Skippy B. Coyote
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Tanglewood (Sega Genesis)
Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi (Sega Genesis)
Solar Striker (Game Boy)
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The price is quite expensive, but considering that according to the press release it comes with Sanwa JLF joysticks and OBSF buttons that's like $100 in parts for the controls alone before even factoring in the cost of the housing and the electronics inside. Real Japanese arcade parts certainly aren't cheap, so a $200 to $300 USD price range is pretty understandable once you consider the cost of the components involved.
The only game included that I'd really be interested in playing is Alien vs Predator, so it's not a product I'll be picking up, but I think there will definitely be a market for it among die hard Capcom fans and arcade enthusiasts.
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I don't recall "Mega Drive" doing what Nintendon't.
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Just a heads up that Amazon has the Retro-Bit Sega Genesis 6-button controllers back in stock as of the time of this post: https://www.amazon.com/Retro-Bit-Official-Genesis-Controller-6-Button-Arcade/dp/B07P255V8J/
Everyone I've talked to who's tried them says they're nearly flawless recreations of the original official 6-button Genesis controllers and work beautifully, plus they're only $15 each and officially licensed by Sega. They sound like the best option for a brand new wired Genesis controller so I just ordered two of them and I'll be sure to provide my thoughts on them once they arrive in the mail.
I've already got an official 6-button Genesis controller from back in the day that I bought brand new on eBay and just unboxed a few months ago, so I'll have an original controller in like-new condition to compare them to.
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I'm pretty wiped out from the last day of vacation today so it'll be another week of just posting my household's times without any picture or writeup, but I think next week I should be able to get back to the usual routine.
Ineligible (All Sega Genesis)
Castlevania: Bloodlines - 24 minutes
Columns - 81 minutes
Contra: Hard Corps - 42 minutes
Michael Jackson's Moonwalker - 38 minutes
Mortal Kombat II - 52 minutes
Ms. Pac-Man - 56 minutes
NBA Jam: Tournament Edition - 52 minutes
Samurai Shodown - 33 minutes
Sonic 3D Blast - 12 minutes
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - 150 minutes
Splatterhouse 2 - 75 minutes
Tanglewood - 80 minutes
Nintendo Switch
Pinball FX3 - 15 minutes
Sonic Mania Plus - 210 minutes
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - 510 minutes
Total Video Game Play Time This Week
1,430 minutes (23 hours 50 minutes) [735 minutes eligible]
Individual System Play Times This Week
Nintendo Switch: 735 minutes
Sega Genesis: 695 minutes-
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I'm pretty wiped out from the last day of vacation today so it'll be another week of just posting my household's times without any picture or writeup, but I think next week I should be able to get back to the usual routine.
Ineligible
Pinball FX3 (Nintendo Switch) - 15 minutes
Sonic Mania Plus (Nintendo Switch) - 210 minutes
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo Switch) - 510 minutes
Sega Genesis
Castlevania: Bloodlines - 24 minutes
Columns - 81 minutes
Contra: Hard Corps - 42 minutes
Michael Jackson's Moonwalker - 38 minutes
Mortal Kombat II - 52 minutes
Ms. Pac-Man - 56 minutes
NBA Jam: Tournament Edition - 52 minutes
Samurai Shodown - 33 minutes
Sonic 3D Blast - 12 minutes
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - 150 minutes
Splatterhouse 2 - 75 minutes
Tanglewood - 80 minutes
Total Video Game Play Time This Week
1,430 minutes (23 hours 50 minutes) [695 minutes eligible]
Individual System Play Times This Week
Nintendo Switch: 735 minutes
Sega Genesis: 695 minutes-
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After playing with it for a while I can see no difference in the picture and sound between model 1 vs model 2.
Awesome! With composite output on both I only notice a very slight difference in pixel definition between my Model 1 High-Def VA6 and Model 2 VA4. The pixels look a teeny tiny bit sharper on my Model 1, but the difference is almost imperceptible and only noticable on small text. Other than that they look and sound the same to me too.
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It looks like I have to compete against Jin. Yikes! My only hope is a good draw.
I think I'm just as nervous as you are. There's plenty of games I'm terrible at!
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Picked up a few new Genesis games for my library this week.
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Jeebus criminey! Just looking at your collection is making me sweat a little!
I'm still in the process of trying to acquire all the more pricey Genesis games I'd like for my own collection and I've got about two dozen that are in the $30+ range left to go. Hopefully I can snag them all before prices go completely bonkers.My big goal right now though is acquiring a nice condition and properly working Sega CD Model 2 and 32X for a reasonable price (around $225 for both with all the bits included) and that's proving more than a little challenging. I think it's the combination of the recently released Sega Genesis Classics collection on current generation consoles, the Mega SG, and the recently announced Sega Genesis Classic Mini system causing renewed public interest in the Genesis and the corresponding price surges.
