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I just got Cruis'n Blast although I paid more for it than I should since I bought it on sale from GS, then forgot to pick it up! They ended up 'returning' it and I had to pay $10 more to get it again this time around. Bah. Also I got this.. I guess it was a LRG thing, but I had never heard about it in time, so I ended up picking up one off Ebay.

I dunno but they're selling this there too:

3D Dot Heroes maybe? I'm not 100% sure, but I think it also has a co-op feature which would make it more fun to show a younger player around

I'm obviously not 100% certain, but I'd wager that Popcorn is the original Pengo music. In Japan and any arcade I went to in Asia when the game was brand new.. all of them had Popcorn. 'Course I guess they played fast and loose in the video game world back then with copyright material. It was only when I saw the game on US-created Starcade on TV did I realize there was one with different music (and also didn't have the "screen clearing" at the beginning of each round which I thought was really odd). I was actually pretty glad when I found the 5200 version had the US music because I thought it was something different.

Just get a FXPak Pro (previously SD2SNES) and call it a day. Black Friday is coming up anyway and if they continue having sales for it like in previous years, that's the time to get one.

This was back in Guam at a local mom & pop store near my house around the late 70's, very early 80's. Due to our proximity to Japan is why Taito was so prevalent, and also why I would not see US games like Williams Robotron or Joust (or even the US Defender) until much later in life.

Oh those two are definitely around. Stargate was mostly complete I think. Xevious doesn't seem as quite far along but plays ok. I definitely think any of them would have bolstered the 5200's status.

I 100% agree that the 2600 ports (e.g. Kaboom, River Raid) were unexciting at the very least to us 13 year olds at the time. If you already had them in 2600 form, why would you buy another? I didn't have access to or care about Atari 8-bit computers back then, but of course we sometimes forget in 1982, the arcade was king of the video game world. So to me controller issues aside, the 5200 was all about the promise of getting more advanced arcade games to home than you could with a VCS. And with games like Joust, Robotron, and Space Dungeon the 5200 delivered the goods. But I banked on more games promised in magazines like Tempest, Super-Pac, Fast Food, Xevious, etc. but they never materialized. And that to me was the tragedy since as we know, most all of them were in the pipeline. I can only imagine back then if I got my hands on a Blaster, or Millipede cart, etc... there would have been ZERO doubt in my mind that the 5200 was tops. But the Colecovision stole that title in my eyes especially with it's colorful arcade ports, which sucked since I didn't have one.

Oh come on, who could resist the Shantae grip tape?

While I applaud the video, it's a little sad that when talking about the original, he has zero footage of the arcade game running in all its glory. But then again you can't blame anyone because it's pretty hard to come by these days. 'Course an actual physical SI with its bezel and background was a pretty beautiful thing.

I basically grew up with Taito since theirs were the most common arcade games around when I was a kid. Games like Space Invaders obviously, but then later stuff had some interesting stuff like Marine Date which used a trackball, Front Line and Wild Western with their 8-way dial select/shooting, or stuff like Fitter (or Round-Up?) with the Rubik's Cube thing in the middle. I also like games like Port-Man, Alpine Ski, To me I also credit Space Chaser as one of the first free roaming Pac-Man style games where you go around a maze and eat the dots while being chased by enemies (vs. Head-On etc. where you could not go freely move). Also another cool thing was the Taito Defender cabinet where it had the reverse button on TOP of the joystick. That's the one I played. It's funny though because most pics you find on the internet of the Taito cab have an obviously changed/altered one where the reverse was put on the control panel. On the flyer though you can still see the original:

Game that I dislike but people like: There's a lot of popular games I'm not really a fan of.. generally modern stuff (although I do like many modern games also), but I guess Minecraft is the big one. I could write a paragraph about it, but really the bottom line is: I just don't get it. Game that I like but people dislike: Space Invaders (I & II arcade). Ok this is kind of anomoly because it USED to be well loved, is fully acknowledged by everyone for its place in history, etc. But let's face it, people today normally have zero interest in playing it. ? Or they think it's boring, or *gasp* the 2600 version is superior (what a bad take lol). Anyway, that's honestly all fair.. we've had decades of video game evolution that followed it after all. Although I think it's also that most everyone has forgotten how to play it, or were never around to see the deliberate pacing, strategy, and secrets, etc., and they end up just trying to play it like they're playing Galaxian which is a pretty bad way to play it. Anyway, I love the game since I was a kid and play it a bunch. Even after years of not touching it, I'll go back and get addicted for a while. Currently I'm playing it on Switch.

