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1 minute ago, Kanon said:
From Faxebook: The Sega-16 forums are down temporarily. We're moving the site so they should hopefully be up tonight.
Ah, I don't have Facebook. Glad to see it's not permanent. Thanks!
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I haven't really checked in there in a while, but I go today to Sega-16 and it seems the forum is missing. The Discord link doesn't bring up anything either. Does anyone know what's happened there?
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The PS2 was the actual good looking console of that era. Before that the Saturn reigned as the sleekest and most modern.
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This is seriously cool. The whole package of it. I wish there was more!
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1 hour ago, SegaShooters said:
It's Sega Genesis night!
MUSHA
Rolling Thunder 2
Sonic The Hedgehog 1 (look at this marvelous pic from Zone 3 of the Starlight Zone!)
Emu or are you a Rockefeller who owns a MUSHA cart?
I will say that Sonic 1 is underrated. Glad to see it get some love still.
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2 hours ago, Steven Pendleton said:
Wrong; it needs more everything.
Like I said last year, the levels of activity here just kind of died here in like June or July of 2020 outside of the Amico dumpster fire that continues to burn. That's why I've largely moved away from here, as it's like nobody even cares anymore. shmups forum, whether you love it or hate it, has a small but extremely passionate group of people ranging from complete beginners to world record holders, and the place is quite active. Not bad for a forum that is focused solely on a supposedly dead genre that probably scares away people due to just the difficulty of the games.
I wonder if it's because you saw it first right at the beginning of lockdowns? By June or July, there were some people starting to creep outside, but there's only so much of a single place one can take before they need variety!
I've not really noticed a plunge in activity over the years, at least not to the point that this place feels abandoned or anything.
But I do agree that more activity here would be better.
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I want to buck the trend here and actually speak up in favor of more Nintendo (NES and SNES) activity here. AtariAge surely represents Atari, which started the whole gaming at home movement, but with the death of all the other major consoles, it's the last home for this type of discussion. I will never play a new console (never played anything newer than a Wii already), but if those machines can get some love, so can the Super NES.
A few points:
On 8/18/2022 at 1:19 PM, Cobra Kai said:There have been Nintendo dedicated rivals to Atari Age in the past, such as Nintendo Age, but they floundered after being bought out IIRC. The internet has spoken, and Atari is the classic platform of choice for discussions.
NintendoAge was always garbage. Garbage community, garbage leadership, the place was the antithesis of AtariAge, with a stronger focus on collecting and encasing in plastic than actually playing any games. A better site was FamicomWorld, but it's very quiet in comparison.
That AtariAge was different, broader, more in-tune with the classic forum style discussion board, meant that it has powered through the storm that took down most forums. And it's better for it. Reddit, etc. is awful, and I'm so glad for an oasis here. There are just so few proper discussion boards left. Here feels less of a relic and more of a treasured old haunt.
If anything, I wish more, targeted classic gaming discussion took place at AtariAge, and more users of dead forums come here instead of migrating to Reddit or (gods forbid) Facebook. Here is that perfect balance of anonymity, moderation, and preservation that the others can't get right.
On 8/24/2022 at 2:15 PM, Cobra Kai said:I'm registered at shmups.com, but don't post at all. I mainly stop by to read strategies and tactics of whatever current shmup I'm into. That place depresses me because everyone there seems to be super geniuses at every shmup. I used to think I was a pretty good shmupper, but after browsing those forums you realize you're not very good at all.
I think you'll find plenty of us casuals lurking about. There are a bunch of die-harders in the board, but they'll also be likely to offer guidance and helpful advice, even if sometimes it might seem like they're endlessly ribbing ya. It's overall a good-natured board.
On 8/26/2022 at 8:20 AM, Austin said:That hardly makes it "trash", it's just different. You've clearly already been on the shmups forum for too long, heh. It's starting to rub off on you.
Discord has come a long way. They now have things like direct reply features that partially quote the topic being responded to, and it'll tag you/alert you if it's a response to something you wrote, which is handy. It's a lot like here where you get an alert if someone likes your post or quotes you in a thread.
It's still important to remember however that its primary focus is the live back and forth conversation, ala IRC, which is inherently different from a traditional messageboard. They are attempting to bridge that gap at least.
