Where have all the fluff gone?

Bob McDob · Post by **Bob McDob** » 2003-06-06 06:28pm

Remember the good old days, when games like Pong and Asteroids were the standard? (This is a rhetorical question for me because I'm not old enough to remember even the good relatively recent days). I miss those old, simple games, the kind that took only ten seconds to pick up and involved blowing up as many things as possible in the fastest amount of time.

My personal favorates are the scrolling space shooters, like Defender, Raiden, and of more recent vintage, Tyrian and Ikaruga. Still, these are far and far between, and while some games (Serious Sam) capture the intensity of fast-paced action and arcade, games in general are increasingly moving towards a slower, more deliberate pace.

Don't get me wrong, I think things like Rainbox Six are great, and I love thought as much as anyone, but there are times when you just want to sit back and operate on pure reflex for a change. Are there any games (preferably PC) like that? Any good shareware or freeware sites that give that retro feel (you do!)?

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-06-06 06:30pm

Not really.

This is why I keep MAME around for the good ol day kick.

And Ikaruga may be the last you see of a shooter for a long time.

thecreech · Post by **thecreech** » 2003-06-06 07:14pm

You can still find some mindless games on your PC. Blood2 for example little story lots of blood. Postal also. As far as shooters go they are no very popular on PC. You probably just want to get some emulators (sp)

thecreech · Post by **thecreech** » 2003-06-06 07:18pm

The first Aliens vs predator game has like no story and you just fire at everything you see. Still one of my favorites. You can probably get that for real cheap

Bob McDob · Post by **Bob McDob** » 2003-06-06 10:12pm

Yeah, I'm trying to get Tyrian to run on my ME ... the DOS version gives me a runtime error and the 2000 one launches a blank window as if loading ... then disappears. My best hope here is a good DOS emulator, but those are unpossible to find.

thecreech · Post by **thecreech** » 2003-06-06 10:42pm

I have some DOS emulators on my site. if you want to chk them out

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-06-07 12:17am

Ahahahahahahha!

This is hilarious. The majority of the games available nowadays are just fluff. But fluff with shiny graphics.

Real games are few and fucking far between.

Bob McDob · Post by **Bob McDob** » 2003-06-07 03:40am

I dunno, they're expensive and I don't play them much anymore.

Ravencrow · Post by **Ravencrow** » 2003-06-07 07:52am

There's always diablo...I think that's one game that's easy to get into and you just need to kill stuff. That is the only game I can think of that's something of the tradition of old simple video game fun.

Bob McDob · Post by **Bob McDob** » 2003-06-07 09:30pm

theheap wrote:I have some DOS emulators on my site. if you want to chk them out

Yay, now if I only knew where that was.

Hethrir · Post by **Hethrir** » 2003-06-07 10:04pm

click the www button in his profile.

Tyrian was so cool. My friend and i used to play that two player for hours on end.

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2003-06-07 10:12pm

Anyone heard of Double Dragon for NES? That game rocked~
Jason

Hethrir · Post by **Hethrir** » 2003-06-07 11:07pm

I used to play it on 286. My copy had a bug, and right at the last boss, it used to freeze up. Arrrg!

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-06-08 02:18am

The golden age of gaming is over. Its been ruined partially by games being big business now and not the work of passionate developer. But also, many ideas have been done to death.

Lately Ive been playing some of the infocom classics.