MysticWangForce

admit it everyone you immediately had it in your head.....

@slider1983 I've really not minded them at all. Their jedi outcast version finally gave me an enjoyable way to play it. I had a GameCube copy but the controller is awful to me. I could just about run the pc version but controller setup was problematic. So I appreciated it personally. I just find it odd how the games are scattered about different remaster devs.

But definitely I wish nightdive could have done em all ha

@slider1983 the cleaned up version I had on my pc was great. Big chonky razor sharp polygons. But I loved it for that. Even if they just dumped that onto consoles it be great. I mean aspyr did jedi outcast and that played just great on my ps4

@Bigmanjones indeed. Bala that well known hub of game development. What would be the Welsh equivalent of silicon glen/valley?

On a serious note. Nice place. Got buzzed by an RAF Hercules higher up the valley many moons ago on a university geography field trip. 🤓

Before I even finished reading the headline aquatic ambience played in my head.

It is very much a piece of it's time.

@slider1983 ahh the fmv for jedi knight. Pure 90s fmv!

if memory serves..... my uk copy of gran turismo was all english. but it was one chonky boi with all that information on driving skills etc. x-wing and tie fighter games were deffo chunky too with the novel / strategy guide included. not forgetting the fold out keyboard mapping. bliss.

It almost feels to me like night dive can do no wrong these days. Their work on many games I loved has only enhanced them. Inhold the dark forces remaster in massive high regard because it was one of the first pc games I ever owned and learned how to install and setup successfully. And dark forces 2 jedi knight was pretty much the bookend of my pc gaming as our family pc couldn't handle much more than that. A remaster would be excellent. Especially if it involved community's and individuals who have already done some remaster work. I played a version on my pc recently which was pin sharp. And being able to use a modern controller made it all the more enjoyable.

I'll take that or DESCENT next. And I do know about DX rebirth etc. but it's more fun and comfy playing on my consoles on a big tv

@Sketcz heheee

Why does this make me think of the third mission in dark forces?
Sewer count: (1)
😉

i had bart vs space mutants for my amstrad 6128

It was absolute garbage. haha! sadly the 6128 seemed to get a lot of bad ports. but i reckon it was cack regardless.

I don't know why it is but those translucent illuminated coin slots always just stick in my mind. They would be funny xmas tree decorations!

i had a game genie. I think that nails my colours to the appropriate mast.

not a single tentacle in sight either!

As someone who loves wipeout and loves scalextrix this is absolutely SICK!

Now, I assume that the quake power up is just just someone flipping the track?

MINES

@Blast16

HIT
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I was born less than 20 minutes from wake in one of the other five towns. Parents still live there and I'm a proud Yorkshire lad of course. And super proud of the legacy of gaming. I think I might be home that weekend!

@CopyX1982
BINGO
BINGO!
I'm honestly very relieved it's not just me who remembers the announcer. 😂 It annoyed my dad that much he walked off from watching me play.

TOP TURRET DAMAGED

oh my god me and a friend played this to death on a holiday to blackpool and we can remember the announcer to this day. commenting on EVERYTHING
HIT!
HIT!
HIT!
BINGO!
HIT!
BINGO!
ANTENNA DAMAGED!
TOP DECK DAMAGED!

I really hope this comes to consoles. I can't see any reason why it shouldn't. Or have I missed that it will be coming?

@Guru_Larry
Wait
WUT
robocod was on ps1! i never knew that! I never saw it in the wild.

@Zenszulu I'd disagree as i witnessed full on punch ups in school over nintendo vs sega. The hate was there long before xbox showed up. It just added another contender.

I think we are all winners now though haha.

@Gerald Agreed, the disk drive on my 6128 made me feel like a sir....

i can remember my pc could just about play the dos version of this. It played things like tie fighter superbly but this was where it was running out of steam and when i switched back to consles. Just couldn't be bothered messing around anymore trying to get games to work.

@hisownsidekick the zoidberg on the rails racing bit genuinely have me rage

Don't suppose this has been uploaded to YouTube as well? Can't being myself to go near twitter these days.

I feel privileged to have experienced that time first hand. The big boxes. The mental 3rd party accessories.

And it's cool to find out all these years later the microbyte shops in Wakefield that I went in all the time were linked to team17

DRILL KLAW!
DRILL KLAW!

I always loved the original Activision box art there was and still is nothing else like it.

@Blast16 box art in modern games is rubbish for sure. I think it started going downhill about when mass effect series was out lol.

it's so damn good i yoinked it for my avatar.

It's called a hawker hurricane, it has a vaught Corsair etched on the back and 1942 featured a P38 lightning. This is doing my plane nerd brain in haha.

@InfiniteStateGames Yorkshirepud from the old battlefield days says ayup. 😉 Hope you're doing well!

This post is making my 43 year old knees ache.

cOnTeNdEr eLiMiNaTeD

Top Trivia i can remember getting my copy of 2097 second hand towards the end of the 90s from a second hand entertainment shop in Bridlington during summer hols. Absolutely played it to death in our caravan when i had nothing better to do. Think i drove my parents mad with the sound effects....

