KitsuneNight

@rob7979
Don't forget that Nintendo at heart is a toy company.
Or was a toy company and that's hard to shake even now.
And toy companies love gimmicks.
( I'm a Transformers fan Hasbro loves dem gimmicks)

I do agree with you, that they should have pushed this harder a way for budget games to be released.

Just for context : Mego was a toy manufacturer who had their hey day in the 70's with Marvel DC and Star Trek toys.
As well as Micronauts.
2 years after this ad Mego filed for bankruptcy and by 1983 they were gone.

@NinChocolate
Oh, go on do it.
What have you got to lose ?

Bloody hell that aint cheap.
But I do kinda want, damn it.

I had a original Super GB, not sure when late 90's early 2000's ish.
Kinda want to pick one up again these days.

I refuse to believe that there are people who don't even know who Tetris are.

Street musicians play the bloody theme https://youtu.be/Nor09lJ80zE?t=235

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKcbfoyeGRI&pp=ygUhc3RyZWV0IG11c2ljaWFuIHBsYXkgdGV0cmlzIHRoZW1l
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBmZAg8HxfY&pp=ygUhc3RyZWV0IG11c2ljaWFuIHBsYXkgdGV0cmlzIHRoZW1l
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ah9_cw7MS4&pp=ygUhc3RyZWV0IG11c2ljaWFuIHBsYXkgdGV0cmlzIHRoZW1l
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvZCLIOaQUM&pp=ygUhc3RyZWV0IG11c2ljaWFuIHBsYXkgdGV0cmlzIHRoZW1
lhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTRBexwBhCs&pp=ygUhc3RyZWV0IG11c2ljaWFuIHBsYXkgdGV0cmlzIHRoZW1l

Anyway !
I played the GB and Nes version of the game.
None of the others really.

@GhaleonUnlimited
I mostly play my original games to be honest.
I prefer the real thing, over burned copies.

( doesn't mean i wont play them though)

I kinda lucked in to my 3DO, saw it for sale online, it been for sale for 3 months.
Decided to ask anyway.
It was still for sale, and I went "MEIN NOW".

Wanted a 3DO for literally ages.

I'd rather see the actual games get a port as a collected edition.

And chiptune music is not for me.
Tried it was left dissapointed.

I was never really in to E3.
Especially not in the past decade, when it was nothing more then hype manufacturing for announcements for a trailer to be dropped, that announces a game that might get released in 2027.

And which will be playable in 2030 after 3 years of patches.

But even before modern gaming was ruined I was never really in to E3.

@boatie
Never underestimate human stupidity.

Well i only played one.
The first N64 one.

It was ..err something.

It's like the Wii and Wii U all over again.
People will get confused,especially the less up to date or savvy ones.

Should have called it Mr Mars or something.

The only ones really preserving video game history is well...us.
The people who care and dump and back up the games, the physical game hoarders, along with the archive for making it possible.

With the exception of Switzerland whose government seem to give a damn for now.
Governments come and go after all.

Nintendo might be preparing another half assed VC store attempt for their next machines storefront.
But that's all it has ever been, half assed.

But as always : Money talks, integrity walks.

Game over, yeaaaaaah !!!!!

@Sketcz
That is very interesting and usefull to know.
I havent maxed out the memory in my 3DO, but it wil happen sooner or later.*
I need to use the "action replay" for the 3DO to manage the memory on my LG 3DO.

It works but its less elegant then a functional build in one.

*I could use that memory mod for one of my Saturns as well.

@Poodlestargenerica
I'm not the only one who thought this sounded like a dodgy euphemism for something then.

Some blues under the table.

I generally keep my PS2 heorizontal.
I like to stack consoles.

I uh thought it was ornately decorated cake at first glance.
Maybe I'm just hongry.

Lets grab it and try it on my Hyperkin RetroN 2 in 1 !

@Sketcz
I might look in to that.
I am looking for F-Z10 3DO, I like the form factor more.
( the LG 3DO is quite bulky though nothing not even the Xbox can match the monsterous size of my front loadomg Neo Geo CD.
its a monster )

And more importantly, it has a build in memory manager.
I kinda want to have multiples of most retro consoles I own be they the real thing or clones.
Because these things are not getting any younger, and if one dies all my games will just become useless expensive collections of plastic.

