Curious Sofa

Email sent. Cool looking game.

I have a 13" model and it is a nice little novelty, I've had it since new. Think I paid $175 or something for it back in the day, last one they had at Best Buy. The picture quality is good; it's got a silly "GX Mode" thing that changed the colors or brightness, I've never really understood what its benefits are. But simply, 13" screen is too small. I enjoy playing 2600 games on it, but I remember them advertising it for the Saturn and PSX, and it's just too small for those IMO. The sounds is awesome and the swivel is nice, I just wish they've have made a 27" version. I believe there was a 19" version? Or maybe it was planned and scrapped. Mostly I run a composite modded Vader into it and it's good for that, crisp picture and sound, and looks cool when I shut the "doors" on it at night. I remember at EB Games we had one that had a speaker wire go bad on due to too many people fidgeting with the opening and closing of the doors, so be wary of that possibility I guess.

I don't like the votes for Wipeout on Saturn, I still have and enjoy that more than the original Wipeout on PSX personally. By no means a worst of all time. I also very much disagree with the repeated votes for Panic! on Sega CD. It has been ages, and the game was really deeply insane...but I enjoyed its maniacal nonsense. It wasn't by any means poorly put together. Unlike...soooo many PS1 games that I can't even think of. Some of which had promising intros and then...plurgh. I vaguely recall a Batman ... racing game? That looked sooo sweet, and played soooo bad. And I also kind of like Laser Blast for 2600. It ain't no Frostbite or Pressure Cooker, that's for sure. But it's not a complete turd. My biggest disappointment, though it can't really be called a worst of all time for many reasons, was Lord of the Rings: Conquest. Supposedly by the same developed that made Star Wars Battlefront I and II. But the developed had been absorbed by EA inbetwixt the games and well...Conquest is buggy, horribly conceived, no fun at all, stupid, and just simply stupefying in that they somehow screwed up such an easy win. They could have nearly just reskinned and high-deffed up SW Battlefront II and been good. But they completely and utterly blew it.

I'm intrigued, still considering. I'd love a nice, easy 5200 emulator... Also, couple of the games on there I've got on XBLA, highly recommended: Square Off and Get to Tha Choppa. Both fairly awesome.

Some nice boxed games there. But the starting bid amount (much less the Buy It Now) is completely outrageous. Not being mean, just reasonable. Try a lower amount if you actually want to sell this stuff.

Hard to pick just one. And no fair, youse guys picking fifteen "runners up". Seaquest. Still get a huge thrill out of it every time. Okay, I'm a hypocrite. Close runners up would definitely be Demon Attack, Pressure Cooker, River Raid, Enduro, Space Invaders, Subterranea, and Midnight Magic.

So back to the main topic, of the PS4 kicking the XBone in the face... I'm coming from the perspective of a person who has a 360 but no plans to buy any of the next generation at present. The PS4 has successfully walked through the huge door M$ has opened, by not making the mistakes of canceling used game playing ability, not implementing Big Brother cameras... But I am still wondering...does it actually do something that anyone, anywhere was asking for that the PS3 didn't do? And this whole used game fiasco is riotously ironic. Was it not Sony who were putting rootkits on computers via music CDs for awhile, trying to find ways to shut down the used game market, at the forefront of the "don't copy our movies or we will destroy you" movement? All I'm saying there is...that "plays used games, no restrictions!" just sounds strange coming from them. And is the PS4 in any way backward compatible?

I gotta go with Daytona here, play them one after another. The 32X version looks cool compared to...well I don't know. On it's own. But after you see the Saturn version, the 32X version looks craptacular. And that said, I own it and still play it sometimes. And never had any bugs of note in the Saturn version. I had this training pack back in the day, watched the tape. Pretty laughably useless, but a funny little promo. I wore the shirt completely out in fact. What size is the t-shirt?

Just stumbled into this game, just incredible. Partially just seeing the evolution after playing the original bin followed by the current, just fantastic work SW!!! I can't wait for this to come out on cart. Just makes me love the whole Atari scene, to see things like this and Frantic. Amazing.

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Should have known. Thanks for the info though. (takes a leak on an XbOne prototype)

Silly question, but I'm wondering. As the XbOne is coming, I might snap up a Slim just in case my refurb'd white 360 dies. Hoping I will be able to just pop my 80gig HD onto a new slim...yes? Any help appreciated!

I am very honestly not excited nor interested in the Wii U, the PS4, or the Xbox One. And I'm not so retro that you would expect that from me, I really enjoy my 360 and my Wii (never quite bit on the PS3 as of yet). The reason I mention this is that for my (non-participatory part for the forseeable future) part, the Xbox One isn't necessarily worse than the other garbage consoles being offered; the Kinect Big Brother things is outright funny but not that big of a deal to me (get yourself a blu-ray player or up-converting DVD player and don't worry about this nonsense). My issue is that for all of these consoles, XbOne included, there are eventually going to be games that I sorely want to play. Even though the systems themselves are garbage, are terrible ideas that nobody for any real reason wants... they're not really improvements over the Wii, the PS3, the 360. At all, for me. And yet if we want to play whatever comes down the pike, we will have to get one of these unnecessary systems that no customer anywhere ever was asking for. Okay, and to keep to the XbOne... this is easily the ugliest, laziest, stupidest looking "console" (if it can be called that) I have ever seen, above and beyond the lack of aesthetic design of even the worst looking game consoles of the past. Well, okay, the original NES I still think looks awful as do its controllers. But this one is just stupefyingly ugly. And also, as has been discussed, calling it the XbOne is insulting, confusing, and horrible. So now we have to say "Original Xbox", "360", and "XboxOne". I hate it passionately. Screw alla this. Maybe have to get myself a Ouya or something.

