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I always wanted them when I had a SMS, but for some reason I never got around to getting any of them. I picked up the original at Flea World a year or so ago and loved it. I like that there's a smooth progression of difficulty, the graphics and sound are wacky and fun, and the left-right scrolling/"kill the bases to advance" gameplay is fairly unique for a shooter. Reminds me of Defender, which is one of the best games of all time, but it's certainly different enough to stand on its own.

It looks like it will be $40. Well, I was expecting $50, so I guess that's good. But unless the reviews are drastically better than the previews it still seems a bit too steep, especially considering all the other games competing for my dollars this fall. I would like to try it, though, the game sounds pretty fun.

Considering how much they're adding to the game (multiple "galaxies," different levels/weapons/enemies, online leaderboards, etc), I would go up to $30 for it. From the many previews out there, it sounds like a lot more game than GW Evolved. HOWEVER, it still doesn't sound like $50's worth.

My family's first console was an Inty, so it has a special place in my heart. I still enjoy playing it, though I think a lot of the appeal was that it was so far ahead of its time. In fact, Treasure of Tarmin is a game that I would say is one of the most "ahead of its time" games ever. D&D Cloudy Mountain was amazing - I played through that dozens and dozens of times. The sports games were great multiplayer, of course. And it also had a nice array of unique, quirky titles - Utopia, Frog Bog, Shark! Shark!, Space Hawk, Dracula, etc. The Inty still has my favorite home version of Burgertime (haven't picked up Beef Drop yet ). As for how well it holds up today, I think fairly well. I can still enjoy Astrosmash, Burgertime, D&D Cloudy Montain (on higher difficulty), Thunder Castle, Night Stalker, and lots of others. They have a totally different feel and... I don't know... "direction" than Atari games. Which is a big reason why I still play it. Sometimes you want chocolate ice cream, sometimes you want blueberry pie. They're both good, even though they're different! I even like the Inty controllers much better than the CV's, although I can totally understand that that's probably due to growing up with the system. Many of the games do feel slow and sluggish, but most games also have harder difficulty levels that alleviate this. And personally (again, probably due to having grown up with it), the Inty's "slow" graphics and gameplay feels better to me than the choppiness of most Colecovision games. I actually ended up selling my CV collection last year because I never played it. The Intellivision has a great library of unique games, and I'm still a big fan.

11390. What can I say, I suck, but the game is still pretty darn fun. And I finally made it to the 2nd level!

A few of my favorites when I played PC games a lot: Ulitma Underworld X-Com Civilization Secret of Monkey Island

I've got a Linksys WRT54G, works great with the Wii, the DS and everything else I use it with. I have the same, and outside of taking a few hours to get set up properly it's worked fine. And congrats on your new Wii - enjoy! As for game recommendations, Godfather is a lot of fun on Wii. I'm not really into open world/crime games, but they did a fantastic job with the wii controls, and it's a lot of fun. I enjoyed Sonic quite a bit, although it is rough around the edges in a few places.

There are quite a few joystick options, and I believe it does. I don't have a usb joystick, though. And thanks for your hints - I haven't had *too* much time to play it, but hopefully I can squeeze in a bit more before the end of the competition.

The new NP has a review of Metroid Prime. For what it's worth, 10/10. Not to surprising there.

I agree the destructible stuff and the level design are great. Graphically, here are my problems with Red Steel's graphics: 1 - the frame rate is choppy. If it ran at a silky smooth 60fps, all would be forgiven. 2 - the enemy grunt characters are pretty ugly, poorly animated, they have a weird, pixely glow, and generally seem to be really low res models. The levels looked great, but the characters stand out. That said, I enjoyed the game. It's not an A title, but it was more than fun enough to keep me playing through to the end. And I'm definitely looking forward to the sequel. They need to fix a control bug or two, rework a few of the motions (zooming by pushing forward didn't work well imho), and give the graphics an overhaul.

Very cool, thanks! It worked like a charm. Man, this game *is* tough. At least I have an excuse in playing with a keyboard. ;P 5150 so far... hehe... I really suck - it's been a long time since I played Miner 2049'er, never played BBSB.

