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Speculators buying out limited runs and then flipping them for profit definitely are a problem, but I'm not sure setting Shkreli-level prices is the answer. Plus, in this and possibly other cases it just seems like pure opportunism, with shady origins to boot.

This mantra is getting old very fast (heard also in the Atari threads) and is a poor excuse, akin to circular reasoning. The fact that somebody is willing to allow themselves to be gouged does not mean it is a normal state of affairs or that it should not be criticized and opposed.

The irony...brawlers are my favourite arcade genre, and I'm totally outscored here (77.5 so far in GA). And the less said about Hippodrome the better...it's not even that the game itself is poor - I just completely fail these days at this kind of fighter and can't stomach the gameplay. Back in the 16-bit days I quite liked them though (but was never any good even then).

Kia is not a Nissan Maxima, but it is a "real" car all the same. Arguing it isn't, because of some artificial set of conditions made up by yourself is silly - eg stating that 16K being the entry point to realness. Are you not aware it sounds exactly the same as the people who owned the "BMWs" saying that all the other micros, including 400/800/c64/etc were toys and not real computers? Saying that 400 in 1981 was an awesome computer with decent specs and good price is perfectly fine, because it was. Expanding into how it was the only "real" computer compared to its peers is silly. And going further into fantasy what-if land in which 400 was the catalyst and sole reason for the whole micro-revolution, and how we wouldn't even have any Commodores or ZX Spectrums without it - is just plain ridiculous. Now I get it this is Atari Age and there's lots of people with personal experiences and very strong sentiments towards this brand , but nevertheless, 4 decades later I think we could all afford to be a bit more reasonable than our early tribal selves.

I wonder where that strong deja vu feeling is coming from...

Meanwhile, in 1982 Europe... The whole debate about which one was a "real" computer sounds a bit silly to me. Everybody knew they're not as powerful as their (much more expensive) big brothers and nobody cared. They were certainly not just toys: people did use them for business or work but above all they have sparked the bedroom coding revolution, something relevant back then (simple but innovative games) and now too (The Witcher 3 and others written by folk who grew up with these machines).

Try to say "Jumpy jaguar at your jugular" in any accent really fast.

I don't, really. Seems like another strawman, this time a Xbox-bigging up one. So Sony's masterplan was to hold back on BC just so they can release the Mini? And not because thy're simply riding a wave of nostalgia novelty items which are mostly bought as collectors items or presents?

Kult - 46,468 Malpass Inter - 75,250 Marauder - 123,700 Threshold - 65,100 Choplifter - 32 IGB - 28,800 I vote to give IGB a chance, once it works it works...and it's a pretty good game actually. Did a decent score on Leeper and it crashed :/ Jawbreaker drives me mad.... why do these pac man things always have to keep going? How do you do these little thumbnails?

You can block the spyware, "bugs" are in any software and anyway this is the stablest Windows ever, there is nothing "forced" that you could not customize, "extra configuration abstraction" is a fairly abstract statement and so on and on. I mean, I hate the calling home, Metro interface and "as a service" model as much as the next guy, but this is PC world. Things can be dealt with without that much hassle, and lots of complaints (such as the ones above) are just baseless.

You're doing god's work sir, plz keep it up. Type ins were part a big part of my childhood, especially those times when I didn't have any machine and tried to "read" them Later on actually doing some typing, several hours of pain and then error message because they printed it wrongly. Typing hex was a particular torture, I even devised a cardboard "visor" so it'd only show a line at a time. Heady days.

Nostalgia is a purely personal and circumstantial feeling. Since Playstation was my first console and my first Nintendo was an N64 ~ 2003, for me it's PSX which is much more "nostalgic" (if I was doing nostalgia, that is, which I try not to For somebody else it might be an entirely different system.

Windows 10 is not that difficult to tame. It's worth the effort because as an OS it's actually very good. -install Classic Shell to get back to XP/7 Start menu and general look/functionality. -download O&O Shut Up10 and kill off the spying & telemetry. Now, if you se Skype or any other MS apps you need to be bit careful here -you can also block the automatic updates Extra Paranoid Mode: switch off Windows Firewall, install simplewall and control all the outgoing connections by making a white/black list.

It all looks a bit vague/wishful thinking style. Is it made by a trusted/known party? No VGA/RGB is a deal breaker for me anyway, something that the Ultimate 64 has already.

Micro...in Mini...in Classic...is this the right time for that Xzibit meme?

Gotta love how these kinda news launch are always a perfect excuse the fan-favourite sideswipes: -RPi sucks -"dithery ass" orignal gfx sucks, we're HDMI/4K ppl here, kthxbai -game X not included? Sony sucks -Nintendo was first*, Sony not only sucks but are shameless copycats too I'm sure there will be more to come *after Atari, NeoGeo & a fuckton of clones, but nevermind that

Are you sure about IGB? Seems ok for me (did 19K recently) and others have posted scores higher than 3,500 too.

