Not a Children posted:

I had the bright red one, too. My great shame is that I had to buy a slightly off-color battery cover to replace the one I lost

beepstreet posted:

Upon further investigation of the missing games, I have found that my brother was stealing and selling them and many other things from my parents house where I was keeping them. I'm down almost $1400 worth of stuff. Happy holidays

In Training posted:

I don't mean to show my hand early here, but one of my 2016 gamer goals is to get a Dreamcast so I can play Shenmue 1 & 2.

In Training posted:

I'm gonna burn a CD.

Not a Children posted:

Waiting an hour and a half for the CD to finish burning in my 1998 Compaq... that moment of anticipation as it spun up, waiting to see if it was finally a playable copy of Crazy Taxi or just another coaster... those were the days

African AIDS cum posted:

I buy carts but not cd/dvd cause they are usually scratched to hell and don't work

beepstreet posted:

What about the onimusha series? Surprised that's been dormant for so long.

Pewdiepie posted:

I bought an atari 2600.

fozzy fosbourne posted:

I'd like to play an updated Bushido Blade some day. not sure how well it stands up though when played independent of a bong accessory

net cafe scandal posted:

Sorry I meant Sega Master System which doesnt have Sonic 2.

absolutely anything posted:

In Training posted:

Im about to play DOOM for the first time in my life.

In Training posted:

Ive got two levels left in Quake 1 and I don't want it to end.

skull wall posted:

Respect.

THE AWESOME GHOST posted:

The old FMV was like, literally the game would just play a video. It was just when your game was 2GB you could stuff a shitload of videos into it. That's why at some point they were selling literal episodes of TV shows on GBA carts.

The N64 carts went up to 64 Mb lol. Someone wrote a way too detailed article on them

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_64_Game_Pak

The GBA tv stuff is such a weird relic of its time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy_Advance_Video#Disadvantages

You can buy loving shrek the movie on a gba cart. People forget that between this and UMDs there's a reason phones ate the handheld gaming space, people always wanted a mobile device that could do more than games

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Alex: Looking back now, I can see that we were young and fearless and didn’t see any limits to what we could do. We were at a trade show in the UK and had just seen some specifications for the Game Boy Advance, which was launched around that time. We thought that with so many display colours maybe we could include a movie in the software. We weren’t sure whether we would be able to do it, but we were bold enough to go up to the Nintendo booth and look around trying to find someone we could talk to. (laughs)

Jérôme: We thought we would have zero chance of getting anything out of it.

Alex: Right. And then I saw someone who seemed a bit remote and just walking around, but he seemed to work at Nintendo. He was Japanese and I could see from his badge that he was some kind of general manager, so I realised that he was an important person. So I jumped in and did my piece, saying "we think we can do something great with the Game Boy Advance based on the specs! Please just give us a chance to show it!" But my English wasn’t good enough and I was probably speaking too fast from excitement, so Okada-san didn’t really understand what I was saying.

Iwata: And your English was probably much more French than it is now.

Alex: So I was very disappointed. But he must have thought that something about it was interesting because he came back to the booth we had. But we still struggled to communicate, so I just wrote numbers on a piece of paper. I wrote the resolution of the Game Boy Advance, the frame rate and the number of bits per pixel, and I divided by 100. I was trying to show how much the graphical data can be compressed by this calculation. When Okada-san saw that fraction along with the numbers, it must have rung a bell in his head because he said, “Oh yeah! That’s great!” So the fraction was saying everything.

Iwata: You couldn’t communicate with words so you were having a conversation with numbers?

Alex: From an engineer to an engineer, there is no language barrier with numbers. It’s a universal language.

Iwata: I think that's really amazing. Your courage to approach Okada-san but also Okada-san's courage to start asking you to do something. (laughs) I can still remember when Okada-san came back and he told me, "I met some interesting people in France and I've asked them to work on something to see what they can do."

Alex: I didn’t know that he talked to you about us. (laughs)