radio 1 videogames week

[noobish hat]

I think I'll just play it safe and have my ears amputated.

[Golgo]

I tried to have a good old swear-a-thon about that Half-Life moment, but the words simply wouldn't come. No known swear word seemed up to the task of articulating my despair. It came out something like 'frungingcuklgggthpwwww'.

[toythatkills]

So what's everyone's Radio1 style favourite game? Mine's Call of Duty. Well, it's not, but it was really popular when it came out. You get a team of 11 guys, and the other people have a team of 11 guys, and you have kick a ball around and try to get it in the other team's net to get a point, and the winner is the one with the most points after a certain amount of time. It was the first game ever that was played in space.

[Spatial]

I remember when Space Invaders first came out and I used to play it for hours - it was the first game where you could input commands like "Go North" and "Pick up sword" and there was loads of clever puzzles. It's a shame that point and click titles like Bubsy the Bobcat and Sonic the Hedgehog came along and replaced it.

[sharky_ob]

I remember this game, proper old skool it was. You had to run and jump on things and ****. And when you hit a brick with your dome, like magic mushrooms came out and made you all big and ****. It's on the tip of my tongue bro. Great Giana Sisters. And ****.

Too accurate though, think I missed the point.

[Golgo]

Halo for me. Revolutionary in so many ways, such as in being the first ever so-called 'first shooter person' where you had to hide from the enemies and sneak around instead of taking them out head on, and also for its introduction of full analog control where you waved the controller about instead of pressing buttons - an initiative which had failed dismally on Super Mario 32 which was released the same year. Unfortunately it got bad press due to black zombies.

[dataDave]

It just doesn't make sense to have people who have no interest or understanding of something actually cover it. It would be like me trying to review a turn based RPG.

I'm sure the same applies to more than just videogames as well.

[toythatkills]

I remember when Space Invaders first came out and I used to play it for hours - it was the first game where you could input commands like "Go North" and "Pick up sword" and there was loads of clever puzzles. It's a shame that point and click titles like Bubsy the Bobcat and Sonic the Hedgehog came along and replaced it.

I think I remember Space Invaders! Was that the one where everything was purple and you had to wear a special pair of glasses to filter the stuff you were meant to see?

EDIT: I think it might've been Pac-Man actually.

[Golgo]

I think I remember Space Invaders! Was that the one where everything was purple and you had to wear a special pair of glasses to filter the stuff you were meant to see?

EDIT: I think it might've been Pac-Man actually.

No, you're thinking of Defenders. Space Invaders was the pioneering sniff-em-up one where the space ship was controlled through hormonal emanations given off by the human body. They had to have different versions of the game for either sex, although in those days it was mostly women who played games of course.

[toythatkills]

Thanks for quoting me. Now I can't stealth edit and everyone'll see I messed it up!

[Brats]

And the greatest game of all time....OF ALL TIME.....is.......Pong!

This game is a classic. I remember, like, when it first came out in arcades. It was completely revolutionical. The cabinet it came in had a special, like, smell box that would fart out this horrible whiff if you played badly at the game!

The funny thing is, people still kept on playing it. Maybe it's because gamers tend not to use soap very much so they got used to it, but other people, they would play it too! It was also, like, the first game to use graphics, which was a big thing for games at the time.

[charlesr]

I was going to ramble about Radio 1 and their listeners and how they voted for Batman as their film of the year (when it came out) because it was all dark and ****, but then remembered everyone here likes that too.

I'm a beacon of light in the darkness of despair.

[Lyris]

I was going to ramble about Radio 1 and their listeners and how they voted for Batman as their film of the year (when it came out) because it was all dark and ****, but then remembered everyone here likes that too.

Are you talking about The Dark Knight?
Count me out of "everyone"!

[Golgo]

...almost as annoying as this Radio 1 screw up is that fact that, if they knew the likes of us were slating them, they'd make some comments on air about nerd rage and laugh it off.

[EvilBoris]

I remember my days at uni playing 4 player split screen Chuckie Egg, it was so much fun, I miss those days when 4 people were in the same room playing games, whereas now everyone stays at home playing noby noby boy by themselves