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Thanks for the recommendations.. ive never heard of a single one... are these American compatible games or imports? First thing that set that question off was the macross game . Is Final Fight Guy the game labeled just "final fight"? Oh yea, contra... def have to pick that up if i find it...what is magic sword and sweord maniac? Well most are "imports" but whenever someone says SNES I also thinks SFC. It's the same system anyhow just obviously for differing regions. Most of those games can be played on a SNES with a convertor cart or by a quick shave into the plastic (mimicking the SNES open tabs part) to make it fit the SNES system. Macross kicked ass on the SFC, probably the best usage of the license save maybe the PCE SCD game "Macross 2036". Final Fight Guy was both released in the US as well as Japan under the title. It's the same as the regular Final Fight, only it's missing Cody and is replaced by Guy with Haggar. Every SFC/SNES owner should have Contra of course. Magic Sword is a classic side-scroller hack 'n slash game, similar in play to Black Tiger (Dragon) that Capcom had done much earlier in the arcade. Sword Maniac is a futuristic game with some kind of Cyber Samurai. I played it once (briefly) but enjoyed it.

Be sure to pick up... AREA 88 (UN Squadron) Ninja Warriors Again Macross: Scrambled Valkyrie Rushing Beat (Rival Turf) Final Fight Guy Fearsome Fortress (Operation Logic Bomb) Contra Spirits (Contra III) Magic Sword Kunio Tachi No Banka (River City Ransom game) Sword Maniac All of the above are pretty bad ass.

Yeah I'd pay top dollar for a 7800 port of MR.DO! if done correctly. I didn't realize the game was out on the 2600 though. I know I used to power up that game all the time on my ColecoVision before it went kaput though. This game seems (I'm not technical so I do not mean to offend) pretty basic though, so why wouldn't it ever come out as a limited homebrew for the 7800? It's a one screen game and basically DigDug for all purposes with some added extras.

I'm not excited about the console war at all. I'm pumped up about MGS 4, MGS: PO, KILLZONE 2 and a few other games, but that's about it. I still think it's too soon for a so-called "Next Gen" [since it's not truely next generation] launch. At least in the XBOX's case, it still had a good 2 years of life in it. But whatever. Sure, this whole thing is a nostalgic flashback to the days of Nintendo and Sega going at it, with NEC just off to right with a baseball bat in hand... [this time being M$ and Sony with Nintendo being the bat boy] but between the prices and the level of faggotry that surrounds the upcoming console war a lot of the "Fun" is killed. I won't even get into trying to play games online (XBL) where a huge chunk is nothing more than some 8 or 12 year old screaming constantly and acting a fool. At least back in the arcade days, ppl had some form of ethics, and for the ones that didn't... well you slammed their face into the arcade monitor and usually they got the point. I think the prospect of competition is really moot. Ppl are either going to buy one or the other (X360 or PS3), or they'll but both eventually. The Wii [aside from such a crappy name, don't see what was wrong with "Revolution" myself] in Nintendo's own words is an afterthought in the console wars, though it's the only one this gamer here is interested in. X360 focuses too much on FPS games IMO, PS3 gets all the other stuff I want, but at a price that's just a tad under me procuring a nice M1A1 Carbine or even a nice Sniper Rifle. That's just some bullshit there. At the end of the day though, I'll still be playing my 7800/2600 ProSystem, Mega Drive and Famicom AV more than anything else, and I still have about 15 PS2 games I still have yet to fully play.

Yeah.. like I said, too bad you cant buy the cart here anymore at AA. Why can't it still be had in cart format? Not enough demand for it, or are there just not anymore being made? I only arrived here a short while ago and still get pumped up over things that's old hat to a lot of you. Hell I'm still miffed over the fact Fade Out didn't get finished... the glee I got from those screen shots and descriptions rivaled how I felt watching the trailer for MGS 3 Snake Eater when it first was shown at E3 2004.

There's no way Kojima would let us all see how Snake is going to die. The gun will misfire (like that scene with Denzel Washingtion in Man on Fire), or something will stop him from doing it. The only way I can see him dying is taking 3 in the chest and one in the brain... or the wreckage of a Metal Gear falling onto him after he's beaten it. Either way it makes for a good parody of the reaction of many about the price of a PS3...

Now that would be bad ass indeed. Personally I don't see what the big fuss is over HD-DVD or Blu-Ray? I mean do we really need to see the acne scars (holes) in some actor/actresses face? Need to be able to see the brand name of a cigarette clearly in a film? I'm not against technology, but all this format stuff ever does is cause more problems than is neccessary. I'm still pissed that after investing a small fortune into Laser Disc from the early 90s into the late 90s, DVD came out. Then I was like: "Okay I'll upgrade". {took some convincing} Now, just like during the whole VHS vs. Betamax days, here we are again with two competeting formats, and everyone starts fighting with someone else about which side is better and yaddie yadda, yadda. WHY? Now if someone is in the R&D for that Holographic Versatile Disc right now, why bother with Blu-Ray or HD-DVD? Once we've all bought HDTV and amassed a room sized collection of the newer formats, then just like with LD and even VCD (Video CD) Steps 1-3.5 + SVCD, [in Asia]... we'll be forced to buy into the Holographic stuff. Why not just wait (the industry I mean) until the HVD is ready, as that would indeed be "Next-Generation" and is defiantely something worthy of fapping over [hence the animated fappage gifs]. ...just my two cents.

