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Post by anayo on Oct 31, 2023 14:25:59 GMT -5
I was playing a Star Wars arcade game from the 80's. The graphics looked very close to that green wireframe one from Atari. But the controls were totally different. Instead of a joystick, there were buttons on the left and righthand sides of the cabinet, somewhat like a pinball game. You had to spread your hands out, grasp each side of the cabinet, and press the buttons to fire your blasters.
The cabinet was located at some public venue. I'm not sure where exactly, it could have been anything from a convenience store to a college campus. I mainly remember that this place felt safe and it was sunny outside. There was a woman watching over my shoulder as I played, enthusiastically talking about the game as I played it. I think she wanted to try when I was through.
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Post by anayo on Jan 13, 2024 8:44:28 GMT -5
In November 2023 I dreamed that I bought “Titanfall: the Arcade Game” from a guy who owned an amusement center. The amusement cener was inside of a circular building with a muted, conservative color palette. I remember mostly grays and blacks. There was also a vast vaulted roof. I was following him up a winding staircase to a service room where he kept arcades under repair or out of rotation. He wanted $600 for the cabinet.
Titanfall in arcade form was a lightgun shooter. The control interface was a big gun like the one from Sega’s L.A. Machineguns. The main in-game environment I remember was a flat, metallic circle structure that was very industrial-looking. I’m not sure exactly what it was, but it seemed to be a part of a futuristic enemy base. The camera was bombastically flying around it, and I may have been seeing enemy infantry and aircraft swaming over it.
The cabinet was not in completely original condition. For one thing, the factory-issue montor had been ripped out and replaced with a smaller one. It looked odd inside of the frame intended for a bigger display. Also, the gun wasn’t placed in the center. It was off to the right, making the cabinet asymmetrical.
It didn’t seem as though the game had originally been two player and he simply removed P1’s gun while leaving P2’s as-is. Somehow I knew this game was exclusively single player, he had just jerry rigged the one and only gun at a weird angle. I knew this because there was a contraption beneath the gun; some kind of metal frame similar to a monitor mount or maybe a hyrdaulic arm which the owner had installed himself.
As I finalized this transaction, I thought, “Wait, this thing weighs a ton, and I’m going to move when my lease ends. I don’t want to haul this enormous arcade cabinet to my new place. What do I do?” I pictured myself getting desperate during a move and throwing the whole thing in a dumpster.
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Post by anayo on Jan 20, 2024 9:58:43 GMT -5
I dreamed I was playing a PC game about "The Matrix." My character was Keanu Reeves as Neo and was running around a 3D environment fighting enemies with kung-fu moves. He could also fly. MSI afterburner was telling me the game was running at 80 fps, but it felt suspiciously choppier than that.
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Post by Ex on Jan 20, 2024 15:09:57 GMT -5
I dreamed I was playing a PC game about "The Matrix." My character was Keanu Reeves as Neo and was running around a 3D environment fighting enemies with kung-fu moves. He could also fly. MSI afterburner was telling me the game was running at 80 fps, but it felt suspiciously choppier than that. You could probably get 80 fps in that.
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Post by anayo on Jan 28, 2024 9:11:41 GMT -5
I dreamed I was playing a PC game about "The Matrix." My character was Keanu Reeves as Neo and was running around a 3D environment fighting enemies with kung-fu moves. He could also fly. MSI afterburner was telling me the game was running at 80 fps, but it felt suspiciously choppier than that. You could probably get 80 fps in that. I remember being interested in playing Matrix: Path of Neo when I was a teenager. Somehow I thought it was exclusive to XBOX. I only had a Gamecube and PC, so I thought I couldn't play it. But apparently it was on PC all along? At least I got to play Enter the Matrix on Gamecube. It wasn't a very good game, but I still played it a lot and had fun with it.
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Post by Ex on Jan 29, 2024 11:54:06 GMT -5
At least I got to play Enter the Matrix on Gamecube. It wasn't a very good game Yeah Enter the Matrix was middling, but Path of Neo is an improvement. If you're a fan of the franchise, it's probably still worth playing today. And yeah Path of Neo simultaneously released on PC along with PS2/Xbox, back in November of 2005. Enter the Matrix also got a PC port by the way.
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Post by toei on Mar 11, 2024 14:04:12 GMT -5
I dreamed that I had found a new job where I just had to play a certain game for 8 hours a day. I wasn't a tester; I didn't have to look for bugs or anything like that. Just play the game, in some kind of apartment that had been converted into a small office. My childhood friend was there too, and he was familiar with the game, but he had a different job.
I played the game on a portable device similar to a PSP, but maybe bigger. You controlled a medieval army that landed on a dock in the beginning of the game. I think the core gameplay was some sort of atypical mix between RTS and action or something. I don't really remember it well, but it wasn't a standard entry into any genre. At certain intervals, a map opened up that allowed you to go back to previous locations by just moving your character between points, including a RPG-style town with a name like "Zerim" or something. This was my second day there, so I knew a full day was 8 hours (probably with a lunchbreak or something) but I found I had a hard time staying focused on the game and I didn't think I was progressing fast. I also didn't understand what the job was about. It made no sense to me that they would pay someone just to play a completed game, without even asking to write a review. I knew the boss from before, but I wasn't sure what he had told me when hired me. Some sort of study on gaming habits?
I wish I could remember the gameplay better.
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Post by toei on Apr 19, 2024 19:09:33 GMT -5
I dreamed there was this Genesis game with a really cool, gritty, hyper-detailed cover artwork featuring an axe-wielding minotaur. I had been aware of this game since childhood, but had never played it because the gameplay seemed weird, but now I was finally giving it a shot. In fact, I was thinking of what I was going to write about it here. As far as I can remember, it was a turn-based, 1v1 fighting game, similar to a RPG battle system but with more options. It was supposed to get more strategic with more advanced opponents too. The background was black so the only thing on screen was a couple of giant character sprites. I think your character was on the bottom left, with his back turned to you, and the opponent on the top right facing you, but they were both at an oblique angle looking at each other. There was some kind of strange visual effect that made them look faded and translucid in spots, almost like an hologram. There were probably some menus too, but I don't remember them.
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Post by Xeogred on Apr 19, 2024 19:12:38 GMT -5
Are you sure this doesn't actually exist? Sounds possible... maybe all that Altered Beast PS2 got to you.
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Post by toei on Apr 19, 2024 19:36:59 GMT -5
Must be. I can't understand why there aren't at least a few games starring minotaurs. People couldn't hate on classic Ys bump combat if you were a minotaur ramming people with your horns. Plus axes are cool and a nice change from swords.
Konami had a 4-player beat-'em-up with the same concept as Altered Beast, the characters started as human but could turn into more powerful anthropomorphic beasts and one of them was a minotaur. A Karate minotaur, in fact. You could uppercut enemies and then impale them on your horns.
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