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Neo Rasa posted:This is bizarre given that Nichibutsu was a player back in the day. Like not even Crazy Climber or Heiankyo Alien? Holy poo poo. Though they did go in hard for this. I have the Super Famicom Arcade Classics compilations they put out. They did two volumes of that on said system, and then like a billion mahjong games. Not really that bizarre when you consider that the "controller" is clearly designed for Mahjong and similar sorts of games.
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Nintendo Kid posted:Not really that bizarre when you consider that the "controller" is clearly designed for Mahjong and similar sorts of games. Yeah but with these games you'd only need the A/B/C/D and E on there which were placed for that purpose unlike any other mahjong controller out around that time. It just seems weird they'd drop it so fast when they had some well regarded non mahjong games under their belt (many of which for Nichibutsu began on college computers before eventually appearing in arcades later on so a keyboard controller would be ideal for most).
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In the late 90's there was a brief spat of convenience store management simulators in Japan. None of these games came out in the US and they're tough to play without some knowledge of Japanese, but they're still kind of interesting. The Conveni for the Saturn (there's also a PS1 version) lets you build an entire convenience store empire. You start from a map of a city where you have to buy a lot for your first store. Laws vary from neighborhood to neighborhood so some locations can't sell some things.  Right behind the high school seems the perfect place to set up a cigarette and beer store! Once the site is selected you build a store layout. You can use a default one:  Or build your own:  You pick the type of shelves and choose what to stock in them. There's also things like parking spaces, vending machines, and scenery to deal with:  So now your store is built, you need employees. There's a set of guys who you can hire to work your shop. You also set the hours the shop is open, but your employees live there full time.  Yes, I picked that guy as my store manager. Finally you're ready to open for business and that pretty much runs itself. You can sit back and watch customers rush in and your little guys work (or not work as the case may be). If they're lazy then your store will get trashed or they might not restock the shelves properly:  You can back out of that view to go buy other convenience stores or build whole new ones as you make your empire. It's not a deep game but I found it to be kind of amusing. Of course, I only paid $5 for it...
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quakster posted:I wonder how many different companies have put out one or more of these barely-qualifies-as-a-console never-acknowledged-again-after-initial-novely-wears-out systems over the decades, there's plenty of 'em from all regions. After Atari came out with Pong in the arcade and before they released the VCS all markets were flooded with tons of Pong home console clones including ones made by Nintendo, Sega, Sony, etc.
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LATE CAT PICTURE. And to make this post vaguely retro gaming related. 
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flyboi posted:For those of you jerks who don't understand why Shenmue 3 is so amazing someone made an extremely long My favorite story behind Shenmue shows how unbelievably bloated the project was. The Heaven's Gate comparison is perfect.
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Random Stranger posted:In the late 90's there was a brief spat of convenience store management simulators in Japan. None of these games came out in the US and they're tough to play without some knowledge of Japanese, but they're still kind of interesting. I really like that title screen graphic. I don't suppose you could fire it up in an emulator and take a nice hard pixel screenshot for me? This post also makes me kinda want to play Metropolismania 2 again, holy poo poo that game is crack.
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Codiekitty posted:LATE CAT PICTURE.  Would take nap on this bed.Codiekitty posted:And to make this post vaguely retro gaming related.  Is his name Super Creamsicle? Because it should be.Random Stranger posted:Right behind the high school seems the perfect place to set up a cigarette and beer store! Wouldn't have made it through high school without them.  I really like these oddball retrogame posts of yours.
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Random Stranger posted:In the late 90's there was a brief spat of convenience store management simulators in Japan. None of these games came out in the US and they're tough to play without some knowledge of Japanese, but they're still kind of interesting. For some reason I've always wanted to sit and play these games since I first read about them in the 90s. Maybe it was some holdover from watching Clerks too much back then.
