SpeedRunRocks

I found out about a year ago that the Dreamcast fishing rod controller can be used as a racket in Virtua Tennis. Pretty rad stuff!

I have 7 or 8 years of import collecting under my belt. Primarily Famicom, SFC, Game Boy and Saturn.

I've acquired most of the games I'm interested in actually playing that fall within the less-than-$100 range. There are a few I broke that rule with. Crisis Force for Famicom was one of the best decisions I ever made. It's such a good game!

Things really did get stupid in 2020. Everything had an extra $20 or more tacked on for shipping that never really went away until relatively recently.

Ha! W.A.S.P. friggin rules!!

A Game Boy demake that controls like Shock Troopers (where you hold the shot button to lock your direction) would be sick!

Insert "In Soviet Russia" joke here.

Sounds like a chicken/egg scenario: was it on Fifa because it was popular, or was it popular because it was on Fifa?

But that is coming from an American (eeewww) who was 12 in 1999 and only knew that one song from like a Mitsubishi commercial or something.

Also the Word Cup tickets thing sounds like a bit from Walk Hard: "I sang a song at a circus
in New Jersey." They said, "We'll give you 5 grand." I said, "No, you won't. You'll give me that giraffe."

Perfect Dark is better than GoldenEye. There, I said it!!

Please post a picture. No embedded tweets, no embedded YouTube videos. Take a screencap of the video if you have to. Please attach a regular-ass picture to the body of the article. Please!!

It's strange, the only repro carts I trust are for the Game Boy. I've heard of NES, SNES and Mega Drive repro carts all 'going bad' not long after they were manufactured. Maybe I've only just heard the horror stories.

Hey, it's Audacity! I just used that a couple days ago to trim down some audio I ripped from my DVD of the Chuck Norris classic "The Hitman".

Is there a chiptune version of Long Tall Sally? If so, I'll be "having me some fun tonight.... yeah!"

Looks like my opponent the one and only time I tried online Puyo Puyo Tetris.

@Tryffel

Wild stuff, though I'll admit I haven't searched around for it since it was released a couple years ago.

This reminds me I have to finally get around to spending a stupid amount of money for Gunstar Heroes. I have a soft spot for handheld conversions of console titles.

The GG version seems highly unlikely to get a modern day release, unless we get a "Treasure Chest" compilation of sorts, which would be badass.

Also, special mention going out to GG Aleste 3!! I heard a rumor that it actually got pressed into a functioning Game Gear cartridge, but I have yet to see proof of its existence.

I was a couple months into being a Zelda edition Wii U owner, but Fire Emblem Awakening still had its hooks in me pretty deep if I recall correctly.

Nice! This one was at my local arcade for about three seconds and then it was gone. I must have been the only one playing it, along with Rush N Attack and D&D Shadow Over Mystara. Here today, gone tomorrow.

@sdelfin

Was it one of the dudes from Anthrax?

(Pulls up list from when I read every single review on HG101 earlier this year.)

All of the Konami MSX titles
Star Trader
Bubblegum Crisis Crime Wave
XZR
Rusty

I'm glad I have a couple flatscreens from the golden era of HD where they still had the old video inputs. S-Video, VGA, RGB, Component and coax all day, bay-bay!!!.

And they have the digital antenna built in so I can spend my Saturday nights watching Three Stooges, Svengoolie, Black Sheep Squadron, Tour of Duty, The Rat Patrol, Land of the Giants and my favorite show of all... Combat!

I'd say do this with a Sharp Twin Famicom, but then there would be one less in The Wild. I'm a preservationist at the end of the day, I guess.

Hot damn, this might be cheaper than the original hardware. I've only seen one Duo in The Wild--at ThrillHouse Games in Tulsa, OK--and it was balls expensive! It had the title Download with it which was awesome seeing in person. Try looking that one up on an internet search!

I have an almost-complete collection of the cards and stickers, and one of my babysitters growing up had the board game, but I was too young at the time to understand it.

