The_Nintend_Pedant

The 1980's tech dream that just won't die.

My Gpa had a GMC conversion van in the late 80s/early 90s that had a little CRT in the middle of the ceiling pointed towards the back, with an Audiovox VCR on one side and an NES on the other 😎

We called it grandpa's pimp van, he hated it 😂

@jamess

I don't believe in black or white thinking, but I have no problem saying that Palmer Luckey is a bad person and I'll have no part in supporting him or hesitation speaking the truth about him 👍 and, I do not consider this a political position, but a moral one. Yes, as in right and wrong.

Welcome to TE 😅✌️

(Just a quick thought, "only shades of grey" is no better than "black and white." in fact, it's worse because you don't really stand for anything, nor do you draw the line anywhere. making firm, informed decisions does not itself make you a "black and white thinker," in my opinion.)

@jamess

Whoops I edited sorry. 😖

(I re-edited my post to include the words you were actually responding to. I hate it when people switch it out on me and I did not intend to do that to you ✌️✌️)

My point is that you clearly DO want to engage, or else you wouldn't have clicked, read, commented. ✌️

Which is fine, I totally want to engage in this conversation, so long as it is happening. It's OK to be up front about that.

@jamess

"I just don’t want to engage with it."

you politicized this conversation from your very first comment, before anyone had said a thing.

OG comment before edit:

it's abundantly clear that this is not the case. Pure posturing, from the very first post.

@Blast16

Actually they are called "Boomer Shmups" because things go "boom" in them 😂

PS - I heard they are called "First Person Shooters" because you are supposed to shoot the first person that you see 🙈

@Honkshot

I tend to agree with you, "Retro" genres are either for people who have played em all and are looking for new experiences, or for interested people who "missed it the first time" but generally play "new" games on "new" consoles. IMO.

Personally I am pretty happy to just play the old faves while the world keeps on spinning. 😂 I haven't played a "boomer shooter" yet that is anywhere near as enjoyable as Doom 2, Doom 64, Blood, Hexen, or Quake. ✌️ But I'm open to it!

@Daniel36

It seems they've gone back to sleep 😂 but I appreciate you weighing in 👍

"Are these the Nazis, Walter?"

"No, Donny, these men are Nihilists, there's nothing to be afraid of"

"Are they gonna hurt us, Walter?"

"No, Donny, these men are cowards."

@Hexapus

I thought you might appreciate! 🙂

Even with the internet, I feel like Dystopia is criminally underexposed! They may be my favorite band, full stop ✌️❤️🤘

(...but My Bloody Valentine is the all timer and really hard to beat 😂👍)

@Quick_Man

"Gee, I really miss when people were more generally ignorant to or supportive of the genocide going on all around them."

@Hexapus

This is a 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 comment, and add a 🤘 for the Slayer lyrics. 🙂👍

Have you heard Dystopia? They are my all time favorite metal band:

"This has been built for you and me
Maniacal annihilation machine
Using fear to keep you in control
"Every one else is the terrorist"
That's what you've been sold"

"And do you buy it?
Yes you f-cking do
You buy everything in sight
You eat whatever they are feeding you
You buy a piece of poisoned happiness
And suckle system's boob
Your freedom's nothing more than a lie
And America is killing you
Seems like we aid in every war
And we are friends with whom we abhor
Always at the expense of the poor
If it were the rich
There would be no more war"

"R-pe and conquest feed your kids
Gets you "things". Things you equate with freedom
If you want an SUV, we'll have to kill some children
And you don't f-cking care
As long as you are not impaired
Giving money to the system
To enlist the poor and kill them
It's the American way
And you're a f-cking slave

And the simple fact is this:
You're the f-cking terrorist"

"And I was trained like you
Dumbed down through church and school
In the end it's just my luck
I'm a product of where my parents f-cked"

"I'm American because my parents f-cked! (In America)
'Thank you, mom and dad!'"

@Sketcz

"I could not care less about beardy's actions."

I literally just don't know what to say 😬

Can we agree that opposition to genocide is a 100% apolitical position?

"it's feeling like I need to increasingly remove myself from the human element."

