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I can see why you'd be disappointed - the design is much more rewarding if you cash in your stars to go to the next level as soon as you can, and treat the extra stars as a hardcore bonus to challenge the obsessive completists.

Tie dye smeared nuclear bright primary colors. A camera that simulates a drunken collapse. That voice... I hated Mario 64, back when I first owned it. I only got addicted a decade later - once I stopped trying to see it as anything but a pure game, released back when camera control was making Lara Croft run in a straight line without jumping unless your life depended on it. Never had any trouble with the controls though. Is it an emulation issue? A too sensitive controller?

Street Fighter 2 - why not go with the game that started it all? You can pick it up on Capcom Collection 1, or, if you're looking for a challenge, get the Street Fighter anniversary collection, where Super Street Fighter 2 turbo comes bundled with - Street Fighter 3 - older graphics, with insane amounts of animation. Fans hated it when released, but later upgrades, plus added characters led to it being rediscovered nearly a decade later - a true lost classic. Street Fighter Alpha Anthology - some people argue the third game in the series is the best fighting game of all time - these people are probably insane. Gameplay balance is great, but between the cheerful announcer, the high pitched schoolgirl battle cries, and the porntastic elevator music, your ears take a beating. Capcom vs SNK 2 - The cheapest game on the list, it has characters from all the games above, plus Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting. All you need to do is find it on a demo disk - the demo is the entire Japanese game, missing only netplay. As for the Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting collections, you're getting a mixed bag. Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting are nearly unplayable by today's standards. The best games on the Fatal Fury disc, Fatal Fury Special and Fatal Fury 3 were only slightly above average fighters for the time. Most play them now for the nostalgia or the characters. Art of Fighting 3 is the best game on it's disc, but every one of the Art of Fighting games is crippled by a murderous AI. Whether or not that's a selling point for you, only you can decide. But if they ever release a Samurai Showdown collection, jump on it immediately... The first two are still better than all of their sequels.

Ever wonder how bad all those licensed titles nobody talks about really are? Top left: The "Big Daddy" battle. Beavis, trying to escape detention, ( for shooting spitballs at the teacher, then not laughing about the word 'balls'. ) meets a Hall Monitor. This being a pre-Columbine America, no guns are involved...unfortunately, Beavis's understanding of Buddhist beliefs prevent him from defending himself from the lethal slap down. Your only hope is that he won't chase you.. Bottom left: Spiderman stalks Sk8rboi. Top right: Whenever you see Kevin Costner in a boxing match with a tunafish, bet on the tunafish. The only way you can win this fight is with a gun. Bottom right: T-Rex. Ant. T-Rex steps on ant. Ant wins. What the holy f***?! All good examples of bad video game villains, but are they the best? Or have you fought worse...?

I had no idea Flash had come so far. Thank you. http://www.2flashgames.com/f/f-Asteroids-Revenge-3-4830.htm

And counted them as a system library, how would the internet compare to other game consoles?

The optional paths eat up so much memory that the artists have to cut corners on backgrounds and magic spells. The enemies are more memorable, but that just leads you to count how many times you have to kill the same fat midget.

It's real people. But maybe Madden should be disqualified, since his involvement is limited to a few soundbites and an on screen graphic pasted over several hundred yearly updates and conversions?

Good point. I should have limited the question to playable characters - Hulk Hogan, for instance, beats out even Mario.

Wow, that's the most Conan information I've ever seen! I wasn't sure if anyone else had ever even played it. So it is possible to defeat the lion? I may actually play it again someday. The trick is finding the devil. You'll need the sword to release him and the fireball to kill him.

What living person appears in the most video games and on the most systems? Jackie Chan? Arnold Schwarzenegger? Hulk Hogan? Harrison Ford? John Madden? Someone else?

Mortal Kombat. The real theme.

Am I the only one who loves the look of PSone/Saturn/N64 games in high resolution? I bought a Gamecube just for the N64 Zelda games...

Odd. I learned to respect Adventure from someone who wasn't even born when the NES was released. I also can't get anyone I know old enough to have bought the VCS before the crash to play it now...

Any games you enjoy more now, than when they they were first released?

1. Megamania: Shooting space cheeseburgers? Great! But um.... even Space Invaders was deeper than this. I give myself nightmares imagining a misguided teacher giving this out to children with better graphics and random Healthy Eating Trivia between stages. 2. Final Fight - This game started the trend of actually hurting the player's character if you even tried to do more than punch or jump kick it's hordes of 5 people wearing different colored clothes in a bold effort to look like a real street gang. Die. 3. Journey Escape - Beautiful visuals, as you run across an endless neon sea - HA ONK! beep beep beep beep -beep beep boo! beep beep beep beep -beep beep boo! beep beep beep beep -beep beep boo! beep beep beep beep -beep beep boo! beep beep beep beep -beep beep b HA ONK! HA ONK! beep beep beep beep -beep beep boo! beep beep beep beep -beep beep boo! beep beep beep beep -beep beep boo! beep beep boo! beep beep beep beep -beep beep boo! beep beep beep beep -beep beep boo! beep beep beep beep -beep beep boo!

1. Journey Escape. A race across a field of glowing stars, with 4 channel 8 bit square wave form. 2. Communist Mutants From Outer Space. Also, the 5200 needs a Starpath upgrade option, since I'm making wishes... 3. ET - I want to see if there was the seed of a good idea buried in there. Runners up - 4. Halloween - The original Survival Horror Nemesis returns. 5. Superman - Because Superman without hair is proof Luthor won somehow. 6. Double Dragon - because the 7800 wasn't able to do it justice. Games that someone beat me to naming. 7. Yar's Revenge. 8. Solaris. Game I just thought of - 9. Night driver.

I'll second Last Gladiators pinball. As for Castlevania, the creator of Symphony of the Night apologized for the Saturn version. New areas, a hidden character, and an improved item selection screen are handicapped by extra load times, missing transparencies, and graphics distorted due to the differences in screen resolution between the two systems.

Death Tank Zwei. You're going to get a lot of RPGS and strategy games in your answers. Of them, you might like Panzer Dragoon Saga, since it's very unlike other Japanese RPGs.

Was I way off in asking? I seriously think Gorf had a good idea, and I wanted to see the thread continue...

For me it's the opposite. Carts always seemed like cheap toys I couldn't trust, I live in a humid climate, and broken consoles are common - but CDs, from Working Designs' Lunar series on, were magical. They often included art from the designers, interviews, and hundreds of secrets to explore. I buy a cart, and it's just a sale. I buy a CD, and it's Wonderland. But I'm in the minority. You're not alone.

I understand the NES is the more powerful of the two in large tile based sidescrollers, but in 3d, the two seem almost even, and in still picture displays, the 5200 has more colors on tap. What would keep the system from playing something modest like Legend of Zelda or a Final Fantasy? If backgrounds and sprites were simplified, could the 5200 and it's sound chip pull off a Super Mario 3? Also, could 5200 games like 'Rescue On Fractalus!' be done in playable form on the NES hardware?

It's much easier if you kill Satan first. You'll need his pitchfork to even damage it. Don't know about everyone else, but I hate it because I don't ...read... .....this.... ...slow.....

Lots of the same people who are making comments like this were overjoyed when these first hit. We are a fickle bunch aren't we? When they first appeared the retro market was smaller; I considered both the Capcom and the Taito TV games, but the PS2 compilation discs came out. Sorry to sound Darwinian, but I couldn't afford both. Minus the collectors, who can?

No exclusive must buy games + decades old outdated technology + a limited library by design. If it's dead, it was a suicide.