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You would think he would use some of the vast resources that he has to pull off this engineering miracle and buy a webcam that was made after 2003.

Regardless of anything else, that “#1 Choice for Physical Publishing” image is just cringe. By what criteria? I’m sure Nintendo or Sony are actually the #1 choice for physical publishing, unless you make the parameters “The #1 Choice for Physical Publishing When There Are No Other Options”.

I mean, it’s a Japanese language review that was published in a Japanese language magazine. Did Random Twitter Person try searching Japanese websites, or did he just Google “Famitsu Zelda review”?

“Iconic” is officially the most overused and misused word in the English language. It doesn’t just mean “old”.

Aren't magazines pretty much dead already, regardless of WH Smith closing stores? It's just another nail in a coffin that already has plenty of nails.

I can't remember the last time I actually bought a magazine, but I was tempted to buy one a few weeks ago but it was something like $20. Forget that. I know they have to raise the price since the print runs are so much smaller than they used to be, but come on. It's like an unsuccessful restaurant who has to raise their prices to stay in business, but that turns off their customer base even more, so they have to raise their prices even more, and then they close. This is the death spiral magazines are in now.

This guy looks like he smells like cheap tequila and stale Cheetos, yet people still gave him money. A child would be able to tell that he is a con artist just from one glance.

What “myth” was broken exactly? Decades of work using tools that weren’t available to developers in the 90s can create a Mega Drive soundtrack that’s almost as good as the Super NES soundtrack?

Ninja Gaiden and Contra on NES were dramatically better than the arcade versions. Castlevania, too, if Haunted Castle counts as a Castlevania game

I know this type of thing is subjective, but “gorgeous” would not be the word I would use to describe this bland piece of marketing from Square USA.

Do people actually believe this guy has a Lamborghini? I guess he could have won the lottery or have rich parents, but based on his videos, he appears to have the net worth of part-time gas station clerk.

I wonder if there are people who are still gullible enough to think this isn't a scam run by a con artist. Hah, probably.

Although con "artist" is probably too complimentary, since it implies he made some effort to disguise the fact that this is a scam, when in fact, he did everything he could to make it clear that it was a scam.

It’s interesting how different this is from the SuperSega. One is hardware created by a small group of enthusiasts, the other is an obvious scam created by con artists. Which is which? Only those with above room temperature IQ can spot the difference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines

Looking at the Mega CD release list, it seems like Sega just gave up on the Japanese market from the beginning and focused on the Western market. The second Japanese Mega CD game released by Sega was Quiz Scramble Special. It doesn’t look like Sega released any remotely interesting games in Japan until Spring 1993, nearly a year and a half after the Mega CD launched, and those were just ports of Final Fight and Sim Earth.

I would buy the hell out of an iPod with WiFi, but that’s probably a very niche market. I listen to a lot of podcasts, so I would want to be able to access new podcasts without constantly connecting to a computer to update. My dream would be an iPod Classic with a click wheel, Bluetooth, and WiFi. Wouldn’t ever happen, of course, since most people wouldn’t buy something that their iPhone already does.

The fact that Sega hasn’t sued them yet just shows that Sega knows this thing will never be released. On the other hand, they’re apparently charging people’s credit cards and making money off of Sega’s brand name, so maybe that lawsuit will happen after all.

They can’t even get the Master System to run properly and they expect the final prototype to be ready in two months? Also, great job running Saturn Bomberman, now show off Panzer Dragoon.

The first model will be a Mega Drive/Master System FPGA system and the second model will be the one that also has Saturn and Dreamcast. The second model will be twice as expensive and will also never be released.

Is there any chance "Ultra Donkey Kong" was a different game developed in-house and not Donkey Kong 64? Of course, 90s game magazines just making up things would not be an unheard of occurrence.

