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  7. Resident Evil (PlayStation)

    in Modern Gaming

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    21 minutes ago, Atari 5200 Guy said:

    Working on the first one now.  I have to admit the voice acting now seems a bit overdramatized.

    I got lucky.  Someone here threw away a bunch of PlayStation consoles and three RE games for them.  I have that sequel and the third one called Nemesis.  I have played the second one a bit since having them and it has been fun.  I’m playing in Arrange mode so I have unlimited ammo.

     

    Well that's putting it nicely, classic R.E. voice acting is renowned for being horrible 😂all part of the campy fun these days. The first 3 games are great.

  8. My "new" Lenovo Legion T5 replacing CyberPowerPc Desktop.

    in Modern Computing

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    Our 3 month old "NEW" Desktop 😝😎
    Truth be told this video should have been uploaded about three months ago. I have no excuse for not having uploaded it sooner besides procrastination. Though at least now I can say that having lived with the machine this past three months++,  I am very happy and satisfied thus far. While certainly not the highest-end machine for our needs it is a nice little step up from the previous CyberPowerPC desktop which it replaces. I give some details regarding the specifications of both machines, as well as why the replacement and just a little bit of my usual droning on and on about things. So please, enjoy, I figured why not upload this now since it's been another long while since you've heard from me, hope you're all doing well, until next time.

     

  9. Resident Evil (PlayStation)

    in Modern Gaming

    Posted · Edited by MaximumRD

    Thanks for posting, great memory that relates to one of my best and most beloved memories, such a similar experience but with an opposite reaction 😏so I had to respond because of my own similar experience yet a very different reaction! 

    Setting the scene....

    I was about 5 years old I recall peeking over my mother's shoulder though I was supposed to be sleeping, she was watching Vincent Price in House on Haunted Hill but with every peek I could get in I would stare intensely wide eyes in awe, I found the fake skeleton terrorizing the woman fascinating more than scary. I was fascinated with various classic Horror from The Hunchback of Notre Dame starring Charles Laughton to Boris Karloff Frankenstein, safe to say as I got older the years I was not the kid playing sports or pretending to be a cowboy or spaceman, no I was the Wolfman. Any scares to be found for me were always fun and exhilarating. I mention all this to begin to give contrast to your experience and indeed yours is an experience I have seen by many but I tend to fall in the other category I think 😁If anything getting older I would crave something that could in fact scare me, a reader of various Horror magazines and articles and research I also learned a lot about how the grisly FX were managed, fascinated by blood made of corn starch or practical makeup FX by early pioneers, the downside is understanding all the tricks and inside outs of Horror FX did take some of the magic away in that pretty much any horrific scene I would view in a move I would look at it more like "Oh yeah, hah, I see what they did there....." not exactly the most fun way to watch Horror movies and shows....

    Before RESIDENT EVIL....

    I recall playing a few games in the Horror genre (of course CAPCOM would introduce the new genre of survival Horror) obviously anything 8 or 16 bit though Horror "themed" with some suitable chiptunes and atmospheric locations was fun but nothing more, I never experienced the original Alone in the Dark. I did play some text-based and some point n click horror-themed games on the AMIGA computer like DARK SEED (1992) which definitely was a major bump up in the atmosphere, music and of course grisly Giger-esque visuals, I loved it but again nothing that would actually "scare me" so much as immerse me in a gothic and atmospheric entertaining game and that was fine by me, truth be told I was sure that was about the limit of what a video game could do, I didn't expect it to scare me but I still enjoyed the escape they provided. 

    And then came Resident Evil for the PS1....

    Much like you @Atari 5200 Guy I brought home a copy of Resident Evil for PS1 and I also prepared for full effect, now I only had my little 14-inch Commodore 1084s monitor though a small display it was sharp, vibrant and I sat directly in front of it with headphones plugged in, not surround maybe but that would not matter as I would learn, lights out also in preparation to make it as atmospheric as possible, I also recall going down that one hall, pretty sure I had already gone down it once so it was not an area I really expected anything and then like you, SMASH! Those decaying Dobermans came crashing through the window chasing me, to this day I recall a sudden hard thud of my heart seemingly the thumping increasing rapidly 😲I THINK I just ran but then was forced to fight, I may have even died because I was just caught off guard and not sure if at that point I had mastered the "Tank Controls". I DO clearly recall before continuing being absolutely stunned, literally amazed that a game, not a movie but a damn video game actually managed to make me jump and for a moment actually scared me and got my pulse going! How was this possible? 

