[XBOX] Tornio 2006 FULLDVD PAL-SPARE
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TheBugulous




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PostPosted: Wed, 25th Jan 2006 18:28    Post subject: [XBOX] Tornio 2006 FULLDVD PAL-SPARE
Official web page/screenshots @ http://www.2ksports.com/games/torino2006/
2006 Winter olympics game simulation
Qwixes ok to HDD & plays ok
Very small install @ 300MB
3 difficulty levels
Crisp graphics & okayish commentary during events. Luge was quite good - real impression of speed as you skate down an ice tunnel on a tea tray with your ass on fire(!)
Good game if you like this type of sim though it can get irritating when the commentary starts to take the p*ss out of you for missing a gate, etc


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PostPosted: Wed, 25th Jan 2006 19:26    Post subject:
Definitely not my kind of game but ... Er Tornio? Razz


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TheBugulous




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PostPosted: Wed, 25th Jan 2006 20:08    Post subject:
Hee hee yes SPARE can't spel Laughing


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StarShine




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PostPosted: Wed, 25th Jan 2006 20:36    Post subject:
I racked my brains for the other Winter Sports game that I have on Xbox and eventually tracked it down. The name being Konami's ESPN Int'l Winter Sports 2002, although thats another game that had mixed reviews (don't all these types of games) I found it to be substancially more enjoyable and the events to be more convincing. Overall it feels like a more complete/polished and finished game. Its completely different to Torino though its more old school and arcadey from the cheesy music to the typically noisy Konami style menues. The events are downhill, slalom, k90, k120, moguls, halfpipe, curling, speed skating and figure skating. Gameplays all about smashing records, button bashing, quick timer events and if your successful within the game you can unlock costumes for the different characters.

If you like Torino 2006 then you may like ESPN Int Winter Sports 2002 as well Bugulous its another small game too, I had it on a multi disc with 3 other games.

Torino is definetly my style of game but overall it was a letdown to me - Hyper Sports and Combat School are two of my favourite oldies the events were challenging and extremely addictive. Virtua Athlete as well in multiplayer on the Dreamcast is cracking.

Each to their own opinions though thats what its all about. Razz
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TheBugulous




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PostPosted: Wed, 25th Jan 2006 21:05    Post subject:
Nice review Starshine & interesting info on similiar games to *Torino*.
Have you tried - ESPN Winter X Games Snowboarding 2 XBOX PAL-ProjectX at all?
Had a blast with Destroy All Humans though the end mission RoboPrez kinda sucked (!) Just too many luverly XBoX titles to try next Smile Life is a Beetch & then you GameOn Laughing


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StarShine




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PostPosted: Wed, 25th Jan 2006 22:17    Post subject:
Thanks, I wouldn't be surprised if I have that ESPN snowboarding game and its been one of those that went on for 10-15 minutes then was never to be played again sounds fairly typical of me. Razz

Its the SSX series all the way for me *gaming perfection*, that and 1080 on the N64. Never really had any interest in those types of games until that showed up. I've got Amped 1-2 and Transworld Snowboarding as well, Transworld is quite nice - eclectic mix of bands, nice character models, different boards, career mode, loads to unlock, imaginative and very interactive courses (if you like wildlife running across the course when your trying to go down it) the game also runs at a fair whack when your speeding down the mountains. Im not keen on the trick system, that comes from an SSX player though....obviously to me anything thats different or not as intuitive as SSX isn't gonna appeal to me as much.

Amped 1-2 im not so keen on. Hated the trick system and the game fealt very sluggish, theres alot to do in it though thats where its strength lies - quantity over quality doesn't cut it with me though...both of those games score highly across the sites so clearly its a matter of taste and what you look for in a game.

Im messing around on T3 Redemption and Sphinx the Cursed Mummy at the moment, after recommending them to russ_beer in the other thread I had to just dig them out.
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russ_beer




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PostPosted: Wed, 25th Jan 2006 23:17    Post subject:
Starshine... was virtua athlete on the Dreamcast? i thought it was on the saturn?
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StarShine




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PostPosted: Thu, 26th Jan 2006 00:13    Post subject:
You had me going for a minute there russ_beer but yep Dreamcast. I still have my Dreamcast and that game so I just went into the hold all and dug it out to check that it was actually released on the Dreamcast. Embarassed

Wiki has a nice Dreamcast section BTW. Its nice as a resource simply to browse over and drool at some of the stuff that came out for that machine.
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PostPosted: Thu, 26th Jan 2006 01:18    Post subject:
TheBugulous wrote:
Hee hee yes SPARE can't spel Laughing


