Vic George 2K3

The only "offensive" part of it was that somebody needed to stoop to the level of console camp mud-flinging, as if that was necessary to make their system better than it actually is. Can't you just love the system you enjoy playing games on without being such a snob thinking that everyone that doesn't own the same kind of game system is beneath you? I guess not.

I don't mind if videogames tell stories, as long as there is a game in it that makes you feel that you're part of a story. Then again, not all videogames need good stories (or even ANY story) to be able to sell. Sometimes it's just better to have it all game.

Well, it's THEIR Atari 2600 units, NOT yours! If they want to wreck it, set it on fire, turn it into an art display, or whatever strikes their fancy, who are we to dictate that they can't?

I don't know if this is sarcasm or just honestly being a jerk.

Sounds like Xbox 360 and/or PS3 fangirlism at work.

I don't see anything ugly about it.

Not of any recent games, but I am imagining a story based on Dragon Age II with the aftermath of Hawke taking the office of the viscount after he sides with the templars -- how he and he friends cope with events that take place between the Second Battle of Kirkwall and when Hawke disappears.

Call it what you want, "shady" is the accurate descriptor for this. The mark of a good game is its replayability factor, which if it has that, makes it worth owning no matter who ends up owning it after you're through with it. Take replayability out, and you're left with a game that might as well be like a one-night affair. In this case, it might as well be like a high-priced escort service.

To purposely make the gameplay bad and then charge people good money for what eventually becomes a bricked game? That's real shady.

Of course, that makes me wonder: why can't the really bad games have it that you can only play it once and then it's no good afterward?

Doom and Wolfenstein 3D aren't exclusively SNES games...they were originally PC games.

In Europe, the SNES Smurfs game was released on the GBA as Revenge Of The Smurfs.

Need better clerks to check the buyers to see if they are old enough to buy the game. And better parents watching what their kids buy and play.

They're inside that mansion in the Vexx videogame.

I don't have a problem with people wanting to mod their consoles. I do have a problem with console developers wanting to make modding illegal, even with consoles that they're no longer making any money on.

And what's the problem with trying to lower the barrier of entry for gaming as a hobby? If you as a game console or software developer are going to get new people interested in buying videogames, you're going to have to think of what they may want to play and work your strategies around that while also trying to keep those who are already in the hobby happy. It's a difficult thing to do and you're more likely to anger both people who may end up feeling locked out of a hobby that they can't enjoy as well as people who will end up feeling bored with games that are no longer challenging to them.

It's not only done right, it also has two additional screens from the arcade original. Pretty good job, whoever programmed it.

At least the unit doesn't look as unwieldly as the Sega 32X mounted on a Genesis system.

It is artwork for the Fireworld comic book that came with the game.

Why is this even in the Nintendo Wii section, other than the fact that it's Nintendo and Zelda?

Brrrr...that picture of Miyamoto! Why not make him look even more scary with some dark lighting effects?

The Spy Vs. Spy videogame concept was interesting the first time I heard of it, but I haven't yet seen any actual gameplay footage to make a judgment call.

Yeah, in hindsight I would have preferred a scaled-down ADAM in both standalone and modular versions where the printer would be optional and not the thing that you would need in order to power up the system. If having a built-in word processor wasn't really something you wanted, then a scaled-down version makes a whole lot of sense. My opinion is that they should have had SmartBASIC be built into the system instead of having to load it from a data pack.

I would prefer the modular version since you can then take your ColecoVision anywhere and then hook it back up when you get home. At least in theory that's what I would see as a boon.

I like the game, I just prefer its Atari 2600 counterpart Astroblast, particularly with the paddle controls.