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[challenge entry] Video games and their effect on people
The violence debate aside there has been discussion in the popular press about whether games can produce notable effects on people, there have been people that suffer panic attacks after playing games, the common thinking on this theory is that games produce an over-production of adrenaline in some people.

EDIT : Done for new compy
Well I never suffered from things like this, except for one game that always used to frighten me at the very start for some reason, digging out an emulator and finding the .adf file online for it I wanted to rationalise it, see why it was happening. Coming to terms with this is hard, but I think that I am beginning to understand the reason why these waves of panic and dread used to sweep over me while playing it...


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(I helped save b3ta! Cadmus has teh uplikn coeds at, Wed 16 Apr 2003, 12:24, archived)
# Woooooooow James Pond!
Now that IS retro.
(twopoint6khz, Wed 16 Apr 2003, 12:25, archived)
# James Pond II, Robocod
actually.

All 3 of the James Pond games am the best. And Stunt Car Racer, thats the best too.

In fact, games actually were much better in those days, imho :)
(I helped save b3ta! Lumpbucket tekcubpmuL, Wed 16 Apr 2003, 12:27, archived)
# stunt car racer
was amazing.
the chaos engine was one of my favourites.
(I helped save b3ta! munkt0n, Wed 16 Apr 2003, 12:29, archived)
# Geoff Crammond
is remaking Stunt Car Racer. I'm REALLY hoping he keeps the same gameplay, but adds modern 3D and internet play.
(I helped save b3ta! Lumpbucket tekcubpmuL, Wed 16 Apr 2003, 12:33, archived)
# those were both fantastic.
And in reply to the post below about 90's graphics over gameplay, let your 16bit jealousies go, it's over... Stunt Car Racer had awful graphics, but genuinely induced vertigo! what a game!
(I helped save b3ta! WhoElse I'm what Willis was talking about, Wed 16 Apr 2003, 12:35, archived)
# and you could even link your A500
with your (jealous) friends Atari ST, and play Stunt Car Racer against him, and the two rival computers didn't fight or try and blow each other up. It seems the computers could get along, just not the owners :)
(I helped save b3ta! Lumpbucket tekcubpmuL, Wed 16 Apr 2003, 12:36, archived)
# Retro?
bollocks, that's post-90s "graphics over gameplay" consumerism sequel-cash-in gaming, that is! Retro's back when games came on tapes... or better still, when you bought a magazine with listings in and had to program the game yourself!

Nice pic though.
(I helped save b3ta! JustHere4Coffee remembers when all o' this were car parks, Wed 16 Apr 2003, 12:29, archived)
# the only problem with your rant
is that Robocod is an immensely playable, great fun game. It just happens to have shiny bright graphics, too :)

(also, the C64 version of Robocod was available on cassette and 5.25" disk. Retro enough for you? :)
(I helped save b3ta! Lumpbucket tekcubpmuL, Wed 16 Apr 2003, 12:32, archived)
# Hehehe
I'm not singling Robocod out... my brother loved it, which considering he was 6 or 7 shows how easy it was to play.

didn't realise they still made C64 games when it came out!
(I helped save b3ta! JustHere4Coffee remembers when all o' this were car parks, Wed 16 Apr 2003, 12:39, archived)
# Yes.
Commercial games for the C64 were being released as late as 1995 or so. The C64 it self was in production from 1982 right up to the early 1990s, and I believe the only longer-running system is the Atari 2600 (clones of which are still made today).

According to the Guinness book of records, the C64 is the biggest selling model of computer, with over 22 million units world wide (and no the "PC" doesn't count, since its an architecture not a single computer model).

Anyway, Robocod followed the key to a good game as set out by Nolan Bushnell (the guy who started Atari, for those that don't know) himself, "Easy to play, hard to master".

/geek
(I helped save b3ta! Lumpbucket tekcubpmuL, Wed 16 Apr 2003, 12:43, archived)
# exactly!
has anybody actually ever finished robocod?!
(fatty biscuits, Fri 18 Apr 2003, 17:11, archived)
# ARG!
*runs in terror etc*
(I helped save b3ta! StickFigureNinja is worried he may be on the list, Wed 16 Apr 2003, 12:25, archived)
# Blimey, that's a very long post!
Woo to you for the effort, sir!

(Oh, and ARGH!)
(I helped save b3ta! The Duke Of Your Fingers feels like an old man... mmm, tasty!, Wed 16 Apr 2003, 12:29, archived)
# I hope you picked up the random objects on that first level in the right order
if it spelled L-I-V-E-S you got infinite lives.
Fact!
I mean...
SAD!

btw Fnord unearthed the origins of The Fear...
(I helped save b3ta! WhoElse I'm what Willis was talking about, Wed 16 Apr 2003, 12:32, archived)
# so did
sargant
www.b3ta.com/board/1015300
(I helped save b3ta! StickFigureNinja is worried he may be on the list, Wed 16 Apr 2003, 12:38, archived)
# nah - it was CHEAT
Cake, Hammer, Earth, Apple, Tap IIRC....
(I helped save b3ta! Sack Sack - Norfolks laziest, Fri 18 Apr 2003, 17:15, archived)