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Super cellphone?

Cute, good idea. Way cooler than the very corporate style guide layout Little Golden Books did for Mario

So in the 80’s Sega was like rock n roll, then around 2000 they were maybe still like rock n roll and that era is maybe popular again. So they’re gonna make new stuff in the spirit of Sega in the millennium, but with more innovation and a wild side to attract a new but dedicated audience that is there for deeper involvement, thereby giving Sega a more rooted investment by not going after wider trends.. I don’t know, is that what’s happening? Lol

Would love to buy the ROM to see this running on my own CRTs!

Crazy. I love all those games. Seems so unlikely for most of that to get reactivations

When I was game collector years ago it was never with preservation in mind. It had an aesthetic to it and I gave in to accumulation brain, so purely personal gratification. However earlier in life after the 32-bit 3D consoles had taken over, I was really concerned with 2D game preservation because it seemed back then that those things might just go “out with the old”, as they say. ROM sites hadn’t been around that long to give a stable impression

That’s really cool. NES, the best console generation ever.

@mjparker77 and on switch 2 the emulator could pick up some efficiency, as I’ve found with some emulated switch games

@EWolf I think ninja gaiden was a good match for pixels, but Shinobi is a good match for illustrative graphics because it was a more artistically expressive series with a lot of overlapping themes. But I understand the preference for pixel design in many instances

A darn shame that collection was roughed up upon hitting switch. I’ll stick to Final Burn for now for IGS stuff

Thumbnail reminds me of a PS1 controller video I watched on YouTube with the randomest comment by a guy checking out the video because he knew a guy charged for murder having beat someone to death with the ps1 controller..

@PKDuckman yo astyanax

Gen AI was a copyright violation on a scale so massive no government was prepared to stop it.

There was a window of time for a lot of money to quickly be poured into the technology to jumpstart it, requiring a very critical volume and wealth of "free" property/data, all before any government fully understood it

I don’t know about M2’s Aleste these days, more like generic Cave shooter

How does one come by such a controller? I’d consider getting that

@Razieluigi especially if it’s GBA pixels by Akio Oyabu. Make that little screen sing

Yep 3DS will continue to go up in price over the years, I’m quite sure

One the best rental games ever. At the time I was saving all my money for JRPGs and games like this were great for breaking up that obsession, lol

This is a cool product for getting HDMI to the Genny. At the moment I’ve got a nice new setup with one of my larger CRT’s that I haven’t had out of the basement in a while so that’s been good for plugging in the SD consoles. It’s no PVM, just an average tube, but I’ll sure be sad when capacitor components start to fail on it

Happy retirement year, Sega. Sleep in, hit the golf courses, toss the Franklin Covey planner, and leave the games to your fans, they’ll know what to do

@MontyCircus for sure. Every console generation was exciting leading up to HD. But I’ll always think of the NES as building the roller coaster that subsequent generations made exciting by getting a bit higher than the last. For sure the NES underpinned the experiences that were built up in later generations. Even before the SNES, young minds knew what had been unlocked for the future of gaming after playing those NES games. When we finally saw 16 bit games, they were already anticipated because of the NES. That’s how I remember it.

I can appreciate it but I’m not into a lot of memorabilia and such. However for out run that’s enough novelty id pick out a jacket or cap with the car and palm trees on it

I know many hold the opinion that Switch was Nintendo’s greatest console, but I still give that honor to the NES.

This is a nice looking book

@shiningpikablu252 they’ve had PC FX tracks playing which are not mentioned either so there’s a good possibility

I’d be surprised if it is a business decision and not a technical one. I don’t assume it’s being withheld for marketing Switch 2

Can’t go wrong with the NES ‘run n’ punch’ genre

Arcade operators today are just trying to hold on to wholesome social gathering places, many of them. The vintage machines are great, but a basement or garage full of them is just incomplete. There is a social side to it. Too bad it’s a tough business sometimes.

