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2 new hacks have been added! RealSports Beach Babe Volleyball and another Star Wars themed hack R2-D2's Jawa Trouble

I'm sure the same thing was done with the Virtual Boy. Look where that went.

Hey, you and anybody else are free to disagree & question as much as you like till the end of time. I'm not going to lose any sleep over the matter. Point is, I didn't like/care for the Dreamcast or it's games and found both to be $#!t. Simple as that. Nuff said.

Whatever! You can go screw yorself with a dead rodent for all I care. At least I'm not a sheep gamer like you. Gamers like you are the reason why games are crap today. You don't give the game makers any reason to make anything new. Shane R. Monroe from Retrogaming Radio describes gamers like you prefectly... "Generation Gimmie".

The industry is going to crash because it keeps putting out the same old crap. I for one have grown TIRED of playing the same crap rehashed over and over and over and over and over and over. The same FPS games with only a change in graphics. The same 3rd person action/adventure games with only a change in graphics. The same RPGS with only a change in graphics. The same racing games with only a change in graphics. The same fighting games with only a change in graphics. Etc. As for not liking certian games, what is the problem with that? Aren't there games you don't like and think suck? It's like with anything else. Lets take music for example. Some people may LOVE Rap & Hip Hop, but I HATE Rap & Hip Hop and consider it AUDIO GARBAGE and not music. But I don't hate the entire music spectrum. When it comes to console gaming, I enjoy the 8-, 16-, and 32-bit generation stuff. Games have since gone to hell after 32-bit. Innovation and creativity has DIED. It's ALL ABOUT THE GRAPHICS now. The "spell" of eye candy has worn off with me. Fancy graphics can no longer make up for lacking gameplay in todays current games.

Sorry, a game where you are just a rolling ball of garbage rolling over stuff to stick to you just does NOT interest me in the least. If i want to roll a f--king ball around I'll play Marble Madness or Hamster Ball, thank you very much. ::cough:: Contradiction ::cough:: How the F--K is that a contradiction? Marble Madness is a classic and out WAY BEFORE this piece of $#!t called Katamari. As for Hamster Ball, yeah, it is a clone of Marble Madness. But rolling a hamster around in a ball is MUCH MORE funny, amusing, and interesting to me than rolling a f--king ball of garbage around the street. In any case, I play what *I* like and enjoy playing. I play games for *MY* enjoyment, NOT ANYBODY ELSES. If anybody doesn't like that I don't care for or like the games they like, well that's too f--king bad! Deal with it. I don't give a rat's @$$. That's the great thing about America. Nobody has to like the same f--king thing.

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Yeah, and think of all the money you will be wasting on playing the same games in the next generation that you already played before in this generation. Yes, enjoy the next sequel that plays exactly like the game before it. Yes, just enjoy better looking versions of the same tired old games.

Oh please, I don't need to play a game to determine it's quality. Seeing reviews, screen shots, demo videos, etc. is enough info for me to make a judgement on a game.

Nah, I'll keep on playing what I enjoy and like to play, any you can keep on playing the tired old re-hashed me-too clone gameplay-lacking eye candy filled games of today.

Sorry, a game where you are just a rolling ball of garbage rolling over stuff to stick to you just does NOT interest me in the least. If i want to roll a f--king ball around I'll play Marble Madness or Hamster Ball, thank you very much.

You must have missed my DS post. Sorry, the DS and it's touch screen is nothing but a gimmick to me. Touch screen controll does nothing for me.

I'm impressed that you spent time time to read reviews, look at screenshots and play demos of 300 odd different games to come to this conclusion. For a guy who hates Sega, you are commited! To me, it's stupid to make such sweeping statements like "everything on the Dreamcast sucked ass" when you've played very little of the system's library. Dreamcast wasn't a system for you? Cool. Didn't want Dreamcast because you felt burned by Sega? Cool. But when you start saying things like "everything on it was terrible" (even though you actually played very little) and "this crap deserved to die", you're at risk of starting a flame war by people who have different subjective opinions than your own. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. If your opinion is that the Dreamcast was the greatest thing since sliced bread, then that's cool, and you are welcome to have that opinion. But I will stick to my opinion of the DC. It was a $#!t system with $#!t games. I'm not attacking anybody. I'm just giving my opinion of a game system. Not everybody likes everything, ok. One man's treasure is another man's garbage. There is no need to get your panty's bunched up in a knot over this.

Yeah, the SMS was a great system. It was my second 8-bit system after the 2600. Too bad Nintendo's "dirty tactics" killed the SMS. If game makers were free to design games for both systems, I think things would have been different with the NES being beat by the SMS.

Gotta agree with you there! If video game industry crashed, I have enough stuff stockpiled on the PC to last me a long, LONG time. I have quite a few PC games that I have bought that I have yet to play. And I have near 8 CDs full of "abandonware" that I have yet to fully enjoy.

No. Seeing all the reviews, screen shots, demos, etc. of DC games was enough to convince me the they all sucked. In my OPINION the DC had NOTHING worth playing.

Have to differ there. I love the GBA, but I think the original GBA design is the best. The SP is UGLY and has all the style of a folding brick. If they were going to go back to a vertical design, they should have used a non-folding case design like the GBC. Of all the vertical models, the design of the GBC is the best. And the front-lit system on the SP sucks. Every game I see on it has a ugly blue-ish tone/cast on the graphics. No thank you! I'll stick with my GBA classic with a Nyko wormlight for light.