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http://wargamedork.blogspot.com/2015/06/a-little-fun-with-dreamcast.html I had to do a little tribute to the Dreamcast with VGA Box fun. I have entirely too many things I can now do with this silly machine, especially now that I have two models that have just had their RESET OF DOOM issue dealt with for a while. (An hour or so of Daytona is a good enough test right?) Seriously folks. The VGA Box is almost LIFE CHANGING for this machine. I just wished they didn't have all these little nooks and crannies to collect dust and grime and poo poo because cleaning it is a pain. Also the yellowing. I kind of want to try my hand out at repainting one of them so I can have a pretty machine that won't look uggo. I might try with my 5th DC controller since its the one that came with my used machine and is kind of ucky anyhow unlike my two transparent ones and my pair of defaults. Also the thing can be a near LAIN like level of cables and wires and things coming out of it. It can get kind of horrifying and it makes one feel like some Cyberpunk kinda poo poo is happening. (Also get a GOOD HDTV with all the inputs like my Sharp Aquos from 07. HDMI! DVI! S VIDEO! COMPONENT! COMPOSITE! RF!! It has like 8 loving inputs or so on it, maybe more. And like a 6ms lag or something wee like that.)
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Light Gun Man posted:I really like that title screen graphic. I don't suppose you could fire it up in an emulator and take a nice hard pixel screenshot for me?  This is as hard as it gets unless I can dig up a PS1 version of it. I noticed this minor problem in the attract mode while grabbing that shot:  Also, you can't put the employee lounge in the parking lot.
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There was a 360 version of the game made that I was really tempted to pick up when I heard about it, but apparently it doesn't work on US 360s. From a gameplay video I glimpsed at on Youtube it seems a lot sharper and more colorful. edit: I only have a sliver of Japanese knowledge but it looks (and sounds) so drat relaxing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZY16qaglD0 JediTalentAgent fucked around with this message at 07:55 on Jun 17, 2015 |
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Jun 17, 2015 07:52
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I really really want to play that. It looks like something I could figure out with a simple translation guide too. Thanks for posting it!
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Codiekitty posted:LATE CAT PICTURE. Adorable kitties! But...umm... Seriously, get those walls painted or what is up with that wallpaper? I don't know what color scheme you're going for, but just go with white. Just...white. If the US flag is a theme though, add bright red to one side of the walls though. Just do something with those walls one day. It's...just not becoming of a retro gamer.  I'm somewhat poking fun, but honestly think you might be better off with white instead. It looks kinda dark and drab. Some paint may make it feel fresh. Red, white and blue is totally a thing you could do with that room though.
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Cats like Everdrives too: (Parent's cat guarding the Everdrive I had shipped to their house since I was moving at the time.)
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Jun 17, 2015 08:56
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I picked this up today for $2. Did I do good? 
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FIRST TIME posted:I picked this up today for $2. Did I do good? No RGB inputs 
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Ya, but for $2?
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Even with the lack of RGB inputs, $2 for a display that should have great composite and S-Video quality is an absolute steal for sure! A thrift store find, I take it? As an example of the quality, here's the Samurai Shodown II title screen, taken with my cell phone, over S-Video on my 9" Panasonic monitor:  Full sized link. Also, my gallery of snapshots for NES composite quality on my Panasonic. I would expect much the same quality on your monitor; note the edges of sprites and other screen elements. Less garbage, less "rainbow", and so on. Anyhow, great find and prince, and I hope it serves you well.
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SpaceAceJase posted:No RGB inputs Aw, weak. I guess that makes sense that the BNC connectors would be for composite video since RGB by definition is split into 3 separate signals, right? Still though, I should get nice sharp pixels through the S-video connection, right?
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Jun 18, 2015 03:50
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Kthulhu5000 posted:Even with the lack of RGB inputs, $2 for a display that should have great composite and S-Video quality is an absolute steal for sure! A thrift store find, I take it? Thanks for the info.  Yeah, I found it at local thrift store. It was originally $6 and since I'm a cheap rear end, I took a gamble that it would still be there when its color tag went 75% off. (I actually got it for $1.50, I'm bad at math.)
