SteveW

I can't get the pictures to open. The box cover opened in a javascript pop-up window, but the screenshots won't.....

Leave me out of this contest. I won your last one, and if I win again, everybody here would probably lynch me!

I'd love a CDTV. Drool........

I got an Amiga 1000 from my brother sometime around '89 or so. My brother knew a guy that worked on them and had piles of them, including loads of - how should I say this - non-legitimate copies of games. I was young, I didn't think much of piracy. (I've gone 180 degrees on that since then.) Later on, I got loads and loads of games from a friend of mine who called up some of those European BBS boards loaded with cracked copies of games. I probably have between 500-600 games around here. I loaned them out to my brother a couple of years ago, and he took them out of the storage boxes they were in and threw them into a big cardboard box. They've sat in the corner of my room, getting dusty and dirty. I doubt if half of them even work anymore. My uncle bought an old Amiga 2000 for the Video Toaster that was inside (he has a side business filming weddings, school events, etc.) and he gave me what he thought was a spare keyboard. It was actually an Amiga 1200HD. But I don't have a power supply to make it work. And also, my old mouse from the 1000 went out, and I don't know where to find another. Anybody know of a good web site (not eBay) that sells power supplies and mice?

I'm the exact same way. But as of late, i've been taking it even farther. I've been buying games when I find them on sale, but never getting around to playing them. I've got about 30 GameCube games, but I have about 8 or 10 that i've never really played in depth, or at all. I get excited at the store when I find a game that i'd like to play, but I have so many modern games that are unplayable because of bad design or lousy camera angles or whatever, I don't put much of a priority in playing them. It's kind of like, if I don't play it, I won't be disappointed. I bought a copy of Bloodrayne off EBGames.com, and I didn't get around to playing it for months. When I did finally open it up, there was no disc inside! That really pissed me off. There's nothing I can do about it, I waited too long before opening it to notify EBGames. At least I only paid $15 for it. With free shipping. Gotta love that free shipping.

There was a version of Shadow of the Beast on the Commodore 64? Yikes! I can't imagine what it must look like. Any links to screenshots?

I made it through the game all the way too. I didn't even know about the Temple of the Rubber Chicken God until much later. And damn, that was a tough game. The controls took days for me to figure out. Then several days more to get my character to stumble through to the end. I've never felt like going all the way through again. Just too frustrating. And my memory card didn't retain my saves.

And the local stores are always out of stock too, so I can't just pick one up nearby.

Yar's Revenge and Shamus were the first non-Advance games I picked up. There's a few more scattered through the Gameboy's catalog that i'd like to get, but I really haven't put any effort into tracking them down. I can't stand the GBA's dim screen, and it seems goofy to me to play games for a portable machine on a home console like the GC. I also picked up Ballistic and Miner 2049er a few months ago. Ballistic isn't as good as my Nuon version, and Miner 2049er was lousy. With Gameboy and Gameboy Color, i'm mainly looking for old video and computer games that have been revived. Now, if I could only find a GBC version of the old TI Home Computer game Tunnels of Doom......

You can read that? It looks like a smudge to me....

I wish there was a store around me selling a Vectrex...... I'd easily pay $100 for one. I've been dying to get my grubby mitts on one since 1983. I finally got a chance to play one for the first time at the Austin Game Expo. It took me 20 years to finally see what I have been missing out on all this time!

I've never bought anything off eBay before. All my games were bought at the time the console was out. I even mail ordered directly from Atari themselves back then. I've hardly ever found Lynx stuff in the wild. The only games I can find nowadays is an electronic junk shop that has about a dozed boxed and sealed copies of Telegames's Qix. They used to have a lot of Double Dragons, but those sold out faster than Qix. I bought a couple of them myself, since they were only $3 each.

http://dealnews.com/sections/video_games.html I usually check this site every few days. But by the time I try to order something, the company selling the game has sold out. I ordered Ikaruga from Best Buy for $20 last month, and I just got an e-mail from them saying they don't have any more, so basically, tough shit. Talk about aggrivating.

