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george

Re: What was the WEIRDEST game you played as a kid?
« Reply #30 on: June 28, 2012, 05:09:16 pm »
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pceslayer

Re: What was the WEIRDEST game you played as a kid?
« Reply #31 on: June 28, 2012, 11:35:09 pm »
Quote from: varkias on June 27, 2012, 08:03:06 pm
Ha! Kabuki Quantum Fighter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SopEVWVkGkg
Madness! reminds me of Batman in a way... but weird lol

For me I'd have to say Toe Jam and Earl for Genesis...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vloYvK2sK1g
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bugs181

Re: What was the WEIRDEST game you played as a kid?
« Reply #32 on: June 28, 2012, 11:35:51 pm »
Hands down.. i'm thinking Kid Chameleon and ToeJam and Earl both for Genesis. Probably a few others that i'm not thinking of right now.
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scott

Re: What was the WEIRDEST game you played as a kid?
« Reply #33 on: June 29, 2012, 12:30:03 am »
Congos Caper on SNES. You're a monkey, turned into a caveman that fights other cavemen and dinosaurs in order to save your monkey girlfriend.  I'll look for a YouTube link tomorrow ha
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ffxik

Re: What was the WEIRDEST game you played as a kid?
« Reply #34 on: June 29, 2012, 03:01:42 am »
Quote from: amauriel on April 22, 2012, 06:13:22 am
I'd never heard of Out Of This World until I saw the Game Center CX for it. Posting it here because Arino is hilarious at pretty much every game he plays, and this one is no exception.


It should be noted for anyone interested.  That Eric Chahi left Delphine Software and founded his own dev studio, Amazing Studio.  Which gave us Heart of Darkness on the Playstation. 

I would say that as a youth my weirdest games would have had to had been, Earthworm Jim and Booger Man.  After those nothing much surprises me anymore.
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Re: What was the WEIRDEST game you played as a kid?
« Reply #35 on: June 29, 2012, 10:44:42 am »
"Charles Barkley Shut up & jam Gaiden"

needs to be on this list, too (also, in a *good* way :)
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soera

Re: What was the WEIRDEST game you played as a kid?
« Reply #36 on: June 29, 2012, 11:17:25 am »
Obviously none of you have played the game I mentioned or you wouldnt even be recommending any other games!
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jobocan

Re: What was the WEIRDEST game you played as a kid?
« Reply #37 on: June 29, 2012, 11:32:57 am »
Quote from: soera on June 29, 2012, 11:17:25 am
Obviously none of you have played the game I mentioned or you wouldnt even be recommending any other games!

What, ET? It's not that weird, just hard to play because the objective makes no sense.
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foxhack

Re: What was the WEIRDEST game you played as a kid?
« Reply #38 on: June 29, 2012, 09:53:34 pm »
Quote from: amauriel on June 28, 2012, 03:46:51 pm
Do you happen to remember what they changed or have a site or something that I could look at for differences? I'm doing my draft thesis this summer (basically a research project that they then determine whether or not it's viable as a thesis/dissertation) on the changes made when games are localized and how those differences related to culture. I have a whole list of games for examples but I've never heard of this one. Oh, and if anyone else has anything good like this, let me know.

The Cutting Room Floor has a page on that. :)

I go and add stuff to the wiki every so often, here's the main regional differences category. Some pages are small, while others are very extensive!
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amauriel

Re: What was the WEIRDEST game you played as a kid?
« Reply #39 on: June 29, 2012, 09:57:43 pm »
Quote from: foxhack on June 29, 2012, 09:53:34 pm
The Cutting Room Floor has a page on that. :)

I go and add stuff to the wiki every so often, here's the main regional differences category. Some pages are small, while others are very extensive!

This is great. I didn't even know this site existed! I'll be digging through these for a while. Thanks!
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varkias

Re: What was the WEIRDEST game you played as a kid?
« Reply #40 on: June 30, 2012, 02:27:26 am »
ET was awful, it was pretty much what killed atari back in the day
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scott

Re: What was the WEIRDEST game you played as a kid?
« Reply #41 on: June 30, 2012, 10:15:58 am »
Quote from: varkias on June 30, 2012, 02:27:26 am
ET was awful, it was pretty much what killed atari back in the day

Damn you Steven Spielberg!  ;)
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htimreimer

Re: What was the WEIRDEST game you played as a kid?
« Reply #42 on: June 30, 2012, 10:50:56 am »
Quote from: scott on June 30, 2012, 10:15:58 am
Quote from: varkias on June 30, 2012, 02:27:26 am
ET was awful, it was pretty much what killed atari back in the day

Damn you Steven Spielberg!  ;)
hay scott you know if thare was no video game crash of 1983 bad a$$ consoles like the entex adventure vision (http://www.adventurevision.com/ and http://www.gameover.nl/oud/consoles/avision.htm)  would not be rare
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Re: What was the WEIRDEST game you played as a kid?
« Reply #43 on: June 30, 2012, 12:22:05 pm »
Quote from: varkias on June 30, 2012, 02:27:26 am
ET was awful, it was pretty much what killed atari back in the day

I don't blame the game, I blame Atari.  They paid something outrageous for the license, like $20 million dollars.  But with that type of monetary investment, the actual game seemed like an oversight to them.  They had Howard Scott Warshaw create it, but gave him 5 weeks -- by himself -- to crank out an ET game.  He was a good game designer, who was originally responsible for Yars Revenge.  But with 5 weeks how can you expect to craft a masterpiece?

ET actually has a reputation that's far worse than it deserves.  It was crap, but it's far from the worst game I've played on the 2600.
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htimreimer

Re: What was the WEIRDEST game you played as a kid?
« Reply #44 on: June 30, 2012, 12:28:53 pm »
Quote from: htimreimer on June 27, 2012, 10:25:07 pm
for it captain bible

it about futuristic knight that must save a city thats capture in the dome of darkness (its sin just a dome of sin) so you go threw a dungeon crawler like setting and saving people from sin and killing robots with the power of bible verses and brute force also they have green blood and after saving all people from sin you must get out of city with a rocket ship and to start it up the rocket you must complete a bible quiz first

so is that weird enough for you
for some reason i expected more of a reaction from this
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