To say I remembered how the old POPs finished I would be totally lying to you. Funny thing is if you buy Sands of Time for Xbox/PS2 they actually have a code that allowed you to play an old version of POP. I also Finsihed Sands of Time but again I don't exactly remember how it finished either

u dont need a code, u just have to beat sands of time and itll be an option.
and i remember how it ended (POP: SOT), though i wont say it if people havent played it.
The other prince of persia games after sands of time i did not like as much as the first. I played a little bit of both but i didnt like them so i never went far on them. The first one was so polished, and the other 2 were not it seemed like they went backwards.

the "magic doors" annoyed me most with sands of time. Anyways ya ur right about the SOT opened the old POP.

As for the Warrior Within I somewhat agree with you. Its exactly like SOT only with a few more bells and whistles. I myself got fed up with it as well and didn't bother finishing it. Although its not too bad its just way to similar to SOT.

ya, the worst part about it was the fact that it would show u where to go (which i liked in the first one), except that it would have u battle some people halfway through the traveling, and u could not remember where you were suposed to go anymore

Scully you asked me about ET for atari and i just had to look it up on the net. I totally remember how impossible the game was and I didn't know atari spent like over 21 million bucks on it just to licence and only sold 1 millioin copies.

To top it off they either threw away 5 million copies or sold them to flea markets LOL.


"The sad thing is… the story was probably the best part of the game (well, besides the title screen). The "game" itself is too horrible to describe. In fact, E.T.'s gameplay is so convoluted and inane that the manual has to describe the entire game for you… because there's no way in hell you'll understand it by yourself (this game is IMPOSSIBLE without the manual… well, it almost is WITH the manual too)."

This was true but then again I was such a little rug rat I remember trying to finish this game again and again

Atari's history was sad actually. The games they made including ET was horrible and yes they spent millions of dollars wasting it.

Well they are back now anyways The good always starts bad.

Might I add that the company SQAURE started really pathetic too. Before the first Final Fantasy, they made lots of games but were pretty crap also, they went downhill.. a LOT. So the company thought "Why not let us use the rest of the money we hav left, and create our "Final Fantasy". So they did, and released it for the first Nintendo console. And BOOM. Success was in the air. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

well atari was on top of the world for a quite a long time. ET was just one of those games that drowned them. Also, the programming team that made ET made a couple of other games that were best sellers.

I wouldn't say that atari's history is sad at all. I'd say its more of a great thing for gamers. Atari was after all the company that popularized the console gaming market.

I was talking about the declination of Atari's, at a specific moment. Never said anything about how they did nothing to the video game's history/industires.

true good think Nintendo came on the market

Since Coleco was going bankrupt

Man, I absolutely loved that original Prince of Persia. It was the first computer game I played back in 1996, when I was just 6 years old. I still remember the game like it was just yesterday. I remember I used to hate falling on to those spikes, which I did quite often. But when I finally beet the boss in the sword fight, I was so ecstatic that I felt as if I acheived something. Oh, the good ol' times.

BTW, does anyone remember playing Wolfenstein 3D? That game was amazing too. It was probably the second computer game I ever played.

OF COURSE!

That game was the birth of the FPS genre

I played that forever until I moved up to Doom/Duke Nukem

POP totally rocked. And yes I've hit those spikes many a thousand time as well. Glad to see there are other POP lovers around

Also anyone remember the oldest Duke Nukem??



And the second one.



Old companies like Apogee, is one of my missed gaming companies. They had good retro games in the back.

^^^
I remember those, but didn't play them very much,
I started with Duke Nukem 3D

check this out:
Duke Nukem Soundboard

Now everyone can make their own XBox360 games!!!
http://gear.ign.com/articles/725/725557p1.html

I love shooting, basketball, baseball, and football games.
I was planning on getting a x-box 360 but now have decided to get a ps3, cuz on x-box 360 you can't play the old x-box games on it.

