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Hi Gabriel. I got Dragon Quest IX for the Nintendo DS. I have mixed opinions about it. Some people might think that it is great. But.. I am actually tired of it. After about one hour! That is kind of rare for me with a video game too. Because I usually try my hardest to play through a game's faults. Being on a small screen isn't the issue with me. I guess the issue with me was it was a little repetitive with the battles. And I wasn't a big fan of doing the whole "run an errand" gimmick for the game. Games are supposed to be fun not running errands for people. I am probably going to sell the game on ebay. But thanks for your input. I hope Dragon Quest IX hasn't tainted or battered my gums too much for Dragon Quest games. Because I love the ones for the NES. Also Dragon Quest IX you can totally avoid battles by actually seeing the enemies on the overworld. I thought that was lame. I felt like there was potential for it to be a really really good game, by doing some radically different things and probably not calling itself Dragon Quest.
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I've played Mega Man. I know how to beat the Ice Chunks. Or the Ice chunks boss. Mikeala or whatever it's called. (Not Yeltsin man) But mastering the whole double jump thing in Ghouls and ghosts is harder. But that is a hard game. But maybe I am not hardcore.
Yeah Ranger talking about the dreamcast in a rap song like it's cool is as bas as the singer shooter talking about the Ricky Lake show. It's like the what show? Of course we have all heard of Ricky Lake. But sega products began to have a shelf life equal to that of those come and go day time talk show hosts. Didn't even Chevy Chase try to have a talk show?
00100100 take me to your leader. Please don't take me to a broom closet and make me program games with Renato Bittencourt. Don't take me to a where you keep your nutella samples and your Game Gear games. Of course you have the Boy in shining force whose favorite hobby is power walking. People in Japan must be really desperate for hobbies.
Have you ever heard of chip card readers? We are making all of these stupid games now on something like a chip or you just download it. I think the creator of the thread meant something more along the lines that don't you remember when games weren't tiny tiny chips (like the borg) but a cartridge that you could actually hold and had gravity. They didn't have steel wheels but at least you could hold them. Well LJN should have made a Michael Dukakis game. With Michael Dukakis on a tank with a helmet. And the objective of the game would be..uh collect all of the nutella samples and smear the chocolate on your underwear, while you talk about making a shining force II remake. -
Thanks for playing the intellectual elite (saying oh, you just wouldn't understand). I'm fully aware that TecToy and Sega were very successful in Brazil. All I needed was confirmation, but all you confirmed was that you like to be a jackass.
So educate me. What is TecToy? I have never heard of them. I feel like I am playing a game of blind man's bluff. Is there like some Parallel universe somewhere that Sega still exists? And is being bought in droves? Next someone is going to tell me that Sega didn't really go under and Tu Pac is alive in Cuba somewhere. And the company Sega owns Skunkworks!
You mean Sega is actually the alter nemesis of Atari? Like Stephen King I guess went under other pen names like Richard Bachman. So Erebus the greek god of death no longer applies to Sega. They are alive in Brazil. I was hoping that Vin Diesel would have bought the company Sega and changed the name to Vin Diesel. I guess that's just not the type of globalism that we live in. Of course every other game would have to be named something with Vin Diesel in it. Like Vin Diesel fights the martians. Vin Diesel fights giant squids. Vin Diesel beats the crap out of Mario. Well hopefully Sega does better and enjoys more success than Henry Ford's Rubber factory. That was in Brazil too. But supposedly Americans were forced to live there. I want a progress report on TecToy every day! -
Game gear games certainly have not aged well. Does anyone even own a game gear? To haul around that giant adapter. I am buying a lot of cheap game gear games now but just for the cases! 0001000 are you holding flowers for the Sega Genesis? Well Ranger the Brazil Real. Name of Brazil's money. Is this the Dolly Parton Imagination library? Good thing someone brought up Doom. There is a video game crash coming. I know it. Like some reviewer on youtube said, Donkey Kong for the game boy is better than like 99.99 percent of games made today. Atari is still in the urban dictionary for awesome. Arkanoid was a cool name. For a video game. Dreamcast was not really a cool name. Now we have names for games like Fallout. 000100 sounds like you should jump on your electric scooter. I can't say I will be breaking the Eucharist over either the Saturn or the Genesis. They are just game systems. Speaking of Jilted where is the Sega CD game of Neil Degrasse Tyson talking about our stupidly large moon? And like you find Neil Degrasse Tyson in a fun digitized sequence and choke him to death because you are looking for the armored pendant to save Kenny Rogers but he keeps following you around. A corporatacracy of fools, says George Foreman.
