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I begged my parents for a Nomad when I was little and they never got me one and I’ll never forgive them for it
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Hitlersaurus Christ posted:I begged my parents for a Nomad when I was little and they never got me one and I’ll never forgive them for it Considering that was basically a portable Genesis I assume the Nomad ate batteries even faster than the Game Gear?
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May 1, 2022 19:34
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Larryb posted:Considering that was basically a portable Genesis I assume the Nomad ate batteries even faster than the Game Gear? Yes, it devoured 6AA batteries in about 2-ish hours. On the other hand, the first time in my life that I beat Sonic the Hedgehog 2 was on a flight at 30,000 feet.
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May 1, 2022 19:37
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Dabir posted:Wasn't it the Xbox that was born out of Sega's fuckups with the Dreamcast somehow?
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May 1, 2022 19:39
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Larryb posted:Considering that was basically a portable Genesis I assume the Nomad ate batteries even faster than the Game Gear? yes, and it had no room for batteries in the system itself, you needed to put 6 of them in a little backplate thing that hung off of the Nomad.
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May 1, 2022 20:23
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The nomad wasn't really a portable system, you were supposed to use it plugged into the ac adaptor as a way to play console games without monopolizing the family tv It was the original wii u
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May 1, 2022 20:28
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sega made a lot of really stupid poo poo that was ahead of its time and thats why it owned
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May 1, 2022 21:25
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flavor.flv posted:The nomad wasn't really a portable system, you were supposed to use it plugged into the ac adaptor as a way to play console games without monopolizing the family tv This is how I played the majority of my time with my game gear. I even remember someone telling me about the adaptor thing when I got it. As if I was expected to use it that way. It got so bad that at one point I saw a commercial, and wondered how the guy was playing it on a park bench. I looked expecting to see some weird power outlet in the cement path. I actually forgot it could even run on batteries.
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May 1, 2022 22:24
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I am only now finding out about the 8-bit sonic gg2sms conversions with the expanded viewport and now I know what I must do next
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May 1, 2022 22:31
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i still want the Divers 2000 series CX-1 Dreamcast
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Larryb posted:Yeah, in retrospect it’s kind of a miracle that Sega lasted in the console market for as long as it did. What was the straw that finally broke the camel’s back out of curiosity? Kurieg posted:They finally promoted a company president that realized that they kept throwing good money after bad and it wasn't improving, and they shoved it down the board of directors throat until they agreed. Realistically, it was Okawa passing away as he'd been bankrolling all the dumb poo poo personally for ever (and also the good poo poo, like paying out of his own pocket for every JP DC to come with a year of dialup time because they were still paying connection prices BY THE MINUTE and he was adamant that the internet was the future for games).
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kirbysuperstar posted:Realistically, it was Okawa passing away as he'd been bankrolling all the dumb poo poo personally for ever (and also the good poo poo, like paying out of his own pocket for every JP DC to come with a year of dialup time because they were still paying connection prices BY THE MINUTE and he was adamant that the internet was the future for games). I mean, considering that every console and handheld has had online support for a while now he technically wasn’t wrong
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May 2, 2022 00:33
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kirbysuperstar posted:Realistically, it was Okawa passing away as he'd been bankrolling all the dumb poo poo personally for ever (and also the good poo poo, like paying out of his own pocket for every JP DC to come with a year of dialup time because they were still paying connection prices BY THE MINUTE and he was adamant that the internet was the future for games). Sega announced that they'd be discontinuing the Dreamcast and going 3rd party before Okawa died. Okawa had been pushing for Sega to ditch the console market for years by the time he became president and only bankrolled the Dreamcast to keep the company from going under. Augus fucked around with this message at 04:22 on May 2, 2022 |
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Augus posted:Sega announced that they'd be discontinuing the Dreamcast and going 3rd party before Okawa died. Okawa had been pushing for Sega to ditch the console market for years by the time he became president and only bankrolled the Dreamcast to keep the company from going under. He probably saw the writing on the wall with his health, he was also the one pushing MS to get DC games going on Xbox
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:sega made a lot of really stupid poo poo that was ahead of its time and thats why it owned This tbh
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May 2, 2022 05:09
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There's a random meme spreading on Twitter today of Sonic characters walking and leaving random retail stores. I have no idea what sparked it. I don't follow any of these accounts, Twitter just sends them my way. This was the best one though. https://twitter.com/CryoGX/status/1520952473980006400?t=GdgLBCHIET_zSlyWj1OiWA&s=19
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May 2, 2022 05:24
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Is this a fetish thing like the one guy who liked pictures of women buying Wonder Bread?
