Author Topic: Die Hard Video game store from early 90's (Read 2106 times)

doomfarer75 · « **on:** February 12, 2005, 12:13:08 AM »

whatever happened to die hard video games that ran all those kickass adds in EGM back in the early 90's, and where are they now? or gametronix for that matter? no websites that i can find..are they still around?

esteban · « **Reply #1 on:** February 12, 2005, 10:31:23 AM »

if i recall correctly, the dude who ran die hard started up GAMEFAN magazine...

I'm curious about the fate of die hard as well... it was a well known import store from way back, i can't think of any others (especially where i grew up in northern NJ)...

Zerojean · « **Reply #2 on:** February 13, 2005, 01:12:53 AM »

Word seeing screens of like Valis and import Mega CD games was so f*cking amazing when i was 13 or 14, i swear i thought id never play those games for real, even tho i had a PCE + SCD, i got like one game a year buying em blind over the phone heh.

Looking at the screens and those memories turned to be better than most of the games heh.

Gamefan went bust someime back.

esteban · « **Reply #3 on:** February 13, 2005, 08:32:46 PM »

Quote from: "Zerojean"

Word seeing screens of like Valis and import Mega CD games was so f*cking amazing when i was 13 or 14, i swear i thought id never play those games for real, even tho i had a PCE + SCD, i got like one game a year buying em blind over the phone heh.

yes, if only we had the internet back in the day. We could have saved some money...

but, maybe not, since I still want to check out games that have a bad reputation. For example, I've yet to play Addams Family for TG-CD. It can't be a good game, I say to myself, but what if it is kinda fun?

KingDrool · « **Reply #4 on:** February 14, 2005, 04:44:19 AM »

Relatively, it's a horrible game. But it's good for a brief laugh. I'd say on a relative Turbo Scale of 1-5, it's a 2.

Keranu · « **Reply #5 on:** February 14, 2005, 02:14:38 PM »

The Addam's Family game for TG16 CD could've been much better. The object of the game is kind of fun and I thought the game had some really cool boss fights. But other than this, the game blows in all other catagories.

esteban · « **Reply #6 on:** February 14, 2005, 08:07:19 PM »

guess what? I totally want to play Addams Family now! I am masochistic, but I love crap games. I need to pull out Battle Royale soon and have some friends over. GOOD TIMES! Actually, I just won the Japanese version of Battle Royale... oh snap, no I didn't. Does that even exist? Losing my mind. I just won the PC-Engine version of TV Sports Football and Bravoman... that's what I meant.

doomfarer75 · « **Reply #7 on:** February 14, 2005, 11:37:43 PM »

speaking of the addams family game....it can't be better than Fester's Quest on the NES...that game was kinda good!

Zerojean · « **Reply #8 on:** February 14, 2005, 11:47:16 PM »

Quote from: "stevek666"

guess what? I totally want to play Addams Family now! I am masochistic, but I love crap games. I need to pull out Battle Royale soon and have some friends over. GOOD TIMES! Actually, I just won the Japanese version of Battle Royale... oh snap, no I didn't. Does that even exist? Losing my mind. I just won the PC-Engine version of TV Sports Football and Bravoman... that's what I meant.

Hah me too, I have a penchant for dodgy titles, Addams Family looks like it fitrs the bill.

My fave dodgy game ever is prolly Golden Fighter on SFC, its like The China Warrior Super

Keranu · « **Reply #9 on:** February 15, 2005, 07:59:22 AM »

I love crappy games as well. I am also a serious cheesy movie viewer.

esteban · « **Reply #10 on:** February 15, 2005, 08:16:40 AM »

Quote from: "doomfarer75"

speaking of the addams family game....it can't be better than Fester's Quest on the NES...that game was kinda good!

agreed. Sunsoft made a bunch of nice games for NES (Blaster Master!). I think Fester is pretty fun... just as Goonies II was fun... and some of the few examples of movie licensing that didn't result in utterly crappy games (willow for NES was pretty good, now that i think of it).

UNFORTUNATELY, the disney licenses that hit TG-16 are lame: TailSpin and Duck Tales. I am pretty anti-disney, in general, but capcom made some sweet disney games for NES... the genesis stuff was kool as well...

Keranu · « **Reply #11 on:** February 15, 2005, 10:40:53 AM »

Yes, the Disney games on the TG-16 are terrible. Tail Spin is a little better than Darkwing Duck, but still a crappy game. Genesis had the best Disney games and my favorite was "Quackshot", which is an amazing adventure/platform game.

Sunsoft games for NES were pretty fun. The Batman games were good stuff.

By the way people, I'm sure you noticed the banner in my sig. PLEASE click it for I need more clicks! Once I get 80 clicks, I'll take it down. The banner will teach you more about Alex Chiu and his infamous "immortality rings" and you can win a free pair too if you sign up at his site and do what I'm doing! Please don't take me as a spamming troll for this. I just have to be the ultimate dork and these rings will help.

esteban · « **Reply #12 on:** February 15, 2005, 06:23:21 PM »

oops, i said Duck Tales when I meant Darkwing Duck. I don't know if I can bring myself to click on that banner, Keranu. My cat gets a seizure everytime he looks at it! I'm serious

Yeah, the Genny disney games were kool. Quackshot, Mickey, Alladin...

Keranu · « **Reply #13 on:** February 16, 2005, 05:04:06 AM »

Haha, cat goes into seisures? Well if that cat is not in the same room, be sure to click it, lol.

Jammaniaclord · « **Reply #14 on:** March 12, 2005, 05:03:33 AM »

Man i thought i was the only one who still is fond of the old DIE HARD GAME STORE from Ventura BLVD. in California. They were the coolest EVER game store in the world, and everytime i called them, they would talk to me like i was their friend, not some stranger they could rob of his hard earned money for some suck ass game.

I too drooled over the ads in the back of EGM magazine, and they were the best ads ever for a game store, thus i started buying import PC Engine CD games from them because of it.

Greg Off was the main one i really liked, as he would talk forever about games, and sell me games based on my personal tastes, and recommend good ones over poor ones, so i didn't waste money, even of it meant they might eat the cost of that game if it never sold. Honest as heaven those people were. Julie Seagal was another kind person, and new her shit about games. Those two were the ones i remember the most. I did talk to Ki once, but that was it

Dave Halverson owned the store i believe, and started up GameFan magazine for the die hard gamer. IMHO it was the best gaming mag ever. Great color, great articles, airbrushed artwork, lots of pics of import games, "The Graveyard", European games, it had it all, and covered game systems EGM didn't/wouldn't.

Unfortunately GameFan went belly up, but Dave Halverson still is in the gaming mag industry, and you might have read his magazine but didn't know it. It's called "PLAY" magazine. My brother loves it, but i think it's pale compared to GameFan. I think he might have married Julie Seagal, as there is a Julie Halverson on the editing staff, and i think at the time DIE HARD GAMES was in business, they were dating.

DIE HARD GAMES was truly the best import store there ever was, and there hasn't been a single one ever since that has even came close.

If anyone happens to know Greg Off, let me know. I have been interested in finding out what he ended up doing with his life when DHG closed.