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From what I understand, by today's standards Brazil is close to living in the stone age when it comes to videogames. They have very high import taxes (and high taxes in general) and modern systems cost an arm and a leg. The SMS in particular (as well as the Genesis) is still prevalent as a result and current models (mostly in the form of multi-game units from what I can tell) are still officially available from Tectoy, who handles Sega's stuff down there. Now while I'm not certain of sales numbers, the one quoted above wouldn't surprise me.
*Edit: They currently have a version of the Mega Drive available for sale that includes a SD slot and a cartridge slot. Composite out on the back. It might be a modern clone for all I know, but it's official. Link: https://www.tectoy.com.br/console-mega-drive-joystick-cartao-sd-com-22-jogos-expansivel-ate-594-jogos/p/995040461825
I mean I don't know I'm reading in Science Magazine August 2015 that Brazil is in some kind of deep fiscal crisis. From the Federal University of Rio De Janeiro. So where does the Sega Genesis make into this. They cut 13.7 billion from the ministry of education. They better not be saying that the Sega Genesis is some kind of educational tool. Play ecco the dolphin and that will raise awareness for saving the rainforests. Crockpot livers? Is Brazil buying old genesis consoles and using the plastic to build some off shore wind farms? Could be.
So I guess my next question, stream of consciousness..What do you guys consider to be the top games that were once known to be bad. Or blacklisted? (blue gun Joe Lieberman) Mortal Kombat I guess was one. Mortal Kombat looks like bugs bunny compared to this Madden 2019. Remember when congress said that the game Night Trap on Sega CD was ulta-violent and sick. Yeah centipede. The sega Genesis was super duper. yeah centipede. I mean they were playing video games in the movie Soylent green with Charlton Heston. That was made in 1972. Maybe Brazil is not in the stone age but they are in the Stoned age. Literally they are all stoned.
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Brazil is just getting the Sega Genesis? What is this the Pleistocene? I am guessing in ten years they are going to get some railroads? Well at least Brazil has its own dolphins to brag about. Maybe the Amazon river was the inspiration for Ecco the dolphin. Although river dolphins are freshwater and look way uglier than ocean and sea dolphins. It would be funny to give Brazil the Sega Genesis but make the Genesis where it is only capable of ever playing one game — Ecco the dolphin. Then make then wait another ten years before we "release" Sonic the hedgehog. I feel like there is an air of disgruntlement that Sega is no longer in the business of making great consoles. I want to see them come back. I think every one does. But you can't excuse poor business decisions either. Let them Ecco (I mean iron) it out. Did the company LJN ever make games for Sega? That's another one that boggles me. How did all of those bad games not bring down Nintendo? It almost seems like having those bad games helped Nintendo's success. Weird planet we have. I remember when Ecco the dolphin came out people thought there would be a whole bunch of sequels to the game. But I guess Ecco only caught on with a certain group of people. I just remember playing the game as a demo at Toys R Us.. I don't know anyone who owned it. Have you seen Snakes on a plane?
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I bought my Saturn new in late '97 for 200. In those days, my interests were 2d shooters, rpg's, and Mortal Kombat. UMK3, Thunderforce Gold Pack 1+2, Thunderforce V, Strikers 1945, Layer Section, R-types, Gradius Deluxe pack, the Capcom Collections, Shining Wisdom, Albert Odyssey, SFIII, Shining the Holy Ark, Dragonforce, etc. For a shorter lived system with distribution issues, I'd say it aged quite well on the 2d side. Just like with DC later, the US just didn't get most of the real gems.
Having a brother in the US Navy stationed in Japan didn't hurt either,
I envy you! Do you have Megaman X4??
