I read your side note "best of 1997 / worst of 1997" and you said something that should still be the case today as it is how I think Nintendo has maintained their "special" place in gaming. "For people to buy a games machine for the games it offers and not the image". You said a book's worth in one sentence. You basically told the entire industry that great games matter more than anything. Nintendo is the only one that follows that, IMHO. Thanks for thinking that back then and hopefully still today. It certainly needs to be adopted by Sony and Microsoft. ** I need to amend this without rewriting it - I forgot the people @ Evercade. They get it. Great games come first.
@masterLEON The Viewpoint game that was in the arcades in the Neo Geo cabinets. There was a version, I think, for the Sega CD/ Genesis system. I dumped some many quarters into that darn game. Lol.
Isn't "building the "ultimate" N-64 sort of an oxymoron? The system was a POS and nothing like what were promised. You don't take a graphics chip based on Silicon Graphics "Black Onyx" set (basically the computer system that was used to create the dinosaurs in the first Jurassic Park) and come up with blocky / blurred graphics. They were bitmapping over a junk field of oversized polygons. They were hiding in plain sight the fact that they didn't know how to use the tech that was given them. It was pretty much the Nintendo Jaguar IMO.
I wish somebody (looking at you Hamster) would make an arcade perfect version of SNK's "VIEW POINT". I dumped so many quarters into that game I could have owned the machine.
This thing and the POS from "atari" were doomed from day one. Hey INTV and "Atari" why don't you look at how EVERCADE slid in under the radar and actually has a killer system that plays an insanely awesome amount of games, and they aren't going to have to tell investors sorry "we suck at what we do" as they go out of business AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN.
Monday - Tommy steps down Tuesday - Intellivision admits the Amico is a pipe dream Friday - The company folds after being sued by investors and pre- orders.
This is a HUGE no. First off, the same rehash of the same games Sega always falls back on. Two the fact they are selling through a "limited production" group, I have grown to hate those companies in the last year. 3 the price is a bit steep for the content and size. These of course are imo.
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Re: I Was One Of The First To See Zelda At Space World '97, But I Wouldn't Go Back To Those Days
I read your side note "best of 1997 / worst of 1997" and you said something that should still be the case today as it is how I think Nintendo has maintained their "special" place in gaming. "For people to buy a games machine for the games it offers and not the image". You said a book's worth in one sentence. You basically told the entire industry that great games matter more than anything. Nintendo is the only one that follows that, IMHO. Thanks for thinking that back then and hopefully still today. It certainly needs to be adopted by Sony and Microsoft. ** I need to amend this without rewriting it - I forgot the people @ Evercade. They get it. Great games come first.
Re: "It's Like A Dream" - Hamster President Satoshi Hamada On The Success Of Arcade Archives
@masterLEON The Viewpoint game that was in the arcades in the Neo Geo cabinets. There was a version, I think, for the Sega CD/ Genesis system. I dumped some many quarters into that darn game. Lol.
Re: Building The Ultimate Nintendo 64
Isn't "building the "ultimate" N-64 sort of an oxymoron? The system was a POS and nothing like what were promised. You don't take a graphics chip based on Silicon Graphics "Black Onyx" set (basically the computer system that was used to create the dinosaurs in the first Jurassic Park) and come up with blocky / blurred graphics. They were bitmapping over a junk field of oversized polygons. They were hiding in plain sight the fact that they didn't know how to use the tech that was given them. It was pretty much the Nintendo Jaguar IMO.
Re: "It's Like A Dream" - Hamster President Satoshi Hamada On The Success Of Arcade Archives
I wish somebody (looking at you Hamster) would make an arcade perfect version of SNK's "VIEW POINT". I dumped so many quarters into that game I could have owned the machine.
Re: 'Quest Master' Will Let You Create Your Own Zelda-Like Dungeons & Share Them Online
This could be a lot of fun
Re: Intellivision Closes Amico Fundraising Ahead Of Schedule
This thing and the POS from "atari" were doomed from day one. Hey INTV and "Atari" why don't you look at how EVERCADE slid in under the radar and actually has a killer system that plays an insanely awesome amount of games, and they aren't going to have to tell investors sorry "we suck at what we do" as they go out of business AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN.
Re: Intellivision Admits Its Wii-Like Amico Console May Never See Release
Monday - Tommy steps down
Tuesday - Intellivision admits the Amico is a pipe dream
Friday - The company folds after being sued by investors and pre- orders.
Bahahahahahaha
WE ALL SAW THIS COMING
Re: Intellivision's Wii-Like Amico Console Gets Delayed For A Third Time
the horrible controls, the mediocre games, the ridiculous price.... these are the things that killed the Amico for me a long, long time ago
Re: Sega's Astro City Mini Is Getting A Limited Run Games Release In The US
This is a HUGE no. First off, the same rehash of the same games Sega always falls back on. Two the fact they are selling through a "limited production" group, I have grown to hate those companies in the last year. 3 the price is a bit steep for the content and size. These of course are imo.