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"There's absolutely no way I'm double-dipping yet again with as many Switch games as I've purchased, but there's also only so many HDMI inputs behind the TV."

@AtlanteanMan
But you will, because they will force you, to do it over and over (again). So, make your wallet ready.

@ElStormo0
maybe some fidelity is lost, but my eyes hurt from watching a game on CRT TV or CRT monitor...

Emulators have many options:

• you can always turn on different graphic filter for the image, if you want a more "classical" image (blurred image, scanlines...).
• you can manipulate the fps (frames per image) if you think, the game is too fast or too slow
• you can swap the language on the go, if there exist one
• you can mod the game to an extent

I am more than happy, that the "motion" gaming, that the Wii, PS3 Move and Xbox Kinect represented is gone. The "new" Virtual Reality is just a new-gen fashion fad that will also pass quickly.

I have to say, there were some solid games on the Wii. Sadly, the video output was bad even for the 2000s. Nintendo could at least built in an HDMI output. They tried to correct this with the Wii U, but it was too late.

Emulation has more good things, one of them is the pixel-sharp image, that you wont get out of these old consoles and cartridges.

@JustMe
The original was trashy already. The joke is that the knight was always moving strangely, that is, he was faster than his surroundings. Still, he didn't get really far ahead. Isn't it absurd?

Look at this gameplay video from the old arcade game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIhyjrXVhzg

@Lordd_G
Actually, in last month (January 2021) I did read a rumor about this, that at least one mayor "player" in the PC/videogame industry is in talks to aquire SEGA/SEGA Sammy Holdings.

Oh and I almost forgot: SEGA had big loose with their arcade business last year.

Also, last year (2020) Codemasters was bought by EA and Microsoft bought ZeniMax Media (parent of Bethesda) or at least are in the process of being purchased.

Oh and did you know, that Gearbox was just aquired by Embracer Group (THQ Nordic, Deep Silver, Saber Interactive etc.)?
Here is the link, that I am not making something up:
https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/377027/Borderlands_dev_Gearbox_acquired_by_Embracer_Group_in_138_billion_deal.php

The main protagonist with the mustache reminds me of Man-At-Arms from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe

@vyseofhr
Thank you for this information!

@The-Chosen-one:
Are you sure, that Civilization is a RTS game? Because Command and Conquer is, but I don't think , that this game is.

I have a feeling, that Civilization is more similar to games like Heroes of Might and Magic, Nectaris/Military Madness and such.

I did buy some use (pre-owned) and also new games from them, when they had relatively low shipment prices to Europe.

But this was years ago in the late years of PS2 and golden era of Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360 consoles. And when they had many PC games too on CD/DVDs.

They even had promos/sales like buy 2 choose 3 for 10 ₤ and such.

Hm, interesting review, especially the score.

The PC version is very solid. It works without problems and, as it was made mostly for kids in mind, there are many unlockables...

My nieces like to play this game.

It works great with combination of keyboard + gamepad (Xbox generic clone). It has 2, 3 and even 4 play local splitscreen! Local splitscreen in todays racing games are a very rare thing today.

I would give it at least 6/10.

@RupeeClock
Yeah, mostly downgrades (like the remove of the Gamecube port, memorycard and similar)

And than the Wii mini...
That was even a more of a downgrade. They removed the SD card slot, removed the Wifi (so no Web/Internet access), removed the component video output... just to name a few. And the whole thing (the build quality) seemed much cheaper in comparison to the original Wii.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JECsffcHCA4

@Friendly
I think that there is a slight difference in color. Look:

The top seems like gold, beneath of that the second one seems like its brown.

@Yomerodes: or LEGO.

@Milton_Burle: Yeah. Time to visit the psychiatrist

Oh, I thought it will be a game about platforming with a banana. Oh, well ...

Well, the one of these old Terminator FPS games* from the second half of the 90s for MS-DOS was quite solid.

• Skynet, Future Shock and such.

@BradC40: Amen to that!

@sdelfin: thanks for the information

One question: so can one really disable these annoying scanlines?

This look fantastic. And not only that, it seems, that it ads widescreen support to these games. Nice, very nice!

