weirdo_from_space
@weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on How is nobody talking about the fact that The Simpsons Arcade Game got home ports to DOS and Commodore 64 but not NES, SNES or Genesis -- and didn't arrive on console until Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3? 1 week ago:
I know this is not a popular take, but in my opinion The Simpsons Arcade wasn’t a very good game. I believe it’s purely a novelty product, it falls short when compared to almost any other well known beat’em up from the era.
- Comment on How Pajama Sam Made Me A Leftist | Political Breakdown Of A 90s Videogame 2 weeks ago:
That was a pretty cool video. It’s nice to know some people took (and still do) children’s entertainment seriously, and didn’t use it just as a rhetorical shield against the critisism of their work. Apart from delivering a good message, the games also seem extremely well made in general.
- Comment on Ecco the Dolphin Remasters and New Game Announced by Original Team | Retro Gaming News 24/7 2 weeks ago:
That’s it, I’m filtering all the posts with “remaster” on the title.
- Comment on The fact that even 3D games are old now blows my mind on a regular basis. 2 weeks ago:
Actually I’m in my 20s myself. I just can’t see games like Call of Duty 4, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, GTA 4 and The Last of Us as retro when they are largely identical to what we would expect from a modern AAA title.
2007 was a long time ago, but not much has changed since then in mainstream big budget game development.
- Comment on The fact that even 3D games are old now blows my mind on a regular basis. 3 weeks ago:
I honestly don’t agree with that at all. 360 and PS3 are old but their games aren’t very different compare to the big budget games of today. A few fads ended and others took their place, but that’s it. To me retro systems end with the Wii, mainly because Wii was just an overclocked Gamecube.
- Comment on The fact that even 3D games are old now blows my mind on a regular basis. 3 weeks ago:
This year the original SMB will be forty years old.
- Comment on Trine Was a Masterpiece. Why Doesn’t Anyone Remember? 3 weeks ago:
I heard about Super Meat Boy quite a bit, it always popped up in must play indie games lists. I never heard of Trine before, so it’s definitely not the same.
- Comment on Stop Skeletons from Fighting got 16 Player Faceball working on Gameboy 1 month ago:
I was beginning to fear the channel ran it’s course, this looks amazing. I hope it’s a sign Uncle Derek hasn’t ran out of topics yet.
- Comment on Fallout and DOOM get combined in the Fallout: Vault 666 mod 2 months ago:
Doom is the best retro game commnunity.
- Comment on New Xbox 360 Recompilation Tool Will Give Lost Classics Another Chance To Shine | Time Extension 2 months ago:
Perfect Dark Remastered on PC is all I need.
- Comment on What was your favorite shareware game? 2 months ago:
I’ve been playing some Jazz Jackrabbit and Duke Nukem 1, they are both great. I think I prefer the design of DOS games to the design of console games.
- Comment on George Orwell’s 1984 as a ’90s PC game has to be seen to be believed 2 months ago:
It absolutely is not. Ocania is a socialist state gone wrong, what 1984 fears is a fully centralized, all powerful, all seeing state controlling each and every aspect of it’s citizens’ lives and hell bent on keeping them unintellegent and subservient so it could control them forever.
America doesn’t even have the spine to tell cryptobros to stop scamming people, or AI bros to cease mass copyright infringement, you cannot tell me those are the same state. America is a corporatocracy, it’s government is pitiful. Trump got where he is by telling people things they already wanted to hear. What brought America to this point is the two party system it so stubbornly refused to get rid of. If people had more of a choice other than the two of the most unpopular candidates in a long time, but one with a more firey performance, things could’ve been different.
- Comment on George Orwell’s 1984 as a ’90s PC game has to be seen to be believed 2 months ago:
Where does this view that we live in 1984’s world come from? Does 1984 simply mean “dystopia” now? 2025’s reality isn’t 1984, it’s Idiocracy slowly transitioning to either Cyberpunk or Fallout. And even then it’s not universal.
- Comment on Which is better: F-Zero or Super Mario Kart (SNES)? 5 months ago:
F-Zero. Super Mario Kart doesn’t hold up very well in my opinion, it’s successors did everything better.
- Comment on What's the best super nintendo game based on a movie? and why is it alien 3? 5 months ago:
If we are talking Sega then it’s The Terminator on Sega CD.
- Comment on What's the best super nintendo game based on a movie? and why is it alien 3? 5 months ago:
lol
- Comment on What's the best super nintendo game based on a movie? and why is it alien 3? 5 months ago:
I think that is a disservice to Batman Returns, there is a fair number of gameplay differences. I find it plays way better than Final Fight.
- Comment on If I lose the spread gun, I start over. 6 months ago:
That’s actually part of why I didn’t enjoy Gradius and Life Force. At that point it’s not a fun challenge, it’s just bullshit. In Contra you can do pretty good with the starting weapon, even if it’s not ideal.
- Comment on Pixel art 2D fighter Blazing Strike out now | Retro Gaming News 24/7 6 months ago:
Style, visuals, characters and the gameplay all look pretty cool. I think the question is if it’s going to manage to reach a large enough audience?
- Comment on Two New Game Boy Advance Games Are Coming To Nintendo Switch Online | Retro Dodo 7 months ago:
F-Zero Climax even has a fan translation.
- Comment on Support The Fan-Made OutRun Lego Kit on Lego Ideas 7 months ago:
Aw man, that looks so cool.