Glad I snapped up a copy of Phantasy Star Online Eps 1 and 2 when I did, yikes! I didn't even know about the "Plus" version fixing bugs & adding adventures, but that's okay, I've never hit a bug or run out of fun with it. Even having had the DC version. Just love that the GC version is true widescreen and 480p. Plus I love the GC controller, esp the wireless Wavebird.

Awesome list and video! I thought I kind of knew most of the great Wii games, but you sold me on a couple I wasn't all that familiar with. I like how detailed you were with why Red Steel 2 is worth a look. I also liked what I saw in your stack for the next episodes, particularly Geometry Wars: Galaxies. It is my favorite Geometry Wars game when played with the Classic Controller twinstick style. My favorite Wii Game is actually the Gunblade NY / L.A. Machine Guns combo game. I loved those games dearly in the arcades, and the Wii gets a great version. As you loved Ghost Squad, you may like this one too. Though the humor isn't there and the gameplay different, it's another great lightgun shooter from Sega. My other favorite that is unlikely a "hidden" gem would be Rayman Raving Rabbids, for the fun plunger-shooting action and humor.

Do check out TradenGames, I have bought from them many times, their website is awesome. And they often have much better prices on their stuff than you will find on Ebay. Big thumbs up.

What is the easiest way to play import Saturn games at this point? Action Replay, get a mod, get a foreign console? Intrigued by this, any help appreciated in advance.

Whole damned thing is killing me. I kind of want the Blackest Night DLC, Very much want the Red Son DLC (didn't know about the preorder exclusive thing or I would have GameStop pre-ordered), kind of like the Steelbook that comes with the Euro versions of the game, and _kind of_ want the joystick that comes with the Gamestop Battle edition. $150 plus shipping and tax for the stick version from Gamestop (with no DLC), $95 for the Euro Red Son steelbook edition off Ebay, could pay extra for the Blackest Night DLC off ebay scamming resellers....and/or could be patient and wait to get a used copy of the game on the cheap, and hope they release Red Son and Blackest Knight as pay to download sometime soon after. Grr. Probably shoulda just kept my pre-order for $10 credit back from Amazon. Course I still wouldn't have it by now and would be peeved. How is the Red Son pack, costumes, missions? Any good?

I would just like to say that Amazon sucks wind for pre-ordering games. They hadn't shipped mine out yet, so I canceled the damned thing tonight. I'll just lose my $10 credit and get it faster either via ebay or I'll just go to a local store. Ridiculous. Thinking about getting a UK version with a "Red Son Steelbook", just because it's cool. Unfortunately, resellers are asking $100 for those. Grr. Also, the UK Collector's edition statue is more to my liking than the US one (which features Batman being strangled by Wonder Woman's lasso and about to get a severe beatdown by her; the UK one has them facing each other and both on about equal ground), but I'm not shelling out $170 for a statue and some cards and skins. So...hoping to be able to play this mofo soon. And to reiterate...I am more than displeased with how much Amazon sucks with regard to pre-orders. They hosed me the one other time I pre-ordered a game, it showed up a good 10 days after release day. And somehow I thought this time would be better. Duh.

Unsure if this is the right place to post this but thinking so... Just farting around on Ebay came across these stupefyingly overpriced auctions, Genesis TMNT: Hyperstone for $1300 and Ghouls n Ghosts for $900: eBay Auction -- Item Number: 221210626553 eBay Auction -- Item Number: 321102674622 There should be some kind of unwritten law that forbids such price jacking, and causes the perpetrators to be forced into hours of unpleasantry of various sorts for each of their trespasses. I am remotely, but only remotely tempted to send a "Question" asking if the TMNT auction includes $1250 in cold, hard, cash.

The condition of that stuff is unbelievably good. I would make sure to spend extra to include as many photos as you can in the listing with the minty fresh condition of the system. Wow.

I would also just like to say that whether they failed in the market (and what numbers you're using to determine this), the Sega Genesis / CD / 32x had _the single greatest video game controller of all time_ in the 6-button pad, and the 2nd generation pad was in the running too (despite being flimsier in general construct). It is for this reason that I will nearly always pick a Genesis / CD / 32X multiplatform game over the SNES version. This is going off from the main point too, but I'm just going to say that while the Saturn failed, I always thought it shouldn't have. It was made to do really awesome 2d games with some 3d capability, and the Playstation was the opposite. And at the time it seemed like Sony sure had the right idea and Sega the wrong. But now...when you try to play a 32-bit 3d game it's...so horribly ugly. Unless we're talking about Tekken 3, which was of course a very late 32-bit release. 2d gaming should have stayed stronger than it did. So the Playstation was great for a lot of reasons, but the Saturn was too, it just wasn't in tune with the zeitgeist of polygon gaming. It reaally wasn't until the Dreamcast / Ps2 / Xbox / Gamecube that 3d was ready, if you ask me.

Glad to hear I'm not the only one stoked for this! I also hope it's not as easy as the demo; I actually don't have a Gold / Live account so I just play versus CPU. My skillz, in terms of how people online compete, are close to non-existent. Also interesting to hear it is a different fighting engine; I only tinkered a bit with the demo and it felt similar to MK9. That ToysRUs deal sounds like the best I've heard. I got it from Amazon for $60 but with a $10 Amazon credit, not as good a deal but not bad.