Controversial gaming opinions you have

[KitsuneNight]

^ my first pc was a 1980 tech machine
it had a intel 8088
640 k ram
a 20 mb hd
3,5 and 5.1,4 inch floppies
an amber screen
and ms dos 4.01 this was in 1998 or so

i didnt even try games on it and i got a p1 in 99

who knows?
So in that off-topic vein, wow, 1k + worth of posts in like a month? That's noteworthy. Go Kitsune!

eh 2 months
i signed up early april
so thats 500 posts per month

yes i have no life apparantly !

i also didnt like the previous rank and wanted to get rid off it

[NeoVamp]

on topic : i hate chronotrigger
a bloody jrpg with grinding and so called art direction by that toriyama hack ?
just kill me now !

[KitsuneNight]

on topic : i hate chronotrigger
a bloody jrpg with grinding and so called art direction by that toriyama hack ?
just kill me now !

the only good thing about chrono trigger is not having it

there i said it again

[FuturePrimitive]

who knows?
So in that off-topic vein, wow, 1k + worth of posts in like a month? That's noteworthy. Go Kitsune!

I think he's a Tails cyborg, but I can't be sure.

NNNNA-NA-NA-NA-NA-ANNNN

[gamevet]

^ my first pc was a 1980 tech machine
it had a intel 8088
640 k ram
a 20 mb hd
3,5 and 5.1,4 inch floppies
an amber screen
and ms dos 4.01 this was in 1998 or so

i didnt even try games on it and i got a p1 in 99

You could play text adventure games and titles made with Ascii.

[KitsuneNight]

You could play text adventure games and titles made with Ascii.

damn it now i want to try that
wish i still had that thing

I think he's a Tails cyborg, but I can't be sure.

NNNNA-NA-NA-NA-NA-ANNNN

at least its not the tails doll

[j_factor]

My old man had a Tandy 1000 in 1986. The thing had a crappy built in speaker, ugly ass CGA graphics (Magenta anyone?) and most of the games weren't on-par with what was available on the C-64. I was kind of excited when he'd bought the computer, and was looking forward to playing the highly touted PC title Gunship. Man, was I disappointment.

PC was garbage for gaming until VGA came along. VGA was a sudden, huge leap that other computers couldn't compete with.

[KitsuneNight]

hard to argue that
here is kings quest http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...comparison.png
left is the orginal version right is the 1990 vga remake ( or sci remake if you want to be picky )

[gamevet]

hard to argue that
here is kings quest http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...comparison.png
left is the orginal version right is the 1990 vga remake ( or sci remake if you want to be picky )

The left image looks more like EGA (1984). Most of the games in CGA featured a lot of Magenta in the coloring.

[sheath]

Would you count mice and keyboards that are specifically designed and marketed for gaming as gaming devices?

Don't get wise with me!

Yeah yeah, okay, a mouse specifically designed for precision gaming is a gaming device. Crap.

[A Black Falcon]

PC was garbage for gaming until VGA came along. VGA was a sudden, huge leap that other computers couldn't compete with.

Eh, while PC gaming doesn't seem to have really gotten big until after VGA's 1987 release (~1988, when the first Adlib games were released, was a major turning point), as far as actual graphics hardware goes, EGA was the big one, not VGA. Going from CGA to EGA was absolutely massive in terms of the improvement, but EGA to VGA? There was an improvement, but it wasn't quite as big as CGA to EGA. Our first computer (which we got in early '92) was VGA, but back then I'm not sure if I could have told you which games were EGA and which were VGA... but the CGA ones? Man, did those stand out, and look terrible (that teal and pink colorscheme is so bad!).

It's never too late to get over strange, irrational biases. And judging by your recent SNES thread and PC tastes, I imagine there would at least be a bunch of Amiga games you would like.

I don't think it's irrational to be biased towards the computer platform exponentially better for games than all of the others combined, though.

Oh, and on the subject of ASCII games, while you can't really play DOS games natively in modern versions of Windows and thus have to use an emulator like DOSBox (there may be some ways around it, but it's not easy), you can play ASCII games. Launch up, say, Castle Adventure... it runs fine, windowed or fullscreen. Backwards compatibility to games from the early 1980s!

[gamevet]

Eh, while PC gaming doesn't seem to have really gotten big until after VGA's 1987 release (~1988, when the first Adlib games were released, was a major turning point), as far as actual graphics hardware goes, EGA was the big one, not VGA. Going from CGA to EGA was absolutely massive in terms of the improvement, but EGA to VGA? There was an improvement, but it wasn't quite as big as CGA to EGA. Our first computer (which we got in early '92) was VGA, but back then I'm not sure if I could have told you which games were EGA and which were VGA... but the CGA ones? Man, did those stand out, and look terrible (that teal and pink colorscheme is so bad!).

EGA could only display 16 colors, from a color palette of 64. The C-64 could display 16 colors on-screen and the Amiga did 32 out of a color palet of 4096, with even more using HAM mode. VGA could display 256 colors; it was a massive step up from the 8/16-bit home computers of the time, and EGA.

[A Black Falcon]

EGA could only display 16 colors, from a color palette of 64. The C-64 could display 16 colors on-screen and the Amiga did 32 out of a color palet of 4096, with even more using HAM mode. VGA could display 256 colors; it was a massive step up from the 8/16-bit home computers of the time, and EGA.

On technical terms it was a massive step up, and yes, VGA games looked nicer than CGA ones, but 16 colors is enough to do decent graphics. 4 color CGA is not. Now, I think that the 4-shades-of-grey Game Boy can do decent graphics, but CGA... maybe it's the color choices, but CGA looks TERRIBLE.

[gamevet]

On technical terms it was a massive step up, and yes, VGA games looked nicer than CGA ones, but 16 colors is enough to do decent graphics. 4 color CGA is not. Now, I think that the 4-shades-of-grey Game Boy can do decent graphics, but CGA... maybe it's the color choices, but CGA looks TERRIBLE.

For PC yes, but EGA pretty much put PC graphics on-par with older 8-bit computers. VGA kicked PC gaming into another realm, with graphics that weren't possible on the 8/16-bit computers of the time.

[MaxWar]

I have a Tandy 1000 Tx and its pretty cool.
The tandy 1000 family of computer is arguably the best choice to play most PC/XT generation games.

It has Upgraded CGA ( Tandy video mode ) which is perfectly CGA compatible but has some enhancements that some games could take advantage of.
It has that classic 3 voice tandy sound that is actually pretty nice to have as its what some game music were designed for.
Gaming wise, it can do all a regular PC/XT could do plus some more.

You also need a CGA device to play alot of old games properly as EGA and VGA do not have so good retro compatibility.
Not only the palette can be wrong but there were alot of twists that the CGA programmers used that could not be reproduced in EGA/VGA.

I prefer to play prince of persia in Tandy mode!
Also, Round 42 is one of my Favourite CGA game, its epic!! ( the sound is much less annoying on a real computer with the pc speaker. )