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Re: "People Love This Stuff. It Just Means The Market Got Overheated" - How COVID Created A Retro Gaming Bubble

Tasuki

@smoreon The PS and Xbox games have gone up because that's what's in demand now. All those kids who grew up on PS and Xbox are now young adults and going back to rebuy and collect the games from their childhood, this the spike in price. While NES and SNES games arent much in demand anymore as those that grew up with it either dont care anymore or have all that they wanted so prices leveled out.

My son who grew up with a PS2 and is doing that same thing and I too notice PS2 games that were $5 to $10 bucks a few years ago are now a bit more.

Re: "I Am Petrified" - Retro Gaming YouTube Channel Slope's Game Room Is At Risk Of Deletion

Tasuki

Man that sucks. Slopes Game Room is one of my favorite channels and if it gets deleted that will be a tragedy.

However, in this day and age of the internet you gotta be careful what you download and to your account especially if you dont don't understand it or can't read it. The problem is that companies like Google, Activison and many that have online communities use bots and A.I. for moderation so if anything goes against their user agreement that their program sees is wrong they automatically ban the account even if you dont mean anything by it or you didnt understand what it said. All it sees is that your account has violated a TOSA.

A friend of mine got his account deleted in Black Ops 6 because someone on his team used a homophobic slur over the mic. The bot picked up on it and banned the whole team. Even though they didnt know the person or anything.

Another friend of mine got in trouble years ago for downloading child porn because he set his PC up to download what he thought was regular movies from a torrent site and went to work without checking what they were. Even though it was labeled as stuff like Iron Man, and other top movies at the time. It took him years and alot of money to clear it up with law enforcement.

Point is just becareful what you download especially if you cant read it or understand it. I do hope that DJ Slope gets it all sorted out and is able to keep his stuff in the end and wish him luck.

Re: Feature: How A Cult Comic About A Samurai Rabbit Became A Classic Commodore 64 Game

Tasuki

Wow didn't realize they had a game for Usagi. Of course the Commadore wasn't big here in America so there's that.

Also to be honest I didn't know Usagi Yojimbo was its own thing I remember seeing him crossover in the TMNT cartoons when I was a kid then of course getting his TMNT figure one Christmas morning. It was till years later that I discovered he was his own thing.

Re: "It's Just Not Working" - FreePlay Arcade Will Close Its Doors Later This Month

Tasuki

The problem is Arcades just arent the magical place they were in the 70s to 90s.

Once consoles like the Dreamcast came out delivering games on par with the Arcades there was no need to go to an arcade. Why spend $50 bucks an hour fighting playing Soul Calibur when you can get the game for the same price and play it whenever you want and own it for life?

Not only that but now you have emulators which people can download on just about any device including their phones and play games whenever and wherever they want no need to go to an arcade.

Not to mention ports to modern systems like the TMNT Cowabunga Collection, various Atari Collections, Midway Collections, Neo Geo Collections etc, etc there is no need for Arcades.

While I get the owner is doing it more for the social aspect people are alot less sociable these days as they were 30 to 40 years ago.

Re: "I Didn’t Have A Single Ally" - Katsuhiro Harada Opens Up About The Stress Of Making Tekken 4

Tasuki

Tekken has always been my favorite fighting game series, but 4 was the low point in the series for me. The problem was there was just to many changes to the game all at once. Especially Jin. Jin was my favorite character in 3 right after King. I loved how his style was a blend of Kazuya's and Jun's but then in 4 it was a completely new style without explanation. I will say the environment hazards were a nice touch and new characters like Marduk were great but overall the game is my least played Tekken.

Re: Shuhei Yoshida Explains Why The PS Vita Flopped

Tasuki

I had one for brief moment, I mostly used it for the remote play with the PS4. It was nice but to be honest there really weren't any games that interested me on it and the cost of memory cards, Yikes!!

I did end up getting the PS TV at a garage sale a few years ago but again no games really interested me on it.

Re: Talking Point: Is There A Home Port You Prefer To The Arcade Original?

Tasuki

TMNT Turtles in Time on the SNES I find is alot better then the Arcade version. With the added level, the revamp sewer and Neon Night Rider levels, the added bosses of Shredder, Super Shredder, Bebop and Rocksteady. It's always has been my go to version of the game. Since I got the Cowabunga Collection I played the original Arcade version once and I played the SNES version a dozen times or more.

Tekken 3 on the PS is another one especially with the addition of Gon and Dr. B.

Re: Virtua Fighter 2 Is Getting A Physical Release On Xbox

Tasuki

I don't know why but I could never get into Virtual Fighter. My friends were into it big time when I was a teenager, but for some reason I couldn't. Maybe because at the time I was too into SFII and MK. Really didn't get into 3D fighters till Tekken and Soul Calibur came around.