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Psycho Circus Nightmare Child PC Game

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Has anyone been able to get this to run on modern systems?
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Yes - mine went down on the first flush.
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You may try run in under 'dos box'
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meatloaf wrote:Has anyone been able to get this to run on modern systems?
I didnt like this game, seemed half done to me.

Sold it on ebay a decade or more ago now.

Surprised to see it mentioned on here to be honest.
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I had it on my Sega Dreamcast that a girlfriend bought for me. Never could get into it.
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I still own it on the Sega Dreamcast (sitting on the shelf in our living room right now). In fact, I have the in-store promo poster for it as well. That said, I never really liked it, as I'm just not into FPS game-play.
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I actually finished the whole game. Wasn't great, but was good enough and was enjoyable....sort of like everything else KISS did around that time. Sorta making me want to go back and find a copy now just to see if I can run it under Windows 7.
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Let's just get PewDiePie to play the game, that'll sure get the kids into KISS XD

But in all seriousness, I'd love to see the Angry Video Game Nerd play it.
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fraroc04 wrote:Let's just get PewDiePie to play the game, that'll sure get the kids into KISS XD

But in all seriousness, I'd love to see the Angry Video Game Nerd play it.
I love the Angry Video Game Nerd! I can't wait for the movie to come out!
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AkuDrummer wrote:
fraroc04 wrote:Let's just get PewDiePie to play the game, that'll sure get the kids into KISS XD

But in all seriousness, I'd love to see the Angry Video Game Nerd play it.
I love the Angry Video Game Nerd! I can't wait for the movie to come out!
Same here. It would be a good game for him to review.
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rewind84 wrote:You may try run in under 'dos box'
Game is too recent for DOS. It can probably run under a Windows 2000 or Windows XP virtual machine though
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meatloaf wrote:Has anyone been able to get this to run on modern systems?
My computer is a 3.4 GHz quad-core with Windows 7 64-bit... it runs perfectly in Windows XP SP3 compatibility mode.

I'm not a big gamer but my son is... this was pretty advanced for its time... underrated game.
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We've updated our computer but still running Vista, mostly due to some software that I have for converting the family VHS's to dvd.

Anyway, the game runs fine on there. I play it every once in a while for fun. Have finished it many times. I'm personally not a "gamer" at all, play some stuff on the Wii once in awhile with the kids and this but that's about it.

The graphics look so outdated now compared by today's standards.
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I have the Dreamcast verision and possibly the PC version somewhere.

The Dreamcast version I played quite a bit many years ago when it came out.......... The smoking canon Gene uses, or the plasma rifle thing Ace uses were pretty cool weapons. Neat how you find costume parts and you are then further empowered.............. Overall good game.
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I have the Dreamcast version, love the DC not the game.
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diabloarcade wrote:
rewind84 wrote:You may try run in under 'dos box'
Game is too recent for DOS. It can probably run under a Windows 2000 or Windows XP virtual machine though
Hmm or else maybe he can do an underclock...shut down some cores..there are some programs to do that
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rewind84 wrote:You may try run in under 'dos box'
It's a 32bit Windows game, not a DOS game.
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rewind84 wrote:
diabloarcade wrote:
rewind84 wrote:You may try run in under 'dos box'
Game is too recent for DOS. It can probably run under a Windows 2000 or Windows XP virtual machine though
Hmm or else maybe he can do an underclock...shut down some cores..there are some programs to do that
You don't really know what you're talking about do you :)
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Did a quick install on Windows 8.1. Installed and starts without a problem. The in game menus have horrible frame rate. The cut scenes have some drooped frame rate throughout them. Actually game play though is smooth in my limited testing. If using 8.1 though you will need to apply this registry fix for a smooth mouse.
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