which of the videogames in this stack of videogames is the best videogame

Only one of these I've spent any time with is Power Stone 2, when some dudes brought a Dreamcast and some pirated games in to high school computer science class one day. I remember it being a blast, which is more than I can say for most games I played one time fourteen years ago.

Oh man, I have to dig out Super Dodge Ball Advance. I remember it was similar to one of my favourite games on the NES, Nintendo World Cup.

it's even more similar to one of my favourite games on the NES, 'super dodge ball'

I have fond memories of Shenmue

hmm. i'll go with power stone 2 or mr. driller.

NES Super Dodge Ball was amusing b/c the game taxed the hardware so much the framerate would drop, which is something considering it was all sprites

SDB was god among games

fond memories of Shenmue

I looked at this pile and thought, perhaps I will play Shenmue once more before I sell it, and then I decided to leave my own fond memories of Shenmue alone

I did not know that about Super Dodge Ball, mainly because I knew it via emulators. The things you don't know when you play games via emulators. Gosh. Hardware studies.

http://i.imgur.com/DIuMOGS.jpg

awww yea

i'm afraid to ask what is happening in that QTE

Shenmue is the birth of qte, from what I remember

lunar lunar lunar lunar i've never played any of the other ones but lunar lunar lunar

had so much fun with Bishi Bashi Special back in the day, pie throwing brides etc. feel like GBA Warioware took the idea & perfected it though

i never actually finished lunar 2, got to what felt like the final series of bosses and just didn't pick it back up again. am i missing out?

i remember nothing about lunar except that it was exactly like an rpg

apparently there are options after bishi bashi special, i didn't need to look at them

lunar great

shenmue was one of those games i always heard the craziest things about but never actually played

it's even more similar to one of my favourite games on the NES, 'super dodge ball'

this is an amazing game

i dont think you'd like lunar very much or have you already played it? it has a weird sense of objects in space

you might like shenmue though, its pretty boring but its boringness can seem meditative even when its frustrating to play, it was also a videogame for the sega dreamcast so it has a sort of doomed dignity to it, maybe

this is a list of videogames i just put up for sale

how much do you want for lunar?

shenmue in concept is awesome but then you turn it on and it's soooooooooooooo boring

doomed dreamcast dignity = great phrase through

how much do you want for lunar

i dunno, i put it up at an absurdly high £120 on amazon uk (figured some sucker would come along ...) but i could do it for like half that

shenmue's boringness and greatness of concept and the link to the dying console are all intertwined

i feel like the bottom kinda fell out of the retro video games market - i haven't been selling much since 09 and even then i feel like virtual console/emulators/generally bad economy had kinda killed things. i kinda regret holding on to so much of my working designs and other collectible stuff cuz its just sitting in storage rn but oh well

yeah, this isn't 'stuff i was holding on to in order to recoup on investment' so much as it is 'stuff i found in a box in my parents' attic'

prize of which is a PAL copy of shining force cd which i think actually belongs technically to the elder brother of someone i went to high school with and have never seen in over a decade

i don't even have a mega cd

i dont think ive ever really 'recouped on investment' on any of the video games i had as a kid - i remember having to pay like $75 for a copy of ogre battle snes in the mid 90s - i think i sold my copy a decade later for like thirty bux more

haha i only have a vague idea of what shining force cd even is - i had all the north america shining force games but have long since sold them. i was thinking about shining in the darkness recently though, it was very claustrophobic

eh well from ages 12-15 i paid inflated import prices for like fucking parasite eve and xenogears and god knows what and i got rid of them all before amazon marketplace was a thing, too

i felt v invested in the grind in shining in the darkness. like 'i am totally going to kill that fucking wall with a face on it in a moment'. i read through either a let's play or a very detailed walkthrough with screenshots recently. i was taken with how the tile you walk on and get a little animation in which you go round the outside edge of the tower let a whole bunch of air and light in somehow, although i wondered if i was editing my original memories of playing it to think that. it seems like it doesn't get close enough either real difficulty or real simplicity to be really interesting, but that might be in retrospect.

