Mark Shepherd

Is Sunflower compatible with rasberry? Or whatever happened to blueberry? I thought those were cool. Now they are out of shiek?

Hi Gabriel. I got Dragon Quest IX for the Nintendo DS. I have mixed opinions about it. Some people might think that it is great. But.. I am actually tired of it. After about one hour! That is kind of rare for me with a video game too. Because I usually try my hardest to play through a game's faults. Being on a small screen isn't the issue with me. I guess the issue with me was it was a little repetitive with the battles. And I wasn't a big fan of doing the whole "run an errand" gimmick for the game. Games are supposed to be fun not running errands for people. I am probably going to sell the game on ebay. But thanks for your input. I hope Dragon Quest IX hasn't tainted or battered my gums too much for Dragon Quest games. Because I love the ones for the NES. Also Dragon Quest IX you can totally avoid battles by actually seeing the enemies on the overworld. I thought that was lame. I felt like there was potential for it to be a really really good game, by doing some radically different things and probably not calling itself Dragon Quest.

I've played Mega Man. I know how to beat the Ice Chunks. Or the Ice chunks boss. Mikeala or whatever it's called. (Not Yeltsin man) But mastering the whole double jump thing in Ghouls and ghosts is harder. But that is a hard game. But maybe I am not hardcore. Yeah Ranger talking about the dreamcast in a rap song like it's cool is as bas as the singer shooter talking about the Ricky Lake show. It's like the what show? Of course we have all heard of Ricky Lake. But sega products began to have a shelf life equal to that of those come and go day time talk show hosts. Didn't even Chevy Chase try to have a talk show? 00100100 take me to your leader. Please don't take me to a broom closet and make me program games with Renato Bittencourt. Don't take me to a where you keep your nutella samples and your Game Gear games. Of course you have the Boy in shining force whose favorite hobby is power walking. People in Japan must be really desperate for hobbies. Have you ever heard of chip card readers? We are making all of these stupid games now on something like a chip or you just download it. I think the creator of the thread meant something more along the lines that don't you remember when games weren't tiny tiny chips (like the borg) but a cartridge that you could actually hold and had gravity. They didn't have steel wheels but at least you could hold them. Well LJN should have made a Michael Dukakis game. With Michael Dukakis on a tank with a helmet. And the objective of the game would be..uh collect all of the nutella samples and smear the chocolate on your underwear, while you talk about making a shining force II remake.

So educate me. What is TecToy? I have never heard of them. I feel like I am playing a game of blind man's bluff. Is there like some Parallel universe somewhere that Sega still exists? And is being bought in droves? Next someone is going to tell me that Sega didn't really go under and Tu Pac is alive in Cuba somewhere. And the company Sega owns Skunkworks! You mean Sega is actually the alter nemesis of Atari? Like Stephen King I guess went under other pen names like Richard Bachman. So Erebus the greek god of death no longer applies to Sega. They are alive in Brazil. I was hoping that Vin Diesel would have bought the company Sega and changed the name to Vin Diesel. I guess that's just not the type of globalism that we live in. Of course every other game would have to be named something with Vin Diesel in it. Like Vin Diesel fights the martians. Vin Diesel fights giant squids. Vin Diesel beats the crap out of Mario. Well hopefully Sega does better and enjoys more success than Henry Ford's Rubber factory. That was in Brazil too. But supposedly Americans were forced to live there. I want a progress report on TecToy every day!

Game gear games certainly have not aged well. Does anyone even own a game gear? To haul around that giant adapter. I am buying a lot of cheap game gear games now but just for the cases! 0001000 are you holding flowers for the Sega Genesis? Well Ranger the Brazil Real. Name of Brazil's money. Is this the Dolly Parton Imagination library? Good thing someone brought up Doom. There is a video game crash coming. I know it. Like some reviewer on youtube said, Donkey Kong for the game boy is better than like 99.99 percent of games made today. Atari is still in the urban dictionary for awesome. Arkanoid was a cool name. For a video game. Dreamcast was not really a cool name. Now we have names for games like Fallout. 000100 sounds like you should jump on your electric scooter. I can't say I will be breaking the Eucharist over either the Saturn or the Genesis. They are just game systems. Speaking of Jilted where is the Sega CD game of Neil Degrasse Tyson talking about our stupidly large moon? And like you find Neil Degrasse Tyson in a fun digitized sequence and choke him to death because you are looking for the armored pendant to save Kenny Rogers but he keeps following you around. A corporatacracy of fools, says George Foreman.

