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  1. Posted · Edited by BydoEmpire

    I picked up the Gold Box series from GOG.com a few years ago and played through Pool of Radiance and then Curse. I started Secrets, but my laptop was stolen shortly after I started. :(. Anyways, I played a few of them, including PoR and Secret of the Silver Blades on the c64, but never got very far in either. Too many copied games pulled my attention away from long RPGs, even though I loved them. I distinctly remember playing Pool of Radiance in the basement while listening to Black Sabbath... and blowing my party up with a fireball. :)

     

    Anyways, modern fast loading & saving makes it so much more convenient, and I was actually able to finish them this time around. I really enjoyed both, although Curse was a bit buggy with my imported PoR characters and I had to restart a bunch of times because some item I used kept screwing up my stats. They hold up well, imho, with Pool of Radiance being much more cohesive - stronger story, more of a linear progression, more variety and sense of adventure. I started Gateway last year as well, but haven't gotten very far... just not enough hours in the day, but it is fun.

     

    I still have the Secrets of the Silver Blades manual and clue book from the c64 version... I need to get back to that some day, too.

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  2. Posted

    Ugh, I don't want to play Atari games with a thumbstick. Huge props for the effort though, I can see how some folks would like it and it's a really neat project.

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    That's really tough... may change tomorrow, but for now I'm going with:

     

    1. Phantasy Star - of course, needs no further explanation

    2. R-Type - amazing arcade port for an 8-bit. Looks great, plays great

    3. Rescue Mission - one of my favorite light gun games

     

    Runner Ups:

    Shinobi, Penguin Land, Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap, Rambo III, Rastan, Alex Kidd in Miracle World, Enduro Racer, Kenseidenj, Ghost House, Golden Axe, Golden Axe Warrior, Rambo

  6. Posted · Edited by BydoEmpire

    Right hand. In most of those games the dominant activity is movement, which is ideally controlled by your dominant hand. Playing those types of games w/ a joystick on the left is unnatural to me as a right handed person. IMHO the dominant activity in most later games is timing/button-related, so it makes sense for those to be on the right. In most platformers, for example, you typically wind up holding the dpad one direction or another for a while, but it's the buttons that require split-second timing. Just my 2c, and of course if you grew up using the "other" hand I'm sure you could get accustomed to it.

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    I totally agree. Classic arcade games are fun games. They're not trying to tell elaborate stories or be massive experiences, they're just trying to be games... and I like that. I can still play Pac Man and have fun, try to get better, etc. I do play in short bursts, but that's part of it. I'm not going to sit down for four hours and play Pac Man... but then, I'm not going to sit down and play a modern game for ten minutes. I wouldn't make it through the patch process, the login, and the tutorial by the time I had to finish. Where I'm at in my life right now I have very little time for games, so I really don't have interest in anything that takes hours.

     

    I don't just play classic games for nostalgia though, as I enjoy lots of games I never played back in the day, and I like modern classic-style games. There is a nostalgia factor to the experience, though, regardless of the specific game. That's part of the fun.

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  9. Posted · Edited by BydoEmpire

    Little 13" crt/dvd combo for my xegs and c64

    Sanyo 27"(ish) TV for my consoles and Flashback units.

     

    I've had both forever and they keep chugging.

     

    The only modern TV we have is a 32" 720p Olevia, which we roll out on Sundays. The Wii (my most modern console) is hooked up to that, but it rarely gets used.

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    I love 7800 Galaga, but then I'm not a huge fan of the arcade game. The 7800 version is fun, the difficulty ramp is great, and it plays smoothly. As far as "fixed" versions of arcade ports go, I'd like to see Mario Brothers updated with better control & jumping. It's not bad, but it is always a bit frustrating to play. That said, I'd much rather see games that didn't see widespread release on a million other consoles, like Zoo Keeper.

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  16. Posted · Edited by BydoEmpire

    I love the 7800. Love it. I have, because of that love, occasionally defended the prolines as "not that bad." May I never have to sully my soul so deeply as to defend the Inty controllers and the prolines in the same forum. That's a lie so big it breaks the forum.

