Cool games that make use of peripherals in interesting ways

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Evangel

#21 September 07, 2009, 06:42:02 am

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Quote from: Ragnar on September 07, 2009, 06:24:12 am

That barcode game is pretty much the same idea as Monster Rancher but I like it better because it involves vandalism

Uh, hey man, Monster Rancher involved a lot of vandalism, too. Didn't have a lot of CD-Roms lying around at the time.

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Ragnar

#22 September 07, 2009, 06:55:25 am

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what? Well Monster Rancher you could just raid somebody's CD collection and try everything, that barcode game actually required you to deface random cereal boxes and things like that so I think it's awesome

Edit: Monster Rancher accepted everything right? CDs, other PS games, CD-roms, and DVDs with the ones on PS2?

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hobomasterxxx

#23 September 07, 2009, 07:14:11 am

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There's some game on Steam where you actually print puzzles, solve them, then put them infront of a webcam to put them in the game. Seems gimmicky.

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Evangel

#24 September 07, 2009, 07:17:54 am

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Yeah, I used CDs and other games. DVDs weren't around at the time, so I never tried that with the PSX Monster Rancher.

I swear I got a pretty crazy monster from my bro's Garth Brooks CD, though.

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Vellfire

#25 September 07, 2009, 12:36:27 pm

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You probably did, I got playstation magazine as a kid and they had a list of the discs that gave you special monsters, most of them were discs that were some sort of play on what the monster was. i always wanted the dances with wolves soundtrack as a kid just to get a special tiger

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DDay

#26 September 07, 2009, 01:01:02 pm

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Quote from: Ragnar on September 07, 2009, 06:55:25 am

what? Well Monster Rancher you could just raid somebody's CD collection and try everything, that barcode game actually required you to deface random cereal boxes and things like that so I think it's awesome

Edit: Monster Rancher accepted everything right? CDs, other PS games, CD-roms, and DVDs with the ones on PS2?

Monster Rancher 2 was my favorite game of all time and yes it will take any thing but let's say I put in a blueray CD in... all the blueray will give me the same thing as default. Also I remember Diablo gave you a good Dracohoper ironically it looked like a demon.

I'm mad at the newer Monster Rancher games (I do own all of them) after the second game they got rid of my favorite monster.... Worms.

Last Edit: September 07, 2009, 01:29:53 pm by DDay

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#27 September 07, 2009, 01:50:01 pm

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Quote from: DDay on September 07, 2009, 01:01:02 pm

Monster Rancher 2 was my favorite game of all time and yes it will take any thing but let's say I put in a blueray CD in... all the blueray will give me the same thing as default.

That's because it can't even tell there's a disc in the drive :/

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DDay

#28 September 07, 2009, 02:16:47 pm

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Quote from: Velfarre on September 07, 2009, 01:50:01 pm

That's because it can't even tell there's a disc in the drive :/

Yes you are right it gives you the default one because it can't read it but it will also do the same for DVD up to Monster Rancher 2. But 3 and up will read DVD.

Last Edit: September 07, 2009, 02:29:09 pm by DDay

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Trash Head 2

#29 September 07, 2009, 05:16:15 pm

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I can only imagine how many childhoods besides mine were ruined by a used copy of StarTropics that came without the secret password letter in the manual.

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Kezay

#30 September 08, 2009, 04:06:41 pm

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Quote from: Smoothy Oakland on September 07, 2009, 01:24:18 am

this thread is missing boktai. it uses the sun

Indeed, and that was a fine game too; not really gimmicky or anything.

Anyway, kind of cool though probably more of an inconvenience than just using the built in wifi for trading like every other game that has it, but Bangai O spirits lets you trade custom maps/levels by way of sound. Basically, you can record the sound process that plays back when you want to upload a map to like youtube or an MP3 or something. Then if someone wants to download your map (or you download theirs) you simply hold the earpiece of your headphones to a speaker, then playback the sound and it will download to your DS. Problems being that if your headphones suck it won't work and it takes some adjusting to get the sweet spot to download flawlessly without the game constantly telling you it's too loud, turn down volume or too soft turn up volume.

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Rowain

#31 September 08, 2009, 06:15:44 pm

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Haha early copy protection was funny. I had some Mickey Mouse party game (edutainment) on my Dad's old PC. Came on a 5 1/2 Floppy I think. And there was a big sheet of paper with a bunch of Mickeys that came with it, each Mickey corresponding to a number or letter and doing a different pose. When you started the game, it would randomly display one of the Mickey poses, and you had to search the sheet to find the corresponding letter and pose, then enter the letter into the game in order to play.

WHY SO SERIOUS HAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAA

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Eltee

#32 September 09, 2009, 12:14:41 am

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Stunts has something similiar. before starting a race, it asks you to complete a sentence from some random driving manual segment included in the manual.

If you fail to input the right phrase, the game starts, but your car breaks down right after starting.

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Vellfire

#33 September 09, 2009, 01:16:28 am

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Quote from: Mr. L on September 09, 2009, 12:14:41 am

Stunts has something similiar. before starting a race, it asks you to complete a sentence from some random driving manual segment included in the manual.

If you fail to input the right phrase, the game starts, but your car breaks down right after starting.

ahahaha this is so much better than just not letting you play, i love this idea

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otomon

#34 September 09, 2009, 01:49:39 am

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Dance Dance revolution (ps2) with an Eyetoy....

Nuff said.

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Mongoloid

#35 September 09, 2009, 10:38:24 am

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The arachnaphobia game had chart like that too.

It had a big chart of maybe 30 different spiders and the game would show you one on launch, and then you had to type the number or something in in order to play.

btw what is this point of that? to stop game pirating? man things sure were complicated back then.

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DDay

#36 September 09, 2009, 01:37:05 pm

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Quote from: otomon on September 09, 2009, 01:49:39 am

Dance Dance revolution (ps2) with an Eyetoy....

Nuff said.

Dose the eye toy allow the tentacles to rape you on screen when your close to losing?

wii fit is another one

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Dale Gobbler

#37 September 09, 2009, 02:13:22 pm

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a good one. Just watch it.

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Vellfire

#38 September 09, 2009, 02:18:28 pm

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man you do not understand augmented reality is one of my favorite things in technology that vid is so good

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Kaempfer

#39 September 09, 2009, 03:42:40 pm

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I don't really understand what Aztec's video is supposed to be. Like, I know what it's supposed to be, but are they trying to show us a device or an idea for a game? Because it seems like they are trying to show us a device in use, except it's just a box that they are applying images to digitally, so I am not sure which element is the proof of concept!

The Misadventures of Crimebot

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Vellfire

#40 September 09, 2009, 03:55:54 pm

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It's the game, the device is just the box with markers for the AR software to use. There's nothing special about the box, they're showing off the software that makes it happen.

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