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"there's no way to connect the Alpha to your television via HDMI (...) feels like an optional feature that most people would have welcomed."

I'll go a step further and say that such a feature would/could have legitimized this entire endeavor, in terms of justifying the purchase. as is, it feels like an executive toy mostly for display/nostalgia purposes. ✌️

@HoyeBoye

YES mad dog mctyper!! 🤣😂😂

i feel like someone with the requisite skills could make this happen.

@Damo

you are completely right about that! ✌️

"It’s not going to be kind of lumbered with a whole bunch of back story that might exclude people who know nothing about House of the Dead."

This guy is going to DUMB DOWN the HOTD story for us 😂 he really is the visionary genius that everyone always says.

@Damo

I think the point of @Hydra_Spectre 's comment was more about the actual quality of the films than the critical reception, but your answer still applies. 👍

(let's not forget, Synecdoche New York for example was critically panned, and commercially bombed upon release...)

@HoyeBoye

i wish every light gun game had a "Typing of" version 😆

WES Anderson is making a house of the dead movie?!

(looks again)

PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON IS MAKING A HOTD MOVIE?!

(one more time)

oh. 😒

@N64-ROX

"I get the feeling that a lot of "physical forever" purists are going to get a rude awakening when they plug in their Switch cartridges in 20 years' time and most of them run like muck without any patches..."

I think about this all the time!! physical makes zero sense to me now, and I rarely buy games that way because of exactly what you describe. we are on the installment plan, now, and it's hard to imagine what "retro" gaming will be like when it relies on all this online garbage that no longer functions.

for me, pre-internet gaming is a different thing, and essentially dead, along with so many other good aspects of life. it does seem like theres a movement to "unplug" but since it isnt the "way forward $" for the dominant corpses i mean corporations I don't think we will move that direction with any level of peace or comfort.

so, I'll just hang on to the pre-switch consoles and games that I still have, leave my phone by the door (on better days) and roll with the punches 😊✌️ cheers.

@Daniel36

lol btw 😅✌️

I will say this: while the Wii is definitely part of the "old Nintendo" that I love, part of the appeal for me before Wii (yes, I'm old and I had every Nintendo console along the way since NES) was that Nintendo was averse/afraid of online gaming or distribution just like me, and in those days there never, ever would have been a non localized game allowed on any Nintendo platform.

in other words, I meant what I said, but when I said it, I didnt realize just how far back I was reaching. 😅👍 so It's pretty much old man yells at Nintendo shaped cloud.

@N64-ROX

nah, my argument fell apart under light scrutiny but I'm leaving my gpa moment up for posterity ✌️

@Daniel36

yep! i remember this one too!

i guess its only a ~20 year old phenomenon 😅 I'll go back to sleep now ✌️

@LowDefAl

Right you are! and I recall that, now that you mention it. 👍

still, without any other examples, I will consider DoReMi Fantasy on Wii Virtual Console to be the exception that proves the rule. 😊✌️

pre switch Nintendo would never have allowed non translated/localized games on their platform. Now, they have them on their own online service.

I miss pre Switch Nintendo a lot, y'all. ✌️

@PinballBuzzbro

great comment 😂👍

@bluphraust

lol very true! or (in the US at least) "middle class voters." It's no one! It's everyone! 😆

"The Internet" in journalism bugs me in particular because it's just like when (ahem) certain politicians and news organizations say "people are saying." The implication is that everyone or most people agree but in fact there's no "there" there, and it's actually just the speaker using a kind of straw man fallacy to separate themselves from the statement they personally would like to propagate, in order to make it seem more valid.

in truth, there are people on "the internet" on both/all sides of literally any issue, and this same writer could make the opposite argument or any argument at all really using the same strategy and data pool ("the internet.")

