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the more i look at this, the more i want it... and the less i like the looks of it 😂 theres something just "wrong" about it, to me.

@slider1983

I've seen it! there's some kind of "angry mob" psychology going on with Amico - people just love to hate. ✌️

I thought the thing looked cool initially, and I'm all about the unique consoles and oddball ideas! Sometimes it feels like the Wii U will be the last one.

@slider1983

whoops, sorry i was trying to be clever ✌️ I'm 100% on your side, thought they were being oddly aggressive towards you.

btw the best possible outcome would be that those amico games eventually come out on other consoles! what could possibly be wrong with that? 😂👍

@slider1983

I'm talking about unchecked aggression here, Dude.

WHY WHY WHY do these companies think we want to view ANY game as though we are viewing a fishbowl shaped "CRT" from what looks like an exaggerated lateral angle?

Even in the glorious "CRT days," the ideal was a flat and square as possible screen which distorted the geometry minimally. I have my doubts that anyone who has actual nostalgia for CRT tvs wants their games distorted in this way.

I have bought a few "breakout" style games on switch, and they generally have this problem. I won't buy another if i cant at least turn this "feature" off. (and i want a good breakout game badly!)

thanks for listening ✌️

I have a t16 and an everdrive for it, and the experience has taught me one lesson: most of the turbo games I want to play are on CD 😆

@kgbkgb

the original 7800 was also compatible with 2600 carts. 👍 tbh I couldnt tell if you knew that, from your comment, so I'm just putting it out there ✌️

"In Shubibinman Zero, The line よくおぼえておくわ means “I’ll remember this well”. Svambo translated this as “I’ll put you on my list!” and this line is used in the Retro-Bit version, too"

actually, judging from the pic, the retro bit one says "I've put you on my list!" 🧐 🤔

"Because of this work, he was delayed in going to the hospital, lost one of his legs, and finally died,"

kinda burying the lede, here 🙁 so sad.

I loved this game btw, thanks in no small part to this great artist, I am now learning. RIP.

@MontyMole

haha fair enough, but that is the turn of phrase, and imo and they messed up 😂

and yes, I'm sure there is a Lamb of God type metal band that refers to this haha!

"what even does Resident Evil mean?"

FWIW, it means "the evil that lives (or exists) there"

For example, if you worked with someone who happened to be really into books, you might say that person is the "resident bookworm" of the office.

and, it's a play on the fact that the first game takes place in a mansion (a residence)

and if you want to think even more than anyone ever should, in my mind it has always been a twist of the title of its inspiration, "Sweet Home."

I really, really like words 😊✌️

@MontyMole

that's fair!

to me, something can be said to be "made flesh" when it becomes real, or alive. I'm not a religious person, but I believe that the bible says something about Jesus being "the word of God made flesh.'

there is no saying that goes "[blank] made fear." what would that even mean? It's like they are trying too hard to sound scary, but if a fleshy thing turns into just a feary thing, isnt that actually less threatening? 😆 idk!

"Fear Made Flesh" would make a lot more sense, to me 🤔 and sound better, when spoken.

IIRC the SNES port of Super Buster Bros did not have a 2p mode.

@Razieluigi @PanicOnFunkatron @hste

I'm so glad the comments are here to give me the real scoop. ✌️👍

@JackGYarwood

"I'm not really sure where you're getting the hostility from."

not so much hostility, as negativity.

and you need only look at your headline. the news is,

"Hamster is doing Othello next"

but you chose to write

"This Week's Arcade Archives Game May Be Worth Skipping"

😂 see my point?

"It's just pretty obvious that the market for this is likely incredibly niche,"

yes, that is obvious 👍 good reporting I guess?

thanks for replying, and being game for the chat. no harm done obv and i mean nothing personal, to you. ✌️

"Unless you're a really big fan of the [sic] Success or a huge strategy fan, we imagine this is probably one you will want to skip out on."

Is this a review or a news article? What does this writer have against Othello?

"unless you like Driving Sims, you'll probably want to skip Gran Turismo"

"unless you are a fan of 1 on 1 fighters, Street Fighter 2 probably isnt for you."

🙄

There are people that like different games than you. 👍✌️

"Unpopular" is a perspective.

"Poorly marketed and briefly supported anywhere but Japan," would be mine. 👍

@bobby_steurer

😂 👋 hello stranger!

@romanista

"could be really fub"

"Business is really food, thank you!"

when i saw the word iconic, I thought of a handful of Nokias that I still remember to this day. this wasnt one of them (cool looking though! kinda miss this era)

man, that's ugly, and frankly, the "gamecube" element is pretty half-assed, imo.

wtf does bomberman have to do with Xbox, and why would he be exclusive to that platform? 🤔 little jealous ngl.

its definitely a football comedy but of another generation. I'm not saying it's shakespeare but I like it! 👍 It's got that c. 2000, "WeLcOmE to DVD" type vibe that I love.

@sdelfin

How do you feel about The Replacements (2000)?

