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  3. Posted

    How about Microcosm & Sewer Shark for the Sega Mega CD?

    Also Zaxxon 2600 fit's this catagory I reckon.

     

    Microcosm and Sewer Shark both look fairly interesting. Gotta love all the prerendered FMVs they have, haha. FMV didn't last too long.

     

    The 2600 version of Zaxxon actually looks pretty interesting. To be honest, I wasn't ever a big Zaxxon fan because I hated the isometric 3/4 perspective; it would've been a lot better to play from the side or from behind the plane. The only reason they went with that perspective was to give the game a 3d feel which I guess was cool for back then, but unfortunately I think it makes the game suffer in longevity.

  5. Posted

    I took a gander at that Starfox2 deal you were posting about - getting that thing going looks like a serious undertaking. For obvious legal reasons, it'll be very hard I think to find somebody selling something like that as a finished product. On the hobbyist side of it, it looks like a level 9 out of 10 on difficulty. You'd need access to at least an eprom burner and some decent soldering skills. Then I read something about overclocking, so that right there takes it beyond my hobbyist skill set. I'd try and contact somebody who made the tutorial, maybe they can help you build it.

     

    Yeah, it's WAY out of my skill range which is why I'm looking to get someone who can do it (and I'm actually currently in talks with someone who says he might be interested in giving it a shot).

     

    As for overclocking the FX chip, I'm not holding my breath on anybody being able to do that. However, if someone WERE able to do that then that would be badass since then the game would be running on the original hardware and at 100% speed; it would be the true experience.

     

    -Adam

  6. Posted · Edited by KIWASABI

    I looked at that website.. I want this more:

     

    http://silverfoxy.blogspot.com/search/labe...Compact%20Flash

     

    N64 hacked to use Compact Flash cards instead!

     

    I actually have a Z64 if you're interested (which is the device that he hacked). Even without the mod that's a sweet piece of hardware since it accepts 100mb zip discs which can hold upwards of 20 n64 roms. All you need is an external zip disc drive for your pc in order to dump n64 roms on zip discs.

     

    -Adam

  7. Posted · Edited by KIWASABI

    http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=88355

     

    I just found this thread from a while back. I apologize if I'm repeating an old question. But I'd like to know if there are any current sources as to where to get one of these Star Fox 2 carts from. It's bug free (and debug free) and essentially finished. How cool would it be to play this long lost gem on the real hardware?

     

    -Adam

     

    Edit:

     

    It turns out there's a tutorial on this subject:

    http://snesdev.romhack.de/sf2.htm

     

    Does anybody have an eeprom writer and knows how to do this? Also, the very first link I posted mentioned the overclocking of the FX chip in order to prevent slowdown. Does anybody know how to do that as well?

  8. Posted

    http://silverfoxy.blogspot.com/2008/06/sne...fox-2-cart.html

     

    If this is against forum regulations then I apologize, please lock the thread (although anybody who can do this, please feel free to pm me).

     

    I really want to play Star Fox 2 on the actual hardware and it seems this is the only way (The SuperUFO and the Wildcard dsx both only work with carts that don't require a special chip such as the FX, which is what Star Fox 2 uses). I don't know much as far as burning roms and soldering so I'm just curious how much work this would require and how much someone would charge to do this for me. This is not at all being used as a way for me to profit from piracy. I am paying for the cost of the parts and the labor alone, which I'd gladly pay for a real cart if one existed. This will not be sold (sorry for the annoying legal disclaimer).

     

     

    Thanks,

     

    -Adam

  9. Posted

    Thanks for sharing these games, guys. Tunnels of Armageddon is a very interesting looking game. Is there shooting in it as well or is it just dodging barricades in the tunnels? It looks like there's just the one video on youtube and it doesn't show any shooting.

     

    What about a game like N2O for the Playstation?

     

    Yeah, this is actually more the type of game I was talking about. If anybody thinks of any others please let me know. Thanks.

     

    -Adam

  10. Posted

    Hey everybody,

     

    I'm looking for games from a little-explored genre: tunnel shooters. The only one I can think of is S.T.U.N. Runner, but I don't really think that's great of a game to be honest (there's not enough stuff to shoot). Can anybody think of some good tunnel shooter games that are pretty fast and have plenty of enemies? Any help is appreciated.

     

    By the way, to be clear, I'm talking about games where you're actually flying through the tunnel rather than games like Tempest where you're just locked on the outside of the tunnel.

