DJ Clae

I'm glad you like the game. I love Neo Geo. Thanks for watching, as always!

A "refresh" makes it sound so benign. Whenever I've tried to do a recap it was a very destructive process.

That's from 1987. This is 1991!

Ghost Pilots video.

Bloody Wolf.

The second one on the Neo Geo is great. But the Neo Geo ones are more arcade style. They don't have all the management options of the first game on NES.

Just get a Pseudo Saturn cart, and some Taiyo Yuden CDRs for the more expensive games you want to play. No modding necessary.

It's time for Leeeeeeaague Boooowling! That lady is tall.

Yet another demonstration of why measuring console power in bits was silly. Atari 2600 had an 8-bit CPU... so did the TG16. But the TG16 had a 16-bit graphics processor; how much did the CPU bus size matter, when the overall CPU speed is far more important? But when people spout the oft-cited comment that TG16 is 8-bits, I feel they are just taking the console down a peg. In the public psyche, 8-bit is associated with the NES and the third generation. It really isn't apt to call the TG16 8-bit in that sense, although it's technically true.

You can still sometimes snag some deals if you watch Facebook Marketplace. ...and you're willing to go meet some stranger in the suburbs.

Sorry. I guess I thought the game was okay when I was younger, but couldn't find enough to redeem it now, and thus came up with the thesis of my video. But please tell me why it's great. I do actually want to be enlightened on this, and I'm open to changing my mind.

Wow! Great find, Zap! The preview for "Mahjong Story" seems to add a little credibility to my theory that the "text adventure game" mentioned in the 1990 Electronic Gaming Monthly was just Mahjong Kyoretsuden.

Here's the Burning Fight video:

The belts don't wear out fast. I've had my replacement belt for 17 years.

The SNES one is worth $20. It's fun for what it is, especially with two players. Don't think of it as Sengoku; it's a new game based on Sengoku. The music just sucks though.

The Sengoku review is now available.

What for?

Use a cheapo new 3rd party controller from ebay to wire to jamma instead of destroying a real one.

The Coregrafx is just a redesign; not a separate console with its own games. Think Genesis 2. They should have made Bonk's Adventure the pack-in game the second it was released. Also, AV out compatibility out of the box would have been a good idea, not to mention a second controller port for the US redesign. NEC just dropped the ball from the beginning of the US launch and never picked it back up. So many great 3rd party titles were never available in the US. Games like Castlevania and Street Fighter 2 should have been on the shelves at Toys R Us, but by then it was already too late. They had a chance to be more like Sega with the Genesis, but never had the marketing or distribution they needed. I agree with homerhomer about it being the mysterious system growing up. Fortunately I grew up in a house with brothers all reading gaming mags and we thrived on this stuff. You could rent a TurboGrafx at our Hollywood video (if only they had some post-launch titles to try) and we eventually got our own. Soon we bought used Lynx, Jaguar, CD-I, 3DO, Neo Geo on the cheap. TurboGrafx is probably what got us into importing. @turboxray, I think NEC was just willing to accept any 3rd party games they could get, and they didn't want to push developers to make the games the most advanced. I've been playing Ninja Warriors, and it's a really by-the-numbers downgraded port. They certainly could have done better, but you had to take what you can get with early games on the system. NEC certainly did a much better job attracting developers than Sega did with the Mark III. I like your idea of including the Super Grafx in the CD hardware, but it should've been all CD hardware, not just the Duo. Perhaps that's just too early to expect that, but it would've been a simple upgrade, much like the extra hardware included in the Mega CD, but much cheaper and easier.

I fully reccomend Blinking Light Win. It makes the NES cart connector work much more like a Famicom, but probably more reliable.

Probably my custom Neo Geo MVS, because my wife and I put quite a bit of time and money into it. And grab Ghostlop, Neo Turfmasters, MOTW, Shock Troopers, SS2.

I've very much regretted selling any of the original stuff I chose to part with as a kid. You often hear collectors say it's their original copy they grew up with. Wish I hadn't sold the copy of Wonder Boy 3 my brothers and I grew up continually borrowing from the neighbors, until one day I finally bought it from them. But alas, I hastily sold my SMS collection as a kid one day. For a Jaguar of all things.

Or get Pseudo Saturn instead of modding. The Saturn version of SOTN is not a good port (resolution and slowdown) except that you can play as 3 characters from the outset.

I've watched the retroRGB video for the RAD2X and they seem like a decent solution. Getting an OSSC or Framemeister is still better though, and personally I'll be sticking with that.

I very much reccomend Blinking Light Win. That along with the expansion audio mod made the frontloading NES my favorite to own. I was kind of sad to give this one back to my brother after I installed it: