This video needed the NES Silver Surfer Death/Fail image following an in-game death, the one you'd see about 2000x in any one play-through.

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This is nothing short of brilliant.

That's some serious tail rape at 1:45.

once had a nightmare that went very much like this..

GAME OVER

Wow, I had forgotten about so many of those games. Defender, 1942, Arkanoid...wow. If I had all those quarters back I could buy Google. But I regret nothing!

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>> ^kronosposeidon:
Wow, I had forgotten about so many of those games. Defender, 1942, Arkanoid...wow. If I had all those quarters back I could buy Google. But I regret nothing!


Still remember the first time I saw Afterburner. One of the first "articulated" video games. You sat down and it rotated back and forth to simulate G force. I must have dumped $400 that summer.

I love you, internets.

Isn't this almost the definition of *fail? And *win at the same time.

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This makes me feel nostalgia for an era before my own if that is somehow possible.

What is that music, it sounds so damn familiar, but I can't name it.

>> ^jimnms:

What is that music, it sounds so damn familiar, but I can't name it.

>> ^jimnms:

What is that music, it sounds so damn familiar, but I can't name it.


Probably the Gears of War 1 commercial everyone was talking about a while back.

Remember trying to play Defender? That game was ridiculously hard, if fun to play for the short minute you were alive.

This is an interesting perspective on gaming because dealing with death has always a been a tricky game design issue. Now it's got to the stage where I don't think you really die anymore, or least the consequences aren't as deleterious.

>> ^Payback:
Probably the Gears of War 1 commercial everyone was talking about a while back.


It was also used in the TV show Without a Trace, which is why I recognized it. It sounds kind of eerie in 8-bit.

Originally by Tears for Fears.



>> ^kronosposeidon:


>> ^jimnms:
What is that music, it sounds so damn familiar, but I can't name it.

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I was wondering if anyone else caught it. It's some kind of remix of mad mad world from Donnie Darko >> ^jimnms:

What is that music, it sounds so damn familiar, but I can't name it.

They put out the MP3 used in the video here.

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