^^
Yes I agree. Xbox 360 would've sold much mor eunits if it had backwards compatibility and if its prices were more reasonable. I thin the same will go for the PS3. I mean its more than 700$ with a game. I bet you only little kids with rich mommies can get that type of system. No college/ high school students can afford that. Thats why the Wii has such a big chance of being this years number one seller. I bet my cousin that the Wii will sell more units than the PS3 for 5 bucks. Am I stupider than Babcock or did I make a bad choice?

you can play certain ones...all the good ones,i play halo and stuff all the time on it

but yea im getting a couple games tomorrow,one is Counter strike source cause im going in a tournament with a couple friends who also play and i think im also gonna get a DS game since i beat all the ones i have for it

i currently have Mario Kart,New Super Mario bros and Mario 64

any suggestions on a new game?

EDIT:In regards to the poll,i already have a 360 and i plan on getting a WII so i voted for that option

not true - microsoft is adding to this list everyday

link

I know not a lot of people played F.E.A.R. and I know a lot of people dont got a very powerful computer...

But F.E.A.R. the game speaks for itself really. Its a first person shooting game and it scares you psychologically. And really have nice graphics.

Heres come of my demo version screen shots.



If you hav a chnace to play it at ur friends house or somthing. Try it.

Anyone here play James Bond 007 Nightfire for PC its an online game its amazing...I'll pwn any of u at it. Plus I really like those old Mario games for Super Nintendo. My fav game for X-box gotta be Mortal Kombat Shoalin Monks.

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shadowfax has a point, the XBox360 is being updated with Bacwards Compatability patches all the time,
the only issue is that it won't take them long to run out of good games to patch


I think you are gonna win that bet...
Nintendo has a brilliant maketing strategy in this generation
being the most innovative system IMO (and the cheapest by FAR)
will have many people buying 2 systems, one of which will be Wii

Trauma Center
Phoenix Wright
Metroid Prime: Hunters

or soon...
Legend of Zelda : Phantom Hourglass!!!

wolfenstein and duke nukem
almost went blind playing wolf when i was a kid - spent hrs and hrs on that game
duke nukem still remains one of the coolest characters to ever live in the gaming world - was the first game to actually bring some " attitude " to the table -
ive been waiting for years for any of the new consoles to bring back one of my fav kick butt characters - hopefully the 360 will do it sometime in the not so distant future

are you listening microsoft ??

Good call on that one man, F.E.A.R is an intense game, makes you jump like mad sometimes, especially when you play it in the dark with 5.1 sorround sound headphones. Still have not beaten that game though, i think i'm gonna go back and play it some more.

i agree comepletely though, if you like first person shooters, you should play this game. If you like pshychological thrillers you should play this game. If you like both then this should be the next game you play.

have been waiting for this one for awhile now - comes to 360 in november i believe

link

yea i cant wait for F.E.A.R to hit the 360,its gonna be insane...im also gona jump for joy when i get my hands on gears of war.In my opinion it'll be game of the year.(i know alot of people are gonna disagree with me though)

Im also currently playing Prey and Dead or Alive 4...Prey is an amazing game,i recomend it to anyone with a 360 or PC that likes FPS.DOA is alright but no-one should drop 70 bucks on it(like i did).i wish i had of picked up a used copy or something.

I am still rocking the PS2 and the Gamecube.

I am just getting into GTA games again for some reason.

im just back into Street Fighter 2 now,
came out for 360 Live Arcade.

i used to own metroid and i wasnt a big fan of it...i havent heard of the other two games,are they any good?

some titles im considering are Tetris,Animal Crossing,Nintendogs(lol) and Mario and Luigi:Partners in time

or i may just wait a little bit and choose between,Star Fox,Mario Hoops 3 on 3, or Final Fantasy 3

Instead of Tetris, consider getting Meteos,
It's similar (in that it involves blocks) but I find it more fun,
and the soundtrack is amazing

Phoenix Wright is a game where you are a lawyer and have to solve crimes and do CSI type stuff
Trauma Center is a game where you are a surgeon and have to perform all kinds of surgeries using the touch screen

haha i saw both of those games on X-Play.
Pheonix wright looked pretty funny (Objection!!!) but prob is pretty fun (i believe they gave it a 4)
Trauma Centre looks pretty cool if your into that kind of stuff, since im not i wont be getting.

Since you talking about some DS games i had to wonder if you have played Brain Age. This game looks very intruiging to me and was considering picking up a DS simply for this game, but thats a hefty investment for 1 game.

I thought the Zelda game was going to be called Twilight Princess. Which looks crazy btw and cant wait to play that.

