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It isn’t just a matter of being bad ass, it is also a matter of manufacturing capacity. I think I read that in 1992 (or 1993) SNES and Genesis sold about 4 million-5 million units each. (Don’t know if this is worldwide sales or NA region) But in 1991, the NES had been out for 5-7 years, and had already sold 15 million - 30 million units (NA sales - Worldwide Sales). Kind of difficult to manufacture 15 million Genesis/mega drives in 2 years.

I dont see how any of these would be reasons for success/failure. No one cares if something is called an entertainment system, front-loading zip/(non) isnt a selling point, resembling other electronic devices only has minor help with familiarity of use (ie tape decks to record/play program).

Likely caused because the unrecognized character was 2 bytes instead of 1. Excel's find and replace should work by just copying the em dash to your clipboard and doing a replace all, BTW the first page has tne same issue, " in this waymarking the points with a lean forefinger " with a hyphen missing between way-marking.

That is because the “em dash” (Hex 0x2014) isn’t part of standard ASCII. They probably meant to use the hypen in the text, but used the wrong character. I didn’t look at how you converted the ASCII characters to the atascii_timemachine font, but you could do a find & replace in excel of all em dash characters with some other actual ASCII character that doesn’t appear in the text, and then map that character in excel to the ‘-‘ hypen character in the A7800 font. Quote marks have a similar issue in that many are outside the normal ASCII (in the +0x20xx range), and they likely didn’t use the newest HTML standard of writing “"” or using the left/right angle double quote marks.

I love Project Gutenberg, and The Time Machine was one of the first books I read off the site. The also have audio books for free that are read by humans. I happen to like the voice of the reader, Roy Trumbull, on this audio book, The Time Machine (as well as the Sherlock Holmes reader)

No. Probably South Park or Hooters Road Trip (I know I was as disappointed as I was in their wings)

If I remember from my news headline, YT video synopsis, if any question is in a title/headline, the answer is no.

Maybe keeping the number of titles in a franchise limited is a good thing. PAC-man has over 100, and of those listed, the ones I have played that are as good/better than the original are only a handful. Most don’t stray too far from the original concept either. PAC-man Championship Edition (haven’t played the console version, but the large 4-player arcade version was fun.) Pac-man vs. (GCN/GBA) Playing with human ghosts and coordinating traps was a unique twist. PAC-man 99 Its a multi-platform battlerama PAC-man 256 Endless runner based off the original kill screen. Then you’ve got all the Ms. Pac-Man and Jr. Pac-Man old arcade games that were great. The other 3D variants were just OK, (Pac-Man World, Ms Pac-Man Maze Madness, et al)

I did find the Remote Control Dandy demo. It is on PlayStation Underground, v3.4, ReleaseDate: 1999-12-01

This is an FTC Act violation (USA), YouTube has policies regarding paid placements, sponsorships, and endorsements. Of course it is, so think about who you can trust on the internet. ”Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.” — Abraham Lincoln

Supposedly Nintaco emulator supports Family Basic for Famicom. It allows you to copy and paste code from Notepad (or other text editor.

My Google-fu is weak. I am looking for which demo disk contained a demo of the Japanese import game, Ore No Ryomi. It was a restaurant simulation, where people placed orders at your counter, and you performed cooking tasks with the dual-analog sticks to make the food to perfection (Onions chopped small, beer poured with the perfect amount of head, meat perfectly grilled, etc). The customers would get up and leave if you took to long, or failed other tasks like killing cockroaches, or calling the police to toss out drunks. Several threads on sites say that it was in the Official PlayStation Magazine, but I get the feeling it was one the PlayStation Underground (PU) 1.0, which also had an import section. (Interesting note, the initial release of PU also included a save game with a bunch of Carnage Heart OKE designs by the original developers. I think I found a copy of the backup long ago, but likely lost it on a hard-drive somewhere) Later PU discs contained another interesting game, Remote Control Dandy, where you controlled a large remote controlled robot through a city as you walked along the ground (the Japanese love their huge robot games).

Technically, the Zynga lawsuit was due to TLC claiming that Zynga was infringing in their trademark, not copyright. You probably could make a game about traveling to Oregon on the trail, and it could contain many of the same elements of fording rivers, caulking wagons, settlers dying to dysentery, etc, because those sorts of things are fundamental to a Settlers traveling the Oregon Trail. (Capcom v Data East) It just couldn’t be a reskin of the game though as later court cases have ruled, or copy too much of the look and feel. The problem is that these are matters of fact that need to be determined in a case by case basis, and whose got millions of dollars to fight?

The Oregon Trail IP is currently owned by Houghton Mifflin under the label The Learning Company (http://www.thelearningcompany.com). They currently sell an Oregon Trail game for the Switch. They sued Zynga back in 2011 just for creating a set of Oregon Trail missions for FrontierVille. Like the Big N, TLC is lawyer happy.

This is true, I've coined the term 'retro gaming supremecy'. When you observe a phenomenon and want to communicate it to others, coming up with an adequate term is needed. It’s all a bunch of floorbo to me.

Well, you could. You just need to kill all humans, probably all primates, maybe even some dolphins or other big-brained creatures.

It’s about 120 minutes (ba, dum, bump) free with ads.

if the nostalgic movies have taught me anything, yes.

@zzip, ok minor correction, has stayed steady except for the COVID years. I assume much of this was due to a lack of people socializing due to the lockdown measures. The new GSS data is out, and although the “very happy” people dropped to a historic low of 14% in May 2020, the new GSS puts the figure at 19%. All the talk I read about happiness decreasing since the 1970s isn’t accurate in my opinion (with the exception of COVID lockdowns).

@Lord Mushroom I specifically chose a study that disputed the often repeated $75k per year makes you happy. I don’t put much faith in most of the non-hard sciences, but feel free to believe whichever studies you like. My basic point was that happiness isn’t stagnant or decreasing, it has held relatively steady since the time we started measuring it. Any headlines you read are complete bunk, meant to push some narrative.

Happiness is pretty much steady in the USA since the 1970s. The General Social Survey has been asking the same question for the last 50 years, and the results are basically the same. Additionally, those freakonomics guys claim that there is research that approximately 50% of happiness is genetic. If you have the right genetics, you can look at a breakup as fine. Pretry sure that wealthy people have it worse than middle income people. Mo money, Mo problems. It as often repeated that making more than $75,000 per year doesn’t make you happier, but since most scientific results aren’t repeatable, who knows what is really true. I have a tendency to believe that at some point, earning more money or having more wealth has diminishing returns.

Retro City Rampage: DX - Nintendo 3DS Thanks.

The problem of scarcity is the most basic economic problem. Human wants are unlimited and resources to satisfy these wants are limited and these limited resources have alternative uses.

I don’t see a huge difference between Eliza and ChstGPT. ChstGPT has a larger database, and can “understand” natural language better, but it still boils down to placing the next highest probable word after each other. As for this leading to the middle class disappearing, I am not worried at all. The middle class is disappearing, but that is because there are more of them becoming the moderately wealthy class. Additionally, the poorest 20% of people have it much better than the middle class of 50-70 years ago. Technology makes everyone’s life better, and the more menial jobs that can be automated away, the better.