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To me, only the Saturn and the PS2 are sexy consoles. Consoles generally looks too plastic or wooden for me to think they look good. But these two in particular still look good even in 2024.
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On 3/6/2024 at 4:16 AM, newtmonkey said:
I don't disagree that platformers and then fighting games became the dominant genre for the 16-bit consoles, but if companies were still releasing shmups and RPGs in 1992, then there was a market and fanbase for them. It's unprofessional and a disservice to the readers to not review the games on their merits, and if the reviewer in question doesn't "get" shmups, someone else who does should be reviewing them. The major US mags (EGM, Gamepro, Gamefan) at the time heaped a lot of praise on shmups and RPGs alike.
It's a moot point anyway, because my impressions were only on the first couple of issues of Superplay. They improved a lot only a few issues in, and started assigning reviewers properly.
Oh, not arguing that. If anything, it clearly shows a lack of taste in the reviewer!
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On 3/6/2024 at 12:36 PM, BillDMatt said:
be interesting to know what the age you and your group of friends were during this time. I can see the under 15 crowd still sticking with Nintendo during that era but I can definitely say with confidence that the older kids and young males, it was all Sega. if you were older and got the SNES you got the Nelson Muntz "Ha Ha" I don't know why nintendo fans seem to want to rewrite history, It's over 35 years ago, I love Nintendo, have a ton of SNES games, a ton of NES.. along with Sega and Atari games we have the Switch But facts are facts Nintendo won the war but it's just true, during the early to mid 90's, as I said before Sega was winning in that demorgraphics. only the little kids and the parents wanted the SNES
To honest I can give two sheets about console fanboy wars, My love is the Atari, I just wandered into this section because we have Retro-Bit Trio and lately my son after watching the Sonic movies, we started getting into the Sonic games , so I've been playing my old Sega games again. I'm just telling you how it was during that time, I was 20-22 during that time , I mean that's just how it was . Oh well.
Your experiences are just that: your own experiences. They definitely are not universal. I was a bit younger than you, but all my siblings are older. I, the young one, got the Genesis and this new game called Sonic. My eldest sister, on the other hand, who was also an adult during this time, bought herself the Super Nintendo instead. I distinctly remember my other sister's boyfriend, who was some guitarist in his late 20s (or 30s?), and all of his friends playing Jurassic Park on the Super Nintendo, next to a huge stack of games. No Genesis in sight. My older brother and I played Madden only on the SNES.
In fact, as I got older during this time, I grew out of the Genesis. The Genesis was the platform of colorful sprites: Sonic, Earthworm Jim, Mickey and the rest of the Disney licenses were ubiquitous. And it reeked of 'tude, which was seen as less cool as the 90s wore on, something that the corporations were trying to sell us. Meanwhile, the SNES had some classic-looking games: Castlevania IV, Contra III, Gradius III, and Super Metroid were definitely not childish, and these were some of my early staples. For every chibi Mega Man X, you also had Demon's Crest.
I will say that everyone played on the Genesis when Mortal Kombat was released, but by Super Street Fighter II, the benefits of the SNES pad was apparent.
This isn't to say that we were all actively participating in some console wars. I never remember anyone being "Team Nintendo" or "Team Sega" growing up. We just went to houses to play that kid's games. If one friend had Super Smash TV, we went to his house for it. When another friend got the Sega CD, we went to his house for it.
And then the Genesis started feeling a bit irrelevant. Sonic 3 + Knuckles was cool and all, but hey, have you heard of RPGs? I discovered there were even more complicated games than Zelda, like Final Fantasy II and Secret of Mana, and despite the graphics of the latter, it was much more interesting than what I owned on my Genesis. So by the time the PS1 and N64 were getting their releases, the Genesis was rarely played. But not for any reason than that's just where my interests lied. The N64 (with Super Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, and especially Goldeneye) and PS1 (with Final Fantasy VII, Twisted Metal, and Oddworld) were the consoles to play (if we played any games at all -- most of the time, we did everything except play video games; I played football and band and was more interested in girls, bikes, and hanging out), and Sega was just forgotten, a relic of when we were young kids.