@Tasuki

"For some reason I didn't like the fact that they changed E. Honda from Japanese to Samoan."

I had kind of strong feelings about this kind of this when I was younger, too.

These days I got bigger problems lol ✌️

RIP to this dude, he seems cool. 👍

PSA, and since there are no mentions of actual dimensions here: "1/4 scale" is not the same thing as 25% the size

it's more like a 64th. ✌️👍

I play burger time with my wife regularly, what a great game! Hot seat multiplayer is underrated! 👍

seems like for the money, we could get something like 1/2x scale...

@mariteaux

i agree with you 👍 and im fully skeptical of these numbers right on their face.

@QuarterSwede

hello and welcome 😊✌️

I think you meant "it does eveRything" ✌️

@Gs69

i just took a quick look at the striker DC, a couple thoughts:

1) looks very functional, and I'm sure it's better than the OG pad, which I didn't/don't actually hate (id give it a b+)

2) with all that real estate, they couldn't have put two more face buttons on there? 😂

Unless I see something else rather compelling I'll probably go for these, thanks again for the rec. 👍

edit - i said all this and more in the comments for the striker DC review here on TE exactly one year ago! 😬💀 I'm getting old, kids.🫠

@Gs69

this appears to be the case! so many situations like this exist, and you dont know til you know! 👍 I will say, the "DC stick" definitely appeared "official" even here in NA, with only some "agetec" branding on the label to give that part away ✌️ i just happened to be at the nerd level where i noticed stuff like that, even at 13 y.o. 😆 cheers!

I will look into the wireless striker DC as im getting back into my DC lately and need to 4p up! 🤘

@Damo

I did not know that! 😎 👍

PS - The DC stick is my all-round favorite controller ever made, just totally natural and intuitive to use, flawless performance, random green color 😍 I had two at one time and sold them when they started to get a little valuable and I had "moved on" to ps2/wii by then 🙄 yes regerts!

It has never been topped for me personally simply because manufacturers lack the courage to release a 6 button arcade stick these days, even though 8 button sticks are unnecessary, unergonomic and unwieldy IMO.

(and because they are all irredeemably confused about where the buttons go, particularly the R and L buttons 😆)

"To its credit, Sega was aware of this. It released an excellent arcade stick alongside the console, which is perhaps the weapon of choice for many Dreamcast fighting game aficionados. For those who prefer gamepads, ASCII Corporation created the brilliant Pad FT"

IIRC, ascii/agetec made both of these (officially licensed) devices. ✌️👍 great review, thanks for saving me from another DPAD disappointment 😅

The title was "almost finished", according to the former Sony exec

that's an odd thing to call a silpheed style shooter... 🤔

guns of fury? really? 🙄

what is with all the years-dormant accounts with 5 total comments coming out of the woodwork to breathlessly defend misguided trade policy? 🤔

look out, y'all. he's travelled from decades in the future to own the libs with comments.

@Trmn8r

"Just remember to say the same thing when the other side wins."

1) Don't assume you know what my "side" is, thanks.

2) I have no problem saying "more people didnt vote for X than did" when it's a factual statement, nevermind who X might be.

regardless, it's blatantly false to say that everyone wanted X policy when a fraction of people voted for it in the affirmative. no "math" required. 👍

@Tasuki

"This is what the people wanted, if they didn't they wouldn't have voted for him."

false. more people didn't vote for him, than did.

✋ Personally, I voted against him.

i remember as a 10 year old psx early adopter, thinking the press was pretty goofy to just trash all these beautiful sprite based games 🙄

I agree with both of the above comments but I'd totally play a "GTAzy Taxi." 👍

"It was 'Keep calm when you're happy, keep calm when you're unhappy.' No matter how well the company was doing, Yamauchi would always speak harshly to employees."

I AM CALM! 😆

@Razieluigi

I truly believe that audiophiles listen to speakers, not music. and with their eyes and brains, not their hearts and ears.

I consider myself a music lover, a musicophile. I need good amp + speakers to be satisfied, but audiophiles pretend there's no such thing as diminishing returns. or double blind testing 😂

anyway, I have no point but I liked seeing someone else pontificate about audiophilia. ✌️ cheers

if i ever made a shmup, the little ships would be "piloted by" cute boys and tough looking women.

has anyone come up with a solution for the sagging "open" button? 😆 for years i thought it was just mine.

I enjoyed the street fighter cartoon as a kid and until this point didn't know anyone felt differently! Ignorance is bliss. 🙂

In that spirit, I'll probably just leave this one in the fuzzy, happy past 😊

@nocdaes

for the record, (...) I think they are simply importing them so "just print more" is a non starter for this company ✌️

Unless of course I've misunderstood your comment which is easily half my life so.

Anyway I really like enjoying game OSTs on ZXtune on Android! (fwiw not sure if theres an iphone equivalent.) 👍

115 USD for 3 records?

ah, no. it's not like i learned to love these tunes in vinyl the first time 😂 cool that it happened. id rather have a cd(s) though.

"stick and dpad" are kind of the "burger and fries" of the controller world.