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Re: Opinion: Electronic Arts Used To Empower Developers; Now It Looks To Replace Them With AI

Steel76

So many companies, that turned into *****, when they became huge. EA released so much original content, back in the 80:s-90:s.
Miss games like Archon, Desert Strike, Road Rash etc.
Same with companies like Activision, which was created by the best ex-Atari developers, making the best games for the 2600.
Ubisoft also made some fun stuff, before they got stuck making half broken open-world games...

It already feels like these companies are run by AI.

Re: More Analogue Pocket Editions Are On The Way, And They're Based On The Game Boy Color

Steel76

So tired of them milking this console.
There are still bugs in the Mega SG (messed up music in Rastan, Darius Extra Version, etc) and Super NT (glitchy graphics in Pocky and Rocky) that will never be fixed. Heard the Duo also had some issues?
But nope, all focus seems to be on releasing new Pocket colors, that the FOMO collectors throw themselves at...

Love their hardware, but hate the company...

Re: This Is Why You Should Never Store Your Retro Game Collection In A Shed

Steel76

Gotten disc rot, on a few discs, even when stored inside my apartment, at normal temp.
A few of my old Atari and Colecovision cartridges have stopped working as well. I got two Game & Watch games, and a Gameboy, where the screens suffers from LCD leak, even though I never dropped them. These things are just starting to break down, due to age, no matter how we store them.
What is strange though, is that I found a box with a couple of C64 tapes, in my parents attic, which have suffered through heatwaves and coldwinters. But even today, 35 years later, those tapes loaded without any issues.

I'm happy about emulation and FPGA, so future generations, can discover these games, when most of the physical stuff has rotten away.

Re: ROMHacking.net Is Winding Down After Almost 20 Years

Steel76

I miss the early internet, when stuff like this were easy to find, and no fear of Nintendo shutting everything down...

Nesticle and Mame was the first emulators I used, back in 1997. Felt like black magic, being able to play those games on a PC 😁

I found, and saved, a lot of the fun romhacks.
Especially love the ones, that removes slowdown.

Hope another site takes over the torch.

Re: Metro Siege Is A Fantastic New Beat 'Em Up Coming To The Amiga

Steel76

Imagine if we got Amiga games like this, back in the early 90:s, instead of the typical, rushed to market, euro trash. If they actually had put some time and effort into the action games, they could have been just as good as the ones on the 16 bit consoles.
I can't belive I spent money on those horrible Arcade ports, back then. They were all basically broken, and maybe running in 10-20 fps, if we were lucky. 😂
At least I got my money back, when I returned to the store, with that terrible Final Fight port.
Last time I ever bought a arcade game for the Amiga. Some things sure wasn't better, back in the day 😁