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N+ guys to arcade games: fuck you by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/23/2008, 8:08pm PDT
Raigan Burns wrote:

RB: The retro games thing I also don't get, because Double Dragon is not a game you ever need to play again. It was great. It was so good. But who's buying that if there's a demo? So many games since then... it's like, '40s movies you can appreciate, but when you get into the early '20s and the teens, it stops being...


Playing Double Dragon is like watching movies that came out in the early 1920s. All righty. Well, these guys probably don't care for the genre and to be honest, putting quarters into a game all the time was a desperate cash grab that didn't help gameplay, and --


Nick has this racing...do you know Iron Man Off-Road Racing, like the old arcade game? It's four-player (sic), and a little isometric. Nick made a racing game like that, and Microsoft was like, "Well, racing is too saturated on Live Arcade." But that's because they've greenlit like ten really shitty racing games. There's no good racing games.


Ah! Well. Yeah, old Ivan "Iron Man" Stewart Off-Road Racing. The arcade racing game that let you buy power-ups before races by shoving in more quarters. Well played, fellas.


the dark and gritty...Ice Cream Jonsey!
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N+ guys to arcade games: fuck you by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/23/2008, 8:08pm PDT NEW
    A good 4 player overhead racer? He must have been thinking of Micro Machines V3 NT by except it's 8 players 03/26/2008, 10:00am PDT NEW
 
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