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I've had the 2016 Atari Flashback Portable for about a year now and it's a neat little unit. Only about a dozen of the 60 built-in games are of any interest to me and I wouldn't have bought it if it didn't have the SD card slot. The emulation is really convincing but it does have its issues with certain games. I'm sure it's been optimized for the built-in games so I can't complain too much when it doesn't work with games I'm playing from the SD card. The tiny screen is okay but I get this weird effect and I think it's a viewing angle issue. When looking at the bottom status bar in Solaris, for example, my left eye sees the tan color but my right eye sees dark brown so when I have both eyes open I get this weird Magic Eye effect that bugs me out. I'm glad it has A/V out. The D-pad is okay but pretty terrible for Pac-Man games. The buttons have a strange layout but AtGames just reused the case molds from the portable Genesis so that explains that...although it's still a strange button layout for the Genesis even. Overall I'm happy with the purchase. It won't replace any of my 2600s but it's nice to be able to play a quick game of Cave1k or something on the go.

Just bought all three. Looking forward to reading them!

If people wanted to see pyramids they could just go to these tombs:

The Switch is everything I thought the Wii U should have been. I love it. That said, I also love my Wii U. It has some stellar games.

Perfectly stated. This is the gist for me as well. It's out of my system. I started selling off a good chunk of my collection a couple years ago and am transitioning to flash carts. I still have a lot more to sell off but needed a break after my previous purge. Good luck with your auctions!

So...is there anybody here with an actual Super NES Classic who played it? Opinions? Or is there another thread for that?

Paper Mario Color Splash - I like the game but fuck "Sniffit or Whiffit". It's completely unfair and it grinds the game to a halt so much that I've just about lost interest.

Here's a more readable, less-shouty version of your list... :-) 3 Ninjas Kick Back A-Rank Thunder Tanjouhen Adventures of Batman & Robin Adventures of Willy Beamish After Armageddon Gaiden After Burner III Aisle Lord Alshark Amazing Spider Man vs. the Kingpin android Assault: the Revenge of Bari-Arm Anett Futatabi Animals, The Arcus 1-2-3 Arslan Senki A/X-101 Bakuden: the Unbalanced Zone Batman Returns Battle Frenzy Battlecorps BC Racers Bill Walsh College Football Black Hole Assault Bouncers Bram Stoker's Dracula Burai Cadillacs & Dinosaurs Capcom No Quiz Captain Tsubasa Championship Soccer '94 Chuck Rock Chuck Rock II Cliffhanger Cobra Command Colors of Modern Rock Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia Corpse Killer Cosmic Fantasy Stories Crime Patrol Cyborg 009 Daihoushinden Dark Wizard Death Bringer Demolition Man Detonator Orgun Devastator Double Switch Dracula Unleashed Dragon's Lair Dune Dungeon Explorer Dungeon Master II Dynamic Country Club Earnest Evans Earthworm Jim Special Edition Ecco the Dolphin Ecco: Tides of Time Egawa Suguro No Super League Espn Baseball Tonight Espn National Hockey Night Espn NBA Hang Time '95 Espn Sunday Night NFL Eternal Champions Eye of the Beholder F-1 Circus CD Fahrenheit Fatal Fury Special Fhey Area FIFA International Soccer Final Fight CD Flashback Flink Formula One World Championship Funky Horror Band Gambler: Jikko Chuushinha 2 Game No Kanzume Vol. 1 Game No Kanzume Vol. 2 Genei Toshi Genghis Khan II Ground Zero Texas Heart of the Alien Heavy Nova Heimdall Hook Hot Hits Inxs: Make My Video Iron Helix Ishii Hisaichi No Daisekai Jaguar Xj220 Jango World Cup Jeopardy! Joe Montana Football Jurassic Park Keio Flying Squadron Kids On Site Kriss Kross: Make My Video Lawnmower Man Lethal Enforcers Lethal Enforcers II Links Loadstar Lords of Thunder Lunar: Eternal Blue Lunar: Silver Star Mad Dog McCree Mad Dog McCree 2 Mahou No Shoujo: Silky Lip Mansion of Hidden Souls Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch: Make My Own Video Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Masked Rider Megarace Mega Schwarzschild Mickey Mania Microcosm Midnight Raiders Might and Magic III Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Mortal Kombat My Paint NBA Jam NFL Football Trivia Challenge NFL's Greatest: SF vs. Dallas NHL '94 Night Striker Night Trap Ninja Warriors Nobunaga's Ambition 3 Nostalgia 1907 Novastorm Panic! Pitfall: the Mayan Adventure Popful Mail Power Factory Featuring C&C Music Factory Powermonger Prince of Persia Prize Fighter Pro Yakyuu Super League CD Psychic Detective Vol. 3 Psychic Detective Vol. 4 Puggsy Quiz Scramble Special Racing Aces Radical Rex Ranma 1/2 RDF Global Conflict Record of Lodoss War Revenge of the Ninja Revengers of Vengeance Rise of the Dragon Road Avenger Road Rash Robo Aleste Romance of the Three Kingdoms III Samurai Shodown Secret of Monkey Island Sega Classics Arcade Collection 4-in-1 Sega Classics Arcade Collection 5-in-1 Seima Densetsu 3X3 Eyes Segoku Denshou Sewer Shark Shadow of the Beast II Shadowrun Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective Vol. II Shin Megami Tensei Shining Force CD Silpheed Simearth Slam City With Scottie Pippen Smurfs Snatcher Sol-Feace Sonic CD Soulstar Space Ace Space Adventure Cobra Starblade Star Wars Chess Star Wars: Rebel Assault Stellar Fire Supreme Warrior Surgical Strike Syndicate Tenbu: Mega CD Special Tenka Fubu Terminator Theme Park Third World War Thunderhawk AH-3 Time Gal Tomcat Alley Trivial Pursuit Ultraverse Prime Urusei Yatsura Vay Warau Salesman Wheel of Fortune Who Shot Johnny Rock Wild Woody Wing Commander Winning Post Wirehead Wolfchild Wonder Dog Wondermega Collection World Cup Usa '94 WWF Rage In the Cage Yumimi Mix

