Tempest was crap as is Space giraffe.

If dear Minter could make a halfway decent game he might outsell frogger one day.

 

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now theres a thread title for you!

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"No, I will not shoot that lion!"

I highly respect Jeff's individuality and his presence is a much-needed breath of fresh air in the gaming community.

However, he completely ruined that cool image with all his crying, *** and moaning about Space Giraffe not selling. Honestly, Jeff, did you really think a game that depicts overdosing on 18 different kinds of drugs would be breaking sales records? Know your audience, Jeff, and keep the crying to your circle of friends. Don't flaunt it over the internet like some 13-y/o emo girl blogging about the big meanie she has a crush on.

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all he did was say that frogger outselled space giraffe complete sales by more than 10 to 1 in a single week, if that was me i'd be pretty pissed to

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Thats because frogger is more excessible than tempest or space giraffe.  Not sure why he would be upset about that.  He makes his game not for the faint of heart usually.

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Zombies everywhere, zombies everywhere, zombies everywhere. They're coming for your brains and it's too late to change.

He said the next game will be more accessible, It makes me sad that people don't like this game.
Of course gridrunner is pretty simple anyway just shoot the baddies, the only thing people will have to learn is sheepie saves and there pretty easy to pull off anyway.

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 Tam1 wrote:

Tempest was crap as is Space giraffe.

If dear Minter could make a halfway decent game he might outsell frogger one day.

Jeff Minter didn't create Tempest, Dave Theurer did:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Theurer

Yeah, I'm a big fan of his work, but he has to realize that Space Giraffe isn't nearly as accessible as his Tempest 2000, Gridrunner+, and so forth. Frogger is an arcade classic, and whining that your niche, trippy game isn't dominating an established arcade hit is just silly. I understand Space Giraffe isn't Tempest, but even Tempest in its hayday could not trump Frogger in terms of sales, so what makes him think his XBLA title would?

Honestly, I bought the game outright based on Llamasoft's pedigree, but having played it afterward, I don't believe I'd do the same if given the chance. I'm sure it's a great playing arcade game, but the graphics and effects make me physically ill to the point where I can't spend much time playing else risk another bout of vertigo. Kinda upsetting given that I bought a Gamecube specifically for his unreleased Unity and was excited to see a new title from him.

 Zeppyjnr wrote:

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An absolute classic. I think i wee'd a bit when i saw it.

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