Impact Analysis Report, 11/16

Adam Kohen wrote:
| I was always a Mortal Kombat man; never got into the SF
| series. Unfortunately the most recent MK game I've played
| is MK Trilogy, and it's been a long time since my brother
| let me borrow the N64 to do that.

Deadline wrote:
| You can play Nintendo 64 games on an emulator. If you only
| had a computer...

Adam Kohen wrote:
| Ooh, they have the internet on computers now!

Have I mentioned that I hate computers? I open the group,
headers download, I click the previous post, it downloads, I
flag it (to remind me to reply) then click "Next Unread"...
....and get "Cannot find server".



| I'll have to look for that emulator. Awhile ago I found
| one for NES and played the original Zelda obsessively for
| about a week.

'Zelda kicks ass.

I use Project 64. It crashes a lot for me in Windowed Mode,
but never crashes in Fullscreen Mode.



| On the other hand, as much trouble as I have with just
| mashing buttons on a controller, I imagine trying to play
| with a keyboard will be even more frustrating.

Yeah, it sucks. I use an Adaptoid to connect my Nintendo 64
controller to one of the front USB ports. (The GameCube
controller sucks.)

Speaking of button mashing: "WWE Day Of Reckoning 2" is the
worst wrestling game I ever played. The controls were
obviously developed by an ass-pounder because that is what
you do to your controller for the majority of the match;
pound its "A" "butt"on. Even something as simple as getting
up from a punch requires mashing. The programmers should
not have assumed that we have "strong forearms" just because
we are wrestling "geeks".



| loved the Brutalities, but could never get them to work

| I could do the bicycle-kicking-"leeleelee!" guy's fiery
| teleportation, but could not do the rest.

| That's a regular Fatality, isn't it? I could do a bunch
| of those, although admittedly I usually needed to use the
| cheat code that gave you a lot more time to do it.
|
| The Brutalities were really long combos where you just
| punched and kicked the fuck out of the opponent at
| hyperspeed until they exploded.

I see. I did not play Mortal Kombat much. This year I
confused it with Killer Instinct and had to be Chyna for two
weeks for that mistake.