DiscoDr.Bones

Well, there's the Golden Axe games for the Genesis/Mega Drive, though I guess they would technically be considered hack n' slash. But they pretty much play just like the games you mentioned.

I don't know if "Mutant Rampage" is a joke or not. If I ever get a CDi, is that worth seeking out?

I have heard of the Golden Axe series but never played it. And I have them on Steam (Genesis collection), so I can try them out legit. Thanks snakeboy!

Golden Axe is good, uses the same engine as the Streets of Rage series, but the early ones have not-all-that great control response on real hardware (one of the 1st genesis games though, so what the heck its pretty good for what it is.)

Kickin it old school!

Whoa...

Glad you enjoy it! PacManPlus does most excellent work with his arcade ports!

You should try the 7800 Frogger port! It's tops!

Frogger is one of my favorite games of all time. I have been following the thread on Froggie and I'm sure I will pick it up when it comes available.

Honestly I'm not the biggest fan of Origin, but they have the free games which are always nice to have and it's the only way to get some of the EA titles so I deal with it.

Bad Blood, very underrated game

My advice is to always start the Origin client first since it has to have huge updates and you need it running to play the EA games anyway. Launching the games directly is a bad idea IMHO since Origin takes forever to load up. I do use it for mainly for the RPGs (both original Origin & Bioware)

Kinda normal we used to get a lot of returns on these,could be age of the plastic in the switches too

Yeah, Broforce is a pretty fun game. I wish there were a few more games like it, the closest I know at this point is the Hotline Miami series (Both are published by Devolver like Broforce, too) but those are top-down, not side-view.

I'll be there for the first time. And I live near Portland! I got no excuse not to go.

Hey Defender_2600, I haven't tried it yet... I'll have to give it a shot.

I had the opposite experience with Space Dungeon.. level 9 no problem on the 5200 version.. tried the arcade version and couldn't make it past the first couple levels.

Game Character: "(In mono-tone woice) How can you laugh when you killed this boy's father!!"

Robbie "Wait... What?"

and travistouchdown, that's what the circumstances were for a long time, but as she was getting older I was becoming more lenient about letting her in when I wasn't around. Provided that there are no shortages or quotas (the two 5200 controllers were my first ever purchase from Best only month ago) I'm glad to be out only $50. Could have been a lot worse.

No doubt the kid was confused "It doesn't center? Must be broken!" an honest mistake....

Tough call. It's too bad about the controller, but on the other hand, you don't necessarily want to discourage the impulse to open things up and fix them and see how they work. Too few kids today have that kind of curiosity and hands-on approach.

Yes there have been and I almost pulled the trigger once, but I got a GTX 970 instead.

Buying them separately over time would lessen the blow a bit, but the family demands Kinect if I get one, but I won't do it at $450 total.

You tried Cowboom? That'll get you your cheap rerun machine.

Whether they want to hear it or not, it's still a valid concern. The number of dial-up users is dwindling, but there are still a lot of them.

I'm still stuck on dial-up. Not by choice, but because there is nothing else available for my (one!) mile or road!

So you would be a good group of people to ask then… we do offer 64Kbs AAC downloads of everything we broadcast and break long segments up specifically for low bandwidth users… do you on dial up find that unacceptable?

As I remember it, yeah. It's not especially rewarding - it's all in the gameplay.

I have spent months off and on just getting to that point and enjoy the game thoroughly, but yea, I was expecting more levels... or something...

Correct, the original computer version of the game only has one stage. Your goal is to save all 64 hostages. The later arcade version made by Sega and ported the SMS had stages.

I bet she is going to buy you one.

That would be super cool. She is really supportive of me getting something like that it if she has any level of familiarity with it, but this is the first time she has mentioned ColecoVision.

Wait on it in case CPUWIZ is right, but either way hang on to this one, she's a keeper

I did pretty well also....about $30. Picked up Civ 5, the two Batman games, and some minor stuff.

I only spent about $30. I was really hoping for 40%+ off Dying Light. Guess I'll have to wait for the holiday sale.

I picked up Ikaruga, Another World and random DLC's. None of the stuff I was really after got much of a discount either...

Holla!

That sounds very familiar...

Home Run is the biggest joke of a baseball game ever. Super Challenge Baseball for 2600 is outstanding.

Realsports Baseball for the 5200 is the best baseball game from Atari ever!

I have heard really good things about Realsports Baseball for the 5200 from other sources as well. It's going to be near the top of my list when I get a 5200...

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