I mean I don't know I'm reading in Science Magazine August 2015 that Brazil is in some kind of deep fiscal crisis. From the Federal University of Rio De Janeiro. So where does the Sega Genesis make into this. They cut 13.7 billion from the ministry of education. They better not be saying that the Sega Genesis is some kind of educational tool. Play ecco the dolphin and that will raise awareness for saving the rainforests. Crockpot livers? Is Brazil buying old genesis consoles and using the plastic to build some off shore wind farms? Could be. So I guess my next question, stream of consciousness..What do you guys consider to be the top games that were once known to be bad. Or blacklisted? (blue gun Joe Lieberman) Mortal Kombat I guess was one. Mortal Kombat looks like bugs bunny compared to this Madden 2019. Remember when congress said that the game Night Trap on Sega CD was ulta-violent and sick. Yeah centipede. The sega Genesis was super duper. yeah centipede. I mean they were playing video games in the movie Soylent green with Charlton Heston. That was made in 1972. Maybe Brazil is not in the stone age but they are in the Stoned age. Literally they are all stoned.

Brazil is just getting the Sega Genesis? What is this the Pleistocene? I am guessing in ten years they are going to get some railroads? Well at least Brazil has its own dolphins to brag about. Maybe the Amazon river was the inspiration for Ecco the dolphin. Although river dolphins are freshwater and look way uglier than ocean and sea dolphins. It would be funny to give Brazil the Sega Genesis but make the Genesis where it is only capable of ever playing one game — Ecco the dolphin. Then make then wait another ten years before we "release" Sonic the hedgehog. I feel like there is an air of disgruntlement that Sega is no longer in the business of making great consoles. I want to see them come back. I think every one does. But you can't excuse poor business decisions either. Let them Ecco (I mean iron) it out. Did the company LJN ever make games for Sega? That's another one that boggles me. How did all of those bad games not bring down Nintendo? It almost seems like having those bad games helped Nintendo's success. Weird planet we have. I remember when Ecco the dolphin came out people thought there would be a whole bunch of sequels to the game. But I guess Ecco only caught on with a certain group of people. I just remember playing the game as a demo at Toys R Us.. I don't know anyone who owned it. Have you seen Snakes on a plane?

I envy you! Do you have Megaman X4??

Well centipede. You basically created this thread to trash the Saturn. You failed! I'm a Saturn fan. Was it because the Sega Saturn did not have blast processing? Is it because the Sega Saturn forgot to put the blood in games like Mortal Kombat? Do World of Warcraft tournaments age well at long as you don't get killed in a stampede? Do John Madden 2019 age well as long as you aren't shot and killed? I like Metal slug better than Gunstar heroes. But I am not a twitch gamer. Genesis. Umm..The Genesis had Castlevania symphony of the night? And the Genesis had Suikoden. I'm not like some video game ecologist. I just call it like I see it. Games themselves are inanimate objects. When you say aged, I believe you mean how well the gamers are into the games still? Can you name one Sega Genesis game that gamers are still into? That they couldn't get on like a million different consoles now? I am learning Lamonz. Buy some piranha wall paper remover, says Glenn the Handyman. Unfortunately I am not in any hard fan corps for any video game system. I was too much in the Farmer Labor party. Because they either pull the plug before they start to get interesting or flood the system with a lot of wimpy games. Or Nintendogs..yeesh ruff. Well in my opinion aged isn't aged if it is a game that you want to play. "I am Error!" I don't see what you guys see in some of these games. Like Landstalker. I am playing that now. And I hate it! I hate using diagonal on the control pad to control your character. Throughout the whole game! And I feel like I should be good at a game like this. But it's like we are back to the whole, my games have blood discussion. By the time we got to the Saturn the whole our games have blood discussion was already worked out of our system. To me a good name for the Sega Genesis should have been Cabin Fever. I am not a Nintendo Fan boy. I am not a Sega Saturn Fan boy (well sort of I am .) I am a I wish there were less games (memes) for Cabin fever boy. No, though a man be wise, it is no shame for him to learn many things and to bend in season. Well too many genesis games make you bend too much! Did the Sega Genesis have Demon's crest? Well the Sega Saturn didn't either. So. Hard Corps. Check for the Genesis. Guardian Heroes. Check for the Saturn. But the Sega Genesis had a lot of good Cabin Fever games. Games you play when you are waiting for pictures to develop at walgreens. And the Genesis definitely made more games than the Saturn. I think that has Nil to do with the quality. (or the aging.) But then you had games like Pit Fighter for the genesis. Oh lord help us. "There's something wrong," says Governor Rick Scott. Centipede are you sure that you are not the guy known as Ferostie in another forum?

It's funny Meghan Kelly thinks FortNight is the only shooter that kids today play. Well Meghan Kelly has never heard of gunstar heroes! Or sunset riders. Or metal slug. Also Metal slug has pretty much the only voice acting that I can stomach or tolerate in a game. "Rocket Lawncher!" I don't know why Metal slug doesn't get more props. With or without the blood. I like Metal Slug without the blood. To me a good name for the Sega Genesis should have been cabin fever. I like Metal slug better though. I'm not a twitch gamer.

