Topic: Do you remember...?

@JohnnyShoulder If I may, you're thinking of Knuckles' Chaotix for the SEGA MegaDrive 32X, the weighty add-on that was designed to plug in to your MegaDrive and allow you to play 32-bit games whilst you waited for the SEGA Saturn to be launched. It kinda bombed because nobody developed for it, since SEGA had announced it alongside announcing the forthcoming Saturn console.

Knuckles' Chaotix introduced the current Chaotix Crew / Team Chaotix members (Vector the Crocodile, Espio the Chameleon and Charmy Bee) alongside returning character Mighty the Armadillo, and featured a "tether" gameplay system whereby one of those characters would be linked to Knuckles by a large rubber band, that you could use to fling yourself around the levels. Sonic and Tails appear in the good ending cutscene (and the game itself was originally called Sonic Crackers and would've starred those two, tethered together; I think it was changed to Knuckles to avoid market saturation and to cash in on his popularity following Sonic 3 & Knuckles).

It's pretty rare nowadays, given the short lifespan of the 32X, and is the only Sonic game from that era that I haven't properly played myself, either. I did try an emulated copy on a friend's PC once, but it was with serious arm-twisting (I don't like illegal copies of things) and so didn't play for long, but I remember the tether physics being pretty cool, if also pretty tricky.

@JohnnyShoulder I assume you were talking about Sonic and Knuckles.

Adding Sonic 3 opened up almost a whole new game as you had the hyper emeralds as well as the chaos ones and that was a great game. Adding Sonic 2 allowed you to play that game as Knuckles.

Adding any other game gave you an error message but pressing A, B, C, and start opened a bonus level like the sphere ones from Sonic 3.

There was this link cable thing that you could use to connect playstations, I'd be playing Command and Conquer/C&C Red Alert in my room on my playstation on my tv against my brother on his playstation on his tv, but only one of us had the disc in.

I was about 10/11, 1997ish, don't remember any other games that had this feature... Anyone else?

@BowTiesAreCool I can remember doing that with a mate with one game, not quite sure which though. Maybe Gran Turismo?

@BowTiesAreCool @JohnnyShoulder
PS1 and PS2 do have link cables.

The PS2 port was removed from later models. Never tried it, but for (I think) one of the GT games you could link several PS2s together.

@KALofKRYPTON @JohnnyShoulder @BowTiesAreCool They have a new version of that now called ‘the internet’.

@Th3solution Nothing beats a local link up though.
Used to do Halo 2 link up MP, it was class.

@KALofKRYPTON Yeah, it sounds fun, except for the small detail of needing friends.

@Frigate Ha, ha! Yeah, true about friends. I like my friends here on Push Square because they don’t show up at my place unannounced asking for money. Or throw up on my couch.

@BowTiesAreCool Strange actually I never owned a link cable. However just when the Gamecube launched I remember taking it to my mates. When I got there he had 2 TVs and 2 PS1s playing one of the Wipeout games. He briefly put in red alert to show me that for about 5 minutes and then we put on the gamecube. I had totally forgotten about that. I've used link cables since Modern Warfare 2 and as @KALofKRYPTON mentions playing one of the Halo games but I'm sure you needed 2 copies of the game compared to the ps1 link.

@kyleforrester87 Memory cards, now that's a memory. I remember aggressive I nline taking up all the blocks on my gamecube memory card the swine!

I remember the original xbox had a hard drive and because the games were optimised mostly for the memory carded ps2 and Gamecube market never ever got full. It always had 72000+ space or something random and never changed. Once I had the xbox I knew memory cards days were numbered as I stopped playing on the gamecube because of the memory card storage issues, one corrupted and the price of new ones.

Does anyone remember the innocent game called Chicken Invaders. It was all about killing chickens and turning them into tasty food.

@LaJettatura No One Lives Forever!

Never did complete that, despite buying it twice for the PS2. What a game, though.

Anybody remember Golvellius on the Sega Master System? Bloody loved that game I did.

One of the most underrated horror games imo, barely see it get talked about anymore especially when people discuss Silent Hill, I loved the psychiatrist mechanic that would affect your playthrough.

@LaJettatura That was PC exclusive, wasn't it? So no. Although I could now! Recommended?

@LaJettatura I'll track it down (and maybe finally finish the first game, too). Thanks!

I remember when FPS games didn’t have ADS and you were forced to inexplicably hip fire at all times. Timesplitters, Goldeneye etc still prove to be the most fun MP shooters so maybe there’s something to be said for that style!

@nessisonett @LaJettatura Yeah, but they're also games I shamelessly played with "auto-aim" activated!

@RogerRoger No weapon in any game is as good as Oddjob’s hat 😂😂