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I recognize the name.... but after googling it.... I'm not sure why? I seem to remember it as a name amongst classic late 80's early 90's movies. Seems like I remember the name from T2 or the like... turns out thats not the case... I know I seen The Reboot Texas Chainsaw movies and the remake of The Hitcher.... but it seems like I remember his name from WAY before that... weird. Still, RIP. He DOES have quite the resume under his belt.

I could see myself buying a 3DS just for this alone... especially if a volume 2 were to be released. I agree, this seems like a B-Side collection. When it comes to music, I'm all about the B-Sides... But in this case, I can't help but think... SEGA? come on... you're on your last legs... support your LOVED franchises... somebody in your crew MUST be out there scouring the net to find out what your fans WANT!!! Or not... thats why we see Sonic game after Sonic game but no more Out Run... No more After Burner... no Golden Axe, no Streets of Rage... you touched on them with the "Sonic" Racing games... but man...

I hate these kind of threads... it's like AVGN and Game Chasers (two Youtube shows I love to watch by the way, even though they destroy the retro gaming market by just mentioning a games titles even though that's NOT their intent). All this does is help resellers reinforce their ideas that games like Contra for the NES are worth $50+

Thats what I was gonna say. Really? IS there a darker game? Aside from Game Selection 1, it's just... black! With two eyes, and the occasional monster... even when you strike a match, it's still flickers between orange and black! The room is black, the floors are black, the stairs are black. It is THE darkest game!

That must explain why my 2600 slowly looked more and more crazy when I tried playing it on my 60" Plasma. I know thats not the ideal screen to play on! But I just wanted to play some old gavorites on a BIG screen. Some games like Video Olympics, Star Wars: ESB and Freeway played fine... then I tried Space Invaders... and it slowly went to hell... I was afraid I was damaging the system so I turned it off and never tried again! Can what's happening damage a system? If not, great. AT least some games work well with it. It was a blast playing Video Olympics with my son and nephew on that TV... sure it's fuzzy and looks no where near as good as on a CRT, but it's just... funner?

Cool!

I remember this collection from YEARS ago, and last year some fine fellow on here helped me find a download for it again. Good to know these have a new home! Side note: Will you ever be updating your youtube channel? I really enjoyed the first twelve eps, and ven thought I understand doing EVERY game would be quite the undertaking it would be nice to see some more.

First things first... apparently I can't quote two different people in one reply... it always attributes the second quote to whoever the first quote was from. Technical Difficulties Aside: OP: I've had trouble with 1 M-Network cart over the years: Super Challenge Baseball... it's just dead... I accept it now. Jason Atari: I agree, I've had 3 Activision carts die on me: Skiing, Ice Hockey, and Dragster. Luckily I have a dupe of Dragster... but now I still gotta replace the other two... just as well, Ice Hockey had no label (not sure what happened there) and Skiing had SEVERE actiplaque; it's beyond actiplaque, someone must have spilled something on it. I got it from a friend who got it from his older cousin. Gotta love atari games... I don't think any games for a system since changed so many hands for free like they did. I like to think of Atari 2600 carts like trading cards. Just so fun to find, collect and trade dupes for. The italics are in reference to a post I made in another thread, where sometime it's fun to trade while collecting, other times things are so limited... no one would or should trade them!

Wish I could... I'm about 3.5 thousand km from my collection right now! Moved with one suitcase and so far have only had my Dreamcast mailed to me with my games on a spindle! I'm hoping this summer to make a road trip and get my collection back in my hands! (Not to mention other things!) But I could do it easily, Because like I say, I have 2 carts that have the standard solution and 1 cart with the PAL solution so I could boot one after the other to see if there was any difference. I must of missed that post... Back when you asked I was about 900 km from my collection... then I had no internet again until I was here... being a vagabond sucks sometimes.

I think needing to yell into the mic is a bit excessive but the concept of just aiming with an eye-pieceI thought was SO cool. Never used one but ads in comic books back in the day always made me to at least try one out. I remember trying to fashion a scope for my Sega Light Phaser out of a cardboard tube mounted atop it with strings for cross hairs on it, but I could never calibrate the sights on it just right so eventually gave up... that would be the weirdest peripheral I could think of! I will say, the NES Speed Board by LJN seemed pretty stupid, but I remember my friend's little sister actually played games that way. In that she'd sit on the floor (as most of us did back then), lay the controller on the floor in front of her and use both index fingers, one on the D-pad and one on the A & B buttons... she would have appreciated it I guess!

I might as well, In my spare time, could use a little project to keep me busy.

And that DOES seem to be my biggest problem... The only other emulator I use that supports multiple systems is Fusion, and luckly right under 'File' it has 3 options: Load Sega Master System/Game Gear ROM Load Sega Genesis ROM Load Sega CD ISO Would incorporating something like that into a 5200/800/Etc Emulator be that hard? IE: Load 5200 ROM Load 800 Disk Image Load XE/XL Disk Image Etc... Maybe it is... I'm very unfamiliar with the system and the computer line or how one would create an emulator for it/them.

