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I can't find anything on the web about this, but I noticed a little weirdness in relation to this game within the past couple of weeks. On the store, Eiyuu Senki: The World Conquest has been showing as "New"(recently released). On my store it shows as unpurchased. The date the store shows the game as first listed is also this year instead of last year. However, I purchased this game when it was released to the NA store back in 2015. Checking my download history, I see the game is still there, but oddly, it no longer shows a picture like other games. Does anyone know if something squirrelly happened to this game? Like it was delisted for a while and then relisted?

So, a Genesis clone like have been on the market for years now, just in a casing like the original Genesis and with an SD card? It shows how much the US videogame industry has fallen in my perception that news like that is vastly more interesting than anything I've heard about the current crop of mainstream consoles.

I don't know when the term "toaster" for the front loading NES first appeared in common usage, but it was always clearly referring to that model. The top loader was always referred to as "top loader". It was already in common use by the time I first started reading about video game stuff on the intarwebz. So, it came into usage sometime between 1994 and 1999. I doubt it came from the video game magazines of the era. The announcement of the top loader was barely a footnote, and the magazines really didn't care anything about the NES hardware in those years. I know when I played Ultima Quest of the Avatar with my best friend in 1990 we called the front loader a toaster. It was because we put the game in like a piece of toast and because the system would get hot and overheat. We also called it the "EZ bake oven". the other common thing we called it was the "Blinking Piece of Shit".

Ninja Assault? I thought Time Crisis 2 had a split screen mode or something. Sorry, it's apparently been far too long since I played any of my light gun games in two player mode.

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Jin pretty much summarized it. I voted PS2, because you can play most of those PS1 games Jin just listed and then Time Crisis 2, Time Crisis 3, Crisis Zone, and Ninja Assault, as well as a few others.

No deals to announce. Just wanted to say I was bummed there wasn't a Halloween flash sale. I was sort of hoping the PSP Ghosts and Goblins game would go on sale. Oh well.

Got mine today (regular edition). I've been going through it. Looks like I'll be chewing through this one for a while.

OK, what is this? ::watches video:: I'm not impressed. That's a few minutes of my life which would have been better spent watching angry cat videos.

The Horde is worth a look. Guardian War is neat. Shockwave Assault and it's sequel (which I forget the name of) are dated but still OK. I always heard that Starfighter was good, but I never played it. I used to miss playing Space Hulk: Vengeance of the Blood Angels, but it's truly an acquired taste. The person I gave my 3DO to still plays Slayer on it from time to time.

I see a new CGR review is up. It's a 4 minute long review of a York Peppermint Patty. CGR has done reviews of completely random stuff like this before, It's just that I feel some kind of line has been crossed. The level of churn material like this has completely overwhelmed and utterly routed everything else. I even went against my better judgement and watched it hoping it might be a misleading title. Nope. It's a review of a York Peppermint Patty. I'm out. I unsubbed. I mourn the loss of the CGR I enjoyed. I console myself that at least Mark doesn't seem to be on a TheSpoonyOne trajectory.

Yeah. I'm thinking of unsubbing too. The first video I've watched in a while was the Robotech unboxing, which I thought might be funny to watch him take it out of the box and have it fall apart. (The Toynami 1/100 Robotech figures are notoriously horrible quality). When he just took it out of the shipping box and then set the product box on a high shelf, I sort of sighed and clicked out.

Yeah. Grab these too. They're great. Plus, if you want something ambitious but deeply flawed try Soulstar.

Except for Robo Aleste, you already have the best of the best.

I've been a fan of the Project Diva games for a while. That said, I intentionally avoided Project Diva X. For one thing, I didn't want to play it on the Vita, and I knew it wouldn't be terribly compatible with the PSTV due to the star notes. But the main reason is that it had the stench of Sega failure about it. Sega had done too well with the Project Diva series. It was time for them to show their true colors and mess it up, because Sega must always discard any of their successes and embrace their true incompetence.

Well, generally speaking, I don't think the ones which are so reliant on online play or DLC for basic functionality are worthwhile in the first place. Very little of what I see promoted nowadays has any longevity. They're the modern equivalent of the endless sports titles on the Genesis or the me too mascot titles. They're all marketing and nothing beyond that. Admittedly, I'm not the audience. I don't care about any of these games now. But I really don't see most of these modern games holding anyone's attention for long enough to be relevant a year from now, much less 10 years. I really think we've reached the point of video games as a toilet tissue style consumable product. I don't see people having nostalgia for this stuff years from now. I don't have nostalgia for the last roll I wiped with, why should anyone else?

I don't know of anything worth playing in the PS4, Xbone, WiiU generation now.* Why would I care 10 years from now? * Slight exaggeration, but only slight.

The DS library got good the moment everyone abandoned the stupid touchscreen gimmick and went back to making games instead of touchscreen tech demos.

I've never liked rumble. Worthless feature.

I was playing some Shining Force CD tonight. The mage Wendy got put to sleep, and was taking a snooze. Of course, a monster decides to take advantage of the situation and attack her. Even though she was still asleep, she blocked the attack. Then, she counterattacked, without ever waking up. Maybe you just had to be there, but I thought it was funny.

Hmmm. I don't know. Sounds neat. Sounds like the Adventure elements are minimal and this is two player simultaneous Cloudy Mountain for the 7800, which definitely piques my interest. The mazes would have to be primarily horizontal, particularly if the demons are as caffenated as the INTY version. From the screenshot, the player wouldn't have much vertical reaction time. But I've wanted co-op Cloudy Mountain for a long time.

Years ago some gaming personality on YouTube or something decided Karnov was universally reviled and fandom went along with it. Like you, I remember it being moderately popular back in the day.

Right now, I can't think of any game I played and greatly enjoyed in my childhood which I now feel is genuinely bad. There are some I feel are outdated and obsolete, but that's not the same thing. However, I do understand the sentiment. The two games I can think of which taught me that not all video games were great were Star Wars: Jedi Arena and Night Driver. Jedi Arena... well it had Star Wars on the box. How could it be bad? I tried and tried to enjoy it all during my Christmas vacation where I received it. By the end, I was forced to admit to myself that it just wasn't an entertaining game. While I think Jedi Arena was my first step into a much larger world, Night Driver was the one that really drove it home for me. Night Driver was the first game I bought with my own money. I selected it because it was the cheapest game available ($24.95 before sales tax), and I wanted a video game. All video games are great, right? Well, the truth was that I was crushingly disappointed with Night Driver. It was just dull and was already obsolete by the time I bought it in 1982.