IRC bots used to do all that and was a free and open source protocol. Discord is proprietary garbage. I think the issue is that a lot of people treat Discord like a message board and can't be bothered to spend more than 5 minutes of their brainpower writing up a response. It's casual conversation, but subversively undermines actual conversation at the same time.
As a veteran of IRC, email list groups, forum software, and messy takes like Reddit and StackExchange, there is simply nothing better than a traditional, well-run forum, especially if it contains long-form articles, Wikis, or other ways of getting the best information in short format. I think that will save the forum more than anything else (and why forums like Racketboy can plod along, even if a bit zombie-like).
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A lot of good contenders, but H.E.R.O. is a perennial favorite.
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On 12/31/2022 at 6:23 PM, Buffalo Biff Burgertime said:
What's the opposite of necro-bump, vita-bump?
Necro- is Greek, vita- is Latin. The proper opposite would then be bio-bump.
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Not to defend Tanooki (really, truly, honestly!), but I never felt that the angle was "bad" per se. Just not optimal. But thinking about it, yeah, absolutely, I always preferred the rectangle and use Y B as my mains on the SNES controller. It really makes you wonder why on earth they designed it that way.
One guess is that making it more difficult (even if just slightly) to reach, going from B to A takes more conscious effort, and they want to encourage that? It's easy, I suppose, to accidentally hit the wrong button if it's too convenient to do so?
I'd love to see some justification for the design. But either way, I'm sticking with the original controllers for each console.
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3 hours ago, Steven Pendleton said:
Soldier Blade is expensive complete. You can expect 30000 yen or more. Never seen just the HuCARD by itself.
Somehow I managed to nab a solo HuCard (Edit: US, not JP) all by itself years ago. I wish I did have it complete, but I think I missed the boat on that one.
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14 hours ago, Cobra Kai said:
I like the Sonic Wings games, but I have Sonic Wings Special on Saturn, which is superior to either of the NG games, so I never play those. SW3 isn't very good truth be told, its just a boss rush. That style has its fans though.
Yeah, Special is also what I have (especially since I got rid of my Neo-Geo). I do think SW2 is good, but with all the NG ports out there, it makes little sense to have one unless you're a die-hard fan.
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29 minutes ago, Steven Pendleton said:
I greatly prefer non-bullet hell over bullet hell, and despite what people say about difficulty, you'll have a decent amount of difficulty finding bullet hell games that are actually more difficult than games like the 1P version of Same! Same! Same! and Tatsujin Ou. Most bullet hell games actually give you a chance, but 1P Same! Same! Same! wants you to see the game over screen the moment you start playing the game and it does everything it can to make sure you suffer and die horribly and painfully. It's such an impossibly badass game that I can't stay away, though!
You can still find bullet hell that makes even 1P Same! look like an entry level game, of course: DoDonPachi Daioujou Death Label is so unbelievably difficult that although we are now less than 4 months away from the 20th anniversary of its release, only 3 people are known to have actually beaten the game. I have it, and I can say that you should absolutely try it if you enjoy vicious, sadistic pain and miserable suffering because that is what it will give you. Extremely highly recommended!
Neo Geo's STG library is rather small. Andro Dunos is probably my favourite one on the system so far. It's rough without autofire, but you also need a non-autofire button for the charge shot.
I've been preaching this for years. Classic shooters > bullet hells any day of the week. Although I guess people call these extreme shooters "manic shooters" now (Tatsujin, Strikers 1945, even Twin Cobra), but they're not easier than bullet hells.
Neo Geo's actual great STG games though are Sonic Wings/Aero Wings. You can get SW1 on SNES, SW2 Remix on the Saturn, but 3 is only on the Neo-Geo, I believe.
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On 1/5/2021 at 3:36 PM, 128Kgames said:
You left out "Four Bright Buttons and Two Joysticks."
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3 hours ago, Zoyous said:
These days it's generally regarded as a 2D powerhouse and many of its best games are shooters/shmups, a lot of which were never brought over to the West. Those have probably held up the best, although some of them have been subsequently re-released. The Panzer Dragoon series is one of the 3D standouts. There's also the arcade Super Scaler ports, which are in some cases the most arcade-accurate available - Out Run, After Burner II, Space Harrier, and Galaxy Force II - the latter three are brilliant with the analog Mission Stick.