@Atariboy: thank you for all the informations! Didn't know them, but now I see, how good they are at what they are doing

Can someone tell me, what does "M2" stand for and why it is so important (some commenters mentioned it above)?

Anyway, I am also interested in this thing.

I am on of these fans of Sword & Solider. I really liked the first (this) version.

Never had a chance to play the second, since I only had the good old white Wii.

Anyway, hope that I can soon get a Switch and play this game.

It reminds me of SimTower for PC/Mac in the 90s.

I played the granddaddy of this, when they called it Dark Sector.

It is very sad, that today we don't really have many new arcade racers (except Mario Kart) as we had in the past.

I don't play simulations.

@bolt05
Well, I have a list here...

• USA - 788 total, about 690 MB; * Europe - 610 total, about 560 MB; * Japan - 1551 total - about 1.5 GB; * for Korea, there are 2 games; * Hongkong has 1 game; * there are some betas, bad dumps, some unlicensed etc.

total is about 3792 known Nintendo Super NES/Famicom games (from 2003)

@FragRed: of course you have the choice to not buy anything at all. And in that case you also save money.

Yeah, I made myself an Pi 3 console. Works great with Recalbox.

For whatever reason this game reminds me of old games from the mid 90s, like:

Hunter Hunted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFgbxzmMtUY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY3-V9SqDzc

Bermuda Syndrome:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUkaVtUggPM

And similar, there is a never "indie" game - Age Of Barbarian - that has somehow similar graphics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyFa-ZNkfwM

That for the list! It goes into favorites, so that I know, what to upload to my RPi.

This guys explains it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWWYqORYUoc

No problem, I already made myself a solid mini retro console, thanks to RPi and some other stuff

@Marios-love-child: Ah, OK, now I understand

Starting with at least one shovelware title isn't the best sign for the future.

@Marios-love-child: Cheap alternative? You need to buy the Switch... and than this game.

Well, here where I live, it wasn't problematic, to get on of these NES minis.

There were a bunch of NES mini boxes... I've grabbed one from the shelf, the price was/is 70 EUR.

One of the guys, that work there and I know him, said, they've got about 100 pcs with the first shippment (that was in december 2016) in 50 pcs now in february 2017 (attention: for the whole country!), yet it still didn't sold out.

There are still some boxes available in their online store:
https://www.bigbang.si/igralne-konzole/nintendo-classic-mini-nes-classic-edition-593197#

The only thing, that isn't in the box, that the US version has is the AC adapter. You only get an mini USB to normal USB cable

So you need a modern TV with USB support or buy an USB adapter with 1A/0.5V support... or USB hub, that has AC adapter included.

Here is a bit of gameplay:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvT4g-e5T-o

@SyFyTy: Emulation isn't piracy.

The only ilegal thing here are the NES rom files (read: the games) ...

I reminds me of the first Far Cry game. But thatone had ... well, a bit better graphics and nicer animations.

Anyway, will wait for a review.

The question is: will they (Nintendo) in the future release a minimized version of their other consoles with built in games aswell?

Like SNES, N64, Gamecube, Wii or even the Wii U?

Well, the music is kinda relaxing

@dkxcalibur: Yeah! Die-hard Nintendo fans will say: there you have! Use a PS4 or XB1, if you want proper gamepad

Well, maybe the NX isn't a console after all ...

@liveswired: if there will be enough interesting games and they will get rid of this Gamepad, it can be a real success.

For 3rd party support, I already given up on Nintendo front ...

@empsolo: maybe. But does it have enough raw power? ARM vs x86?

NX is not using x86 architecture like PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The NX has special, custom-made chips and the overall design of the hardware is very modern. The chips are industry leading because they are very modern chips, but having modern chips doesn't necessarily mean Nintendo is aiming to create the most powerful hardware on the market.

So, since it won't be any x86 arhitecture, but again PowerPC or someting like ARM type ... Than we can say bye-bye to 3rd Party (big studios) games support from the start.

Well, maybe the indies will save them, who knows?

Does this game have splitscreen?

This was really a great bundle, I did buy it in the last 10 minutes before the end. Didn't have any information, so it was just pure luck.

Thank you Humble Bundle and Nintendo!