FF7. It will sell like hot cakes on the strength of this name alone.

I wonder how Skyrim or FO4 would look in this. I always play in first-person and it could be a stretchy, fisheye-fov kinda overkill...or maybe not? Definitely would love it for first-person cockpit games like GTAV or Elite Dangerous, I assume it eliminates the need to look left/right then. I don't have an AAA rig now and don't plan on getting one soon, but maybe in a year or three a monitor like this with G-Sync will be affordable enough for me to try it out.

I saw the thread title and thought: "Wow! Finally a place for me to show off my stuff" (~20 PS2 JRPGs, a sort-of-rare (but not really) Wind Waker, couple of not working Game & Watches and an original PSX"...then saw OP's pics. Mediocre, it ain't

So, I take it this round is over?

Some insane scores start coming in (93K Threshold? oh my...) and there's still 2 weeks to go For today I can only offer a (lame) translation of Kult's intro story. Seeing as it is most likely to be the only HSC game ever which was cracked/written in the town I'm currently in, I thought I'll celebrate this fact in a lyrical fashion. I'm sure y'all have been wondering what possibly motivated the heli's pilot to embark on this perilious mission of flying over randomly scattered monuments and shooting aliens arranged in abstractly wavy patterns. You have...haven't you? Now you know the gripping backstory, are pumped up and motivated, "go forth" and break those HScores

Fair enough, though as hero2billions said we all are worse/better at some styles. I for example can not stand, or fathom how to play, all the Pac Man-style games. Funny thing about this one is I actually find it quite "easy" to play, even though I'm just a fairly average ,mid-table arcader. Once you get the double and rapid fire you just have to keep blasting in all directions and most things simply die There's even no need for some constant dodging like in most other games. Sure, you need to remember about some special events like the fire bridge or the coach & black rider in Stage 2, but there's not that many of these. Big scores here are a bit misleading since it's one of these games where you get huge bounties for bosses. One tip for the three first ones is to make sure to take out the henchmen first, then concentrate on the boss. Let him shoot and then move, otherwise the spread might get you.

Rather disappointing, to see this kind of low-blow argument trotted out here. So, it's only stuck-up luddites living in a nostalgia flavoured retro cloud vs adaptive visionary progressives? A fairly black and white, unfair take, one which could also be easily reveresed: "It's incredibly common to find people who turned their back on the past and are non-critically embracing the "new" stuff, who constantly pick holes in the "old" stuff, while glossing over any issues over the "new" stuff". Sounds fair? The fact that I like CRT TVs and have serious complaints about modern gaming does not necessarily mean that I (nor many others) automatically belong to that stereotypical cartoon-like retro gamer trope. I've owned most modern consoles up till this gen and only folded my AAA PC gaming rig last year due to relocation. I clocked hundreds of hours in games such as Fallout 4, Planetside 2, No Man's Sky, Elite Dangerous or X COM. I'm a gaming news junkie and keep tabs on all the latest developments. Hardly a basement dweller hunched over a shrine to Mother. "Change" is not always good, despite it being a constant mantra used to hand wave away criticism in any walk of life. Personally, I'm also non-convinced by the particular arguments offered in defense here. Discoverability may (or might not) be easier today - but it was never really that great a problem. We had mags and word of mouth and from what I recall it worked quite well. Quantity does not equal quality. So there is a million gaming apps on a mobile and 10000 RPGs on Steam? Great, how many of these are of any substance? There clearly is not "every desire" represented since complaints can be heard not only in my post here (vocal minority, eh?) but all over the net. When a game style such as that of Dark Souls is hailed as something special I feel it's like rediscovering the wheel all over again. "Innovation" does not need to be just coming up with new stuff, but at least following up and expanding on the old: instead we get something like Deus Ex which nearly 20 years after the groundbreaking original offers only more polygons and much less emergence. There's probably no point going over the digital vs ownership debacle any more either since it's all done and dusted now...but it will never cease to amaze me how people in favour of it can only offer something as really minor as "zero shelf space" or "portability" as key pro- points. Especially when contrasted with the opposite facts: "you can't sell or trade it", "it requires online connection" or "it can be taken away at a whim". It's definitely not a "generational" thing - just a corporate stranglehold model sold as convenience. None of the modern changes are all good or inevitable in the present form. We could have digital downloads with ownership rights. We could also have modern blockbusters unafraid of challenge and being satisfied with sticking to decade old design templates. We don't, mainly becasue these ways make much more money for the few. That is why I'm not a fan of non-critically embracing everything, only because it's "new".