The wave of nostalgia that hit me watching that video was palpable. I started boring my wife with details about the games in the video, tossing in anecdotes about some of them.

Prince of Persia spent a lot of time going left from what I remember. The first stage you drop down go all the ay to the left then head back right. Second level starts you going left then you end up back right. My memory get hazier after that but I don't think it fits the overall theme as well as some of the others.

A WINNER IS YOUTUBE

Damn it, I know that music from somewhere.

So glad to see Rocket Knight. Too many people have not heard of, let alone played, it.

And I don't know why the Silly tag was used. That was actually pretty nifty to watch.


dywed88: So glad to see Rocket Knight. Too many people have not heard of, let alone played, it.

I was hoping to see Dynamite Headdy represented. Sorely underrated/underplayed game.

Still, I saw Quackshot, so that's enough for me.

Complicit: Damn it, I know that music from somewhere.

From The Piano.

Are the Rayman games actually good?

R Kelly's Doo Doo Butter: Are the Rayman games actually good?

I only played the first game for the PlayStation.

I enjoyed it enough. My only gripe was with the controls. I assume later games fixed this.

R Kelly's Doo Doo Butter: Are the Rayman games actually good?

Yes.

R Kelly's Doo Doo Butter: Are the Rayman games actually good?

Not only are they good, the most recent is actually GORGEOUS on an hd tv.

Video would have meant more if most of the characters used hadn't also had a good deal of going left up and down as well.

At 2:16 there seems to be some pink and white character fighting a bear. Anybody happen to know the name of that game?

Seeing all those games at once you really get a sense of how incredible some of the game art can be.

Quaker: SoundHound says that it's called "A Wild and Distant Shore" by Michael Nyman.

LabGrrl: From The Piano.

Thank you both.

Relatively Obscure: Quick, what was the game at 2:07? I recognize it, but I can't remember the got-damn name!

Out of this World/Another World

GilRuiz1: At 2:16 there seems to be some pink and white character fighting a bear. Anybody happen to know the name of that game?

Dustforce - PC game - Available on Steam

Too pixelated.

Fark You Buddy: GilRuiz1: At 2:16 there seems to be some pink and white character fighting a bear. Anybody happen to know the name of that game?

Dustforce - PC game - Available on Steam


Outstanding! Thanks!

I was hoping for Shadow of the Beast. I really liked that one when I had my Amiga.

I love games, but could only make it through about 30 seconds of that crap.

Vangor: FormlessOne: The wave of nostalgia that hit me watching that video was palpable. I started boring my wife with details about the games in the video, tossing in anecdotes about some of them.

"And there! You have to run to the right faster or else you will die. And then you have to jump to the right or else you will die. After, you continue moving right but wait or else you will die. Then a pixelated boss appears and you stop heading right!"

Pretty much, but with CSBs attached to each of those sentences. "Man, I remember when I was playing Karateka on an friggin' Apple, and right then, the doorbell rang - and would you believe it, it was a friggin' Girl Scout?"

My wife was "enthralled."

cman: Why was it always right? Why not left? THIS IS AN IMPORTANT QUESTION

possibly a bunch of different reasons for this... most likely it's a throw back to movies and theatre in which motion to the right is indicative of progress or the "good guys." or it could be just a convention set by the first few side-scrollers. the index of the x-coordinate would increase moving left to right so it would make sense to increment the position as the character travels.

also there might be considerations of just human nature. most people are right handed and most people will turn right when they enter a room... that kind of thing.

cman: Why was it always right? Why not left? THIS IS AN IMPORTANT QUESTION

Actually, come to think of it, I wonder why that convention did get started. Japanese is read top down, right to left. You'd think if anything it would have felt "normal" for Super Mario Bros. to scroll left.

This is what I came up with. I couldn't ID 18 games, and there were several where I know the character/series but I don't know the exact game. Some games appear multiple times. Feel free to correct/add

Super CV 4
Super Metroid
Kirby Super Star
Adventure Island
CV 3
Duck Tales
Super Ghouls and Ghosts
CV: SOTN
CV: Dawn of Sorrow
Alaadin (SNES?)
Gunstar Heroes
Mega Man
Rocket Knight
DKC
Darkwing Duck
? - 0:28
Prince of Persia
Spelunker
Zelda 2
Rayman - ?
Metal Storm
Shinobi 3
Cave Story
? - 0:42
TMNT - NES
Batman
Superman - ?
Wolverine - NES
Super Empire Strikes Back
Bionic Commando (NES)
Bionic Commando (Modern)
Metal Slug (X?)
Astyanax
? - 0:55
Mega Man X(3?)
Sonic the Hedgehog
Contra
? - 1:00
Strider (arcade)
Spider Man 2
Metroid
Ninja Gaiden 2
? - 1:04
Pitfall (atari)
SMB
SMB - Lost Levels
SMB2 - All Stars Ver
SMB 3 (NES)
SMW
SMW2 - Yoshi's Island
Demon's Crest
Mega Man X
? - 1:20
Lion King (Gen)
Super Adventure Island (SNES)
Mighty Bomb Jack
Ghost n Goblins (NES)
CV: Order of Ecclesia
Konami Man ?
Zelda 2
Shinobi?
Metroid Fusion
Prince of Persia 2?
Marvel Super Heroes - War of the Gems (SNES)
Aladdin (SNES)
Super Star Wars
Contra
Sonic The Hedgehog (DC? XBox? Not sure)
Metroid Fusion
SMB
Goemon?
Metroid
SMW
Spider Man 2 (DS)
DKC
Random Disney Game (Donald Duck)
Wolverine (NES)
Sonic the HEdgehog
Metal Slug
SMW
? - 1:52
Kid Dracula
? - 1:53
Contra 3 - The Alien Wars
? - 1:56
DKC - Wii
Strider 2 (Arcade/PSX)
Gunstar Heroes
Gunstar Heroes
? - 2:00
Super Metroid
CV: SOTN
Adventure Island (But never seen the character used in this shot)
CV: Dracula X
Bucky O'Hare ? (NES)
Another World/Out of this World
Earthworm Jim
Kung Fu
Rayman ?
Kid Icarus
New SMB
Legend of Kage
Alex Kidd
Dust Force
Paper Mario?
? 2:18
Mega Man 7
Jazz Jackrabbit
Yoshi's Story
Castle of Illusion
? - 2:22
? - 2:22
Comix Zone
Kirby's Epic Yarn
Commander Keen
? - 2:23
Bonk's Adventure
Sunset Riders
Whomp 'Em
Robocop (NES)
? - 2:27
? - 2:27
Altered Beast
? - 2:28
Sonic game
Wario Game
? - 2:29
Viewtiful Joe
Karateka
Wonder Boy in Monster Land
SMB