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Well centipede. You basically created this thread to trash the Saturn. You failed! I'm a Saturn fan. Was it because the Sega Saturn did not have blast processing? Is it because the Sega Saturn forgot to put the blood in games like Mortal Kombat? Do World of Warcraft tournaments age well at long as you don't get killed in a stampede? Do John Madden 2019 age well as long as you aren't shot and killed? I like Metal slug better than Gunstar heroes. But I am not a twitch gamer. Genesis. Umm..The Genesis had Castlevania symphony of the night? And the Genesis had Suikoden. I'm not like some video game ecologist. I just call it like I see it. Games themselves are inanimate objects. When you say aged, I believe you mean how well the gamers are into the games still? Can you name one Sega Genesis game that gamers are still into? That they couldn't get on like a million different consoles now? I am learning Lamonz. Buy some piranha wall paper remover, says Glenn the Handyman. Unfortunately I am not in any hard fan corps for any video game system. I was too much in the Farmer Labor party. Because they either pull the plug before they start to get interesting or flood the system with a lot of wimpy games. Or Nintendogs..yeesh ruff. Well in my opinion aged isn't aged if it is a game that you want to play. "I am Error!"
I don't see what you guys see in some of these games. Like Landstalker. I am playing that now. And I hate it! I hate using diagonal on the control pad to control your character. Throughout the whole game! And I feel like I should be good at a game like this. But it's like we are back to the whole, my games have blood discussion. By the time we got to the Saturn the whole our games have blood discussion was already worked out of our system. To me a good name for the Sega Genesis should have been Cabin Fever. I am not a Nintendo Fan boy. I am not a Sega Saturn Fan boy (well sort of I am .) I am a I wish there were less games (memes) for Cabin fever boy. No, though a man be wise, it is no shame for him to learn many things and to bend in season. Well too many genesis games make you bend too much! Did the Sega Genesis have Demon's crest? Well the Sega Saturn didn't either. So. Hard Corps. Check for the Genesis. Guardian Heroes. Check for the Saturn.
But the Sega Genesis had a lot of good Cabin Fever games. Games you play when you are waiting for pictures to develop at walgreens. And the Genesis definitely made more games than the Saturn. I think that has Nil to do with the quality. (or the aging.) But then you had games like Pit Fighter for the genesis. Oh lord help us. "There's something wrong," says Governor Rick Scott.
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It's funny Meghan Kelly thinks FortNight is the only shooter that kids today play. Well Meghan Kelly has never heard of gunstar heroes! Or sunset riders. Or metal slug. Also Metal slug has pretty much the only voice acting that I can stomach or tolerate in a game. "Rocket Lawncher!" I don't know why Metal slug doesn't get more props. With or without the blood. I like Metal Slug without the blood. To me a good name for the Sega Genesis should have been cabin fever.
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Well 0001 perhaps the best line in Landstalker is that guy who you meet that tells you never give your heart to a woman! Maybe what he meant was never give your blue plastic gun to Joe Lieberman. Ok bad joke.
So Joe Lieberman paid off by Nintendo? Well I believe Joe Lieberman probably thought that hot blonde in Night Trap was attractive.
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I'd also argue that people aren't playing non-Konami Genesis games anymore because...I literally see Youtubers and Twitch streamers play those games everyday. Sonic, Shining, Ecco, Streets of Rage, Comix Zone, Ristar, Pulstar, Gunstar Heroes, Alien Soldier, Ghouls 'n Ghosts, ThunderForce etc. Those same games and others being regularly talked about in gaming circles over the internet too, just like the Konami stuff (in some cases, actually more than the Konami stuff). What you're saying only really applies to the licensed sports games of that period, but the same can be said of licensed sports games for EVERY old system so no reason to single out the Genesis there :/.
But Joe Montana's football!
