You enter through a rather elaborate foyer that is dressed out in extravagence. A lilting piano tune wafts into the large atrium as you enter. The ceiling, made of glass, allows the afternoon sun rays in to warm the heart. A waiter moves forward to offer you a drink.

"Welcome to the Classic Gamer's Society."

.:Purpose

The purpose of the Classic Gamer's Society is to allow like minded people the opportunity to play and discuss classic games before the era of the fifth generation consoles (i.e Sony Playstation).

By joining, you will have the opportunity to play the featured game and partake in discussions about the game, not only here in this forum but also in the particular forum pertaining to the game. The aim is to foster activity into the dead forums to make Neoseeker more of an active site, and hopefully attract more visitors as well.

In doing this, it is hoped that people will contribute to the profile and guide sections of the games discussed to flesh them out more for site visitors. Any contributions will be very much appreciated.

The society is not limited in the genre of games that are played and as such, each member may experience games that they have never had the pleasure of playing before. Sure, some games may not appeal to your individual desires, however please be polite and try to partake in each game in kind - and be positive in your discussions. The society strictly adheres to the guidelines of Neoseeker, and as such a breach of any of the rules will not be tolerated.

.:Platforms

• Nintendo Entertainment System (Circa 1983)
  
• Nintendo Gameboy (Circa 1989)
  
• Sega Mega Drive (Circa 1989)
  
• Neo Geo (Circa 1990)
  
• Sega Game Gear (Circa 1990)
  
• Super Nintendo Entertainment System (Circa 1991)

.:Rules

All members that are a part of the society are required to participate in the games that are featured, and respect the opinions of other gamers. We understand that you may not like all of the games that are cycled through, but please give them a fair go as some people may not like the games that you do.

Games that are selected must not subsequently follow the same genre, or correlate within the same four week cycle. In effect this means that an RPG can not be selected more than once in a four week period.

A game can not be generated from the same console in consecutive periods. This being said, should a Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) game be selected, the game that follows can not be from the same platform.

For an individual game participation to occur for a member, a member must make no less than 10 posts in the featured game's forum. Else their participation for that particular game is void and it counts toward gaining an inactive status.


.:Members

Matt Addison [Founder]
Terranigma Fan
DaveStrife
Xerepolis
Anesthetize
Supernova1332
Hell Fire
Best Player Ever
Chad
The Butcher
Machienzo
Chronoboy21
DrFred
Chimaira
LanDi Sama
Military G


.:Life Cycle

The selected game will be announced exactly one week prior to the date that it is due to begin being featured. This should give sufficient time for all members to locate the game by whichever means possible and have it ready to go for when it becomes featured.

All games will run on a one week basis, with the exception of any game title from the RPG genre. This means that members will get a full two weeks to experience an RPG title to its fullest and not have to rush through the game. All other titles will receive a one week time frame as it's expected that one week will be sufficient to fully experience a game such as a shooter, racing game or platformer etc.

.:Hierarchy

The Classic Gamer's Society follows quite a basic hierarchy for the time being. The way things work is that members are required to play each new game that is featured and participate in the discussions in the pertaining forum. Should this occur, then upon four consecutive games played and participated in (one month straight) will elevate them to a higher status. This status of venerable member [Venerable Member] grants the ability to have gravity to their voice in selecting the subsequent games to be played. However, this must also follow the rules of the society and can not be taken out of character or context.

On the other end of the scale, however, should someone not particpate in two featured games consecutively, they will then gain themselves an inactive tag [INACTIVE]. A further two consecutive weeks of no activity (one month in total) will have them booted from the society and their name will no longer appear on the member list.

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This is still under construction. Should you feel that there is anything that needs to be added, please let me know.

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This message was edited by Matt Addison on Nov 08 2009.

.:Maniac Mansion

.:Background

Twenty years ago, a purple meteorite hurtled through space, finding it's way to the front lawn of the Edison family's mansion. The family within were a reclusive bunch, however the advent of the arrival of the meteor brought changes to them all. Dr Fred, the mansion owner has suddenly been affected with a strange change and patients from the local hospital have begun to dissapear without trace.

Now, a local teenager, Sandy Pantz, has been kidnapped. It is up to her boyfriend Dave Miller and a bunch of his rag tag friends to enter into the mansion and save their friend from inevitable doom whilst navigating the traps and nefarious residents of the mansion.



.:Genre

Graphic Adventure

.:System & Release

Commodore 64 / Apple II (1987)
Amiga / Atari ST / Nintendo Entertainment System (1990)

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.:Ecco the Dolphin

.:Background

Ecco is an inteligent dolphin who belongs to a small pod of kin who are swimming along in the ocean. One day Ecco decides to partake in a rivalry contest with one of his brother's as to how high out of the water they can jump. When it comes to Ecco's turn however, a gigantic waterspout forms when he is out of the water which effectively sucks up all marine life in the bay, except for himself.

Alone, he sets out on an adventure to discover the cause of the water spout, and return life to his home.

.:Genre

Side-Scrolling Action Adventure

.:System & Release

Sega Megadrive (1992) / Sega Mega CD (1993)

This message was edited by Matt Addison on Nov 08 2009.

This is an amazing idea and I will definitely join.


I can definitely add some insight when it comes to the Jrpg's of the Super Nintendo although my knowledge of earlier systems is almost non existent.

The idea of the gamer club is a great one once we hopefully get some more members.

I'll join too. I've been wanting to play some good classic games for a while now.

I'm in, kupopopo!!!!

I'm all for Illusion of Gaia, by far my favorite RPG from SNES console, right on the top of FFI and Chrono Trigger .

hehe guess it didn't work too well in Loungin lol


Mind if I join? Might motivate me more to play more classic games and maybe even post on this website more.

Maybe if we all linked this thread in or signature we can boost the traffic of this thread.

I'll be doing that although I doubt people actually look at my signature unless I use some flashy signature that will call everyone attention but my Bozoseeker banner is so sexy! Long live Bozo the Clown!!!

Hey I'm gonna add the link to my sig because I have no cool sig. Does anyone know how to do it?.

Can I join too?
The CGS sounded great as I was reading it but I was really sold when I read that Lufia II would be the first game discussed. One of my favorite classics from the SNES.