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geggis
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January 2, 2012 - 3:41 pm
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Scout, xtal and Jarrod done good! I forgot to pop in here and give my two pence.

Defense Grid is in there at #4 and if I'm not mistaken, #2 is of one of the 'Souls' games. Dark or Demon's, I'm not sure.

Could #3 be Caesar or Black & White 2 or something?

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All I'm seeing is From Dust and Rainbow Six. The eighth one looks familiar, as if it's already been in the banner contest...

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It's a remake of Zaxxon!

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It's been so long! Now that we've thoroughly broken the site with this new theme, it was time for a new header. 🙂

Here's the old one. I think you guys guessed all of them.

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  1. Catherine
  2. Dark Souls
  3. Grand Ages: Rome
  4. Defense Grid
  5. Space Rangers 2
  6. Gauntlet
  7. Claude Beri's Manon des Sources
  8. Scythe Mugen 2 fucking huge awesome heatsink
  9. Alice: Madness returns

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Oh oh! I know number #2 on the new one!

Master of Magic, my favorite civ-like!

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Armand is right!

Damn, I was hoping I could stump you guys with that one.

Gregg also is right!

Sort of. It's just Zaxxon, no remake. But I'll allow it. 🙂

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I can spot a MoM Wizard's Tower a million miles away. One of my all time favorite games, and one I've spent countless hours playing since it first came out. Still very playable imo.

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Oh my gosh, I can't believe I didn't initially recognize #9 as Rainbow Six. I played that game forever.

Gregg & Armand, how do you guys know so friggin' much? Seriously. Obscure French film this, 15-copies-sold 80s game that...

#3 is on the tip of my brain's tongue... arggghhhhh what is it????? 

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EW XTAL'S BRAIN HAS A TONGUE EEWWW EWW EW

And xtal is right about #9! Dammit, another one I thought would stump you guys...

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It has to be a remake of Zaxxon because no version of Zaxxon that I looked at had a resolution that high, apart from this one!

Picture 4 looks like Saints Row 3 or GTA IV or something like that.

Edit: any chance of making forum links a bit more obvious as well? Like underlining them automatically or making them a Tap-Repeatedly button blue?

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Maybe it is a remake, it occurs to me that I just Googled "Zaxxon" and looked for a nice image. I take it back!

 

Hmm... forum links... forum links... let me see what I can do.

Edit: done!

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Not on that one. I am Ding Chavez, baby. I always loved playing as Roger McAllen-- I thought it was so cool that there was a Canadian guy in the bomb squad-- but if he died I would restart a whole level. I was so obsessed with that game I bet I could name all of the operatives in Rainbow off the top of my head. I swear the following will include no Googling...

Ding Chavez, Santiago Arnavisca, Gerald Morris, Ayana Yacobi, Antonio Maldini, Pak Suo-Won, Homer Johnston, Dieter Weber, ...shit... okay there was a guy named Alejandro...Navarro?, some guy last name Bogart... Daniel Bogart maybe? Ummm... A Swedish woman named Anna something... Paik? Or something-qvist. The plump Polish woman... arghh. Oh, some Brit named John Price I think. Or Something Price. Nick Price? Dick Price? Okay, not as impressive as I was expecting...I remember their faces (well, portraits) more than names. Oh oh, the Russian, Evgeny Filatov; he had a wicked mustache.

I remember when Rainbow Six came out I invited my friends over and fooled them into thinking I had a 3D accelerator. The graphics were that smooth.

I also remember wishing that you could simply rename any operative through the GUI, a la UFO Defense. As it were, you had to do it by tinkering with files.

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Is #5 either Kill Bill or Firefly?

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Score a point for Armand. Well, half a point because he cheated and gave two guesses. Score half a point for Armand!

Ding Chavez up there can have the other half. 😉

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#3 Starcraft?

 

#6 Some form of tablet. Since Tap-Repeatedly likes its Kindle Fire, that's my guess.

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I'll go with Kill Bill, though I wish it were Firefly.

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Armand gets a full point! Don't worry dude, I'll put firefly in there some time. 🙂

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Is #7 From dust?

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Yeah I said From Dust further up, it has to be! Good job spotting Kill Bill as well, I was going to say From Dusk Till Dawn because it has that Tarantino look about it as well as the desert/Western thing going on.

@xtal: I loved what I played of Rainbow Six, god knows why I never bought it back in the day. I think it's responsible for my Frozen Synapse crush.

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#1 .......

 

#1 haunts me....I know I have seen it before!  Is that Jill Valentine from the Resident Evil games?

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