No pain, no gain
Hello, my fellow gamers! Do you have games that launch Netscape Navigator and the printer spool process when you open them up? Is the frame rate the same as your character's polygon count? Have you ever gotten a blue screen of death... on a console? Did you promise at SGDQ that you'd run Heavy Nova? Then this is the marathon for you! Right now, I want to set up a marathon including all those hushed games that are legends among gamers. Yes, I know some of us run them. Yes, I know some of us have problems. Thank goodness for that.
This marathon is in the early planning stage! We have many things to discuss, but I'd also love to start hearing game suggestions. Here's a list of things I want to discuss in this thread.
Dates. Right now, I'm looking at sometime in February or March 2014. CGDR is happening in March, as well, so we'd want to make sure we were on a different weekend.
Name. A bad marathon needs an equally bad name.
Charity. Do we want a charity? Does any charity want us? I'd like suggestions.
Technical issues. Some recent online marathons have been great. There are some things I like and some I don't. I'd like to get more into depth with what people feel is best. I'm planning this to be online, but if there's a huge movement to make it in-person, we could change it.
Game submissions. Send in generally bad or obscure games. Think: if it either fits AwfulGDQ or gets cut on the first round, I'm happy to consider it here. As long as you can personally stream it, you can submit. Go ahead and give this information.
1. Game title.
2. Run time estimate.
3. Description of the game. Hype it up! Talk about glitches, notoriety! If it's Superman 64, let me know that there's more to the fame than just flying through rings (and yes, that game's not too horrible for this marathon. I think).
4. A video of a run, if you have one. If not, try to get some video from YouTube so I know what it's like.
That covers everything that I'm thinking of. Feel free to bring up more issues, especially if they'll help with the early planning. We have a little over half a year, and I'm thrilled.
This marathon is in the early planning stage! We have many things to discuss, but I'd also love to start hearing game suggestions. Here's a list of things I want to discuss in this thread.
Dates. Right now, I'm looking at sometime in February or March 2014. CGDR is happening in March, as well, so we'd want to make sure we were on a different weekend.
Name. A bad marathon needs an equally bad name.
Charity. Do we want a charity? Does any charity want us? I'd like suggestions.
Technical issues. Some recent online marathons have been great. There are some things I like and some I don't. I'd like to get more into depth with what people feel is best. I'm planning this to be online, but if there's a huge movement to make it in-person, we could change it.
Game submissions. Send in generally bad or obscure games. Think: if it either fits AwfulGDQ or gets cut on the first round, I'm happy to consider it here. As long as you can personally stream it, you can submit. Go ahead and give this information.
1. Game title.
2. Run time estimate.
3. Description of the game. Hype it up! Talk about glitches, notoriety! If it's Superman 64, let me know that there's more to the fame than just flying through rings (and yes, that game's not too horrible for this marathon. I think).
4. A video of a run, if you have one. If not, try to get some video from YouTube so I know what it's like.
That covers everything that I'm thinking of. Feel free to bring up more issues, especially if they'll help with the early planning. We have a little over half a year, and I'm thrilled.
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