Agreed. My Saturn has 3 main types of games: 2D shooters (i.e. shmups), light gun games (chiefly House of the Dead and Virtua Cop), and Capcom fighters. Sure, there are a few others thrown in (Panzer Dragoon 1 & 2, Sega Rally, Metal Slug, the Sega Ages games), but that's it. I shied away from 3D with the Saturn and the PS1 with just a handful of exceptions.
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The Virtual Boy was hot garbage. And even though I had fun with the N64, I really envied my friends who had the PS1 instead. Other than that, I'd say both the DS and PSP were major disappointments. I moved on from contemporary gaming after that back to the real joy: classic gaming.
Not contemporary, but I'd say my worst retro purchase was the Super Cassette Vision. I had never gotten rid of a machine faster than that one. I also had buyer's remorse from picking up a NGCD that ended up not working. That was a ten year headache trying to get it fixed. Ended up selling it just recently.
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5 minutes ago, GoldLeader said:
Hah! OK I had to look up BBIAB and AFK LOL...
Myself, I always say "Super Nintendo" ...But will write SNES sometimes...I never say "Snezz" because it sounds so retarded, But up above I did Only as a joke...That part made me laugh more because I never say it that way
"Snezz" just sounds terrible, like a pathetic half-sneeze. BBIAB and AFK were much more common in the IRC days, although it did bleed over a bit into early chat lingo. Can't say I've seen either in a long time.
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On 10/11/2022 at 2:25 PM, GoldLeader said:
Oh, Sorry, and this, coming from one who really, really, really hates acronyms...BITD=Back In The Day. Meaning I had it back when it came out, not something lately...
IIRC, there were a handful of acronyms BITD that were so common that they needed a shorthand, which, IMO, were necessary to keep the conversation moving. I don't really care for how everything became an acronym, though. I even prefer to say e.g. Super Nintendo instead of SNES. Or at best Super NES. Acronymization is pretty much overkill now, especially since folks turned against capital letters: funny af just looks like a typo.
Anyway, I'll BBIAB. /me is afk.
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I think it's OK to ask how the 32X would have fared if Sega didn't split its attention, but assuming that Sony didn't exist is just nonsense. Sony exists. There's no point in this exercise if we're just going to ignore major players on a whim.
WHAT IF NINTENDO AND ATARI AND NAMCO AND COLECO AND AND AND DIDN'T EXIST????!? THEN SEGA #1 IN TEH WORLD!!11!!one!1
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On 7/14/2022 at 2:04 PM, Mikebloke said:
Not quite as old, but I remember Red Faction being the first proper console games where you could literally blow a hole through a level to get past something. However, that was Playstation 2.
Red Faction was the first thing I thought of. Gauntlet just beats out Zelda's burnable bushes, too.
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11 hours ago, atari2600land said:
I don't like it when people talk about GBC and GBA games on the Game Boy thread. Why can't we just keep it strictly original GB?
I'd say there's enough overlap between GB and GBC to warrant discussion as a single system, but I agree that the GBA is an entirely different beast, appealing to different tastes and ages, and the only reason they're lumped in together is because you can play GB and GBC games on a GBA. It's completely different tech, though, and the difference between the GB/GBC and GBA is as stark as the Nintendo is to the Super Nintendo or the Master System is to the Genesis. Just because you can get an adapter and play Master System games on a Genesis doesn't mean the two systems are really comparable in any way that would foster discussion.
At least that's how I see it. We're clearly in the minority!
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8 hours ago, zzip said:
They've forgotten us GenXers exist. Everyone is a Boomer, Millenial or Zoomer (Gen Z)
Millennials are old enough that they're often considered boomers now, too.
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7 hours ago, GoldLeader said:
Modern gaming fatigue?
See also my Status Update.
Yes, I consider PS3 "Modern"...
A PS2 also plays PS1 and PS2 games and never needs firmware updates or connects to some online portal. Time to come back to the simpler times!
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Posting just to keep track of this thread.
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Absolute Must Play Games for the Playstation 2
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I like my racers, and the PS2 has one of my favorites: Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2. It's the last of the great NFS games before it jumped on the customizable bandwagon with Underground. I don't want to buy decals. I want to race in the gorgeous Italian countryside. I wish more games had come out like it.
The two other most-played racers on the system for me are Extreme G3 Racing, which is an excellent futuristic racer with a good soundtrack, and OutRun 2006.
Two other non-racing games I love are NBA Street Vol. 2 and Red Faction (chiefly the first one, though the second one wasn't that bad).