Best looking consoles: Atari 2600jr. - small and sleek Atari 7800 - I've always liked it's angular look and sleek lines Odyssey2 - Great looking silver console (until you saw the ugly controllers next to it) Intellivision 2 - compact, elegant design Atari Lynx Rev. 2 - smaller and cooler than first version Pioneer LaserActive - looks so good racked in with my Pioneer stereo system Atari Jaguar - looks like a spaceship (until you attach the CD drive) Samsung N501 Nuon DVD player - sweet diagonal mirrored machine Worst looking consoles: Atari 5200 - gargantuan machine, needed shrinking down Xbox - big, heavy, case design by marketing team instead of design artists GameCube - dull Dreamcast swipe TurboGraphix - with CD drive, it looked awkward and clunky Those are just standouts from my own collection. I've seen a Fairchild Channel F (which was butt-ugly), but I don't own one, so I didn't count it.

In no particular order: Escape From The MindMaster Adventure (I can play it over and over and never get tired of it) Secret Quest Riddle of the Sphinx Yar's Revenge Phazer Patrol (it plays best when you fry the game!) Dark Caverns Maze Craze (loved playing against my brother when we were kids!) Berzerk Desert Falcon (it was fun until I got the 7800 version) Othello Airlock (hey, I was young. I didn't know any better.) Asteroids (I rolled the score three times once) Lock 'N Chase (it was free thru M Network's buy 2 get one free deal) Laser Blast Solaris (shows you how advanced 2600 games could really be) Planet Patrol (like I said before, I was young! Don't judge me!)

I bought both Space War 2000 and Phaze Zero at AGE (I wish I had brought more money with me, two-thirds of my cash was gone in the first hour!) It's a good game, but not great. Of course, I had finally gotten to play Battlesphere at that show, so after that every other space shooter seemed like a letdown. The game has limited replayability. It would have been better if Atari had kept it closer to what they originally designed it to be, which was Star Raiders 2000. As it stands now, it's definitely fun, but the enemy ships AI is poor, as they won't try to avoid you getting behind them and blasting away. The game is just - start, fly towards bad guys, pick them off one by one, go to next level, repeat. It gets a little repetetive.

I bought the demo at AGE. It's pretty nice. And FAST. If it would have come out while the Jag was still on the market, it would have done really well. A game to show off to your Playstation gaming friends.

But when it comes down to it, AMD and Intel's chips are still CISC based, and the PowerPC is RISC based. RISC will always be faster and more efficient than CISC.

That's another thing. Can you make the game MindLink compatible? Maybe throw one in with each game? It's just so hard, having to play a game with a controller. It just seems like too much effort sometimes. I'd just like to think about controlling the game, so I can put out the barest minimum of physical effort playing.

That D-pad looks like it's going to suck to use. It looks to be keychain sized. It's looking less than promising.

I've enjoyed Sega CD games, but I take them as they are, not how they look up against the current generation of consoles. I secretly liked some of those FMV games.... Games like Surgical Strike, Caddilacs and Dinosaurs and Ground Zero Texas were pretty interesting at the time. Sonic CD is one that everyone will nominate as the system's best, and they'd be right. Games like Rise of the Dragon (point and click adventure) are fun, Stellar 7 is a good Battlezone type game, and Silpheed is a good shooter. I've always liked StarBlade too, but the poor Sega CD just can't throw polygons around, so nearly all the ships are done in wireframes. It stays true to the arcade version's gameplay, so I never cared.

I guess Microsoft's ticked off about people hacking their precious little Xbox, so they're making the next one out of real technology instead of just throwing a bunch of PC junk into a huge box. What I want to know is, with the PowerPC and ATI graphics chips, will it be downwardly compatible with the Bandai Pippin?

Hey, watch out now, that's a good way to get pulled into a parallel universe!

I'd at least like to see Splatterhouse ported to the GBA. But if they ported it to current game consoles, i'd like to see the characters and creatures done in full 3D, but still keep the 2D side scrolling viewpoint. That would kick ass.

Wasn't it also a 3DO game?