HdE's Totally Unoriginal Gaming Show

[D1tchd1gger]

I some great times playing sports games, especially with friends. Probably because I wasn't very good IRL and it's less tiring 😜
Me and my friend tried to beat the football game in said arcade, and we had many a tournament with games such as FIFA, NHL and Madden on the MEGA DRIVE and then with PES on the PS2 with others as well.

 

[HdE]

Me and my friend tried to beat the football game in said arcade, and we had many a tournament with games such as FIFA, NHL and Madden on the MEGA DRIVE and then with PES on the PS2 with others as well.

The only sports games I remember ever actually holding my attention for more than five minutes were Blades of Steel on the Gameboy (which actually required a modicum of skill to play and didn't feel like you were just stabbing buttons in hopes of doing something positive) and some of the NeoGeo games I remember playing in an arcade. A quick check on the Switch eShop reveals that those have been ported over as part of the ACA NeoGeo collection. There were a couple of wacked out sci-fi variants of soccer and baseball. But the most enjoyable as I recall was an American Football game. Which I can't remember the name of. But you can get that for the Switch too!

 

[D1tchd1gger]

American Football game

Mutant Football League?
You could "kill" the opponent if they got in the way. And I seem to recall power ups and stuff.

 

[Patient-X]

The greatest sports game ever was Rocketball on the commodore 64 👍

 

[HdE]

Mutant Football League?
You could "kill" the opponent if they got in the way. And I seem to recall power ups and stuff.

The one I'm thinking of was a 'straight' version of American football. It was pretty good in that it dispensed with the stop-and-start nature of the sport it was based on (NFL league football is SO boring to watch) but didnt skimp on the tactics - you could select plays before each quarter and, to their credit, the AI players on your team did their best to stick to them.

The greatest sports game ever was Rocketball on the commodore 64.

Sadly, I've never played that one!

 

[HdE]

A little update here for the binge-watchers among you. If anyone on these forums fancies listening to my whiskey-drenched tones for just over two hours as I ramble about old video games, without the faff of having to click on buttons or get up from your opulent divans as your nubien slaves fan you with palm fronds, I've got you covered!

Behold! My Totally Unoriginal Gaming Show's first season has een collected in its entirety into one convenient playlist!

HdE's Totally Unoriginal Gaming Show - complete season one playlist - YouTube

And just a side note to this - there are playlists for folks who maybe are only interested in the properly retro stuff or handheld gaming as well. If you have a little poke about on my channel's page, you should find them easily enough.

 

[HdE]

Just poking my head back into this thread to toot my kazoo and announce the second season of my itty-bitty gaming show has started up tonight.

I've kicked things off with a fairly lengthy look at the PS3 launch title RESISTANCE: FALL OF MAN, wherein I consider it's status on Sony's last gen console and do the whole picking-it-apart-to-see-if-it-holds-up thing.

Glue your eyeballs to it like you would your latest crush:

 

[HdE]

New video is up, folks! This one's an examination of Yu Suzuki's SPACE HARRIER on Sega's 32X Megadrive add on.

This one was an absolute PIG to put together. Those 32X units are extremely fragile, it seems!

Also: PLEASE CHECK YOUR SUBSCRIPTIONS. YouTube are sabotaging my channel big time at the moment, disconnecting subscribers for no good reason. I'm also not even reaching a quarter of my subscriber base with new videos, which leads me to believe that they're not receiving notifications.

If you enjoy what I'm doing, please be aware that this new season of 12 videos is the 'use it or lose it' run. I need to be hitting MUCH better numbers for this to be worth continuing with. Which is kind of a shocking thing to admit, considering some of the praise I've been getting from much bigger YouTubers who do this sort of thing.

 

[HdE]

Well, the EU passed Article 13, which means we can very likely kiss content like mine on YouTube goodbye within a couple of years. Old white dudes suck, capitalism and conservatism stink, remember this when you vote, etc.

In the meantime, you can still enjoy this new video, wherein I take a look at the PC Engine spaceship shooter OVERRIDE.

Lookit that! I can make anything about politics!

 

[HdE]

So, I sneezed, and this happened: