Algus

I use an F310 too. I've had trouble with the triggers and some PS1 games. I have L2 and R2 mapped properly but in some games that require both one of the trigger buttons and a face button to be pressed at the same time, it won't read there presses from the trigger. Dunno if its the controller, my emulator, or what. There is a lot going on there. One bad thing about PC emulation I guess.

1500 Oh boy this one makes me want to punch things (ha ha!) I ~think~ using my control pad is making it easier, the kicking seems like it would totally suck on an actual joystick. I might have to plug my 2600 in later to punish myself. Do the difficulty switches actually do anything in this game?

I'd be willing to predict Steam will still be around in ten years. In fact, I'll call it now. Someone necro this thread in 2025! I'm not to sure about this one. I'd rather have a tablet too. Get on board with Canonical working on their mobile version of Ubuntu or just build up tablet support for SteamOS yourself. Tablets already have a wide variety of keyboard and mice available and you could easily go the Surface route and release a dock. 32 GB is fine for entry level. It'll fill fast but if you want a ton of a games, better to break out the piggy bank and buy higher capacity anyway. Expandable storage is a must. I'm more interested in the Steambox than this but my Mac already plays all the games I want it to anyway so I guess I'm good. I jumped off the AAA train during 360/PS3 and I'm not real eager to get back on board. To much old and Indie stuff that runs fine on cheap hardware. Actually, given the kinds of games I like to play, this would probably be ~just the thing~ for me, heh.

Don't worry. Keatah doesn't even like it when people his own age are on the lawn. Gaming's gaming. If you're enjoying it for the games great. If you're just buying stuff to have it and brag on the internet, the joke's going to be on you in a few years when you realize how much money and space you've wasted on things you don't even like that much. Atari is a different type of game from even late 80s stuff. Maybe more about "playing a game" and less about "experiencing content" If someone can get over the visual aspect, and there's plenty of us in our 20s and early 30s (yeah early 30s is to young for the Atari generation now!) who can, it makes a lot of sense that they might like the older games more than the newer. It's just different. It's probably true though that you're not going to get the same feeling from it that people who were kids when this stuff was new did. They're going from playing with rocks (~ok~ board games and cards) to Space Invaders and Asteroids. We're going from SNES and Nintendo 64 (fully realized 3D worlds, etc.) to a 128 color palette. It's hard to appreciate the technical achievement that the 2600 was at the time if you weren't used to what it was like before the 2600 hit.

I dont get people who collect just to have them. I'd rather buy games that are fun to play but I have to admit a few of the richer guys that are into the hobby have turned me onto some obscure stuff I probably wouldnt have known about if they hadnt done videos of the off the wall stuff they've collected over the years

I take back what I said in your last topic about how the red label designs were the worst ones. Your Alisia Dragoon custom job is glorious.

Honestly the artwork and extensive background stories on some of the space shooters is part of the charm for me. Sure the game didn't look like that but kids have this great thing called imagination.

Lost my first SNES (replaced under warranty!) and my launch 360 (no surprise there). Nothing wrong with my BC PS3 yet (fingers crossed) Have had to conduct repairs on my NES (pin connector of course). Had to replace a battery in my Saturn. Had to adjust the lens in my PS2. Haven't lost anything else. Before the disc-based systems consoles were pretty reliable. As I recall my issue with my SNES was a known problem at the time (video port blew so no signal to the screen) but I was still fairly young and my dad handled the return stuff for me. Oh, I do need to adjust the color pots on my 7800 if I ever get around to it (shading is ~way off~) but since I can just readjust my TV, I haven't really bothered. I mostly emulate now anyway so the 7800 looks fine on the shelf without me tinkering with it, heh.

I believe the stated price of "more than $300" is quite reasonable and I will gladly pay it for this cherished childhood relic. As luck would have it, the President of my country recently died and I find myself in need of moving a large sum of money to an off-shore account. If you would like to help me with this endeavor, God willing, I can certainly almost guarantee to pay you the sum of MORE THAN $300 USD. I look forward to your positive response.

I don't necessarily agree with the placement but I am duly impressed that it isn't completely dominated by newer titles. The fact that they know and recognize games like Pool of Radiance and Temple of Darkmoon tells me that at least the authors know a thing or two about some of the great CRPGs of yore. There should have been a Might and Magic on there. I'd go with Isles of Terra. Dark Souls (and at Number 1 no less LOL) and Titan Quest are the two games that I don't think belong on the list.