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Me five minutes after starting up Armorines: " I don't see why everyone goes on about how bad this game is. Yeah, it's lovely, but it's lovely in the exact same ways that all FPS games for the N64 and PS1 were." Ten minutes later: "I have everyone who was involved with this game and I hope they all died."  Let's jump back a bit here, first. Back in the late-80's Acclaim invested in a comic book company called Valiant. Valiant happened to be in the exact right place at the exact right time to take advantage of the enormous comic book boom of the early 90's and when it became apparent to Acclaim that the editor-in-chief and company founder was more interested in trying to tell cerebral stories than creating properties they could use, they took part in a coalition of investors to oust him. And then they promptly ran the company into the ground right in time for the whole comic book market to collapse like a house of cards. But in 1994, they were still thinking, "Hey, as long as we keep churning out product and put foil covers on it, people will buy it!" And that's where Armorines came from: a cynically made cash grab from a company trying to create brands and franchises they could capitalize on. The book itself is terrible. I only ever read one issue, but it was all the awfulness of that era of comics compressed into one unreadable mess. I wanted to find some examples of it for this post, but the only thing I could find were images from the also bad reboot that happened last year. No one wants to remember the Armorines. The story behind them is they were a military organization with power suits that fought the constant alien invaders of the Valiant Universe, the Spider Aliens. No, they never came up with a better name than that. Here is what the Spider Aliens look like in the comics:  And here's what they look like in the video game Armorines: Project S.W.A.R.M.:  Which I think proves that Starship Troopers was released while this game was in development. Let me tell you about my first mission. I have to go to Siberia (aka Generic Snow Level), turn on the power at a military base, and find out what happened (hint: it's going to involve aliens and shooting them a lot, something that's discovered in the first second of the game). You spawn on top of a tower and everyone rushes forward to an elevator. Being a savvy gamer, I know that game designers inevitably put things behind the stuff in the first area you appear so I moved to go behind the elevator house. Except I triggered a cut scene when I approached the elevator and was sent onto the next zone. I couldn't turn around and go back, I was stuck in the new area. "I guess I can't go there," I thought, "and there must not be anything important, anyway." I spend about ten minutes exploring the new area which consists of white outdoor areas and pitch black indoor areas. This game is dark. Any indoor environment is next to pitch black. It's not just the first stage, either. It was so dark I thought there had to be some kind of night vision in the game, though I couldn't find the button to activate it.  Care to guess where the night vision goggles were? Even once you restart the game and pick them up, they don't help that much. Here's the view with the goggles on:  They severely restrict your field of view and everything is still incredibly dark. This, FWIW, is why most of the pictures are from level one. It was much easier to get example shots when there were bright areas. The thing about turning on the power made me waste a ton of time since I assumed I was looking for some way to turn on the lights. Nope, I had to find a guy in one corner of the map and escort him to a place where he turns on a monorail. And by escort, I mean enter the room, watch him take off like a rocket, and then three minutes later get a message that the power was turned on. I couldn't even figure out how to finish the level easily because you had to jump into the exit door.  Bad visual design is so common to console first person shooters at this time that it might as well have been called a standard feature, but Armorines: Project S.W.A.R.M. (I am going to type that out because it's just so stupid) elevates it to a whole new level. And then the only tool that helps it a little, they hide in the first ten seconds of the game and if you misstep it's gone. One weird feature of the game is its expansion pack support. There's a "hi-res" mode and a "hi-res letterboxed" mode that can be enabled with the pack. I'll admit it looks better than the lo-res mode, but not by much.   
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^^^ For all it's worth I think that game is pretty cool and fun. The fact you can get it for a few doll hairs is also a huge bonus. Loving the cat pics, especially the American flag bed pic. Took me a few looks to notice the cat on the far left "Grab that PS2 memory card man it's cool, I won't attack your hand or anything if you get near my belly...c'mon man do it"  I played some of my dollar cd-i game Zombie Dinos earlier today, and let me tell you it's incredible. I'm going to work on getting some pics/videos up soon to try and show you guys how wild it is.
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Finally got around to ripping my two TurboGrafx 16 CD games (since I don't own the console and have no other way to play them), and after lots of frustration with the CD audio skipping in game when playing from the image I finally got an acceptable backup. Ripping at higher speeds actually seems to work better, though some of the audio STILL has a few bytes different every time. But since it doesn't skip, time to play some Ys. Maybe Gate of Thunder later when I feel like pulling out a joystick instead of my couch keyboard.
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Random Stranger posted:Armorines: Corporate M.E.S.S. Urgh. Creation by committee. I know videogames and most entertainment is made to be sold and all that but when this happens it makes me a little disgusted. Oh well. Thanks for the effort posts though, Random S
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I have Armorines and it is a very bad videogame.
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I remember the GBC game being kinda OK. I mean as OK as games in that genre on GBC could be. It wasn't as good as Metal Gear: Ghost Babel or Perfect Dark GBC, but it's probably held up better than either of those.
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Ghost Babel is still fantastic. Perfect Dark GBC probably isn't.