    I'll do it! I grew up with the Inty controllers and had a 7800 back in the day. While obviously not ideal for some games, and the side buttons do suck (especially when worn), but the Inty controllers aren't nearly as painful and cramp-inducing as the ProLines. The ProLines are similarly really awful for games where you need constant movement, but for games that only require intermittent joystick movement they are definitely usable... though certainly not great. Now, back to the games...

     

     

    Thunder Castle would be fun, just because I like the game, although I don't know if a direct 7800 port would improve on it at all.

     

    The 7800 is desperately in need of good sports titles, so ports of some of the late-release Inty sports games would be good.

  17. Posted

    The Intellivision was my first console, I still love it. I would like to see some of the Inty action games done on the 7800 for increased speed and responsiveness.

     

    Space Hawk (would benefit from being faster and smoother)

    AD&D Cloudy Mountain (because it's one of my favorites of all time)

    Shark! Shark! (would benefit from being faster and smoother)

    I'd like to see a sequel to Star Strike with more variety. I liked the Inty original back in the day, and while I do like the core game it gets old pretty quick.

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    I don't care, to be honest. I've been selling off bits of my collection over the last 10 years, anyways. I do have a list of "retirement games" that I know I'll never have time to play unless I ever retire. In which case I hope my systems still work (I bought the FF anthologies for PS1 but never played any of them... they're on the list, for example. My original ps1 still worked as of last year). If for whatever reason I can't play through a couple of Final Fantasy games it won't bother me. There are a dozen other things I worry about way more than what happens to my games and whether or not I'll be able to play them in 20-30 years. I don't want to be overly negative. I hope I'm able to spend some retirement time playing some of these games I never got around to.. but if it doesn't happen I won't lose sleep over it. There are other things I'll want to spend time with.

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  20. Posted

    The game that sold me a SMS! I got to play it at a friend of a friend's house one day. He was the only guy we knew who had a Master System, and I thought it was really cool once I got to sit down with it. I think I got one not too much later, and over the years I spent more time with the Master System than the NES. Haven't played it in 30 years though, so I'm not sure how well I'd enjoy it nowadays, but at least for nostalgic value it's great.

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  21. Posted

    Nintendo makes machines that run Nintendo software. If you like Nintendo games, you buy one, and that's how you play them. It is completely unrelated to owning a Playstation or XBOX.

    And I think that's the big reason for the Wii U's relative failure: Nintendo's 1st party output didn't match what it typically does - not at launch, and not throughout the life of the system. There just weren't system seller-caliber games. Not that there weren't good games, almost every console has at least some good games. They didn't make anything that showed why the special controller was worth buying the system for. The mini-game pack in was pretty bad right out of the gate, which didn't set a great tone. Pretty much every other Nintendo system had a killer game in the launch window, if not right at launch day.

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    I have the Floppy Emu on my Apple 2c and it is AWESOME. What I did was purchase the Apple Disk Drive A/B Switch and Cable and ran a floppy cable from the internal floppy connector through the back aux/monitor port above the port connector and below the plastic, connected it to the switch, and back to the internal drive. Then I also connected the Floppy Emu to the switch, and I can very easily switch between the internal drive and the Floppy Emu. If I want to use it in Smart Port mode, I move it to the external floppy connector on the back with the provided adapter. It meets all of my needs. For the cables running through the back, they are both longer, and on the Floppy Emu I used the short internal one that came with the IIc.

    FWIW, that's what I did and it worked great. It took all of about 15 minutes. I haven't used my floppy drive since, but nice to know it's ready to go if I want it.

  23. Posted

    The VCS game is one of my favorites on the system, definitely in my top 10. The motion of the demons is so cool, and it's not overly difficult. I did really enjoy the Inty version when I was growing up. I always thought the increasing pitch of the beeps added a lot of tension, and of course the boss stage was cool. I just don't play it much these days, though.

  24. Posted

    No. Ultimately, it's about the games. People didn't like it because it didn't have many good/great games compared to other systems (of course there were *some*, every console has some). 3rd parties did initially try to put out some quality stuff, but the games sold so poorly it got dropped like a rock. Nintendo's own software as pretty limited and weak compared to other consoles. The pack-in was awful. The price was high. The system software was atrocious. There wasn't anything that made the controller a "wow" type of thing the way the Wii's controller was. The only thing the system had going for it was the controller, but the limited range, expensive price, and lack of games that did anything cool with it made that essentially a non-factor.

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