https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7kbq/palmer-luckey-made-a-vr-headset-that-kills-the-user-if-they-die-in-the-game

“The good news is that we are halfway to making a true NerveGear. The bad news is that so far, I have only figured out the half that kills you,”

  • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    The article said he's been working himself up to using it himself, likely because everything else life has to offer has lost it's shine. Gotta support him booting up Battletoads/Double Dragon or the Ninja Turtles game for the NES.

    • Darthsenio_Mall [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Lmao awesome. What a world that would be. Critical support for Palmer exploding his brain on Battle Toads level 3.

      • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        One of my most favorite cherished childhood memories was going to this pizza place with these 2 brothers and they spent the entire car ride talking about Battle Toads. Then we got there, headed for the arcade, and in like seven minutes they were out of quarters. Fuckin' Battle Toads just deflated those two boys. Poor guys. Still laugh about it.

        • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          I played it with my sister on the NES and got to the speeder bike stage I think before hitting a wall. I tried playing it on a rom a few years back and couldn't get past the first stage.

          • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            I think it's Battletoads where one of the levels is legitimately impossible on co-op mode

          • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            Those old games were brutal. Battle Toads, Contra, Double Dragon, fuckin' Bubble Bobble.

              • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                2 years ago

                There are spots where you can lay down, keep shooting, and build up points and extra lives from those points from enemy respawns.

      • Multihedra [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        It was seriously only last year that I realized Battletoads was probably created as something to benefit off the popularity of Ninja Turtles; it’s right there in the name and I was completely oblivious.

        I don’t think we had that one growing up, but we definitely rented it a few times