So yeah, your experiences might be true for you, but that doesn't mean they would have been shared by everyone else.
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On 3/6/2024 at 8:50 AM, neogeo1982 said:
I was thinking about Kraut Buster after I play this one awhile longer. Not sure about their shooters though. The shooters from them all look kinda the same. Maybe I'll try one of them if I come across something not over priced.
Ah, I had already stopped paying attention to them when Kraut Buster came out. I think I wrote it off as a Metal Slug rip off, but that might not be a fair assessment, I don't know.
Neo XYX was a decent shooter.
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On 1/31/2024 at 12:52 PM, newtmonkey said:
Not any reviews in particular, but I've just noticed some comments and asides here and there in the first couple of issues suggesting the reviewer doesn't care for traditional RPGs. For example, in their Soul Blazer review:
"...Soul Blazer treads familiar RPG territory, avoiding the weaker elements that plague many of these games - there's none of that tedious alternate-move combat stuff here, for instance."
As for shmups, there were some comments that suggest they are already tired of the genre, which is a strange position to take in 1992, unless you just don't like the genre. Again, though, they were just asides and not reviews, so they might have even just been joking.
Of course, they reviewed only a couple of shmups (fine reviews) and no real RPGs in the first couple of issues, so we'll see how it goes!
Shmups were definitely "out" in 1992. It was the rise of fighting games, the pinnacle of platformers, and the era of weird experimentation. A genre that had its origin in the very beginnings of video games (with Space Invaders) was seen as passe.
As far as turn-based RPGs go, that was seen as a weird Japanese thing. I was young enough to not realize that, so I thoroughly enjoyed what JRPGs I had access to, but FF2 and FF3 were definitely outliers until FF7 came around and changed things and made the genre respectable again.
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Given that the Xbox was basically the Dreamcast 2.0, the most current Xbox was have is likely where Sega would have ended up. Hard to see them doing something radically different a la Nintendo given the market's taste and their trajectory.
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The cover art is better than the in-game art. It definitely needed more neon. The NYC stage was pretty cool, though.
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On 1/25/2024 at 1:59 AM, NewbieEmery said:
do you have a list for PS1?
https://psxdatacenter.com/ntsc-u_list.html
And there are corresponding links for PAL and NTSC-J.
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On 1/5/2024 at 10:46 PM, Razzie.P said:
Tomcat Alley
I had several days of fun with this as a kid. A friend had it and we played it for the novelty factor, I think. It still holds a soft spot in my heart, but you know, there's a reason we leapt back into Genesis classics like Mortal Kombat, Golden Axe II, and Crue Ball.
Oh, yeah, that's my addition to this thread: Crue Ball is fun, and Motley Crue tunes lick!
I think another Genesis game that I love that no one else did was WWF: Royal Rumble. Way better on the Genesis, in my youthful mind, than the SNES one, too. Undertaker ruled!
On 1/6/2024 at 2:32 AM, Steven Pendleton said:Metroid II, which is a great game, not a bad one.
I didn't realize this one was supposed to be bad. It's obviously not anywhere near Metroid or Super Metroid, but it's a great Game Boy game imo. I'd rather play this than the railroaded Metroid Fusion.
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I like my racers, and the PS2 has one of my favorites: Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2. It's the last of the great NFS games before it jumped on the customizable bandwagon with Underground. I don't want to buy decals. I want to race in the gorgeous Italian countryside. I wish more games had come out like it.
The two other most-played racers on the system for me are Extreme G3 Racing, which is an excellent futuristic racer with a good soundtrack, and OutRun 2006.
Two other non-racing games I love are NBA Street Vol. 2 and Red Faction (chiefly the first one, though the second one wasn't that bad).
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1 minute ago, Kanon said:
From Faxebook: The Sega-16 forums are down temporarily. We're moving the site so they should hopefully be up tonight.
