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i understand why people dislike him, but the first minute of this video shows me that he 'gets it' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AknyR-kRvLc youll have a hard time finding a more eloquent description of the 2600. he also gets bonus points for being a bit too young to remember the 2600 in its heyday. making a movie about ET and including HSW in the production seals the deal. he is treating the material with far more respect than he was expected to.

i believe i fought the good fight representing our side.

http://smodcast.com/episodes/gamin-2-the-max/ I am a guest on the Bagged & Boarded podcast for a manic 2 hour chat about classic video games and the state of modern gaming. It's a pretty good episode... though I'm obviously a tad biased.

another Gen 64 kid... sigh

my favorite era was the 16 bit era. i was in high school at the time, so i admit nostalgia plays a big part in my thinking, but the competition between sega and nintendo and the fact that they truly had different styles and approaches to their product is what made that era the best. the pre crash era and the nes era are also memorable and i buy all the logical arguments as to why they were the best. but in my book, the 16 bit era was the zenith.

had two more colecos modded this past week. yurkie does fantastic work. its a shame he doesnt work on other consoles...

not a long list but this is what i own that may qualify in your list beautiful katamari - the 360 controller isnt the best for katamari games, but this is still worthwhile if you can find it blue dragon lost odyssey - decent older style jrpgs you dont know jack + "big button" controllers = party deathsmiles raiden fighter aces raiden iv - schmups and you should invest in either of the geometry wars games.

if you can play import PlayStation 2 games, the Phantasy Star Collection is fantastic. You can play both japanese and english versions of all four games, you can change the difficulty (you get more exp and meseta per battle, making grinding a bit less tedious), and you can change the walking speed of the characters. as for PS2, the dungeons can be pretty brutal without a map.

Fuck off. Woah there, heh. The comment may have come off somewhat snide from what I can tell, but it's a perfectly legitimate concern. Concern for who and what? I'm being up front with what these carts are hense the title of the thread "reproduction game x", if someone slips through the cracks and chooses to be a douche and try to rip someone off down the line thats their poor choice not mine. Also I'm totally sick of little cunt scabs coming into not just my threads but others also complaining about reproductions in a billion different ways. Truth be told most of them either don't own, and never will own an original of said games being reproduced and they just want to bitch with a holier than thou attitude in a false attempt at a fake bullshit aura they couldn't fill if life depended on it cause internet forums fill the void in their lives that is left from a lack of real life social interaction with other humans. OR They where dumb enough to spend thousands on a cartridge and are asshurt cause they actually couldn't or shouldn't have bought it and when they see someone selling a reasonable look alike for a minor fraction of what they foolishly paid for their so called rarity instead of buying a new car, paying overdue bills or bringing home something nice for their wife or kids they feel the need to bitch about it to help justify the poor choices they have made. And that is where my "FUCK OFF" comes from and will always be for those special folks. your rationalization hamster is working overtime tonight, plus an ad hominem to boot. congratulations, you win the internet!

it looks great, but why fake it to that degree?

no attempt to distinguish this reproduction from an original?

some sets are better than others, but its not exactly a feature electronic stores are going to tout (or even know about). the best thing to do is when TV shopping, bring along a cheap jak's plug and play and test out the latency of the composite inputs.

is the store offline? i would like to purchase a copy of pac man collection for xmas.

the reviews are starting to trickle in and they are glowing. thanks to everyone that listened. anyone else have any good stories from working behind the counter at a game store?

not nearly as common as dead NES units, but i have come across a couple over the years

and I think you have blinders on top of those rose colored glasses when you talk about the market. new super mario bros wii sold nearly 22 million copies, and that was a game that didnt get a lot of resources to develop. imagine if nintendo put the same effort into nsmbw that they put into super mario galaxy. the market isnt just teenage boys on xbox live.

in terms of the mainstream public, donkey kong was second only behind pac man in video game character recognition. the hardcore gamers of the day loved defender, robotron and what not, but dk had a wider appeal and that game put nintendo on the map and planted the seeds for what would become a juggernaut later in the decade. its true their arcade legacy is sparse, but the games are quite good. DK DK Jr Popeye Mario Bros DK 3 Punchout!! Super Punchout!!

