Life's Luck. Random Thoughts.

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Awesome.

Comedy always works. Joe Stapleton on the EPT live streams does an awesome job, same with Norman Chad on the WSOP.
For DTD and not my own personal reasons, I think Stappleton in with Tighty would be awesome. Get this arranged for the ISPT!

That may even be possible, though perhaps not (contractual reasons) at ISPT, but deffo, if Rob Yong did not object, at any event held at DTD.

I'll see if I can set it up.

[Tommy Bingham]

The Greatest Inventions Ever Made - The Nintendo NES and the SNES.

I am a bit of a geek.
I have always loved computer consoles. I had the original Nintendo NES back in the day and played all night. Go school, play football and then play on the Nintendo. There were not many people, let alone 5 year olds that could complete the Original Mario Bros... without dying. I use to work out optimal routes and use 'timing tells' on enemies to decrease the final speed of each level run. I was 5. There were no save game facilities back in the day, so I use to pause it, turn the television off and go to bed. Wake up in the morning and restart. Had Super Mario wallpaper, we use to buy Nintendo Power Magazines (well mum did).. I loved everything about it.

The Next Generation - The 'Super' Era.

The SNES was out a few years before my parents were able to buy it for me. Everything in the early 90's in relation to computers and games, was SUPER or set in Space. My first and only game for a while was Street Fighter II. I use to practice all day. I always used Ryu. He just looked the coolest and was a Ninja. And this helped, as my favorite film at the time was the 3 Ninjas. It felt like I was part of their team.



Anyway, my dad couldn't beat me, my best mate couldn't beat me, my mate's dad couldn't beat me. To be honest, noone could. I should have been making money back then, betting for every round I win!
I lost a round or two here and there when I got trapped in a corner, but never lost an actual 3 round fight.

[Tommy Bingham]

HeroQuest.

I can talk about Nintendo's all day, and will get back to them later.

There was a guy on my street called Lee. He never played football, was a few years older than me and never really played outside apart from 50/50 in a few nights a week.
When your a kid, you will speak to anyone. I noticed one day he had a SNES Controller box in his bin outside his house so knocked on his door and asked if I could play. Haha. We played Street Fighter for a bit, and he didn't want to play me anymore, so he mention about some board games. I picked one called 'HeroQuest'.

I've search on youtube for this game and watched some videos, but honestly cannot make sense on how you really play. But, back in the 90's it all made sense to me.
If you haven't ever seen this game. It's a strategy dungeon game with skeletons and cool shit. You would even paint your characters! Then try and collect treasure from a dungeon avoiding skeletons, traps and falling boulders. It use to take ages to set up, but as soon as you rolled the dice, you loved it. Any strategy game that involved warriors, skeletons, goblins or wizards I would be in.

[Tommy Bingham]

If anyone enjoyed Nintendos or retro games, I recommend you check this guy out on youtube. He has aload of videos and they all make me laugh and bring back some memories.

Only watch the ones that are 'The Angry Video Game Nerd' as some others are another guy! ENJOY!

[Tommy Bingham]

That may even be possible, though perhaps not (contractual reasons) at ISPT, but deffo, if Rob Yong did not object, at any event held at DTD.

I'll see if I can set it up.

I think it would be a good idea. They would have good chemistry together based on there individual styles.
Would work well!

[Tommy Bingham]

Mad Windows Paint Tekkers

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Excellent!

[Tommy Bingham]

My 10 Favorite Computer Games of All Time.

1) Super Mario Bros 3. - Super Nintendo

2) Duck Tales - Nintendo NES

3) Street Fighter II - Super Nintendo

4) Golden Axe II. - Sega Megadrive

5) Super Mario 64 - Nintendo 64

6) Goldeneye - Nintendo 64

7) Zelda, A Link to the Past - Super Nintendo

8 ) Donkey Kong Country 2 - Super Nintendo

9) Pokemon, Red and Blue - Gameboy

10) Addams Family - Super Nintendo

[Tal]

Goodness me.

Was very much a Nintendo boy.

Zelda: Ocarina of Time was an epic game. The original Super Mario Bros was the best. Completely revolutionary platformer from a user perspective.

No Mario Kart? No NBA Jam?

Goldeneye could be the greatest game on any console of all time. Throwing it out there.

I'd lean towards Street Fighter II or MarioKart, but it is close.

[Tal]

Mortal Kombat used to be available on the Gameboy, too.

[Tommy Bingham]

Goodness me.

Was very much a Nintendo boy.

Zelda: Ocarina of Time was an epic game. The original Super Mario Bros was the best. Completely revolutionary platformer from a user perspective.

No Mario Kart? No NBA Jam?

Goldeneye could be the greatest game on any console of all time. Throwing it out there.

I'd lean towards Street Fighter II or MarioKart, but it is close.

Yes, Mario Kart for the SNES was epic. It was either that or Donkey Kong in the top 10.
It's so difficult, as some games I have chosen are based on experiences as a child instead of quality of the game.

Nintendo was so much better than Sega!

[Tommy Bingham]

I loved the fact it was so difficult to find the cheats or secrets for the games back then.
If you knew the Fatality for Rayden in Mortal Combat, you was instantly the coolest kid in school.

[mulhuzz]

Woah, snes chat ITT.

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SF2T best game ever. On any platform. From any era.

[Tal]

Woah, snes chat ITT.

[ x ] in

SF2T best game ever. On any platform. From any era.

Turbo. Interesting. I did enjoy having the better controller...

[craigbetts]

Never been the biggest gamer ever, although there was a few memories raised from games itt.

My top ten in no particular order.

Paperboy (C-64)
Out Run (C-64, arcade)
Football Manager 1984 (C-64)
Chase (arcade)
Sonic the Hedgehog (megadrive)
Kickstart (C-64)
Armageddon (C-64)
EA Hockey (megadrive)
Donkey Kong (Nintendo Handheld)
Operation Thunderbolt (arcade C-64)

Oh wow the memories, in our house we were not allowed the computer on after 9am on a Saturday, thus having to get up at 6am to load Football manager up for 20 minutes. If it did not crash we would get a couple of hours in.