One of my Saturns does have an ODE, but I enjoy using my skeleton Saturn currently.

( paid too much for that damn thing to not use it )

Hell, not even Nintendo themselves can be arsed to give a flying fluck about their own history.
As far as most governments are concerned video games are stil just "for da kids", and not an medium and artform in their own right worthy of preservation and re-evaluation.

Having said that, Switzerland is leading the pack with this.
And it might slowly start to erode the current mindset.
And more people wil start giving a toss.
After all every little bit helps.

My Goldstar ( LG ) 3DO has been fine so far.
It runs real games and ...uhm backups with out any issue,even though I don't use it that much.

Like the Neo Geo Cd its more because i wanted one for years.

Having said that, if my model ever gets an ODE. i wil grab it as soon as I can.
Just to ensure my 3DO wil continue to live long and prosper.

( yes i had too)

@rob7979
Not that odd
The Master System II was released in 1990 and positioned as a cheaper alternative to the Megadrive.

The difference with the MS II is that it does have a robust library of good games.

I dodged this bullet thankfully.
But I also got no love or interest in the Amstrads or its other stable mates.
Home computers were before my time.

That Commodore monstrosity gonna be next ?
The C64GS, the one that came with a cartridge game that needed a keyboard to work.
A keyboard that was absent.

Time flies and not in a good way.
I can't believe its been a decade already.

@Damo
Then it must be missing an episode.
For some reason the Dutch versions leave out the pilotContest.
Which is a shame cause that's one of the better ones.

Think I'm off to marathon all five Live shows.

@obijuankanoobie
They are so expensive, because its a tiny print run of games on a console that's both ancient and niche.

Part of it is fleecing, but sadly these things just are not cheap.

Personally I aint paying that for a 2600 game.
My retro cut off is the Snes.

@Poodlestargenerica

It kinda depends for me.
I generally find the standard black and white consoles a bit boring.
So if possible I'll look for a color option.
Blue PS2, Purple GameCube, Clear Xbox, Skeleton Saturn and so on.

@Poodlestargenerica
I didn't even notice the Pepsi logo.
Personally i think the crystal Xbox looks the best

@KingMike
That's the clock capacitor.
MS cheaped out on that one and used a cheaper component.
It had a tendency to leak and corrode the mother board.
V1.6 saw them adress that.
But v 1.6 is also the last Xbox.

This is not likely to be a v1.6

Hard drives and fans can become noisy as well

Hulk smash !!!!
I have a soft spot for these ugly things
And got 2 modded crystal Xboxes.

@snk2d4life
Your thinking of the 360.
Though the 2001 Xbox does show a red ring if there is no AV cable inserted.

@jesse_dylan
Come to think of it, Sega and Nintendo really should take a leaf from NuTari's book.
And re release a recreation of their consoles that can play the old games.
And re releases of said old games.
Even just their own first party games would be cool.

The 2600+ is a fancy Nu-tari created romdumper.
No reason Sega couldn't do that either.

@TheDiggler
Normie Cu...err Normies flooding a niche hobby is never a good thing.
It drives prices up and floods the niche with clueless idiots.

@Scollurio
You hope
Since when do IP holders need any other excuse other then "MEIN!!!" ?
It would be at least something if true, and I would begrudgingly rebuy the damn things again.

@Bonggon5
Clearly enough people to give a damn.
There is somebody who discovered Vimm recently just above your comment.

@Azuris
Not even that.
et them release official collections like Capcom Arcade Stadium, or the Megadrive Ultimate collection.
Let them strike up a deal with Blaze for Everdrive carts

Just give us SOMETHING to buy and play.

He don't look too thrilled.

Then make the fecking games available for us to buy !
Make it easy to buy and play and OWN and we will come.

Why don't companies understand this simple concept ?

And Vimm has always been my go to site ever since i first encountered it years and years ago.

Thankfully there is still always the archive.
Whats that song again ? Something about never gonna keep us down.

