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- April 19th, 2018, 2:50 pm
- Forum: Review Feedback
- Topic: 2018/4/16: NES: Dizzy the Adventurer, Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy, The
- Replies: 2
- Views: 131
Re: 2018/4/16: NES: Dizzy the Adventurer, Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy, The
I found a mistake in your review: The Aladdin deck enhancer was just a way for Codemasters to save money when publishing unlicensed titles. The real reason you can't play its carts on a standard NES is only because they're missing most of the cart, and the lockout bypass. It doesn't ever actually en...
- March 31st, 2018, 4:27 am
- Forum: Review Feedback
- Topic: 2018/3/26: Atari XEGS: Pole Position, Crystal Castles
- Replies: 6
- Views: 395
Re: 2018/3/26: Atari XEGS: Pole Position, Crystal Castles
I really miss the days when games like Pole Position could be advertised like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCO8bepGZi0
If the actual game played like that, I wouldn't need another racing game, ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCO8bepGZi0
If the actual game played like that, I wouldn't need another racing game, ever.
- March 31st, 2018, 4:14 am
- Forum: Classic Gaming
- Topic: C64 mini
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1037
Re: C64 mini
This thing really deserves more credit. Some of these games, like Paradroid and Creatures, were considered top tier. Some, like the Temple of Apshai trilogy, are historically important. And others, like Highway Encounter, School Daze, and Monty on the Run, are some of the games that got me into the ...
- March 27th, 2018, 11:01 am
- Forum: Classic Gaming
- Topic: Design a system for 1990
- Replies: 5
- Views: 557
Re: Design a system for 1990
My dream machine for 1990? After thinking it over for 5 minutes (like many actual hardware manufacturers.) - Twin 68000 cpus, clocked at the highest speed we can get under cost, and with just enough ram to allow them to smoothly share the workload together, instead of the extra complexity being a ha...
- March 22nd, 2018, 6:23 pm
- Forum: Review Feedback
- Topic: 2018/3/22: Turbografx-16: Space Harrier, Turrican
- Replies: 11
- Views: 604
Re: 2018/3/22: Turbografx-16: Space Harrier, Turrican
This is just a really bad port of Turrican, by the same folks who brought it to the Genesis. Aside from not even trying to take advantage of the platform, they increased the difficulty in order to prevent kids from beating it during a rental. But the problem is that it was already a rock hard game d...
- March 9th, 2018, 7:11 am
- Forum: Video Games General
- Topic: The Sad State of Future Retro Gaming (and Managing Storage on New Consoles)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 1057
Re: The Sad State of Future Retro Gaming (and Managing Storage on New Consoles)
My guess is that the AAA industry wants retro gaming to fail, unless it's reselling the past to you itself. Past a certain point, there's not going to be any real leap forward in graphics technology. We've already reached the point where you need to be a snob to care. More than that, who has time to...
- March 7th, 2018, 3:30 pm
- Forum: Modern Gaming
- Topic: PSA: Zen Studios Has Announced It Has Cancelled The Patch For Pinball FX3 On Nintendo Switch
- Replies: 17
- Views: 704
Re: PSA: Zen Studios Has Announced It Has Cancelled The Patch For Pinball FX3 On Nintendo Switch
Those who think the industry used to patch broken games should check out Final Fantasy on the NES. No elemental damage from your elemental weapons. Status spells that do nothing or the exact opposite of what they claim to do. And best of all, the INT stat is meaningless. Many players dealing with ve...
- February 22nd, 2018, 4:22 pm
- Forum: Classic Gaming
- Topic: Early to Mid 1995
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1344
Re: Early to Mid 1995
Okay. Sure. I'll play. It was a wonderful time to be a gamer, back before the Playstation days. Sega released the Saturn early, to our shock and surprise. And if you jumped in early, Virtua Fighter was there in all it's untextured glory, with naked polygons clipping in and out of view. Daytona intro...
- February 21st, 2018, 2:28 pm
- Forum: Classic Gaming
- Topic: Early to Mid 1995
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1344
Re: Early to Mid 1995
Worst generation ever? Compared to Pong, Pong, and more Pong? And no, Pitfall 2 and Metroid can't begin to compete with the depth and elegance of Symphony of the Night, Majora's Mask and Ocarina shame Adventure and The Legend of Zelda. and I'll never forget the magic of creating my own characters fo...
- February 20th, 2018, 9:42 pm
- Forum: Review Feedback
- Topic: 2018/2/18: Playstation: Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1204
Re: 2018/2/18: Playstation: Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII
The story's subjective - there's a lot of creativity there, and some of the beats do land - but I called it a fanfiction of itself, because I've dated women who write fanfiction, and FFVIII includes many of the pitfalls amateur writers start with. The biggest one being that they really neglect to fl...