Back when optical disks were more common mediums for video games
Just imagine the Psycho Mantis fight if he could actually launch the disc out of the PS1 at you. 😳
It would have been really funny if a video game ejected the disk if you lost too many times
Submitted 2 weeks ago by PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
freecupholder.exe
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
This actually happened to me once when I was a kid playing SimCity (I don’t remember if it was 2000 or 3000); The machine, a new but possessed Windows 98 machine, blue screened and ejected the 52x drive without spinning down the CD. So when the tray came out the disc flew across the room like a Lilliputian UFO.
Epzillon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Old school bugs were just objectively better. Software turning mundane everyday items to death threats is the type of action i need in my life.
owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Imagine if the antagonist in your game messed with the game menu and save files…
lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
The Guardians of the Galaxy game did that, at least a little bit. The game seemingly ends, credits are rolling and then they slowly start to glitch out and some of the names are replaced with the name of the antagonist.
Then the credits crash out and a second bossfight starts. You can kinda see it coming, but it was still pretty cool for them to do that.
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Sounds a bit like one of the scarecrow sequences in Batman Arkham Asylum where the game ‘crashes’
FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
binarytobis@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
;_;
Godort@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I, too, am a fan of undertale
owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
;)
neatchee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Tbh it would be absolutely fantastic if a game pulled this off today.
“Did…did this game just burn itself to a DVD-R before wiping itself from my drive? Where did it even get a DVD-R from??? Wait a sec, my PC didn’t even have a DVD drive before today! Why is there a charge to PCRepairGuy on my credit card?! WHAT IS HAPPENING?!?”
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
This is a mobile game, how did a CD even fit into my phone?!??!
WhyAUsername_1@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It has always been right beside the printer. Have you never noticed it so far?
Weird, I print PDFs from CD on my phone daily.
lost_faith@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I have cds that would fit in that small a space, they were a thing to give out like business cards and were the same foot print, just cd thick
CaptSatelliteJack@lemy.lol 2 weeks ago
My dream game to develop is real actual “war shooter.” You get the classic CoD-like intro of proving your worth in a training range or whatever, a nice little tutorial. Then you get briefed on your mission, and deployed to action. All missions are PvP. You set your loadout, the mission starts, and you get hit. This is where the game begins. Depending on what you get shot with, and where, you get extracted from the mission, and medically discharged. You get sent home, have to live your life with permanent disabilities, find a job, go to your appointments, the whole thing. If you don’t die. If you die outright, the game just uninstalls, and permabans you. Anyone playing gets one life, one shot at the game.
cmbabul@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Sounds more like performance art/prank in the form of a video game, like something Andy Kauffman and Banksy would create together, but I’m still here for it
synapse1278@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Roy II
BurgerBaron@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Reminds me of goldsrc / Half Life 1 allowing server hosts to send console commands to eject the disc drives on clients to scare them.
spittingimage@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t need that kind of disrespect from software.
INeedMana@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
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psx_crab@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Sounds like Kojima missed his opportunity. Maybe he couldn’t find the command that do this?
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Given that the PS1 didn’t have a powered drive tray and the lid release was fully mechanical, he’d have to develop telekinesis first.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Huh? Metal Gear main franchise has been on every PS ever, and only PS1 is fully mechanical.
rhythmisaprancer@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Sometimes the game would just quit. But I remember that being more of a thing when floppies were around and playing a game in DOS using a CD was stressing the system. Or that cheap 5 in 1 floppy game package that had some bad code.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Shit. My Xbox still does that.
rhythmisaprancer@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Dang. I haven’t had a console since NES and am bummed to hear that is a thing with a closed system at this point in time. NES only did that as it aged and we didn’t blow the right way 😅
bstix@feddit.dk 2 weeks ago
Perhaps the piezo speaker can still be used to mess with people.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
What do you mean?
TheOakTree@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
It’s not as common now, but lots of desktop computers used to have little piezoelectric speakers that would beep to indicate error codes or catastrophic failure.
They’re called speakers but they’re only good for buzzing at different frequencies instead of accurately replicating source audio. Interestingly they can be used quite effectively to make ultrasound signals.
Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Wasn’t there a GameCube game that did shit like that? Like if your sanity meter got too low the game would mess with you?
Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
See also Psycho Mantis from Metal Gear Solid.
I fucking love games that break the fourth wall.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The whole Fission Mailed sequence near the end of MGS2 leaps to mind, also.
TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That game was great! Scared the shit out of me and always wanted to play more.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
That’s cool af