First 2600 game ever powered up and played was Video Pinball, about half an hour later it was "Combat". Man that brings back memories to 1983.

Playing video games over TV watching, though I probably spend even more time on the Internet hanging out in forums or MySpace than I do anything else these days. Being a father to a rambunctious (but cute and adorable) daughter doesn't afford much leisure time at all these days. When I do power up the TV, it's usually to either play the 7800, Famicom AV or PS2.

It's looking more and more like it. I just hope Nintendo isn't going to be half assed about this whole emulation/ROM thing. I mean all of the good stuff for TG-16 (on that note) was released in Japan for the most part. Also I haven't heard anything yet about arcade games being downloadable and playable on Wii. If somehow MAME or something like it would run all the classics, I'd gladly download like a mofo. Hell I'd rather pay to have the stuff rather than being all Cloak & Dagger about the whole thing. I'm a man with a one track mind, I want to play LSA Squad again. I haven't played it since 1988 @ a flea market, spent the last five years trying to find the upright of it to no avail. Then lost out on someone's modded XBOX with MAME and 200 ROMS already on it, (one of them being LSA Squad) by like a day.

I like this one better... (my sig @ a different forum) ON TOPIC... I can't stand to play Sea Hawk or KRULL anymore. That's about it for the 2600. Oh wait... I also hate E.T. with a passion, but then I always hated the game so it's kind of moot for saying "Replay".

DAMN, Hudson Soft didn't say WHICH 100 games are going to the Wii though. Also I'm wondering if Nintendo is going to bother with properly translating a lot of the better games that came out on the PC-Engine Duo? Are we going to be able to play say... Galaxy Police Woman SAPPHIRE Dracula X: Rondo of Blood Macross 2036 and stuff like that, that had lots of either text or original recorded voices? Should at least be subtitled in English at best for the cinema-cut scenes. Being a 28 yr old father now, I had to sell off the bulk of my game collections (the PC-Engine being among it), and it be great to be able to play all the latest Nintendo has to offer, all the GC lineup AND all this old school stuff. Thus I hope when Nintendo says that the Wii will have TG-16 that also extends to the PC-Engine, otherwise none of this is anything to get pumped up about. I want to finally play the RPGs like Record of Lodoss War that never made the jump stateside, even though TTi at the time was supposedly going to bring that game, along with Macross (called Robotech 2036) and a whole slew of others about the time Turbo Duo came out. Shit I'd stay up all night to play Soldier Blade again, then power up some Last Alert to hear the Guy Kazama horrible dubbing and stop the Force Project!

Oh well then that settles it then. Guess I'll have to pass on this portable system too. No need in getting myself all pissed off. I still don't see why companies (I'm talking places like Lik-Sang) won't sell stuff like that fully loaded right off the bat. For ppl like me who are doing good to be able to do HTML by hand, and not much else (tech wise) this would be a GODsend. Shit I always wanted one of those modded Xboxes to do the MAME thing, but everyone just sold the parts and shit. I wanted the whole damn package deal. I mean, not everyone can be some super hacker, some of us are willing to pay teh cost for the experience. These days I can't ante up the dough, but awhile back I could've. Thanks for letting me know just HOW complicated that stuff can be. I won't waste my time.

I hear you, but I mainly want someone to sell a freggin ready-to-play system that has like over 2,000 arcade games to pick from + every past console's games. Thus my DS Lite just isn't enough to cut it truthfully. ...though at the end of the day I just need MAME to work properly without any probs. I'm just not tech saavy nor have a lot of patience for stuff like that. I remember I used to get near homicidal just having to tweak a Gravis pad to work with the MSX Emulator to play Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, or having to yet again (then) install a newer version of Direct X and shit. It's too much hassle I say. Which is why I'd pay someone $200 bucks more for something already done properly with whatever I wanted in it. Thing is, I never know where (or whom) to look, or miss out on a deal 9 times out of 10. For the love of GOD, I just want to be able to play L.S.A. SQUAD and some of the better RGS games from the past on the go. Heck I wouldn't even have to be pissed on the LSA Squad (Storming Party) stint if Taito would get their heads out their ass and release that and "Ninja Warriors" onto one of there Taito Legends discs, but they always put stuff like Zoo Keeper or Gladiator in favor of other titles that should come out. I'll still look into one (GP32X) though.

Great Nothing I hate worse than having to fidget with control implementations/setups. The #1 reason I've never been a PC gamer. Oh well, might still look into one though.