Especially when you are horrible at it but something about the game makes you want to keep playing. Can't say that about every sport game, or even every game. I still have a bad taste too in my mouth when Sega's Hardcore fans started the whole bullying with "our games have blood and yours don't." Now it's like seriously what? Do people still talk about asinine things like that? It's funny how ridiculous we were and how we thought ridiculous things mattered back then and today no one cares. But Sega made a heck of a lot of creative minded games and so did Nintendo. Seems like Sega making a backwards compatibility for the Game Gear games would have made a lot more sense than the 32X and the Sega CD. But yeah I would like to play some of those games but I have pretty much outgrown all of them. I didn't get much of a chance back in the day to play them. But the game has to be super super good and classic for me to want to play it. But playing those games make you feel like you are locked in the 1990s.
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00010000 I want to kind of argue with you about the sales. Sales and sales numbers are fickle. Sega was definitely the best at hitting the Stupid market and then selling a boatload of those games. I loved Sonic the Hedgehog. Sonic the Hedgehog is getting like five bucks on Ebay. Konami genesis games are at the bottom around 30 bucks and going all the way up to 200. Sometimes even used. Like a Rolls Royce the Konami games are going up in value! But things like depreciation and time and age that basically applies to all genesis games except for the Konami games. The Stupid gamers have gotten smarter and they know what the quality is (After you play the game. And do the research.) When you are hoodwinked by sales marketing, naked in your face yelling at you promotional ads, and even peer pressure in school you get those games. But after that hoopla dies down you stop playing them.
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You sound something of a Konami fanboy which, hey, that's cool I suppose, but you're giving them a little TOO much lip service here xD. They were a nice developer for Sega platforms at the time but they DEFINITELY didn't "bail out" the MegaDrive during that period. It's as if you've forgotten the original Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic 2 were the big anchors for the platform blowing up back then. i'm sure Sega appreciated Konami, but they weren't seen as a vital MegaDrive dev/pub and I think when you take off the bias/nostalgia glasses and look at things more analytically, they got exactly the props and respect they deserved for the level of output to the system.
I would actually argue that Capcom was easily the bigger of the two on the system (and Sega systems as a whole); Champion Edition was a bigger boost for MegaDrive than almost any of the Konami games, but that was just SF2 in general at the time. They even managed to produce a better version of Super for MegaDrive over the SNES version which both people didn't think was possible, and showed how early an effort Champion Edition was by comparison.
Thinking Konami should get the big credit for extending the Genesis lifeline is just a bit hilarious; like I said, they put out some good games. Great games, even. But both in terms of sales and overall market impact there were bigger hits from other systems on Genesis, and at least comparable to Konami on CD (Snatcher was a fantastic port, but Lunar 1 + 2 and Shining CD were arguably right up there in quality). Besides, it sometimes felt like Konami would put their B teams on Genesis projects and their A teams on Super Nintendo projects. Not all the time, but *sometimes* it felt that way. I think efforts like SOTN's shitty (relative to PS1) port to Saturn later on kind of reinforces that feeling, even if it's not 100% warranted.
I think of the Sega Genesis as like a experimental console. The Sega Saturn in my opinion was the best video game console ever created. People complain about load times. I thought that there were no loads time on the Saturn. But there goes my beef again with Nintendo. Basically goading Sony into the competition and then that was it. I felt like the Sega Saturn would have been the main console for pretty much any game. Fast games. Slow games. RPGS. 3D. 2D sidescrollers. Retro games. Rerelease games. If no playstation I think that the Sega Saturn would have even made the company Square Enix obsolete and squashed them. Or begging to let them in. Instead of now it's the other way around, First party developers are begging for Square Enix to come to them. Was SOTN released on the Saturn?? I didn't know that. Was in English? Well people kind of over exaggerate how Sega CD and 32 were screwed up. They weren't like the Virtual Boy. Somehow Nintendo was allowed to get away with the screw ups and stay in business. But Sega, a few screw ups (if you even want to call them screw ups) and that was that.
The street fighter games for the SNES and the Genesis were pretty much a joke by the time you got to the Saturn and Playstation. I mean the whole point is you want to play an arcade game right?
Well we all have our personal choices. When someone says Capcom you think megaman.
