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Make everything a Sonic game. It'll work. People buy the same game lots of times lots of times. I have three copies of Halo.

edit: and dye your hair blue like your avatar.

Last edited by elpato84 (2009-08-21 8:14 pm)

They'll probably give you a swirly in the men's bathroom anyway.

Wait'll you see the alien terrain in Sonic the Halo S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

Bren wrote:

Does "S.T.A.L.K.E.R." actually stand for something?

Yes. Google is your friend, remember?

Or... remember how I mentioned you not hanging in Gaming much? Try looking (currently) about, oh, eight whole topics down this front page. See the first word in the subject line?

Bren wrote:

I know; whatever the topic of conversation is, I will make a game of seeing how quickly I can bring it around to the subject of Peggle.

There is a Peggle game for the Xbox 360.

By the way, I am quite confident that I'm on the verge of breaking the 25,000,000 point mark in Peggle Nights. Please don't spread that information around though, as it might be demoralizing to the rest of the Peggle community, who would surely give up if they knew how high the bar was about to be set.

Spoken like a man who has not mastered Peggle!

Bren wrote:

Like the Avanti, the Dreamcast is a jewel-like, classic design. More powerful game consoles have been built, but a better console is yet to be designed.

Has yet, you mean. Car analogies tend to fair poorly in the computer/console/electronic entertainment world- e.g., you don't go out to the garage to admire the Dreamcast's 'classic lines,' the design, the just-right amount of/speed of (etc., etc). You might think fondly of gaming memories past, even dust one off and play it now and again... but, much moreso than in autos, tech matters here... a lot, and it progresses very quickly indeed. Graphics are the fastest-evolving computer tech, and the PowerVR chip in the DC is a decade old. I expect you play it thru an old, interlaced, VGA-res TV, too. It's, well, a toy. A man can have fun with toys on occasion, but, pushing 40, perhaps it's basically time to put away childish things.

Bren wrote:

Written like a man who has neither played nor cares about Peggle!

Fix'd.

But here; like your Skyfighters game, an OSX game you might get behind:

BurgerTime Deluxe Released For Mac
6:00 AM | Cord Kruse | Monday, August 24, 2009

Namco has announced the release of BurgerTime Deluxe for Mac. The game is a remake of the 1980's original arcade title which challenges players to navigate a series of ladders and platforms to make burger ingredients fall onto plates below. BurgerTime Deluxe features over 60 levels and several minigames.

Let the culinary capers commence as Namco proudly serves up BurgerTime Deluxe for Mac! Enjoy a full course in the extensive Story Mode, or just sit down for a light snack in Quick Mode. Join Chefs Peter Pepper and Sally Salt as they help their uncle thwart the dastardly Vinnie Vinegar. Scale the platforms and assemble the burgers to clear the levels, then speed through the exciting minigames. Avoid Vinnie’s henchmen, Mr. Hotdog, Mr. Egg, and the other baddies as they look to make short order of you! Daze baddies with your handy pepper shaker and use special items to freeze, cook, or salt them to your tastes. Earn big points by squishing your edible adversaries with falling ingredients or dropping a piece out from under them! Who says you shouldn’t play with your food?

Features:
• Enjoy a full course in Story Mode or just a snack in Quick Mode!
• Play your way through over 60 levels and minigames!
• Thwart Vinnie Vinegar in the all new story mode.
• Join the food fight with powerups like french fries and hot sauce!

'Course, you could go Boot Camp and try something I mentioned, Falcon 4: Allied Force. It was developed by Graphsim, who still sponsor IMG (altho they seem to have since sold the IP to developer Lead Pursuit).

I have the '98 original Falcon IV, complete w/ 520 page manual.

This is a toughie. The PS3 having twenty notable games throughout its whole life is a stretch.

Bren wrote:

Don't say you heard this from me, but it looks like Microsoft's next revision of the Xbox 360 may possibly have built-in DVR capability, with the ability to transfer content to the Zune.

I won't; I hear most rumors- in fact, I think you've seen I report them often. We'll see... but in similar vein, Halo 3, like Marathon, records every game session as data that can be replayed 'in-engine' (and only so, to save space, and because that allows major camera and other manipulation- very handy in grabbing screens from beautiful, striking or interesting angles or distances- some even from space [takes patience]). Bungie also offers a render-to-video option, for pay.

Bat, I was pretty much kidding about the Dreamcast being better than modern consoles, just to get your dander up, and 'cause I enjoy making crazy statements from time to time. It was a great design for its era, and judged by the standards of its time, it certainly deserves praise, and the controllers are still some of the best ever made, but an Xbox 360 killer it ain't.

I know more than you think about these things. The Unreal engine had PowerVRSG (Second Generation) support built in from the first, but PowerVR took Sega's money and ran to do the DC chip. They tried but never really recovered in the consumer videocard space, a day (year, really) late & a dollar short. I think today they make chips for handheld devices.

Regarding Burger Time: Sounds yummy!

Ah, a food pun. Yummy. Glad to help. More seriously, it's about where Mac gaming's at since Boot Camp- poker, casual (a spooky number of food games), a few more serious titles, and most Mac devs diversified into PC, consoles, or death. Retro console, in this case.

Last edited by Bat (2009-08-26 1:58 am)

It's not like there was much to kill in the first place... It was already brain dead, just being sustained on life support. They finally decided there was no hope for revival and pulled the plug.