactly the same time.
It's very interesting to see how other people play the game too.

 

[rocksolidaudio]

and to give credit where credit is due:

http://www.thenewgamer.com/archives/averaging_gradius.html

great site, interesting article.

 

[Tain]

That was really, really cool.

looks cool... I miss old games like this..

Uh, they still exist.

 

[BugCatcher]

and to give credit where credit is due

Oops, I had screwed up the link to the article. Thanks for pointing it out; I've fixed it now.

 

[inpHilltr8r]

It's rather weird how they all destroy the core at exactly the same time.

Watch closer, or read the article. Boss times out (probably a NES thing, as I don't remember the arcade doing that).

 

[ghibli99]

I'm guessing Gradius looks like that to some people normally, while under the influence.

That's really cool, though. We do similar experiments like that in our usability division.

 

[Dr Zhivago]

This should be submitted for the Turner prize.

 

[robot]

as awesome as that is - it's almost impossible to keep tabs on whats going on.
they should do this for more games.