Well, at the risk of turning this into a Sega/Dreamcast thread... Yes, Sega was bleeding money. But I think the reason for the Dreamcast's failure was because of all the people Sega burned in the past like me. Back in the day I was a BIG Sega fan. I LOVED their early arcade games (Out Run, Space Harrier, Zaxxon, Thunder Blade, etc.) the SMS (spec-wise a better system than the NES) and the Genesis. But after the Genesis, Sega started going down hill. The Sega CD was a good idea, but Sega lacked supporting it. Then came the 32X. I thought this system had promise, and saw it as a nice low-end 32-bit alternative. But true to Sega form, they quickly drop support for the 32X as fast as they brought it out in order to focus on the Saturn. Being burned on the Sega CD & 32X, I waited to see what would happen with the Saturn before I would buy another Sega console. But one factor I didn't like of the Saturn was that it didn't let you play Sega CD or Genesis/32X games, even though it did have a cartridge port, but only for the memory cartridge. Needless to say, the PlayStation destroyed the Saturn. When the Dreamcast came out, I didn't fall for the hype. Knowing Sega's history, I knew the Dreamcast was going to fail just like the Sega CD, 32X, and Saturn did. It was only a matter of how soon it would fail. Of course the Sega drones and fanboys would tell me I was stupid. That Sega had learned their lesson and was doing things right this time with the Dreamcast. But I wasn't going to listen to them. And I was not about to give Sega another chance by buying another system from them that will have support dropped by Sega as usual. In the end, when all the Sega fanboys & drones were crying over the death of the Dreamcast, I was laughing at them saying I told you so. That is what you get for falling for the hype and trusting Sega. As it is, the Dreamcast's only good use is as a book end, door stop, or paper weight. All the games for the Dreamcast sucked ass hard in my opinion. Especially the obscure crap like Seaman, Space Channel 5, Samba De Amigo, and Jet Grind. The best thing about the Dreamcast's failure is that it got Sega out of the console business. That was a happy day in gaming for me. After f--king over and burning customers many times, it all finally came back to bite Sega in the ass. I loved Sega at the start, but grew to hate them in the end.

Nah! 1 or 2 systems hooked up to the TV at once is fine for me. I don't like the clutter of more than 2 systems. Besides, the back of my "entertainment center" is a snake pit of wires & cables as it is. I don't want to add more. As far as emulation goes, It's nice to have a single PC that will play arcade, NES, SMS, 2600, Genesis, SNES, and Atari 400/800/XL/XE games WITHOUT the system and cartridge clutter.

And that is why games SUCK as much as they do today! Gamers have become happy with the same old $#!t that game makers just keep giving it to them. Game makers will NEVER make anything new or different as long as they see they can make money selling the same $#!t in a box over and over to the sheep gamers of today that care about nothing except pretty eye candy.

Retrogaming Radio's producer Bryan "Kidhype" Smith passes away. http://www.retrogamingradio.com/goodbyebryan/

As for the DS, it seems nothing more than a portable N64 with more of the same crap kiddie stuff (Mario, Zelda, etc.) Nintendo puts out on every game system it has. As for the Dreamcast, I wasn't trying to pass off my comment of the Dreamcast as fact. I just gave my OPINION that the Dreamcast deserved to die by the ass kicking it got from the PS2. Having been burned by Sega in the past, I was glad to see the Dreamcast die and has a result cause Sega to get out of the console business. Nintendo strong? Don't know about that. They've been kick to 3rd place in the console market. Then again, I don't see Nintendo being 1st or 2nd ever again there. Nintendo's console glory days are over. It will only be a matter of time before they do like Sega and bail out of the console biz and make software for Sony's & Microsoft's systems. Nintendo will live in the handheld market. But they just might have to get used to being number 2.

Ah, another who shares my view! Yep, the touch screen is fine for slow, non-action card or board games, but not for 3D action games. If it was, you'd already see 3D games for PDAs. But you don't see Doom, Half-Life, or Quake on PDAs. Just games like chess, checkers, reversi, backgammon, battleship, and crossword games. I myself love the tried & true D-pad + Button control when it comes to control in 3D games. Nintendo should have just put in a micro thumb track/rollerball in the system instead of going with the stupid touch screen. Even a analog nub would have been better. And the second screen is just a battery waster. The DS looks like it will be Nintendo's first flop in handheld systems.

So, what are everybody's thoughts & comments on the Nintendo DS? As for me, the DS is a joke. The touch screen is nothing more than a gimmick. And I think the second screen is useless. I think Nintendo just added it for gamers who are too lazy to press START or SELECT to call up a map or inventory screen. And is sucks that the DS won't let you play GB/GBC games. They made the DS play GBA games, but instead of half-assing it, they should have made the DS play ALL Game Boy games. Between the DS and the PSP, the PSP looks to be the better system. But I am still going to wait and see if/when Nintendo brings out the next model of Game Boy system before I make a choice on a new handheld system. Though I will say that Sony looks to do what Atari, Sega, and SNK couldn't do. And that is topple Nintendo in the handheld market. Just the way Sony kicked Nintendo and Sega's (the Dreamcast was a joke that deserved to die) sorry asses with the PS1 & PS2, Nintendo looks like it will be having Sony's foot print all over it's ass in the handheld market.

The LAST time I found something UNIQUE or CREATIVE were 2 games that were the last of the new releases for the PS1. They were Turn About and Tall: Infinity. As for some mentioned PS2 games: Prince of Persia: Sands of Time. Another same old 3rd person action game. I'd rather play the original 2D Prince of Persia games. The 3D version is basically Tomb Raider with a change of graphics and setting. Been there done that before. Gran Turismo 3. Another boring racer. Man, I hated this game when it was on the PS1. For a game that is supposed to be "realistic", why does it have f--king bumper car collisions??? As far as auto racing games go, I'll stick with Test Drive 5 on the PS1. Jak & Daxter, Sly Cooper, Ratchett & Clank, etc. Just more of the same 3D run & jump cartoon character platform games that have been offered before on the PS1. Games today have just hit a dead end in creativity & innovation. That is why a crash is needed.