joke aside, the Hippodrome was your common low key football game, with betting and people going crazy. The Colloseum on the other side was a special occasion where you better looked your best and behaved. Hollywood never got the memo.
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Jiral@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
excuse me! we had both chariot races and slave chariot races. that’s TWO games
edinbruh@feddit.it 10 hours ago
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Doesn’t even have a hippo. SMH my head.
frog@feddit.uk 9 hours ago
Um… acshelly! Hippo in Greek means horse.
* Pushes glasses up nose bridge.
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 9 hours ago
Hippopotamus means river horse, I don’t think whoever named these things has ever seen a horse.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
Okay but a lot of those Colosseum games are just the same cookiecutter format with different branding.
“Gladiator combat” “Barbarian Battle” “Martyrs” it’s the same shit with different characters.
“Man vs. Beast” “Hunting Simulator” YAWN
At least the later gen hippodromes added a variety of jousting tournaments…
Sergio@piefed.social 8 minutes ago
I think you mean “same game, different skin,” right?
ceenote@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
By this logic, the greatest modern console is the smartphone.
Sturgist@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 9 hours ago
I got no use for a console with no racing games. I’ll be over here playing my hippodrome.
nullspace@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
The last time I went to the colosseum they dragged a rapist out of retirement for a big bout and he only lasted 69 seconds after talking so much shit.
madvincent@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
I paid 15,000 [asses] (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_(Roman_coin)?wprov=sfla1) for a ticket to that fight
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
jay@pie.zerojay.com 7 hours ago
Another game for the Colosseum: Overwatch.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Hippodrome also looks like a fairly decent Jousting Pitch
jdr@lemmy.ml 9 hours ago
Must be a supporter of the Blues
bryophile@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
Plus chariot racing wasn’t even hippodrome exclusive
bob_lemon@feddit.org 8 hours ago
One of them had hooligans with real influence on politics in the Byzantine empire.
Etterra@discuss.online 1 hour ago
Horse race tracks rent out to different groups for conventions and such when not racing horses - I wouldn’t be surprised if that happened in ancient Rome too.