The Game OverThinker - Episode 65 "Open The Vault!"
1/30/12 11:00pm
The OverThinker asks the industry to do right by the classics. PLUS! A shocking new twist is revealed!
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konio38
yeah companies only look at the corporate side of the equation, and belive me for 25 cents they wont do nothing. although it was a good price, for me ii dont buy games that are basicly emulated for 3 or 5$ for me that is out of the question. a good example of that is the mega drive collections on steam, its just a emulator ( a bad one i might add) and the game rom for like 3$ or € whatever its very overpriced and its a rip off
Tetsamaru
I definitely agree on the companies will only look at the corporate side of things. Even Nintendo is guilty of only re-releasing old games that have a cult following or are the good ones(Mario games would be an obvious choice). What really gets me personally is how gamers have to skirt around the legal issues of roms and emulators. Download a rom and you basically play a gamble game. "Well, this game wasn't popular, so I don't think any company is really going to care or notice" vs "This game is super popular and I might actually get in trouble for it". I know a couple of Rom sites that have like thousands of roms but actually don't have Mario games or Sonic games because Sega and Nintendo told them to take it down. The website itself is still up and they still have other popular roms like Street figher only because Capcom didn't ask. I just hate how you have to hope a game company will be 'Okay" with you downloading one of their games for free.
bonesy
i agree with you but i really think it is happening with the likes of the vc store and good old games. the main problem is getting the message out there that there is a demand for this stuff as most people who want to play older games just get a rom for it and it seems like nowdays companies dont mind as much
MacNille
Necrothinker? Am i the only one who thinks of necrophila and the Necrons from Warhammer 40k?
Leviadragon99
And here I'd have thought a necro gem would be the obvious black, or maybe white for bleached bones... yellow is kind of closer to plauge/illness... or lightning if we're still going by classic viedeogame colour-coding.
KingKane
lol, Nectrothinker. This is so cheesy, people might think you grew up in the 80s ;)
Animeplayer
Great Work GO on opening the damn Vault that we must have! We do need that if Licensees open everything even imports. GOG does a great service to keep old PC games alive and Steam is the best system method to get games out there. We indeed need to preserve and have it available to all generations and keep it that way as long the community continue to live. For me,I have a generation of games I want to pass down for the future and I preserve them well, but we need a universal system for all.
Aiedail256
I expected the twist to be that Retrothinker becomes Antithinker and is sent back in time in an invocation of the "stable time loop" concept. This is downright dull compared to that, lol
I completely agree with your actual argument of the episode though.
BlueBomber186
I completely agree. You know you've run out of ideas for a story when you start throwing zombies into the mix.
Oh well. I'm sure the OverThinker will find a way to unite the power of the three stones together so they form a perfect primary color variant of the Triforce, and then he'll use its power to break the curse now placed on the RetroThinker, and from that, he'll transform into the TwilightThinker, but then he'll be banished to the Netherrealm by Copyright-InfringementThinker. It's a better fate than becoming the Public Domain Thinker or the Name-that's-too-long-to-fit-on-a-T-shirt-or-sports-jersey-Thinker, right?
Oy. Bob, if you're not taking the hint here, I urge you: come up with some new names for your characters, please! Not everyone has to be the (insert name here)Thinker. If you're trying to suggest that all of these characters are an extension of yourself by naming everyone this way, let me assure you: we get it. No need to beat a dead horse.
Chikumo
Great episode TGO, the gaming community really needs to start saving it's history, and not only through illegal means.
And about the story. After I saw the q-bert and the yellow gem I thuoght: "And now let me guess, Necrothinker?", Your story feels a bit predictable, in sense just like an old movie would be predictable, but perhaps that is where your inspiration is coming from?
anyhow, it's always fun to watch these videos, can't wait to see your next episode.