     

    -Adam

  11. Posted

    How powerful would the Super Game Module have been in comparison to other game consoles of the time? Would it have been as good as NES or 7800?

     

    By the way, since it was mentioned, Circuit City and Best Buy treated their employees pretty similarly, which wasn't horrible but wasn't great. Both companies had their sales goals and the managers got on the salespeople when they weren't meeting their sales goals. The stupid thing was that Circuit City and Best Buy weren't paying them based on commission so their only incentive to sell stuff was to look good with management (a pretty lame incentive). But Circuit City and Best Buy each paid their floor people $9.50-$10/hour which isn't too bad compared to a lot of companies out there (Sears, as I mentioned earlier, doesn't pay their employees anything).

     

    -Adam

  12. Posted · Edited by KIWASABI

    Flea markets are definitely hit or miss, but I think they're fun even if you don't find anything. There are usually some hilarious items to laugh at (such as a wide selection of mexican wrestling masks at my local flea market).

     

    The best deal I got was Metal Warriors for SNES, which is a $50 cart or so, for $15. It was funny because it was tagged for $20 but I haggled him down to $15, knowing fully well that $20 was already a steal. Very fun game too. Though I would've found it hard to pay $50 for it.

     

    The majority of the video games sold at our flea market are sold by dealers who have their own booth/tent. Two of them overcharge, one of them has nearly no space to walk in plus he has teenage employees who are paid to stand in your way and watch you (well I think they're probably supposed to get the hell out of the way but they just stand there right in front of the games I'm looking at), so it kinda sucks trying to buy from them. Also, since it's $3 for parking at my flea market that means that I need to buy something and save more than $3 in order to make it worth my while, which, believe it or not, can be difficult to do when it comes to games.

     

    Overall though I think that flea markets are a fun thing to do on a sunny day (my girlfriend disagrees).

     

    -Adam

     

    Edit:

    Out of all the places you listed in your initial post, I think that flea markets are your best bet. You'll always have a chance that someone randomly decided to get a booth and then brought along their rare games that they know nothing about. Goodwill and pawn shops are always cleaned out of classic games that don't suck...which has been true my entire life actually, especially for Goodwill.

     

    Ebay is pricey unless you get lucky and A) find something nobody cares about or B) there's a misspelling in the listing or something along those lines.

     

    My favorite is craigslist, personally. I go on there several times per day and click on the Games/Toys section. I once got a PSX bundle for $30 that was essentially unused, came with a mint Intelligent Qube ($50 game and extremely fun), Bubble Bobble/Rainbow Islands ($30 game, Time Crisis with gun, Area 51 with different gun, and about 15 other games. I got really lucky because I saw his ad 4 minutes after he posted it. Man was that hilarious. He said, "I JUST posted that! I didn't even get a chance to put up the pictures of the memory cards!", and I said to him, "Well, now you don't need to".

  13. Posted

    I'd like to see all poorly run companies meet their justified death in the marketplace. That it doesn't always happen does not diminish my joy when it does. :)

     

    Yeah, I hear ya on that one. When is Sears going to finally go away for good? Whenever I've gone in one of those stores I say, "Wow, this is the most disorganized and poorly stocked store ever" plus the employees are paid based on commission which rarely puts them much above minimum wage.

  15. Posted

    I never did have the SA controllers the first time around with the CV. Were they fully compatible with all the games, or did they only work with some?

    They were compatible with every regular game ("regular" as in designed for the standard CV controllers), and a few games were designed specifically for the SA controllers: Super Action Baseball, Super Action Football, Rocky, Frontline, just to name a few.

     

    I found this list of SAC specific games; supposedly it's complete:

     

    Super Action Controller Fifteen Game Pak. This game collection includes all fifteen ColecoVision games which require or are compatible with the Coleco Super Action Controller. Many of these games can also be used with the regular ColecoVision hand controllers. The following titles included in this collection are Super Action Controller compatible: Antarctic Adventure, Burgertime, Cabbage Patch Kids Adventure in the Park, Frenzy, Frontline, Roc ’N Rope, Spy Hunter, Star Trek, Sub Roc, Super Action Baseball, Super Action Boxing, Super Action Football, Tarzan, Time Pilot, Wargames. Super Action Controller(s) sold separately.

     

    https://www.atari2600.com/item--Super-Actio...COLGAM0389.html

     

    I was already interested in getting a Colecovision, but now I'm definitely interested since I gotta give the SAC a try.

