Aww! You beat me! or: What game(s) are you just really good at? - Page 4

Aladuf · 06-02-2008, 10:09 PM

ok, You can stop critiquing my game purchases now, I don't care if you agree with what I buy because you don't feel that I should play Pinball outside of on a Pinball machine. Don't you always say how you don't care what games others buy?

Renwood · 06-02-2008, 10:10 PM

The existence of table-based games dates back to the 15th century. While some games took the wickets and balls of Croquet and turned them into the pockets of modern billiards, some tables became smaller and had the holes placed in strategic areas in the middle of the table.

In France, during the reign of King Louis XIV, someone took a billiard table and narrowed it, placing pins at one end of the table while making the player shoot balls with a stick or cue from the other end. Pins took too long to reset when knocked down, so the pins eventually were fixed to the table and holes took the place of targets. Players could ricochet the ball off the pins to achieve the harder scoring holes.

In 1777, a party was thrown in honor of the King and his wife at the Château de Bagatelle, owned by the brother of the king. The highlight of the party was a new table game featuring the slender table and cue sticks, which players used to shoot ivory balls up an inclined playfield. The table game was dubbed Bagatelle by the King's brother and shortly after swept through France. Some French soldiers carried their favorite bagatelle tables with them to America while helping to fight the British in the American Revolutionary War. Bagatelle spread and became so popular in America as well that a political cartoon from 1863 even depicts President Abraham Lincoln playing a tabletop bagatelle game.

birdman · 06-02-2008, 11:52 PM

Wait a second, there's a Mike Ditka Pinball game?

WHERE IS IT?!?!?!

Aladuf · 06-02-2008, 11:56 PM

No, he's just being a hater because I want the Pinball Hall of Fame: Williams Edition. Apparently, that's not a game I should be buying and playing because I should only be playing it on a real pinball machine.

I'm being told what not to buy! How about that?

birdman · 06-02-2008, 11:58 PM

Dude, don't call out Ditka Pinball and not deliver. Only English cigarettes do that.

Renwood · 06-03-2008, 01:08 AM

no you're getting in a hissy-fit arguing with quotes I pull from wikipedia. It was all leading up to the introduction of the Apple II Pinball game but you ruined it gj gj

I WAS BUILDING A HISTORY WITH CONTEXT

Ditka was involved in my

head

Aladuf · 06-03-2008, 01:11 AM

epic stealth edit right there.

Renwood · 06-03-2008, 01:13 AM

Ditka brings the e p i

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MrCoffee · 06-03-2008, 03:21 AM

Counter-Strike...they call me 'clickclick' cause all you hear is the click click of my mouse and your entire team is down for the count.

Angrist · 06-03-2008, 04:23 PM

One time I found out that kids on my school were playing Aliens vs. Predator on the school network. I silently joined them in their game. I chose to play as a Predator, while most others were marines. I slaughtered them all.

Without dying once, I got on top of the score list.
Then I heard some kid say "Who's Angrist??" followed by a "I think he's the guy over there..."
Then my next class was starting and the next day the school had uninstalled and forbidden games on the server.

Pylon_Trooper · 06-04-2008, 11:05 PM

Hmmm...Ridge Racer PSP for me. I'm next to hopeless when it comes to FPS games, despite enjoying them.

I can also cook up a great mech in Armored Core: Formula Front on the Sony handheld, too. AI and all.

Not really massive multiplayer pinnacles, but hey - they work for me.