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_riff_raff_

Warning: Geek on the run.

Feb 16, 2004 16:33

If I keep repeating the words "I'm not wasting my money" maybe the sentence will come true. I mean, over the last 18 years, that has been the predominant message given to me by all television shows. TV doesn't lie. It makes mistakes, but it doesn't lie ( Read more... )

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silentflower February 16 2004, 08:43:43 UTC

I was completely pathetic at Echo the Dolphin... actually I was pathetic at all games and never completed any of them ever.
Having no co-ordination doesn't help seeing as even if you play the same bit 100000 times you can never dodge the thingy that tries to thingy you.
I sold my megadrive in 1995 for £20. Which wasn't a bad deal.

Re: _riff_raff_ February 16 2004, 08:45:52 UTC

Echo the Dolphin is evil incarnate. No other way to put it. I don't ONE person that completed that game.

It wasn't a bad deal at all. We got the Dreamcast for £7.50, I was proud of myself. There are games being sold down the street for a fiver each, including Sonic.

Re: silentflower February 16 2004, 08:48:57 UTC

Echo always used to die from lack of air or missing his 'pod' (whatever that was) when I played it... though it was kind of pretty.

Dreamcasts cost that little? Jeez, I remember someone getting one 3 years ago and it was like... expensive and stuff.

Re: _riff_raff_ February 16 2004, 08:53:18 UTC

Echo was the Lara Croft before there was a Lara. Nothing soothed the soul like drowning the little fecker when he was incapable of jumping over another blasted rock.

We bought one when it was released for a couple of hundred. It really, really bombed. This one has flicker at the top of the screen though, so no one wanted it. We had that with our old one, so it's not a big deal.

twotonetoki February 16 2004, 09:20:57 UTC

Oh, LORD. Echo the Dolphin completely robbed me of a big portion of my childhood. And I never beat it. I remember frequently getting pissed off and wedging the dolphin under a rock and waiting for him to run out of air. I couldn't have been a healthy kid.

As for Sonic... who the hell named 'Cream the Rabbit'?!

Re: _riff_raff_ February 16 2004, 09:24:35 UTC

::snort:: Did you ever go for the method of jumping him into rocks repeatedly just to hear the satisfying 'thunk' his head made?

Hahah! I said the VERY same thing last night. The name is wrong on so many levels. Come to think of it, the whole world is a little dubious. Sonic is supposedly 15 in this, Knuckles 16, why are they hanging out with Tails who is 8? There's a four year-old bumble bee in there somewhere, too...

goldwolf February 16 2004, 15:36:48 UTC

oh the dreamcast, I loved that system. Really wish I hadnt sold it, but stupid mistakes are part of ones life. Shenmue was a good game for that system, I thought

Re: _riff_raff_ February 16 2004, 17:43:13 UTC

Shenmue? As in, 'Do you remember the day of the incident Shenmue'?

Honestly, that game comes as a close contender to Echo the Dolphin in being a horrendously tedious game of all time. Walking from street to street, driving a forklift truck around a dock with some sweaty co-workers, and repeating the line "Do you remember the day of the incident?" so often that the words lost all meaning.

I gave up after a week or so, even playing in the mini arcade lost all it's charm. Although, I did collect all of the little Sonic figures from the dispenser...

Did you finish it? Did anyone remember the day of the incident?

Re: goldwolf February 16 2004, 18:17:39 UTC

I finshed it, with help though, cuz I lose attention easliy, especially on the forklifts. ok, i take it back, in retrospect, it wasn't that great of a game. It could have been though.

Re: _riff_raff_ February 17 2004, 03:36:19 UTC

So what happened? I heard, through sources that looks suspiciously like my brother, that he never finds out what happens and the story should have continued in a second game on the Dreamcast yet was never released.

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anonymous February 16 2004, 17:22:06 UTC

I hate to be a bastard, but I completed it. If you thought the ocean was hard, you have no idea what pure agony is. Upon getting sucked onto a strange alien spaceship, Echo has to fly through strange impossible to navigate pipes, which would usually somehow result in instant death, contend with scrolling levels which would usually crush you and cause instant death, beofre then contending with a giant head which would swallow you regardless of whether you were at fault or not, causing instant death.

But then of course, I heard tales of someone who never even knew to jump into the air after Echo's family got taken hostage by aliens.

Come to think of it, what the hell was the game really about anyway?

Re: _riff_raff_ February 16 2004, 17:51:30 UTC

Never had an anonymous poster before. How novel.

You're not a bastard, in fact you may well be either the Son of God or the rightful heir to the Kingdom of Camelot if you completed that game.

The entire description sounds completely implausible, which means it's most likely very true and probably even downplayed in its severity. I couldn't tell you the level I made it to, I remember it being dark and having go on futile searches for air bubbles constantly, then letting the little creep die anyway. The trauma, it's all flooding back to me now.

To be perfectly honest, it took me a while to figure out I had to jump, too. But, to be fair, I was of a very young age and quite profoundly stupid...