/vr/ - Retro Games

>>3399652

i remember watching it in the early days of youtube. Then i forgot about youtube till become mainstream in the late 00's and forgot about his existence. Is weird looking at game reviews from the 90's because the lack of order to analize every single aspect of the games.

>>3399652
>Donkey Kong Country is truly perfect. If you do not get this amazing new generation of Donkey Kong madness, you are stupid. Yes, I know, that's insulting, but it's also the truth.

George Wood is definitely a regular on /vr/.

>>3399652
I watched Wood around the same time I started watching AVGN, so 2007 or 2008, then I forgot about him for years until Retsupurae started bashing him in their videos. He's obviously not a gamer, but his insight is strangely relevant at times.

>>3399652
Here's a classic.

>>3399652
Here's a classic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eki7Ht7O4e4&

Back story.

George Wood had a public-access tv show in the mid 90's called Flights of Fantasy. I'm not sure if it was a half hour or hour long show. The earliest episodes seem to be all about video games. Later ones feature fewer games, and more diverse media. Comic, movie and tv reviews as well. He seems to have done other public access tv shows before and after as well. Years later, George Wood creates some company called Navigtr. Even after looking at this site, I still have no clue what they are or what they do. Navigtr starts uploading the game review sections from Flights of Fantasy, under the title "Gaming in the Clinton Years". These attracted a lot of attention. They got more when the Retsupurae guys mocked some of the videos.

He got a lot of attention because he's this out of touch old guy with often times hilarious opinions on games. I have no idea if he genuinely has an interest in games, or if someone told him to make a show about it, and he did his best.

This was a tiny show on a tiny station in Maryland. Thanks to the internet, Flights of Fantasy is significantly more well known today than when it originally aired. Some of the reviews have gotten millions of views.

This channel has a few full episodes:

https://www.youtube.com/user/whowantstoseemy/videos

Navigtr official site:
http://navgtr.org/

>>3399762
I'd gladly pay up to ~$40-$60 for a DVD box with a complete set of their recordings.

Give Lara Croft breast cancer

>>3399762
>He got a lot of attention because he's this out of touch old guy with often times hilarious opinions on games.
I was under the impression that the reviews were written by other people and he was just a presenter.

>>3399762
Here are some more videos of some full FoF episodes:

https://www.youtube.com/user/flightsoffantasy/videos

>mfw those videos are actually comfy as fuck

>>3399823

Credits list him as co-writer and co-director.

>>3399835
What the fuck is with that newest uploaded video? A sermon? I don't have the time to watch it, but is it related to Wood's alleged death?

>>3399662
>Is weird looking at game reviews from the 90's because the lack of order to analize every single aspect of the games.
what exactly do you mean here

>>3399836
He probably wrote some of the dumb "jokes", but the opinions expressed in the videos likely aren't his.

>>3399843
>Wood's alleged death?
He's not dead. That was all just a ruse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba6B_I5Wapo
Warning, this video is terrible.

>>3399652
I fucking love their intro

>>3399864
>making him play mario with a keyboard

fucking piece of shit

>>3399652
I used to watch it all the time as a kid

>>3399652
It's pretty good, yeah.

>>3399862

A lot of the opinions expressed are really stupid, and seem perfect for some out of touch old guy, experiencing video games. And he seems oddly very passionate about some things, like his Donkey Kong Country review. They seem genuine.

>>3399997
Soon to become George McGovern in a skirt. ;)

>>3399997
I did not have sex with that woman.

Carter: Atari and arcades
Raegan: NES, Mario Bros., and Commodore 64
HW Bush: Sonic the Hedgehog and Mortal Kombat
Clinton: Playstation, Quake and Everquest
W Bush: PS2, GameCube and Xbox, motion controls
Obama: cinematic experiences and pretentious "art games"

So, what will gaming be like under Trump or Hillary?

>>3399845

when people nowadays review a game, they give a brief resume, then check the gameplay, graphics, multiplayer, etc. GITCY is like "hey you should play this because is fun". "The graphics are cool, buy it". "This game is too hard, forget about it if you arent hardcore". Is more like "i enjoy/didnt enjoy the game, so its up to you if wanna get it"

>>3400249
Probably like this.

>>3400552
You mean because he actually wrote a review instead of a laundry list of statistical comparisons to other games?

>>3400249
Ford: Pong
Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon: Mainframe computers

>>3400249
Collecting old games that nobody wants(not even you), paying premium for dated pieces of metal and plastic that will begin to deteriorate rapidly in your lifetime. At least if you're a /vr/ trooper.

He'll have to make a comeback if Hillary's elected.

>>3400852
Was Earthbound intentionally designed to allow you to eat pizza while playing it?

>>3399652

fuck off shill he has nothing to do with it and i've had enough of your subliminal programming and i'm not even awake yet.

we're not voting for hillary

>>3401917
your fast

>>3401917

Muh Moloch worshiper.

>>3399864
Wait, is that Clint from LGR? What is he doing with Wood?

>>3400249
>C64
>Quake/Everquest
>Xbox
>No mention of Gameboy, Pokemon or Wii
>MK over Streetfighter
Fucking trash representation of the eras.