The Great Depression 2: Depression Harder

[Uncle Du 22]

I guess you're lucky... :p

[Andy 60]

It does really show their incompetence though if they realise a trailer in 1997 and haven't finished the game 12 years later... :p

[Uncle Du 22]

No kidding. You would think with all the outstanding 3rd party studios out there these days that they could have had something by now. It is really sad. Duke Nukem was the reason I began PC gaming, and the first thing that I ever played over dial up.

Maybe someone will buy the rights, and we'll still get to see a game.

[Andy 60]

I think the first game I played on an actual (IBM compatible) PC was Wolfenstein 3D, developed by iD Software and published by 3D Realms, I think while they were still using the Apogee brand name.

3D Realms might not have been a big player these days, but they certainly cast an enormous shadow.

[Mara 29]

Wolfenstein 3D was an AWESOME game.

Too bad my only copy is on a floppy disk somewhere...

[James the Defender 7]

A what? :p

[Uncle Du 22]

A lot of those developers may not be pumping out big name titles, but many of them are responsible for the groundwork for so many of the engines running the most popular titles we see now.

[Andy 60]

iD is probably one of only a handful old school developers still active at the moment, along with Blizzard and LucasArts. Can't think of any more off the top of my head.

Nintendo don't count, they are like... legendary. lol, they were founded in like a hundred years before everyone else. And I'm not even exaggerating. :p

Edited May 12, 2009 by Andy

[Uncle Du 22]

Yea, but all Nintendo knows how to do now is recycle its old names. :p

[Bad furday 57]

Too bad my only copy is on a floppy disk somewhere...

A 5 and a quarter inch floppy diskete?! That's so last century! :eek:

[Uncle Du 22]

Ahhh, I can remember tossin' in Oregon Trail on one of those bad boys.

Dissentary was the worst. :p

Edited May 12, 2009 by Du

[Bad furday 57]

I remember when we had to hunt for food...and you'd move the character with the cursor keys. And then you'd spray bullets everywhere, and hit a squirrel or two. If you were lucky, there'd be a buffalo.

I remember this one time, in computer lab...

We had split up into teams, to play Oregon Trail on the Apple IIe's...and someone rather unknowingly replicated the advance of white game hunters across the great plains, ie: Killing off more buffalo than necessary, just to kill them

They just stood there waiting, and whenever a buffalo came along, they shot it. While waiting, they'd shoot at the rocks. And then the game would say something like, "You can only carry X pounds of food" or something :p

[Chickenman 9]

iD is probably one of only a handful old school developers still active at the moment, along with Blizzard and LucasArts. Can't think of any more off the top of my head.

Lucasarts adventure games were the best. Before my time, but the best.

[Radioactive Isotope 29]

Oregon Trail FTW! you were, like, the coolest kid EVER if you could beat it in one computer class.

i also had several games on 5 1/4" floppies when i was little. my favorites were hangman and google math.

[Chickenman 9]

Oregon Trail would make a great t-shirt. And some devilishly handsome up-and-coming comedian should wear said shirt while performing, and then have his picture taken while doing so. And that witty, hilarious, handsome, and god-damned beautiful young man should post that picture in the What Do We Look Like? thread.

[Uncle Du 22]

It was definitely a bad ass shirt. ;)

[Chickenman 9]

Thank you.

I'm glad somebody appreciates the things I buy with my parents' money. :p

[Drake 53]

Oregon Trail would make a great t-shirt. And some devilishly handsome up-and-coming comedian should wear said shirt while performing, and then have his picture taken while doing so. And that witty, hilarious, handsome, and god-damned beautiful young man should post that picture in the What Do We Look Like? thread.

Dane Cook posted his picture on GB?

[Bad furday 57]

I hate dane cook. :evil:

[Chickenman 9]

Oregon Trail would make a great t-shirt. And some devilishly handsome up-and-coming comedian should wear said shirt while performing, and then have his picture taken while doing so. And that witty, hilarious, handsome, and god-damned beautiful young man should post that picture in the What Do We Look Like? thread.

Dane Cook posted his picture on GB?

:(

[Andy 60]

Oregon Trail would make a great t-shirt. And some devilishly handsome up-and-coming comedian should wear said shirt while performing, and then have his picture taken while doing so. And that witty, hilarious, handsome, and god-damned beautiful young man should post that picture in the What Do We Look Like? thread.

Dane Cook posted his picture on GB?

Chickenman is Dane Cook!?

I don't know who that is.

[Chickenman 9]

You lucky British b******s! Has he really not become that popular over on that side of the pond?

[Andy 60]

To be fair, most US comedians don't become that popular over here. lol

[Chickenman 9]

Yeah, I know. American humor doesn't seem to really make it over there, which is probably a good thing because so much of American humor is this boring, sitcom "Men and Women are different!" style. Though in recent years it's gotten much more alternative and inventive and much more fun. The only American who's been successful over there that I can think of is Greg Proops, who's actually more popular there than here. Which is a shame, because he's hilarious. To be perfectly honest though, Canada churns out the most consistently great comedians, in my opinion.

Anyway, Dane Cook is this overrated comedian that's massively popular with teenaged girls over here because he's so gawsh dern hawt. In 2004 or 5 he released the highest selling comedy album since Steve Martin's Wild and Crazy Guy, and again, I'm not sure he had much crossover appeal with you guys, but Steve Martin was a damned comedy rock star in the 70s. There's been a massive backlash against Cook in recent years, with comedians and fans that truly follow comedy absolutely loathing him. To be honest, I used to be a fan of him, and he was one of the first stand-ups I ever really followed, but I outgrew him pretty quick. He's a good performer and puts on a good, high-energy show, and I'm sure he works his ass off at it, but I just find his comedy unfunny and a lot of people also find him arrogant. *Shrug*

[Drake 53]

His stand-up is hit or miss but I find that he does better in movies.