This is really sad to hear. My condolences to his family. Beef Drop and b*nQ are amazing 7800 ports and a proud part of my cart collection. Such a great talent. :-(

I'm game as long as they take the entire narrative of Other M and the characterization of Samus that it brought with it and chuck it in the trash.

Hopefully they're improving the product. It's neat but far from perfect. The CRT effect was overdone (IMO), the controller cords were ridiculously short, and the sound lag was off-putting. Also, the more I played it, the more I detected slight input lag as well that shows up when you're fighting Soda Popinski and later boxers. Overall it's a cool package but feels like it could've cooked a little longer.

At the time I didn't realize there was a crash. Still have my original console and games.

I'm seeing a lot of "this game sucked because it wasn't like the arcade" which is fair, but I was 5 when I got my Atari 2600 in 1980 and I had nothing to compare the games to. The Atari versions of Space Invaders, Defender, and Pac-Man will always be protected by my shield of nostalgia. I even prefer the 2600 version of Space Invaders over the arcade version in terms of playability, presentation, and enjoyability. And the sound effects in Defender are pretty awesome. On topic, Superman would have to be on the list of games I don't consider "good". Maybe I didn't give it a fair shake but the map makes no logical sense to me and the overall presentation isn't compelling enough to learn the system. Frankly, I'd rather play Porky's.

That looks really cool. I recognize a number of those names from my Tricks of the Mac Game Programming Gurus book. I was just going to see if Ingemar Ragnemalm was consulted and I see he already posted in the comments section! Two of my favorite shareware games were written by him: MacSokoban and Hexmines. He also wrote the majority of the Tricks book. It looks like the author is also covering games into the 90s, which is where I started in the Mac scene. I gotta agree but I love the LucasArts games ports. The porting author, Eric Johnston, used a method of pixel smoothing that made the games look nicer on the higher-res Mac screens. Fun trivia: Eric Johnston played Sean Donovan in the 80s 'V' miniseries. I just looked at his IMDB page and it looks like he's still acting and doing stunt work as well.