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You really aught to expand your looking into the lesser-known MegaDrive games b/c there's a lot of neat surprises on the system, just like w/ SNES. I like both systems a lot and they're among my favorites in general, but MegaDrive seems to get a bad rep for being the "Sonic and arcade ports" machine when there's lots of original content on it too in a lot of different genres, even some strong micros/PC ports too. But I blame the lazy retro gaming Youtubers and streamers for starting that misconception (and well SEGA just being lazy when it came to most of those Genesis collections in general).
Actually just got my sega genesis. Going to try to nostalgia game (or just plain game again). I think Sega owes some credit to Konami. Maybe a ton of credit. Konami seemed like it gave Sega a second life and huge second boost during those bit wars. I think Konami should be credited with extending the life of the Genesis more than Sega CD or the 32X. And perhaps even those add-ons hurt the Sega. When you hear the golden sounding Konami logo start up at the title screen it is inseparable from the supposed superior Super Nintendo. And Konami games that had equivalents on the Super Nintendo were just as good and depending on your preference better.
So yeah. I could make a thread like this.
Gunstar Heroes and Contra Hard Corps.. So good..
Gunstar Heroes and Turtles the Hyperstone Heist.. So good..
Gunstar Heroes and Rocket Knight adventures.. So good..
Gunstar Heroes and Castlevania bloodlines.. So good.. (notice a theme?)
But eh, Gunstar Heroes and Flink.. So good?? Umm.. Gunstar Heroes and Toe Jam and Earl... So good. hmm. Ok games. I think there is a little of a coverup from Genesis owners as to how much Konami really bailed the Genesis out. But then again on another note. What if Konami made Suikoden for the Sega CD. And that would have totally blown away Nintendo. Nintendo anything. It would be like what is Nintendo? Or Jimmy Kimmel doing a Karl Malone skit, "Karl Malone..What does Karl Malone say about Nintendo? Karl Malone say that Nintendo don't have Suikoden therefore Nintendo sucks!" Well that didn't happen. Basically it was a neverending Muhammad Ali vs Frasier match. To a draw. MBD you have a good heart. I am guessing by Golden Axe you mean Golden Axe 2? The first golden axe game. I mean there are alternatives like Knights of the Round. I am boned out by both Sega and Super Nintendo neither quite gave me the knights and dragons style beat em up that I wanted. Batman returns was closest.
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I just thought it was weird watching the Angry Video Game nerd videos. That a Sega Genesis controller could actually work in a Atari 2600! Or maybe it was the Collecovision. One of those old old school consoles. I don't know I have never owned an Atari 2600. Really the only reason I would want one is for Yars revenge. And I like the way they look with the wood covering. I believe the Angry Video Game nerd said either the Atari 2600 or Collecovision (pretty sure it was Colecovision) you could use Sega Genesis controller. Because the controllers for the colecovision were basically useless. It was whatever system played the game Montezuma's revenge. Because it was a platformer and it played easier using a Sega Genesis controller! The more I am learning about video games the less any of this makes any sense. But I guess at the heart and core of all video game systems they are computers. Sounds like it is becoming more of a dark mission for me to find a good system that I am happy with. Well at least Calibur11 is an American company and they are making cases for Xbox.
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Thanks for the input. I guess I am kinda of going through a I wish things were like they used to be phase. Or I wish things were American made phase. I just saw recently an episode of Leave it to Beaver where Beaver is accused of cheating on his report card. And he sticks to his story that he didn't do it. I thought it was weird that no video games at all were mentioned in the show! But hey it was in the 1960s. No Atari yet. And I guess people like The Beev would grow up to be your Nolan Bushnells and David Cranes. Anyway I posted this same topic on a different video game forum. And someone else basically concurred that the third party controllers for the Genesis were not worth getting. I guess the controllers you are describing were actually made by Sega for the genesis.
Here is what someone else said on a different forum.
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As far as Sega models, in my opinion model 2's are horrible. When running them on my 32" Trinitron the video quality is horrible. I say model 1 is the way to go. I do like model 3's as the cart slot is rounded so you can play Megadrive games.
