cryptik76

I rented Rengoku and put about a half hour into it. Yuck. And I like almost anything.

You can get a lot of good Lynx games for very cheap. If you look on Ebay you can find them sold in lots. Some of the cheaper games (Rampart, Xybots, Hydra, Klax, Chip's Challenge, Steel Talons, Robo Squash, etc.) are actually very good.

The NGPC rocks. Some very solid games on that system. The Lynx is an excellent system to collect for. I love my Lynx II. It's worth it for the arcade ports alone, but there are some great original games as well.

If it weren't for the new backlit SP's coming out, I probably would have bought a Micro. My DS has a backlit screen, which makes GBA games look sweet, but I don't like the button layout as much.

Nintendo seems to release a lot of limited edition GBA SP's, and with all the different colors and now the release of the backlit SP, I have to say that I've been tempted to buy a whole stack of different ones. So far all I have is a first-generation Cobalt SP and the NES style one, but I'm probably going to buy a backlit one soon. Are there many others here who own more than one SP? Is there anyone who spends a significant amount of time and money tracking down the different variants and limited editions and has a huge SP collection?

I'm not that big into consoles. I mainly use my PC and my various handheld systems for gaming. I don't travel much, and usually when I do I'm the one who is driving so I don't really do a lot of gaming "on the go." I mostly like to lie in bed or sit on the couch while my wife is watching TV and get some Burnout Legends or Lumines in. I have a bunch of handheld systems (GBA SP, Game Gear, Lynx, Neo Geo Pocket Color, Wonderswan B&W/Color/SwanCrystal, Game.com [shudder], DS, and PSP), but my favorite all-around handheld system is the GBA. I love the games and I think the SP is about perfect (except now I have to buy a backlit model now that I've seen them). I bring it with me whenever I know I'm going to have to wait somewhere for a while, like when I take my car into the shop. Nothing beats a GBA SP with the Activision Anthology cartridge.

I have one. I think it's pretty sharp, but I don't use it very much because I'm afraid to scratch it or anything. I use my Cobalt SP a lot more, so I can keep my NES style one in the best possible condition. It looks like the NES vent design on the top of the unit could scratch easily, but the sticker that goes over the face of the unit (where the d-pad and buttons are) seems very rugged. All in all, it's a nice design and there aren't a whole lot of them around so it's pretty unique. The nostalgia value is nice as well. I kind of wish I would have kept mine sealed in the box, but I'm not really much of a collector and don't see the point in buying something you can't enjoy.

Exactly. Who cares if the Hong Kong knockoffs have a similar case design as the PSP? It's not like Atari Pong, where anyone who can solder a couple transistors to a circuit board can make one (I'm simplifying, of course; I have no clue when it comes to making electronics); the PSP has incredible technology in that little device. It's not likely some Hong Kong company can reverse engineer it and sell their own knockoff for a lower price than Sony can.

I buy a lot of movies, generally comedies and adventure movies that I like to watch a lot. I don't watch them every day or anything, but there are some movies I watch a few times a year or more. I don't buy many dramas because those are the type of movie I only watch once or twice and then maybe again 10 years later.

All my Reef Store dreams are about finding obscure music CD's now. But I'm starting to get excited about the next console generation (mmm... Oblivion), so I might start having those soon.

Die by the Sword 2 Blade of Darkness 2 A new Thief trilogy with the Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory engine System Shock 3 a worthy Deus Ex sequel Diablo 3 This one is a bit obscure, but I'd like to see a 3D version of the obscure PC action/RPG Blade & Sword (from China). Maybe with the Neverwinter Nights or Dungeon Siege engines.

I like Meteos, and I want to get Zookeeper and Nanostray. But that's about all I play. Pac N Roll looks pretty good, though.

I don't know how it compares to the console Burnouts, since I've never played them, but I love it. The visuals are fantastic, the controls are tight, the sound is meaty and the gameplay is very satisfying and visceral. It has a solid framerate as well, and loading times are short, probably about the same as Ridge Racer. Overall, it seems very polished and has a lot of content, like they took the best elements from each game and put it in one package. Since reviewers seem to be spending most of their review space nit-picking at graphical differences between it and its console brothers, it seems to me that it comes awfully close to those games. I stayed up too late last night playing the various modes in World Tour and trying to break my Crash and Road Rage records. The replayability in this game seems to be massive.

Burnout Legends. That's all I'm going to say right now. I'm too busy playing.

I can't imagine that Lumines on the cell phones will be much more than a tiny fraction of the game it is on the PSP. Without the music and all the excellent animated skins, you lose a lot of the game's charm (though the gameplay at the base is still good). What will the cell phone version have? Looping, repetitive music and static (or very stiffly animated) backgrounds? No thanks.

Poor squirrels...they have all the hard luck, don't they? -Steve 928691[/snapback] I love all animals (at least the ones that don't go out of their way to harm me), but really, if a species is dumb enough to constantly run across busy traffic like that, it's possible that they were not meant to survive. I mean, you have to imagine every squirrel has heard stories of the giant metal beasts that killed uncle Leo, cousin Bruce, aunt Mabel, and grandpa Stewart. You'd think they'd know by now that crossing the street without looking both ways is tantamount to squirrel suicide.

