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exactly, lack of memorable tunes are one of the reasons modern gaming doesnt have the magic of the old stuff.

then the winner is the saturn

i wish i had 3 friends willing to play one of these games with me. the board game types arent interested in old video games, and the classic video game fans arent a fan of dealing with a 53789 board game though both groups think the concept is very cool

neither of those examples are very high fidelity, the melodic instruments sound like mud. they also dont have the deep bass that the sega genesis could pump out when it was at peak performance.

that is simply untrue. the snes was a fantastic system for sound samples and midi, but it had very low fidelity... meaning it didnt have very clear treble and bass. so it worked wonderfully with orchestral and string music, but it blew chunks with techno and rock music. on the other hand, the sega genesis used a full featured 8-bit synthesizer for its sound chip. so while samples of real instruments were predictably terrible, "chip tune" style video game music sounded crystal clear and was fantastic. each system could sound fantastic if the music composer and sound programmer took advantage of each of the systems strengths and avoided their weaknesses. saying the snes or genesis had a superior soundchip over the other is no different than saying a violin is better than an electric guitar or vice versa.

it could be a broken pin, you can also try using a 3 button sega genesis controller if you have one laying around

they call it the 'ness' on friggin G4 (0:56) i brought this up in the other thread, i always wanted to slap people when they called it the ness when i was growing up. now my wife calls it the ness and the sness just to annoy me, so of course i call it that now to keep myself from getting annoyed and to have a laugh at the expense of the people that call it that.

Wasn't the Action Set released around November 1988, not 1987? I don't know; I do remember my sister and I buying it in '88, I think in the summer... the big jump in sales happened around 87 and 88. there is a myth that the NES flew off the shelves as soon as it was released. that wasnt the case, it took quite awhile for the company to gain momentum. as for the face of the company, i dont think nintendo=mario meme began until smb 3 was released in 1990. just as many kids were heavy into zelda, metroid, tecmo bowl, mike tyson's punchout and other games.

thats not necessarily true, some people pronounce snes as a word rather than individual letters. my wife does it that way because she knows it annoys the snot out of me.

thank you! i managed to do it while actually keeping it on topic

pack in or pack out wasnt my point... my point was the deluxe pack (with rob and the zapper) did not include SMB. so nintendo was not putting all of their chips in with smb. in other words when the nes launched nationwide, they knew smb was a good game, but didnt yet see it as the ticket to astronomical hardware sales. when i said it was an accident that smb became the packin, nintendo rightly noticed the great reaction to smb, the favorable reaction to duck hunt, and the meh reaction to gyromite, and the action set was born. what happened in japan wasnt very relevant to the US market. the famicom had been on the market for a couple of years and was well established. smb was simply a second generation famicom game, it didnt resurrect a corpse of a market like it did in the us market. but thank you for showing pics of all of the system variations.

wasnt smb as a pack in an accident? the original deluxe nes package had gyromite and duckhunt as the packins. smb was the packin with the basic package. the zapper did do a fair share of generating interest in the early NES days,that is why the wildly popular action set packin was the infamous smb/duck hunt cart

if you are charged with the task of finding the singular event that brought back the console gaming market, then the release of super mario bros would be it. but events like this do not occur in a vaccum, and there were several smaller-but-not-less-important events before and after the release of SMB that made nintendo a juggernaut in the late 80s. its like saying germany and the soviet union invading poland started world war ii without going into events like the rise of hitler in germany.

watermelon announced today that the reprints have sold out

it's not a hack per se, nintendo bundled the game with special edition red wii systems in europe. retrousb put the reproduction on a cart but it wouldnt be the first time there have been issues, on my copy of vs super mario bros, on world 1-3 (or maybe 3-3 - it was a tree level), there is a tile error and the message "this ends" appears a couple of times in the background. there was a thread about them swapping out carts to fix this problem, and i plan on doing that when i place my next order with them sometime soon.

ok, i found a link on the website for special rates... thanks

awesome will attendees have access to room discounts at the hotel?

what is the quintessential first party dreamcast lineup?

i liked the sega arcade gallery (outrun/space harrier/after burner/hang on). though im sure it wasnt 100% spot on emulation, they were fun little ports.

the saturn is an awkward system with an eclectic library. i dont know what games you enjoy the most, but there are more than a few good inexpensive games for the system. go for the common stuff, and give it a test drive virtua fighter 2 daytona usa virtua cop 1 and 2 sega rally after those games, just keep an eye out for some other moderately priced games that pique your interest.

if a new console was indeed on the horizon, there would have been some sort of well publicized leak on the specs/design/capabilities of the new machine circulating around. nintendo may be the best candidate for a new system, but despite the cries from the "hardcore" crowd, their problem is not a hardware issue, their biggest issue is keeping the software pipeline full. a new system does not solve this problem.

mine arrived today in ohio 285/800

thats a loaded question the snes probably had fewer junk titles overall, but it had more 'me too' titles.