Ah, I don't have Facebook. Glad to see it's not permanent. Thanks!
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I haven't really checked in there in a while, but I go today to Sega-16 and it seems the forum is missing. The Discord link doesn't bring up anything either. Does anyone know what's happened there?
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The PS2 was the actual good looking console of that era. Before that the Saturn reigned as the sleekest and most modern.
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This is seriously cool. The whole package of it. I wish there was more!
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1 hour ago, SegaShooters said:
It's Sega Genesis night!
MUSHA
Rolling Thunder 2
Sonic The Hedgehog 1 (look at this marvelous pic from Zone 3 of the Starlight Zone!)
Emu or are you a Rockefeller who owns a MUSHA cart?
I will say that Sonic 1 is underrated. Glad to see it get some love still.
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2 hours ago, Steven Pendleton said:
Wrong; it needs more everything.
Like I said last year, the levels of activity here just kind of died here in like June or July of 2020 outside of the Amico dumpster fire that continues to burn. That's why I've largely moved away from here, as it's like nobody even cares anymore. shmups forum, whether you love it or hate it, has a small but extremely passionate group of people ranging from complete beginners to world record holders, and the place is quite active. Not bad for a forum that is focused solely on a supposedly dead genre that probably scares away people due to just the difficulty of the games.
I wonder if it's because you saw it first right at the beginning of lockdowns? By June or July, there were some people starting to creep outside, but there's only so much of a single place one can take before they need variety!
I've not really noticed a plunge in activity over the years, at least not to the point that this place feels abandoned or anything.
But I do agree that more activity here would be better.
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I want to buck the trend here and actually speak up in favor of more Nintendo (NES and SNES) activity here. AtariAge surely represents Atari, which started the whole gaming at home movement, but with the death of all the other major consoles, it's the last home for this type of discussion. I will never play a new console (never played anything newer than a Wii already), but if those machines can get some love, so can the Super NES.
A few points:
On 8/18/2022 at 1:19 PM, Cobra Kai said:There have been Nintendo dedicated rivals to Atari Age in the past, such as Nintendo Age, but they floundered after being bought out IIRC. The internet has spoken, and Atari is the classic platform of choice for discussions.
NintendoAge was always garbage. Garbage community, garbage leadership, the place was the antithesis of AtariAge, with a stronger focus on collecting and encasing in plastic than actually playing any games. A better site was FamicomWorld, but it's very quiet in comparison.
That AtariAge was different, broader, more in-tune with the classic forum style discussion board, meant that it has powered through the storm that took down most forums. And it's better for it. Reddit, etc. is awful, and I'm so glad for an oasis here. There are just so few proper discussion boards left. Here feels less of a relic and more of a treasured old haunt.
If anything, I wish more, targeted classic gaming discussion took place at AtariAge, and more users of dead forums come here instead of migrating to Reddit or (gods forbid) Facebook. Here is that perfect balance of anonymity, moderation, and preservation that the others can't get right.
On 8/24/2022 at 2:15 PM, Cobra Kai said:I'm registered at shmups.com, but don't post at all. I mainly stop by to read strategies and tactics of whatever current shmup I'm into. That place depresses me because everyone there seems to be super geniuses at every shmup. I used to think I was a pretty good shmupper, but after browsing those forums you realize you're not very good at all.
I think you'll find plenty of us casuals lurking about. There are a bunch of die-harders in the board, but they'll also be likely to offer guidance and helpful advice, even if sometimes it might seem like they're endlessly ribbing ya. It's overall a good-natured board.
On 8/26/2022 at 8:20 AM, Austin said:That hardly makes it "trash", it's just different. You've clearly already been on the shmups forum for too long, heh. It's starting to rub off on you.
Discord has come a long way. They now have things like direct reply features that partially quote the topic being responded to, and it'll tag you/alert you if it's a response to something you wrote, which is handy. It's a lot like here where you get an alert if someone likes your post or quotes you in a thread.