( tubthumbing)

@Sketcz
Black magic ?
Chaos magic ?

Yes, I did know.
I saw it Sunday on Youtube.

Impressive, most impressive.

Any excuse to dig out the game and play it again.
Even if i suck at it.

Sega ! Take note !
A mini Saturn is possible !

( i'd rather have a official Saturn mini over this project even if its damn cool. There are just so so so many emulation handhelds out there right now)

@nocdaes

You may never know
Sega has more of a name with gamers these days then the Amiga and C64 did.

People who really are in those formats still own the original hardware or have been emulating or do both.

Sega's constant never ending mining of the Megadrive is getting tedious though.

The master system is somehow still in rude health in Brazil.

@Guru_Larry
To be honest, I would be down for that.

The Master System is one of the few Sega Consoles I never played or had.

And I'm one of those weirdos that likes the look of the Master System II.

I am ready to be shunned now.

@Sketcz Money talks
It always does.

@delt75
If you don't have a ODe you do need to burn the games.
These fit on a cdr
You need imgburn ( free ) and the imgburn CDI extension* ( also free and drop the 3 files in the main imgburn folder )

And there you go cdi compatability.
Grab the games in CDI format GDI is for ode's

• ( look for pfctoc that's what its labeled as)

@delt75
Dreamcast games are still pretty affordable.
And if you dont mind backups, the DC can play those unmodded as well.

Hit up CDromance.

Noice.

Wouldnt say no to this.
I got the Cube version, with ...that controller.

I use a third party controller with a normal sized D pad for Capcom VS SNK and the Resi games.

A third game and a modern port of the previous two games would be even better.

@Sketcz

Taking economics of scales in account, would it really be that expensive ?

Even if its as bare bones as the PS Classic ( which was so slapdash its so easy to hack it goes back to being awesome ) it would be awesome.

These machines are not getting any younger my Skeleton Saturn has a pico psu but the rest of the machine is still at least 25 years old.

And yeah i have ode's and hdmi dongles and the like too.

Damn it Sega, how hard can a mini Dreamcast or mini Saturn with a 20 games be ?
Even Sega's own titles on those machines would be reason alone to grab em.

I'm sure there is a market for them.

Or a Megadrive mini 3 with 32X and ( more) Sega Cd games.

@MarkusM
That , and a pain in the ass, especially if you don't have a book/document scanner like a Czur.

The past 12 years I've been scanning all the comics and video game magazines I own.

It's a slow, boring, cumbersome never ending task, cause I keep buying more.

I've gone through six scanners by now, scanned thousands of pages and at least 1500+ comics and magazines.

I mostly scan for myself, so I can keep the actual comics in boxes in storage and read the scans on computers laptops tablets phones etc.

I read some copies of EGM 2.
I have no idea which ones those were though and after the magazine folded so at least in 99 to 2001.
Can't narrow it down beyond that.

It introduced me to FF 3 , The 3do and many many other things.

I'm oddly fond of EGM 2.

@Sketcz
Could be good.
Even if they don't have any copies, they may know people who do.
And that might be all that it takes.

Here is hoping.

@IceClimbersMain

I wil be preordering but that's because i am already in the Evercade ecosystem.
Thankfully the games are readily available and not very expensive

For me this is a kind of a no brainer.
Ive been eying that Neo Geo tabletop for a while.
And this is the next best thing.

Also hoping Blaze can rope SNK in.

@Sketcz
It could happen.
All you need to be under way is if somebody has and offers a chunk of CTW for sale in a joblot.

I tried to reach out to Stuart Campbell to ask him with that very same idea.
Unfortunately he seems to have scrubbed himself from the internet.

His contact page and forum page both return 404 errors.
And he hasn't been active on his twitter in 4 years.

@cawley1
Evilbay works in mysterious ways.

Got to be honest though, unless people who have stacks of the magazine start coming forward or listing them on Ebay, collecting let alone completing, CTW is going to be a near impossible proposition.

It also doesn't help that there is almost no information about CTW out there.

Here is hoping that won't be the case.
But this could take years if not decades.