It's worth pointing out that this is a UK-based game site, so there's naturally going to be some kind of irritation that the retro game world doesn't revolve around their childhood games. Listening to British gamers talk about retro games is like listening to people who grew up in Soviet bloc countries reminisce about whatever weird Soviet soda they drank instead of Coca Cola. "We didn't have Nintendo or Mario, we had an Amstrad Channel Fairchild, and we loved our Oliver Twins games!"

Lol, what a silly article. "Why aren't more people talking about a game series that wasn't as popular or good as the Banjo series?"

I like the way it looks better than the Analogue Pocket, but I think the brown/orange stripes on the blue version look a little off, though.

Yeah, VG&CE was virulently anti-Nintendo in the late 80s. I'm sure the late-80s anti-Japanese rhetoric played a part in this, but the staff of VG&CE were also a lot older than the staff of most other gaming magazines and seemed bitter that Atari was dead. I remember reading one article about how the Atari 2600 controller was superior to NES-style controllers and game design is worse off because the joystick was controlled by the left hand instead of the right. I mean, this was the late 80s/early 90s and they were still bitter about the death of Atari. They just came across as bitter old weirdos.

@iacobus_magnus Aren’t they just using the NES light grey/dark grey/red colors? That, along with the Super Famicom logo font, shows the influence of the NES design.

This looks less like a homage and more like a ROM hack. It's not coming to Switch because Nintendo would sue them.

This looks interesting, I always wondered what VB games would look like using the 3DS 3D effect.

As a side note, I never had anything approaching a headache when playing the Virtual Boy, and none of my friends who played mine did either. I think the headache thing has become a bit over-exaggerated over the years by people who have never played VB. I don't doubt some people had headaches, but some articles about the VB make it seem like you would get migraines from playing for a few minutes.

Two thoughts: (1) why is the “VMU” screen so small and narrow? It’s 2024, surely they could afford to have a backlit VMU screen thats’s at least the same size as the 1999 model and (2) $400? LOL.

"Samurai" is undoubtedly cooler than the UK's "NES Version", which never made sense to me. It's a NES, of course it's the "NES Version". "PAL Version" or "UK Version" would've made sense. Here I am, enjoying a cup of Yorkshire Gold "Yorkshire Gold Version", using my MacBook Pro "MacBook Pro Version" to read Time Extension "Time Extension Version".

I don’t know if it’s the LED lighting behind them or the contrast with the bright white system, but those joysticks look like they’re dirty and have been yellowed by time and/or years of use. I assume they’re actually light grey and would look better in real life than in the photos.

What a dumb lawsuit. Even if his book was the only source used for the movie (which is unlikely), it’s non-fiction and the author is owed nothing. The movie also added fictionalized elements that were, presumably, not in the book. The Tetris story is well known and has been written about in books and articles besides The Tetris Effect for decades.

Most of that 87% is probably garbage. Not everything needs to be preserved, not everything old is of historic value.

Why are we paying attention to what morons on Twitter think? The actual value of those items is nowhere near the prices on those unsold Ebay auctions. Nothing says lazy journalism like articles focusing on what some rando on Twitter posted.

I’d like to know how the negotiations with Nintendo and Sony went for Sega’s third-party support. How did the other hardware makers find out Sega was going third-party? Was it a surprise or was it obviously something that they knew would have to happen? How far in advance of the public announcement did they know? Did anyone try to get exclusivity agreements with Sega? Could be interesting to find out the details from former execs, if possible.

Every time I hear about someone who thought this thing was a good idea, or would be anything other than an unmitigated disaster, I'm reminded of the phenomenon of "harbinger customers": https://thehustle.co/the-customers-who-repeatedly-buy-doomed-products/

Why won't someone just kill this thing already? It's just cruel at this point.

They're obviously doing this because they need cash now and can't wait for the hardware production issues to resolve. Or they know the hardware production issues will never resolve and they're trying to make whatever money they can off this thing before the company collapses.

On the bright side, they'll be able to tell themselves that this failed because of COVID, not because it's a fundamentally flawed product that never had even the slightest chance of succeeding.