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Post by Discoalucard on Jun 18, 2015 22:28:53 GMT -5
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Post by Snarboo on Jun 18, 2015 22:40:36 GMT -5
Didn't we have a (notorious) article for these two previously? :p
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Post by Discoalucard on Jun 18, 2015 22:48:30 GMT -5
Yes, and there's a hidden link to it somewhere! See if you can find it!!
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Post by Snarboo on Jun 18, 2015 22:58:52 GMT -5
I kinda wish more articles would have had animated gifs, that was the one thing that was nice about the old Time Killers/Bloodstorm article.
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Post by Discoalucard on Jun 18, 2015 23:11:31 GMT -5
I think you're about the only person I've heard say that about this site (that and the author of the original Time Killers/Bloodstorm piece, who also did Snacks'N Jaxson.
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Post by Snarboo on Jun 18, 2015 23:17:12 GMT -5
I can understand the bandwidth concerns, especially at the time, but otherwise it's nice to see the game in action!
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Post by Gendo Ikari on Jun 19, 2015 1:26:51 GMT -5
"amatueristic" --> Did it mean "amateurish"?
"According to urban legend (though dismissed by John Tobias and Daniel Pesina, led to Daniel being fired from Midway." --> seems to miss a part.
About time these games too received a "serious" article to forget that old thing, and highlight some of their interesting features despite the overall low quality - in retrospect, they look like failed experiments at trying something different in their genre. The definition of Time Killers as a "Mortal Kombat clone" should be seriously questioned, however: it came out in arcades just a few weeks after MK, so unless people at Strata were able to get some inside look in early 1992 and hastily put TK together - which, given the lazy character designs and overall graphics, may be possible - it's just a case of who managed to come first. Bloodstorm, on the other hand, was made with MK firmly in head.
The old DOS fighting game Timeslaughter was likely inspired by Time Killers but it's a better game.
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Post by kingmike on Jun 19, 2015 8:39:49 GMT -5
When the Genesis version was first announced in 1993, it was also announced for the SNES. Which is kind of amusing they even bothered as you know Nintendo would've censored the violence and consequently made them cut its only distinguishing gameplay. Black Pearl was just an alternate label of THQ. It was packaged as an "Arcade Classic" but it don't think it was exactly a "classic" compared to the other two games they published under that banner: Super Breakout/Missile Command (I think that was the combination) for Game Boy and Mr. Do! for SNES.
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Post by Joseph Joestar on Jun 19, 2015 12:04:01 GMT -5
Yes, and there's a hidden link to it somewhere! See if you can find it!! Is the firestorm of a thread that went with the original article still around?
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Post by drpepperfan on Jun 19, 2015 16:14:32 GMT -5
Yes, and there's a hidden link to it somewhere! See if you can find it!! Is the firestorm of a thread that went with the original article still around? Certainly not.
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Post by Bobinator on Jun 19, 2015 16:49:55 GMT -5
I'll be honest: Part of the reason I wrote this whole thing is that I really didn't want all the screenshots that were already on hand for these two games to go to waste, so I decided to try and salvage the thing. ...I wonder how many people will miss the gay Contra fanfiction.
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Post by drpepperfan on Jun 19, 2015 16:56:04 GMT -5
No Rihanna jokes Bobinator? What the heck were you thinking
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Post by Bobinator on Jun 19, 2015 17:50:41 GMT -5
No Rihanna jokes Bobinator? What the heck were you thinking SUPER COOL SECRET FUN FACT Back when I was still writing this, the paragraph about Time Killer's plot and the ramifications of no more death would have had an extra tangent, which would have gone something like: "Actually, this is sort of answered by this one episode of the Twilight Zone revival from the 2000s, which had an episode where Jason Alexander plays a retired Death. Have you seen that episode? It was pretty great." But I actually managed to have some restraint.
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Post by TheChosen on Jun 19, 2015 18:02:19 GMT -5
Is the firestorm of a thread that went with the original article still around? Certainly not.I love how on the first page we already get My condolences to whoever tries to revise this beast. It's like cleaning up the jizz stains from the XXX movies at a video store. Someone really needs to do it, but it ain't gonna be me. Well done Bob. I've never played either of the games, but I've watched a whole playthrough of Bloodstorm on Youtube and it somehow fascinates me. Blood looks like a bad Mugen edit.
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Post by nickz on Jun 19, 2015 20:52:53 GMT -5
I really enjoyed this article! I didn't know the bit about Daniel Pesina on the arcade flyer either.
I always thought that some of the levels/backgrounds in Bloodstorm were really weird. They never looked quite right to me, sometimes even trippy. I'm not saying they're bad, but they look like they belong in a different game. I kind of like the one with the pyramids. It reminds me of old 60s and 70s sci-fi movie/books/stuff.
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