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Fark You Buddy		2012-04-28 09:22:43 PM

2 votes:

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

omeganuepsilon		2012-04-29 03:30:01 AM

1 votes:

Human nature is why games scroll left to right, if not an instinctual means of right to increase, then a learned tendency.

Reading a book and you voyage from left to right.
Got a volume knob or slider? Left to right to increase.
Screws and jars to tighten is to the right in that same manner.
It's the way comics are read, as well as the lion's share of languages.

It's a universal unspoken rule, motion to the right is an increase or progress. Deviation from that pattern is a novelty, or special purpose(as reverse threaded bolts/parts). It's a means of efficiency via keeping things familiar.

Arbitrary or Instinct though?
That's the real question.

aerojockey		2012-04-29 01:01:05 AM

1 votes:

slackux: The axis standard came from those displays, which were not invented in Japan. Manufacturing costs then dictated the direction because addition from left to right is computationally (and therefore, actually) cheaper

That's probably the reason, but I doubt it was due to addition being computationally cheaper. It was probably just because x was typically defined positive right, and it felt natural to programmers to have the character run in the positive direction.

By the time the first side-scrollers came into play, I believe even low-end CPUs had circuits for subtraction and didn't have to implement it as separate two's complement and addition cycle. Though I don't know for sure.

dywed88		2012-04-28 04:43:22 PM

1 votes:

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

studebaker hoch		2012-04-28 03:50:00 PM

1 votes:

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