Don't get it if you use an SDTV. It has the text bug that some early games had where it is near impossible to read the text on the screen. This is how you get many mission objectives. Otherwise it's a pretty fun game with a few flaws. A good pick up for cheap.

People use an SDTV for games? I mean your computer monitoir plays it in nearly HD...

loool

After watching so many NES game reviews, I have this strong desire to go back and play them. But I want to play them with an NES controller. What's the easiest (and not too expensive) way to get a USB adapted controller and games?

When I bought HL2, there was a HL1-Steam-Version (i.e. HL1 updated to the engine of HL2) included. I don't really remember about OF and BS. I def. played OF and I think I played BS too, although I can't really remember. I don't know whether you should buy the "original" HL1 version because those gfx are def. pretty old.

my little cousin likes "Destroy All Humans" for xbox. What would an equivalent game be for xbox 360? (the 360 version of the game got horrendous reviews)

ebay: NES usb controller

What about the games?

What sort of game is it? Earth Defense Force for the 360 is an action game with semi-role playing stuff (you increase your hitpoints and randomly find new weapons/upgrades/etc) and is probably one of the most fun co-op games there is. It's not too hot by yourself though. It also has graphics and voice acting so bad that they're good!

There's nothing to stop you from playing "Destroy All Humans" on the 360.

Something seems fishy about a DS Scrabble game that throws out t*ts and f***ers that quickly. I'm pretty sure that to get the letters needed for f***ers would take a bingo or it takes the kids putting down the word f***.

Just sayin.

Circuit City is really having some problems. They shut down all their stores in my city. Then, when I go to Raleigh, NC their display 360 has the RRoD. I really did lol.

Well, this is sort of a random question, so maybe this is the correct place for it:

Does anyone remember the old computer game Under a Killing Moon? It was sort of in the vein of King's Quest or something like that, only it was set in the future and it was a cheesy hard-boiled detective story. It was also one of the first games that used live actors, if I recall correctly...the game was probably bad in reality but in the lens of nostalgia I remember this being one of the best games of my childhood.

The question is, does anyone know of any games that are similar to this for either PC or 360?

I'm not sure what King's Quest is so I can't really help

From "detective story" you might like Condemned, although it's two/thirds FPS (but with mostly melee weapons instead of guns).

God of War III screenshots IMO

under a killing moon came on like 5 cds iirc (useless trivia)

Similar in what ways? There are a few adventure games still being made, but none of them that I know of have an atmosphere/setting similar to UaKM. The Sam & Max series is good...you could join GameTap for $10 a month and play them all. GameTap would also allow you to play a decent assortment of older adventure games, such as the King's Quest series and other "Quest" series.

As for Tex Murphy (the protagonist of UaKM), there were two games prior to that in the series without the live actors and first-person view, and two games after that in the series that used the same system with updated graphics. I played the first two (pretty good), and I eventually want to play the others. I think that most people would have difficulty playing any of them these days, first of all because it will be hard getting them to run, and second just because they'll feel so arcane if you can't let yourself be swept up in the nostalgia.

Ban!

Its a series of awesome adventure point and click titles ala Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island etc.

Ban! "Point-and-click" is not the first thing that should come to mind when thinking of King's Quest. Most of them are not even point-and-click; that didn't start until King's Quest V. In the beginning you had to move your character around with the arrow keys and type in what you wanted him to do.

"Get bowl", "talk to man".

Yeah, gotta say, these games sucked up an EMBARRASSING amount of my childhood. Gotta say that KQIV was the best of them. What a great game.

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$170 for a 360

I loved Sierra games but for a long time did not have the right computer (Apple IIGS which would have run the first few, not sure why I never got them). I loved them so much that when my mom used to take us to Borders on Jazz night or whatever, I would sit and read the game walkthroughs in "The King's Quest Companion". They were descriptive and well written, so I played the games vicariously through reading the walkthroughs. It was a grand day indeed when I finally got my hands on the games for real.

I used to love space quest...

And when I was like 7 I would try to get through the leisure suit larry adult protection questions so I could see some 15 pixel titties

Scientists write guide to build supercomputer from PS3.

The Space Quest section where you had to "hold breath" before "dive" (or otherwise drown) really had me jammed. I assumed I was missing an oxygen tank or something.