It's interesting you say that, because the guy you're totally OK with supporting but not ever talking about "feels the need to increasingly remove people around the globe from 'the human element.'"

(Murder. He murders them.)

"Politics?" Who cares? It's 100% about his actions. 👍

One of the very best, I can't wait to read this after work!!

Thanks, Damo!

@slider1983

Are they really opening that much? If so, where? (genuine questions, no serious arcade has opened near my area in a v long time. 😕)

@rpgaymer

See? Now I feel like I'm the only one enjoying our exchange. 😕

I wouldn't be so quick to assume the positions of others, fwiw. A person can asses correctly that something or other is ageist, or derisive, or anything else without taking personal offense or having any other kind of emotional response. Perhaps you lack objectivity in your own assessments. 🤔 In my case, I was using these points of fact among others to argue for one genre name over another.

@rpgaymer

I missed the part where I said I was offended. But, the irony of jumping out of the woodwork, pointing fingers and clutching pearls at the "offended millennial" is not lost on me. 😉

Respectfully, I think you are very wrong and that it means what I said it means. ✌️ I've never heard or seen your definition, and it makes even less sense than the nonsensical definition I was arguing against. So IDK what to say. 👍

EDIT - you broke seven straight years of lurking in silence just to say this to me 😂

I'm honored ❤️ That is some seriously motivated pedantry, and, whether ultimately correct or incorrect, I am compelled to acknowledge it! ⭐ You only get so many of these in a lifetime 👍

@Hexapus

Nice 😎

I preferred the term "Doom clone," which was established decades before "boomer shooter," doesn't have derisive (read "ageist") and also inaccurate connotations. ("Baby boomers" were largely entering their 40's and 50's when Doom came out, so clearly gen x and even older millennials 👋 were closer to the core audience)

Instead, it made inherent sense (so long as you were familiar w Doom) and also I believe subtly encouraged devs to NOT "clone Doom," something that is basically par for the "boomer shooter" course.

In short, I believe that when we make trendy genre names, we end up with oversaturation, burnout, and eventually backlash, as we may be seeing here. Thank you.

I wish there were more mainstream stories about games as an art form and legitimate past time. How many of these "the kids are just going crazy over these 'vidyagames!'" pieces have they run over the last 50 years?

@Carck

Oh, my 😅

"we expect this probably won't be the first time you will be seeing the Anberic RG 477M in the flesh"

this is an odd usage of "in the flesh" on two different levels.

1. The device is not made of flesh.
2. We are not seeing the device in person, either time. ✌️

my suggestion, omit the phrase:

"we expect this probably won't be the first time you will be seeing the Anberic RG 477M"

👍

EDIT - 👍👍

@Mario500

Personally I like it better WITH the profanity, so to each their own 👍 yum yum, give me all the profanity my ears eat it up like sweet sweet candy.

(Jokes aside: If you want to "decrease profanity on the Internet" you can install a browser extension that replaces the words. ✌️)

@slider1983

" would not play any video game if I decided based on the politics of someone involved with it."

i wasnt aware "arms dealer" was a political stance.

"As you'll probably already be aware, Cuphead never got an official release on the Wii U back in the day, with the Wii U being in a lot of people's rear view mirrors by the time the game was released on Xbox One and PC in 2017.

As a result, when its developer StudioMDHR decided to bring it to other platforms a few years later, in 2019, it made sense to port it over to the Nintendo Switch as opposed to the last-generation console, with the Switch representing Nintendo's most advanced system at the time."

this is a lot of words to say "it was ported to relevant hardware of the time (as is the custom)"

PS - can't see the point of this except as an exercise for the people involved, but cool they got it going 👍👍

I believe funding well our library systems, education systems, and various other public systems is our best shot at preserving videogames or any other kind of art. itll never be on the "business agenda" as someone above said, so it needs to be a public investment.

(private sector is sus y'all ✌️)

(maybe jeff bezos and bill gates should pay some m*therf*cking taxes so we can do some things, yeah?)

@KimRuggeri

"Dont you pirate dreamcast games?"