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Random Stranger how far did you make it on that game? I own a complete nstc n64 collection and make it a effort to play each game as much as I can. I only made it to a pyramid level in Armorines and it had a bullshit goal that you had to destroy every single egg. However you can leave the level with one egg undestroyed and it fails you. Oh and you probably have no clue where the end of the level is so the first time you will likely fail this.
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I still say if you have stomached any Turok games and enjoyed them (I have) you won't absolutely hate Armorines. I haven't beaten it no, but thinking about it is making me want to now. (This is coming from someone who enjoyed the Mission Impossible 64 game by the way. The bathroom level was so much fun!) I haven't gotten the still images I took of Zombie Dinos yet but I did get a chance to upload a video of me playing it for the first time taken with a random flip camera. Ignore me forgetting to hit the right button on my switchbox, ignore me forgetting to have the tv on the correct source, and finally ignore me hitting volume instead of channel. Also let me say again, the Goldstar CD-i's power button is incredibly inconvenient to get to where I have it sitting. I didn't think this game was that great, especially at 1:10, but DAMNNNNNNNNN did it become a hell of a lot cooler around 1:37. I won't spoil what happens, so please check it out yourself. Please click below to start your virtual POV CD-i action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_cMQuMN7co For the full version of the awesome thing I mentioned above click below. This game feels really really short so there's a good chance I'll have it beaten before I get my other pictures up here. It's got all kinds of dinosaur FMV encyclopedia type snippets so it's pretty drat fun for what it is. Thanks again secret goon! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKS47FTuPsM VVVVV There's some info in the OP. Last I checked the baller page at Sega16 had all the picture links broken otherwise I'd suggest it. I consider myself pretty video/audio anal at times, but I personally don't think any model 2 Genesis sounds bad. Sure some sound a little different, but they are all delicious flavors if you ask me. Tyson Tomko fucked around with this message at 08:00 on Jun 18, 2015 |
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Can anyone tell me how to identify which Genesis Model 2 is the "good" one? I have 3 of them and I only want to keep one so I'd like to know which one I should keep.
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Tyson Tomko posted:For the full version of the awesome thing I mentioned above click below. This game feels really really short so there's a good chance I'll have it beaten before I get my other pictures up here. It's got all kinds of dinosaur FMV encyclopedia type snippets so it's pretty drat fun for what it is. Thanks again secret goon! It's everything I could have hoped for  . I'm glad you like it!
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kirbysuperstar posted:It's everything I could have hoped for You're the man! I thank you with this really old picture of my cat Spice going after John Goodman (Rosanne) on an old CRT a co-worker gave to me that's long since dead.  That sucker was 31+ inches and is the heaviest CRT I've lifted to date. I've got a split level house, so hauling that mother fucker up a few steps, turning, then up a few more steps was torture. Dumbass me had to have my plasma setup downstairs. Ah the memories. Still had DirecTV, Star Trek TNG DVDs loud and proud, and if you look at that low res picture closely enough you'll see my wife and I with Kurt Angle  Also note that CRT was so big I trouble finding a stand/entertainment center for it that could handle the weight, and if it did one that wasn't solid oak and cost like $400. I finally wised up and just bought a drat coffee table with a drawer in it and made it happen that way. That thing is still slightly bowed because of that Sanyo beast. Oh, and I can all but guarantee you Mario/Duck Hunt was in that NES for some truly radical Zapper action.
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To add to the cat chat, today I went to pick up some stuff off of CL today and I went to the wrong house and these dumb dogs were barking at me and nipping at my heels but the cat came up and demanded to be held and petted. Didn't do much to help me maintain my resolve to not get a cat until I can really take care of one.
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I'm sure everyone's aware of the recently-announced Rare Replay compilation for Xbone but I wanna mention it again because I'm shocked that it's happening at all, let alone that they seem to be doing a great job with it. I'm not even a huge Rare fan but if you own a bone and don't buy Rare Replay you're insanely hosed up.
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You know what Game Boy game people don't talk about that's totally weird and cool? James Bond 007. Go play it if you want a hilariously racist and weird Zelda clone with the James Bond license slapped on it.
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al-azad posted:You know what Game Boy game people don't talk about that's totally weird and cool? James Bond 007. Go play it if you want a hilariously racist and weird Zelda clone with the James Bond license slapped on it. So it's based on Live and Let Die then? But seriously does it try to be grounded in any of the films or does it just do its own thing?
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