Smart Pitfall! players move left more often than not.

Jungle Hunt goes exclusively left.

That was a pretty cool video, worked well with the music for sure.

Tommy Moo: cman: Why was it always right? Why not left? THIS IS AN IMPORTANT QUESTION

Actually, come to think of it, I wonder why that convention did get started. Japanese is read top down, right to left. You'd think if anything it would have felt "normal" for Super Mario Bros. to scroll left.

For displaying on the old CRT TV screens it meant adding to the position of the background objects and terrain and then only having to subtract a limited number of pixel places if you walked left (about half a byte or so) Remember; computers only add. To subtract you have to use the two's complement binary number and that takes more clock cycles and memory. Multiplying and dividing are just faster ways of doing addition and subtract respectively.

\knows a little Assembler
\\knows a lot of PLC programming that uses limited clock cycles for fast response

Fark You Buddy: This is what I came up with. I couldn't ID 18 games, and there were several where I know the character/series but I don't know the exact game. Some games appear multiple times. Feel free to correct/add

Super CV 4
Super Metroid
Kirby Super Star
Adventure Island
CV 3
Duck Tales
Super Ghouls and Ghosts
CV: SOTN
CV: Dawn of Sorrow
Alaadin (SNES?)
Gunstar Heroes
Mega Man
Rocket Knight
DKC
Darkwing Duck
? - 0:28 - Klonoa
Prince of Persia
Spelunker
Zelda 2
Rayman - ?
Metal Storm
Shinobi 3
Cave Story
? - 0:42
TMNT - NES
Batman
Superman - ?
Wolverine - NES
Super Empire Strikes Back
Bionic Commando (NES)
Bionic Commando (Modern)
Metal Slug (X?)
Astyanax
? - 0:55 - Braid
Mega Man X(3?)
Sonic the Hedgehog
Contra
? - 1:00
Strider (arcade)
Spider Man 2
Metroid
Ninja Gaiden 2
? - 1:04
Pitfall (atari)
SMB
SMB - Lost Levels
SMB2 - All Stars Ver
SMB 3 (NES)
SMW
SMW2 - Yoshi's Island
Demon's Crest
Mega Man X
? - 1:20
Lion King (Gen)
Super Adventure Island (SNES)
Mighty Bomb Jack
Ghost n Goblins (NES)
CV: Order of Ecclesia
Konami Man ?
Zelda 2
Shinobi?
Metroid Fusion
Prince of Persia 2?
Marvel Super Heroes - War of the Gems (SNES)
Aladdin (SNES)
Super Star Wars
Contra
Sonic The Hedgehog (DC? XBox? Not sure)
Metroid Fusion
SMB
Goemon?
Metroid
SMW
Spider Man 2 (DS)
DKC
Random Disney Game (Donald Duck)
Wolverine (NES)
Sonic the HEdgehog
Metal Slug
SMW
? - 1:52
Kid Dracula
? - 1:53
Contra 3 - The Alien Wars
? - 1:56
DKC - Wii
Strider 2 (Arcade/PSX)
Gunstar Heroes
Gunstar Heroes
? - 2:00
Super Metroid
CV: SOTN
Adventure Island (But never seen the character used in this shot)
CV: Dracula X
Bucky O'Hare ? (NES)
Another World/Out ...

Sorry that's all I can add. I am not sure on the others. Surprised you didn't get Braid, it was a pretty landmark XBox 360 arcade game, kind of paving the way for things like Limbo and Fez.

Sorry that's all I can add. I am not sure on the others. Surprised you didn't get Braid, it was a pretty landmark XBox 360 arcade game, kind of paving the way for things like Limbo and Fez.Never

Never played it. Did play Limbo though, that was good.

Whar Gladiator, whar?

cretinbob: meh

Link us something that wouldn't make you go "meh" please? Because it must be really awesome.

If the game at 1:28 after Zelda 2 is Shinobi, I never played that installment. I'm really curious what that actually is, too; it's an incredibly grotesque death animation.

i'm probably the only one who remembers playing Samurai Warrior: battles of Usagi Yojimbo on the C64.

JadeGL: Fark You Buddy: This is what I came up with. I couldn't ID 18 games, and there were several where I know the character/series but I don't know the exact game. Some games appear multiple times. Feel free to correct/add

The one after Cave Story is Cybernator... that's all I've got.