For those who used to play this game many moons ago....

I played for about 5 minutes before accepting the fact that everyone else in there must be a 15 year old who games 24/7 and has lighting reflexes. 

http://bombermine.com/#/

As much of a gamer as I used to be, I've never heard of Bomberman.

craigb


As much of a gamer as I used to be, I've never heard of Bomberman.

It's an old school arcade game where you and an opponent run around a 2D maze dropping bombs with the intention of blowing each other up. Only in this version, the maze is huge and there are hundreds of players. 

When I played in bands, the big thing was the "new" video arcade games. Donkey Kong, Pacman and Ms Pacman among them. I dropped a ton of quarters down the slots of those and many other games while the crew was setting up. Each guy in the band generally was  fairly proficient at one game or another. 

I had learned the patterns for Pacman and thought I was pretty good until one night, coming home from a gig, we stopped into a convenient mart to pick up a few snacks for the ride home. There was a kind in there, playing Pacman. He couldn't have been more than 15. (What was he doing out at that time of night?) Anyway, he had a bunch of credit lives and a score that was well in excess of the game's previous high score and he kept blowing through screen after screen at levels I never knew existed in that game. Between screens, he turned to me and says, "I gotta go...wanna finish it?" Sure...  he heads out the door and the game starts the next screen/level.... I blew through all the credit lives he had racked up in about 30 seconds. 

Now, I don't hardly have time to play any sort of game. 

I was pretty much the same with Defender as a kid. I could keep playing no matter how hard it got and racked up scores in the millions. I can still play the game in my head if I close my eyes. 

sharke

craigb


As much of a gamer as I used to be, I've never heard of Bomberman.

It's an old school arcade game where you and an opponent run around a 2D maze dropping bombs with the intention of blowing each other up. Only in this version, the maze is huge and there are hundreds of players. 

Wow...  Never heard of it.
 
I tried out for the Guiness Book of World's Records for playing Asteroids but, like with my Rubik's Cube attempt, lost to some guy who had a screen full of ships still when I was leaving (after playing for something like 14 hours).  The other arcade game I used to be really good at was Pacman Plus (the much harder version).  We had a sit-down machine in my college lunch room that I would have all the highest scores on.  I could definitely get to pancakes.

I don't remember Bomberman either, but it looks cool. :) I tried to get on last night but it was too busy.

@CraigB: I never heard of PM+ so I checked it out on You-toob. It looks hard as hell!

When I was a kid, I had gone swimming at my Aunt's house and got sunburned to a crisp one smoldering summers day. Couldn't go outside, couldn't hardly move, so I sat inside with the curtains drawn in nothing buts shorts sitting in an upright, stiff Indian position, with the AC blasting on me, for an entire day playing Asteroids. Somewhere, in a forgotten drawer full of old Polaroid's ... there's 'screenshot' of me getting some ridiculously high score before I finally couldn't take it anymore and quit. IIRC it was around 2.5 million or something like that.


That was on a 2600 ... don't know if it was easier on those though. My parents would never let me spend money in the arcades, so I never played it on a real machine.

I think Asteroids on a 2600 may even have been harder because you had to use a joystick. Asteroids was always better with buttons. 

It was like that green vector tank game, Battlezone. You had the two levers like in a tank. Playing it at home on a console with a joystick just wasn't the same. 

Yeah, or playing Missile Defense without a big trackball - no fun!  I actually have a game input for a PS2 that has a big trackball and those fun buttons - I only bought games like Pac Man or Asteroids for it as well.  Hmm...  I wonder where I put it in my storage unit?

Did you guys see the video's for the new PS4 ... I was reading the spec sheet on it. It's a got  a proprietary AMD CPU with an AMD Radeon video card.  ... 8GB RAM. It says the HDD is "built-in".


I dunno' ... but they sure brag it up.