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If the gaming industry is an automobile, and the game designers are the drivers, then that makes us, the players, backseat drivers, and we'll be damned if we're gonna let the industry keep on heading the way it's going (good or bad) without letting them know what we think. So buckle up, feel free to complain about there being no air in the back, and bring your most critical and analytical mind to the open air discussion of the current age, Backseat Gamers!
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Night Trap for Sega CD
This was a game I use to rent as a kid when we'd rent the Sega CD attachment from Blockbuster (RIP). I remember thinking that this was the greatest game of all time. Real video! Protect the girls! In retrospect the game was a complete tragedy and is one of the main reasons that game ratings were invented (not joking).
Please enjoy the death
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Those are awesome! I only wish my inferior super nintendo could look so good...
ReplyDeleteEven better was the guy that yelled at you if one of them died. He'd hold up a Sega controller and rip out the cord. At the time...I thought it was unbelievably cool.
ReplyDeleteThis stuff it kinda borderline post-modern for the time. Although the concept isn't nearly as entertaining or cool as it used to be (if it ever was), it's a real simple way of drawing in the player even more, by having an open dialogue with them. Now we think things like that are kinda lame, but before the player was accepted as a crucial part of the story-telling process, this sort of stuff blew-minds. One of the reasons I love Myst so much.
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