LMAO! I thought it was your own typo! As I can see from the main page its not lol


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pallebrun




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PostPosted: Thu, 26th Jan 2006 03:50    Post subject:
Game sucks, and I was hoping for something nice. Sad
It's just too easy and you dont have to do much to beat those world records.
I'll stick to my old games where button smashing skills is the key to insane records, and leave this for the n00bs. Razz
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PostPosted: Thu, 26th Jan 2006 04:35    Post subject:
man , i loved those button mashing games. Anyone remember decathlon on the C64? And hypersports in the arcades , pounding the buttons with the plastic lid from a fly spray can to get more speed. Those were the days Razz
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russ_beer




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PostPosted: Thu, 26th Jan 2006 10:03    Post subject:
azzman wrote:
man , i loved those button mashing games. Anyone remember decathlon on the C64? And hypersports in the arcades , pounding the buttons with the plastic lid from a fly spray can to get more speed. Those were the days Razz


Lol, we used to use half of one of the plastic eggs from a cheeky chicken novelty machine (you know the one!) and the speeds were insane!

Starshine, I was wrong, i think it was Decathlete on the Saturn, not Virtua Athlete.

Good Memory!!
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StarShine




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PostPosted: Thu, 26th Jan 2006 16:03    Post subject:
azzman wrote:
man , i loved those button mashing games. Anyone remember decathlon on the C64? And hypersports in the arcades , pounding the buttons with the plastic lid from a fly spray can to get more speed. Those were the days Razz


Was that Daley Thomson's decathlon? If thats the one your meaning yeah I had that and the olympic challenge game on the spectrum. I always remember the games for their humour, the lucozade product placement, the ending sequence where your character would weep alongside the podium whilst the winner stood taking the applause and the publisher/developer Ocean - they were like the equivalent of EA today, like a sausage machine just pumping out game after game after game after game. Them and Codemasters with their "simulator" series of games, biggest whores of the 80's by far.

Theres a java based version of Hypersports online - along with stuff like Green Beret, Commandos, Frogger, Donkey Kong series, Bomb Jack, Mario Bros, Pac Man and Yie ar Kung Fu to name a few of the games.

I gave it a quick go last night after making my first post in this thread, not as good as the emulated arcade versions it runs a little too slow meaning its easy to smash the records but its a good timewaster. Smile
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russ_beer




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PostPosted: Thu, 26th Jan 2006 18:46    Post subject:
where are these java versions Star? I wanna play Hyper sports again!!


Ocean were whores, but they were the finest ho on the block in the 80-90s.

Robocop, midnight resistance, rainbow islands, renegade, daley thompsons, f29 retaliator, they were quality. Not the shameless type of whoring that EA do, shagging out the same tired pervert all the time.

Ocean were selective about which punters cock got sucked.

(ok enough whore terminology!!)
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StarShine




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PostPosted: Thu, 26th Jan 2006 20:30    Post subject:
@russ_beer I didn't like to put up a URL because the site has alot of stuff on it that even though old is still copyrighted material so heres a hint. Google "1980 games" click on the first URL in the search results then click the US/UK flag when your on the site to change to english also check out the nes section they have its pretty good.

Its a good distraction as I said but personally I would go with the arcade emulation through Mame. I use Mame32 with one of the latest complete arcade romsets and if you look on the left of the screen in the Mame32 interface someones added a really nice feature to filter out years/genres/manufacturers and the like.

I filtered on the genre "Track" and was left with Field Day, 88 Games, Gold Medalist, Hunchback Olympic, Hyper Athlete, Hyper Sports, Mach Breakers aka Numan Athletics, Mystic Marathon, Nagano 98, Recordbreakers and Track and Field. Alot of those I was already familiar with but I spent around an hour working my way through some of them and there still pretty enjoyable games. Even the graphics and sound which should have aged when you take into account how old they are aren't that bad - they have character.