@bobby_steurer

That's what life's like! You'll never play all the great games, listen to all the great songs, see all the great movies, but you can spend your life having a blast trying 😊 and, better late than never, as they say! It sounds like you had a good time with it, and that's what is up. 👍✌️

"The internet" isnt a person, doesnt have feelings, and doesn't have an opinion.

growing up, i didnt realize people were also going to "get good" at games like Mario 64 😆 good for them.

I felt pretty accomplished when i finally got 120 stars, myself, and that's where my Mario 64 career pretty much ended ✌️

this game was a phenomenal "late gen" release at the time. to have our heads expanded by gta3 and then to see another giant leap to San Andreas in the same generation was just incredible!

it was also a welcome throwback to the early 90s at a time when 80s nostalgia was very much in vogue. Pretty much no game that I can think of even tried the vibe they pulled off in this game.

@Geobardi

good pull! so, he used it once ("rarely") in a dire situation against absolute evil, not exactly running around, slicing up mall security. 😂

PS - i just watched level 1 on genesis as it had been a long time. yes, it looks weird as hell to see Aladdin brandishing a deadly weapon, weaving a trail of carnage as he makes his way across town 😂 what were they thinking?!

@RossoftheRobots

I guess Croc is just too middling for the "Rise of the Robots" guy 😂✌️

I feel like Aladdin rarely if ever used a sword or weapon of any kind in the movie. +1 SNES.

@Scollurio

I LOVE GAIN GROUND! would love to see the idea expanded upon and or revisited in any capacity 👍

@demadeefy

different strokes! Can't say I agree 👍

start with some good games.

i have zero familiarity with this song until now, but it could not sound more like "land," to me.

@Poodlestargenerica

I second this request!

PS - have you listened to the podcast Legacy Music Hour? They used to do some interview episodes, and they did David Wise, Tim Ferriss, Oka, Tanaka, and I want to say Alberto Jose Gonzales(?!) but I might be getting a little mixed up over time.

suffice to say its a great podcast and those episodes are really special ❤️👍✌️

@SakuraHaruka

hi ☺️

I love soyo oka too! among my favorite composers.

If I'm reading your comment correctly, you seem to be attributing SimCity 3000 to her, but it was actually the great Jerry Martin! one of my favorite game OSTs ever, SimCity 3000 is really elevated stuff and I love it!

anyway. ✌️

@Poodlestargenerica

jumping flash gave me the absolute creeps as a kid! 👍👍 great game.

"smooth modern analog controls with an improved camera"

so it looks like Croc, but it plays like every other generic warmed over 3d action game since the ps3 era.

@MisterStu

yeah, im skeptical that i couldnt spot the fake in this instance. ✌️

please, can we have just one comments section without breathless concern trolling about "piracy?"

Well get ready to "lose" these tracks all over again 😆

I so wish theyd made this a retail release, with a simple single player mode, survival mode, and tight, f-zero like controls. 😢 easy game of the decade if they had.

beethoven was deaf, yet wrote symphonies.

@Beauville

"So what this article completely and totally fails to mention is that his first strike was from a video just before this covering the MiG Switch cartridge copier - a device that lets you dump your switch games and play back up roms on real switch hardware.

Of course Nintendo isn't going to look kindly on someone telling 300k subscribers how to pirate games for their current console."

I believe what you are saying, and nintendo goes after people for much less, but to be fair, making a copy of a game you own and playing that copy on your switch is in no way piracy.

If they showed how to upload the files and make them available for download publicly, or how to sell them for profit, sure, but I doubt that was in the video.

its like saying showing someone how to make deposits and withdrawals is the same as showing them how to launder money, or how to shoot a gun is the same as murder. ✌️

PS-

https://www.riaa.com/resources-learning/about-piracy/

even the RIAA website seems confused about what piracy actually is:

"Common examples of online copyright infringement:

You download an app on your smartphone that allows you to ‘strip’ the audio from any YouTube music video and permanently keep that audio in your music collection."

downloading an app ITSELF is copyright infringement? and, there is NO audio on youtube that I could use this app to obtain, that isn't copyrighted?! 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 plz

1) is the strike against the "emulation of the game" as the headline and body of the article suggest, or is it against the content itself being shown? I dont really see what copyright has to do with the very act of emulation, nor do I see so far where they are "going after" emulation of their games as opposed to the footage of the gameplay.

