--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 170 VIDEO GAMES Ref: F5G00221 Date: 04/23/98 From: DAVE MORROW Time: 02:43pm \/To: STEVE IGREJAS (Read 0 times) Subj: More Cheating -=> Quoting Steve Igrejas to Tom Arkhit <=- SI> Figure this. You're playing Goldeneye 4 player. You decide to SI> hide in a stall and wait until someone opens the door and blow them SI> away. With Split screen, your opponents can see where you are and SI> gives your hiding place away. It would be a lot more fun, without SI> split screen. Yeah, he's in a stall, but what stall is he in? ... This reply is made up of 65% recycled text. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: Bob's Back Room (1:163/327) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 170 VIDEO GAMES Ref: F5G00222 Date: 04/23/98 From: DAVE MORROW Time: 02:46pm \/To: STEVE IGREJAS (Read 0 times) Subj: Space -=> Quoting Steve Igrejas to Dave Morrow <=- -=> Quoting Dave Morrow to Nick Andre <=- DM> Where does DVD apply. DVD is a completly different platform than CDs. DM> So a Playstaion can't use DVD. Some day when Cart technology becomes DM> cheaper we will have mega carts with huge capacity. SI> Speaking of space, why would anyone use carts? Sony's Minidisks SI> hold 10 times more the 64DD disks and they're entirely write-able. SI> If Sony does make a new system, DVD or MD is the best way. I didn't say that sony wants to or would use carts. And Mini Discs have been out in North America for ten years. How many poeple actually know what a mini disc is? ... Who's laughing now? -Sting ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: Bob's Back Room (1:163/327) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 170 VIDEO GAMES Ref: F5G00223 Date: 04/23/98 From: DAVE MORROW Time: 02:48pm \/To: STEVE IGREJAS (Read 0 times) Subj: Spice Girls -=> Quoting Steve Igrejas to Dave Morrow <=- -=> Quoting Dave Morrow to Tom Arkhit <=- DM> What do you think of them. Maybe they should get a PSX game DM> instead of the Spice Girls. SI> You could do both. Spice Girls are coming out with a music video SI> game for PlayStation. It'll have interviews of each spice girl. Yeah, but ALL SaInTs would be better for the game. WHO wants a SPICE GIRLS video game? ... Owen Hart is the little nugget that won't go away! -Shawn Michaels ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: Bob's Back Room (1:163/327) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 170 VIDEO GAMES Ref: F5G00224 Date: 04/23/98 From: DAVE MORROW Time: 02:50pm \/To: NICK ANDRE (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: State Of The N64 -=> Quoting Nick Andre to Tom Arkhit <=- NA> Yes. But one disadvantage. No Pause button! Although I guess its NA> possible to hack the Atari motherboard with some sort of grounding NA> device which toggles the data bus on and off... My atari had a pause button. ... One more for the good guys. -Scott Hall ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: Bob's Back Room (1:163/327) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 170 VIDEO GAMES Ref: F5G00225 Date: 04/23/98 From: DAVE MORROW Time: 02:53pm \/To: STEVE IGREJAS (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: State Of The N64 -=> Quoting Steve Igrejas to Dave Morrow <=- DM> There is nothing wrong with N's software. SI> Accordin to a friend of mine who loves Nintendo, he says Nintendo SI> 64's games suck. He said, and I quote, "Goldeneye is the good game on SI> Nintendo 64." I was shocked. But I would disagree with him in away. SI> Goldeneye isn't the only good game. Wave Race 64 is also good. Wave Race Quake 64 GoldenEye WCW vs nWO KI GOLD Duke 64 FIFA '98 DOOM 64 Breakway '98 Mistchief Makers The list goes on.. These are great 64 games ... Who's laughing now? -Sting ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: Bob's Back Room (1:163/327) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 170 VIDEO GAMES Ref: F5G00226 Date: 04/23/98 From: DAVE MORROW Time: 02:56pm \/To: STEVE IGREJAS (Read 0 times) Subj: WCW Nitro -=> Quoting Steve Igrejas to Dave Morrow <=- -=> Quoting Dave Morrow to Steve Igrejas <=- DM> Sounds cool. I can't wait to try it out on my 64! It's coming soon! DM> Maybe with some nice 4 player matches! If you are an nWo wrestler in DM> the game, does that mean pressing select will bring out another nWo DM> guy? SI> It's coming to the N64? Hm... Anyway, I never really payed any SI> attention to who came out to help. Yep, 64 bit Nitro. Probably with no slow down too. Actaully most definatly with no slow down! And I just thought that if hogan needed help, only an nWo wreslter would come to help. I doubt Sting would! ... WANNA RAISE SOME HELL? -Stone Cold Steve Austin ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: Bob's Back Room (1:163/327) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 170 VIDEO GAMES Ref: F5G00227 Date: 04/23/98 From: DAVE MORROW Time: 02:56pm \/To: STEVE IGREJAS (Read 0 times) Subj: WCW Nitro -=> Quoting Steve Igrejas to Dave Morrow <=- -=> Quoting Dave Morrow to Barry Laws, Jr. <=- DM> Taunts? Is there a spirit meter? Like in wcw vs nwo? Can you rko the DM> guy? I mean tko. SI> TKO? This game isn't boxing. WCW vs nWo has TKO's in it. ... Who's laughing now? -Sting ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: Bob's Back Room (1:163/327) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 170 VIDEO GAMES Ref: F5G00228 Date: 04/23/98 From: JONATHAN FINGAS Time: 08:53pm \/To: TOM ARKHIT (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: Sega and fighting games TA> moving to 3d is the problem.. Capcom's 2d beat-em-ups TA> are THE BEST fighters available... Whilst I do like TA> the 3d ex + alpha on the PS, I much prefer the 2d TA> games on the saturn.. (as the saturn versions are TA> always faster, smoother, & less cut down..) I don't think that's true at all! I've heard that without the RAM cart you can get for the more recent Capcom ports to the Saturn, it's not really that smooth at all. SF EX + Alpha seems to run wickedly fast on the PSXs I've seen it on. --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: BitByters BBS, Rockland ON, Can. (613)446-7773 v34, (1:163/215) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 170 VIDEO GAMES Ref: F5G00229 Date: 04/23/98 From: JONATHAN FINGAS Time: 08:54pm \/To: STEVE IGREJAS (Read 0 times) Subj: Game promos SI> Beleive me. The bosses aren't easy. Believe someone who misspelled "believe?" :-) Seriously... I was talking in hypothetical terms. What would happen if a company's ads and other promos were misleading and cleverly omitted a bad part of the game from their coverage? You might not know until you've anxiously paid for the game. --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: BitByters BBS, Rockland ON, Can. (613)446-7773 v34, (1:163/215) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 170 VIDEO GAMES Ref: F5G00230 Date: 04/23/98 From: NICK ANDRE Time: 06:37am \/To: DAVE MORROW (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: State Of The N64 DM> -=> Quoting Nick Andre to Dave Morrow <=- DM> DM> DM> Cheaper not better. DM> DM> NA> Why would it not be better than carts? 650megs capacity (Triple with DM> NA> compression and DVD), versus what? 128megs? DM> DM> Where does DVD apply. DVD is a completly different platform than CDs. So DM> a Playstaion can't use DVD. Some day when Cart technology becomes heaper DM> we will have mega carts with huge capacity. DVD isn't all that different from CD's, in respects to the way they're made. And when "mega carts" come out, we'll be long into CD's or some sort of new storage technology that the "mega carts" will be dead obsolete. ;) Nick. --- Renegade v5-11 Exp * Origin: Andre Computers OS/2 (1:252/0)