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What I love is, everyone is handling their take on future preservation, so there's a wonderful amount of redundancy going on. One guy repairs old machines to run stock, another makes computer programs to run ripped software. Other folks get the old machines to run the modern ROM rips, sometimes retaining original functionality, sometimes not. Others still make brand-new machines and brand-new games- your old NES and copy of Mario 3 may rot away, but your new analogue nt & modern repro cart still work fine! It doesn't matter what happens down the line- someone's going to have a way to let us play the games.
Ya know, you're absolutely right about that Hoshi. If the way things are now in the retro gaming world is any indication of what the future holds then there isn't just one solution for how the games of today will be played in 20 years, there's a whole bunch of them. There are talented hackers backing up games and their associated patches and DLC digitally, still plenty of physical copies of games to collect, brand new clone consoles with the accuracy of FPGA technology, new parts for old consoles and folks who like fixing them, reproductions of games, flash cartridges and optical drive replacements, a bazillion and a half emulation options, and probably a dozen more ways to play old games that I didn't even mention.
Right now there are overwhelming amount of ways to play games from 20 or 30 years ago, and with retro gaming more popular than ever I see no reason to think that there won't be just as many ways to enjoy the games of today 20 or 30 years from now. Everyone's got their thing, and they're all great ways to preserve games for future generations to enjoy.
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I feel pretty confident that retro game collecting will still be a fairly mainstream hobby 20 years from now, though it seems likely that most collectors will be sticking to systems where the entire game is on the cartridge or disc since there won't be servers to download update patches or DLC from anymore. As far as I know the most current systems to have the entire game self-contained on physical media are the original Wii and 3DS, which (with a few exceptions) don't need any sort of downloads to run their games properly.
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With company visiting I don't have a lot of free time to do my usual picture and writeup this week, but here's my household's times for the week nevertheless.
Ineligible
Adventure (Atari 2600) - 52 minutes
Brutal: Paws of Fury (Sega Genesis) - 18 minutes
Golden Axe (Sega Genesis) - 40 minutes
Lead (Atari 2600) - 10 minutes
Pac-Man (Arcade, played on Namco Museum Arcade Pac for Nintendo Switch) - 10 minutes
Reindeer Rescue (Atari 2600) - 26 minutes
River Raid 3 (Atari 2600) - 7 minutes
Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi (Sega Genesis) - 10 minutes
Streets of Rage (Sega Genesis) - 70 minutes
Super Breakout (Atari 2600) - 12 minutes
Nintendo Switch
DOOM - 345 minutes
Night in the Woods - 60 minutes
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - 690 minutes
Nintendo Wii
Dead Space: Extraction - 71 minutes
Total Video Game Play Time This Week
1,411 minutes (23 hours 31 minutes) [1,166 minutes eligible]
Individual System Play Times This Week
Nintendo Switch: 1,095 minutes
Sega Genesis: 138 minutes
Atari 2600: 107 minutes
Nintendo Wii: 71 minutes-
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With company visiting I don't have a lot of free time to do my usual picture and writeup this week, but here's my household's times for the week nevertheless.
Ineligible
Dead Space: Extraction (Nintendo Wii) - 71 minutes
DOOM (Nintendo Switch) - 345 minutes
Night in the Woods (Nintendo Switch) - 60 minutes
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo Switch) - 690 minutes
Arcade
Pac-Man (Played on Namco Museum Arcade Pac for Nintendo Switch) - 10 minutes
Atari 2600
Adventure - 52 minutes
Lead - 10 minutes
Reindeer Rescue - 26 minutes
River Raid 3 - 7 minutes
Super Breakout - 12 minutes
Sega Genesis
Brutal: Paws of Fury - 18 minutes
Golden Axe - 40 minutes
Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi - 10 minutes
Streets of Rage - 70 minutes
Total Video Game Play Time This Week
1,411 minutes (23 hours 31 minutes) [245 minutes eligible]
Individual System Play Times This Week
Nintendo Switch: 1,095 minutes
Sega Genesis: 138 minutes
Atari 2600: 107 minutes
Nintendo Wii: 71 minutes-
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I will concede and congratulate Jin on a great score. Unfortunately Reindeer Rescue is not my game.
Aw, I'm sorry man. It is a darn tough game, trying to work out the jump timing and memorizing the routes through the levels. Congratulations on making it to the bronze medal bracket finals though, that's a pretty major achievement in itself!
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Round 1, Fight!
