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gabbahey · Joined: 09 Oct 2009 Posts: 1

Look here: http://www.thenesdump.com/New%20Website/pirates.html (At the bottom)

Seeing repros of Tom and Jerry 3 and Wait and See made me think about old theredeye.net where I think I remember these two games being released. I bought Tom and Jerry 3 off yahoo soon after that and it remains one of my few treasures. It is a truly awful game but I am happy it has been exposed to the world.

RIP theredeye.net
RIP sardius message board

TheRedEye · Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 1:51 am Post subject:

I've got bad news for you, I can't even find my complete personal backup.

I'm glad you liked the site, but for me it's a bit of an embarrassment to read anything I wrote, what, eight years ago? Plus the site looks awful on modern web browsers. In the old days, if you resized an image in HTML it would stretch without filters, like the "nearest neighbor" function in Photoshop. Modern browsers now soften and filter images, so instead of having big crisp pixels everywhere it looks like it's covered in vaseline.

Ichiban Crush · Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 6:03 pm Post subject:

You know, compared to a lot of crap that caught on widespread, theredeye.net had some really witty lines that remain damn funny. About the only thing I saw that was really "too easy" and low brow was "Ryu retarded brother", though that might have been someone else writing it.

The world's only talking donkey remains my favorite.

In other words, I wouldn't be too embarrassed about that.

Why do I want to play a Sachen game now?

KingMike · Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 898

TheRedEye · Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 6:56 pm Post subject:

The content was original, but too "random" and "wacky" in the way all 19-year-old geeks think is funny.

nikito370 · Joined: 20 Oct 2009 Posts: 1

I registered to say that I miss theredeye.net too! That page brought me hours of ROFLing MAO while I was on high school here in Argentina! I even wrote Frank a mail which surely must have freaked him out due to the incoherence of its content and the fact that I can barely write in English.

I stumbled upon the site looking for the Street Fighter 4 rom for the NES, a game a friend of mine owned in its cartridge form for the "Family Game" Famicom clone, a console which was really common to see around here. The only drawback of the emulated rom was that the original had voices! (the Ryu clones shouted something vaguely resembling "Ha-Do-Ken" and the "military-looking-guys" had their "oomph" and "ha!" samples) and I think that the fCEU emulator couldn't emulate that, or those samples weren't dumped (which I doubt).

It's a shame you lost the backups, Frank! IIRC untill not much ago you could find copies stored on Goggle's cachÃ©. Unfortunately I'm not having much luck finding them now (it doesn't help that I'm not very good at using the PC either) but I loved that site. Many multi-games and unlicensed ports carts featured on theredeye.net were easily found on any store here (I once rented the Dragon Ball Z 2 and Aladdin port, and the Sonic one that had the Sonic sprite replaced by Mario) and it was paradise being able to articles about them, and having them emulated on your PC like 15 years after! Untill I discovered that page, it didn't cross my mind that someone could elaborate on those obscure games so in detail, but then I inmediatly realized that I wasn't the only one who was fascinated by those attemps at porting "the hottest games of the moment" on a hardware clearly uncapable of handling them and the speculation of the wheres (Asia?) hows (in messy smokey rooms?) and whys (profit, surely LAUGHING OUT LOUD). So my love for those games grew stronger since then.

Another cool thing on the site is that it didn't had the word "NES" on its address like other pages who seem to try too hard including it like "NEStravaganza" LAUGHING OUT LOUD.

BTW, Sardius place was kinda cool too. Peace! (and sorry the poor English)

Nicolas.

LocalH · Joined: 15 May 2004 Posts: 160

For everyone's convenience:

theredeye.net on archive.org

Note: I have not gone through this very much, so I'm not sure if it's all there or not, but it seems there is a decent amount of the material available. If anything's missing, go to http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.theredeye.net and try an earlier date. I thought much of it was funny as shit, and will probably spend some quality time reading back through all the old shit again.

Ah, good times. I'll probably come back later with a list of entertaining quotes =P

Also, fuck phpBB for not being able to make a link with an asterisk in it.

(lazy mod addition (delete me ;) : http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.theredeye.net)

Wonderbutt · Joined: 30 Nov 2003 Posts: 323 Location: Doritos Inc.

The fact that Red Eye said "tee hee" during the legendary Top 50 Emu douchebag battle sequence makes my gizzard feel spectacular.

Ichiban Crush · Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:14 pm Post subject:

drx · Joined: 15 Apr 2006 Posts: 150

If you like that kind of kinky humor, you should check out the whole Buffy series. It's the ultimate excruciatingly ball-crushing "wacky" nerd humor.

You should also check it out because it's totally awesome (if for nothing else than having Sarah Michelle Gellar, Eliza Dushku and Summer Glau in it).

Smeg · Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 12:30 pm Post subject:

drx · Joined: 15 Apr 2006 Posts: 150

TheRedEye · Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 2:00 pm Post subject:

Is there really a selling point for Summer Glau other than "she was in Firefly" and/or "she's kind of attractive I guess"?

Carnivol · Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 4:26 pm Post subject:

I've not watched Buffy/Angel, but Summer Glau plays pretty much the same character in Firefly, The Sarah Connor Chronicles and The 4400... and I'll be damned if she's any different when she pops up on-screen in Dollhouse - Season 2 (When I first saw an episode of Dollhouse, I honestly thought the main character was initially written with Summer Glau's previous performances in mind).

handofg0d · Joined: 13 Jun 2006 Posts: 455 Location: PA

nixon · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 9:26 pm Post subject:

theredeye.net had my truly awful Boogerman review, and the Christmas extravaganza he and I did for releases one year way way way back when. Not really sad to see them go. I found some of the old HTML I had written for JAPAN, and reading the "reviews" I did, it was truly bad stuff, but was fun at the time.

Smeg · Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 12:03 am Post subject:

JAPAN was the greatest acronym ever. Well, except maybe MonsterWANG.

nixon · Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 5:03 pm Post subject:

neomerge · Joined: 12 Feb 2006 Posts: 351 Location: Woodstock GA!

classic site. I remember spending countless hours on it as a youngin.

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