DAMN YOU, WUMPUS! DAMN YOU AND YOUR BATS TO HELLLLLL!
I’m pretty sure there was never a version of Yars Revenge released with an audio tape. There was a read-along book based on Yars, but that wasn’t included with the game itself.
You guys think American McGee doing Alice is bad? Try this: American McGee’s “Oz”…
http://www.xboxmagonline.com/xbox/reviews/a/reviews-americanmcgeesoz.html
TINS
And the silver Mercedes in Apex must die! Curse you, silver Mercedes! One day, when you least expect it, your uppence will COME!
Slime pit???
BTW, no audio tape for yar’s here either. Didn’t stop me from getting over 530,000 points at age 9!
CRorex , I was just given Wizardry8 as a birthday present. I didn’t ask for it and was given Death Stare From Hell when I asked to exchange it for a gime I’ve heard of & like. Like maybe the new Never Winter Nights Module.
Given what you’ve said, it’ll just collect dust & then be shoved into the Bookcase of Games of the Damned…
Hey quietman, check your email 
Actually the Wizardry games are some of the best PC RPGs ever made.
Wiz 8 is all about 3 legendary artifacts. Two have been found and were taken to the planet with the 3rd by 2 of 7 different factions all trying to get in on the uberpower game.
In enters your party.
Wizardry games have always combined really odd humor with a fairly interesting story line.
The only problem is, NONE of the wizardry games were made for the casual gamer. Each of the games is INSANELY hard. I barely beat Wizardry 6 with the guide book.
I suggest you try playing it.
Start out on Easy, and read the online walkthroughs for party creation suggestion.
Save BEFORE and after each fight you get into… save before you rest your party.
I never understood the rationale behind that kind of difficulty in a video/PC game. Don’t computer gamers have lives outside of…oh waitaminit, nevermind.
Hey, I’ve got a life outside of video games!
That’s what the role-playing books are for.
We’ve sure come a long way, baby! I can remember my BIL getting so angry and frustrated while playing Metroid on the original NES that he threw the controller (one of those great big babies with the turbo buttons) against the wall, putting a hole in the panelling. He decided that if it made him that upset it was time to give it a rest, so he loaned the damn thing to ME so that I could suffer just as much. My brother, while trying to defeat the final boss (The Mother Brain), finally, with clenched jaw, said, "Are you sure this thing is called a Mother BRAIN?
How easy those games were compared to the torture devices that they turn out now!
According to some of my…special sources, some of the games you guys have mentioned are being used during interrogations at Guantanamo.
Alright, I do like Apex, it’s compelling in some odd way…
But what the fuck is up with the slotcar tracks that these other cars run on? And they go batshit psycho if you run into em and knock em outta their lane.
And what the fuck is up with this leader turboboost? Every time a CPU car gets ahead of you, it suddenly gets a huge, rocket-powered lead. This was especially noticeable in one of the Challenge races, where I was racing an IDENTICAL CAR that somehow beat my ass by 10 seconds…
Dude, you want frustrating? Try Advance Wars for Game Boy Advance. That is a damned hard game. And the hell of it is, it’s so addicting, it makes you want to keep trying.
Nah, AW isn’t too bad. What’s bad is playing Final Fantasy Tactics, hitting a major fight (I’m thinking of one or two towards the middle of the game) and realizing, “Oh, shit, I really should have leveled up more.” :smack:
Once you know how to play the Final Fantasy tatics it is actually pretty easy to beat it with extremely low level characters. You have to know what all the numbers mean though. Even the one on one battle with Wiegraf.
You young whining wussies make me sick! Ever tried Adventure on the Atari 2600! HAH!-Thats a real game.
Or the original Pong console game…or the arcade version?
Come back to me when you can play Stargate or StarCastle, or Xevious or SubRoc, or Assault or Xenophobe or Vanguard for an hour on 1 quarter…
Uh, then show me how you did it…
You said it, nothing like going halfway through and having that psychotic “bat” swoop down and replace your key with a dragon who then proceeds to eat you alive.
Once I got good at Adventure, I used to fiddle with the TV controls so that I could barely see my pixellated self, the walls, creatures, or treasures. Essentially, I played the game with the feat Blindsight, Video Game.
Good fun, especially when a dragon showed up and you couldn’t see where you were going…
Bah. You people don’t know from frustrating games. Give NetHack or Ancient Domains of Mystery a shot sometime. The abovementioned games might have been tough, but please consider the following:
- These games are done entirely in ASCII.
- They’re 95% randomly generated levels.
- There are lots of, shall we say, interesting ways to die.
- When you find one of these ways, your savefile is deleted.
I just finished Splinter Cell II:Pandora Tomorrow for the XBox. What a kickass game. Not terribly difficult, but the last level had me stuck for about four hours (spread over three days), screaming at the screen.
Compared to the games of yesteryear, I find the ones out today are quite easy, and all beatable within 20 hours (with the exception of RPGs). Anybody remember games like Hacker or Murder on the Mississippi or Maniac Mansion? Christ, those games took me months to finish. Kids these days got it easy. 
BTW, I agree with whoever said Ultima IV being the best RPG. Now that was a cool game. I wish they’d make some more overhead-view 2D RPGs. Or remember Ultima 3? Between finding and figuring out the moongates and stumbling my way blindly through eight-level dungeons designed purely to piss you off, I’m surprised my computer made it without being smashed into tiny little pieces.