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Posted: Aug 6th 2007 1:28PM (Unverified) said
someone's dropping turds on the title screen in the background.
Posted: Aug 6th 2007 1:29PM Neon Jebus said
'Ol Joshua just got a little tingle in his 'down theres'.
I have many memories of playing this game at the local bowling alley! I don't pick up retro titles all too often but I'll purchasing this one.
I have many memories of playing this game at the local bowling alley! I don't pick up retro titles all too often but I'll purchasing this one.
Posted: Aug 6th 2007 1:33PM Shagittarius said
This should be good for casual trash talking.
Posted: Aug 6th 2007 1:35PM cc123 said
Now the NES is losing exclusives.
Ha! Take that Nintendo!
Ha! Take that Nintendo!
Posted: Aug 6th 2007 1:42PM baby sea tuna said
Is there any way to get you to stop posting? We can take up a collection or something!
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Posted: Aug 6th 2007 1:52PM (Unverified) said
This isn't the NES version, is it? I thought that one had the view from behind the back, but correct me if I'm wrong.
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Posted: Aug 6th 2007 2:02PM baby sea tuna said
Idiot, huh? Musta missed that one.
No, it's because every groan-worthy, eye-rolling, baseless shit-talking post on here seems to have your name next to it.
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No, it's because every groan-worthy, eye-rolling, baseless shit-talking post on here seems to have your name next to it.
Posted: Aug 6th 2007 2:24PM (Unverified) said
Track & Field was an arcade game long before it hit the NES. The arcade game came out in '82. The NES version came out in '88.
And if you ask me, how is this gonna even be playable? You literally had to mash a set of buttons as fast as you could. On today's controllers, that scheme would be bordering on impossible.
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And if you ask me, how is this gonna even be playable? You literally had to mash a set of buttons as fast as you could. On today's controllers, that scheme would be bordering on impossible.
Posted: Aug 6th 2007 1:36PM (Unverified) said
I'll definitely buy this. My friends and I always play Hyper Sports (the sequel to Track & Field) with my friends on my MAME cabinet. These games are a blast to play, especially when having a drink or two.
Posted: Aug 6th 2007 1:40PM iBubbles said
Who needs Mario & Sonic at the Olympics when you got Track & Field?
Posted: Aug 6th 2007 1:53PM (Unverified) said
Who needs Track & Field when you got Ball in a Cup?
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Posted: Aug 6th 2007 1:52PM (Unverified) said
My turbo fingers were born from this game.
Posted: Aug 6th 2007 2:06PM (Unverified) said
This peice of garbage isn't even worth $5, nintendo probably handed the rights over to M$ willingly
Posted: Aug 6th 2007 2:32PM (Unverified) said
Hey retard, Nintendo never owned the rights to this game. It's always been Konami's game.
The game was also in the arcades about 5 years before it even showed up on the NES.
Try doing a little research before you open your idiotic little mouth. There were video games before the NES existed.
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The game was also in the arcades about 5 years before it even showed up on the NES.
Try doing a little research before you open your idiotic little mouth. There were video games before the NES existed.
Posted: Aug 6th 2007 2:05PM sand0789 said
God I used to love this game.
Posted: Aug 6th 2007 3:24PM (Unverified) said
Same here. When it first came out in the arcade I recall seeing several smashed boards from people slamming the buttons so hard. They eventually put a U-shaped ring of plastic around the buttons so you could only use at most a few fingers to hit the button, rather than an entire palm like before.
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Posted: Aug 6th 2007 11:12PM SamuelK said
I predict an increase in controller sales once this game hits XBLA.
I can see people breaking their controllers from playing this game. The arcade version used a trackball, and the NES version used the A/B buttons for running. So will the XBLA version use buttons, or a back-and-forth waggling of the analog stick?
Either way, it spells controller abuse.
I can see people breaking their controllers from playing this game. The arcade version used a trackball, and the NES version used the A/B buttons for running. So will the XBLA version use buttons, or a back-and-forth waggling of the analog stick?
Either way, it spells controller abuse.
Posted: Aug 6th 2007 2:10PM borland502 said
Is it just me, or is the [Wii,360,PS3] racing to the bottom on their [VC, Live, PSN] old school titles? You would think that with the large library of [NES,SNES,N64,Gamecube,PS1,PS2,[whatever the hell they can buy]] titles they could come up with something better to offer.
Posted: Aug 6th 2007 3:21PM (Unverified) said
This stuff they can get really cheap and then say "We have 500 games offered over our [insert online service here]! While [insert competitor's service here] only has 300."
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Posted: Aug 6th 2007 2:23PM (Unverified) said
I wouldn't pay $2 for this game let alone $5. MS needs to stop overcharging for these old washed up games.
Posted: Aug 6th 2007 3:02PM (Unverified) said
XBLA has cell-phone games!
Posted: Aug 6th 2007 3:12PM watership said
Attention children who owned NES but never went into an arcade:
Arcade versions of games that you played on your NES were almost always downgrades of the original versions. Better graphics and sounds and controls. Also! Unless it was an NINTENDO game, Nintendo didn't own the game!
Now please blow on your cartridge before you leave. Thank you.
Arcade versions of games that you played on your NES were almost always downgrades of the original versions. Better graphics and sounds and controls. Also! Unless it was an NINTENDO game, Nintendo didn't own the game!
Now please blow on your cartridge before you leave. Thank you.
Posted: Aug 6th 2007 3:20PM (Unverified) said
except for Ninja Gaiden. The Ninja Gaiden arcade game had nothing on the NES games
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Posted: Aug 6th 2007 3:31PM GiggityGiggityGoo said
There goes another 5 dollars. Anyone bashing this game needs to play it. Button mashing fun at it's best. I play it on MAME all the time, now I can compare my scores.
Posted: Aug 6th 2007 3:23PM (Unverified) said
What happens when they run out of decades-old arcade games to port?
Posted: Aug 6th 2007 3:29PM (Unverified) said
They'll start porting 1-9 year old arcade games.
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Posted: Aug 6th 2007 3:49PM (Unverified) said
We used to have to replace the buttons on the coin-ops of this game about 3x more often than other games. It is the only really fun track-style game ever. I may have to buy it even though I have sworn off of retro.
Posted: Aug 10th 2007 12:46AM wanderer9 said
This game was one of my favorites at the arcade growing up, Elevator Action was the king though.
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