Back when optical disks were more common mediums for video games
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?
It would have been really funny if a video game ejected the disk if you lost too many times
Submitted 7 hours ago by PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
That game was great! Scared the shit out of me and always wanted to play more.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 hours ago
Just imagine the Psycho Mantis fight if he could actually launch the disc out of the PS1 at you. 😳
owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
Imagine if the antagonist in your game messed with the game menu and save files…
lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 7 hours 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 7 hours ago
Sounds a bit like one of the scarecrow sequences in Batman Arkham Asylum where the game ‘crashes’
FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
Godort@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
BurgerBaron@piefed.social 6 hours 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.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 6 hours 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 hours 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.
rhythmisaprancer@piefed.social 6 hours 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 5 hours ago
Shit. My Xbox still does that.
rhythmisaprancer@piefed.social 4 hours 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 😅
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
Sounds like Kojima missed his opportunity. Maybe he couldn’t find the command that do this?
neatchee@lemmy.world 2 hours 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?!?”