vectorman61890

[vectorman61890]

A+ - purchaed some saturn and genesis games from the marketplace

[DreamTR]

purchased an Indy Heat genesis repro without a hitch

[bigbee99]

A+ : bought 14 magazines, everything was shipped promptly and items arrived as described

[Did any company ever release a GB/GBA CONSOLE?]

gamecubes are cheaper than dirt and pretty compact.

[Did Anyone In The US Play SMB 3 Prior To 1990?]

the first japanese game i played on an american console was bare knuckles for the genesis. this rental store had japanese games and cut the plastic off the carts so they could be played on US consoles. they also had a super famicom before the snes was released.

 

exciting times

 

but the US/Japan divide was not in my universe during the NES's heyday

[Quick Genesis Power Base Converter question:]

you have to remove the convertor to play genesis carts

 

but the convertor is basically just an oversized cart. there are no cables, power adapters or anything to attach when you want to use it.

[CLOSED / We have a winner!]

is it Q*bert's Qubes?

[colecovision launch titles and sales]

simple enough question, wikipedia (not a perfect source) states there were 12 launch titles for the colecovision. a google search of :colecovision launch games" yields nothing.

 

so what were the 12 launch games, and what were the best selling games for the system other than donkey kong?

[Power Joy NES clone power adapter]

real famicoms are getting cheap, id keep the cart and ditch the system

[Would the Dreamcast have failed if it had been made by another company.]

hardware doesnt sell video game consoles, video games sell video game consoles. if by some miracle sega had found a way to release gta iii on the dreamcast in the fall of 2001, the game wouldve changed.

[Would the Dreamcast have failed if it had been made by another company.]

The other thing about the PS2 versus dreamcast or just companies in general is that for example while I like the xbox line I do not feel Microsoft and Sony are true game companies in a way like Nintendo and what used to be SEGA. Microsoft and Sony both have other markets(Microsoft controls computer's and Sony TV's) while Nintendo does not, in a way I feel that means they do not have to technically try as hard and can sell there products at a loss to seem like better deals because they do have something to fall back on while Nintendo does not have the option to do less then the others sell wise for a generation because that is all they have. I feel it is a slight unfair advantage for the other companies.

 

 

microsoft and sony are in big time trouble, the tepid sales of the 360 and ps3 are not helping out their company lines.

[Would the Dreamcast have failed if it had been made by another company.]

for the dreamcast to be a success, it had to be a hail mary pass. but it ended up far short of the goal line.

 

 

the ps2 did not really take off gamewise until grand theft auto iii was released in late 2001... a year after the ps2 launched. up until that point, the ps2 lineup was pretty suspect. its main selling point was the dvd player.

 

if sega had somehow landed gta iii, things wouldve been different.

 

To be fair, though, that's ALL systems. It always takes a year for any new system to have a 'killer game' for it, that people are going to rush out and buy the system just for that one game. On top of that, it takes about a year for a system to build up a good library of games and for the bugs to be worked out, perhaps even a price drop.

 

The Dreamcast never had that 'killer game'.

 

 

 

 

its not all systems, the NES had Super Mario Bros out of the gate, the Wii had Wii Sports out of the gate.

 

the Dreamcast did have the most successful launch of all time (until the PS2), mostly on the back of NFL 2K. Had there not been an NFL 2K, the dreamcast would be in the same league with the saturn.

[Would the Dreamcast have failed if it had been made by another company.]

backward compatibility wouldve helped the japanese market, but it wouldnt have been much of a feature in the US.

[Would the Dreamcast have failed if it had been made by another company.]

for the dreamcast to be a success, it had to be a hail mary pass. but it ended up far short of the goal line.

 

 

the ps2 did not really take off gamewise until grand theft auto iii was released in late 2001... a year after the ps2 launched. up until that point, the ps2 lineup was pretty suspect. its main selling point was the dvd player.

 

if sega had somehow landed gta iii, things wouldve been different.

[Cardboard Genesis Boxes]

i did that for awhile in the 90s, but they end up looking like crappy rental copies.

 

cardboard genesis boxes suck, but the sleeve design is still better than the traditional nes/snes lid design.

[Which classic ColecoVision arcade port would you like to see remade?]

i would love to see a port of zookeeper or anteater

[The legend of Keith Apicary]

how much of the character (the aspergers, the speech impediment, etc) is real and how much is done for the character?

 

I think all of it is for the character. His act on Comedy Central's The Gong Show was different. His speech was unslurred, no glasses, clean cut hair & perfect speech articulation.

 

That and in his act he banged baking pans against his head going DUH DUH DUH.

 

http://youtu.be/7Yie5_CWsoo

 

 

i dont want to be the guy that feigns taking offense to the characterization of a gamer, but the act is a bit obnoxious. he has his moments though, particularly when he interrupted g4s coverage of e3

[The legend of Keith Apicary]

how much of the character (the aspergers, the speech impediment, etc) is real and how much is done for the character?

[Which big 3 would of dominated the 80's]

Yeah, the 64 was the NES of its day, wasn't it?

 

 

atari 2600 sold - 30 million

nes sold - 60 million

c64 sold - 17 million

 

 

 

 

 

not quite

[CORGS Con 2011]

thanks to everyone that stopped by my modest table (front room by the door to the back room), i made a nice little profit and promptly spent it on more stuff... but my boxes were lighter by the end of the show and i didnt lose any money so the show was a win for me.

[Which big 3 would of dominated the 80's]

basic answer - the winner would be the first company to release super mario bros on their console.

 

the more complex questions/answers - which company would have been in the best position to land smb? colecovision made a mint from licensing donkey kong, atari saw this success and got the rights to publish mario bros. could mattel sneak in and obtain the rights to smb? they were hungry for arcade licenses and took full advantage of their rights to burgertime.

 

nintendo was shopping the famicom around for a us distributor. would any of the companies be willing to discontinue their own systems for the right to distribute japanese hardware? or would smb be competently ported to a home grown next gen console? could the 7800, or intellivision iii/iv handle it? the colecovision and sega sg1000 were very similar, when sega developed the backward compatible mark iii (master system), could that have been a path for coleco to pursue? imagine super mario bros on master system hardware.

[vectorman61890]

fast shipping after payment, threw in a few freebies as well

[Cheap but good Gamecube games]

game boy player is a steal on the cube

 

already mentioned, but the super monkey ball games are fantastic arcade fun

[star odyssey]

super fighter team released their new retro revival 'star odyssey' this week.

 

here is a preview video i recorded this evening

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIor4h172yE

[medals, trophies, title belts, etc in 2600 games]

The chalice in adventure looks like a trophy!

 

 

thank you, i was thinking too hard in one direction and overlooked that