2) its a minor thing, but you don't emulate games, per se. you emulate the systems that play them. ✌️ more to my first point, you cant see "emulation happening" in a video, you can only see the end result which is just footage of the game.

this is the first LEGO thing I've gassed for since I was like 10 😅 i would definitely buy this and put it together, display it and cherish it.

btw it's absolutely grotesque to me that so many people including in the industry think that games only got good starting in the ps3 era. 😵

i couldn't care less about a single new 3d fighting game but id care a whole lot for a Tekken trilogy collection ❤️ ditto virtua fighter and soul edge/blade/Calibur.

@845H one person's "simplistic" is another's "fun/accessible/action-oriented/direct/etc." ✌️ for me the series peaked with two and three.

@AJB83

"I guess I own those, since they've travelled with me everywhere and nobody has taken them from me "

possession is nine tenths of the law 😆

@bring_on_branstons @bring_on_branstons

haha cheers! I think I've made it to the last stage before, and to my memory of the last time i tried (not too long ago) I could not beat the "cave" boss 💀 a real SOB lol

@AJB83

a thoughtful person gave me MGS collection (physically) on switch but I cant even play it because it wont even fit on my (admittedly aging and tiny) sd card 😆 and, because the port got such mixed reviews im not in a huge hurry to upgrade.

😕 i mean, how depressing is all of that?

(EDIT - can anyone tell me: if i go through the trouble of downloading these giant remasters to a new SD card, will I STILL have to put in the meaningless, token, insulting Cart every time I want to play those games? 😮‍💨)

PSA - "physical ownership" was always a bug of the old distribution system, not a feature. if "they" could've taken our physical copies 30 years ago (and still gotten our money,) they would have, and the only reason physical copies persist is that many of us got used to that model and dont see the value in /are skeptical of the change.

@slider1983

he is talking about ownership vs licensing, on a technical level. when you buy a copy of mario, you arent buying the software you are buying the right to play a copy of that software. you are right, and like i said for most people, it is a distinction without a difference. ✌️ IMO it's unhelpful in the context as theres a clear difference between a physical copy that can't be taken away and a digital pseudo purchase that possibly can which happens to be the conversation we are having. 👍

@bring_on_branstons

"The original Area 88/UN Squadron is my all time favourite SNES shmup and I still play it regularly to this day."

me too! and one of the few games I've been playing since childhood and STILL havent beaten (and I generally beat shmups!) though i dont at all consider it unfair!

also, GREAT example of an arcade port that just dusts the original in terms of content 👍 this is one of my favorite phenomena of the golden era, the self conscious over-selling of expanded arcade ports on "inferior" home hardware. ✌️

@KingMike

very interesting! definitely hadnt ever considered the gameboy printer in the mix, but the thought of a SNES with a sticker printer makes me very happy haha.

side note, I did not realize that Sega/Atlus' relationship went back that far! 🤔

thanks 👍✌️

@Poodlestargenerica

i understand the distinction, truly. my point is that for most people "owning the game" means "having a copy," and in those terms a physical copy is a "stronger" or more satisfying form of (what they are calling) ownership. 👍

@Razieluigi

No worries, I felt the exact same way in the Soul Reaver days. Blood Omen was one of those "early psx" games that I glossed over thousands of times (hello, philosoma, jupiter strike, kileak...)

@Razieluigi

"The gameplay felt like the mature take on Zelda that so many of us were craving at the time."

You are SO right! 😊☝️

Btw do you have an opinion of the original LoK game? I've suddenly become curious about it lately and I might have to check it out while I'm revisiting Reaver. ✌️ cheers

OMG - I just realized this collection has Blood Omen where I thought it was Reaver 2. 😱

I must get an evercade.