One thing that the DS definitely has over the PSP is that I don't have to constantly clean my DS's screens. I love my PSP, really, but the surface smears easier than a squirrel running across the highway at rush hour, so I constantly have to have my cleaning cloth with me (which, to Sony's credit, they generously provided).

I probably would have bought an N-Gage (before the DS and PSP came out) if it weren't for the fact that they tried to make the device do everything, and all I wanted was a decent game machine with a decent screen. I was impressed when I played Pandemonium at EB, because it was obvious that the system was more powerful than a GBA, but I really didn't want a taco shaped phone. I wanted a game machine. I would still consider buying one, since there seem to be a few decent titles (that Elder Scrolls one looks good, but I don't know if it is). I don't take any joy in Nokia's failure to break into the marketplace. I have a place in my heart for all handheld systems... except maybe the Gizmondo.

I have five UMD movies (Tron, Pirates of the Caribbean, House of Flying Daggers, Terminator 2, and Spiderman 2). I think they're pretty neat, but it's more of a novelty than anything for me. They have good picture and sound (when you use headphones), and there are probably places where it would be nice to have them, but I don't foresee getting a big collection of UMD movies. The fact that they're more expensive than DVD's doesn't help. If they had packs where you could get both the DVD and UMD version for cheaper than it would cost to buy both, I would probably take advantage of that.

If? ALL "is it worth it" threads are meant to. It's one of the 10 commandments, I think. "Thou shalt shitteth upon thy neighbor's games, unless they doth be more than a decade old." 927167[/snapback] Ah, I see. I haven't spent enough time here to pick up on that, apparently. I guess we need to wait until the PSP 4 and DS 4 are rivals in the marketplace before both sides will admit that both the original PSP and original DS had their good qualities and bad qualities but generally were pretty good systems with software libraries that featured many notable titles.

I almost bought one of the new Game Kings, because you can get a ton of games with it for very cheap. However, the vast majority of the games are weak clones of early NES titles (there's a Mega Man-like game, a couple 1942 and Xevious style games, a Super Mario Bros type game, etc.). However, most of them only have about 3 levels on it, so you're not going to get lasting enjoyment out of them. That, and the resolution is so low, it makes the Tiger Game.com look impressive. They're almost worth buying simply for the curiosity factor, since you're not likely to throw away a large amount of money on one (unless you're very gullible). The system gives a fascinating look into a society where copyright is pretty much null and void when you're dealing with copyrights held by non-Chinese companies. Box art is often ripped from other sources (like Unreal Tournament ads), and, like I said, the games are mostly primitive clones. And despite what the box may say, the system is not in color. If you use the backlight, I believe there's an overlay or something that lights up so it almost gives the impression of being a color game, if you squint just right.

I have both systems. They were both worth the money. I don't have many games for the PSP so far, but the ones I have are good. Ridge Racer? Awesome. Wipeout Pure? Awesome. Lumines? Mega Awesome. Untold Legends? Well, not quite awesome, but decent, and the sequel looks to be shaping up quite nicely. With the PSP version of Burnout on the horizon, and Grand Theft Auto, Prince of Persia, the Midway Arcade collection, and others on the horizon, I'm not quite sure why I should regret buying one. Sure, the system could use more original properties, but then again, the same could be said about the DS. I'm not sure what you consider the DS's "better games." That Kirby one is supposed to be good, and I like Meteos. I'm thinking of getting Advance Wars. But where are the other superior titles? Nintendogs? I'm sure that's good for a certain audience. Where are the RPG's? Where are the decent racing games? Where are the sports games? Where are the decent shooters that are going to make good use of the DS's touch screen (as Metroid Prime Hunters demo did)? Where are the decent 3D platformers? I'm not saying this to bash the DS, but I wonder where you're getting your information from. Both systems have great titles, and both systems were worth what I paid for them. I'm too busy enjoying playing the games to get in flame wars with children on some messageboard, so if this is meant to turn into some Sony vs. Nintendo thread, count me out. So much childishness here anyway.

I got mine probably in 2002. I had always wanted one since they debuted, but I never had any money to buy one. So in 2002 I was on half.com and found somebody selling one with 10 games for $75 and I bought it. The 10 games included Battle Wheels, Warbirds, Xenophobe, Blue Lightning, Slime World, and a couple more common ones, I think. I bought a second Lynx a few years later because it was on Ebay for a great BIN price, and it came with a lot of games I didn't have yet. I later gave that Lynx and 8 sealed games to my best friend for Christmas. We still play Rampart comlynxed when he and his wife visit.

I've broken a few games on CD-ROM (Interstate 76, Rocket Jockey)... I later bought two copies of Rocket Jockey just in case I broke one of them, since I love that game and it's pretty much impossible to find anymore. I took my old keyboard and smashed it over my knee. Didn't break the keyboard itself but all the keys popped out. Got most of them in right but I had to do some trial-and-error with some of the non-letter or number keys. Games that taunt me when I lose (the racing mission in Interstate 76, games with "trash talking" opponents like Trickstyle, etc.), or games that I don't think play fair (most racing games and other games with rubber-band AI), set me off pretty easily. Online games sometimes do, too, like when I'm having a really bad game of Counter-Strike. Nowadays I just take a break when I start getting too upset.

At least this way the wrist strap and earphones will match the system. WTF was up with that anyway?