shining force cd i think (... it's not like i've ever played it) is the two game gear side story shining force games running on an emulator with a new front-end?

huh, i had no idea old videogames could sell for so much money. apparently suikoden ii for psx is going for $110 on eBay. i need to go to my parents house and look through all my old stuff, i definitely have some rare nerd shit left over from my hardcore gaming days.

i have a idk probably "vg" gold box of pool of radiance which i discovered the other day goes for $20ish on ebay, which is not a lot of money but is 40 times more than i paid for it when i was nine, so it's a source of passive satisfaction

its pretty boring but its boringness can seem meditative even when its frustrating to play

otm

remembering that the main reason i bought samba de amigo w/ official maracas was thinking "this would be a good investment"

think i ended up selling it for half of what i paid : \

shenmue 2 may have been the only import i ever bought, never played it though, sold it to some mom on ebay who i had to instruct via email on how to burn a boot cd-r to get shenmue 2 to run on a us dreamcast

you sold your samba de amigo maracas? for shame

voting for shenmue since you can go to an arcade and play space harrier (still kinda mind blowing to me)

also I like space harrier more than any of these games

this is a good argument

you sold your samba de amigo maracas? for shame

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yah... i have fond memories of shaking it to reel big fish. damn why did i sell them

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Am I still playing Shenmue when I’m playing Space Harrier within Shenmue?

I am talking about the Dreamcast game Shenmue and there's an arcade where you can play Space Harrier within the game so what's the proper philosophy behind this. Oh and it's for a final paper so I will credit you if you agree to be credited.

haaaaaaaa

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shen fucking mue

the two nil-votes games are probably the best 'games' here

wanna know who voted ys

rampart rules but I've only played the NES one

I didn't vote for Shenmue but I'm fine with it winning this because even though it's far from the "best" "videogame" on the list it's still the one that's most worth putting time into in 2013.

haha i think it's definitely in the bottom three for that so er i hope you're having a lot of fun looking forward to beyond: two souls

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Nah I know it's pretty awful but I think it's more interesting as a massive ambitious failure than any of the other mediocre successes on the list.

if i have ever somewhat mystifyingly gone on about The Shenmue Principle on ilx (e.g. in discussion about shows like lost), it's a thing that comes from the most tenacious false expectation building by fannies ever: 'oh but you have to get to the end of disc 1, that's where it gets really good' and i got to the end of disc 1 and it was crap, and then they were all 'oh but no but you have to get to that bit where you're in that town and you talk to people, so amazing' and i got there and it wasn't, in fact it was total shit, and then they were all 'oh but it reeeeeally starts getting good when you drive the forklift' and i got to the forklift driving bit and it was boring as hell, and then they were 'oh but you need to get to the finale, that's where everything pays off' but by then the dreamcast was back in the cupboard, casting unfulfilled dreams

the best thing art can do is return you to an awareness of the real world maaaan

haha! but wait, Lost had a much weirder quality arc--nevermind

"Do you remember the day? The day of the incident? The day of the incident where I sat watching JimD play Shenmue and all the gameplay seemed to consist of going up to people and asking 'Do you remember the day? The day of the incident?'"

aaaargh nigtmares stop

I hardly even played it, I mean, I stroked the cat in the cardboard box and then kind of lost interest when I got to the bottom of the hill and started looking round shops and stuff. But those three or four hours have really stayed with me in a way not much else from that time has. I think perhaps just because it did feel like a real place, even if there wasn't much to do there (maybe *because* there wasn't much to do there).

i get you. i want to defend what that game was trying to do but it really didn't work. but tons of people of the internet totally disagree so what do i know

if i was sat next to someone right now (i am not sat next to anyone right now because my life is lonely and sad) and they said "hey, do you wanna play RAMPART," i'd be like, sure, friend. if they said, "hey, do you wanna play SHENMUE," i'd be like, i don't know who you are but i don't need you in my life

thomp, you seem especially bitter lately

it's been a tough year