Well like Adam Sandler says, "Something that should have been brought to my attention yesterday!!" Yeah bud, I notice that too. Actually I just have a 27 inch. And I don't like the video quality at all. And I am not using the RF, but the actual audio video cables. And I don't have a way to plug in a SCART cable. In fact I didn't even know what a Scart cable was until I looked online about how to actually connect the Genesis to your TV! Because the RF cable and its quality is so bad. I guess there is some kind of adapter you can get for the SCART cable. Well it's like when you start learning about this stuff and you kind of don't like the system you bought anyway, it's like you are spending more time trying to learn how to connect the system with wires and plugs and things than actually getting any enjoyment out of the system.
I am probably going to throw in the towel on the Genesis I bought. But good to know that there is kind of a consensus here that the Model 1's were better. If only the Sega Saturn would have released some of their older games like on a disk, and had a few more good games, Like cough, Dragon Warrior VII or Oddworld. I wouldn't be messing around with this Genesis debacle.
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Well, this will come as a shock to most of you I'm sure. But to be honest I never even knew there was a crash in the video game market back then.
See, I was 8 when I got my first 2600 in '82 and where I live here in Oklahoma, Atari games were always to be found. In fact I remember the first actual Atari game I bought myself with my allowance money back then and it cost me just under $40. It was Ms. Pac-man in 1983 from the nearest TG&Y. Basically, because Oklahoma is what it is, a lot of stuff that affects other parts of the country more quickly takes its time to get to us. Point being is that I never knew there was a crash because games were always about $30 or so as I remember. And once the Nintendo came out in '85, is when I noticed that Atari games began to disappear. At the time I just thought that Nintendo was the new big thing and so it didn't dawn on me that there was ever a problem because again, the games were always for sale and available where I lived.
So honestly I only found out about the crash of '83 when I became much older and got into retro collecting in the late 90s. In fact I found out about the crash I want to say from an old article I read when I originally joined the 2600 Nexus...
Yes, I'm sorry to disappoint with a crap story. But the effects of the video game crash just weren't really felt or noticed here in Oklahoma. I know this because my mother became an Atari junkie very quickly once I picked up Ms. Pac-man and I know that if she had seen games on clearance that looked even mildly interesting to her, she would have picked them up at the time. But I just don't remember them ever being put on clearance or anything.
Now..having said that, I can tell you that in 1986, just before the "Fun is Back" revival of the 2600 jr and the release of the 7800, that several drugstores in the area did have the later silver release Atari games for sale for only a few bucks and my mother and I picked up all of them that we could find back then. But only a few short months later...Atari was back...LOL
Wow. Cool beans. You should be on a documentary talking about this. You probably just gave the best factual account of the 1983 video game crash. I have seen several documentaries about it. And they make it sound like a big deal. In 1983 I was only four years old! So no way I could remember. Yeah a generational gap. Ms. Pacman? The notorious Ms. Pacman?! Ahh..No that is definitely not a crap story. That actually kind of gave me chills. Really what it says is that it was a disappearing kind of crash or a silent crash. Meaning it happened. Like it definitely did happen. But it wasn't really even told as a news story. You just basically had to infer it as you got older and by the fact that Nintendo game out not soon after with a mega hit system. And not much heard from on Atari. But the crash did happen.
I know a lot of it had to do with bad business dealings with Atari. But that was before today when we know everything that goes on in the tech world. They probably didn't even have something known as the "Tech world" in 1983. Another reason for basically a silent crash or a silent disappearing of Atari.
Basically I think what we can learn from that is that this Silent crash kind of thing could still happen! Perhaps even today with mega success of Xbox and Sony. But I don't hear people being really enthusiastic about getting games anymore. Or they are just playing old games. I think it's noble that Atari continued to try to keep strong arming and giving it valiant tries. My college basically has a big exhibit about the video game crash of 1983 and of course they show photographs in New Mexico and I think Texas of all of the Atari games thrown in landfills. Well Thanks. Wow it almost sounds like your Mom kept the information from you! Pretty much like today. Who would actually tell us if there was a video game crash? Definitely not the media! I watch Fox and friends and they will talk about some fancy schmancy product a new game system or something. But then in a couple of months that game system might be on clearance. Or no one wants it. You can't really trust the news for knowing.
Crossbow you should get a kick out of this commercial.
