Gabriel

I don't know how I forgot to mention it and how no one else thought to mention it, but there is the little oddity of the Halcyon .https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halcyon_(console) http://www.videogameconsolelibrary.com/pg80-rdi.htm#page=reviews

I think nowadays I'd say my favorite type of action game is a death from above space shooter with fast paced levels and different level themes which cycle. Phoenix is an excellent example of what I'm talking about.

I bet that Coleco Chameleon weighs the same as a duck and also floats in water.

Well, they were certainly incompetent in wasting resources for major advertising campaigns to promote games with print runs so tiny that even the people who wanted to buy the games couldn't get hold of them.

About the best I can imagine them being back then is a laserdisc player with input ports for the game system, and acting as a pass through to the TV. I imagine it working something like a 32X. The laserdisc player sends video to the TV, the game system can provide some kind of overlay graphics, and the system can also act as sort of remote issuing commands for what track to play. That's what laserdisc games were back then. They were FMV games which skipped tracks every so often (Dragon's Lair) or FMV with computer graphics overlaid to provide the game (MACH 3). I simply can't see the laserdisc being a storage medium for the 7800 or Colecovision to use within their own capabilities. It's ludicrous overkill. I think there was a "prototype" of the Colecovision laserdisc, but knowing how Coleco did things it was probably just a painted block of wood. However, I do recall seeing some site that had a sort of schematic of how the Coleco laserdisc was supposed to work. Maybe if Warner had done a laserdisc player, leveraged their movie catalog, and then offerred product synergy with Atari, it could have worked. Imagine a Road Warrior laserdisc game in 1983. You could either use the disc to watch the movie, or use the Atari to play it like a game. But there clearly wasn't that kind of vision at the time.

How did I miss this thread back in the day? Back when this was new, I was at my most irrationally vitriolic. I could have ranted at great length about why I felt the Saturn and Dreamcast sucked.

Watched the (2 year old) trailer on YouTube. Looks a notch below the syndicated Action Pack TV shows from the early/mid 90s. (Think Hercules: The Legendary Journeys) Caper Van Dien certainly looks the space piratey part. The rest of the trailer is laser sound effects and explosions.

And, my SGM arrived today. Played some Buck Rogers Super Game on it.

Me too.

Had to use the 4-2 warp zone, because there was simply no way I was going to be able to get to 5-1 otherwise. I lost track of how many times I continued on 4-1 and 4-2. Then, when it looked like I had managed to get to the end of 4-2 without running across the top of the screen for the warp zone, I managed to fall into the pit at the end and died. At that point, I decided I didn't want to go through the same process again on 4-3 and get booted back to the beginning of 4-1 again, so running across the top of the screen and making a beeline for the warp zone it was.

Well, I always wanted to be exceptional at something. Playing Super Mario Bros via Super Mario All Stars on the SNES. I'm sure there are few on this planet who suck as badly as I do at this game. Died on the first Goombah. That was bad enough. Then died again on the first Goombah. Went through about 10-15 lives on the starting part of world 3-1 with the two bouncing turtle things. So, yeah. I'm even more horrible at this game than I used to be. I'm the Rocky of failure. I need a montage of me getting worse and worse playing. Go me.

Luckily, I don't need to redownload it right now. It does show up in my list of downloaded games. However, the iteration in my download list shows up without a picture, which is a trait many (but not all) delisted games share. Like you suggest, I thought the new listing was the game plus some previously DLC content or a special edition of the game. But that doesn't seem to be the case. My download list suddenly has several episodes of some TV show in it, and it's not anything I've even heard of before, much less chose to purchase and download. And I've checked my payment accounts, there were no unexplained purchases during that time. Plus, this may just be my misremembering, but I would have sworn I downloaded a couple of DOA5LR costumes which are no longer available to me in game and missing from my download list. But with all the DLC for that game and how confusing it's all set up, who can begin to keep track on that one.

