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Pat and Ian were late to the party. StopDrop&Retro is the best in terms of YouTube coverage, but to get the whole thing, you should read this thread from the beginning. It's not so big when compared to Chernow's Hamilton and it has more twists and jump scares than a Stephen King novel.

Kinda -- but cartridge-only people are missing out on the joys of firing up Big Screen Mode in Steam and seeing all the arcade-style marquees for everything in the library, and installing on demand. Thanks to my own obsessive problems, and many bundles and sales, I have over 1000 games in my Steam library.

An old friend who had a big appetite but not a lot of money used to say, "quantity IS quality." Graduate students and buffets are a match made in heaven. Someone from here posted a link to his Atari 8-Bit computer cartridge collection on eBay, and I was immediately envious and almost tempted to bid. It's over $300 now so I think I'll abstain ... but damn that stuff looked nice. HOT DAMN I'm a 21st century person, practical and anti-clutter, generally preferring modern technology to vintage charm, but there's something about a buttload of variety that is super compelling. Another friend who borrowed Oblivion from me some years back and 100%'ed it while I only dabbled in a few quests said he was like a dog with a bone, and I was like a kid with a bag of Skittles. Lots of little things are great! OH YEAH I remember trading away my N64 and a handful of games for 20+ Playstation launch-era games, only to buy a new N64 when Goldeneye launched. SO MANY And don't get me started on the jumbo multipacks that are the Flashback systems, all packaged to look like old games. OH MY GOD I stumbled across this lot when looking at the Atari 8-Bit computer cartridge collection. I think cartridges are inefficient and dumb, and I have most of the non-rare games in this lot, but JUST LOOK AT IT

This is happening! What a world!!

Short is fine, these aren't complicated games. If you want a whole dramatic presentation, you'll probably enjoy these. They were vinyl records for kids. Missile Command Asteroids Yars' Revenge Star Raiders Pac-Man

Somebody keeps buying enough of these for them to keep making more, so it's not just us. The TV consoles are limited to what's onboard. There is a small number of homebrew titles on the non-Activision Gold 8 box, with names like Avoid It, Chase It, and Shoot It. Yars' Return, Adventure 2, and a few other returning games can be considered homebrews, too. The video for the FB8 Gold seems to show the HDMI port on the side. Say it ain't so.

It's like there's a law that they must be hideously tacky. Yay for the 90s!

I'm okay with that, if they follow through with support. Seems equally possible they'll drop it and release something else called Namco Museum with a different set of games a few years later, as they've done on other platforms.

One SMALL PROBLEM -- very few people liked the Jaguar when it was new, and even fewer think fondly of it 20 years later. Maybe the people bringing back Rainbow Brite could be persuaded there's a market for a Jaguar Flashback, but I doubt a mainstream engineer would.

It's not difficult. http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/should-have-or-should-of

I don't know about "welfare kid of situation," but I've seen people who aren't really into games stating they intended to scalp this item in the comments section of media reports. It also takes buyers for scalping to be worthwhile. Who are the poor saps who are willing to pay double, triple, and quadruple for these "collectibles," and why do they feel the need to do this?

NES cartridges are needlessly large, too --mostly air inside!

Weird. Mine lives on a charger and I'm not sure if it's on or off. I guess I should watch for this. It's a nice handheld, but it's made me appreciate the hardware and software of the iPhone, Vita, and 3DS quite a lot.

Horde, or hoard? Both are possible/likely, I suppose.

Does your reproduction have a SuperFX chip in it? If so, that's somewhat impressive, right?

Wait, what? Where did you hear this? It makes no sense to me.

I have a GPD XD. I like the form factor better than the Nvidia Shield, and the controls are quieter. It's not quite as powerful as I would like, but it's totally fine for emulating old things. It's better than RetroPie in most respects, I think. I tried the Legacy custom firmware, and it was a minor disaster. Lag and skips everywhere, not optimized in any way. I have one of the original hardware run, so it's possible my CPU is slower than what this firmware was intended to run on, but yecccch. It was a total pain in the ass to flash it back because the Rockchip drivers don't play well with Windows 10. I ended up using a Windows 7 virtual machine on a Macintosh to flash it back to factory stock and then up to the latest GPD official firmware. I'm not going to try any other community "tweaks" on mine.

I also found this graphic on AtGames' page, and edited it slightly to help them better understand their target demographic.

Cool. I hope they're included, obviously. My old paddles are in unknown condition so it would be nice to have a fresh set. I'll try not to sweat the discrepancies in the messaging too much. I noticed that although Pitfall is featured on the promotional materials and mockup boxes for ALL of the 4 planned Atari-branded products, it's not on ANY of the software lists. Yikes.

Maybe we can find the elusive market for a new Jaguar ProController while at it!

It's so tiny. I wish they'd put these in smaller enclosures, since they obviously can.

USA page has been up since the announcement and saying "should of" makes you sound dumb. So keep an eye out. https://www.amazon.com/Super-NES-Classic/dp/B0721GGGS9/

I saw an advance screening of Despicable Me 3 tonight. The main villain, voiced by Trey Parker, is a former 1980s child star who never quite adjusted to the present day. His lair is a giant Rubik's Cube on the outside, and part of the inside looks like a chewing gum factory, and the other part looks like a classic arcade. He has an alliterative name (his initials are B.B.), a goofy haircut, awful taste in music, tons and tons of unsold old action figures, and at least one Coleco arcade game. He reminded me of someone I've learned about recently, but can't quite put my finger on ...

They're free, it's not like anyone loses anything by trying them out. They're a little shaky, there's room for improvement, but it's not ruining my childhood or anything.

The European one was shown to flip open to expose the wiimote ports. We don't know what the North American version's connectors look like yet. I'm like, meh, wires.