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I have one and they're actually pretty nice. The tablet form factor makes them a lot more comfortable to hold than the calmshell models (the triggers especially are an improvement) and it doesn't feel especially cheap or flimsy.

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That's actually a trampoline. The "diamond" is the spring.

That's a good point. I'd guess it's because most multiplayer games are designed with 8v8 or 32v32 in mind, so a couch 1v1 match would end up being two people running around huge, empty maps trying to find each other. Most likely it's just not worth it for devs to create both massive online and local multiplayer modes with different maps and balancing for each.

Most people playing video games these days have grown up, moved, and become too distant from their old friends for couch multiplayer to be feasible. Plus, the advent of online matchmaking means you no longer need to coordinate with your group and meet in person to have a multiplayer match. The convenience is hard to pass up.

Onesie game shops tend to have really ridiculous prices, and not even just on old games. One store near me is trying to sell Prince of Persia 2008 for $18. Good luck with that, buddy.

Thanks for all the suggestions guys, some of these I'm definitely going to keep an eye out for. CRTs show up at thrift shops in my area all the time so I should be able to snag a keeper before long.

People will keep using it whether it's supported or not. Hell, the French international airport still runs their mainframe on Windows 3.1.

I have this exact same issue, and it's making me regret buying a PS3 instead of a 360. I mean, the games are great and the console itself works fine, but the controller is such a POS that it honestly turns me off of ever wanting to play it. I had to drop Street Fighter 4 because I was spending more time fighting the goddamn controller than my opponents. lol

Destiny. I would have long since forgotten about this game if the press would shut up about it for two seconds.

Could be a bootleg or an old repro. Are the springs preventing the cartridge from locking into the slot?

Doom 3 is impossible to play without the flashlight. There are entire stretches of gameplay in pitch darkness where you have to spot your targets with the flashlight, and if you're playing the OG Xbox version you can't use the light and the gun at the same time.

I let my parents trash my Apple II GS that I salvaged from a local kindergarten because I thought the only games available for it were edutainment titles. It had the original monitor and floppy drive, too.

This feels like was E1M8 should have been in the first place. The original map always felt underwhelming to me - it's just a corridor with an arena and two Barons of Hell at the end. Yawn. This new map forces you to use everything you learn in the first episode to survive a huge gauntlet, and the fight at the end is made more challenging by the addition of barrels that can blow you to shreds if you just fire rockets around all willy-nilly.

Not a bad game once you get the hang of it. This is what happens when I reply without reading the entire thread.

Atari 2600 has always been the ultimate arcade machine in my eyes just for the sheer amount of coin-op ports it has. A significant portion of its library are ports, and most of them are pretty good. Even the bad apples are at least interesting in a technical sense for the shortcuts devs had to take to fit an originally pretty sizable game into 8kb or less. And yeah, Ms. Pac-Man is one of the 2600's prize horses. Not only is it an extremely impressive port, most of the mazes are original designs and the game is balanced perfectly for the lower clock speed of the 2600.

Anyone got recommendations for CRT TVs? I want to keep playing my old consoles on the screen they were intended for but finding a CRT that isn't plagued with overscan, distortion, or jittery pixels is pretty difficult. I know the Sony Wega is supposed to be the god-tier CRT but they're pretty hard to find and they weigh a million pounds. I'm looking for something fairly easy to find and preferably doesn't weigh more than I do. Please post pics of your setups if you can.

Oh my god someone actually acknowledged the Gizmondo. lol Please post your impressions when you get it working, there's so little info about this console on the internet besides the Wikipedia page that I'm really curious what it's like.

Care to elaborate? Agree or disagree? Maybe add your own two cents? I see the current resurgence in interest for retro video games as a type of hipsterism. People who grew up too late to experience these games in their prime have formed a fascination with it, and they've adopted the culture/fandom of the real retro gamers (i.e. people who actually played these games back in the 80s) as a way to gain cred. Many of the people who profess such a deep love and appreciation for these games are really only interested in the scene surrounding them, not to mention the attention they can get for creating content based around them, hence the prevalence of fake retro kids who own tons of merch and have Super Mario posters all over their bedrooms but don't seem to have any in-depth knowledge of the games they claim to love (spoilers: they probably don't even play them). They're like those college kids who only listen to vinyl records and claim they can tell the difference between 320kbps MP3 and WAV; exaggerated versions of the fans they're imitating. The uptick in prices on vintage games in, of course, because said hipsters are buying it all so they can have an impressive game shelf to take pictures of.

Dreamcast is the cutoff in my mind. It's the most recent console that I can point to as an example of 'the way games used to be,' and most people will understand what I mean. Post-DC is when games moved away from their arcade roots completely and became more focused on immersive experiences rather than basic fun.

Good on you for keeping that photo. Childhood keepsakes like that are always fun to pull out and look at years down the line. My parents have whole albums full of photos from their early days, and every once in a while they like to pull them out to show me what life was like back in the '70s.

I've owned both the 2D and 3D boxes at various points. Somehow I didn't notice the difference until I saw them side by side in an image gallery. I also never knew they came packaged with a T shirt, and I kinda want one now.