Gabriel

Most of the games are available in the NA store. Bubble Bobble and Final Fantasy are only available in the JP store, Excitebike, Kid Icarus, and Kirby's Adventure are not available in their original form, but are available as 3D classics. Dr. Mario and StarTropics are the only games which do not seem to be currently available as 3DS Virtual Console downloads.

Pretty solid game selection with some of the expected classics and predictable filler, but a surprising number of licensed titles. A couple of choices are odd, though. I'd think Dragon Warrior would be more iconic than Final Fantasy, but FF was probably chosen because it's seen as a more marketable name, and it gives Square/Enix another chance to whore out that title. I don't like the original NES Double Dragon, but it's odd to see them use the much less talked about second installment instead of the original which everyone remembers. SuperC is another odd one. Why not regular Contra which everyone remembers and loves? Castlevania II: Simon's Quest seems like a very odd choice. I have a feeling the only reason it is included is because of the infamy the game has due to AVGN. Notable by it's absence is Tetris. Personally, I think Lifeforce should replace Castlevania II, but whatever. Other than those nits, it's a very strong game line up for something like this. Most of your iconics are hit, and even the others are better than average filler.

Yeah, I'm pretty much done. Outside of the occasional homebrew/hack or accessory, I don't see myself hunting down much more. I long ago reached the limit of systems I could reasonably get anything out of. I regret not getting a Vectrex, Commodore 64, and Apple II, but there simply isn't time or space for those things now, not unless I want to get rid of things which I frankly have more of a connection to. Plus, I've reached a point where I'd rather shunt the money to other things and hobbies. My current hobbies can be expensive enough without adding more videogames to the hoard. Will I be able to resist some extremely rare and cheap goodie? It would depend on what it was. If we're talking about a pristine Vectrex for $70, then no, I wouldn't be able to resist. If we're talking about some random game which I have a cursory interest in, then I'd skip it. Back several years ago, I bought tons of games right at release, as well as picked up tons of old games. Now I hardly buy any games anymore. To tell the truth, I'm just about to the point where I'm about to downsize.

At the start of the round, draw two skinny vertical boxes. They don't have to be very tall. One has to be off center to the left, and the other has to be off center to the right. They should both be the same size and the same distance from the center, because you'll want both sparx to take the same amount of time to move around both. Stay on the inside (center) of one of the two towers you've created. When the sparx on that side is about to hit you, start drawing a line over to the other tower. You should barely miss running into the other sparx as it moves down to the edge. While the sparx are at the bottom of the box you've just drawn, move up to the top of the tower you're on and draw another box across to the top of t he other tower. When you're done, you should have two wide boxes bracketed on the left and right by skinny towers. If you've done this correctly, the two sparx will be trapped on the bottom box and out of your way. Move to the top of the screen. Draw a similar structure at the top of the screen. When the timer expires and the extra sparx spawn, they'll be trapped on the structure you draw. Once you've done this, you can play the level without having to worry about avoiding the sparx. However, if you die, the sparx will respawn elsewhere and won't be trapped anymore. Needless to say, you have to repeat the process every level as it doesn't carry over.

Yeah, that's only about the Art of Atari book, not a compilation of the comics. Not that the Art of Atari book is a bad thing. I've already got that on pre-order. But I would really like a nice hardcover of all the Atari Force comics like I have for the era of X-Men I like.

I missed this thread the first time around. I'd definitely like some omnibus style books of the old Atari comics. Volume 1 could be the big graphic novels like Star Raiders and Warlords combined into a single book. Maybe toss the comics from Yar's Revenge and Swordquest in this one too. Volume 2 could be the original Atari Force which shipped with the games back in the day. Volume 3 could be the monthly Atari Force series which DC did. This would be the one I'd most look forward to. Maybe it will happen someday.

I wouldn't, but I'm not really the intended market. I don't think it's insanity. I just think everyone has different interests and gauges of what things are worth to them. I mean, I have toy transformable space fighters/robots that cost about $300 a pop. And those aren't even the expensive things. For Earthbound, if I didn't have any other way to play it, I'd consider paying up to $150 for a cart, but I don't care about the box and extras. So $150 for that game is my ceiling.

You know, Sega makes a lot more sense when you come to the realization that the company taken as a whole was always incompetent and their past successes were wildly improbable flukes. I say this as someone who is still a Sega Genesis fan, but as the years go on it is clear that Sega actively hates its fanbase and intermittent success stories.

I have a Mega Everdrive Firmware version 4, OS version 5. The Bare Knuckle II rom I tested was labeled as a Japan and Europe version. On the Bare Knuckle II rom, hit C to bring up the Main Menu for the rom. Select Options. I got this rom to work by selecting Megakey Region as MULTI or JAP NTSC and turning the Megakey State option to ON. I played to level 2 and didn't notice any problems.

