Joe*Battlelines

Vanishing Point · Staff Sergeant Joined: 07 Aug 2006 Posts: 308

I am an old game collector since the games where new

somewhere I still have a maufacturer's copy of the classic GI Joe game for the Comadore 64 on 5.5 floppy disk

a campy infinite game that pitted you in either one on one combat or vehicle dominance

as the Joes you had a roster of

Duke, Scarlet, Recondo, Snakeyes, Spirit, Torpedo and other 84 era joes
Clutch in the Vamp
Ace in the Striker
Wild Bill in the Dragonfly
and Thunder in the Mauler
vs

Cobra Commander and his one hit kill laser pistol
Major Bludd and his rocket pistol
Destro and his wrist rockets
Baroness and her machine gun
Firefly
and Stormshadow

the one on one had interactive elements from Fangs taking pop shots at where you where last standing to a SNAKE armor that attacked the opponant of the last person to hit it

to rescue your captured troops you had to run vehicle missions

the vamp had guided missles
the mauler had dual mobility and targeting with the powerful turrent
both hindered by the environment's trees and often victim of rattlers

the striker was fast and had infinite machine gun fire
the dragonfly didn't set off heat seeking missle pods

no matter how many times or what order you defeated the CObra's in they always managed to escape while bringing the last one in, and thus a never ending game

but much more satisfying in the sense that the indiviual characters where catered to in both image and ability

the next one I had the misfortune to have was for the Atari 800
where you guide little pixel men across what seems like a bridge avoiding the spit fire of a gignormous cobra idol... yeah...

next was for the NES a "get tough" era game with all the same style of a megaman adventure, I had it breifly as it was the last game for the classic nes I had as it was the result of a fire... two days after buying said game all I remember is I hated fighting the Ice Sabre, but it had the marketing of everything on the TRU shelves at the time and did make me like the brightly colored Snakeyes a little more

aside from those I have only in passing heard of an arcade Joe game and nothing else in 3 generations of game consols

where is the Joe game for us
today?

nothin on SNES, Genesis, Sega Saturn, Sega CD, Sega 32x, Turbographics, Lynx, Nomad, gameboy, gameboy advance, DS, n64, gamecube, ps1, ps 2, xbox, dreamcast

if they can make a game about SPot from 7up or the blue Brothers or even the Olsen twins we need a next gen Joe

be it in the X-men legends gauntlet style
fps call of duty/halo gen or
my personal favorite Dynasty Warriors musou format
christ if there is only one reason to get a ps3 it's Gundam Musou, costs $60 to import, no english and I'm not even a gundam fan and this rocks my face off

give us something

even Friends got a game dammit!
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Maxtype · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 7:51 am Post subject:

I had that Commodore 64 game-my brother and I spent hours and hours capturing Cobras!! Awesome! Very Happy

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Yoho Joe · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 1:35 pm Post subject:

NES actually had 2 Joe games I belive. Second one was subtitled with csomething about atlantis I think. Loved the first one. I mean it had Rock & Roll v.2 and Capt. Gridiron in it. Awesome.
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cobra22nd · Sergeant First Class Joined: 10 Apr 2005 Posts: 749

I have an awesome mod for battlefield 1942. The guys didn't get to finish before hasbro lawyers took a huge dump on them. Even unfinished------Its awesome!

Goldbug · Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 5:28 am Post subject:

I've got a mod for Ghost Recon. It is quite fun.
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cobra22nd · Sergeant First Class Joined: 10 Apr 2005 Posts: 749

Found some screen shots and a write up of the old joe BF1942 mod

http://compactiongames.about.com/cs/mods/p/gijoe_mod.htm

SkyWarp · Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 5:26 pm Post subject:

I played the BF1942 mod. Now someone needs to do a mod for Company of Heroes.
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Destify · Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 12:49 am Post subject:

you know.. if you get the znes emulator, you can actually play online versus each other Very Happy

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Destify · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 3:16 am Post subject:

too bad that Battlefield mod wasn't finished looked sweet. It would be fun to get a mod together for the joes Smile

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Goldbug · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 3:19 am Post subject:

Destify · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 3:30 am Post subject:

hahahah yeah I wish too. It's not too difficult to make mods if you have done that before. well as long as you are doing a complete rewrite. Making new skins and models isn't bad. Just the scripting for certaing affects if thats what you want is bad.
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Shipwreck Jr. · Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 11:53 am Post subject:

you would think with the 25 anniv. it would be the PERFECT time to release a new joe game. if its half as good as the new transformers game i would be happy.

or even, dare i say... MMORPG? Shocked

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Goldbug · Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 3:45 am Post subject:

Black Convoy · Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 4:19 am Post subject:

New TF game wasn't that bad in my opinion.

Personally, I'd love to see the Joes in a new Third Person Shooter that plays similar to Rainbow Six Vegas. (yes, I am aware Vegas is a First Person Shooter but I think it would translate to a Third Person Shooter perfectly)
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