Reindeer Rescue (Game 1, B/B Difficulty): 41,250
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Favorites
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Super Breakout
Robot Tank
Most Surprising
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Roc'N Rope
Toyshop Trouble
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Cosmic Ark
Spider Fighter
Weirdly my favorites were both played during weeks I missed, but they both easily make my top 10 all time favorite Atari 2600 games list. As far as the worst games go, I just hate games where in order to get the highest score you have to sit there and grind doing the same thing over and over for 3 or 4 hours. I know that back in the day being able to play an arcade style game for hours on end was considered getting good value for your money, I just don't have the patience for it.
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Definitely not for me, but it does further legitimize video games as a mainstream pastime so I can't really complain. The only time I watch gameplay videos are when they're part of a journalist's video review of the game or if I get stuck in a game and just want someone to show me where to go or what to do next.
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Gah! In spite of getting utterly distracted and completely spacing out the last 1/3 of the season I somehow still managed to make it into the bronze bracket finals.
I'll come back and play in the final bracket tournament though!-
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A big week for gaming around here this past week, with my household's times relatively evenly split between modern and classic games.
Ineligible
DOOM (Nintendo Switch) - 135 minutes
Dust: An Elysian Tail (Nintendo Switch) - 750 minutes
NES
Hogan's Alley - 15 minutes
Mechanized Attack - 57 minutes
Rad Racer - 8 minutes
PlayStation
Doom - 182 minutes
Sega Genesis
Alien 3 - 343 minutes
Michael Jackson's Moonwalker (Emulated on Nintendo Wii) - 74 minutes
Sonic the Hedgehog (played on Genesis 6-Pak) - 140 minutes
Sega Master System (Emulated on Nintendo Wii)
Alex Kidd in Miracle World - 50 minutes
Alien 3 - 18 minutes
Aztec Adventure - 22 minutes
Bram Stoker's Dracula - 4 minutes
Ecco the Dolphin - 17 minutes
Master of Darkness - 55 minutes
Michael Jackson's Moonwalker - 28 minutes
Mortal Kombat - 23 minutes
Total Video Game Play Time This Week
1,921 minutes (32 hours 1 minute) [1,036 minutes eligible]
Individual System Play Times This Week
Nintendo Switch: 885 minutes
Sega Genesis: 557 minutes
Sega Master System: 217 minutes
PlayStation: 182 minutes
NES: 80 minutes
The big game for me this past week was Dust: An Elysian Tail on the Switch, which I absolutely loved and did a full play through of with 112% completion (which is everything that can be done in the game with the exception of getting a 4 star rank in the game's 5 bonus challenge levels). I rarely ever go for 100% completion in a game, but Dust just captured my heart like few games ever have. As far as Metroidvania genre games go I can't think of a more perfect game than Dust, including Metroid and Castlevania series games themselves! It was challenging without being unfairly difficult, had some of the most beautiful hand drawn animation I've ever seen in a game, and a big cast of wonderful and memorable voice acted characters that carried the story brilliantly. Dust: An Elysian Tail has definitely earned a spot on my list of all time favorite video games.
Other than Dust, I also did a complete play through of Mechanized Attack on the NES (and managed to beat it using the NES Zapper light gun, though only after putting a band-aid on my trigger finger to cover the blister that started forming halfway through the game from the constant trigger pulling) and played a whole slew of Sega Genesis and Master System games as well this past week. The misses and I did full play throughs of Alien 3 and and the original Sonic the Hedgehog on the Genesis together, trading off the controller between levels, then we just sampled an assortment of Genesis and Master System games we were curious about via emulation on the Wii. Alex Kidd in Miracle World was one we both liked, though the controls felt really slippery and that did make the platforming feel unnecessarily difficult, and Master of Darkness was a pretty big hit with both of us as well. It's a blatant Castlevania ripoff with some very British sensibilities, but it wasn't a bad Castlevania ripoff at all. It played great and kept everything that made Castlevania so much fun nicely intact, and the only complaint I could really make about it is that climbing stairs is a little tedious and cumbersome since the game requires you to be positioned on the exact pixel the stairs begin on to go up or down them. Other than that it was pretty fantastic all around.
As far as the misses solo gaming time went, she did manage to put a few hours into her yearly play through of Doom on the PlayStation and is still having a lot of fun with it. Looking ahead to next week I'm not sure how much gaming we'll be doing, since we have a mutual friend from Canada arriving on Wednesday who will be staying with us for about two weeks. He will be bringing his Nintendo Switch and some games along with though, so if nothing else we should end up playing some multiplayer Switch games. I'm sure I'll manage to rope him into playing some Sega Genesis too.
Until next week, and as always, best wishes and happy gaming to you and yours!-
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A big week for gaming around here this past week, with my household's times relatively evenly split between modern and classic games.