Well 0001 perhaps the best line in Landstalker is that guy who you meet that tells you never give your heart to a woman! Maybe what he meant was never give your blue plastic gun to Joe Lieberman. Ok bad joke. So Joe Lieberman paid off by Nintendo? Well I believe Joe Lieberman probably thought that hot blonde in Night Trap was attractive.

But Joe Montana's football! Especially when you are horrible at it but something about the game makes you want to keep playing. Can't say that about every sport game, or even every game. I still have a bad taste too in my mouth when Sega's Hardcore fans started the whole bullying with "our games have blood and yours don't." Now it's like seriously what? Do people still talk about asinine things like that? It's funny how ridiculous we were and how we thought ridiculous things mattered back then and today no one cares. But Sega made a heck of a lot of creative minded games and so did Nintendo. Seems like Sega making a backwards compatibility for the Game Gear games would have made a lot more sense than the 32X and the Sega CD. But yeah I would like to play some of those games but I have pretty much outgrown all of them. I didn't get much of a chance back in the day to play them. But the game has to be super super good and classic for me to want to play it. But playing those games make you feel like you are locked in the 1990s.

00010000 I want to kind of argue with you about the sales. Sales and sales numbers are fickle. Sega was definitely the best at hitting the Stupid market and then selling a boatload of those games. I loved Sonic the Hedgehog. Sonic the Hedgehog is getting like five bucks on Ebay. Konami genesis games are at the bottom around 30 bucks and going all the way up to 200. Sometimes even used. Like a Rolls Royce the Konami games are going up in value! But things like depreciation and time and age that basically applies to all genesis games except for the Konami games. The Stupid gamers have gotten smarter and they know what the quality is (After you play the game. And do the research.) When you are hoodwinked by sales marketing, naked in your face yelling at you promotional ads, and even peer pressure in school you get those games. But after that hoopla dies down you stop playing them.

I think of the Sega Genesis as like a experimental console. The Sega Saturn in my opinion was the best video game console ever created. People complain about load times. I thought that there were no loads time on the Saturn. But there goes my beef again with Nintendo. Basically goading Sony into the competition and then that was it. I felt like the Sega Saturn would have been the main console for pretty much any game. Fast games. Slow games. RPGS. 3D. 2D sidescrollers. Retro games. Rerelease games. If no playstation I think that the Sega Saturn would have even made the company Square Enix obsolete and squashed them. Or begging to let them in. Instead of now it's the other way around, First party developers are begging for Square Enix to come to them. Was SOTN released on the Saturn?? I didn't know that. Was in English? Well people kind of over exaggerate how Sega CD and 32 were screwed up. They weren't like the Virtual Boy. Somehow Nintendo was allowed to get away with the screw ups and stay in business. But Sega, a few screw ups (if you even want to call them screw ups) and that was that. The street fighter games for the SNES and the Genesis were pretty much a joke by the time you got to the Saturn and Playstation. I mean the whole point is you want to play an arcade game right? Well we all have our personal choices. When someone says Capcom you think megaman.

Actually just got my sega genesis. Going to try to nostalgia game (or just plain game again). I think Sega owes some credit to Konami. Maybe a ton of credit. Konami seemed like it gave Sega a second life and huge second boost during those bit wars. I think Konami should be credited with extending the life of the Genesis more than Sega CD or the 32X. And perhaps even those add-ons hurt the Sega. When you hear the golden sounding Konami logo start up at the title screen it is inseparable from the supposed superior Super Nintendo. And Konami games that had equivalents on the Super Nintendo were just as good and depending on your preference better. So yeah. I could make a thread like this. Gunstar Heroes and Contra Hard Corps.. So good.. Gunstar Heroes and Turtles the Hyperstone Heist.. So good.. Gunstar Heroes and Rocket Knight adventures.. So good.. Gunstar Heroes and Castlevania bloodlines.. So good.. (notice a theme?) But eh, Gunstar Heroes and Flink.. So good?? Umm.. Gunstar Heroes and Toe Jam and Earl... So good. hmm. Ok games. I think there is a little of a coverup from Genesis owners as to how much Konami really bailed the Genesis out. But then again on another note. What if Konami made Suikoden for the Sega CD. And that would have totally blown away Nintendo. Nintendo anything. It would be like what is Nintendo? Or Jimmy Kimmel doing a Karl Malone skit, "Karl Malone..What does Karl Malone say about Nintendo? Karl Malone say that Nintendo don't have Suikoden therefore Nintendo sucks!" Well that didn't happen. Basically it was a neverending Muhammad Ali vs Frasier match. To a draw. MBD you have a good heart. I am guessing by Golden Axe you mean Golden Axe 2? The first golden axe game. I mean there are alternatives like Knights of the Round. I am boned out by both Sega and Super Nintendo neither quite gave me the knights and dragons style beat em up that I wanted. Batman returns was closest.