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Re: Switch Sales Have Only Now Surpassed The Xbox One In The UK

DonkeyKongBigBoy

I grew up in the 80's and 90's. Everyone at school seemed to start their gaming careers with the Spectrum or Commodore 64 in the 8bit era as they had cheap budget titles and you could persuade your mum or dad to buy you a 'computer' for education purposes as they had no idea the amount of cheap games you could get.
Then we progressed to the Atari ST or Amiga. Yeah some people had a nes or master system but it wasn't until the mega drive and SNES that EVERYONE I knew had one of the other. Since then all my friends had either a Nintendo, Sega, playstation or Xbox every generation since. Now, into our early 40's all my friends still have either a PS4/5, Xbox. They all have a switch too, either for them or their kids. Nintendo is HUGE in the UK and in general gaming is the biggest form of entertainment, unless you want to count Premier League Football

Re: TMNT: Shredder's Revenge Helped Publisher Dotemu Net A Bodacious $22 Million In Revenue

DonkeyKongBigBoy

@dew12333 no worries. I, on my initial playthrough of shredders revenge, didn't actually like it. I couldn tout my finger on what it was, but I think I was, in my head, comparing it to streets of rage 4. But once I stuck with it, that comparison went away, and I started to enjoy it more and more and by the later stages I was really enjoying it. I also found it quite tough in places, and until I'd got the controls and moves down I wasn't doing very well. Overall, I prefer SOR4, but TMNT is a blast! I hope they can nail down some great new licenses of older IP. My choice would be Simpsons, Ewoks, Spiderman/Marvel, Masters of The Universe

Re: Reminder: Street Fighter II Free For A Limited Time In Capcom Arcade Stadium

DonkeyKongBigBoy

@samuelvictor I've found the alpha games on the sfcollection to have a much more reasonable difficultly and therefore enjoy playing them a bit more. I think the SNES versions are definitely easier as they aren't trying to take your money like the arcade ones were designed to do. They literally made it hard on purpose so you'd pump more money into the machines. The console versions didn't need to do that, they just needed to be balanced

Re: Brad Buxer Reconfirms Michael Jackson's Involvement With Sonic 3's Soundtrack

DonkeyKongBigBoy

I think Michael Jackson's involvement has always been debatable. Michael was a singer/songwriter so unless his vocals were going to be used his involvement was always going to be minimal. I suppose he could get a co-producer credit after working with Brad, or coming up with the melodies which were then built upon by Brad and enhanced. Or he could have just been a consultant. Either way, it now just an urban legend as it were, as he can't give his side of the story.

Re: Soapbox: Why Can't Nintendo Offer Both Virtual Console And Switch Online?

DonkeyKongBigBoy

Let's be real. The virtual console wasn't all that everybody would like to remember it to be. The quality of the resolution was awful and the games overpriced. The switch online service games are superior quality in every single way. It's a much better deal overall, and more and more systems will be added overtime and I think it will be the model going forward for all future Nintendo systems. I'd like to actually know when many of the complainers of the virtual console ending actually last bought a game on there? I imagine it was years and years ago.
You don't support, it goes away. Simple. Just like with the Wii U.