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I really enjoy this one. Way easier than setting up a board game.

Since when is 30fps "high performance?"

Yeah, definitely feels like a mix of an art/design project and a games system than anything. A novelty, but it isn't trying to be anything else. Unlike the Ataribox, which to be honest I can't understand how it's even still going.

"Beefy" is the response in the FAQ, which I doubt but it doesn't really matter.

Reminds me of a quirkier (and much more expensive) Arduboy. You could theoretically build something similar with a Pi Zero and a Pico8 license but nothing looks quite like this.

I think a lot of the Playdate's price is the design that went into it.

I'm pretty excited about it, not just for the cool design but also the games and the homebrew potential. Reminds me of the Arduboy, though it does cost three times as much...

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/5/22/18628360/playdate-panic-teenage-engineering-qwop-katamari So, this got announced today. It is a $150, black-and-white system with 12 games coming in a "season" with weekly releases. The craziest part? That crank doesn't provide power- it's a control input! Already has games announced from a few indie devs and the guy behind Katamari Damacy. What do you think? An example of how the crank works, with the game by the Katamari creator. https://play.date/

Reading this whole mess as someone who has not followed this from the start is a trip.

Online. They're talking about it online, then going to the events.

This is an absolutely huge industry. Look at Twitch and see how many people watch Overwatch or DoTA streams. I've seen soldout stadiums for this stuff. It will do fine.

It has sound. Arduventure is a great game, and Team ARG has produced some amazing products given that they're free and how limited the hardware is.

Oh I know that. I'm just hoping they release a horizontal one so the Arduboy community jumps on it and starts making color games. The Arduboy has absolutely amazing games.

This is based off of the Arduboy! Shame that the screen is vertical and not horizontal, a color Arduboy would be a great upgrade.

One of the more interesting games in my collection (not for the content, it's just a passable mascot platformer though it does look exactly like a SNES game on PS1) is the Jaleco game "Punky Skunk" on PS1. Notably, because of the lack of discussion of the game, an interesting sentence about it on its Wikipedia page has lasted for years, without being challenged: "It remains a collectors curiosity due to the generally unfinished nature of the game and the unfavorable reviews given at the time of release." I've never beaten the game myself, but there's clearly an ending to it and it is easily accessible online. So yeah, guess this is just another example of Wikipedia misinformation? Anyway, anyone else ever play this "hidden gem?"

I just wish all companies with a library like Nintendo or Sega had a Steam-level service to provide their old content. Nintendo in particular abandoned the Virtual Console because I suppose they want to sell the Minis. In 2018, there's really no excuse to not have a Steam-level distribution platform. It is, and should be, the standard. Nintendo's online platforms have always lagged, but people shouldn't make excuses. I know this doesn't seem to have to do with ROMs and the like, but perhaps me switching primarily to PC gaming in recent years and looking at what console manufacturers have just sort of confuses me.

How much?

Looking to buy pretty much anything you can offer in terms of stuff for the Tomy Tutor, save for the computer itself and the two connected joypads. Games, carts, the other controller, anything. Also looking for Atarisoft TI-99 games and Vectrex games that are not Scramble or Armor Attack. Let me know what you've got. Also, if any of you have a spare fully working Coleco Gemini or 2600 Jr. I am interested in those, loose. Thanks.

Know the topic is old, but PM sent for a VecMulti.

Yeah I knew about the Indrema and the Phantom. The EVO was different in that it had a limited release, and that it didn't try to make a huge splash by wasting money on flashy PR.

Was this ever actually a thing? I remember reading about it about a decade ago (wow) and they were hyping it up as if it was some kind of black horse in the "next gen" race. Some searching around shows apparently the company only made like 3000 of them and that they were just Linux boxes? Anyone ever use/see one?

If the merits of male bonding are weak, why are the merits of female bonding presented as absolutely essential? Maybe both are equally important and can't be understated. Maybe they don't teach people to be wildly sexist, but rather not to feel like a pile of crap for being one way or another. I get a feeling that the men who do this sort of thing never were treated with any sort of comeraderie between members of their other sex, at least early on, just playing armchair sociologist. They were probably outcast as "nerds" and basically fetishized women as "well, THEY won't hurt me, all women are good unlike those rude other guys." The problem is that the industry tried to sell games to everyone in the 80s, realized women didn't want them at this point (partially because people created a culture that only losers play games, and only men can be losers,) so switched to targeting males only in the 90s. It's hard to change this. It's even harder to get people to realize that we once had at least an attempt at it in the 80s. There's not this whole conspiracy to keep women out. Women have always been important to the industry. It's just jarring to people who have been made fun of their entire lives for liking something to then be expected to share their hobby with the same people that once hated them. This is more than just women, this is about "geek culture" in general. I saw an intriguing argument that this is about extroverts versus introverts. The former hates that the latter exists, but the latter just wants to be left alone. Extroverts seek out introverts' places where they talk and force themselves in and do what they want. Just a theory, not that it's all about gender.

Nail on the head with this one. For one reason or another, these guys are. If they're ashamed of being male, they'll support anything that alleviates guilt that they for some reason think they have to have inherently. But then when you get more into this they start talking about poison M&Ms and shit and I don't even know. Or they could all just be trollshielding so that they aren't the ones gone after next.

Oh yeah, Rationalwiki. There's a place you can trust.