Can you say nostalgia?

Slycaster · August 2002

<div class="IPBDescription">I sure can, and im down with it.</div>Well, think about it, remember when you had your NES back in the day? say 10 years ago, and you were all excited about new games, and some of them just caught your eye as awesome? Well, one of my most memorable game was Contra, and well guess what? It's being remade into what's turning out to be one awesome looking nextgen sidescroller. For the PS2 of course. Basically, its contra completely redifned with awesome graphics and incredibly cool looking single player, and maybe even with coop. I strongly suggest all you oldies who enjoyed this game to check this out, heres a decent media link for you. <img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>

One more thing... did i mention that it has AWESOME graphics? omfg, they are some of the best seen on the ps2.

<a href="http://mediaviewer.ign.com/ignMediaPage.jsp?channel_id=70&object_id=482096&adtag=network=ign&site=ps2type%3Dpartnerviewer%26pagetype%3Darticle&page_title=Contra:%20Shattered%20Soldier" target="_blank">http://mediaviewer.ign.com/ignMedi....Soldier</a>

Gazaar · August 2002

wow, contra, oldschool rulez. I remember getting my NES when it first came out when I was a small child, like 2 or 3, I played the hell out of that thing. Contra was so much fun, nothing can be more fun than getting the machine gun and just spraying bullets in front of you.

DOOManiac · August 2002

i'd love to see it but its ign insider content :(

bleh. oh well.

yeah, i heard about this and thought "Ohhhh.. hope they don't screw it up" but i'm sure they will. they screw up everything now. i bet even metroid prime sucks. :(

f3rret · August 2002

BITE YOUR TONGUE, DOOManiac!! Metroid Prime will NOT suck! It just can't....

*hides in a corner and cries*

TheGunSlingerOmega · August 2002

My machine used for gaming was the Commodor 64 I was 6, My Dad...not the same dad as in the BROADBAND Post, that one is my stepdad. By my dad figured he could get me into computer work if he surrounded me by them all the time.

My Real dad's a closet geek, Rides a harley and is pretty big but has had a computer since forever. I remember how excited he was when Dos's first menu system came out...(I'm racking my brain trying to remember the name.

Then the monitor went out and monitors cost alot of money back then. The tv was used for other things.. remember back then when A t'v barely had enough connections for a VCR?

Then about 8 I had the first sega, no not the genises, it was Atari like, infact it came with a game on it a maze game. Then about 12 I fell inlove witht he sega genises.
Played that thing all the time, had a huge collection of preused games bough for like 10 bucks with allowence.

Then my world was thrown upside down when I got my first IBM.

SKYFOX! AND AND ZAK MCCRAKEN! AND AND CAVEMAN UGLYMPICS....oh...those were the days...

Nes never really interested me. I guess maybe I didnt like the controls.

I've stuck with sega over the years. and now have a playstation I dont use and about 12 games, mostly RPG'S.

Slycaster · August 2002

*Cries along with ferret* PRIME WILL NOT SUCK, YOU'LL ALL SEE!... never! *sob*

Nemesis_Zero · August 2002

Let me put it like this ... Should Prime really suck, I'll seize an army of depressed geeks to hunt the developers down.

Heck, I'm going to buy a friggin GC for this game!

manah · August 2002

I'd sign up for that army ...

Slycaster · August 2002

what manah said.

Moleculor · August 2002

Ditto.

Battousaix · August 2002

contra = the other white meat <img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'>
weee contra is back for good <img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'>

Gazaar · August 2002

/me weeps while talking. Metroid Prime I think is going to suck. It's an FPS and I think the Metroid series should have nothing to do with FPS's. Major parts of all of those games have been using your rolly polly bombs to climb your way into areas, and actually take skill to use. In the first metroid there's a part in there where you have to climb soooooo high that it took me a day to get up it. Also another part is using your various jump enhancers and the fast run thingy to run until you've got shadows of yourself behind you and you're jumping through the air at some insane speed climbing up and even if you hit the button at the wrong time once you slow down dramatically and don't make it, probably falling into the acid. Sure it's pretty but it should be more free adventure based like the zelda games and mario 64, while yet still keeping the massive semi-super creepy areas of the Metroid series. Of course I could be wrong and only at certain parts do you randomly go into first person, but still, I needed to get that out of my system.

Slycaster · August 2002

*hunts down gazaar* NEVER! *sobs*

Gazaar · August 2002

I feel your pain..and btw, damn my stupid avatar.

Nemesis_Zero · August 2002

It's not as if we knew very much about Metroid Prime and its gameplay, it may well be that we won't see any jumping riddles (which I'd be helluva grateful for).

Right now, everyone who's actually played it was pretty positive, so I'll go on hoping.

Gazaar · August 2002

Nemesis..the rolly polly bomb jumping is one of the staples of a Metroid game. Plus the only screens I've ever seen of it have been first person. Many old classics are being mutilated. Metroid will be mutilated if it continues like this. And has anyone ever seen the pictures of the new Zelda game? They should make the Zelda series nice and grim to capture the true essence which is the struggle between an evil sorcerer and a nimble warrior elf with tights (hehehe) that rages accross Hyrule.

Can you say nostalgia?

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