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Chieves posted:Is this a fetish thing like the one guy who liked pictures of women buying Wonder Bread? Now I've remembered the person who had a gallery of Sonic characters driving various Boston public transport vehicles.
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May 2, 2022 15:49
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*artists have fun drawing silly pictures of Sonic characters going into real life stores* "WHAT IS THIS?! FURRY SEX FETISH????"
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May 2, 2022 17:28
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https://twitter.com/oddsketches/status/1520955928652050432
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Macaluso posted:*artists have fun drawing silly pictures of Sonic characters going into real life stores*
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Detective No. 27 posted:https://twitter.com/cloudless_art/status/1520899534901157892?t=NwUQhHxAayU08W1PX5aupw&s=19 GET A LOAD OF THIS
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0ecHwlOcYE This video kinda sold me on being down to see an Sonic Advance Collection. To repeat some of the points from the video in my own thoughts: Sonic Adv 1 was good at the time, but was always a bit lacking to me - maybe it's the GBA graphics, or the level designs, but there's just something kind of un-memorable about it. Terribly special stages & no supers in stages was a mark against, but adding Amy to the playable cast was a good plus. Sonic Adv 2 was mixed - I like the level themes and the trick button was an interesting idea. But boy did the "trick or die" sections of levels leave a bad impression. And somehow special stages and emerald collection got even worse. Sonic Adv 3 I barely played... I don't know what exactly made me fall off, but KingK makes a really strong case for it not being as bad as I remember? Or like, he makes a good case for it having some really neat ideas that kinda never got tried again. Like Knuckles being able to spindash up a wall, that's super cool and could make for some great sonic gameplay.
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All of the Advance special stages are great, I will brook no quarter on this. Advance 1 is admittedly difficult to work out some of the moves on the fly, like when you are supposed to perform a trick to hit the yellow gates (it's just after you hit them, not before) and how the freefall button realigns you to the centre so you can pass through bombs. But once I understood it I loved them.
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Advance 3 has a cool concept, but it’s when Dimps’s weakness in level design really rears its ugly head with a lot of platforming over bottomless pits. It’s definitely built more for exploration too, so definite YMMV. I remember loving around with the combos and being bored by the levels once the novelty wore off.
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Getting to the special stages in Advance 2 was some horseshit. Get all the rings just to fall down a pit and lose them all at the final check point gently caress you. Yes I'm mad cause bad
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the advance trilogy overall is great, giving amy a definitive moveset, introducing cream, the top notch sprites, lots to love
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:All of the Advance special stages are great, I will brook no quarter on this. Adv1's special stage is incredibly bad because not only are they awful to find, you get one shot a stage where there's horrible 3d perspective making it really hard to judge where you are relative to the rings, with a margin of error that makes Sonic 2's special stages look generous. As a result learning and getting better at them is a very frustrating experience. If I were to remaster Adv1, I'd at least make it so there's a bunch of special springs spread across the stages, ala S3&K (and not limit it to 1 emerald per zone.)
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I sort of enjoyed the Rush games to an extent as well (which also technically invented the boost mechanic that Unleashed later brought back), though Blaze was more fun to play as than Sonic in my opinion
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DIMPS is the Inti Creates of Sonic, with all the pros and cons you think that impliesLooper posted:the advance trilogy overall is great, giving amy a definitive moveset, introducing cream, the top notch sprites, lots to love Amy yes, there should be more Amy whenever possible, but introducing Cream is a point against, not for.
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https://twitter.com/TripleKyun/status/1521017662649909250
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the advance games would benefit tremendously from a wide-screen update, even more than the Genesis games.
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I know you can say this about every Sonic game, but Advance 3 really does have a dope soundtrack.
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Augus posted:the advance games would benefit tremendously from a wide-screen update, even more than the Genesis games. Someone here has played Sonic Pocket Adventure, right? That looks almost as painful as the Game Gear 8-bit games for small field of view.
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Cream is a perfectly fine character.
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flavor.flv posted:DIMPS is the Inti Creates of Sonic, with all the pros and cons you think that implies They're weirdly horny and love inflicting misery on their characters?
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flavor.flv posted:DIMPS is the Inti Creates of Sonic, with all the pros and cons you think that implies 
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Twerk from Home posted:Someone here has played Sonic Pocket Adventure, right? That looks almost as painful as the Game Gear 8-bit games for small field of view. it's pretty fun
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