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[kingfuraday]

This post could have had a crapload of Tube imbeds but I resisted and just put one two - the rest are links which I encourage you to click upon.

Last wiikend intoutdoors came down for a visit and walked right into a Wii-Fest with rrumm, me, and bearxxl getting our Tennis and Bowling on. After the boys left I was showing Scott my Wii - er, I was showing him the different

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[pirateseasick]

I love Castlevania so hard! Seriously, it walks funny afterwards.

[unpetitours]

i totally would have hung out at that arcade way too much! ;)

the MK video gave me such a nerd boner. i'd seen most of those from my own time in the 'cades, but there were definitely some i hadn't seen.

[kingfuraday]

We'd close the arcade around 11pm or 12am and then play games until about 5 in the morning. To this day if I see an MK or SFII anywhere I stop and drop a quarter...

[wrjones]

The Castlevania series is awesome! Yes, the first one is a pain. It is beatable though.

[cubtharsis]

I have such fond memories of all the games you mentioned...

I remember the first time I realized that cheating was fun from Contra...up, up, down, down, ....

I remember playing the hells outa Castlevania and then looking through the beautiful maps in Nintendo Power praying for an easier way...that was until Blockbuster rented out Game Sharks. Yee-Haw!

I remember mastering Sonya Blade and her sexy leg lock of death move, and wondering why no matter how many times I did it I just wasn't getting anything out of it....hmmmmm

Anyhow 10 extra geek points if you can name the famous live action game that pushed Tipper and the moms who don't monitor their kids over the edge, and is said to stand beside Mortal Kombat as the two games that led to the ESRB video game rating system? If you need a hint think about taking some Different Strokes to come up with the answer...

[kingfuraday]

re: Contra - yeah, my cousins and I went insane on Contra and Lifefource (code worked for it too) when we got that code. On the Contra level where you had to jump up that mountain we'd play "king of the hill" and race to the top trying to kill each other

[cubtharsis]

The 10 point bonus was a game called Night Trap which was a live action game starring Dana Plato (of Different Strokes fame) as an undercover cop infiltrating a girls slumber party where vampires were suspected. You had to run a surveillance system that sets traps off to kill the vampires before they brutally and (as the mad moms said) misogynisticly killed the pantie party going on in the house...The game was on the failed Sega CD which I thought at the time was the second coming. Anyhow its hilarious...if you youtube that game and see the horrible violence (and acting) now.

check out the documentary that I never new existed until now...Yeah!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHvrFClZeoM

By the way did you ever play Samurai Showdown?...probably one of my favorite 2D fighting games? Never had enough finesse to get decent at SF.

[pirateseasick]

P.S. I love XTC, and am surprised no one else mentioned them. You made me seek out the clip for "The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead". :)

[bruceke]

OMG! MK brings back so much memories...
You are so totally even cooler now!
Should look back into my boxes with old stuff where I have MK1 on cd-rom and maybe play it again. :)
We should play it if I come to SD someday! I would like maybe totally beat the hell outta you and finish you with a friendship fatality! :p

[intoutdoors]

Wowser.

I used to play my Playstation discs in my blueberry clamshell iBook, using an emulator. I still have the install disc... if only I kept the USB controller! Or alternately, you could use key commands.

I just looked, and I still have the Playstation (not NES) disc for Castlevania, the one that has an audio "Track 2" soundtrack medley that you can play in your stereo. (I just ripped it into iTunes!) Also, I have (for PS1) Castlevania Chrionicles (which I didn't enjoy as much), Rampage (!!) and Final Doom! I'll bring them down next time!

[kingfuraday]

Ha - Rampage.. what a token grabber that used to be...

The ones I always loved were Smash TV and Total Carnage - awesome games.