I don't want you to either. I want YOU to like what YOU like, and let OTHER people like what THEY like. You REALLY seem to be missing the actual point/topic of this thread. It is NOT what IS the best console. That is NOT what the OP asked. But you just can't seem to get that. Considering the thread's title, if someone only ever played 2 systems in their life, say the Sega Genesis and the Super NES... they would invariable have to say that one of those two was the worst. They aren't saying it's the worst system ever... it's just the worst they've played. I'm not sure what you think or have to say about that, but that's it, thats logic right there in the above paragraph. I also don't care what you think or have to say about it and plan not opening this thread again till it hits 30 pages... Then I might open it one day for some fun reading! Fun in the same sense as watching Jerry Springer or Maury Povich! The point is ANYBODY is allowed to like or dislike whatever they want. PERIOD. To quote, I think it was Andy Warhol? I'm sure you'll correct me though: Please, close this thread of dick, I broke.

But the thread isn't "What IS the worst system ever" it is "Whats the worst you've played" Not all of us... actually NONE of us, had a 700 cartridge game collection sitting in the closet and we could hand pick and play the best titles whenever we wanted to. As I stated in my post about not liking the NES very much as a kid is completely honest, For every one game me and my friends played and liked, we played 3 or 4 that we didn't. As a child that just left me being happy with my Sega Master System. Where there was only 1 game I played and didn't like... Marksmoon Shooting/Trap Shooting... granted I only played about 20 games total back in those days, but I enjoyed 19 of them. I also only played roughly 30-40 NES games back then, and only REALLY enjoyed roughly 8-12 of them... Again, as stated in my post and as the AVGN's schtick is mainly composed of and to paraphrase a quote by him that he's used more than once... "Wasn't it great, when the weekend came, it was friday night, you rented a game, brought it home and it JUST SUCKED!!!!". This was an experience me and my friends had sooo many times. As kids, me and my friends would pull out the box of atari carts (this was circa 1985-1988, so I'm guessing the Crash explained why older siblings/cousins always had a TON of games they were willing to give away; they got a bunch when they were cheap and were now giving them away since they had a newer/'better' system) and the box, be it mine, my friends, whoever, always had 20-30 games and we would sit there playing each and every game for 10-20 minutes then play another and another... never being pissed that one just SUCKED, the worst that happened was we didn't understand it. Then after the 8-bit era came the 16-bit days, I was a Teenager and LOVED the whole Sega VS Nintendo war of the time (I chose Sega Genesis and stayed a "Sega Fanboy" at the time untill moving on to a 486 PC, based soley on my childhood experiences). It was a time when I loved gaming on my Sega Genesis. I loved gaming on my 2600jr, my C64, my SMS, my Genesis, and my PC... gaming on the NES was like buying scratch tickets, it was fun when you struck lucky, but you often felt like you just wasted your money again. Sure, I can look back and say "Yeah, there were MANY good games released for the NES", but when it came to BUYING games back in 88-92, you didn't just go to Walmart and say "OK, I want SMB3, Zelda, MegaMan 2, Etc..." You might not have even known MegaMan existed, let alone ask for it or be on the hunt to buy it. You picked from the 10-20 games they had on the shelf... same when renting... sometimes (and you didn't know it) EVERY game on the shelf was one that today is known as being sub-par or a real stinker, but you picked one, because you wanted something new to play, and then were let down because it was not as good as you were expecting/hoping. *EDIT So you ARE saying that the majority of the UK and Europe who had no interest in the NES... WERE actually being unintelligent!!! WOW... You've jumped the shark worse than 78001987 now... you're not just calling out a system's fanbase, but whole NATIONS...

Really? Still the arguing? There IS no BEST system, and the NES would be far from it if there were. You can't even quote games like SMB/Zelda/Whatever as being BETTER overall than Sega's hodgepodge of Arcade ports and original games like Alex Kidd and Zillion, or the Atari's constant stream of outdated games. Remember in the UK and Europe the NES sold quite poorly to Sega, and home computers... neither of which had SMB/Zelda/Whatever Nintendo Franchise... Are you saying they just weren't intelligent enough to know a good game when they saw it? I hope not, because what it boils down to is different people have different tastes... and in this case the majority of the UK/Europe did NOT want to play Nintendo Franchise games... And not just people over there... many people in the US, Canada, South America, enjoyed 7800s and Master Systems, and early PC/Apple II games, not caring at ALL that their system couldn't play Zelda or Mario 3. Is really that hard to accept that not everyone likes what you like? I admit 78001987 is almost like a child that just can't help but make an ass of himself when some says something he doesn't like, but you guys started it by attacking him for claiming he didn't like the NES. So what? As stated above, MANY people from 1985 to 1995 lived a full 10 years without ever saying or thinking "Man, I WISH I had an NES" or "Mom, Dad, can you PLEEEASE get me an NES for Christmas???" AND were avid video game players. It's true.

