@WaveBoy: Ah ok, I thought I missed something lol. Yeah I picked up a Dreamcast about a year ago and I love it. I can see why so many people liked it. I only have a few games on it like Sonic Adventure, Crazy Taxi, MSR, and Virtual Tennis but they are so much fun. Sadly I didn't get the chance to enjoy the Dreamcast when it came out so I am making up now. Probably one of my favorite systems now.
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@Tasuki: Skies Of Arcadia, Crazy Taxi 2, Typing Of the Dead, Ikaruga, Chu Chu Rocket, Power Stone, Jet Set Radio, Rez, Sonic Adventure 2 and both Shenmue games. You should get them all. Some - mainly the first - may be expensive but it's only money isn't it?
However, if you want to get just one game then go for Bangai-O (or Bakuretsu Muteki Bangaioh if you get the Japanese version). It's such an underrated but fabulously entertaining game. Treasure at their most playful and brilliant. Still in my top five games of all time. I wish Microsoft hadn't bought an exclusivity licence for it on online services.
I bought Panzer Dragoon Saga over the weekend for £299.
I don't regret a penny of it.
I'm just not telling the missus how much it cost.
@rastamadeus aha! this really made me laff!
She's going to smash you to pieces when she finds out...
BTW there's a ton on material on these boards about our yellowing Dreamcasts. Mostly it's me playing devil's advocate trying to convince people that it's sh!t€ but it clearly isn't, is it - I loved that machine. It's probably the fact that everybody loves it now and nobody loved it back then that gets on my tits. That and the fact that it didn't have a single decent footy game.
Top-10 games I played in 2017: The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild (WiiU) - Rogue Legacy (PS3) - Fallout 3 (PS3) - Red Dead Redemption (PS3) - Guns of Boom (MP) - Sky Force Reloaded (MP) - ...
@spizzamarozzi: I'm honestly dreading her finding out :') although I doubt there will be any pieces of me left to be honest.
I loved the Dreamcast. A friend at school (Sheff) and I used to sit in art class in our final year of high school just salivating over the idea of Shenmue, a 3D Sonic, arcade games perfectly converted to your home TV and Godzilla Generations. We lost count how many computer magazines our art teacher confiscated off of us.
Honestly think it and the N64 are the best two consoles ever made, purely because I must've owned at least seventy games between them and not one was worse than very good. Modern day consoles couldn't dream of such a fantastic library, hence why so many games are being remastered and re-released. There are though, as you say, a few too many video game hipsters proclaiming it to have been perfect who likely scoffed at the console at the time.
"Oh smeg. What the smegging smegs he smegging done? He's smegging killed me."
@rastamadeus: love these stories!! I think we must be from around the same year (1983 here) because I was in my penultimate year of high school when I got the system. I clearly remember listening to Oasis new single Go Let It Out (which I'd just tape-recorded from the radio) on the bus on my way to the shop. It must have been early 2000.
I used to carry with me at school the only italian Dreamcast magazine available back then, "Dreamcast Arena" it was called. One day I was writing a letter to them in class and my literature prof went nuts and confiscated it. The next day she gave it back but the old tart had written grammar corrections everywhere in red pen!! So I basically got twice the amount of bollocking I deserved. Fast forward 15 years and I'm just wondering where did it all go wrong* with videogames, the industry and the people who play them - and how magical those days were.
*also a song from the same Oasis record - pretty good.
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@rastamadeus: I have Skies of Arcadia on the Gamecube and Shenmue II was an Xbox exclusive here in the states (though I do have an Xbox) but yeah those games are on my list. Right now I am a little tight for money so yeah.
@Waveboy Yeah during that gen I was PS2 and Gamecube. Didn't own a Dreamcast or an Xbox then but I have both now and quite honestly I can say that that was probably the last great gen. Each system had great exclusive the hardware was all impressive and we're game systems for the most part not media devices like it seems now.
Gamecube had Smash, Windwaker, Mario Sunshine etc
Xbox had KotoR, Jade Empire and of course Halo
Dreamcast had Sonic Adventure, Virtua Tennis, NFL 2K
PS2 Had Final Fantasy, Metal Gear, Jax and Daxter
And those were just a few. Honestly if I had the money and space I could honestly say I would have owned all 4 systems.
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@WaveBoy: Agreed on all those points with the Wii, heck the reason I grabbed a Wii U on launch day was because of how much I liked the Wii and how well it was handled that I was expecting great things from the Wii U , which sadly I still am waiting for (but that's another discussion).
The VC was just great on the Wii probably my favorite thing overall.
The Wii was lightning in the bottle for them.
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Ok, looks like i have to invoke the Power of the Lord to shut up @Waveboy and @Tasuki having a continuous discussion about the Wii ... Exodus: Journey to the Promised Land (NES) - My Bible-games collection grows! This actually isn't too bad a game, but it quickly gets somewhat tedious (not unlike similar style games of the era ... i'm looking at you, Lode Runner!). But you get to shoot "W"s at people, so that's something. I guess.
I also recently picked up a few of Atari catalog inserts in order to CIB-up some of my ET copies. Note the ET-tracker in my sig - only one of my boxed copies left to CIB-up, just have to find a Raiders-insert (that isn't being sold for a stupidly high price)!
@KingMike: I believe so. Not exactly the same game; they're skinned differently, and perhaps have some minor differences (i haven't played the other two myself, so can't say for sure), but the basic gameplay is apparently the same.
Depends on what you consider retro.
When it comes to the true classic consoles, the last one would be Rad Racer on my NES. €10 at a secondhand game store, and I knew of it thanks to the classic NWC, so I thought, why not?
Otherwise, I also got Meteos that day, and just 2 weeks ago I got Pokémon Ranger Shadows of Almia (that's a side series I still had to try.
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As @ogo79 said, the SNS-RZ-USA is a prime giveaway that it's not a legit retail cart.
And yes, he is (usually) always right, and he is (almost) the sexiest gamer out there (not counting me) ;)
All Mega Drives (Genesis), support RGB, and that gives the best, clear image! If you can find a TV with RGB support, that is. Heard they are hard to find in the US.
I haven't heard of SCART ever being supported in America.
Unless you mean Component? Haven't heard of official SNES component cables in the US (only that insanely overpriced GameCube cable).
Few people in the early '90s probably even knew what composite was or S-video or anything but the RF standard cable.
It took (most?) DVD players lack of support for RF in the late '90s to drag people onto better video quality.
(though I think the N64 was the first Nintendo console to make people use composite or pay extra for the RF adapter)
Few people in the early '90s probably even knew what composite was or S-video or anything but the RF standard cable.
It took (most?) DVD players lack of support for RF in the late '90s to drag people onto better video quality.
(though I think the N64 was the first Nintendo console to make people use composite or pay extra for the RF adapter)
Haha, I remember bringing my new shiny PSX home with Final Fantasy VII all excited to play only to have to go back out to Radio Shack and buy a $10 or $15 RF adapter from Radio Shack!
To blessed to be stressed.
80's music makes me feel fabulous.
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Few people in the early '90s probably even knew what composite was or S-video or anything but the RF standard cable.
It took (most?) DVD players lack of support for RF in the late '90s to drag people onto better video quality.
(though I think the N64 was the first Nintendo console to make people use composite or pay extra for the RF adapter)
Haha, I remember bringing my new shiny PSX home with Final Fantasy VII all excited to play only to have to go back out to Radio Shack and buy a $10 or $15 RF adapter from Radio Shack!
Yep that was me too. But I had to wait for the next day cause by the time I discovered that, all the stores were closed for the night.
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