@shiningpikablu252 there are CD tracks in the playlist, yup

Cool. I will bookmark it.

What a nice connection to have after a long-time dedication to sharing gaming experiences

@The_Nintend_Pedant it says 1977 but they got someone who could pose like a miner from 1917. A sepia filter would take it all the way

Definitely want to keep the WiiU running and if possible to have it be better than ever. I would love to see a display mod but that’s probably not a likely one. This seems like the only way to get a better off-TV display connection

The art assets look nice, but they aren’t suited to a sidescrolling shooting game. Foreground character art is best when very visible and has sense of movement or mass, and that’s maybe getting lost in all the detail. The background works best when it’s like the staff lines on sheet music, the characters are your notes and so that sets up the positioning and shooting lines. Maybe that’s not coming through enough

Ahh am/fm & cassette stereo boomboxes, very nice and they look so cool. Although I don’t know if they ever sounded that great. I feel like my little portable JBL sounds better than whatever we pumped music through back then that you could load six massive C cell batteries into the back of

I’m a very hard customer on all-in-one devices. They have to be exceptional before I abandon dedicated tech that just does the one thing well

@DanijoEX-The-Kumiho outdated as in not current. Emphasizing the lack of access and difficulty in playing them as they were in their time. Also the gulf in technology that separates them from today’s computers and gaming. That all makes a tangible difference, particularly for younger generations. There’s also context needed to understand why many certain games were put together the way that they were if you are first playing them at all 20-30-40 years after they released. The thinking has changed. Culture has changed among other things. That also makes a real difference.

agree with this legendary gamemaker in the final paragraph. Yes, the graphics are bad (not to me but, yes..), but the old games with bad graphics were incredibly harmonious in tactile gameplay design. Many of them. Overall, the games are outdated, for sure, but they have many, many individual components that are hard to replicate nowadays

I had a comment in mind for this article and the first comment is completely fitting. I’ve said to friends that I liken early video games to classical period music. While games have amazing graphics today, the crazed period in Japan in the 80's and 90's 2D game development stands apart from everything that came after. Like classical music in Europe’s region. There's an artistic mastery that was attainable only in its time, away from future world developments. Now, I like classical music, but many today could not stand more than 5 minutes of it before losing their appreciation, lol

well, newer platforms than Saturn anyway. It seems like half a lifetime ago that I bought the Chronicles of Mystara. Don’t suppose Capcom’s any plans for a rerelease of CoM? Wouldn’t hold my breath

I could never get into the games from Cave. Progear is the closest danmaku to engage my interest but otherwise I like more the lineage of Space Invaders over Cave’s bullet invaders offshoot

Love Final Zone. And man, can I linger on that game over screen just soaking up the Genny sound chip

Excellent work. In a world increasingly turning to algorithms to do their deleterious bidding of convenience, its appreciated in a way it shouldn’t have to be, but it’s appreciated

Have played Final Zone 2 on my Duo-R a good number of times, I think it’s decent

@Sketcz Sega of the 90’s was a tragic artist case. Change too much, and the brilliance that was short lived might not have been as remarkable as it was

It’s a crying shame and so unfortunate for the incredible Sega repertoire built up to that point, but after hearing the stories of Sega management’s dysfunction and bad dynamics, I’m not sure how much of a sting this history can have today, simply because of the multiple collision courses in so many matters that they were too myopic to avoid. It couldn’t have been helped, in other words..

Well that’s exciting to see footage. The graphics are not superb. No shadows under anything to create depth and pretty limited detail in most elements. Explosions look bad. I wonder why it turned out so bland?

Less of a game and more the best pixelated visual journey you’ll ever go on. Awesome graphics. Will watch again I’m sure

I’d like to get this running on a few different devices so if there’s a way to get the ROM that’s information that’d be good to know

The PS1 look is getting to be trendy and I’m down

I was playing NebulasRay the other week and after checking I was surprised to see it hadn’t had a rerelease which I thought was crazy, but here we go