The Grudge List

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Originally Posted by Cowutopia

fuck, I'm gonna get so carded for derailing this thread.

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Nah this isn't something I consider really disruptive. It should have it's own thread but it's interesting enough that I could care either way. :)

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Originally Posted by A Robot Bit Me

That's right, the NES would still be sitting on store shelves if not for the miraculous Play Choice 10, which gave us all our first taste of Super Mario Bros.

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That's not even close to what I implied, much less said.

Let's go over it again -

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one large selling point

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One point.
One, as in, one among others.
One, as in, not the only.

And nowhere did I even allude to us all having played the game in the arcade first.

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People wanted to play the arcade game at home

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The use of the word "people" as a plural noun only indicates more than one person and doesn't denote us all.

Need any more clarification?

Gradius 1 had a ranking system. I'm pretty sure there's a game that pre-dates it, but that's the oldest game I can think of offhand that has dynamic difficulty.

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Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater

I spent a good amount of time playing 4th & Inches, especially.

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We'd enjoyed playing the Baseball game more. I was somewhat disappointed with how 4th and inches played.

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Originally Posted by gamevet

The funny thing is, the C-64 is only about 4 years older than the NES.

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Originally Posted by gamevet

The funny thing is, the C-64 is only about 2-3 years older than the NES.

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OK NOW WHICH ONE IS IT?

I always forget Mech is a mod.

Time to beat the dynamic difficulty horse one more time. Astrosmash on Intellivision (released in 1981) has very blatant dynamic difficulty adjustment - it gets harder based on the amount of asteroids you hit and easier if you start missing a lot or die.

That's awesome. I wish I'd played that.

Astrosmash ruled. I remember how exciting it was when the background changed to a new color you hadn't seen before upon reaching a new high score plateau. I think white was the last new color before it turned back to the first level's black.

Long gone are the days when a background changing from blue to white could arouse such excitement.

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Originally Posted by Josh

OK NOW WHICH ONE IS IT?

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:wtf:

I guess that would depend on where you lived when it launched.

It's a little over a year in Japan, 3 Years in North America and 4 in Europe.