"Epic" games for the Commodore 64

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 8:50 pm

I think you gotta go with a colon.

Commodore 64: 32 Great Games, 32 Pieces of Shit
Commodore 64: 32 Classics, 32 Bags of Shit
:Shit

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 9:16 pm

I think if you go with a colon, the shit just comes with it!

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 7:19 am

Jack Tramiel, the founder of Commodore, died on Sunday.

So now I'm thinking about calling the book "Games so bad they killed Jack Tramiel."

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 2:38 pm

This is me waffling again. It seems that I spend so much time in 64 Forever, arraigning the disc images in just the right configuration, that I hardly ever PLAY the games, which was the original goal. I have hundreds of titles now, (something that was impossible in 1988) and all I seem to do is add screenshots or fill in publisher data or fix the spelling, crap like that. Dammit! These are not baseball cards, these are games. They should be played.
So anyway, I threw all the discs in one big folder (none of that alphabetized by folder stuff for me) and renamed the titles that needed it, and there I go. Just like the old days.
No screenshots, just a name on a label.

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PRIMARY OBJECTIVE
AARDVARK

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 7:28 pm

Flack wrote:Jack Tramiel, the founder of Commodore, died on Sunday.

So now I'm thinking about calling the book "Games so bad they killed Jack Tramiel."

This is the best would-be title so far.

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Sat May 12, 2012 10:16 am

I was going to make a few of these for you, but this first one turned out horribly.

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This was played via emulation, with the video being captured by Camtasia.

The video capture worked well. Although there's some slight blurring, it essentially looks accurate -- or accurate enough for a YouTube video.

The audio ... well, there's two issues. The first is, because I was just improvising, there are a ton of "ums" and "uhs" and pauses that make it sound terrible. On the next one I might play the game first and then overdub my commentary track over the top of it afterwards. My brain's not so good at the multitasking.

The second issue is, I was playing the game using the keyboard, and my microphone is sitting on my desk right next to the keyboard, so the mic picked up all the thuds from the keyboard as I was banging away on the keys. I didn't even think about that. On the next one, I will either relocate the mic, or play using a joystick.

This has been only a test.

Tdarcos · Post by **Tdarcos** » Sat May 12, 2012 7:18 pm

pinback wrote:I think if you go with a colon, the shit just comes with it!

ROFL!
But I've found one that trumps your Buzz Killington skit:

TV Tropes talks about movies or other media that so many titles in the title that have multiple qualifiers separated by colons that they have a name for it: Colon Cancer

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The full name of my second book is In the Matter of: Instrument of God and the name of my first book is In the Matter of: The Gatekeeper: The Gate Contracts. The sequel to that book is In the Matter of: The Gatekeeper: The Gatekeeper Admits