Looking at some of the games now, it's amazing what the hardware could do. It was easily better than the NES hardware. But the problem was that all that power was behind effectively nothing. Looking at the library there's not much of anything that stands out. Most of what was good on the SMS has superior versions on the Genesis, so there is little point bothering with it now. And there's not all that much for the system in the first place. It would be great to see a homebrew scene spring up around the SMS. One can only hope there is some alternate universe where the SMS was the dominant system of the late 80s and had all that support that went to the NES instead.

It was briefly that low on Amazon.

I haven't played anything on the 3DS in a long while. The only reason I'm posting is because I picked up Project X Zone 2 last week because it hit a $15 price point and figured why the heck not.

I've only backed two Kickstarters. Both of them were for Larry Elmore art books. I only did so because Larry Elmore has a good reputation in the industry and both products were collections of works which had already been done. There was one video game Kickstarter I was tempted to back. It was for a Wizardry/Etrian Odyssey style dungeon crawler game. The group seemed to have the basics of a game already ready to go. Ultimately, I didn't back it because I can't even get around to the games like that I already own. I don't think that one met funding. The other Kickstarters I've had interest in have all seemed flakey. Robotech RPG Tactics. Which involved a creator not exactly known for delivering promised products in the first place, and that's being charitable. Mekton Zero. Which involved another creator somewhat notorious for not being able to deliver on promised products for decades. Rifts Savage Worlds. I was interested in this UNTIL I saw the Kickstarter. This involves the same guy from the Robotech RPG Tactics debacle in some way. This one is a blatantly transparent money grab. Oh, and there was that not-Castlevania Kickstarter. I think that one is going to run WAY over the target date if it gets delivered. It seems a majority of Kickstarters related to the RPG hobby at least turn out to be extremely late if they ever get delivered at all. It's clear that a great number of them are incompetently managed. You can tell that the most thought process put into them is a desire for money. I've seen some exceptions. The Reaper Miniatures Kickstarters always seem to go well. I chalk it up to a simple thing. When a company makes a Kickstarter with a focus on delivering a product then it does well. If they make a Kickstarter whose focus is hitting the Kickstarter jackpot, then they get money but the actual results are miserable failure.

I'd say the 3DO is underrated. It had some truly great games: Need for Speed, Road Rash, Return Fire. Fighting game fans used to rave about it's ports of Super Street Fighter and Samurai Showdown. The problem was that due to the nature of the system, just about anything that really stood out got ported to the PS1 after a year or two. But it did have some fun and quirky titles like The Horde, Guardian War, and Shockwave Assault. It wasn't as bad as Plumbers Don't Wear Ties and Virtuoso would lead people to believe. The FZ-1 was also a very solid console. The one I bought many years ago is still owned by a close friend and it still works fine despite decades of abuse. I'll also chime in and say the Odyssey 2 is underrated. The games look so primitive, even compared to the 2600, that it's easy to judge it harshly. However, the best O2 games also use that to tap into a more primitive fun. Games like Out of This World and Smithereens are unbelievably simple, but also highly addictive and fun.

I have both a Super Everdrive with DSP-1 chip (I think that's what it's called), and a SD2SNES. For me, nearly all the games I want to play are playable on both, and the few games which don't work are unsupported by both. I suggest looking up some incompatibility lists and seeing if anything you like is supported by one but not the other. But my experience is that both have effectively the same compatibility. The SD2SNES is updated periodically, and I hope that someday it is updated with support for the chips for Starfox, Starfox 2, and Super Mario RPG, but it hasn't happened yet, and I'm not holding my breath. From a usability standpoint, SD2SNES has a prettier menu. Also, SD2SNES loads game roms MUCH quicker. So, I tend to use my SD2SNES much more than my Super Everdrive. Was it worth the extra money? That's a personal call. So, my personal experience is that both are about the same, it's just that the Super Everdrive takes about 10 seconds or so to load new games when selecting them from the menu. Edit: and to be clear, Merendino is probably right. It's just that I don't really run into the rare and expensive games he mentions.

Whatever happened to this one?

I think you should put this on ebay as "Third Party Coleco Chameleon Clone/Compatible System"

I looked up a video of gameplay and I couldn't even begin to figure out what was going on there. Regardless, it seems to have a lot of people excited. And I've noticed Kantai Collection art has taken a fairly similar trajectory to Vocaloid art, so it's clearly a phenomenon as a property. But the last time I had to wait in line for a game in the arcades was the early 90s. I remember huge crowds around the Mortal Kombat II and Killer Instinct machines. After that, there were probably times I had to wait for a guy at the machine to finish, but there was never a line. Mortal Kombat 3 was pretty much the last hurrah of excitement in arcades and the last time I even had to wait for my turn at a machine.