My initial reaction:

And then:

It might not be 2P Co-op, but that's okay, this is shaping up to be the raddest FC cart since Crisis Force!!

Cool, now I have a costume idea for next Halloween.
Tall and thin? Check
Long straight blond hair? Check
Looks a decade younger than I actually am? Check

I just need to gank an old marching band uniform from my high school and I'll be made in the shade.

Stack Up is one of the titles. Did it originally come with a ROB?

Beatles, Stones, The Who, Black Sabbath, Cream, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Deep Purple, Whitesnake, UFO, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Diamond Head, Motorhead..

...then whatever that music video was??

UK, what the hell happened? The synthesizer?

Edit: couple hours later
I think I figured it out. MDMA (Ecstasy) and synths hit the general population at pretty much the same time in the late 70s, when disco music was at its peak.

So it seems like all of innovation brought by the UK to the rock realm just shifted gears into electronic dance music, a notable innovation being the invention of Auto Tune.

All the badass 60s and 70s rock bands became dinosaurs virtually overnight.

That's this amateur Drugs + RockNRoll historian's take on it anyway.

And yes, most if not all of those bands used synths... eventually. Usually after threats from the record labels that funding would be withheld unless trends were followed.

My mind always launches into the Mega Man 6 intro sequence after hearing the Capcom jingle.

Checks reverb.com for the price of a Yamaha CX5M

@BionicDodo

You mentioned the man's name, so I'm putting this out there. Maybe five people across the entire Hookshot Media family of websites will understand this reference.

@echoplex

Look into Led Zeppelin's first record.

Same with Dr. Dre The Chronic.

Both sold a bazillion records before being forced to credit all the artists they 'borrowed' from.

"The Human Factor" by Metal Church was sort of a protest song for early-90s hip hop exploding in popularity by sampling music without permission instead of coming up with their own rhythms and melodies.

It's the early days of motion pictures all over again! How many film reels rotted away before preservation was taken seriously?

Special mention:

Area 51/Maximum Force
Beast Busters
Crisis Zone
Revolution-X
and the second game on Die Hard Trilogy

Heyy maaan, Gunsmoke is actually a pretty good show. Festus is the best-est!

As far as I can tell, all .pdf scans of Super Play have been scrubbed from the internet. Then again, I'm not exactly tech savvy. I managed to get maybe 20 issues deep before it got taken away. Great stuff!

There are a lot of parallels with the early, early days of film. I think that's why I'm so fascinated with retro games.

I know footage of Gotch vs Hackenschmidt Part 2 existed at one point, but not anymore.

Ha, just played Egg for the first time the other night on Switch.

I'm more curious to see if they could do a Game Gear or original Game Boy version.

"Available in the West"

Not far enough West. Dang it, SRG! First Taito, now they have their hooks in Irem.

"Early to late '90s"

Sooo... the '90s, then?

It was pretty awesome back then, the first half being better than the second half from my perspective.

Ah, yes, the "centerfold" from the Player's Guide. Classic image.

It basically turned into a spiritual sequel to NES Die Hard, but it seems to have fared better than Last Action Hero.

It's too bad, because chiptune versions of Big Gun and Angry Again would have kicked ass!

Which reminds me, I listened to that soundtrack a ton when it released while watching my older brother conquer Mario 3.

The upward trajectory of "extreme-ness" from '99-'01 was something to behold. It reached a fever pitch, then 9/11 happened and changed everything. Wild times!

Xenogears?

Originally pitched as the plot for FF7 but rejected for being "too adult".

What about Grandia?

2D sprites on a 3D background beats 3D models on a static background any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

Ninja Spirit
Legendary Axe
Coryoon
Bloody Wolf
Sinistron / Violent Soldier
Cyber-Core
Download
Dragon Saber
Metal Stoker
Magical Chase
Nexzr
Saint Dragon
Veigues Tactical Gladiator

..ya missed a few

Cheers to the one-year anniversary of scouring every square inch of Turbo Play magazine!

A Ric Flair WOOOO

And a Stone Cold HELL YEAH