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Well I just checked mate and it is on the US PS3 store, $9.99

The A/V cables are easy enough to replace I've found. I found a cable maker on the internet that sold me exactly what I needed (this has been several years ago so I don't remember how to find them anymore...) The 32X is a real steal when you can buy it for $10-$20 tops (depending on whether it has the box or not). Unfortunately the library is extremely small but many of the titles are fun to play. I only personally own Doom, Knuckles Chaotix, and Star Wars Arcade. Although I also have Night Trap and Fahrenheit (CD 32X games) I can definitely say that Chaotix and SWA were worth the price of the 32X. Doom is a pretty inferior port unfortunately. I don't have much cause to play it when I have so many better versions of the game available, including the PC version and the Xbox 360 version. Check out Kolibri sometime though. Its amazing. I really need to get around to buying it. Virtua Fighter and Virtua Racing are both pretty good too. If you can get the Sega CD as well, the CD 32X version of Night Trap is much improved and still just as hilarious as the regular Sega CD version.

They're releasing a really nifty Mario Collector's Box that has a Wii disc with Super Mario All-Stars (SNES game) an artbook and a music CD. It isn't very expensive either, around $30 Its nice to a commemorative item for once that isn't ridiculously overpriced.

The Super Gameboy is awesome. It is a bit outdated now since it can't play Gameboy Color+ but oh man, it was the best thing ever back in the day. I still like using the black and white color palette with the movie theater frame. It makes even the lamest Gameboy game awesome. From the standpoint of efficiency, Gamecube + Gameboy Player is probably the best route though to be honest. Saturn and Dreamcast are a bit iffy. Good titles on the Dreamcast but sometimes finding good hardware is annoying. Saturn is a mixed bag with the best games being Japanese imports. I'm still glad I own mine. As far as I'm concerned, NiGHTs into Dreams is more than enough justification for it but its US library simply isn't as good as the PS1 and N64 which you've got covered.

I always look at the pictures very carefully and avoid listings that don't have pictures of the actual item. Fortunately Coleco carts are clearly marked and look a bit different from Coleco titles that were published on the 2600 itself. vs Still, I could see where the novice would get confused, especially if they weren't that familiar with the Colecovision. Which wouldn't be entirely unsurprising to be honest.

Cool man, I hope you enjoy it. The PS3 has better support for PS1 games than the 360 does for original Xbox games. Make sure to check out the Uncharted series. They are amazing games.

I think that retro-gaming with modern machines will look a lot different than retro-gaming with classic machines. People will still be buying old games used to play on old machines I think (depending on how well BC is supported going forward) but I'm convinced the focus will be on modding in custom firmware in order to get new games on the system. Also, as lasers start to die these things are going to be a lot harder to play. We're already kind of seeing that with the Dreamcast. Over the last year or two it has been a lot harder to find one with a good laser in it. Eventually these things are just going to stop working.

There are only three real contenders for this IMO 1977 - Atari 2600. It wasn't the first, heck even the original machine had interchangeable circuits. However, it did set the standard in terms of how a cartridge was sold and what kinds of games should be adapted for home console play. It wasn't afraid to adapt games that the hardware couldn't replicate fully (particularly in graphics and audio) but Atari really did rule the world for a time. The 2600 was a huge transition from Pong style consoles and heck a huge transition from OLD WAYS THAT PEOPLE ENTERTAINED THEMSELVES. 1985 - Nintendo successfully resurrects the game industry from near collapse in the US. Japanese dominance of the home console market continues all through the 90s until Microsoft gambles big by using the profitless Xbox to gobble up market share. Further while arcade ports would continue to play an important role in home game libraries, it seems as if original titles that played to the strengths of the hardware were becoming vastly more popular. 1996 - The Nintendo 64 might not have been revolutionary and a dominant market force but its release marked an upward trend in the release of 3D home video games. Both Sony and Sega were under greater pressure to release such games and Sony's best titles would come throughout 1997 and 1998 to easily compete with and defeat Nintendo in the home console market. I couldn't say which one was a bigger transition. 1996 perhaps mainly because the transition to 3D also came with bigger production values (as someone pointed out) and games like Metal Gear Solid ushered in an era where they were no longer just games but cinematic experiences. I'd always played RPGs as a kid so games with heavy plots were nothing new to me but it is a pretty different experience having that kind of thing in ALL GENRES. Even low budget games tend to be fully voiced these days, showing how important the narrative is to modern games.

Long Strip Atari 2600 Jr. seems to be the cheapest iteration of the hardware available on the used market in the United States. It is the type of machine I have and it is the only model I see for lower prices. Six switches, even if they aren't Heavy Sixers, seem to command quite the premium and even the Woody and Darth Vader units are going up. The Juniors stay pretty low though. Sucks cuz I'd love a six switch (not necessarily a heavy sixer) but I don't really want to put out that much cash. Oh well.

Heh, to be honest, if you don't have a PS2, I'd go buy a 360 and then grab a PS2 Slim (they're only $100 new and can easily be bought used as well). The PS2 has one of the greatest gaming libraries of all time with tons and tons of exclusives that are worth playing, especially if you like RPGs.

Hey now, NiGHTs was a great game, one of the best. It certainly may have been a "killer app" for the Sega faithful but was it really reeling in people the way Mario 64 did with its incredible 3D or the way FF7 did with its amazing FMV? I suppose it depends on what we mean by killer app. Although the Saturn clearly had other problems besides software because it got versions of some of the greats like Tomb Raider and Resident Evil and it still just kind of stewed along. Personally I think it was ahead of its time: internal memory and the battery was even easily replaceable if it died.