Well... yeah... but what I mean is, what WAS the bug? A programming bug that years later we just decided to fix cause we can? or a bug that is caused by the dumping process, so a GOOD dump just can't be made? or what? And more specifically, by a list, I meant list of all the FIXED ROMs and WHAT was fixed. Hence the addition of a TXT file. For example: Activision Decathlon - Fixed a bug causing you to freeze if you tap left/right a little TOO fast, as turbo functions can these days. Astroblast - Fixed a bug that causes the game to crash if a large size red rock hits the ground when your score equals a multiple of 13. Dodge 'Em - Fixed a bug that allowed the opponents car to switch multiple lanes crossing over boundaries if that lane has no dots. Etc - Etc I know these aren't REAL bugs, I just made them up as examples. And I'm curious if these bugs occur in ACTUAL carts played on a REAL VCS.

Heh... Occure to me I never mentioned Altirra in my post! But, Altirra is WHAT I was talking about! After seeing this post I tried the emu too... and I think I faired worse... I didn't even get a game to LOAD let alone attempt playing it. Ever rom I tried to load left me with a bevy of options: 2: 16K 3: OSS '034M' 40: Blizzard 16K Two of the options have 5200 right in the name... the first 2, and they bring me to a title screen for about 2 second before going to a error screen asking me to pause/warm boot/reset, or if that screen doesn't come up... I get NO response to any key or joystick button I press. I tried using Xbox360 controller mode, standard gamepad, keyboard, checked mappings... I just don't get why I can never make a 5200 emu work for me.

This ROM collection, it has some handy text files, but one I'd LIKE to see is just WHAT IS fixed in the [Fixed] versions of ROMs.

I guess this thread should just be renamed: "If you don't like the NES you must be brain damaged" or "It's Troll Feeding Time!!!" I prefer the former, because I agree somewhat agree with 78001987... in GENERAL... veeeery general! But a lot of his comments are just sooo off the wall you'd think he MUST be trolling; but even if he ISN'T trolling, I can't belive people are taking THIS much time to argue with him... let him love the 7800 and call it a day!!! *edit: Now, if he made THIS many crazy posts WITHOUT anybody attacking him for disliking the NES, he just went post crazy about the 7800, then we would KNOW he's a troll, or actually brain damaged...

I still dont get THIS emulator either... Atari800WinPlus was the only one I ever got to work but setup and controls were so finicky and such a nusiance wading through error message upon error message or question or prompt regarding the 400/800/XE/XL/Blah blah blah... I never actually got to PLAY a ROM! And this one is doing the same thing to me! All "I" want is an emulator that you start. You configure the controls... one screen... directions/buttons. U/D/L/R would be obvious, 2 action button, probably A & B on my pad, or maybe X & B depending on my mood, and the numpad I would map to the numpad on my keyboard. Then I would click 'File -> Open Rom'. Then I would select a ROM, and play it! IS this so hard... I've emulated EVERY system at some point in time... but the 5200 eludes me... and it's all because the emulators want me to conifugre or understand or somehow just wade through stuff regarding the Atari Computers line that "I" have no use or want for that keeps drowning me before get play a game!!!

... but I said NOT like traditional Zaxxon. Lose the 3/4 overhead and go for a behind the ship ala the Sega Master System. In fact the way Radar Lock or Solaris were programmed, but instead incorporating Zaxxon elements would be the real thing!

I knew there had to be SOME reason. But as has also been stated, rotating and LCD has NO negative effect so... Rotate that LCD ndn play Ikaruga in classic oldschool shooter "tall" screen!!! *edit: I also like rotating the screen and playing MAME... the DK trilogy never looked so great!.. except for maybe in the actual cabinets!

Heh... no matter which I choose, I can't really vote! First I'd like to say Six Switcher, heavy or light doesn't matter to me, I just want the the difficulty switches easily accesible and the woodgrain finish. My older cousin and my friend's older brother had these, and I was always jealous. It just looked so much bigger and powerful than my Junior model... Which brings me to my NEXT choice, a 2600 Junior model, only now I WILL be picky I prefer the model with the small rainbow over the large. Mine had the small rainbow and one of my friends had one with the big rainbow... it was just too... guady? I like how the Junior has a sleeker design and the stainless steel finish, such a polar opposite to the original model! I've really grown to love it as time goes on, I never thought I'd want one; but these days I do... maybe nostalgia is just starting to hit harder!... But that HUGE rainbow just detracts from the stainless steel strip sooo much. Gotta be the small rainbow.

The beauty of play that game today is using the VGA cable and plugging it into a 16:9 flat panel, and then propping that up rotated 90° They always recommended against doing that with CRTs so I never tried it, plus all the CRT did was make it 3:4 rather than 4:3 and still composite blurry... the VGA cable does wonders for Ikaruga. Side note... what IS the problem with rotating a CRT? I imagine it COULD do something to mess with how it operates,.. except that a GOOD chunk of arcade games were DESIGNED to be played on a rotated CRT!

I remember playing the ROM of Duke Nukem... that fact that what DOES play is running on a Sega Genesis I GUESS is cool... but there is NO fun to be had... it's... yeah...