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I agree with you on all of its problems, plus the inventory was really bad. You could not use an item with another one if it wasn't the right choice because it didn't allow you, and that made everything too easy. But again, the ending was awful, predictable, and the THIRD time that Ron used that meta nonsense. There's an interview about Thimbleweed Park where he said than the game had no ending at all, then he remembered the controversy about MI2 ending then went the same route. So, he didn't know how to end the game, then made again what people already hated? Then again in RTMI? Then added that nihilistic letter explaining himself after the ending? I grew up loving Monkey Island, but I think I'll never play one of his games again. I could understand bad puzzles and art, but not spitting in the face of the fanbase three times.

@Right_Said_Brett It had its moments for me. I learnt to not hate the art style. But the animation was awful. The game way to easy, Guybrush way out of character and it relied to heavy on nostalgia only to slap that horrible ending in your face. Tales was much better IMO.

I loved it as a kid. In fact it is one of the first arcade games I remember playing. I haven't played it in years, but I think it was good for its time.

@hste Well, I don't agree with every metascore. But he killed Monkey Island for me and a lot of people.

At least he's doing a new franchise instead of killing old ones as he did last time.

I believe it would have sold better than Game Gear (at least in South America) if it was more affordable and with more battery life. But, if it had another architecture and games had to be made from scratch, it would probably be more of the same: Sega competing with themselves and alienating the user base. 32x/Saturn territory.

Superb article. I'm from Argentina, where Sega is also more popular than Nintendo (but mostly from clones). I knew a little about TecToy, but this interview made me respect them more. I'm almost sure the black and white Sega portable would have done well in South America.

I'd love Daytona Usa for Nintendo Switch, but I doubt it happens at this time (at least for the first switch).

Looks great and the games pretty interesting. But I think it will work as long as there are games.

I loved zSnes back in the day. It ran much better than Snes9x on my Pentium 233mmx. I've sold my Snes on '98 and regretted it a lot, but having zSnes was great. I've never tried online on it, anyway.

@zazou703 Vectorman showed some very cool effects, like the shadow/higlight tricks. But i couldn't like the art design and I felt it made it look worse than other Genesis games. Toy Story is much closer to DKC imo and I believe Genesis showed more its strengths on games like Thunderforce III, Batman and Robin and that motorcycle game that used real 3d, to name a few.

@Scollurio I haven't read anything from him besides that tale, but it had great potential and I love how it's expanded in the game. One nice detail is that Harlam himself voiced the computer in the game. I often think about A.M. when I read about real life IA.

@Quick_Man The "real" ending is the bad one. I think the game story is way better than the short tale, but it could have been refined on it's puzzles and polished from bugs. I still believe it's memorable, but it could have been better in some ways.

I played it about a decade ago. It had a great story, pixel art and atmosphere. But it was somewhat buggy and too cryptic sometimes. I wonder if they fixed the bugs

@N00BiSH Glad you liked them! But I'm sure you know Thimbleweed Park and not one but two Monkey Island games have similar meta endings that a lot of people didn't like.

Amiga. Spanish is my first language and this is an spanish word.

Looks gorgeous. I love the look of this super scaler like games. Reminds me of Rad Mobile.

"It felt like a long time at the time because I was a kid."
Beautiful. I played more games on my PS4, 3ds and Switch, but my nostalgia is anchored on my time with my SNES. It feels like a long time, but it only lasted a few years.

@Ekkobelli I wouldn't have guessed either. I've read online that's the case, and various sources seem to say that way, but I've obviously didn't count the polygons. The word is that it looks better because of the textures.

@RextheSheep Daytona has less polygons than Virtua Racing on arcades. Maybe the 32x version could have been made on the engine of 32x Virtua Racing with almost no textures, but prioritizing gameplay and track design. Perhaps more 2d elements? It would be great if somebody tried to port it.

I loved this game and I still believe the music is among the best chiptune ever. But this seems like a lazy release, they should have fixed the jerky scrolling before putting it on eshop.

Looks gorgeous. I never had an Spectrum myself, buy I played a lot of direct (lazy) ports on Msx, and I have seen a lot of Spectrum games on Battle of the ports. It would have been nutz to have something like this on that machine, and even on Msx 1, that should have had more original games and less Zx ports.
But charging money for it... Nope.

It looks great and it would be nice to see that in a full game. But it's not mode 7, as you made clearer in the text below the video. Anyway, these tricks always seem more impressive when did on stock hardware or using mappers that were available on the console's era.

I'm really thrilled to meet you here! I always wondered when I would met a videogame sage like you. I have a lot of questions to ask you about your vast knowledge, but I'll take my time to play every Tiertex game first. Have a good day!

@AJB83 I'm almost on the same boat, haha. I used to work as software developer, but I'm a graduated music teacher and I also do other things. I never really made a game, but I sometimes code for personal projects and I'd love to make something retro. I made some shorts demos in adventure game studio, but I looked up the other day and I believe the easiest way to make a retro game is using Unity. I'd like to take some time with it to do something, but these kind of effects require a retro 2d engine to really make sense, I believe.

@AJB83 Cool! Which programming language did you use for that? I was also interested on doing it when I came into that site. I recently found there's an engine for raster graphics on modern hardware called tileengine that handles linescrolling and pseudo 3d for doing this kind of games. I'd like to try it sometime.

@Poodlestargenerica This is pseudo 3d and looks really good. You can read about pseudo 3d and the mathematics behind this approach here.
http://www.extentofthejam.com/pseudo/

I don't know if he will nail the mechanics, I presume it will have good music. But I'm almost certain it will have an horrible meta ending that will make you regret buying it.