My wife was out shopping and I asked her to run into Walmart to see if they had any Wii U stuff on clearance. On a whim she asked about the Switch. Long story short she got my name on the list (I was last!) and after 2 hours of standing in Walmart I just got home with a Switch, Zelda, and a Pro Controller. Too tired to do much with it tonight. I did peek inside and play with a controller though. Can't wait to play Zelda! They didn't have much for Wii U stuff. Just some Gamecube-style fighting pads.

Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! (Sandman and Tyson definitely get you in "the zone"; Super Macho Man as well, to a lesser extent) Super Mario Bros. (not sure if this counts as notorious; World 3-1 infinite lives is the ticket) Castlevania I (usually die at the reaper, beat it once, maybe twice) Castlevania II (oh, the maps I made) Castlevania III (yes, I used the 'Help Me' trick) Contra (many times w/Konami code!) Metroid (is this considered notoriously hard?) I still haven't beat SMB 2 or 3, to my shame.

Welp, that's the end of the thread, folks. *queue death sound in Contra*

It sounds really good! A lot clearer than my stock set-up. Thanks for recording!

Just started Pikmin 3 with my son (even though we're still working on the original Pikmin on GameCube).

That would be really great, thanks! There is a sound menu and any of the first four tracks would be cool to hear: (Wilderness, Turtle Village 1, Turtle Village 2, and Fiend's Path). The title music (I think it's called 'The Battle'), Battle Field, and Old Map are nice tunes as well.

Wow! This is the first I've heard about this. I'm not much for modifying my original hardware but this is very tempting. I'd love to hear how the music from Golden Axe sounds.

I've been playing this with my son (4) and we're enjoying it. Sure, the combat system gets repetitive after awhile but the worst part for me is not painting and flicking, but swiping through all of the cards in your inventory. When you have a ton of cards it becomes time-consuming and in some battles if you take too long the enemies will takes cards from you. I wish they would've grouped similar cards and put a number on it saying how many you had or something. Beyond that, the puzzles are hard enough to keep it interesting and easy enough to not be boring. The writing is humorous and there are some genuinely funny moments. The artwork is also very nice. Each area is very distinct, which keeps things fresh. The bosses are pretty difficult. We've just finished our second boss and it took 3 tries (just like the first boss). I'm just glad the Save blocks are strategically placed so there's not a lot of repetition when it's Game Over. Edit: I also have to add, I wish there were more opportunities to spend coins. By the time you beat the first boss, your coins and cards are probably going to be maxed out. I'd be happy to be able to trade coins for paint in the boss levels, for example.

I bought a Cube from a guy on Reddit a little over a year ago. I then found original disks for it on eBay and restored it to Mac OS 9 (and later installed X). I do have issues with it shutting off by itself though. The firmware is already as far as it can go (v1.4, IIRC) so it must be something else? Until I can iron that out I don't use it for anything important. It's more of a novelty of impressive design and engineering at this point. As far as dual-booting these old Macs there really shouldn't be any problems. It's been a while but I think "folder blessing" is an issue if you're simply copying a System Folder from another drive. I've always had good luck installing from factory disks. I triple-boot my Quicksilver G4 between 9.2.2/10.4/10.5 with no issues. I don't remember doing anything special. Just booted from original install disks and formatted the new drives and did a clean install. I then used my original Tiger and Leo disks from there. I even dual-boot my old Performa 6116CD between System 7.5.5 and Mac OS 8.6 on its SCSI drive.

Sorry to hear about your kitty. I would be interested in seeing the Mac stuff, particularly the software.

I'm not sure about that. It's very responsive otherwise. The only noticeable lag I've noticed is audio lag. The controller is pretty responsive except during certain times in Punch-Out. Even if there is a slight lag Little Mac should still dodge when I tell him to. I'll have to conduct my own unscientific tests.