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I've seen worse. The CD-i infomercials spring to mind. Trying to figure out what that controller for the lame system at the beginning is. I think it's a Genesis 6 button, or maybe a 3d0 controller, or even a black gravis pc gamepad.

Why not make an original football game that takes advantages of the 7800's strengths, rather than try to shoehorn in a port from some other system?

While it's well known that the 7800 could put more sprites on the screen than its competitors, it's less well known that it could, hypothetically, put more colors on the screen as well - from a palette of 256, 25 per scanline, vs 48,25 for the whole screen on the NES and 64,32 for the SMS. What 7800 games used that color palette the most, or the best?

Neat!

Depends on your definition of your, and computer. First thing that involved a computer was my older brother's Atari VCS. We had a 4 switch woodgrain one as far as I can remember. First computer I used was, like most american public school students in the 80s, an apple ][. Dunno if it was plus or e or what, but it was one of those beige wedges. As I became more fascinated with those beige wedges, I started wanting one of my own. My parents tried to placate me; first with a Vtech learning window (which was fun, but limited, and I promptly lost the cards) and a Vtech Socrates a few years later. (A tremendously bad deal, BTW; at launch, it cost the same as a XEGS, which would have been more useful, fun, and educational; the only thing I could stand doing on the Socrates was drawing.) Between the LW and the Socrates, I got a NES for my birthday. First thing with a CPU in it that was mine. Also during that period, I encountered the first and only Commodore PET I ever used. Finally, my parents caved. My middle school had 2 computer labs, one with networked IIGSes, the other had networked PS/2S. I thought the IIGSes were better, and asked for one. Dad goes to the store and brings home... a Packard Bell 386SX. VGA, 2MB ram, 1 each of 3.5 and 5.25 drives, a hard drive, and a built in speaker. Family's first computer. It had... issues. Enjoyed QBASIC and a few games; Castles 2 was a favorite. Did word processing. It had a very simple GUI that was really just a DOS launcher. There were constant, but minor, problems. A decade (and another PC) later, I bought parts for, and assembled, my first computer. It was an AMD based PC system, that used socket A, IIRC. Windows 98. It was pretty awesome.

I've often read that the original lynx was made much larger than it had to be, because some focus group thought it gave you 'more for your money'. 1) is there actual evidence for this, or just a gaming rumor? 2) if this is actually the case, how much of the size reduction between the original Lynx and the Lynx II was 'this is what size it should have been to begin with', and how much was miniaturization of components between 1989 and 1991?

So i'll put you down as hating the Bandai Playdia.

Lots of people like to bag on the Jaguar, saying it's among the worst systems ever made. What I'm curious about is, what game systems do you guys consider to be bad?

Sites like that make money by generating hits. Controversy generates hits. Treat them like any other troll and ignore them.

dumb question: does the XEGS built-in version of Missile command support the trak-ball? I don't know why it wouldn't, but I don't know why Atari did a lot of what it did.

Another casualty of the demise of print. Try to think of the trees that will be saved.

I hate loose things. I like tight things better. oops. Also, what's the deal with Ballblazer, Hatrick, and Karateka in 1990? how did they get more returns than sales? And how did Dark Chambers lose money when it sold (however few) units?

I hope you mean 'there are only two PAL exclusive games', and not 'there are only two PAL games at all'.

Exactly. Pole Position 2 was the pack in for every 7800 sold in North America. Why they decided to make it available seperately is beyond me. Mitch People loose things.

Ah, another Classic Game Room fan Yeah, I'm spending more time here 'cuz his forums are down