    This is where we differ though, where for you it was something you had no interest in returning to for a long time for me, well, not only would I continue, get better, be more cautious and now fascinated with what was around every corner but I enjoyed every single minute of it! Completed it a few times eventually and of course got the amazing sequel. "Survival Horror" was not cemented in my mind as my no.1 favourite video game genre. Emulation lets me revisit many of my favourite classics on any platform. While I do not play many full AAA games I play some demos as well many, many indie Horror games. Even a lot of free offerings on PC with amazing graphics provide some pretty amazing and atmospheric Horror games. Occasionally some of them even give me the creeps, I keep chasing that adrenaline rush I first experienced with those Resident Evil dogs yet it's funny, as realistic as graphics can be, as atmospheric and well designed, though it has come close, I have experienced a sense of "dread" yet I don't think any have ever impacted me as that original jump scare by those dogs in Resident Evil and I am not sure anything ever will, I would guess it's like any first experience, perhaps not being on guard at all and not thinking it was even possible to be scared by a game helped that first Resident Evil game achieve what nothing has since but it's been a lot of fun and continues to be fun trying. 

    The second I was hooked on "Survival Horror" 

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  12. (October 1983) Antics and Analogs - 40 Years Ago

    in Video Game Magazines, Books & Websites

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    The first in a reoccurring series of monthly videos that focus on a trip back 40 years ago to see what was in the Antic and ANALOG magazines. You never know what interesting things we may discover or re-discover along the way! 00:00 - Intro 00:17 - Overview & background 01:29 - Begin Antic 01:49 - Broderbund 05:20 - Donkey Kong Advertisement 06:34 - Gridiron Grit 08:01 - Track Star 09:02 - Alpha Run 10:23 - Mountain Skiing 11:09 - Typing & Playing Mountain Skiing 15:50 - New Products 16:54 - Product Reviews 18:29 - Begin ANALOG 19:05 - Editorial - TARICON 19:37 - Reader Comment 21:15 - New Products 21:22 - Atari 1400XL & ATARI 1450XLD 22:11 - Subscribe to ANALOG 22:41 - Recap 24:45 - Vintage Magazine Memories Shrine

  21. Wildfire's getting too close around us.

    in Quick, Tell Us A Story!

    Posted · Edited by MaximumRD

    11 hours ago, Justin said:

    @MaximumRD

    I live in Southwest Florida. I went out today and the sky looked hazy and smoky although there wasn't a smoky aroma. I thought maybe they were having a controlled burn in the Everglades. Nope, apparently it's smoke that has drifted all the way down to South Florida from Canada and affecting our air quality. How is this even possible:

    https://nbc-2.com/news/environment/2023/10/03/canadian-wildfires-send-smoke-all-the-way-to-sw-florida/

    Welcome to just a taste of what we go through every summer 😬 It happens, though we have more than enough wildfires and poor air quality ourselves there have been occasions when smoke and poor air quality I assumed were from fires here in B.C. when in actual fact it had all drifted in from fires in the U.S. for example in 2022 we experienced hazy skies and wildfire smoke here in B.C. that drifted over from Washington and Idaho. 🤷‍♂️Just has to be the right weather and wind conditions. Massive out-of-control wildfires are often a problem for places many miles away affecting air quality, imagine how bad it is closer to the source, there were times here when it literally looked liked Silent Hill so thick with smoke and burnt wood smell I could have believed a fire was nearby only to find out it drifted in from elsewhere often many miles away, just a taste of what we go through every summer it seems and we stay indoors as much as possible during these times. Yeah, it's no fun  🤷‍♂️ Anyway as far as Canada affecting the U.S. just this past July when we had 100's of wildfires burning here the air quality and visibility put around 70 million U.S. residents under alert, including residents of Chicago, and Detroit, New York, St. Louis and Cleveland. Just look at the video thumbnail and images to compare here:

    https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/16/weather/canada-wildfires-us-air-quality-alerts-sunday/index.html

     

    But having had wildfires as close to us this summer to the point of pending evacuation, I'm really hoping for no repeat of it for at least another 20 years 😬I don't need that stress in my life. 

     

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