Comments for Gaming Pathology

Comment on Acquisition Log: 2011-07-16 by Multimedia Mike

Multimedia Mike — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 03:57:02 +0000

Thanks for the feedback, Zotmeister. I admit that I still haven’t actually tried using this controller (nor have I played the game). But I trust it would still work.

Comment on Acquisition Log: 2011-07-16 by Zotmeister

Zotmeister — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:48:35 +0000

I bought four copies of Deep Raider to get four of those controllers. I still use the controllers regularly. I still haven’t played Deep Raider.

I’m actually using one as a mouse right now – my actual mouse is currently sitting on its charging station.

I’ve had the left shoulder button die on two of them, but I’ve had no other issues with the Joymouse controllers (Joymice?) in all these years. Certainly no d-pads popping off, and I put them through their paces!

Being modeled after the Saturn controller (which is painfully obvious, even down to the CD music control shortcuts being molded into the plastic above the X/Y/Z buttons!) was a genius idea on the part of their designers. I always wanted to learn more about the history of these. – ZM

Comment on Metal Gear Barbie by Keith

Keith — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 06:17:04 +0000

The Gameboy Advance version of this game is great! I would much more recommend trying that. But if you’re looking for a good Barbie game, I would highly recommend…
BARBIE EXPLORER – Barbie is a newspaper reporter. No wait, now she’s not any more, she’s suddenly decided to be a treasure hunter. Wonderfully difficult and so much fun to play.
BARBIE HORSE ADVENTURES: RIDING CAMP – Barbie enrols at riding camp. Awesome horse riding fun! One of my favourite games ever.
BARBIE DETECTIVE: THE MYSTERY CRUISE – Join Barbie’s detective agency and help solve the mystery. It’s different each time you play. Explore a cruise ship, visit tropical islands, play fun and challenging games, ponder the clues, live the adventure.

Comment on More Sega CD Insanity by Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 07:24:56 +0000

I own a sega cd and most of the titles. It amazes me how so many of them fail to entertain for even a few minutes. I had so much patience for older 8 bit games that sucked as they had a charm to them

Comment on Taco Bell Catch-Up by Multimedia Mike

Multimedia Mike — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 18:26:59 +0000

@Martin: Sorry for the confusion– I didn’t help program these games. At the time, I worked on the Flash Player for Adobe, which is related to the Adobe AIR technology, which I found the games to be based upon.

Comment on Taco Bell Catch-Up by Martin Goldberg

Martin Goldberg — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 04:28:58 +0000

What do you mean you had a hand in the Atari Taco Bell games? I programmed those as part of Legacy.

Comment on Detective Barbie 2: The Vacation Mystery by Danielle

Danielle — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 18:58:25 +0000

My god, I didn’t even get to the maze because my game always closed when I tried to get into the gazebo. Ahhhh, I have a sudden urge to play and finish the game.

Comment on The Gap Game by Terri

Terri — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 20:18:27 +0000

We received this game way back when my Twins were still in 7th or 8th grade. Didn’t have internet back then, but eventually did shortly after getting our first computer. My Twins are now 23. I was going through the computer games because we’ve upgraded / switched to newer computers and internet service providers about 3 years ago. We never did receive any of the codes for the games. Thanks for putting them out there. I’m older now, but still love to play the games.

Comment on Nintendo Power Contests by Nintendo Power RIP, 1988-2012 | Arcade Classics

Nintendo Power RIP, 1988-2012 | Arcade Classics — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:30:33 +0000

[...] Gaming Pathology’s rundown of Nintendo Power’s absurd contests [...]

Comment on GW-BASIC Games by Jeremy Wse

Jeremy Wse — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 16:52:37 +0000

I don’t remember the examples you give here, but I remember years ago I had a Tandy 1000 HX, and we bought some GW-BASIC games (they were compiled) at Radio Shack. They were adventure games: HAUNTED, MOUNTAIN, CRIME, ICE, ISLAND, etc. We were never actually able to finish the games after our disk became corrupt. I’ve been trying to locate the company that made them, or look them up through Radio Shack, or find the titles on the Internet, but have never found a tidbit of information. The disk was from a company called Software-To-Go (Software On The Go?), out of Texas. The disk was called GA-220, and there was another arcade game disk called GA-110 which came with Hardhat Mack, Moon Bugs, Asteroids, etc.

I would be willing to pay a lot of money to track those games down so I could actually play them again (and beat them!).

I understand your search, and I can’t believe we can’t track these things down with today’s search engines.