How in the world are they ignoring their heritage? They have been regurgitating their characters ever since the early '80s starting with Donkey Kong. A lot of their non-Pokemon popular characters started in the early '80s. The vast majority of the rest of them were NES/SNES characters. The game play might not be the same but you give the consumers what they demand and want. characters /= games

my point is nintendo ignoring their arcade games is a symptom of them ignoring their gaming heritage, and its going to sink the company.

What a bunch of baloney. What you call NES-era characters are Nintendo characters. They're NES-era, SNES-era, N64-era... see how it work? So how are they ignoring their 2D legacy? They feature the same characters constantly in their new products. Donkey Kong Country Returns, for example. If by "force-feeding the market" you mean "releasing new games", I guess some people just can't be pleased. You want new games with 80's characters, but you don't want new games with 80's characters? Gee, okay. If you want to play Donkey Kong, play Donkey Kong. It still exists. But DK's not going to sell if Nintendo were to bother coming up with a Wii version of an emulator for it & put it up on Virtual Console. I'm sorry, but that's how it is. they ignore it by taking nearly 20 years to release a proper console super mario bros game. they ignore it by taking samus aran and turning her in a whino they ignore it by taking an action/adventure like legend of zelda and turning into a series of stupid minigames, fetch quests, and obtuse puzzles the people at nintendo incorrectly assume their characters sold their games in the NES and SNES eras. that is not the case. the games sold themselves, the characters were only a peripheral reason for their success. sticking mario into a game does not guarantee success, otherwise mario's time machine and yoshis island would be as highly successful as the super mario bros trilogy. this extends to the 3D mario games. Mario 64, Mario Sunshine, and Mario Galaxy have never been the hits 2D super mario bros games have been. the 3D gameplay is completely different and foreign to anyone outside of nintendos core market. but then nintendo throws "the casuals" (read: retarded, game companies hate catering to these people) a bone and releases a throwaway effort called new super mario bros wii, and it tears up the sales chart. youd think anyone with half a brain would take that que and try to bring back the gameplay of their other 2D hits, but instead they focus on 3D mario despite its lukewarm success, focus on puzzle zelda, and once again trying to entice the mook crowd on xbox live to buy a wiiu with more "hardcore" (read: teenage boy) games. nintendo does not embrace their arcade gaming past, and it will eventually kill the company

what separates nintendo from sony and MS is their gaming legacy. if they ignore this advantage, they are toast. weve established they ignore their arcade legacy, and if you look at their lineup of console game, they also ignore their 2D legacy. new super mario bros wii was a mega hit, and rather than making a new one, or other 2D games from the NES and SNES era, they continue to try to force feed the market luke warm 3D versions with NES era characters. ignoring their arcade legacy is a symptom of a bigger problem.

but what about the DK/DK jr/Mario Bros arcade re-release? http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=13338 if nintendo really wanted to give us their arcade games, they would overcome the obstacles and make it happen.

It wouldn't cost entirely nothing - the games would have to be submitted to the appropriate regional ratings boards for starters, and of course there's the fine-tuning of Nintendo's emulator to run each title properly. But that cost is admittedly quite modest, and you are right to point out that Nintendo is poised to make a great deal of money off a digital release. I think the problem now is that we are at the precipice of a transitional period between the Wii and the Wii U. If Nintendo were to re-release these arcade games now, I suspect they would hold back for the Wii U, to give it something exclusive. i agree that there would be logistical issues now, but that doesnt excuse the past 25 years of neglect. Nintendo of Europe at least threw people a bone and released a modified version of NES Donkey Kong with all four arcade levels.

it would cost nintendo virtually nothing to make their arcade roms available on the virtual console.