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[Retro Games] III: What a Croc!
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Lindsay Lohan wrote: »Old Games. Some age like wine, some like milk. Let's talk about all things retro.
First, the consoles. While there are some generation numbers people go by, here are my categories.
Old as Dirt.
These are the ones that you had to hook up with weird adaptors to your old 12" TV with those prongs and two screws in the back of the TV. This generation's leaders would be Odyssey, Atari 2600, Colecovision, and Intellivision. Simple games that mostly were high score chasing and hit or miss arcade ports. For every Yars Revenge that still is fun to play, there are a bunch of Star Raiders that make no sense today. Personal fun fact: I enjoy playing ET and don't think it's even in the top 20 of worst games ever made.
8 Bit Era
Honestly, this is where games start aging well. Games start to have stories, look like their arcade originals, and controller buttons became more plentiful. The leaders were NES and Sega Master System (and maybe the Atari 7800 is part of this group). Highlights might be the start of Mario, Zelda, Megaman, Castlevania, Contra, and whatever your weirdos with Master Systems played...Alf maybe? Personal fun fact: I was once convinced to get Hydlide instead of Zelda because they looked sort of similar on the box and Hyldlide was $10 cheaper.
16 Bit Era
This was the big console wars era. Nintendo and Sega just consistently crapped on each other and gamers picked sides and a game named Ballz got made. The three leaders would be SNES, Genesis, and TurboGrafx 16 (and any odd add-ons they stacked underneath them). Highlights were sequels to NES games, Sonic, SNES RPGs, sports games really starting to get closer to the actual sports, and the massive rise of fighting games. Personal fun fact: Might and Magic on the Genesis remains my favorite RPG.
32 Bit Era
The first true 3D consoles. The leaders were the Nintendo 64, Playstation 1 and Sega Saturn (with Atari sputtering its last breath with the Jaguar). This was really a transitional period, with games hitting 3D for the first time with Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time, new characters like Crash and Rayman emerging, and analog sticks appearing on controllers for the first time since the Atari 5200. Personal fun fact: My then-girlfriend (now wife) got fired from a temp job because we skipped work to rent an N64 and Mario on launch weekend.
Beyond: The PS2, Gamecube, Dreamcast and XBox are clearly now retro. I didn't grab pictures of them, but they are starting to be very collectible (check the prices on Cube games for proof of that).
Handhelds
There are also a ton of handhelds, that I won't bother splitting up into years. Let's just say Nintendo has ruled pretty much forever with their various handhelds with every other company except maybe Microsoft trying to best them and then giving up. Sony arguably did the best with the PSP and Vita but even they decided to eventually bow out of the market. Personal fun fact: We used to play link cable Tetris on the ferry boat to math team competitions in high school. That is the nerdiest sentence I'll write today.
Aside from these, there are weird systems like Vectrex and those folks that collect Retro PC stuff like Commodore 64, Apple IIe or big boxed PC games.
What fills your bookshelves of old crap?
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I really like the magic system. I really like the idea that you can move in battle. But oh man I want off this wild ride lol. I just got the final gem and am heading towards the last area.
Steam: betsuni7
Maybe they are insane.
I may need to get a plug adapter because this is a Dutch CDi.
I bet it has 50Hz video output too. It sounds like modern TVs can handle it. I will be running it through the RetroTink.
I need to get a hamper for my mini consoles. Anyone know of a good hamper?
Edit: I found one. Of course, it ships too fast on Amazon Prime. I will have to wait till I am back home.
https://www.amazon.com/efluky-Laundry-Removable-Collapsible-Bathroom/dp/B0BVQR8HXD
That will work great. I can even use the sack to easily get the consoles out.
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/284879017956
Here is a mouse adapter.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/284828384598
https://www.sindenshop.com/en-us
Kind of pricey. Really you can rig up a Wiimote to do the same thing. So, it is kind of silly.
It sounds like the Energize button does not work in Space Ace.
Nothing annoys me more when people sell broken software.
Everyone should replay vanilla Max Payne before that remake comes out next year.
Steam | XBL
Steam ID: Good Life
WHAT.
I loved MP 1&2. Never played 3. I spent hours on the Max Payne 1 demo, playing it over and over and marvelling at the graphics and bullet time.
Not certain what they were thinking on that one.
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970666737/
Simon's Quest needed better bosses. You could actually run past bosses.
All you had to do was hammer the whip button to beat Dracula.
Nintendo Minute was also a small side-gig they pitched, their day job was to make marketing decisions for NoA. So they are putting more into Youtube now than they ever did, plus consulting for game companies.
Victor Lucas did a great interview with them recently if you want to know more.
And looking ahead the final boss has 2300 HP and 150 agility (almost 100 more than me). I don't know if I can do this guys. I really wanted to beat this game legit but I don't think it's possible.
Is the game "Japanese hard" or broken?
As for its relation to Symphony of the Night...
https://www.vg247.com/castlevania-symphony-of-the-night-wouldnt-have-happened-without-castlevania-2-simons-quest
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What is great about that version is that it plays the sound effects through your controller speaker.
Sometimes it will simply crash running an old game.
They got a Mister clone coming out that is a lot cheaper.
Honestly I'd rather support the Mister community.
There's nothing inherently sketchy about the Mr Pi, and it might be the best thing for the mister project and fpga gaming in the long run.
Taki Udon is using his position as a Chinese dude living in China to start his own company to make fpga gaming platforms, and it looks like he has managed the bring the cost of a full mister stack from ~500 dollars to about ~200 dollars.
The main cost of mister stack right now is the de-10 nano fpga board, which is made by a large company with Intel subsidies that no one should be concerned with supporting.
There is the unfortunate aspect that Mr Pi is also undercutting the folks who make the mister addon hardware components by hand, and they might not be in the same business a year or two for now. But nothing lasts forever and the cost of this shit has to go down eventually.
Fundamentally the mister project is open source software and open source hardware designs, and it's probably best for everyone if the hardware to run it on is cheap and plentiful. The best way to support the project is via the developers' paetreons.
In the future if Mister Pi is successful, there's also the possibility that Taki Udon could actually improve on the the design of the fpga board and make something more capable that is still backwards compatible with all current mister software.