I never had noticeable scanlines on the CRTs i played games on. Mostly because all my european CRTs had true RGB inputs over SCART and I exclusively used those for gaming, even modified consoles for RGB output if they didn’t have it from the start (there’s also S-VHS and component video over SCART - yuck). So I don’t…

Actually you have tons of lag on CRTs because they can’t keep up refreshing the (whole) picture as fast as modern CRTs. It is all just blurred by the inherent flaws of the technology which have been turned into strengths by clever engineers. Consoles just work with an exact refresh rate a TV gives them, look at…

Doesn’t have anything to do with interlacing (there are lightguns for VGA monitors for PC), but with the need for a cathode ray to pass the screen.

There are solutions for PS2 (no GunCon Support) and Xbox that work similar to a Wiimote, i.e. you have to place IR LEDs around your TV and then calibrate them using those. Ugly, but gets the job done. I’ve seen an old NES Zapper modified in a similar fashion. So it can be done, there just isn’t a market for that. The…

they what? Apparently you never owned a TV with a decent scaler built in. Even my VCS2600 looks great over antenna cable on my 46inch Samsung. I route all other old consoles through my Onkyo amp which will happily scale eveything up to FullHD using a number of filters (similar to those emulators provide) which I can…

Saturn a piece of Garbage? The Vampire fighting game series would like a word with you. As well as Street Fighter Zero 3, and many others which -thanks to the 4MB ram catridge - looked arcade perfect and had nearly zero load times. Also I really like Radiant Silvergun on the Xbox 360, but I still prefer the Saturn…

Interesting. I actually live near an atomic shelter for 5000 people, the Hamburg-Harburg S-Bahn station was conceived as a bunker for that number of people. Now finally out of order since they probably used asbestos in its construction and some of the systems are now beyond repair (air filtration p.ex.), it was…

Bruce is a great guy. I met him when he was giving a speech at our company about game design, very down-to-earth and inspiring. I wish more of our game designers were like him.

Also remember that in other countries this might look like it is high, but then the employer has to pay his share of healthcare, taxes etc... so in the end an employee costs the company 1.5-2x as much as what the employee sees on her/his paycheck. (at least over here in Germany)

Had an issue with the activation of two L4D2 copies that I bought from UK. Boxed game, in its original shrinkwrap. It said that the key couldn’t be activated because it was already in use. Contacted Steam support, they told me to send in a picture of the key vouchers with my name and account name written next to it…

It was all a bit muddy and maybe would never have resulted in a lawsuit if it wasn’t for the Battletech animated series and the Tyco toys associated with it. They crossed into the realm of video there, and I think that was the straw that broke the camels back.

Question: In what regard is this superior to the CD version of System Shock? The old version I have here has full audio logs, 640x480 resolution with higher resolution textures than the disc version and better overall audio files. I think it also had longer FMV sequences. If I remember correctly it still had a Midi…

How does it come that this comment isn’t the top answer? Look up the back catalogue from TSFH, most of their albums aren’t available for the general public (only as an advertisement for their services to paying clients), but you sometimes hear the same music for a movie trailer, a car ad, a game trailer etc... The…

For my HP Business Inkjet 2800 I’ve gone with no-name cartridges since day one. More capacity, and cheaper too. 20€ for all 4 colors together, but the black cartridge holds over 55ml of ink! Thats ten times more compared to a lot of smaller printers, and offsets the price of the printer pretty fast (although I got it…

I liked the Episode with the young Alice Cooper as a guest. Complete with his own horror-themed muppet companions ;) Loved it as a kid, and even more so as an adult ^^

You know that there was an Iron Maiden video game, right? It was called “Ed Hunter” and came with something you could call a “best of” album on 3CDs.

Wasn’t there a game called Clouds Below that looked similar?

I don’t think that employees at our company are treated like that at all. Actually, I’ve yet to work in a company that treats people better than the one I’m currently working in. And we create F2P games exclusively. It has more something to do with who runs the place.

According to http://www.bridgebuilder-game.com/ the first game simply called “Bridge Builder” was from the year 2000. Made by the guy who later created the Pontifex games too.

far too young. There were several Bridge Builder games before it, I think this was the first one: