DJ Clae

Neo Geo. Sometimes I wish someone would do a high-end system like that. Not sure what that would look like now -- probably similar specs to a top-of-the-line gaming PC. The world doesn't need it.

You should acquire them organically, one by one. Maybe actually take the time to play them?

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This topic makes me cry just to think about it. For a while it looked like we'd see a long lost 7800 proto, and now I've lost all hope. If anyone knows anything that can be done, please help!

That cable is very helpful. Thanks for posting that!

King of the Monsters is up. Sorry if it wasn't worth the wait. https://youtu.be/PG2YPaDPmu8

It's weird to praise Mega Man 2. I spent so much of my childhood playing it it's impossible to see it objectively in relation to the other games anymore.

The FDS can use batteries. You can't use an FDSStick with the Twin Famicom. I also couldn't bare to RGB mod my Twin Famicom.

If 5200 is a separate generation, I guess we have to make a separate generation for the Jaguar, 3DO and 32X, right?

R-Type is excellent on SMS, although there's always the TG16 version... Both Power Strikes are great, but the first one has a more classic feel. You will understand it better if you play the MSX version, which has a nearly identical FM soundtrack. That version is so easy that I 1 CC'ed it the first time I played it.

Sorry I forgot to revisit after posting. 4 is a perfectly fine game, and I respect the idea of it being someone's personal favorite. Most of my nitpicking is from struggling initially as a kid, needing to use extra energy tanks to get through some of the levels and defeat some of the 8 robot bosses. The last section of Dust Man's stage particularly always had me pulling my hair out. Due to a perceived sense of higher danger, I have a general sense of unease during a lot of the initial eight stages of 4 that I don't feel while playing 5. I suppose you could consider that a good thing.

I'm not going to pretend that 5 is better than the first three, but everyone is going to vote for 2, so I voted for 5 to even things out. I love and revisit all 6 of the NES originals frequently, but I find I enjoy the back 3 (4-6) more as an adult simply because I played 1-3 to death as a kid. 4 can be a bit on the frustrating side at times, and 6 is just the final one, so 5 gets my vote just for being the most commonly overlooked, and therefore always surprisingly great to play. All 6 are equally worthy games.

All great games mentioned here, but if there's only one game, it has to be Wonder Boy 3. In terms of the quality and how classic it is, it's the one game that reaches Mega Man and Castlevania levels on the Master System. I was and still am blown away by it.

The 8-bit and 16-bit generations are the ones my brothers and I all hold close to our hearts, since growing up with them. The fifth generation is when the scene started to feel like it was slowly sliding away from us, and it was all downhill from there. The three of us all still buy the current gen consoles when they're released.

Can the gun position be streamed into the system? I thought it was only able to do a momentary snapshot.

Buy an old stereo receiver and big old speakers. Since everyone upgraded their AV receivers to HDMi ones, good quality non-HDMI receivers for analog audio can be had super cheap on ebay.

I remember seeing 2600 and 7800 games for sale in a dollar store (the ones they used to have in malls liquidating unsold products) in the early 1990s. I don't think it means sales were boosted in the US.

Nope. I don't like the look of fake scanlines. Prefer sharp pixels. It has to be upscaled for that screen one way or another. Either you can use a high quality upscaler or let your TV do a crappy job.

As long as they continue to release hardware that isn't as beefy as the competition, and software that is strictly family-friendly, that probably won't change.

Bloodstained, Mighty No. 9, Blazing Chrome. I guess it's impossible to copyright anything about a game other than its title and characters.

When my brothers and I were kids we were really isolated as gamers. We lived in a small town where we had a small handful of friends who also played games, but none of them had the more fringe stuff we had like the TurboGrafx and a used 3DO. Our parents took us to the big city and we would go game shopping. On those trips they would take us clothes shopping, and we would still be talking about games. I guess we just assumed other people in the department store, for example, were stupid because they didn't care about the Turbo CD, etc. Now thanks to the Internet you can connect with people into the same stuff no matter where you live, so it feels much less isolated. That's the real difference. I still find it awkward on the rare occasion of going to events interacting with other gamers. It's just not something that was available to me as a kid, so I'm not used to meeting people who have different opinions about games than I do. I'm rather happy just having my basement of games with the occasional visitor.

Except that most modern TV's won't handle the 240p signal correctly, instead usually treating it as 480i and then deinterlacing it. Not to mention the source signal (composite) is blurry, noisy and washed out to begin with. That's why you need an external upscaler to convert the 240p signal to HDMI.

I compare it to setting up a new TV for the first time -- you have to know how to cut through the bullshit. Turn down the sharpness, turn off all of the digital "enhancements" meant to make the picture artificially more appealing in the store. Underneath all that fluff the savvy buyer is getting good tech for their money. The same is true when new tech is being advertised. Xbox One X is an extremely compelling package in terms of the raw GPU power on paper. You get significant graphic improvements (resolution, framerate and detail level), which varies by game, compared with the underwhelming base Xbox One. Not to mention all the X-enhanced backward conpatible games that you essentially get free support for. It's a great setup, it's just that they need talking points like "4K" to dumb it down for the masses.

If most people think that X enhanced means all the games run in native 4K, then their marketing it as a 4K console is effective to the point of being misleading.

I have an Xbox 360 controller adapter for Xbone. The Xbone pad is fine except the D pad always breaks if you use it to play games. I'm on my third pad, and now I exclusively use the 360 pad for D pad games. Yes, it's confirmed Scarlett has a disc drive. Matt Booty said so in his Eurogamer interview. The back compatibility only supports the games currently compatible with the Xbone, not the full library.