Stop.. you're ruining the premise!

Anyone here buy the Castlevania GBA collection on Switch? Usually that'd be a no-brainer for me, but I actually spent much of 2021 playing through all GBA Castlevania games again.. on a GBA. So I was pretty much done with it, then boom they hit up with the collection. So I don't really have a huge desire to play through them yet again even on Switch Maybe when it goes on sale I'll bite.

Reason a lot of times these days people have a harder time beating Battletoads, or Mike Tyson for that matter is they're playing it on an emulator. Obviously with the various types of lag that can happen, it makes it harder to navigate the speeder bike levels or Mike Tyson's initial punches, etc.

Well sure, but were you fully aware of that in the year 1988? When I was looking at the magazine, I was hoping it was a port of the arcade game. Oh speaking of disappointing NES games I got another. Donkey Kong. It was pretty baffling at the time popping that in hoping for finally a 'good' version of Donkey Kong that you knew your NES could do, only to realize that as good as it looked, it was still half-baked with missing animations and no 2nd stage/conveyer belts.

NINJA GAIDEN (at first) Basically because I was a huge fan of the arcade game.. I remember pouring over the tiny maps in Nintendo Power's preview wondering how good the port would be. The initial stage map looked somewhat similar but the sprites looked really small so I didn't know what to expect. I was definitely disappointed when I finally played it for the first time that it was nothing like the arcade game. But as the story goes I obviously came to really like it for the game it was, and eventually mastered it.

I think everyone's just already used to it.. Maybe no one cares about Analogue's delays anymore since they already take forever by default. Everyone just files it back into their dormant memory until: 1. A solid release date and 2. Product in hands. THAT's when discussion will happen. ?

I dunno.. isn't scalping more getting current retail product with high demand, and then reselling it at a higher price. As far as I'm concerned if you have an old mcdonalds happy meal toy or a GBC Daikatana laying around, and try and sell it for $600 and then it rots on ebay forever, that's up to you. Or if someone actually buys it, then yeah.. bonus ? Nothing wrong with either really.

Well you didn't really have a choice! I would have gladly read a hint, but there was zero information about it anywhere then unless you called the Nintendo Counselors .. There was a Nintendo Power that went over the game but I didn't have it.

I've beaten Ninja Gaiden 1-2-3, Ghost & Goblins, Punchout, Bionic Commando, Blaster Master, Batman, Metroid, Kid Icarus, Mega Man 1-2-3, and Street Fighter 2010, just on a regular NES during their time (late 80s). I didn't consider them hard at the time.. I just kept playing them until I could beat it. Notice I didn't say Castlevania or Battletoads because I never had those games back in the day, and I also don't count Contra & Lifeforce because whenever I played them, I used the 30 extra men (who wouldn't?) However the ONE game I want to say I beat without any cheats or hints or any help is CASTLEVANIA 2 around 1988. Honestly, I didn't get the original CV, so when CV2 came out I figured "that's the one to get!". I didn't even realize it was different than the first one. Anyway I played and played that game for hours after class, sometimes going for days without figuring out what to do next. It was in those desperate hours that I eventually tried kneeling at a lake and when a staircase showed up I thought I was going to explode. But yes that game was 100% beaten regularly I'm proud to say. ?

You'll probably laugh but I have zero idea how to use Facebook. I did google that though and it says it's private. Any little more "open" info about it out there? ?

Hey I have to say that is a sweet little Coleco Handheld style Crazy Climber stickers and all. Is there any more info on that build? And yes the controls for CC are what the game is about. Heck even the old Bandai and Entex LED handhelds made efforts to duplicate it.

Well at least for me compared to a Raspberry Pi/Retropie.. the MiSter was 1000% easier to set up especially with the auto scripts they have that download the arcade roms for you. I thought of it as almost plug and play.... except for transferring console roms over. I have yet to even read one readme about how to setup the MiSter (e.g. I couldn't tell you where to put a custom core, etc., or where the config files are yet).. I watched one youtube vid of a guy launching the auto-setup and mine was done and still going. As opposed to the Retropie which took days of careful reading and tinkering & tweaking.

Man I'm super saddened by this.. there are just a few people on AA I feel an affinity with or feel like I "know", and Nukey was one of them. He was there from the start of this whole AA experience spanning the 2 decades. Anyway, although many of you might predictably mock this, it doesn't matter to me: He is 100% in my prayers.