IneligibleAlex Kidd in Miracle World (Sega Master System) - 50 minutes
Alien 3 (Sega Genesis) - 343 minutes
Alien 3 (Sega Master System) - 18 minutes
Aztec Adventure (Sega Master System) - 22 minutes
Bram Stoker's Dracula (Sega Master System) - 4 minutesDoom (PlayStation) - 182 minutes
Ecco the Dolphin (Sega Master System) - 17 minutes
Hogan's Alley (NES) - 15 minutesMaster of Darkness (Sega Master System) - 55 minutes
Mechanized Attack (NES) - 57 minutesMichael Jackson's Moonwalker (Sega Genesis, emulated on Nintendo Wii) - 74 minutes
Michael Jackson's Moonwalker (Sega Master System) - 28 minutes
Mortal Kombat (Sega Master System) - 23 minutes
Rad Racer (NES) - 8 minutesSonic the Hedgehog (Sega Genesis, played on Genesis 6-Pak) - 140 minutes
Nintendo Switch
DOOM - 135 minutes
Dust: An Elysian Tail - 750 minutesTotal Video Game Play Time This Week
1,921 minutes (32 hours 1 minute) [885 minutes eligible]
Individual System Play Times This Week
Nintendo Switch: 885 minutes
Sega Genesis: 557 minutes
Sega Master System: 217 minutes
PlayStation: 182 minutes
NES: 80 minutesThe big game for me this past week was Dust: An Elysian Tail on the Switch, which I absolutely loved and did a full play through of with 112% completion (which is everything that can be done in the game with the exception of getting a 4 star rank in the game's 5 bonus challenge levels). I rarely ever go for 100% completion in a game, but Dust just captured my heart like few games ever have. As far as Metroidvania genre games go I can't think of a more perfect game than Dust, including Metroid and Castlevania series games themselves! It was challenging without being unfairly difficult, had some of the most beautiful hand drawn animation I've ever seen in a game, and a big cast of wonderful and memorable voice acted characters that carried the story brilliantly. Dust: An Elysian Tail has definitely earned a spot on my list of all time favorite video games.
Other than Dust, I also did a complete play through of Mechanized Attack on the NES (and managed to beat it using the NES Zapper light gun, though only after putting a band-aid on my trigger finger to cover the blister that started forming halfway through the game from the constant trigger pulling) and played a whole slew of Sega Genesis and Master System games as well this past week. The misses and I did full play throughs of Alien 3 and and the original Sonic the Hedgehog on the Genesis together, trading off the controller between levels, then we just sampled an assortment of Genesis and Master System games we were curious about via emulation on the Wii. Alex Kidd in Miracle World was one we both liked, though the controls felt really slippery and that did make the platforming feel unnecessarily difficult, and Master of Darkness was a pretty big hit with both of us as well. It's a blatant Castlevania ripoff with some very British sensibilities, but it wasn't a bad Castlevania ripoff at all. It played great and kept everything that made Castlevania so much fun nicely intact, and the only complaint I could really make about it is that climbing stairs is a little tedious and cumbersome since the game requires you to be positioned on the exact pixel the stairs begin on to go up or down them. Other than that it was pretty fantastic all around.
As far as the misses solo gaming time went, she did manage to put a few hours into her yearly play through of Doom on the PlayStation and is still having a lot of fun with it. Looking ahead to next week I'm not sure how much gaming we'll be doing, since we have a mutual friend from Canada arriving on Wednesday who will be staying with us for about two weeks. He will be bringing his Nintendo Switch and some games along with though, so if nothing else we should end up playing some multiplayer Switch games. I'm sure I'll manage to rope him into playing some Sega Genesis too.
Until next week, and as always, best wishes and happy gaming to you and yours!
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Oh awesome! I loved Extreme Pinball back in the day! Very cool to see a copy again, I haven't thought about that game in years.
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The Master System library isn't the biggest here in the States, but it sure got a lot of love over in Europe. With that in mind I'm curious what European games the SMS fans here might recommend importing to supplement the US library that play without issue on a US NTSC system or Power Base Converter and 60 Hz CRT TV?
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Alien 3 (Sega Genesis)
Sonic the Hedgehog (Sega Genesis)
Dust: An Elysian Tail (Nintendo Switch)
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I'm pretty darn happy with the Castlevania lineup! I'll admit I was hoping that Rondo of Blood and Symphony of the Night would be in there, but I get that they were really going for it being a pre-Metroid influenced compilation. It's still great to see that Bloodlines made the cut, and getting an official English language version of Kid Dracula for the Famicom is nothing to sneeze at either. I loved the Game Boy version of Kid Dracula when I was growing up so finally getting to play it in color after all these years is a pretty tantalizing prospect.