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    I basically love all the multiple compilations that have the classic Williams games on them. But there is a special one in that regard.

     

    The one I played the absolute most was Arcade's Greatest Hits the Williams Collection for the PS1. I bought it for Defender, Stargate, and Joust. It reintroduced me to and sparked a love affair with Robotron. It was cool to play Sinistar again after all the intervening years. And even though Bubbles is far from my favorite game, it's fun to play that one from time to time too.

     

    AFAIK, that one was also the only one with those games where you could change the text on the demo screens and really get nitty gritty playing around with the dip switches. I put all kinds of goofy stuff on the demo screens of mine.

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    I didn't like Panzer Dragoon Orta at all the first time I played it. Then I picked it up again a few years later, and while I didn't think it was that great of a game, I did have some fun with it unlike the first time around.

     

    I hated NES Double Dragon back in the day, but nowadays I've made my peace with it, mostly by accepting the fact that it isn't related to the arcade game at all. As a port of the arcade game, it's awful in every respect. As a standalone game, it's playable and slightly entertaining.

     

    I can't think of any others right now, but I'm sure there are a couple more.

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    Alisia Dragoon is a favorite of mine. It was one of the first games recommended to me back when I first started collecting for Genesis and it is a great game. Kind of hard though. At least for me. I suck at platformers, heh.

     

    Alisia Dragoon is one of the earliest games I got for my Genesis, and I was in love with it for a fairly decent amount of time. I sold the game because I wasn't good enough to progress any further than where I was stuck at, and regretted that decision almost immediately. It's one of the few games I've ever gotten rid of and then hunted down a replacement copy.

     

     

    Does Lightening Force count as hidden? Great shoot 'em up, killer soundtrack. Gorgeous too.

     

    I don't think we hear about it as much as we should. IMO, Lightening Force is the absolute pinnacle of SHMUPS during the 16 bit era.

     

    Star Control

     

    Star Control was one of the games I purchased along with my Genesis (along with Golden Axe and Sonic 1). It was a very necessary bridge for me from the early 80s era to the early 90s era. I remember being in absolute AWE of the opening music and the ship description screens.

     

    I played that game incessantly. Before we got into Mortal Kombat, we'd play melee in Star Control as well as the cool wargame with the rotating starfield. Plus, I had a game genie and I was always tinkering around trying to figure out insane codes to tweak the game.

     

    I still have my original cart. It's the only one of those original three games where I still have the cart I started with. I think I even have the instruction book with the Erol Otus artwork (of D&D fame).

     

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    The game I'll add to the list is Romance of the Three Kingdoms II. It was one of the early Genesis games I got. I remember I bought it from Toys R Us. It was their last copy. I got the box they had hacked up in order to make the display flap on the wall. I got it because I really liked Nobunaga's Ambition on the NES. RotK2 was soooo much better. I fell in love with it. To this day, I think it's the best strategy game that Koei ever made.

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    I'm still confused about why my entire offline life I have always heard people pronounce the NES as N.E.S. and the SNES as Super N.E.S. but constantly hear them both pronounced as words on YouTube like Nes and Snes. I assume that maybe it is a geographical thing and that was how it was said in other states back in the day.

     

    I don't think so. I think it started as a gamer hipster thing. If it didn't start with the gaming boom on YouTube, it started at almost the same time.

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    This past weekend I was really craving a certain kind of flavor of death from above game. I wanted something with fast playing levels, fairly rapid (but not machinegun) fire, and a strong early 80s feel. I went through lots of stuff in my collection, and nothing quite scratched my itch.

     

    Then I was messing around with my 5200 and popped in Millipede on a whim. After playing it for a few minutes, I realized it was exactly what I had been looking for all weekend. It was delivering constant action with levels that were distinct, but which had such quick spaces between them that there was no real downtime. Plus it had a strong feel good component with the constant sounds and the fanfare of regularly acquired bonus men.

     

    I don't know why I had forgotten the game and didn't seek it out earlier. It was like I forgot I even owned it.

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    Just looked and they're at 7k Will this go over 9000!?

     

    I find it excessive to be honest. But whatever. Still People do much worse with their Money. The Problem is, once he gets to 10k he'll Keep doing tons of Reviews, and that means lower Quality to each one... a pitty.

     

    Yeah. I'm even more torn now. On the one hand, I wouldn't mind supporting CGR. On the other hand, the higher goals seem at odds with the kind of CGR I'd want to support.

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    I'll have to think about this. I feel that CGR is, by far, the best gaming channel on YouTube. However, I also feel the quality has dipped quite a bit in the past couple of years.

     

    If it meant more videos like the phenomenal AT-AT review, or a return to the 20 minute features of Mark geeking out and being in love with shmups, I'd definitely pay for a subscription.

     

    He needs to also tone down some of his stock routines. Stuff like the love of flamethrowers never really gets old and isn't overused, but the whole prequel and Jar Jar hate is really old and tired.

     

    To me, CGR is about a love of all things geeky. It's about fun. It's also about providing information, and it's ironic that a show done mostly for laughs is so much more informative than genuine reviews of the same things. If CGR could return to that, instead of a frantic dash to produce six five minute videos a week, then that would be worth it.

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    Gaming Hell

     

    You wake up on Christmas Day. You rush to open your presents. Your present is your favorite, greatest console EVER! You also got the games for it you wanted more than anything else! You hook it all up so you can play, and the system doesn't work.

     

    Since it's Christmas Day, there's no option to return it that day. You can't play the games you so dearly want to play. You keep trying to get the system to work during the day, hoping against hope that something will be different this time, but you always get the same dead screen.

     

    The day passes painfully as you wait for tomorrow and the chance to trade in the system for a working one. You go to bed, and restlessly toss and turn because TOMORROW you will finally be able to enjoy those games.

     

    You wake up on Christmas Day. You rush to open your presents. Your present is your favorite, greatest console EVER! You also got the games for it you wanted more than anything else! You hook it all up so you can play, and the system doesn't work.

     

    Since it's Christmas Day, there's no option to return it that day. You can't play the games you so dearly want to play. You keep trying to get the system to work during the day, hoping against hope that something will be different this time, but you always get the same dead screen.

     

    The day passes painfully as you wait for tomorrow and the chance to trade in the system for a working one. You go to bed, and restlessly toss and turn because TOMORROW you will finally be able to enjoy those games.

     

    You wake up on Christmas Day. You rush to open your presents. Your present is your favorite, greatest console EVER! You also got the games for it you wanted more than anything else! You hook it all up so you can play, and the system doesn't work.

     

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  18. Posted

    None of my BluRays have ever required me to have a network connection on my PS3 in order to play. I typically watch movies with the network turned off. They also have never asked me to update firmware, although I do keep up to date on normal PS3 firmware updates.

     

    The only irritating thing is that the PS3 will always ask if I want to enable online content and I have to select "No." If I ever accidentally click "Yes" I have to go into system settings to change it back to asking me instead of defaulting to yes. There is no option to default to no.

     

    I have well over 100 movies on BluRay and several series sets in the format varying from older releases to things as recent as Mad Max Fury Road and Avengers Age of Ultron. I have never seen anything about a validation certificate.

     

     

     

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