Videogame channel starts with Pong marathon Reuters News Service April 24, 2002 LOS ANGELES - Imagine watching a white ball bouncing back and forth across a black TV screen, 24 hours a day, for a full week. G4, a new cable channel devoted exclusively to video games that went live today, plans to broadcast a live game of "Pong" - widely considered the first consumer video game - for seven days straight. G4, backed by a $150 million investment from cable giant Comcast Corp. , flipped the switch at 3 a.m EDT (0700 GMT) with a total of 3 million subscribers on digital cable platforms from Comcast and midwestern operator Insight. The channel plans to offer 13 original weekly series, focusing on topics like sports games, gaming reviews, and hints and tricks for winning at popular video games. It is expected to have 350 to 400 hours of original content per year. "Our mission is to capture all those elements of the video game business," G4 founder and Chief Executive Charles Hirschhorn told Reuters earlier this year. The launch comes at a time when the video game industry is at the beginning of a multi-year growth cycle, with some analysts estimating the industry will see more than 20 percent growth for at least the next two years.
dude thats cool I wish I got that network Just like watching a sports game... Come on left oh good hit right oh nice save by the left ... ... ... ... ... I really need to get out more.
Damn, I thought this thread would be about beer pong. 7 days of that would be juuuuuuuust fine by me...
I started regularly playing arcade games around the late 80's/early 90's, when the technology started to really take off. My favorites were R-Type, Golden Axe, Final Fight, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Kid Niki, Narc, and of course, the greatest arcade game of all time, Street Fighter II Championship Edition. I can already see myself ten years from now, patrolling the arcades as an old geezer... "Tekken 7?? Man, when I was your age, we played TWO DIMENSIONAL fighting games! And we didn't have all this fancy, schmancy combo crap! Why, I remember one Saturday, I mowed down 25 straight opponents on the same quarter using Ryu! Yeah, that's right, video games used to cost us only ONE quarter! Hey, where are you going?!?! You disrespectful little punk! I was performing Mortal Kombat fatalaties when you were still a sperm cell in yer daddy's sack!! Come here and I'll show ya what Zangief's spinning piledriver feels like, ya little pansy ass!"
ahahahahaha classic... back in my day "up up down down left right left right b a select start" actually meant something...
Speaking of Defender, I used to play Stargate when I was younger. I used to play for 3+ hours at the local 7-Eleven on just one quarter. I owned that game.
I loved to play Galaga!! I know some of y'all remember that one... there was also a cheesy rip-off called Galaxian. I didn't care for that game... What 80's video game is this line from, "Intruder Alert, Intruder Alert"
Galaga Rocked!! One time a friend and I put it in the Game Genie, and we played it all night, up until level 125 or so . . . my left thumb was sore for weeks. Those directional pads on the old NES controllers were sharp!
Galaga did rule, but it was a direct descendant of Galaxian. There was also a Galaga sequel, Gaplus, that I never saw in the wild. I played it a few times on MAME, though -- it added 2-D movement of your ship, along with a different ship capture mechanism (the flagships carried a vacuum-like thing -- you'd kill the flagship, the vacuum'd drop to your ship, you'd suck up a few bad guys (1 to 3, or maybe even more), and then they'd dock next to you and start shooting their ex-cohorts. (Of course, all of this was on my friend's PC, who owned a Gaplus arcade machine, so it was all legal.) See also: "Chicken! Fight like a robot!" and "Coins detected in pocket." I wasn't a big fan of that one until the 2600 version came out, though. My early-'80s faves (besides Galaga) were Ms. Pac-Man, Tempest, Gorf, and Space Duel.
Man, I LOVED that game! My favorite character was Vega, the masked dude from Spain. I never could figure out how to do his special move which was to scale the walls and come flying down from the top and bodyslam the opponent. However, I usually just jumped behind my opponent and suplexed them to death. One day, I got into a great groove and even beat Sagat, who always beat me. However, I lost to M Bison. Unfortunately, this was right about the time that I really quit playing video games and I didn't even play my NES or Sega Genesis much. If I had just kept playing for a couple of weeks after that on a consistent basis, then I know I could have kicked M Bison's ass! Tekken was great, too. I loved how you would "discover" some of the character's special moves like Law flexing his body and then just backhanding the **** out of his opponent. I picked Michelle one time and got to Heiahachi (sp?). It seemed like there was someone else though before him that was that character's specific boss...can't remember although it might have been this woman who was dressed in traditional Chinese garb and looked like Nina with black hair. Another great one was an obscure game called "Hie Yar Kung Fu". I got hooked on this game so bad that I traded a Kirby Puckett rookie card (this was back in '88 BTW) for a quarter just to play this damn game with the owner of the card shop/video game place. The last character in that game was a guy named "Blues" and unlike the other characters, he had no weapons...just his hands and feet, baby. I only faced him like 2 or 3 times, but he would always get me in a corner and just kick the **** out of me. I would try to jump out but dude is kicking so fast that his leg would knock me back into the corner. The reason why I never could get to him for the most part was the guy right before him, this b*stard named Tonfun. He had f*cking blackjacks on his arms and was very quick. One of my dreams at one time was to purchase this arcade game, so I could play it anytime I wanted to. Ah....memories...
It is you. All your base are belong to us. You have no hope. Make your time. Someone set us up the bomb. ---- Thankfully Pong was a lot better than that, and didn't involve any translation of anything!
Galaga rocked! I played that thing for hours. I used to allow all the ships to line up before I fired once, that way the ships with escorts would be worth more. Also, if you waited to free a captured ship till all the other ships were destroyed, it would deposit your captured ship (along with your current ship for the double firepower) directly in the middle of the screen for the bonus round. I could hit all of the ships in the bonus round without ever moving left or right. Anybody know a good link to those old games? There was another I played a lot that I can't remember the name of. BTW, I still have an old Pong game in working order. I wonder how much it is worth?
I will destroy anyone at Street Fighter. Consider this a challenge. Ryu and I are one. --- I've still got an original NES. Metroid rules.