Wowee. I had Al knock one of these up for me several years ago, I think he undercharged me

Down for beating it legit but got no shame in admitting I've practiced a time or two using save states

It wasn't even a bad game but it was the fist sign of what would become this series problem: they completely spun their wheels and tried finding ways to stretch out the plotline when the third game should have been the last one to conclude the whole thing. Even the much heralded RE4 could be discarded and you could go from 2 right to 5 and everything would be coherent and logical.

This game could have a lot of potential using newer technology but I'd rather have something that plays closer to the original than the action-oriented gameplay of the newer Resident Evils. RE2 at its best was a horde of zombies between you and the next cache of ammo. It's scenario system also meant there was an excellent difficulty curve between the easiest content and the hardest. I don't have a lot of confidence that they'll stay true to the things that made it great.

NES for me. The parentals got it for me when I was 5 though I'd been playing since I was 3 over at my cousins. Man my cousin must have had a lot of patience to deal with a 3 year old trying to play Mario Bros but I always asked to play Mario and she always said yes. I think she was 13-15 at the time. I still have my NES. It's covered in Jetsons stickers that came out when I was 7 or 8, I ~think~ from a cereal box but hell if I remember at this point! About 1/2 my collection is stuff I've had since it was new and the other 1/2 since eBay came around One thing that was great about NES...man KB Toys around here was still selling new in box NES games like 1995-1996 so I never really stopped playing it.

I'm only going to consider something outside of my main box (aka my computer aka software emulation) when the software emulation fails. Mini PCs can do so much in a tiny space, I no longer have the desire to maintain or store large amounts of equipment for gaming when my daily driver is satisfactory. I'm sure mileage varies between other people depending on how much space/money they have for their retro setups.

Yeah where the heck our our pictures?! YOU PROMISED PICS! j/k I don't think I ever had a save blow. We used to shark Pokemon Red to give ourselves Mews and crap like that. When I was a little kid I used to game genie FF1 for gold. I remember I used a four fighter party and bought them all Silver Swords right away. I think I beat the game for the first time with that party.

I was playing that driving on the freeway game cybearg made a while back earlier. I last about five seconds in that game so things don't look to good for me lol

We talk about all kinds of games on Atari Age but don't be surprised to see most PS2/GCN/Xbox talk still going on in modern gaming. Plenty of Nintendo fans here but we're definitely a community heavily invested in the early 80s: Atari, ColecoVision, and Intellivision, plus some of the more arcane stuff that a bunch of us own and/or have played. That's probably the only stuff that we all agree on as classic.

I used it to help buy my last computer. It was nice because I didn't have to tie all my cash up in the purchase over a month or so and was able to have it all paid off before the first payment came due and I would have started getting charged interest. One thing I've noticed is that not all businesses that accept PayPal allow you to use the credit line as payment. I would actually use it more but a few places I shop won't actually let me use it.

I'm sure he didn't always make the stockholders happy but for me Satoru Iwata oversaw Nintendo's transition from fascist global powerhouse to a smaller market hobby company that was focused on putting out fun games. I liked Nintendo so much more once they'd washed their hands of the Playstation/Xbox rat race. Since mid-to-late Gamecube era they have focused on putting out some really fun and unique games. When Iwata was still working as a developer he had a hand in some of my favorite Nintendo games: Earthbound, Pokemons, etc. I just hope the company can continue to carry on in the direction Iwata was leading the company.

Arizona did one of those Pacman scratchers and if you saved the tickets and turned them in you could win a ton of free stuff. I ended up with some cool swag: a pocket watch and an arcade stick with five games on it among them. That game stick actually introduced me to Bosconian, one of my favorite 80s arcade games

I dislike the red boxes as well, probably because I associate that with them discarding the clamshells for cardboard. My favorite box design was the originals from 1989. BTW Alisia Dragoon is an amazing game!

Hyperstone Heist has been pretty expensive for a long time now. I've actually never picked it up because of that. The only game I really paid through the nose for was my boxed Streets of Rage 3. $45 for Bloodlines isn't to bad these days. Lots of speculators in the retrogaming market these days so popular games still command high prices even if there are tons of them. It's worse for NES and SNES but Genesis has not been immune. Probably doesn't help that with Genesis I only bother to buy boxed thanks to the nice clamshell cases.

Color me interested. Dynamite has a pretty good editorial staff and they've handled their licensed content really well. They're probably my favorite of the smaller publishers.