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I used to have that Aliens game. As far as I remember, it wasn't very good. Every screen looked almost exactly the same and there were hardly things to shoot!

Well, everything looking similar was a limitation of the system at the time, but I thought it added more to the fear. Besides, getting lost was almost part of the game. If each of the 200odd rooms looked very different, you'd be able to sprint to the finish in much quicker time.The lack of things to shoot is deliberate. It's meant to feel claustophobic, it's more of an atmospheric thinking shooter, with you trying to keep all 6 of your characters alive (because they can be killed even if you're not controlling them). If they chucked tons of bad guys at you, you'd stand no chance at all.

Okay, okay. So right now, i'm STUPIDLY excited.

 

This month in Retro Gamer magazine, they did a feature on the making of the awesomely amazing 1987 Electric Dreams game Aliens. For those of you old enough to have played it, this was about the earliest experience i'd had of anything resembling a first person shooter and is probably the most scared i've ever been playing a game. Ever.

 

SOMEONE ONLY WENT AND REMADE IT.

 

Go here. NOW.

Download it and play it.

Okay, so most of you probably won't see why I love it so much. But it's ace.

 

It's just how I remember it. I'm in love all over again.

 

...and it has 2 PLAYER COOP!

 

Plus, they've included a map and for anyone who did play the original, will know how important that is.

I literally cannot find words. At all.One of my favourites of all time, one of the greatest of all time, one of the reasons I started watching WCW again after Hogan and crew shat on it, one of the reasons I started paying more attention to the WWF again in 1999. Gone.

For those interested, demos of Dead Rising and Saints Row are available to download through the Xbox Marketplace.Dead Rising rocks my world, despite the demo being criminally short. Go find the trolley and bash some zombies. It might end up being a rather shallow experience, but this could easily end up being my game of the year.

Alright, so maybe this has been mentioned elsewhere on the board, but Final Destination 3 is out on DVD on Monday.However, you can now change the whole film (if you wish) and decide if somebody dies or not. You also have the opportunity to kill people who didn't die originally.I officially declare this as awesome.Maybe they could re-release the Sixth Sense with an option to have Haley Joel Osment tortured with power tools at various points in the film.

When did the ROH/CZW feud start and has it finished yet?

Danielson sent out an open challenge to anyone in wrestling to come and fight him for the title. Chris Hero took that opportunity and the first in-ring match in the feud took place at Hell Freezes Over in January (although many words were exchanged in the two/three weeks before this). The feud may end tonight with the Cage of Death match at Death Before Dishonor 4, but I don't think it's finished yet (since a match at the Liverpool show is advertsised at ROH vs. CZW).

Where is the cheapest but most up-to-date place to order their events? I'm using A-Merchandise but they're about 6 months behind.

All the UK suppliers will stay 6 months behind so as not to harm the sales from ROH directly. You'll have to order from Ring of Honor themselves for the newer stuff. The service from ROHwrestling.com is fantastic however and i've haven't been stung by customs once.

WWE in 2005. All of it.I can't pick that? Okay then, Tim White shooting himself at Armageddon, Randy Orton 'killing' the Undertaker, Matt Hardy/Edge, most of what Hassan did and Vince removing various objects from JR's rectum.

John Cena and the Undertaker.

1PW Six-Man Tag (the one featuring Shabazz)

Finally, somebody agrees with me.Spud, Shabazz & Stevie Lynn vs. James Tighe, Ross Jordan & Ice XVII (1PW, ACTOF) gets my vote by a country mile.

Kenta Kobashi & Go Shiosaki vs. Kensuke Sasaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima - NOAH 5/11/05KENTA vs. SUWA - NOAH 18/9/05Takashi Sugiura & Yoshinobu Kanemaru vs. KENTA & Naomichi Marufuji - NOAH 05/06/05Jun Akiyama vs. Katsuyori Shibata - WRESTLE-1 4/8/05Samoa Joe vs. Kenta Kobashi - ROH 1/10/05Yuki Ishikawa vs. Alexander Otsuka - Big Mouth LOUD 11/9/05Samoa Joe vs. Necro Butcher - IWA:MS 11/6/05

ECW One Night Stand.NOAH Destiny.ROH Manhattan Mayhem.

Samoa Joe.KENTA.Kenta Kobashi.

SUWA, for being a total prick in his match against KENTA.CM Punk, for the best executed swerve for many a year. It takes a lot to surprise the modern day wrestling fan and he did, for many shows.JBL, for just being awesome and the closest thing we have to an 'old school' heel....apart from Tracy Smothers, who is getting a vote for managing to drag heel heat out of a clap-happy Doncaster crowd at ACTOF.

Just to sound like a broken record, WWE Armageddon and WWE Great American Bash.

Without a doubt, LOD 2005.

WWE.IWA:MS, for reasons of terribly poor management throughout 2005.

Doug Williams.

Jun Akiyama and Doug Williams vs. Kenta Kobashi and Go Shiosaki (Universal Uproar)Doug Williams, James Tighe & Scorpio vs. Mitsuharu Misawa, Yoshinari Ogawa & Tiger Emperor (International Showdown).

Buy a Dreamcast, everyone should buy a Dreamcast! I still use mine fairly regularly and have a great colleciton of games for it, they're pretty cheap second hand these days. If you get a DC I can lend you both Shen Mue games, then you can spend hours buying capsule toys and racing forklift trucks.

Why didn't I ask this fucking question before Christmas? I see them on ebay for about

Who has lasted the shortest time in the Royal Rumble?

Isn't that record still held by the Warlord in the 1989 Rumble (or does one of the Bushwhackers hold that distinguished honour, I can't quite recall)?

Speaking of the Xbox, we got an Xbox 360 pod into work today, and I played a demo of Call Of Duty 2. The graphics are insanely good.

..and what fine company do you work for sir?I may have to pop into my local branch (of whatever), and promptly shoot my load over the carpet.

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Unless he's got new music since All-Star Extravaganza (the last RoH show I saw), then it's Perry Mason.....

Nah, he's still using the start from Ironside by Quincy Jones (which appeared on the Kill Bill soundtrack).

Hmmm...Must be where I'm getting confused then.

...and i've just remembered what a total idiot I am. The same theme was used for Perry Mason as well.It uses the first 15 or so seconds of the song before bridging into 'The Truth' by Beanie Segal.Another Kill Bill song was used at the start of CM Punk's 'Cult of Personality' theme (Bang Bang, by Nancy Sinatra) and in case anyone cares, Punk's final ROH theme was Night Train by the Bouncing Souls.

Unless he's got new music since All-Star Extravaganza (the last RoH show I saw), then it's Perry Mason.....

Nah, he's still using the start from Ironside by Quincy Jones (which appeared on the Kill Bill soundtrack).

 

I'll guess this has probably been asked at some point, but does anyone know the history behind this picture?

 

Something about the belt looks a bit funny, don't know why, it looks as though it lacks the 'shine' of the real WWF title (might just be the picture though). Barry looks pretty old here, did Turnbuckle Championship Wrestling use a modified old WWF belt?