/v/ - Video Games

<Come in expecting talks about games played based during the 1900's (Outside of the general war shit)

<OP is a faggot wanting to talk about carnival games

>>14154836

They're challenging, for one. Nintendo's New Super Mario Bros. games give you buckets of lives because they know you're too stupid to make it across a gap without dying 60 times and Bioshock Infinite only has one puzzle in the game that gives you the answer because Irrational Games considers your capacity for memorization and note-taking to be beneath their contempt. You sound like a cunt who bumbled his/her/zir/thonthon way over here from Reddit, by the way.

>>14155208

I'm sorry for giving you that impression from the pictures I used but your interpretation of my thread is retarded and you need the stupid kicked right out of your testicles.

>>14155208

L.A.M.A.J would win

>>14154836

Old games were made by a few guys who cared. New games are made by fucking huge teams who can't hope to even know everyone's name (big AAA games have thousands of devs) and must obey's corporate bullshit against making anything different (cover your ass in case it's a flop) and marketing's bullshit of making everyone a niggress. Modern tech and budget allows failed movie directors to make every twelve steps you take start a cutscene. And as >>14155828 said, the audience changed so now they have to be dumbed down.

>>14154740

These two. Racing arcade games are the best. Although I never played Outrun in one of the sitdown cabinets though, wish I could find one.

>>14154740

Me and a friend managed to find an old pong machine being sold by some toothless Assyrian crackhead out of his garage, and picked it up for dirt cheap. It was some funky variant titled "Flim-Flam", with paddles you could move in all directions and a "Flim-Flam" button to put English on the ball. We spent the night fixing it up (though, surprisingly, it was still in decent working condition) and playing it, getting really damn good to the point where most games were decided by a single point. It was incredibly fun.

On the topic still of 70s arcade experiences, we later got a chance to play some 70s Atari pinball tables at a convention, and they were simply sublime. They played slowly and smoothly, with the ball making these awesome floaty curves across wide playfields coated in amazing artwork. Each table had several sets of flippers controlled by either button, and they were just a joy to play. I played so many amazing games at that convention, but of the 70s stuff I played that was definitely a standout moment. I also finally got a chance to play real Crazy Climber and Jungle Hunt machines, which were games I loved as a kid but never got to fully experience.

Thank you for this thread, I love being able to talk about these fantastic games. There's just something to them, so intangibly magical and purely fun.