The average review score for the game overall is around 86% but more than that, it's a game that inspires a lot of hyperbole and fond memories if you go onto YouTube and check out the time crisis retrospectives, there's a lot of love out there for this game, hence it's been re-released a couple of times recently in other formats which we'll also talk about. ...
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... It's volume 15, issue 701. And today, we're going to talk about time crisis. And joining me, Leon Cox, in this issue are Chris Worthington. ...
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... Hello everybody, welcome to the Cana Rinse podcast. It's volume 15, issue 701. And today, we're going to talk about time crisis. And joining me, Leon Cox, in this issue are Chris Worthington. Action. Carl Moon. Hey everyone. And Tony Atkins. Danger. Time crisis is, if you didn't know, a single player, first person on rails, light gun shooting ...
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... I have strong memories of playing point blank. I know I've played Time Crisis in the arcade, but I think it was probably just a casual go. ...
00:16:47 - 00:18:13
... I stopped there, I didn't get four on the PS three. But I carried the point is I carried on playing time crisis. And the gameplay fundamentally didn't change so well into the 2000s. ...
00:24:45 - 00:29:08
... It's that guy. He was the announcer for Street Fighter EX, returned as wild dog in Time Crisis Two, also appeared in The House of the Dead Two, another light gun game by Sega this time, a narrator of Bloody Raw. ...
00:30:41 - 00:34:40
... And it was a game, speaking of the home version, that really, really benefited those of us who used to plug our play stations or TVs through some sort of amplifier or hi fi. Because if you went around somebody else's house and they were playing Time Crisis, it was always a bit wishy washy, you know, a bit. ...
00:43:57 - 00:46:14
Well, there's a charm, isn't there, to the late 90s polygonal chunk that you got in terms of the graphics, particularly, you know, when we think of like the Saturn era of games with things like Athlete Kings and we had Crazy Taxi and, you know, and then we had the Namco efforts with obviously Time Crisis and Tekken and it's really nice and clarity is a key part of that. ...
00:53:15 - 00:56:31
... But obviously, it's still a ways short of original peripherals. Tracy will one from our Patreon says an interesting experience with time crisis trying to play it for the podcast. ...
01:02:06 - 01:03:24
... You can buy it lots of places and it was originally very expensive, but it's now just really expensive. The arcade one up time crisis arcade game, which is a four game cabinet, but has visually is themed around time crisis, but also contains the original point blank, although not its sequels disappointingly, but does have steel gunners one and two on it. ...
01:24:02 - 01:26:41
... I remember the guy, the guy with the Dickie bow who did twin gun virtue, a cop, Oh, he's a legend. I don't know if it was him who also got good at time crisis might've been similar skillset. I think, I think the guy with the Dickie bow is American, right? ...
01:28:05 - 01:29:36
... Growing up was the machines at the local movie theater where I grew up. My favorite machine of those by far was Time Crisis. Many times I asked my parents for a PlayStation and like unset with the game. ...
01:32:19 - 01:34:35
... But it's here on my PS2 copy that I can't play. Stephen Cookson from the Patreon says, "Time Crisis is probably still my favorite light gun game. ...
01:39:23 - 01:43:24
... I was a little young for the initial release. Time crisis two had already been out a year or so by the time I first went to an arcade. But my family went on holiday to a resort in Italy which had the original time crisis and the bar. ...
01:44:33 - 01:46:13
... Look out for us on there asking for three word reviews. And now to summarize our feelings on time crisis, let's start with we're in no particular order because I think we're all in a similar place. ...
01:47:42 - 01:48:35
... One thing that confuses me though, so I still have, as I say, I've got my lovely Gunvari collection and time crisis PS2 disc right here that I can't, well, I could load it. I could probably play it with a controller, but it holds absolutely no appeal to do that. ...
01:51:08 - 01:53:56
... I wrote my friends in when I move, they're fine. So yeah, anyway, time crisis. It's a really cool light gun game in my estimation. ...
00:13:54 - 00:14:38
... I had this distinct memory of you'd walk through the door, there was a double door, you walked through the door and the first cabinet you see was time crisis, because it was just an attraction piece. ...
01:11:13 - 01:11:57
... So cool though. So we've come this far and I think we've talked a lot about time crisis without talking about the actual moment to moment gameplay. ...
01:36:01 - 01:36:48
... So there have been, and as I say, we're not covering them, certainly not got the time, but there have been more time crisis games than you probably think. Four numbered games, well no, four numbered games following up this one, so up to time crisis five in 2015, also crisis zone 99, time crisis, project titan, 2001, a raising storm in 2009. ...
01:55:13 - 01:57:16
... And the memories came flooding back. And then I started watching videos of Time Crisis and the newer ones and the original and reading about the politician. ...
01:07:33 - 01:08:28
... Really? It looks like the old time crisis game box, but black, uh, little plastic pedal, although you don't get that with the basic kit, uh, you have to use the button like Chris has been doing for 30 years. ...
00:21:59 - 00:22:30
... I was was a joke on myself and my friends that especially the fact that we're all in our 20s and the game was called Time Crisis. Yeah. ...
00:36:46 - 00:37:18
... If I think of going to one of the, you know, the modern arcade club type places where there's a time crisis cab, I would think of you could hear the bullets, you can hear the bang bang of the gun, but mainly you're hearing the pedal clack and the gun clack. ...
01:19:53 - 01:20:27
... There's a leaderboard, obviously, as I say, the original PS one version, you were only really fighting yourself probably unless you had a house full of time crisis fans or something. Um, but yeah, the idea actually of, of online leaderboards is a, is very appealing. ...
00:19:25 - 00:19:58
... But my thought was in terms of space and maintenance and all that I was thinking probably got her on the smaller side. But then if I want to go back and play the point bank trilogy and time crisis, I don't want a tiny little 14 inch screen or something or even a 17 inch screen. ...
00:59:55 - 01:00:30
... I would still use the same technique if I had a cathode red tube TV. Saif Ahmed from our Patreon says, "Time crisis is for me a PS1 game and I played it a fair bit on the very impressive port. ...
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