THE BORE

General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: benjipwns on December 17, 2012, 02:54:48 AM

Title: Game Player's Gametapes
Post by: benjipwns on December 17, 2012, 02:54:48 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL63eT7gFnI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA_OqIO8068

(http://www.atarihq.com/tsr/ad/no2.jpg)

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

I don't know where it came from but I probably watched the tape from this series I had far too much. The only game I had from it was Mega Man 2. I don't think I learned much of anything. Well, other than about the existence of Bad Dudes and its level order forever being seared into my brain.

But I knew I didn't ever want Amagon. Imagine my surprise when decades later I found out that annoying fucking beeping (starts at 1:45) was because the expert game player was using slow mo to get through the level.

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Title: Re: Game Player's Gametapes
Post by: benjipwns on December 17, 2012, 03:26:56 AM

Looking at these inspired me to answer another burning and ever important question about Game Player's. I remembered it initially as a text heavy magazine that had PC and Amiga sections. Then a few years later a friend was getting it and it was this splashy magazine that was hyping up Rise of the Robots as the next-gen Street Fighter killer.

Publisher went bankrupt and the "main version" was never that popular anyway: http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2006/07/column_game_mag_weaseling_unra.php

Apparently when it was Ultra Game Players it had an eighteen category scoring system. Polygon should probably look into something like that.

Title: Re: Game Player's Gametapes
Post by: Don Flamenco on December 17, 2012, 07:42:45 AM

I had the one with Strider, P.O.W., and Thundercade.   

lol Thundercade had slow-mo on the whole game too.  I just thought it was a shitty game.  But I bought the tape for the other two.