Quote: That was pretty good, but the Ultimate Warrior was the zen master of nonsensical rambling mixed with roid rage.
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There is another video of him that is remixed, it has different clips (too) and starts out with him saying; "Keep coming, down everybody's throats, with Raging Elephants!"
But I can't seem to find it anymore.
ETA: I wonder if all that yelling made his balls hurt?
> Same with Atari 2600 games, for example go back and try making head-nor-tail of the > Indy Jones game now!
Actually, it's the opposite for me. With the more abstract graphics, I tended not to see what they were intended to represent as a kid. So instead of an overhead view of a tank in Combat!, I saw a weird face with a nose sticking out. And the boxers in Boxing looked like weird, alien-snake things instead of overhead boxers. I never played Indiana Jones as a kid, but I'm sure I would have been utterly baffled. E.T. certainly baffled me (although I guess that experience was the same for everyone else).
I wanna hit on chicks while talking to them like this. Or maybe Randy Savage pillow talk... HUNDRED N EIGHTY DEGREES OH YEAH. I'm talking about ~the beat goes on and the beat goes on~. I am lookin right into you right now, Elizabeth. Sugar is sweet and so is honey. Macho Man is on a roll and it can't be stopped. Talkin about the greatest intercontinental champion that ever lived. Who says I can't sing and I can't dance but I can make romance.
I said go right Elizabeth said go left. I went RIGHT. I said Elizabeth FOLLOW ME YEAH.
> > Same with Atari 2600 games, for example go back and try making head-nor-tail of the > > Indy Jones game now!
I believe the guy dressed in black at the top (yeah, that's what that is) is meant to be a 'black market' vendor of some kind of flute? While the guy in white is a legit 'white market' vendor selling... a birthday present? I'm not even joking! No idea what that basketball net thingy is though...
Weird to think that Mean Gene used to be a wrestler himself, with his anchorman tash and classic sports commentator voice, the only reference on his Wikipedia to his wrestling career is a one point it says "Okerland (a one time wrestler)"
This is also when instruction booklets meant something. Games today spell the game out for you in the forum or on-screen tutorials or preliminary play through levels designed to get you 'up to speed'. Back then it was, "This is the game - play it!".
Somehow my Comcast connection can download files at close to 2 Mbytes a second yet anything on YouTube or Break etc. I have to watch a few seconds on, hit pause and go do something else, go back and watch a few seconds on, and so on. It totally sucks. Fun video thread though.
> Back then it was, "This is the game - play it!".
Those were the days when getting the highest score was the goal. And today it's about seeing the best ending, or any one of the many different endings.
> > Back then it was, "This is the game - play it!". > > Those were the days when getting the highest score was the goal. And today it's about > seeing the best ending, or any one of the many different endings.
you wrong,today is all about getting a score ONLINE,harass people ONLINE,getting a stupid "achievement" ONLINE,and going head to head against some 12 years old kid who thinks he's great only because he got an x360 achievement ONLINE...
to quote my lil 13 yo cousin,while i was playing an old dos game on pc
him:what is this shit me:this "shit" is the precursor to many platform games on the pc..well the few that are there anyway him:ah ok..does it have online me:no it doesn't ,he was made in 1995,you know so it wasn't possible to do that him:ah ok,does it have achievements? me:if for achievements you mean personal satisfaction one you finish,yes there is him.then i'm not interested...
> > Back then it was, "This is the game - play it!". > > Those were the days when getting the highest score was the goal. And today it's about > seeing the best ending, or any one of the many different endings.
While that's true, I don't think there WAS a score in that Indy Jones game - props to the developers for trying to make a proper immersive adventure game on a platform that limited (plus trying to invent what a 'prroper immersive adventure game' actually WAS, on the fly) - Just in case I sound like I'm being too snooty about it...
Quote: that's what the world is all about nowadays
I'd say that's what the "gaming" world is definitely about these days. In an age where so many people are connected, yet still pretty anonymous, the achievements they "earn" shows the rest of the anonymous group that this player knows "x" about the game. The achievements give just another face in the crowd some kind of bragging rights or cred.
At the risk of sounding like a "those were the good old days" post, back in the arcade era, you knew nothing about your opponent, unless it was rumor from other people there. You couldn't view a list of things your opponent had probably done in the game you knew once you started playing what you were up against.
Hell, I had no idea who Billy Mitchell was growing up, and he looked like every other kid in the arcades at the time, so for him to walk into an arcade and someone challenge him to Pac Man probably wouldn't have been too uncommon....until they played him of course.
Warrior and Savage formed a tag team in the early 90s billed as the Ultimate Maniacs I believe. I saw Savage a couple times at the Boston Garden and he always put on a great show. Everytime I hear Pomp and Circumstance now it reminds me of those days.
Of course, Savage would not have gone over as big without Miss Elizabeth.
Randy's brother, Lanny Poffo, was also a wrestler, working under the nicknames "Leaping Lanny" or "The Genius." Quite a contrast. From what I've read his dad was in the business for 40+ years. Looks like he passed away earlier this year.
According to wikipedia, it was an overdose of drugs and alcohol. How bizarre were the last ten years of her life, though. It's like a wrestling storyline that bled over into real life.
I just remember him getting arrested for 'roid possession, and them finding her dead when they arrested him. Wrestling is like the shirtless guys in Cops getting paid for what they do.
> Randy's brother, Lanny Poffo, was also a wrestler, working under the nicknames > "Leaping Lanny" or "The Genius." Quite a contrast. From what I've read his dad was in > the business for 40+ years. Looks like he passed away earlier this year. > > > 02:17 =
Yeah, I remember Leaping Lanny Poffo, he was a skinny but agile guy, while his contemporaries barked their trash talk like the steroid addled meat heads that they were, Lanny used to make his rhyme and read them off the back of freebies which he would them throw into the crowd I think 'The Genius' was a 'Manager' character of his wasn't it? around the time The Undertaker was first launched IIRC...
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