Get ready for ROBOT POST!!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyZ87myorCAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvdNFIkUdx8Look at how fucking good the intros, title screens, and story screens are. Nobody does that anymore because game devs nowadays aren't good.
The second game includes many appearance from one of video gaming's dearest unsung heros - the tirelessly pacing, pale, knife-wielding murderous lunatic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4U0I7k_P8AHahaha Look at this, I can't get over it. That's the best character design for any video game ever. "Joe Snow". A fucking 8x8 white ball. Great music and "map screen" too, it's like a cga-planet platform version of the Getsufuu Maden overworld.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akRBZ46ZjxEThis game ticks a lot of boxes I look for that no website will allow you to search games by (I plan to rectify this asap):
- Overtly Christian iconography upon death (literal angels emerging from corpses, crosses signifying death)
- Enormous, apocalyptically oppressive inhuman, dangerous setting (hell, prison planet)
- The protagonist is a weird-looking goofball and also their one motivation is explicitly to FUCK!
Speaking of which, watch this one to the end. It's probably the best video game ending ever. I'm racking up a lot of record breakers today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSUNyviEP6wSamus, the Gianas, Jill... Dianalee. Only in the MS-DOS frame of mind would a human allow themselves to choose to represent an Aztec temple as a mustard yellow rectangle filled with light switches.
The setpiece where you sail over to a little subroom is startlingly effective in my opinion - the screen shakes, you take treasures and a demon is summoned. It's a fucked up looking thing and it's pretty scary, especially when it turns out that it actually chases you across the map, until the player destroys it with a single arrow! But then it appears again? Is it a different demon...?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umV0d4I8nLIThere's not any point to this video. The music and look of the program just makes me happy.
Now, this one isn't important on its own, it's just to give you context if you're not familiar with Mario and Luigi for MS-DOS (It's Mario for DOS, there now you're familiar):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu9SO6WOnYYIn the comments Matias Montane tells a story. I love these sorts of mystery memories but it's difficult to find them because there's not a, a sort of DUMPSITE that collects and consolidates materials with that emotional affect.
And a little bit down the page:
[Extremely ][/Extremely] Theend.
It's like that other game ending that I've posted here before but don't have access to atm, the pirate Contra bootleg that ends with the guy choppering away and a big text saying
THEND. That sort of shit just burns in my mind with hiddenPower.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxiamYEwsSAROBOT III [angry, ][/angry,]: Look at that! It's gorgeous! Nobody will do it for you now. I swear it's like at some point gaming stopped being about grids with little icons inside and that's when they started sucking permanently. At that point I can't understand the attraction. The grids are what I'm here for. Even early 3D games have very obvious grids everywhere. It's a different thing with 2d ones especially the grid gives you the feeling that each pixel is a unique piece of space. Nowadays everything is built like a Flash game to hide the grid. People are always going for a cartoon look but it never happens. When you have grids your game is honest. It gives you a genetic core linking you back to every other gridded game and it gives your world a nice cast of unreality, the sort you can only see in the rare mediums where visual representational space is of very low resolution - tapestry and knitting. Nobody bothers to tell stories with knitting and tapestry is long dead, subsumed into its animated digital interactive descendant.
[Lights ][/Lights]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SdGkkp1aq8Robotic Liberation! Hey, you know it! Yeah! Isn't it good? If you like synthesized speech and have a good musical memory you'll recall it down to the specific disfluencies of HUMILIATION. "YOU MUST HATE ALL HUMANS..." Aren't you glad somebody posted this? Perhaps they did already?
Crowd [as ][/as]: YEAH - YOU DID!
Shut up!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdhAy39d-dchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBfZEzJWLHIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISSr9hg_5N8This is one of my favorite Arkanoid clones. All TOM Software stuff is good. It's like the Arkanoid they would play on TNG.
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