Parents upset over new Nintendo console
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTzyz2TgGls
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Hi,
I had a hard time trying to find a Sony Playstation forum. For just the regular Playstation One. If there is one could the moderator move this post to that? But anyway I am thinking about buying a dragon warrior game and probably a new system on ebay or somewhere to play the Dragon Warrior game. The only two that I am considering are Dragon Warrior VII for the playstation. Not Dragon Warrior VII for the Nintendo 3DS (ewww!). And the other game I am considering is Dragon Quest IX Sentinels of the Starry Skies for the Nintendo DS.
Which one should I get? Which one have you guys had a more pleasurable gaming experience with. Which one is better or makes you happier to play. I know that most of you people are going to say NEITHER get Dragon Quest VIII (Dragon Warrior eight for PS2.) Well I may eventually get to that one. But now I am just considering Dragon Warrior VII or Dragon Quest IX. Dragon Quest IX is a portable which is a plus because I travel and move a lot. I can take it with me. But if it sucks then I would like to know ahead of time and not get it! But I definitely want to get a dragon warrior game, just not sure which.
Thanks
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Thanks Menard. Thanks for the reference. I'll check it out. Definitely cheaper is better these days. Because I am on a budget. No more crazy spending on games. Cheaper I mean moneywise not cheaper meaning the quality of the product. I notice that the games and systems that I usually pay less for or get a good deal on I generally have more of a positive gaming experience with it. And with the game. And when I pay a lot of money for a game I really expect the game to be really really good. And when it's just ok, or doesn't live up to my great expectations that basically equals into a negative gaming experience for me. I'm still hoping to find that thrift store that has little Samson for three bucks. But my luck I would buy it and it would be some bootleg porn or a game like bible games or something. I kind of think the whole video game industry is in a bit of a rut now anyway in my opinion because they just aren't making the same quality games that they used to make. And look at the Nintendo 3DS, they have gone through like seven revisions of that that thing. I thought video gaming went downhill when you started having Video Game expos where speakers would get up in front of an audience and talk about like a new Zelda game. Or Kid Icarus or something. And people applauding like they are at a Taylor Swift concert. It's like really? You're kidding right.
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This almost feels like lead up to the video game crash of 1983. Crossbow you were around back then. I wish you could give us some kind of intel about what that was like.
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DTL are you the same guy who goes by Dookieshed on youtube? You kind of look like him. If that is really you on your picture. He's on this video. Travis I was wondering about that. If reviews can negatively or positively affect the market of a game. Because I played Dragon Warrior Monsters on my game boy color. I myself gave the game a horrible review on gamespot. And now I am seeing those games are just sitting around on ebay. For like two or three bucks. No one is buying them! Before they were up in the ten or eleven dollar range, and the game was compared to pokemon. So thanks for answering my question.
Dookieshed (Or DTL presents?) The Best MegaMan Game You've Never Played!
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Atarilovesyou, it boggles my mind. Because Sega went out of business after they started making the really good and quality stuff. It's almost like they really conned and duped their way through until they started making the really good stuff. But then they went out of business!
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As for ebay, I've not used it that often as I used to. At least not for retro gaming stuff, but I've always had good experiences buying on ebay. In fact my first Genesis I actually still play on nearly daily, I picked up in the late 90s, came from ebay and was the reason I signed onto ebay LOL.
Ha. That's funny. There must be some weird voodoo attached to me and buying Sega Products. I remember begging my parents for a Game Gear when I was a kid and they finally got me one. And then the next day they had second thoughts and took it back to target. They couldn't justify me having two portable systems. Also I got ripped off on a Sega Genesis (or an attempt at getting a Sega Genesis) at a pawn shop. Long story. I've usually had good experiences with Ebay the Sega Genesis debacle is becoming my last experience with ebay.
I feel like I am turning into my dad. I can't count how many times he would pick up video games or toys or whatever off the ground and say, "Pieces of Plastic Junk!" "Chinese Junk!" (Chinese meaning whatever Asian country made it.)
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Posted · Edited by Mark Shepherd
Is Sunflower compatible with rasberry? Or whatever happened to blueberry? I thought those were cool. Now they are out of shiek?