Consoles in 2017

[LowPolyOWG]

Yeah, Nintendo have some good exclusives (Mario and the Zelda games)

[mandru]

I'll wait for Atari to make a comeback. 

[LowPolyOWG]

Ahh, the golden era of arcade games

[PZ]

 

[Art Blade]

yeah on the old Atari console, there even was a game called fragger. Er, frogger.

[PZ]

 

[fragger]

 

I loved Frogger, my mates and I used to have contests on it in the pub. Biggest loser bought the next round This of course was way pre-Quake (and pre-PC), where I later had my "fragger" honorific bestowed upon me by a couple of those same Frogger friends due to my penchant for showering all comers from on high with launched grenades ("get down here and fight, you dirty fragger", "show yourself, you fragging bastard", etc). Nobody could get near me until I ran out of ammo. Then it became fragger season and I'd get ganged up on

[PZ]

Great story fragger! 

[Art Blade]

indeed

[LowPolyOWG]

Is that also how you got your nickname fragger?

Grenade/rocket jumping was a game mechanic back in the days.

[fragger]

GKID Yep, that's where it came from When I joined OWG I thought about calling myself "Astroboy" (me being an astronomy and space nerd) but there was already a member called "spaceboy" so to avoid any accusations of plagiarism I went with the old nickname None of my friends have called me that for many years though.

Hehe, I remember "rocket jumping" I'd like to see someone try that in reality...

[LowPolyOWG]

He he, I'd expect the person doing that would be cut in half

[Art Blade]

I remember when rocket jumps and circle jumps started to become popular in Quake II. There were even grenade rocket jumps: you threw a grenade down ahead and jumped after it so you'd basically land on your own grenade -- when you did, you'd fire your rocket launcher onto the grenade and had twice the power of a normal rocket jump. It was amazing, I could jump across a place people would have to run half a minute to get there without.

[PZ]

I like the name fragger - glad you went with it 

[Art Blade]

same