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EA and Accolade were originally unlicensed third parties, so they had to make their own cart casings. Eventually they became licensed, but continued to use their own cases.

its all about cocoa puffs

Intellivision Lives is a great disk and its well worth the 30 dollars. the only games missing are the arcade ports and license games like koolaid man. plus some of the videos are great

i think they were good games too, but they were released after most people had given up on the N64.

I just hope that its not the last great cube game, like Ocarina was for the N64 (the last great game that got people buying N64s, before an arguement erupts )

im getting the player first, its much cheaper, and it will be nice to play games on a large tv screen

its pretty reliable. i had one, and gave it to a friend of mine who had never had the privilage of playing a genesis. It will work with a 32X if you are wondering, and the cool part about it is that it you can use standard RCA cables to hook it to your TV

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i do own a PSX now as well as a PS2, i didnt get a PSX however until late in its lifespan. i have a wide variety of games and systems as listed in the link in my sig

honestly, i dont own an xbox (yet), Im a Sega fanboy at heart, and have been since the days of the SMS (i was one of the two dozen people that bought a 32X since i knew i couldnt afford a saturn, i skipped the PSX generation and picked up a Dreamcast). Microsoft hasnt done anything positive or negative (yet) since they are playing catch up to Sony, but i believe that their business model is very similar to Sony's. Until that happens though, ill remain cautious about them, and reserve judgement.

why dont you like to hear people bash sony? name me a single top-notch game they made (made, not bought). The truth is they havent done shit for this industy other than promote shoddy hardware for bigger profit margains. I can understand why people dont like Nintendo, I can also somewhat understand why somebody wouldnt trust Sega, but i cant understand how a single person can like anything Sony has done.

i actualy saw one of these fairly recently. There is an arcade at Subway off the Ohio State campus, and they had a Lunar Lander Cab. I think its gone now though...

simple, since sony has removed Sega from the fold and has their eyes set on the last true gaming company (nintendo), more people are taking their tactics personally.

if sony didnt leak that info, then who did and why?

i cant wait for my cube to begin to fail, and itll flash on and off, and the boot sequence will flash over and over on my tv

i hope they do release it, and i hope it bombs, i do know that whenever the PS3 is released, there wont be a good game for it for at least six months, and what good games do come out for it, will be lame ass sequels. The 3D revolution is over, there is no new ground for sony to tread

i have to say, ive never had any boot problems with a game cube. Its by far the most reliable optical media console ever released. Im surprised it won by such a narrow margain. Hell id venture to say that the Cube is more reliable than the NES

DO NOT use ebay to buy a 72 pin connector go to MCM Electronics to get the part for 5.99. you can also pick up a game bit to open your NES games there.

BOK

nintendo did get to where they are today because they made great games (donkey kong, punchout, etc). Sony and M$ have yet to contribute a single great game to the hobby, yet theyre in position to reap the most benefits. (they bought devs that made games for them) I was always a Sega fan, and it pisses me off that they were willing to take risks with original games and got burned. But i do take some relief in that the lack of good games these days allows me to catch up and buy more classic stuff

i guess the important part question would be, if one can surf the web with a console, would it be possible to get a ROM of a game off the net and play the actual ROM on the actual console

I think I have the answer, show her the AA forums, and the unusually high number of female members for a video gaming forum, and then openly wonder what it would be like to date a woman who is interested in Atari.

because the PSX is a crappy machine

face it, its a corporate owned hobby. the mere presence of MicroSoft and Sony in the business has pushed the business into hyper-profit mode. Not that profits weren't important in the old days, but gamers tended to be smart enough to seek out quality over crap, and devopers had a fair amount of freedom from marketing departments. Nowadays, marketing deparments have just as much influence (if not more than) in final products than the actual game designers. They dictate what features will be included in particular games. Whereas in the classic era, a designer would make a build of a game, and marketing would only suggest a few changes, then figure out how to present the game to the public (which is what their primary job focus should be), with all the licenses and sequels, the marketing guys can seemingly sleepwalk through their jobs, so they spend more time pretending to be game designers.

snl hasnt been funny for years