Rex Dart

While I deny the existence of any Pac-Man "canon", the Pac-Wiki seems to think this kid's a-ok.

I agree in principle, but I've had just as much trouble from "good" power supplies as el cheapo models. They've all gone downhill, along with hard drives.

The 8bits of Christmas is alright, too. Good artists like Yerzmyey, Goto80, Bit Shifter and Nullsleep involved here.

Oh man, if I'm not seeing gameplay by the one-minute mark, I'm turning your experiment in video editing off.

"FMV" didn't necessarily mean grainy digitized video. Sega CD had some neat animation abilities that could've done PSIV justice. Popful Mail used it to good effect:

Last time I built an entire computer was around 2002; some AMD Athlon-based rig with a piece of garbage videocard from Internet I-Shop (before they packed up and vanished). I'd tried building a simple Pentium-based machine before that, accidentally connected the PSU cable to the MB backwards (they weren't keyed back then), and fried it all. That pre-built was okay after I upgraded the video card, though. I held on to various parts through multiple upgrades, and eventually, I had a totally different PC than the one I'd originally purchased. After that, I just built 'em all. People like to talk about reliability of cherry-picked components, but it's always been a crap shoot for me. Seasonic, Seagate, Antec, Asus... everybody makes garbage now and then. My main benefit is knowing exactly what parts are in the machine & knowing exactly what they're capable of.

Yessir that's the correct way.

Kept all my boxes... until ~2004. Threw 'em out for no good reason. Added a region switch to my original Genesis... right on the front of the damn case. Also traded games in to Electronics Boutique.

It'd be much easier to list the systems I did see back in the day: Apple II Macintosh PC Clone Atari XEGS NES SNES Genesis/Megadrive Game Boy Game Gear Turbo Express Playstation/Saturn/N64 blah blah blah, by this point everything's pretty readily accessible A kid down the street had a VCS, but wouldn't dig it out for me to see because "it's crap".

All I know is that you don't want IA64 drivers unless you have an Itanium CPU (you would know if you did).

The kid got to play how many consoles in how many years? I'm jealous.

I think he didn't like 90s Sega. I thought they were great. Eighties Sega didn't have enough personality to set them apart from Namco and other arcade game makers. The 90s were the "play it loud" era (see Nintendo), and the Sega scream fit right in.

I don't mind the gamepad. It's nice being able to play a game without turning the TV on. Like the guy above said, my only dislike is the fear of damaging it. Sounds like I should finally get a Pro controller, though.

Some 27" Daewoo.

I think you may have selected a laptop HDD; it is a bit slow.

Played a bit on Wii-U and realized I'd rather just play the actual games. Maybe this is the sort of thing Nintendo should be producing for mobile devices, though.

You could do this, but ditch the RF Modulator and just connect the S-Video to the TV, either straight into an S-Vid jack (fairly rare), or through a $2 s-video to composite converter.

That actually doesn't look too bad. The video card's just a tad better than my GTX 650 Ti, so you should get just a bit better than what I'm getting on my old machine. However, I wouldn't expect 60 FPS on Crysis, Bioshock, Battlefield 4 at maxed settings. This video doesn't really show any gameplay performance, but you can see that performance hovers around 15-35 FPS.

4mb carts were like $20 I saw, am I wrong? Off-brand ones work fine.

The hell you talkin about?

Just use the VGA box you have, if the new TV accepts it. DC VGA looks great on my 1080p 42" set.

You think THAT'S cool, look what I got for 99c, still working in original packaging.

Zool was meant to be a Sonic clone for the Amiga originally, so...

I've felt guilty for being a Sega fan up until the Saturn's release, but I gotta blame Sega for that. Too few exclusives that were worth a damn early on, more primitive graphics compared to the PS1, a big, clunky looking console, and lousy controllers (in the USA) kept me away from it. I skipped the system until 2005 or so when my wife snagged a boxed system for $20 while traveling. Of course, I caught up on 20 years of missed gaming real quick at that point.

True, but it only had to support a TG16, not these "dream machines".