Jolt Country

OK I am going to split this into it's own, super-fabulous thread!

-Perfect World (freeware) (pc)

- Spectral Force: Genesis (ds)

Kirby's Adventure (nes) (not sure)

- Final Fantasy VI (SNES)

- The Legend of Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (NES)
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES)
- Castlevania: Dracula X (Turbografx-16)
- Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (SNES)
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (n64)
- The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (n64)

hyrolythe wrote
- Tales of the Scheherazade (NES)



I apologize because this game doesn't exist. The game I was referring to was:
- The Magic of Scheherazade (NES)

Now for some other threads:
- Dragon's Lair (Arcade)
- Another World (Commodore 64)

I still on hope that making this thread was not a waste of my time (If it was, sorry for the list) and that I have given new information that will help Ice Cream Johnsey to do a better top 100 list. (Still 3 years waiting time, but it is ok.)

I must dispute that Dragon's Lair is on anyone's top 100 list. It's pretty, but just a big quick time event done over and over again! The actual gameplay is rather weak.

I am surprised nobody mentioned the first video game made available for mass-market, and thus started the whole video game industry.

Pong.

Crude and neanderthal by today's standards, it was still the original video game that showed the general public that now a television set could do more than be used to watch shows, now you could do something different. Now you could interact with the TV (and with someone else). And it thus paved the way for the development of everything that followed.

I also think Marble Madness should be included.

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:I must dispute that Dragon's Lair is on anyone's top 100 list. It's pretty, but just a big quick time event done over and over again! The actual gameplay is rather weak.

I'm going to disagree on this. Yes, perhaps the gameplay is weak, it had so many things happening that if you were playing it you had no time to notice. I think someone posted the links to both the complete game (The actual total gameplay is only 12 minutes)

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and to the death scenes on YouTube (which amount to over 4 minutes of video),

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and if you watch the game as a movie, yes, you can see where there are lots of holes (a big chunk of the game is a mirror-image replay of an earlier part, the first time you fell in a barrel and navigated the rapids having to avoid the whirlpool on the left, the second time you had to avoid the whirlpool by going on the right, etc.) but for what it did at the time, it was an amazing piece of work.

You are going to DISAGREE and your ammo for this disagreement is that it is a 12 minute game, and some of that gameplay is mirrored?

Look. Everyone. Dragon's Lair is my boy. I've owned it on a number of platforms. I've defended it in numerous arcade forums because it is an important game that extended the cool factor of arcades for another couple of years, it was a delightful "fuck you" to Disney (who tried to crush Don Bluth and got butthurt that he was successful elsewhere) and it got the public to accept that there were certain circumstances where a fifty cent game was acceptable.

But in terms of gameplay, it's a piece of shit.

What if Pac-Man flashed in the direction you ought to go?

I did just include Dragon's Lair because if this game did not exist we could all agree that Iji would never have existed. (Which is the exact same reason why Another World was included as well.)

Somewhere along the line this thread turned from "a list of great games" to "games hydrolythe has heard of."

Somewhere along the line this thread turned from "a list of great games" to "games hydrolythe has heard of."

You are right in a way but did you check rule 1 of my list.
Also, I want to say that I misspelled Card Fighters Clash (Neo Geo).
Other request; Donkey Kong (Game Boy)

I am surprised nobody mentioned the first video game made available for mass-market, and thus started the whole video game industry.

Pong.

I also think Marble Madness should be included.

First of alll, Pong is 1 of the games I would like to set on my list but can't because I do not have experienced its gameplay yet. The same saying goes for Marble Madness.

Secondly, have you ever heard of the magnavox oddysey.

hydrolythe, stolen from Tdarcos wrote:I am surprised nobody mentioned the first video game made available for mass-market, and thus started the whole video game industry.

Pong.

I also think Marble Madness should be included.

hydrolythe wrote:First of alll, Pong is 1 of the games I would like to set on my list but can't because I do not have experienced its gameplay yet.

I remember it because we bought - "we" meaning my mother - for the whole family, a large console television, for a really expensive price of around $600, and it included a game system which I remember included Pong.

hydrolythe wrote:The same saying goes for Marble Madness.

Secondly, have you ever heard of the magnavox oddysey.

I remember the Odyssey (and I'm not picking on your spelling), It was very expensive for that period (around $200, I think) and I wanted one. Buffum's Department Store at their Flagship site and headquarters in Long Beach, California had it. I was amazed for what it did and I visited that store a whole lot more than I would have otherwise if it wasn't for that game.

Couldn't talk my mother into buying one for me, however. Probably a good idea as I probably wouldn't have played it that much.

I think I stumbled on real computers shortly after this and forgot about it because being able to make computers do things myself was a lot more fun than playing someone else's game.

Thanks for your request though. Sorry if I was harsh.

- Metroid (nes)

Hydrolythe, I'd like to start hearing why you have chosen some of these games, and what you think of them!