netmonkey

Now that I've graduated from the university, I've become quite scared of the future because I need to get a full time job so I can maintain myself and uh... buy stuff! But, have any of you see what's out there? Well, first of all I wanted to get a job in the fabled "game industry", making good games, you know? But man, the companies out there want you to have at least 2 years of experience and 3d math programming skills for what? Shitty ass clones of other games or franchises. I didn't come out of college to make that stuff. I can think of Double Fine being the only studio in the United States making something worth while and while I'd like to work for them, I don't want to be spoiled with their next title! I want to play their game. Meanwhile, all the jobs around here are tech jobs where you develop something related to a database for some business. However, some guy called me and he was explaining a job to me where basically I would have full creative control of every aspect of the software, because they're smaller scale programs where I would basically use everything I've learned so far and make something. It's not interactive entertainment, but at least I can do things the way I see fit, and actually make them good. It would quench my more nerdy side that just wants to do random software products, but it would waste my potential to entertain the masses. So, what would you choose? Being assistant ass-wiping programmer making another first-person movie-licensed shooter for a long, long time or not making entertainment at all but having full control over what you want to do?

This one is a classic: http://homestarrunner.com/404 And I always like the one on the AGS page: http://bigbluecup.com/404

Wow, they even got the lighting exactly like total annihilation. Is that legal?

I don't know which is worse:Ctrl+Alt+Del or Penny Arcade. Go VG Cats!

Did you lose the remote, Yufster? You can change the channel.

You can suggest your ideas to marketing@majescosales.com, btw...

It's very unfortunate that innocent civilians, no matter whether they're slackers or people who work hard in jobs that nobody likes, have to pay the ultimate price for what a group of people think is just. And it doesn't matter what country it is and how much covered it is in the news because who knows what's happened in iraq and how many innocent civilians have died. At least they can't blame this one on Video Games. I'm serious.

I have some job interview tomorrow which I don't care much about. Why the fuck did I study computer science? I forgot! I will not end in IT. Mark my words.

Don't forget you all share the same bed, too. Or at least some of you...

Nobody's heard about this game except for you, me, and the rest of the Idle Thumbs jerks, that's the problem. They show comercials for San Andreas on TV, but everybody fucking knows what san andreas is, damnit! I haven't even seen it in any front shelves or anything like that. It's like the game never existed.

I don't even have a Game Boy Advance! How would I even talk about gizmondo, then?

We all had the classic consoles NES, SNES, Genesis, and perhaps others... maybe the Atari 2600, if you're old enough. As a kid, it was probably the greatest day of your life where you finally caught up with your friends by having your first console...! Here's my story on how I ended up with a Sega Genesis (Mega Drive): I remember it was my birthday, or some important holiday where I got to pick my present, and we (Mom, Dad, and I) went to this store to buy me a console. The NES was hugely popular and the SNES and Genesis had just gotten to Venezuela and no one in the neighborhood had them yet. This generic store didn't care on wether I would buy one console or the other, so they conected both to a TV for me to try with Super Mario World and Sonic the Hedgehog. Now, never seeing a SNES or Genesis before that and trying out those games, which would you choose? The fat, lazy plumber who dies when he gets hits by a walking mushroom or a blue hedgehog on steroids? I went for the hedgehog, which is exactly what sega wanted people to do! So, eventually, everyone in my neighborhood bought Genesis. There is one kid who bought a Super Nintendo, and I still talk to him online these days... My Genesis apparently got stolen when I moved to the United States, along with a pirated Famicom I got as a gift later. So, do you remember why you got your classic console?

It looks pretty cool... Have you seen Peter Jackson recently? He's turning into the J. Allard of Hollywood, yo.

... love it.

I e-mailed Majesco's Marketing department on my thoughts on their campaign.

Eclipse is cool. It takes way too much memory when it's running, though. Anyways, on the thread's subject: I think that if you're putting all these principles behind pirating stuff, then you're thinking too much. We all do pirating because: 1) We are low on cash 2) We spent the cash on booze 3) We're not able to get it 4) Nobody cares. 1 & 2 are related in a sense that if you rather spend all your money on something else, then you're not really a gamer. You would save your money to buy games, that's what being a gamer is all about. Companies don't make games for people who are going to steal them. In the past 4 years, my friend the gamer has spent all his scholarship refunds on upgrading his computer so that he could play games, and buying games for his gamecube, gba, and xbox. The sad part is that he's playing WOW non-stop, and yet he goes to the store and still buys games for his consoles. It doesn't mean that he opens the games or plays them more than 5 minutes. 3 & 4 apply to countries under development. Back home, I couldn't find a single legal XBOX, PC and PS2 title, and back in the day I guess I could find SNES and Genesis games, but PC games came out of somebody's disc copying abilities. Everything that was sold was h4x0red and packacked in crappy CDs. The only one that ends up winning is Nintendo Gamecube because no one (or not many) can rip their games from tiny discs. Usually, I've relied on 1 and 3. I started with 3, then I moved in to 1, and not necessarily on games. Best example is Monkey Island, when I finally got a copy 6 years after the game came out because it wasn't available legally anywhere, ever. I'd rather have the original stuff, though, because I like nice packaging and other bullshit like that.

Check out my latest game: ORIGINAL GAME, HOMIE!

I voted. Have YOU?

Brace for impact. Oh, and for giving the deepest condolences: http://www.gaspowered.com/contactus.php

I hate you, too... ... but you already knew that!

Someone from AGSforums posted about this site with retro video game tv commercials: http://gameads.gamepressure.com/ Here's a good one: http://gameads.gamepressure.com/tv_game_commercial.asp?ID=31 Here's two for Zelda (link to the past, and link's awakening) from Japan: http://gameads.gamepressure.com/tv_game_commercial.asp?ID=110 http://gameads.gamepressure.com/tv_game_commercial.asp?ID=1443 Here's a comercial for the NES... remember when the system came with all the accesories and included a FREAKING ROBOT? http://gameads.gamepressure.com/tv_game_commercial.asp?ID=1086 I dont. Anyway, Enjoy!

See, you didn't market it correctly and I DID!

Or maybe Yufster and Spaff were sharing a computer for a night... --- I won't/can't buy Tim's love . I'll just earn it the old-fashioned way.

And it worked!

A lot of the Sega ads go by the "I have (a) bigger penis/boobs than thou" attitude. And then they drop out of the race... I guess they weren't man/woman enough.