Holy shit, didn't even think that it might actually exist! Why don't we have video Hungry Hippos? That game was the original button masher.
for any turbografx owners, looks like someone on ebay finally got smart and started printing their own a/v boxes. TurboGrafx 16 alternative Turbobooster a/v out replacement turbo booster 35 bucks, but if you aren't into the diy aspect and $10 it would cost you to make a makeshift one, this ain't too bad.
Holy shit, that's a great idea. Too bad I already shelled out some cash for a Turbobooster or I would pick this up in an instant. 3D printing for the win!
If you're ever in the Holiday Hills Arcade in Cape Cod.... okay, it's a actually a mechanical arcade game, but it's close.
I'm playing Neuromancer - Interplay's PC version. So I walked in to the Temple of Pong, where Nolan extols the virtues of preparing 20 years before playing Pong. You are given the option to reply "20 years? I didn't take that long to play Wasteland!" I cracked up WAAAY too hard at that point. I completed Wasteland 10 years after my first try. The PC version's autosave routinely screws you, but on my fourth attempt I had brought my party all the way to the final base! They crash landed a chopper on the roof... and did not have the rope necessary to descend from the roof. Trapped on the roof by autosave. I did not touch the game again until Wasteland 2 was announced a decade later.
just want to throw this in the air... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc8tG_hYZvY Did any of you rage like this back then? I can't recall any circumstances or game that made me do any of this. I wonder if these guys would survive in the arcades especially back then.
never raged back then. i was more like: "I'M NOT GOING TO BED UNTIL I BEAT THE SNOWMAN IN DONKEY KONG COUNTRY 3!!!" Dad: ''GO TO BED!'' me: ''Ok.'' these days i don't care if i'm losing online in Call of Duty or Street Fighter or Mario Kart. i can't take my anger on something that cost hundreds of dollars. that is just stupidity at its fineness.
That's a hilarious video. Unfortunately, I did used to "rage" a little bit. I broke a couple of controllers and games in my time. Never a keyboard, monitor, or TV, though. That stuff is expensive Even got kicked out of an arcade once for slamming the controls one time with my fist (though personally I think the operator overreacted). IIRC I had just lost a close Marvel vs Capcom 2 match.
Bounced controllers on my bed and thumped a few desks in my time, but never done anything that would involve things getting broke. Mario Kart is really the only game that still enables rage mode for me now. Always amazes me how a party racing game designed for all ages generates such relentless hate and foul language when you get a group of grown adults playing in together in the same room.
Two huge reasons why I never broke any controllers and why we didn't make too noise when playing. - controllers were attached to the famicom - my dad I also doubt my dad would me anything else if ended up breaking the expensive console he bought us for Xmas. Which is a good thing. Whenever I lose a player, the wife points and laughs but I can't make even a peep of a joke at her losing one. Playing the new 2D Mario games of course I got my revenge and trolled her wth my Luigi the entire way.
speaking of MvsC2, in 2003, i was at a now defunct mall playing MvsC2 in single player with Juggernaut, Blackheart and Sentinel when this guy shows up to challenge me. these three characters are not my mains, i was using them to just fool around. he picked Ken, Iron Man and Cable. i lost the match and this guy said ''shoo, fly. shoo.'' and his girlfriend (who sounded like an idiot) said he is so funny. i popped in two token, the guy said ''oh you want another ass-whipping? alright.'' i picked my true mains: Gambit, Spider-man and Wolverine and he could barely get a hit on me. i won and i said ''shoo, fly. shoo.'' then i left saying if anyone wants to, they can take my place. went to play Soul Calibur 2
I fuckin threw my gameboy against the wall while playing Mario Land. Somehow convinced my mom to get another one. But I never did that again.
To this day, I rage quit. And five seconds later, restart the game, open my save, and start playing again. But throwing or breaking things? No way. The console games I'm playing right now are replays. A Link to the Past is always fun, but it's nothing new. I am playing some old PC stuff for the first time. So my question: is retro PC game talk kosher in this thread? Or are we mostly agreed that it belongs in another thread?
I don't rage quit so much (with the exception of Double Dash) as much as "rage play" from time to time. Some design concepts just piss me off to no end. A particular pet peeve: One Button Does Everything. There are something like 12 buttons on my controller. Why the f--- is every other function mapped to the "X" button?! I had to stop playing the WWE games when they decided that the button for pinning a guy should be the same damn button as helping him get back to his feet. While the discussion has been mostly focused on consoles, there have been PC games brought up a few times in the thread. (Just as long as you don't go Master Race on anyone, it's all good.)
All kinds of old gaming are good in here, computers just doesn't get talked about that much because only half of us have that background. I rage quit Double Dash forever after losing the same 100cc cup three times in a row on the same track in almost the same circumstances. Didn't like the game anyway, but it doesn't even fucking try to give the illusion that the AI is actually competing as opposed to just outright cheating.
Racing games are my trigger, especially those with the infamous "rubberband" AI. Mario Kart's one, but Gran Turismo 5 had me shivering a bit, especially trying to beat the Chaparral 2J on the Cote D'azur track. I did huck my PS3 controller against my fireplace hearth once (and the controller now has scars to prove it) and the hole for the left stick has an indent where I tried to make the car steer better by mashing that poor stick into the plastic. Another recent game was Donkey Kong Country Returns, specifically the vehicle stages. That set me off but I knew how fragile the Wii remotes are so I clamped down on my sphincter and sucked it up. That's the problem now, seeing that video and all the keyboards and monitors and consoles literally destroyed. Everything's too damned expensive and too damned fragile to risk on a sudden, stupid burst of anger. Not like my original NES controllers. Those things are fucking beasts and have a few battlescars to prove it. I don't think I ever rage-quit with a computer game, even with the sometimes nonsensical riddles of the King's Quest series. I grew up through the Apple IIC era and the Windows 95/98 era and I can't think of a single game, save maybe Captain Goodnight, that made me really angry enough to wreck something.
I used to rage a lot at fighting games. I would do stuff like bite a pillow or slam my fist into the bed/floor whatever I was near besides people. Now, I rage a bit if I play something competitive online. Something about knowing that these people that are better then me spend more time playing the game gets me inexplicably angry.
We call it "Mario Gas" (since none of us use Mario). You'll be driving behind an AI kart and it'll suddenly use a boost of Mario Gas. It particularly happens at the end of a race where the game adjusts the CPU karts into their predetermined finishing spots. (For example, if Yoshi is the first CPU driver in the first race, the game will give him an advantage over all the other CPU drivers in the next race and adjust kart speeds to compensate, often quite substantially near the end of the race.) "What happened? I thought you were in first?" "I was but Toad Mario Gassed me."