I really, really liked the unique setting and storyline, and the sound is phenomenal. Gameplay wise, it didn't seem much different from any other FPS, and I'm not as high on the game as most people seem to be. I did like that you could electrify the water and take out guys standing in it, and I'm sure other plasmids give you similar options. But I'm not sure I'm a big enough FPS fan to pick it up.

I totally agree. I work with entirely traditional, "hardcore" gamers, and by and large they like the Wii. Many of them also have 360s or play PC games, but they didn't buy the Wii to play "non-games." They bought it for Nintendo games and the wiimote's potential for immersive, unique gameplay. As much as I enjoy my Wii, I would definitely agree the potential has not yet been fulfulled, but that's another topic. I think 3rd party publishers by and large misread the market (everyone but Ubisoft missed the Wii boat entirely in the beginning). They got caught up in the 'casual gamer' phenomenom, and are deciding to throw out cheap and easy minigame packs and kids games. This would work if the Wii market was truly casual gamers and non-gamers. But it's not. This early in the system's life, I think the Wii has attracted mosly traditional gamers looking for something new and fresh. You had to be pretty freaking hardcore to wait in line overnight to get one at launch, or read the papers every weekend to see when they were going on sale. I hope the Wii's strong hardware sales will wake up publishers and get them on board for more meaty titles. If Lucasarts had a quality, original Star Wars game out w/ wiimote lightsabre fighting, I guarantee you'll see strong 3rd party sales. If they half-ass it, or make it "Jedi Kids" then they better be prepared to be disappointed. But that's no different from any other platform, really.

Depends on the game, but I'd say it's about 50/50. I read the manual for 1) some part of the game that's not explained and I want to know how to do something, or 2) to get more backstory or ambience for the game. I tend to read manuals for older games more because there weren't training missions or in-game help very often.

That IS amazing. I *think* I subscribed to Compuserve very briefly, I can't quite remember. I got my first modem for the Amiga 500 (1200 baud - it SCREAMED!), but I mostly did local BBS's. Never had a modem for my 8 bit computers.

I enjoyed One on One for the c64 back in the day, but it's obviously been a long time. If the 7800 version is better I really ought to pick it up one of these days.

That was going to be my pick, too.

I don't know if this is typical, but this last January I got a working 2-port w/ 1 working controller and a couple of commons at Flea World for $35.

Ditto - although I'd like to see pretty much any light gun games: Crossbow, Operation Wolf, etc.

I recently picked up Robotron for the 7800 and it looks (and plays) fantastic. I find Dark Chambers incredibly dull as a game, but graphically it looks pretty good to me. Tower Toppler looks pretty nice, too.

I was pulling for Horrible Hank - Beauty and the Beast was always a favorite of mine on the Inty, but I think it's out of range. Pick Axe Pete deserved to win, too. I guess they'll have to try again next year.

Not a "sleeper" but Paper Mario is a must-play. One of my favorite n64 games. I'd also go with many of the previously mentioned games, especially Mario Tennis - it's awesome.

Aha - thanks, that's it! I had low expectations for that game, and sort of picked it up on a whim because I do like light gun games. I remember being pretty impressed.

Jum52 had problems for me with River Raid, and now BBSB. I'll try a few different roms but so far no luck. Any Mac users out there recommend another 5200 emulator?

Personally, I liked the SMS light gun games better. There was more variety and the games had more depth. But I did enjoy a couple of NES light gun games back in the day - haven't played anything but Duck Hunt in many years, so take this for what it's worth my favorites were: Gumshoe - a very challenging and unique shooter. Never did finish it, but I still liked the game a lot, and it was my favorite of the bunch. Wild Gunman - kind of cheesy and simple wild west shootout, but still pretty enjoyable. The LJN Paintball game - I forgot the title - was actually pretty good, too. You could move left & right w/ the dpad, while shooting w/ the zapper. In my opinion, the NES light gun games aren't really good enough to warrant getting an NES for, but of course there are lots of other good reasons to get one. Again, it's been a long time since I've played any of these games, so take my opinions with a grain of salt.