It's still important to remember however that its primary focus is the live back and forth conversation, ala IRC, which is inherently different from a traditional messageboard. They are attempting to bridge that gap at least.
IRC bots used to do all that and was a free and open source protocol. Discord is proprietary garbage. I think the issue is that a lot of people treat Discord like a message board and can't be bothered to spend more than 5 minutes of their brainpower writing up a response. It's casual conversation, but subversively undermines actual conversation at the same time.
As a veteran of IRC, email list groups, forum software, and messy takes like Reddit and StackExchange, there is simply nothing better than a traditional, well-run forum, especially if it contains long-form articles, Wikis, or other ways of getting the best information in short format. I think that will save the forum more than anything else (and why forums like Racketboy can plod along, even if a bit zombie-like).
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A lot of good contenders, but H.E.R.O. is a perennial favorite.
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On 12/31/2022 at 6:23 PM, Buffalo Biff Burgertime said:
What's the opposite of necro-bump, vita-bump?
Necro- is Greek, vita- is Latin. The proper opposite would then be bio-bump.
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Not to defend Tanooki (really, truly, honestly!), but I never felt that the angle was "bad" per se. Just not optimal. But thinking about it, yeah, absolutely, I always preferred the rectangle and use Y B as my mains on the SNES controller. It really makes you wonder why on earth they designed it that way.
One guess is that making it more difficult (even if just slightly) to reach, going from B to A takes more conscious effort, and they want to encourage that? It's easy, I suppose, to accidentally hit the wrong button if it's too convenient to do so?
I'd love to see some justification for the design. But either way, I'm sticking with the original controllers for each console.
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3 hours ago, Steven Pendleton said:
Soldier Blade is expensive complete. You can expect 30000 yen or more. Never seen just the HuCARD by itself.
Somehow I managed to nab a solo HuCard (Edit: US, not JP) all by itself years ago. I wish I did have it complete, but I think I missed the boat on that one.
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14 hours ago, Cobra Kai said:
I like the Sonic Wings games, but I have Sonic Wings Special on Saturn, which is superior to either of the NG games, so I never play those. SW3 isn't very good truth be told, its just a boss rush. That style has its fans though.
Yeah, Special is also what I have (especially since I got rid of my Neo-Geo). I do think SW2 is good, but with all the NG ports out there, it makes little sense to have one unless you're a die-hard fan.
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29 minutes ago, Steven Pendleton said:
I greatly prefer non-bullet hell over bullet hell, and despite what people say about difficulty, you'll have a decent amount of difficulty finding bullet hell games that are actually more difficult than games like the 1P version of Same! Same! Same! and Tatsujin Ou. Most bullet hell games actually give you a chance, but 1P Same! Same! Same! wants you to see the game over screen the moment you start playing the game and it does everything it can to make sure you suffer and die horribly and painfully. It's such an impossibly badass game that I can't stay away, though!
You can still find bullet hell that makes even 1P Same! look like an entry level game, of course: DoDonPachi Daioujou Death Label is so unbelievably difficult that although we are now less than 4 months away from the 20th anniversary of its release, only 3 people are known to have actually beaten the game. I have it, and I can say that you should absolutely try it if you enjoy vicious, sadistic pain and miserable suffering because that is what it will give you. Extremely highly recommended!
Neo Geo's STG library is rather small. Andro Dunos is probably my favourite one on the system so far. It's rough without autofire, but you also need a non-autofire button for the charge shot.
I've been preaching this for years. Classic shooters > bullet hells any day of the week. Although I guess people call these extreme shooters "manic shooters" now (Tatsujin, Strikers 1945, even Twin Cobra), but they're not easier than bullet hells.
Neo Geo's actual great STG games though are Sonic Wings/Aero Wings. You can get SW1 on SNES, SW2 Remix on the Saturn, but 3 is only on the Neo-Geo, I believe.
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This sums it up for me as well. I'd also take either over the PS3 or 360 (or later systems) any day of the week.