video games

[DhanoSuzuki]

I'll second the Wolf Computer and its derivatives.

I've got a small enclosure Fox Calculator, and that (along with my Fuzzhugger Sonic Shroom and Dano French Toast) is one of the few pedals that I am unwilling to ever take off my board.

I've never met a pedal that did such perfect glitchy arpeggiation - just pure 8bit insanity. Other pedals do it, but all the ones I have played only seem to do that when there is some oscillation in play. The Wolf Computer does it perfectly, and without the need to dial in any oscillation or lower the volume level on your guitar.

I also found that running my Fox Calculator into an EHX Octave Multiplexer can add greatly to the synthy, video-gamey madness and really beef up those Atari arpeggios. I tried using a Boss OC-3 as well, and it sounded cool, but I think the exceptionally bad tracking on the Multiplexer makes it particularly well suited for my glitchy needs.

Dwarf Fortress


Final Fantasy 6




Fallout New Vegas




Also Chrono Trigger as others have pointed out



Also, more crucifixions



Also, this dog

[OddKnowledge]

also, FF6 and Chrono Trigger fo' life!

MF'in' Chrono Trigger!! the only RPG that this fighting-game-lover really got into. Love that one!

[fcknoise]

Got a huge lust for playing fallout now...

Also, not a pedal, but TE pocket operators and C&G pocket piano do that shit real good

[rfurtkamp]

I love video games. If I want 8 bit, I want C64 stuff, not the dumbed-down consoles. NES stuff is why I stopped playing video games for ten+ years.

And I hated the music of that era in games, first thing I did was turn the TV volume to 0 since you couldn't shut it off discretely in almost any game.

I've only loved the music in one game ever, and it wasn't "video game music", it was a knockoff of spagetti western stuff in "Outlaws."

I play shiny, fancy shit that causes real pain (high-end MMO when I did that, and currently Ark:Survival Evolved on PC) or first-grade open world stuff (Skyrim, FO3/4, etc)

[UglyCasanova]

I love video games. If I want 8 bit, I want C64 stuff, not the dumbed-down consoles. NES stuff is why I stopped playing video games for ten+ years.

And I hated the music of that era in games, first thing I did was turn the TV volume to 0 since you couldn't shut it off discretely in almost any game.

I'm...Uhm....I don't know...You...But....How....

Opinions. Sometimes they leave me dumbfounded.

[rfurtkamp]

NES stuff is a time and place. They were a giant step down from the complexity of the multi-disk RPGs of the era on the C64 if you liked that stuff, and the earliest open world/roguelike stuff (7 Cities of Gold, the original Elite), or the early flight sims (F15 Strike Eagle) etc.

[UglyCasanova]

The only C64 game I played as a kid was Prince of Persia, and it was awesome!

Edit: Wait...maybe it wasn't the C64. What platform was the original PoP for?

edit edit: Apple II

Maybe I've never played C64. Is my life a lie?

[rfurtkamp]

AII and C64 had a lot of crossover, the AII was a lot more primitive graphics and otherwise and the coders went to the big platform.

The consoles also didn't have the rampant piracy and most console games were on par with Tiger Heli and side-scrolling stupid after an era of actual choice.

It was like being asked to play Space Invaders after playing Fallout 1 and 2 for years, or the original Mechwarrior.

[ThurberMingus]

I have no idea how far back the "PC Master Race" debate went! Just messing of course, I had no idea the C64 had sweet games!

[neonblack]

Just dropped in to say Dhano. Motherfucking Dwarf Fortress.

So much FUN!

Reminds me of old school MUDs with the ASCII (rfurtkamp might know what I'm talking about) and just endless hours of tweaking and rebuilding and tweaking to finally get a fortress that REALLY works, and then some dwarf gets depressed and starts hacking people up or i get a little too brave with some lava, and poof, all gone.

Loved challenging myself even more. Like digging down immediately to the first underworld layer and trying to build a fortress there. Or just super imposing surface fortresses. HOLY BALLS. I need to download this game again. I don't have time for this. Shit.

[rfurtkamp]

Yep. I did some MUD stuff, but by that point I was hardcore into music (mine and doing live sound).

The joy for me of the C64 era was doing stuff that was never intended - like inserting the wrong disc in at map load to see what would happen.

Seven Cities of Gold and Ultima IV were grand for that, you'd get literally god knows what because the game just read sector information and parsed it in the engine. It didn't check to see if it was sane.

It wasn't even "PC master race" - just that there was a literal dumbing down of the genre with the post Atari consoles, and it took over a decade to recover.

[Eivind August]

This is quickly becoming my favourite thread. A lot of my pedal addiction stems from me wanting to sound like a broken Gameboy.

So, instead of creating a new thread, lets talk the about crushing for a bit ( ). Which bitcrushers would you guys recommend? Looking for semi-reasonably priced pedal versions. The two most obvious candidates seem to be the Bitmap and the Scrutator. Been through the list over at Effects Database, but might be missing something. When will the good doctor Sherm create a dedicated sound mangler?

[Strange Tales]

Everyone that has a Scrutator seems to love the fuck out of it. I'm basing this off the fact that I never see them for sale versus the Charlie Foxtrot that goes up for sale all the time.

Also, never even mentioned one of my all time favorites, HOMM3

[rfurtkamp]

I'm simple, I don't need much in bitcrush land as it's not a staple of my existence.

I have the $35 clone of the Mooer, it does the job.

[Eivind August]

Not sure if it's a staple of my existence, but I would still like something with sexeh knobs to crush all teh bits.