I think I'm supposed to ask for a lawyer before I answer such questions... 🤔

"the platformy stuff destroys my suspension of disbelief"

I'm so curious for you to expand on this as I can't imagine what exactly you mean by it 😆 ✌️

a commenter above +1'd you, but then went on to talk about MGS and pixel graphics.. 🤔

I'm not sure if "suspension of disbelief" was ever a big part of my personal enjoyment of games, per se, unless you count getting emotionally wrapped up in the story of Earthbound or Xenogears for example. 👍 its an interesting thing to ponder.

happens to be one in my town, I have already made plans with a friend to check it out, will report. 👍

type 4 is one of the only games I cant think of for which I really want a remaster. 👍👍

holy ***** what a ***** lineup! 🤩

@Deuteros

I was going to say the same thing: sounds like they did some hiring in the interim, or they are down to -2 employees, surely? 🤔

@The_Nintend_Pedant

"that's possibly the worst looking handheld I've ever seen in my entire life"

came here to say this 😅

"Donald Trump was one of his guests in 2024"

😬

btw - i will beat you with Dan. 👍

"Uematsu is quick to praise the way the company has evolved since the merger between Square and Enix in 2004."

is there anything specific he has enjoyed about this period?

"a new sister company" to Amico that will "adapt Amico games for other consoles and PCs".

he means put them out at all lol. adaptations are when a piece of work is released, then released again in another form.

"other consoles" lol

is 50 a little old for the role? no disrespect.

@Damo

me too! and, im grateful to you and this site for bringing "western" gaming more to my attention, as I was pretty "japan focused" during the eras we generally discuss here ✌️❤️ much love

@Guru_Larry

"look at Smash TV on the SNES"

why this wasnt or hasnt been copied one thousand times by other games has been a mystery to me since I first played this game way back 😵‍💫 totally agree with your commentary 👍

(aaaand now the OST is stuck in my head
"I'll buy that for a dollar!")

@Damo

"Even at the time, I remember the appeal of Loaded wearing off pretty quickly,"

I completely agree!

It's kind of a semantic turn, admittedly: if I play a game for one weekend rental when I was 11 and got my fill, but then remember it fondly enough to give it another shot some weekend 30 years later, is that short or long term appeal? 🤔

anyway sorry to waste your time with my nonsense lol 😆 thanks for the review, and trip down memory lane! (and, I want to check out Hogs of War finally, I think this review put me over the edge at long last 😂✌️)

"The appeal of the Loaded games doesn't last long"

I know what is meant (and I probably agree to that extent) but given the target audience of the package (people that fondly remember this game from 30 yrs ago) I'm not sure this 'con' really holds water.

I get that you are reviewing the game, though, not people's feelings👍

"A new fanmade port of the SNES RPG is currently being worked on"

something in a less passive voice, with WHO instead of WHAT as the subject, would be a lot more satisfying and enriching to read, imho ✌️

"NicoMegadrive and Laurent Crouzet are hard at work" maybe as an example ❤️

or "skilled fans are working on just that" if you didnt want to blast their names in the headline.

@jygsaw
beyond nostalgia or completionism, IDK why anyone including children would play mystic quest instead of one of the "real" FF games on SNES, unless its literally their first RPG and they dont know better.

EDIT - hey, look at that! ✌️ much better

@tameshiyaku

I really like your idea 👍

"It's A Middle Finger To Everybody"

the secret door in LOZ that almost nobody found

@RaeDawnChonglingBay

"Wait, the intro is 42 minutes long?"

i was all, "no way"

then i checked for myself

im creating a bookmarks folder called "later this year."

i cant imagine who this is for... a dig dug game made exclusively for children, in 2025, but they'll have to download an app and presumably subscribe to a service in the next two weeks in order to play it?

bit of a "happy 90th birthday, grandson!" situation.

i bought crazy taxi on there for like 2 dollars a long time ago. it seemed like a fever dream then, and it does now.

Maybe I'll get the shining force in before its all gone. ✌️

PS - if you have an android phone you should have downwell, SOTN, and Huntdown on there 👍

what a ***** sandwich.

@PHEAL

you are welcome to shop around, there are even some alternatives linked here that you may enjoy. ✌️