I dunno mate, some of those instruction manuals get pretty detailed. Just think of all those planets that would have been pillaged and plundered by the nefarious Galaxian fleet. Not to mention all of those asteroids the Cosmic Space Patrol had to contend with.

The Xbox version was a pretty solid game but unfortunately it is not backwards compatible with the 360 and since I haven't had my original Xbox hooked up since I got the 360, I haven't had a chance to play this game in years. Man I need to do something about that, FRWL, Hunter Redeemer, Sudeki...I got a bunch of old Xbox games I'd like to run through again.

For what its worth I consider the PS3 a much better machine but I rarely play it compared to my 360. All my friends have 360s and playing with friends > not playing with friends. They both have some pretty groovy exclusives though many of the 360's "exclusives" are also available on PC. Also I'll take Gears of War over whatever the PS3 has for sci-fi shooter multi (Resistance?). Played that series SO MUCH with my buddies. Good times. I bought the PS3 with the hope that it would continue to provide really great JRPGs as the PS1 and PS2 had done before it but there has yet to really be a standout MUST OWN JRPG title on the next gen systems for me and the good ones that have come out have been multi-platform or...Xbox exclusive, heh. Come on Shin Megami Tensei! It is stellar as a BD player however, and I believe it upscales DVDs better than the 360 as well. In conclusion they both have their good and bad points, go with the one where you have friends to play with!

I think we directly saw the results of that with the 32X. Hardware expansion CAN work as Nintendo proved with the expansion pack but for the consumer to be on board with it, it needs to be reasonably priced too. Nintendo was pretty smart about how they unrolled the pack as well. At first games didn't need it, they would just look a bit better. Then games started coming out with reduced features (stick Perfect Dark in an N64 without the expansion pack for fun times heh). Of course this was near the end of the system's life cycle but still some of those expansion pack games were pretty great. The 32X was to expensive and came out to late in the Genesis's life cycle to have a meaningful impact. If it had been more modestly priced or had been launched with a really standout title in mind, it might have worked better. It didn't help that games like 32X Doom seemed INFERIOR to games SNES versions as well. I personally like the 32X. Its library is small but it has some nifty games and the concept behind it was cool as well. That said, I bought mine for $10 a few years ago and got a game for free with it to start the collection. If I had bought it new, I would have been ticked. The 32X may have been more cost effective for Sega (I don't really know, or care to know TBH, the math behind it) but you've got to get the consumer to go for it and coming on the heels of the Sega CD, which also promised better stuff, it just didn't fly to well. My CD 32X Night Trap remains one of the cornerstones of my collection though. Hurray for oddities.

Night Trap is pretty entertaining actually I must admit. I have the CD 32X version no less for even added WTF. The FMV is hilarious and the gameplay itself isn't bad. It gets old trying to figure everything out and having to watch the same video over and over again. Honestly, I recommend getting a couple buddies and a solution guide. Its a good way to kill a couple hours Adventure Island - YES. I just grabbed the first one for my NES on Friday as I had good memories from when I was a kid. The controls are a bit slippery (esp. in the first one) but I love the liberal use of checkpoints (or in 2 and 3 the short stages) and the whole concept that the guy has to eat stuff if you want to live. Ft13 - This is probably one of the best games LJN ever made. That's not saying to much because it isn't that great of a game but it has some pretty good ideas in it. Lots to explore though punctuated by annoying time limits in the form of Jason murdering all your other characters and the kids if you go off on your own. It annoys me for the same reason Dead Rising annoyed me on the Xbox. Why must you ruin my fun with your garbage time limits?!

These guys basically have been broke for years, somehow they keep clinging to life. They really are just an awful company. I was playing Star Trek Online for a few months when it came out at the beginning of the year and it really was terrible how they just exploited the userbase with ridiculous microtransactions and can walk away from it making Cryptic look like the bad guys. Nolan Bushnell is with the company again though so maybe he can help get them back on track. I dunno though, I mean I <3 Bushnell but I'm not sure his portfolio is good for managing a modern gaming company.

I've been eyeing them for awhile now as if I get one, I'll have at least one system from each game generation on hand. They seem to be running from between $20-$50 depending on condition and how intact they are. Probably more for one that is really shiny in a really shiny box. There were several different units produced so I imagine that exact value is going to depend on which unit you have.

Nice. I want a Supercharger but mainly so I can say, "Yeah, I own Communist Mutants from Space." I just can't bring myself to buy a game that I can't play

Yep. Its the same multi-out port used in Nintendo's later consoles. Have fun wit the SNES. Its an awesome system.

I grabbed a few 2600 games today, including Star Raiders ($0.50/ea at the local used everything store ) and I'd like to dive into it but I find myself without the touchpad since they just had the game cartridge. I was wondering though if anyone know if I can use a Genesis gamepad in place of the Star Raiders touchpad? If so, is there a control map somewhere I could get pointed to? If this isn't a possibility does anyone know if there's an alternative to using the touchpad and still have full controls in the game? Its looking like the touch pad isn't THAT expensive on the Internet but with the holiday approaching I figure it'd be a couple weeks or more before I actually got my hands on the touch pad thanks to shipping.

I'm quite partial to B.O.B. Its probably not even close to the most underrated game of all time but it is a very fun 16-bit era platformer. They say the Genesis version is inferior to the SNES version. I've played both (though I only own it on Genesis) and it is great on either system IMO. For older titles I would say Bosconian. A few years back, Arizona's lottery ran a Pac-Man scratcher ticket and beyond cash prizes you could also earn Pac-Man related swag. I ended up with one of those 6-in-1 game sticks that had Pac-Man and some other old games, including Bosconian, on it. I was blown away by Bosconian and wondered why I'd never heard of it until then. Very fun game.

NTSC - Long Rainbow - Made in Taiwan - A17C1121427 - Atari Corp