Yeah about Ocean, amongst all of the releases there was some really good stuff and I can remember the majority of their stuff selling at budget prices even though it was really high quality? Like £2.99 for a tape. I was messing around on google trying to find out where they disappeared to and in doing so you see entire websites and still active forums still dedicated to them. Also Target Renegade on the spectrum - pure class. Very Happy
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dvsone




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PostPosted: Thu, 26th Jan 2006 21:34    Post subject:
azzman wrote:
man , i loved those button mashing games. Anyone remember decathlon on the C64? And hypersports in the arcades , pounding the buttons with the plastic lid from a fly spray can to get more speed. Those were the days Razz


lol those were the days man. A track suit top sleeve over the hand was a good technique too Wink
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mike22uk




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PostPosted: Mon, 6th Feb 2006 22:49    Post subject:
Ohh. I look forward to playing this with a few mates over, see who can do the best. Always the best way to enjoy this kind of game I find.
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Nailbiter
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PostPosted: Wed, 8th Feb 2006 05:00    Post subject:
hehe nice read. always nice to go down memory lane with you guys. Wink

ey star, did you ever find out what happened to ocean?

this page was pretty nice, to see what games they were involved in: http://www.lemon64.com/index.php?mainurl=http%3A//www.lemon64.com/games/list.php%3Ftype%3Dpublisher%26name%3DOcean

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StarShine




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PostPosted: Wed, 8th Feb 2006 14:36    Post subject:
Nailbiter wrote:
hehe nice read. always nice to go down memory lane with you guys. Wink

ey star, did you ever find out what happened to ocean?

this page was pretty nice, to see what games they were involved in: http://www.lemon64.com/index.php?mainurl=http%3A//www.lemon64.com/games/list.php%3Ftype%3Dpublisher%26name%3DOcean


Yep looked around the net and it said they merged with another company, some speculated that they didn't make enough of an impact or in fact any impact on the Playstation/Saturn and PC market hence why they ended up merging with another company instead of reaping the success that Codemasters had. Who Knows?

Nice find though brought back some memories there (Frankie goes to Hollywood - possibly the most obscure game ever) . I think theres alot of titles missing from that page.....what no Target Renegade!!!, what no The Land that time forgot or the Land before time!!!! - whatever it was called the game where you started out next to a crashed plane on an island with pigme tribes, dinosaurs and a huge waterfall. Plus 2 mins into the game the plump looking fella in your party falls through a bridge and you can either rescue him using rope or let him fall to his death.

Speaking of old games I saw these screens of the new Sensible Soccer the other day.

http://screenshots.teamxbox.com/gallery/1346/Sensible-Soccer/p1/

Looks pretty neat, tiny cell shaded footballers with huge bobbleheads. As long as the have the transfer market and career mode from World of Sensible Soccer I'll be happy. Very Happy
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fluffesk




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PostPosted: Wed, 8th Feb 2006 15:16    Post subject:
how do i download this... assuming of course that this is an actual torrent?? some one help me im very new here.. and dont really know what im doin
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PostPosted: Wed, 8th Feb 2006 15:35    Post subject:
hmmm, i duno about the cell shading in sensible soccer. but if they manage to keep the supurb feel from earlier games, then i can definetely live with that. Smile

it might work well in this kind of game though, come to think about it...
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StarShine




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PostPosted: Wed, 8th Feb 2006 17:04    Post subject:
Yeah, I saw the graphics a while back when it was first announced and nearly hurled. Looking at the most recent screenshots though I thought the cell shaded graphics gave it a kind of psuedo retro look if that makes any sense. There not truely old skool like the Amiga classic and there not comparable to current/next gen which is something I would have absolutely hated and would definetly have been the wrong route for the game to take. Under no circumstances should this game try to compete with or be Pro Evo or even Fifa.

They chose a kind of happy medium in that nice stylised look which is more in keeping with the feel of the original SS and SWOS, I noticed the in game menues looked very similiar to the original game as well (now all they need is the original theme tune). Hopefully what they'll do anyway is include the original games as a bonus I mean how hard would it be to stick 2 games that total probably less than 10 megabytes and package them with an emulator as a bonus onto the disc for the Sensible Soccer faithful.

I also noticed a while back in a Codemasters flyer that there selling the original Sensible Soccer as one of those "TV games". It comes with the 2 megadrive style controllers, game and "machine" all you need to do it hook it up to a TV. Smile



@fluffesk check out these 2 threads and you'll get an idea of what this site is about - 1 is the forum rules and the other is a thread with someone asking a similiar question to the one you just asked. Wink

http://www.nfohump.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20611

http://www.nfohump.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4056
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Gwil




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PostPosted: Wed, 15th Feb 2006 17:41    Post subject:
I was just gonna burn this with a few other games and a menu, so I looked on walmart.com for the boxart and description. You've got to admire their honesty when you read the 1st sentence under "Features and Specifications":

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=4630987

Quote:
Torino 2006 represents a mere pittance of what the actual Olympic games offer, and it still manages to screw up the scant few events it tries to represent.


Nice!
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