Comments on: Gaming Made Me, #1: Jim Rossigames

By: KindredPhantom

KindredPhantom — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:39:41 +0000

Hey Jim have you checked out smashball? From your love of Speedball 2 it sounds like you may enjoy this mod.

http://www.smashball.tv/

By: Jonny B

Jonny B — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:32:44 +0000

Could surely argue that it has always been an online game though Dracko!?

By: Dracko

Dracko — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:05:43 +0000

Jim is a man of wealth and taste.

B, Quake III Arena is online now, so therefore, no longer indie cool. :(

By: Jonny B

Jonny B — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:25:18 +0000

Jim my boy where is Quake 3!

By: Halbyrd

Halbyrd — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:01:23 +0000

Super Metroid: taught me that exploring things can be fun, and going at your own pace is just fine sometimes.

Final Fantasy VI: no matter how desperately weird you are, you can find friends, and even love, if you try. also, clowns are pure evil

Half-Life: smart people think their way out of a problem, instead of just shooting at everything

UT99: the best way to win a one-on-one fight is to be the third person; good teammates are worth their weight in platinum; and competition can be fun, so long as you don’t jump in the deep end before learning to float

By: Paul Moloney

Paul Moloney — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:38:54 +0000

Elite on the Spectrum. Used to switch off the bedroom lights and put a Star Wars soundtrack album on full blast as I played. I probably didn’t know the word “immersive” at the time, but all my favourite games since then have had to give me that feeling of being in the skin of a character in a realistic world (perhaps it’s why I’ve never really been able to get into RTSs, despite many tries).

By: toonu

toonu — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:15:35 +0000

I played Speedball 2 on the Atari ST e. At the same time, or roughly at the same time, I played Bloodbowl with my brothers. Yes the tabletop game of course.

Speedball 2 was the bloodbowl come to life..only tame and not quite as visceral as the images and play by play moments in your head. Though, its management was great and each player that got better, brought it a little more to home. In the same light that your XCOM soldiers get better, you value them more and take it personally when when dies, or in SB2…gets injured.

By: cowthief skank

cowthief skank — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:11:45 +0000

I remember first getting Half-Life. My computer was sans-graphics card, so I could either play it in software or wait. Somehow managed to wait, just playing this one level over and over. I think it was a tutorial or something? There was not much to do, but it kept me going until we got a graphics card.

The soldiers in that game still rank as one of my favourite enemies, and the plot touched the scientist / science fiction fan inside me.

I also remember spending time, a lot of time, making crappy single-player levels, trying to make places I knew but failing miserably, making incredibly complicated objects that slowed it right down. Would take ages for my computer to save the level in order to preview it, only for me to find out it wasn’t right and would have to change it.

Great fun. Half-Life would be in my list for sure.

By: Paul B

Paul B — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:52:11 +0000

I remember Speedball 2 fondly too. It was one of my favourite games on the Amiga, and one of the most frustrating. I would slowly fill my team with star players, get promoted to division 1, and then fall at the last hurdle to Super Nashwan, ending up in second place.

I recently played Speedball 2 again using WinUAE, and despite all my extra years of gaming experience, I still lost to Super Nashwan. Some things never change ;)

By: Joshua

Joshua — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:04:47 +0000

I think I was the only one in America who bought the Speedball game on XBLA. Since I never owned a comp that was the first time I ever played a Speedball… and I loved it! One of XBLA’s best titles, even today.

By: Seniath

Seniath — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:30:12 +0000

On the topic of Half-Life, I stumbled upon this awesome (albeit 3-year-old) image earlier.

By: Bozzley

Bozzley — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:02:38 +0000

Speedball 2 came with an awesome booklet in the box, which described the history of the sport and the best ever players. One of which was “No Legs” Brahe, who got stuck in an air vent. Genius.