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  1. @GoldLeader I remember at least one time when Jeff Vavasour and Kevtris did exactly that. Jeff advised him to let his product speak for itself and stop trying to control the narrative. Kev told him his manufacturing projections were unrealistic. It went about as well as you’d imagine. Tommy acted very condescending and told them that they probably wouldn’t understand the complexities and large scales that Intellivision was working in. Kevtris was like, actually I’ve shipped several video game consoles, thanks. Tommy was all “oh really? Which ones? Maybe I’ve picked one up at a gaming convention.” His arrogance was bottomless and he’s earned all the ridicule he’s received, and then some. It’s probably in the Beefy thread you guys were talking about and possibly screencapped on Reddit.
  2. To feel VERY old, think back on when it was really cool to play this kind of game on a giant projection screen (at the same standard definition resolution, just blown up) That’s a lot of floor space!
  3. I’ve seen VF and VF2 in American arcades but not for many years. Remember these games are 30 years old. The Saturn versions were a nice approximation of the originals but not perfect. VF1 on Saturn had lower frame rate and resolution, and fewer polygons. VF2 on Saturn came closer but was missing details like Shun’s 3D bridge. Not sure if I’ve seen VF3 or just a lot of photos of the arcade machine at this point, as that’s old now too. I think I played it and had trouble transferring my Dreamcast “skills” to the arcade machine. All of the places where I remember seeing and playing it are gone now.
  4. That handheld looks cool …but if there’s any build quality it also seems like it will cost a lot. Anyone know a price? Edit: I posted before the video was finished. $149
  5. Because it’s expensive and risky to launch a whole new hardware platform. What could a new Sega console do for you that the existing options cannot do as well or better? The 2600+ is a niche collector’s object for playing ancient cartridges and for collecting new ones. Is that what you want out of Sega, a collector’s item? Why do you think Dreamcast failed in the marketplace? An absence of 3D action shooters? Is that what it needed?
  6. I don’t think he lives there anymore, most (but not all) of his collector hoard has been cleared out, and the place looks better for it. You can’t even get a good google street view from that link because it’s a gated community with a guard station. He’s been photographed enough on that location, both indoors and outside, that it’s just another “celebrity” house. Seems like it might have nice bones, and many of his embellishments are soft renovations. If I were to buy it, the first thing I’d do is rip out the dining room and its tacky Vegas mirrored ceiling. It still boggles my mind how some people found him credible or admirable in the least, especially in a “he’s so rich and successful!” way.
  7. Happy birthday! The towers are not impossible. I used to bulls-eye womp rats in my T-16 back home. The towers loop in the same patterns, and you should be able to shoot up a cluster or two each time they pass by. Don't be afraid of leaning into the corners. I can do this fairly consistently, and I believe you get bigger multipliers on later levels. I have the same unit and I really like mine. I was watching auctions for the full size original but I'd just as soon not have something with ancient parts like that. The computer module for this is tiny, like a pack of cards, not the little city of circuits that powered the 1983 original. If you're big enough to haul that giant sousaphone around, you could probably use some more height. Rather than a stool (arcade games are for standing up!), you might like these little furniture risers. They'll get your arcade machine off the floor and protect the cabinet from spills. I went with the ones in the picture here.
  8. The Arc-S can run some Saturn games, but not particularly well. You’ll want something with a strong chip. The Retroid Pocket 3+ (or the 4 coming soon or out now) can play Saturn surprisingly well. I got mine last year for about $150 shipped. Looks like they’re still on Amazon at that price. Note it’s the 3 PLUS, the plain 3 is not as good.
  9. I backed that on Kickstarter, but the campaign failed. The developer gave us backers Steam keys as tokens of appreciation, which was cool. I think the goal was not to make money but to reengineer the game in Unity so it could live on much longer.
  10. If you have the opportunity to play an Analogue system like Pocket and a Raspberry Pi with Retropie back to back, the lag is evident. FPGA kinda ruined me on that kind of emulator, even though my old reflexes can barely keep up with either one. That said, I also believe in "good enough" because I don't want CRTs and crates full of game cartridges in my space anymore.
  11. The way Tallarico speaks for everyone would be hilarious except for all the money he stole. Also, what kind of garbage burner Android phone is he running? I almost want to pat him on the head and tell him he's doing it wrong, but he wouldn't listen to me anyway. If anyone here cares what I think: >Most folks "citation needed" >hate the in-app purchasing, sales data would show the opposite >constant ad's, Then play premium games, cheapskate. Also learn to use apostrophes. >always trying to get your credit card, Um, don't download malware, genius? iPhones don't behave like that. >slowing down your phone, What exactly is he running here? >notification pop-ups, Um, turn them off? I thought you were supposed to be a technical savant, Tommy >ZERO curation in the store, Top 100 lists, recommendations, star ratings ... >1,000 new games a week... You say bug, I say feature >mostly pieces of junk, You're selling a $15 Missile Command clone that needs two devices to play a single player game and you talk about "junk?" >ZERO couch co-op (except for Jackbox, Space Team, a few others), AppleTV has tons of couch co-op. Mobile phones are personal devices, this isn't a secret >CRAPPY non-tactile controls (try playing a simple 4 direction game like Pac-Man on mobile) If only there were other places to play 1980's Pac-Man? What's that you say? There are? >and I could go ON and ON and ON. Looks like you did!
  12. Bad emulation is bad. Good emulation is good! The few examples of FPGA cores we've seen to date have been very accurate. I guess it's possible to make a shoddy FPGA core, but right now it wouldn't be worth the trouble and expense. Maybe as FPGA hardware prices go down, the quality gap will get narrower. If you were to put a nice fast Analogue console on a laggy LCD screen with slow wireless controllers, you'd see some latency that would be wrongly attributed to the FPGA, not the peripherals.
  13. Can you share where you picked it up, or any clues as to where it might have been manufactured?
  14. The assumption was in your topic title. Maybe it's "so downplayed these days" because 1. Sega Genesis is 35 years old 2. Sega doesn't make hardware anymore and hasn't for a quarter century 3. Sega Genesis games are easy to emulate and have been sprayed around on all modern systems for 20 years now 4. You've been hanging out in non-Sega-friendly places. If you asked a person on the street what they thought of Sega Genesis, you'd get a blank stare or some quasi-religious answer. Do you think you're capable of starting conversations that don't begin with a "question" that has an assumption baked in? This kind of provocation is just one half step up from "are you still beating your wife?"
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