People shouldn't have to share such bad news just to appease people. But I also emphasise with it making a massive dent in what he loves to do. In autumn of 2022 I started to get really ill. I had constant toilet troubles ended up going to my GP (doctor for the non Brits). After several months because of them dropping the ball I got referred to a hospital I was checked by god knows how many blood and poop samples. I had genetic tests, and endoscopy, gastroscopy (oh they were fun).

So all this time later I've been diagnosed with CVID (no not COVID) more specifically a flavour of it called..... Inhales "panhypogammaglobulinemia" in a nutshell my immune system is out of balance. And might always have been all my life. Yet somehow I've avoided nasty infections. Anyway turns out my immune system is attacking my guts. They also suspect but cannot confirm coeliac disease, so I'm on a gluten free diet which is really.... REALLY FUN!

Why am I waffling on about this? Because living with a guts that were so battered meant I got no nutrition from what I was eating, no fuel, no goodness no energy, Harley anything. I started to look like a ghoul. Every day was a battle to get up. It absolutely sucked my enthusiasm for life out of me. I couldn't even be bothered to play a game while lying on my sofa at the end of a working day because I was so physically and mentally spent. I had to give everything I had just to complete a day at work. Because yay money.

But I'm pleased to say I'm much better now. I still have now confirmation on if I have coeliac disease. Jury's out on that but I definitely have a banjaxed immune system. And I'm enjoying playing games again now.

So I can see how illness can take it's toll on things like that. And all the best to Voultar going forward. He's clearly had some great support.

Now if you've stuck with me up to now then lads.... Listen up. Do not die of stubbornness. Not well? Especially if it's something you may think is embarrassing like a toilet problem. Go get help and support. And get yourself better. Even though I've had a bad time of it, I sought help immediately and I'm glad I did.

As a proud button masher this makes no difference to me. No offence intended to the designers. 😂

DMG GB R-type was one of my first games i got with it at christmas. It was god damn nails. Never got past stage 4 without the use of a game genie.

Stage 1 music lives rent free in my head. If i can get this on PS or xbox then shut up and take my money.

i remember a friend having this. or maybe my cousin. I think a lot of us lucky kids of the 80s/90s certainly had an assortment of these. Probably alongside something like an atari, home micro or early console. Before GB came along for me. What i always remember the most though was that Grandstand Astro wars. absolute beast.

I never knew he worked for LRG. I really enjoy his videos.

Now hurry up and remaster DF2 JK and descent haha!

No trench run no sale.

Joking.

F14 so sold.

@jruasap this is my complaint about what seems like an otherwise excellent thing for me the optical drive should be part of the whole thing. Not a separate part. Could we at least use any external usb optical drive?

I realise that there was probably some pragmatic reasons to make them separate. But it just puts me off potentially getting one. Even if it looks like it will do a lot of other retro consoles now as well.

Then again maybe I'll be swayed down the line haha.

In contrast to wipeout my favourite soundtrack tim ever worked on was colony wars. It was bloody brilliant. It perfectly suited the game but had its own identity to it. I can still hum the main theme and other ones. I even had to tape it directly off the game in the 90s when my ps1 was hooked up to my stereo. 😂 Does Tim have a downloadable version somewhere that I could pay for?!

I'm absolutely over the moon for fans of the game that they'll get the same treatment us dark forces fans got. I heard of the game at the time but never thought to play it. A western setting seemed boring as opposed to shooting stormtroopers in the face. Decades later and I'm happily roaming the west in RDR. Go figure. I'll definitely add this to my wishlists. But speaking of DF2 Jedi Knight. Make it happen. Somone, anyone. Nightdive would be my top choice. But aspyr could have a stab since they've handled other games from the series?

Hell the terminal velocity boosted edition from ziggurat was slick. More please!
Also someone do DESCENT. I will absolutely not shut up about a descent remaster.
(Yes I know you can play it on modern pc with community remasters).

Looks great probably wont ever be able to visit sadly. I have a very high standard set now by arcade club bury. Everything was just absolutely amazing when i visited. Its local (well if you are north west based. You can link it up with a day out in Mancunia, ride a tram (TRAMS!!!) and bury market. Which is absolutely MENTAL. Love it.
**life in a northern town starts playing**

All together now! "ULYSEEEEEEEEEESSEEEEEEEEEEEEE NO ON ELSE CAN DO THE THINGS YOU DOOOO"

Young me never saw the point in a magic and swords doom.... Young me was daft. Just look where doom ended up!

Can't wait to give this a try since I never played it. And nightdive can do no wrong in my eyes, now if only they could remaster DESCENT

Speaking as a Yorkshire man I feel my accent is ready to add abaht three versions.

Gerron this.... 😂

My biggest grumble about this is having to buy a separate disk drive. I've said it before on here.

I get why. I just don't like it. If it had been sold all integrated from the get go I'd very likely have bought into it. I'm sure it will do well however and hope everyone who gets one is chuffed with it of course!

I need to get around to putting emulation on my series s....

I'm from Yorkshire and didn't even know this existed. Bugger.

"just because we can do a thing, it does not necessarily mean we must do that thing."

@The_Nintend_Pedant indeed. Eneloops ftw.

On another note with regards to the screen. I was mocked by my game gear owning friends that my Gameboy was monochrome. Well Andrew, it might have been black and white. But it was sharp and I could see what was going on most of the time. Unlike you unable to get past the first level of sonic.