Well if you really want to be technical nothing coming out is NEXT GEN because it's still interactive consoles utilizing controllers and not really doing much more than the previous generations. When we've arrived at something that's closer to a William Gibson (Neuromancer) SimStim VR Construct player or even a Star Trek Holo-Deck player, where one can literally be taken into an alterverse where one can feel, smell, hear, taste and actually in a sense BE THERE in the program Then and only then will anything be Next Generation. The whole Bits thing is dead, though HD Generation sounds about right even if it's not a completely true statement. We are none the less in the High-Definition age.

I just want to be able to play the following on the go... LSA Squad Contra Super Contra Devatators Metal Slug 1-5 Final Fight MX-5000 A-JAX IKARI 1-3 P.O.W. Shinobi Shadow Dancer Double Dragon 1 & 2 Top Gunner (Jackal) Green Beret (Rush 'N Attack) Ninja Gaiden Black Tiger The Ninja Warriors NAM-1975 Ghost Pilots stuff like that. Anyone know if these game be it through MAME or some other emulator will work sufficiently well on that GP32X? I keep hearing about the system but never see it for sell anywhere. And if it's Korean in it's origin, is the setting/text in English or do I have to do the trial & error thing?

fixed As for SONY thinking it's customers/fans are sheep... It's waaaaaay to overpriced, I'll just buy the games I want, then wait a year or maybe even two after the price has gone down to buy a PS3. *But they're not wrong on the count that ppl will buy the system no doubt, and it's all because of games like MGS 4 and KILLZONE 2. Sadly I'm one of those ppl, but I'm not dumb enough to buy it on launch day or anytime in the first year.

That screw-on/screw-off stick on the CX-78 joypad is still the best thing going for the ProSystem IMO. The original joystick makes me want to vomit, not to mention gave me lots of hand cramps trying to play that way. No the CX-78 isn't the NES gamepad but it works very well. It's well worth the money to get one brand new straight from Best Electronics, then games of Robotron 2084, Commando and Ms. Paman become a cinch.

DS Lite here [imported one], have to say it's worth every penny spent. Though it looks like Sony is going to get money outta' me anyhow for a freggin PSP simply because those bastids just had to put the missing link between MGS: Snake Eater and the 1987 Metal Gear "Outer Heaven" incident onto the PSP as MGS: Portable Ops ...even so, the DS Lite is my choice for on-the-go gaming. Though I'll admit I don't game nearly as much as I used to and the only time I play a portable is usally while on the crapper.

Picked up my ProSystem in February of 2006 for $99.99, that came with 24 7800 games, both controllers, 11 2600 games, and all the proper hookups. I few ppl I knew were like "dude you got ripped off" but I disagree. I got most of the games I wanted for the ProSystem right off the bat in the initial buy without having to track them down, and already had like 30 2600 games I still cycled through on my 4-switcher from time to time. Luckily for me, I have yet to not have a 2600 game work on my 7800. There are a few games I still need to get though [like Kung Fu Master, Mario Bros.] before I could say I'm totally zonked with my purchase. While a few of my friends [offline] also think I'm nuts, I'd have to say that the 7800 port of the RGS game Commando, I prefer over the NES version too, though it was a bitch to play with the standard joysticks so I bought me (2) CX-78 joypads from Best Electronics. Now games of Commando and Robotron 2084 are much easier.

I'll admit I see everyone's point about the flaws the 7800 version of GALAGA has, but for some reason I like a few others here prefer the 7800 port over the NES and other ports of teh arcade title. I play the game at least twice a week. I personally like the added difficulty factor that was put into it, and trying to guess just where one (or serveral) ships are going to move before they do it, at their bottom Kamikaze runs after the speed of the ships increases to ridiculous levels. It does move more like Galaxian though.

There is only one Arcade upright that is the Holy Grail of gaming to me, and that is TAITO's 1986 RGS (run & gun shooter) game L.S.A. SQUAD. It took everything that was great about the Nihon Busshan game "Commando" [battlefield of the Wolf], even keeping with it's WWII motif (my avatar is from the game's Japanese marquee called "Storming Party" over there)... but added vehicles one could get into to destroy the enemy army. For some odd reason, Taito hasn't released this on a compiler disc in either of their Taito Legends discs. It's an overlooked gem, and one I'd beat teh shit out of someone to own... yes I want it that bad.

While most would find it odd probably, the only one I cared for [Turok game] is the first one that came out on N64. The sequel was bad ass no doubt, but for whatever reason I still like #1 the best. Sadly we're in a day and age of HALO, KILLZONE, BLACK, FarCry, and COH 2... and the Turok games [and even Golden Eye] really haven't aged all that well. But if one still enjoys the games for their own personal reasons that's really what matter overall.

In all honesty, I've never liked (most) American box art for games... with the exception of the 2600 and 7800 days. While that box art for SF II isn't as bad as the one for Rival Turf [Rushing Beat], or even Phalanx {though the Geezer with a banjo was funny], I hated the SF 2 box back then and even more now.