Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@gcunit That is very impressive. I haven't actually counted all the physical games I own. Just by eyeballing my shelf though most of them are PS2 and SNES games followed up by PS4. Maybe I will count them all one of these days.

i get every thing about that.

witch would you chose from? Mario bros 1 ,2 or 3 Im just asking

@Tasuki Just counting them all was a fair undertaking, because I don't have them all stored neatly together in the most organised state. Some day I've got to work through them all to index what I've got on my spreadsheet of dreams.

@Heavyarms55 I never owned any Game Boy system back in the day. Until recently the only GBA games I had were the two Golden Sun games, but I've recently added a Game Boy Player to my GameCube setup so wanted to get a few more to get some mileage out of it. I never knew about the Game Boy Player until relatively recently, and I'm finding playing these retro handheld gems on it really cool. I do intend to get a few more, but I've spent a lot of retro cash already these past 2 years so am just easing off for the time being, as I only really want CiB versions, so it gets pricey.

I do actually have about 8 unboxed GBC games I picked up recently in a random bundle. I guess I've not included them on my list because I didn't particularly intend to get them, they just came into my ownership while buying a Game Boy Player I think.

i have an old game boy color but no games

i do have a GBA with mario advance 4 on it its the one i play the most

@gcunit Ah, I see. Game Boy was my life growing up. I often preferred it to consoles when I had to choose. I took it with me almost everywhere. My mom bought me a GBA SP almost exclusively because it had a rechargeable battery and she'd never have to buy me more AA batteries again. Lol

@Tyranexx Yeah, there's absolutely areas in the US with much worse internet than I have. Compared to my friend in Michigan, our internet here is awesome! He has extremely limited data and it's slow and it's his only option. On the other hand Compared to the service I enjoyed in Japan, this internet is pretty mediocre.

@Heavyarms55 My experience of Game Boy was pretty much limited to the rare school trip coach ride when a mate would bring there's along. But Tetris has never been able to hold my attention for more than 5 minutes, and that and Super Mario Land was pretty much the extent of what I saw of the Game Boy library. I was interested enough to lightly consider wanting one, but gadgets like that were kinda out of my parents' price range, and the battery situation certainly didn't help (irony being I now love AA battery devices because rechargeable AAs are finally decent and you can feel pretty confident that you'll always be able to find replacements - kinda wish all mobile devices were AA compatible).

yeah i dont have a charger so its AA for me

any one got burnout paridise remastered on there switch

@Heavyarms55 Out of curiosity, what's your average internet speed now vs. where you lived in Japan?

Apologies for the mini-rant on the one ISP by the way. It was a terrible experience overall. I wasn't surprised when the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier this year. The only ones I feel sorry for are the employees as some of the people I interacted with were friendly and helpful.

me?

@gcunit On Game Boy I played countless hours of Pokemon, on GBA I branched out to Fire Emblem and Advance Wars. Those were the big ones for me. It was an era where I got a new game one a semester, if I had good grades. So I favored long replayable RPGs.

@Tyranexx I honestly don't have numbers to compare them. But I could download 10gb+ games in less than half the time it takes here.

And you don't need to apologize, not like I don't rant from time to time on here. Lol

@Heavyarms55 Lol Fair enough! Download results can be a good evaluator too.

Also, something that could be affecting your speed is if you're in a place where multiple people share the same router at the same time. Depending on what everyone is doing, the connection could be slowed significantly. Especially if there's a lot of streaming and downloading/uploading going on.

@Tyranexx I know. In all honesty I do know this internet isn't terrible. It's just that I had hilariously good internet before. So this is quite the noticeable difference.

@Heavyarms55 Technology has definitely come a long way from the dialup connection I remember using as a kid. I had to ask for permission to use the phone line to get on the internet. I can still distinctly hear the dialup tone. XD Pure nostalgia though. I never want to go back to that.

...Jeez, in writing that paragraph, I realized that I sound a lot like that dude who gushes about technology near the beginning of most Pokemon games. Now I feel old.

For anyone not familiar with the series, I'm talking about this guy:

@Tyranexx I have internet that comes into my house through a phone, is that still a dial up internet?

@Tyranexx Oh I grew up with the same. I used to type in my password then go take a dump and maybe, MAYBE I would be logged in. Remember the days of watching static pictures load? Not videos, pictures?

Heh, I remember dial-up, too, @Tyranexx .... Yep, I remember, @Heavyarms55! Being unable to use the internet because Mum was on the phone, too

@Ninfan No. A dial up connection was when your computer literally had to ring a phone number and do a "hand shake" by audibly "talking" to the computer on the other end. In the 80's you'd have put the handset onto a special modem but by the late 90's modems were built in and you'd just plug the phone line into the computer itself.

If you ever picked up a phone handset when the line was connected to the internet you'd hear lots of "computer noises" (bleeps, whirs and clicks). The actual dial up tone is recognisable and if you lived in the pre-broadband era you'll probably always remember the dial up tone to your own ISP.