So sad to read this. I've been to this very arcade while in Osaka in 2018! Saw the headline elsewhere of a fire in Osaka, and I'm sorry to find it was here. For me, it was a lucky find on the way to Tsutenkaku Tower. I memorably played the Sailor Moon arcade game, which inspired me to get a console variant at home! I didn't even realise there was more upstairs! I sincerely hope the owners can recover for the sake of the local community and random tourists stumbling into it!
That is very satisfying to see and resolves years of wondering 'what if?'. Very professional and skillfully put together. And indeed, even though I have Mega Drive, CD, 32X, Master System convertor, I would still love to have one! Bravo!
I always was a big SEGA fan and loved my Mega-CD, and I read all about the 32X and wanted it. But my head was turned by the 3DO and games like Need for Speed and Crash and Burn (what it looked like!). I loved driving games and these new systems looked far ahead of Sega. My head was turned! After 3DO burned out, I picked up a second hand PSX and started a long association. But I did go back and scratch that itch in 2000 with the advent of eBay and I love my 32X and my Tower of Power to this day! Virtua series is my favourite, but I like After Burner and it did have the first console port of Doom as well as a few other good titles. It was the wrong answer at a time of such rapid evolution, but I still think it is impressive as an expansion to the fourth generation MD/Genesis. If there was more time to exploit what it could do, I think it could have given us more faithful arcade conversions which I would have loved! And exploited the companion CD drive too for game size and cheaper prices.
The original 3DO Road and Track NFS evokes such a response in me, it is a glorious game! To me, the subsequent franchise success is a neat footnote to a standalone game that was a dream scenario realised compared to what had come before! I got a 3DO for Christmas '94 in the UK, which was pretty outlandish and was crazy generosity from my father that I didn't instigate. Bought from the Panasonic store no less! Only had the pack-in MegaRace to begin with, understandable given the price and NFS didn't come out till early January in UK I don't think, I feel like I was waiting for it to be released? But what I saw was total eye candy, and I just played it over and over every day, never got bored. Beautiful cars, scenery, oncoming traffic! The collision physics was fantastic, I would sit there watching the replays over and over, subtle shadows through trees, balloons rising in the distance, when I had been playing Chase HQ on the gameboy about 3 years earlier! A unique and pretty much perfect game! Loved it!
I have to agree there are clearly more faithful ports that easy to get hold of, but the original is the best! Nice to see it in the spotlight again though! The Mega/Sega CD was much maligned, but I owned one at the time and loved it! As well as the games already mentioned, you've got Batman Returns, Popful Mail, Final Fight, Robo Aleste, Keio Squadron, Road Avenger, all unique versions just awesome!
The Game Gear is a really underrated handheld. I swapped my Game Boy for one in the early days and never looked back. I even had the TV tuner and made good use of it! Retromods deal with any aged screen issues, and even the battery life is no problem any more! Still love GG Shinobi, and Streets of Rage 2, Road Rash, so many top notch games for the era!
I knew someone who's little brother got one of these as a present after a knock down price at the local market. I never saw it, but it was the butt of a few jokes. I think that marketing budget figure needs a sense check though £20m to shift 15.000 consoles seems a lot, especially in 1990 prices?
I have a Game Gear with all the mods but original board. Beautiful screen and USB charging. Cured the flaws, but it's still the same thing, just like it's new out of the box with fresh batteries all the time! 😁
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Re: Osaka Retro Gaming Arcade Goes Up In Flames
So sad to read this. I've been to this very arcade while in Osaka in 2018! Saw the headline elsewhere of a fire in Osaka, and I'm sorry to find it was here. For me, it was a lucky find on the way to Tsutenkaku Tower. I memorably played the Sailor Moon arcade game, which inspired me to get a console variant at home! I didn't even realise there was more upstairs!
I sincerely hope the owners can recover for the sake of the local community and random tourists stumbling into it!
Re: Cancelled Sega Neptune Rises From The Dead, Gets Its Own Promo Video
That is very satisfying to see and resolves years of wondering 'what if?'. Very professional and skillfully put together. And indeed, even though I have Mega Drive, CD, 32X, Master System convertor, I would still love to have one! Bravo!
Re: GG Shinobi Is Being Unofficially Ported To Genesis / Mega Drive
GG Shinobi is a classy game and it looks like the homebrewer intends to do it justice.
Re: Don't Forget The Sega 32X Turns 30 This Year, Too
I always was a big SEGA fan and loved my Mega-CD, and I read all about the 32X and wanted it. But my head was turned by the 3DO and games like Need for Speed and Crash and Burn (what it looked like!). I loved driving games and these new systems looked far ahead of Sega. My head was turned! After 3DO burned out, I picked up a second hand PSX and started a long association. But I did go back and scratch that itch in 2000 with the advent of eBay and I love my 32X and my Tower of Power to this day! Virtua series is my favourite, but I like After Burner and it did have the first console port of Doom as well as a few other good titles. It was the wrong answer at a time of such rapid evolution, but I still think it is impressive as an expansion to the fourth generation MD/Genesis. If there was more time to exploit what it could do, I think it could have given us more faithful arcade conversions which I would have loved! And exploited the companion CD drive too for game size and cheaper prices.
Re: Anniversary: Need For Speed Turns 30 This Month
The original 3DO Road and Track NFS evokes such a response in me, it is a glorious game! To me, the subsequent franchise success is a neat footnote to a standalone game that was a dream scenario realised compared to what had come before! I got a 3DO for Christmas '94 in the UK, which was pretty outlandish and was crazy generosity from my father that I didn't instigate. Bought from the Panasonic store no less! Only had the pack-in MegaRace to begin with, understandable given the price and NFS didn't come out till early January in UK I don't think, I feel like I was waiting for it to be released? But what I saw was total eye candy, and I just played it over and over every day, never got bored. Beautiful cars, scenery, oncoming traffic! The collision physics was fantastic, I would sit there watching the replays over and over, subtle shadows through trees, balloons rising in the distance, when I had been playing Chase HQ on the gameboy about 3 years earlier! A unique and pretty much perfect game! Loved it!
Re: Sonic CD Has Been Ported To The Sega Genesis
I have to agree there are clearly more faithful ports that easy to get hold of, but the original is the best! Nice to see it in the spotlight again though! The Mega/Sega CD was much maligned, but I owned one at the time and loved it! As well as the games already mentioned, you've got Batman Returns, Popful Mail, Final Fight, Robo Aleste, Keio Squadron, Road Avenger, all unique versions just awesome!
Re: Sega's Game Gear Is Getting The Book It Truly Deserves
The Game Gear is a really underrated handheld. I swapped my Game Boy for one in the early days and never looked back. I even had the TV tuner and made good use of it! Retromods deal with any aged screen issues, and even the battery life is no problem any more! Still love GG Shinobi, and Streets of Rage 2, Road Rash, so many top notch games for the era!
Re: CIBSunday: Amstrad GX4000
I knew someone who's little brother got one of these as a present after a knock down price at the local market. I never saw it, but it was the butt of a few jokes. I think that marketing budget figure needs a sense check though £20m to shift 15.000 consoles seems a lot, especially in 1990 prices?
Re: Modder Uses Raspberry Pi To Create "Game Gear Classic Edition"
I have a Game Gear with all the mods but original board. Beautiful screen and USB charging. Cured the flaws, but it's still the same thing, just like it's new out of the box with fresh batteries all the time! 😁