I voted XEGS. I didn't even know it existed until the 00s.

The only time anything like that has happened to me after playing a videogame was the classic Tetris effect. I had been playing a lot of tetris and I started seeing everything in the world as shapes which needed to be put together with no open spaces. And even then, that only happened after I was in my 40s. Kosmic Stardust's posted video doesn't do anything when I look away, but the one that Jin posted makes reality look like a liquid surface when I look away from it.

Yep. In the early 80s they had a pretty decent electronics section. I remember when my mom bought a Coleco ADAM from Montgomery Ward, a few months later we were in J.C. Penny and I was looking at the Colecovision games. I think they removed the whole electronics department before Christmas that year. It must have been 84.

I guess no one else has noticed this. I've noticed it with a few other items I've purchased, although the others don't show up as brand new releases in the shop. The items are still on my master download history, but don't show as purchased in the store as they should. Just odd.

The Mega Everdrive X7 runs SegaCD ISOs? I'm not seeing anything like that on the feature list. I'm just seeing that it can be used to run the system as if different SegaCD bios are being used. And it can be used as a Backup RAM cart. Please clarify, because if this new model can run ISOs, then it's definitely time for me to upgrade my old Mega Everdrive Deluxe cart.

I ordered from them over a decade ago. I forget what I ordered. I had somewhat mixed results from them. I avoided ordering from them again. I don't remember what issue I had. Sorry.

Looks like several other people have the same memory issue I do. I can remember the games that my mom got for me along with the system. There was the standard pack in of Combat. She also got me Laser Blast and Missile Command. The first game I got after that? I can't recall for sure. I'm tempted to say Adventure. I have a recollection of getting it from Woolco while they were still open, and they weren't open for very long after I got my system. But I also remember wanting Adventure for a long time. I think there were at least a couple of other games before I got that one. Maybe Space Invaders? That's a fair bet. It was one my mom wanted to see. I'm pretty sure my mom bought it from Service Merchandise on the mall one day while I was with her. But my recollection of purchasing that game also places it as later. Part of me thinks it was Star Wars: Jedi Arena. I know I got it for Christmas one year. And the Christmas in question had to have been 81 or 82. I lean towards 81, because I know I didn't have many games yet, and that was the reason why I kept trying to play that hunk of crap. However, Wikipedia says the game wasn't released until 1983. That can't be right. So, I don't know what game I got after my first included batch. On the other hand, I do have a very clear memory that the very first game I purchased with my own money was Night Driver. That was my object lesson that just because it was a video game didn't mean it was good.

I loved The Silver Star. I haven't ever replayed it, but I did feel it was one of the best RPGs of the 16 bit era. I think I'd rate Silver Star after Final Fantasy III and Shining Force but above Phantasy Star IV in terms of how enjoyable I found it back in the day. Now, that said, I didn't like Eternal Blue. I found it a huge let down. I also didn't like the modifications Working Designs made to the game engine, like paying experience points for saves and cranking the difficulty up to nearly unreasonable levels. On the other hand, my partner greatly enjoyed the game. I have to admit the story was interesting, it was just that the game engine made me not care. My partner was able to persevere and it became one of his favorite games of all time. Eternal Blue is also available on the PS1. My partner thinks the PS1 version is better than the SegaCD version. He also thinks the PS1 version of The Silver Star is better, and this is another area where we disagree. I prefer the random combat and the rawer feeling of the original. But yeah, find some youtube videos without commentary or turn the volume off. But definitely get Dark Wizard, it's a truly great game with lots of play and replay value.

They can pry my flash carts from my cold dead hands First they came for the pirates, and I said nothing. Then they came for the homebrewers, and I still said nothing. Then they came for me and there was no one left to say anything.

So, has it been hacked yet to run other games?

The frenzy over this plug n play boggles my mind. I mean, it seems to be a good plug n play, but damn have people gone insane over it.