     

    Also, as far as the way employees were treated at Coleco, that's horrible. Why did they decide to switch from manufacturing in Taiwan to the U.S.? Too much of a language/communication barrier?

  18. Posted

    Thank you both for sharing those articles. I have always been very curious about the history behind the Colecovision but never found very interesting information on that topic online. It's a shame that they entered the market just as it was about to go bust because I think that Coleco could've done a lot for video games. The company was very focused on simplicity and quality, two things that games absolutely need in order to have wide appeal.

     

    On a slightly unrelated note, I had never heard of the Colecovision Super Action Controller before. I checked out some pictures of it and that thing is a monster! Any thoughts on that controller? I like the fact that it has a pistol grip with 3 different buttons.

  19. Posted

    Good games to mention, guys. Donkey Kong Country definitely has amazing animation, although I'd still consider that 3D animation since it's pre-rendered 3D.

     

    Games like Prince of Persia and Out of this World have amazing animation simply because their animation is rotoscoped. Ther art itself isn't amazing, but the movement sure is.

     

    X-men Children of the Atom is a great one to mention as well. I was looking at youtube videos of Marvel vs Capcom before posting this, and I agree with you; the pressure to create more characters forced the animators to spend less time on the character animations for the more recent additions to the series. X-men Children of the Atom has highly detailed characters with very fluid animation; I'm a big fan.

  22. Posted

    Good find. I randomly bought an Intellivision lot just like you, but this was about a year ago or so. I've gone through lots of reviews and have played dozens of Intellivision games, and I can say confidently that these are the games that are worth playing if you prefer action games, which I do:

     

    Shark! Shark! (only released on this system and very addictive)

    Atlantis (This is a MUCH better version of Atlantis than the 2600 version in my opinion and makes great use of the Intellivision controller)

    Burgertime (This is just a port, but is a fun game overall)

     

    Another interesting Intellivision-only game is Diner, which is a sequel to Burgertime. It turns the 2d Burgertime gameplay into an isometric 3d game, and does so surprisingly well. However, unlike Burgertime, the AI wasn't tested thoroughly enough and so the enemies often get stuck in corners, which is annoying when you're trying to manipulate where they're moving to (which is quite easy in Burgertime). This game is very rare, but since demand for Intellivision games is very low, you can find this game for around $30. I'm guessing though that this game's print run must've been 5,000 copies or below.

     

    -Adam

  23. Posted

    I'd like to buy an SNK AES system too but noticed how expensive they are :( I'd love to get one just to play World Heroes,Bust-a-Move and Samurai Showdown 2.

     

    Over 100 dollars sounds really steep to me,but I do know that's an awesome system. Played it at the arcades all the time.

     

    Is the Neo Geo cd just as good?

     

    Get an MVS. Keep an eye on craigslist, you can get a deal. I got an original Neo Geo MVS 4-slot for $400 with 9 games, and the games were worth close to $300 or so by themselves. The games you want are pretty cheap (World Heroes - $10, Sam Sho 2 - $15-20, Bust-a-move $40). Neo Geo MVS is totally worth it. It's an arcade machine but it's also a game console.

     

    -Adam

  24. Posted

    I had never heard of Joystick magazine before. Thanks for sharing those scans. This looks like great retro overload.

     

    Since you mentioned it, check out this retro arcade book called Invasion of the Space Invaders (it fetches around $100 which is why I tracked down the scans):

     

    http://www.amazon.com/Invasion-Space-Invad...2716&sr=8-1

     

    Here are the scans:

    http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7V0ZEZKK

     

    Please note that this upload is thanks to Atariman1976 and a woman named Margaret (Thanks Margaret (a local bookworm icon_smile.gif )for providing the original scans and posting these on your acct, I owe ya one if you ever read this......)

     

    Original post at:

    http://www.atariage.com/forums/lofiversion...hp/t110247.html

     

    -Adam

  25. Posted

    Hey everybody.

     

    I'm currently looking for one of the following:

     

    Entex Galaxian 2

    Entex Astro Invader

    Entex Astro Galaxy

    Entex Super Space Invader 2

    Entex Super Alien Invader 2

     

    I believe these are all exactly the same game, or nearly, which is why I only need one. I'm interested to see how this game plays since it's 2-player but one player controls the enemy, which is something you don't see often in games this old.

     

    I'm willing to buy or trade for this item. Let me know what types of stuff you'd be interested in for a trade and I'll put together a list for you.

     

    Thanks,

     

    -Adam

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