I have those games too, beat them all. Do you play Mario Kart online?

Brain Age looks really interesting (lots of puzzles)
but I have never played...

Twilight Princess is the Cube/Wii Zelda game,
Phantom Hourglass is the DS game

Both are at the top of my list for game purchases

With all this Video games talk I feel like blowing the dust of my Xbox and blowing some people up. Unfortuanetly the only games I have, when I was into the whole gaming thing in Gr 8 are NBA Live 2005, Top Spin, Amped 2, NFL Street, Madden 05, NBA 2k4.

Im a sport fan lol. Now I wish I had some violence in my library like Halo or something

if you want some good old fashioned violence may i suggest "black" or "far cry instincts"
both are excellent games
give halo a pass and go directly to halo 2 - unbelievable action in this game

yea i do,i stay up every night until like 3 playing it.its an awesome game,probably my favorite for DS

gotta be one of the first people i know without halo for the box

Anyone who played Brain Age let me know how it is.

havent played it however i heard its great

im considering picking up a used copy of it from EB

was surfing around tonite and ran into this - thought a few of you might be interested to read an update for live07 - looks like it will be out sept 25 - includes pics and videos - btw - check out nash's hair in one of the pics

link

i have this game pre-ordered for 360,its going to be awesome

alos got dead rising and madden 2007 the other day...both awesome games,im finding it kinda hard to juggle both of them though

Im waitin for 08 still. Im pretty sure thats when things get close to realism.

I prefer games where you're driving over people recklessly with a rented car, escaping from the police, and taking a hostage and strapping 50 lbs of dynamite to their waist.

But I'm not sure what kind of video games I like though. I guess I don't really have a preference.

Does anyone remember this system???

Atari 800xl

My favorite system to this day. Still have it. Should shake the dust off of it and see if it works.

It played all the Atari 2600 games but allowed you to program as well. After writing a mere 90-200 lines copied out of the manual you could do such devistating effects as:
-A cheesy single line lightning bolt
-A ball bouncing around the screen
-the screen randomly changing between 6 (I believe) colors.

It was a pretty sweet Idea though... It gave you access to the same program that developers were using to write thier own games. I remember hearing tones of stories about people making games from home and trying to sell them to Atari.


To Tech: Read a bunch of posts in this thread. You have some decent points about Wii but you can't deny that Nintendo has always had a much softer and censored approach to gaming that is catered to a younger crowd. One only has to remeber how jipped off nintendo users felt when they took out the blood when a player got injured in NHL 95 (Could of been 96). I had both systems but I couldn't help but laugh at how mad my SNES friends were the first time they saw Gretzky bleeding from the head and they couldn't do it at thier house.

Yeah, I remember this. I was only 3 years old when my uncle used to have it. Then he got rid of it and upgraded to Commodore, which I have very fond memories of enjoying at my uncle's house. Can't believe games actually came on tapes back then.

was watching step-son play both of these the other day - dead rising looked like it was a blast - almost fell over laughing when he used the lawnmower on the zombies

yeah its really fun.killing zombies is lots of fun and it has an awesome story line.

also got Saints Row the other day,its really fun but its the biggest copy of GTA ever.like all the buttons are the same and everything.i actually refer to it as GTA sometimes.

my stepson agrees about dead rising - said its a great game - lots of fun - the one thing he did mention though was that the save system was'nt the best - had to overite your save everytime
he also really likes "saints" - i dont care for this style of game myself but he seemed to feel that it was a gta next gen - said the graphics are incredible
also rented ninety-nine nights the other day - do yourselves a favour and stay away from this one - one dimentional game play - will keep your interest for a few hrs and thats about it

oh cool,how olds your son?

and yeah i played the N3 demo when it first came out and like you,i wasnt to impressived.its all just repetitive slashing.felt like a stripped down, next-gen version of Dynasty Warriors.

and yeah the save system in dead rising sucks.you can only have one save per gamer-tag and theres save points which get annoying if your in a hurry and you dont have alot of time to save.

Is there anyone else who cant wait for Spore to come out

(I've been waiting since E3 2005)

im pretty interested in it.whens it supposed to drop?

i was actually talking to my friend about spore earlier today.it looks awesome.i normally shy away from new comp games but im getting my ram upgraded so ill probably be good for this game.