Comments on: Good Ol’ Roger & Rex http://www.ringdragonz.com/2010/03/good-ol-roger-rex/ Premiere Book Award Winner Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:48:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Mister Rengerz http://www.ringdragonz.com/2010/03/good-ol-roger-rex/comment-page-1/#comment-107 Mister Rengerz Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:04:07 +0000 http://www.ringdragonz.com/?p=360#comment-107 My Cousin :) I do recall that bead of sweat frying the entire motherboard. Dude. That was unbelievable. Yeah, I concur, in a race to be fast, it seems we aren't thinking any more. Didn't Einstein say the faster matter goes, the more time slows down. Doesn't it feel like we should have more time to think, then, and not less ??? My Cousin :)

I do recall that bead of sweat frying the entire motherboard. Dude. That was unbelievable.

Yeah, I concur, in a race to be fast, it seems we aren’t thinking any more.

Didn’t Einstein say the faster matter goes, the more time slows down. Doesn’t it feel like we should have more time to think, then, and not less ???

]]> By: Matt Rengerz http://www.ringdragonz.com/2010/03/good-ol-roger-rex/comment-page-1/#comment-106 Matt Rengerz Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:51:03 +0000 http://www.ringdragonz.com/?p=360#comment-106 --== I couldn't agree more. it's funny to me how the greatest games ever conceived have now been labled as *abandonware*. that's quite disconcerting, even to a nerdist like myself. I absolutely love these games. that's right, i still play them using a DOS emulator called DOSBOX. ahhh, let the memories flow. playing games like these takes me back to a time when i had no worries. I suppose i may still be sentimentally attached to slights such as these. i mean, back in these days it actually required a group of artists, with some insight, and a vision to create something. something that was challenging, and thus rewarding - playable, and therfore completable (although my cousin may disagree with me on this one, hence us calling the cheat line inside of the Hagar's Pizza manager's office to 'Pass the sequel police, press 4 now!' yea, i acted as his lookout on such ventures..) anyways...my point is that these games envoked our imagination..and on so many different levels. it wasn't that 1st person shooter crap you see everywhere today. no, it was a slow moving, thought deducing, detective style process of elimination that our human brains yearn for. what happened?? i can still remember my cousin trying to get that last tweak on his 486 PC. we'd come back from shooting hoops in the summer all sweaty....he'd pop the case and start tinkering....then the unmistakable 'PSSSSsssss'......oh shit....that's right, a bead of sweat had dived into the depths of the motherboard, caused a short and cut the computer off....that's one of the worst feelings a guy can have. and nothing defines suspense more than 20 minutes of waiting around for it to dry and then pushing, ever so slowly, the power button..........that beats silence of the lambs suspense even. yup that was back in the days of "THE BIGGER THE BETTER". his monolith full tower 486 with the digital readout "33" Mhz. man that was smokin. most likely a 1 or 2MB video card, viper mode vesa. and the MAG montior that was breaking down, intermitently swithing from monchrome to color most likely due to a bad connection at the tube. playing DOOM2 - it's GREEN, no...it's COLOR!......no, it's GREEN!!. ah the good old days. it was just as the CDROM was taking off. games like the 7th guest, Maddog McCree, Dracula and Dragon's Lair (all some of the first ported to CDROM) were absolutely some of the most riveting 8 bit pixel animation to date! (and also some of the hardest to get to run properly). the technology was still relatively new. kids nowdays don't even know what "monochrome" is. man i feel old. –== I couldn’t agree more. it’s funny to me how the greatest games ever conceived have now been labled as *abandonware*. that’s quite disconcerting, even to a nerdist like myself. I absolutely love these games. that’s right, i still play them using a DOS emulator called DOSBOX. ahhh, let the memories flow. playing games like these takes me back to a time when i had no worries. I suppose i may still be sentimentally attached to slights such as these. i mean, back in these days it actually required a group of artists, with some insight, and a vision to create something. something that was challenging, and thus rewarding – playable, and therfore completable (although my cousin may disagree with me on this one, hence us calling the cheat line inside of the Hagar’s Pizza manager’s office to ‘Pass the sequel police, press 4 now!’ yea, i acted as his lookout on such ventures..) anyways…my point is that these games envoked our imagination..and on so many different levels. it wasn’t that 1st person shooter crap you see everywhere today. no, it was a slow moving, thought deducing, detective style process of elimination that our human brains yearn for. what happened??

i can still remember my cousin trying to get that last tweak on his 486 PC. we’d come back from shooting hoops in the summer all sweaty….he’d pop the case and start tinkering….then the unmistakable ‘PSSSSsssss’……oh shit….that’s right, a bead of sweat had dived into the depths of the motherboard, caused a short and cut the computer off….that’s one of the worst feelings a guy can have. and nothing defines suspense more than 20 minutes of waiting around for it to dry and then pushing, ever so slowly, the power button……….that beats silence of the lambs suspense even. yup that was back in the days of “THE BIGGER THE BETTER”. his monolith full tower 486 with the digital readout “33″ Mhz. man that was smokin. most likely a 1 or 2MB video card, viper mode vesa. and the MAG montior that was breaking down, intermitently swithing from monchrome to color most likely due to a bad connection at the tube. playing DOOM2 – it’s GREEN, no…it’s COLOR!……no, it’s GREEN!!. ah the good old days. it was just as the CDROM was taking off. games like the 7th guest, Maddog McCree, Dracula and Dragon’s Lair (all some of the first ported to CDROM) were absolutely some of the most riveting 8 bit pixel animation to date! (and also some of the hardest to get to run properly). the technology was still relatively new. kids nowdays don’t even know what “monochrome” is. man i feel old.

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