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@nuff64

yes my thoughts exactly 😂

@metaphysician

This is so true!

I work blue collar in a red state in the US and I run into what you are talking about constantly.

have you ever noticed that these same people have a tendency to refuse to pronounce certain words correctly? for example a common usage foreign word, or an english word that has a strongly "foreign" or even just "academic" flair?

I was about 17 when this game came out, and it never occurred to me even once that this looked like a penis. 🙄

to me, identifying penises where there are none and also jumping to the conclusion that they are bad and wrong is a red flag. like, where is your mind at, parents?

PS - anyone else remember the old lady that complained to Taco Bell because the dog was saying "gorditas" and she thought he was saying "Lord Jesus?"

a "chronograph" style watch with a white face and complications at noon, 3, 6, and 9 in the shape and color of the dreamcast buttons would be dope. the second hand could be a spinning orange spiral. (or blue if you are so inclined i guess lol)

I see nothing interesting here.

i put all my favorite games on my handheld, and that handheld is the physical embodiment of gaming, now (i carry it around like when i got my first Gameboy when I was 4 🥰)

damnit this was my comment, too 😂

i like the one with a giant ice cube, presumably for scale.

it's great seeing strong female characters in actual human poses wearing sensible clothing. Only in the indie world, it seems!

I never played the Etrian Odyssey games but I've listened to the soundtracks! there be bangers.

https://youtu.be/xqjW8NhnnTE?is=aNm_tZKp8KbD8v9W

@PopSmoke79

thanks! Obviously I missed it the first time 😅✌️

"Something was strange about these cartridges."

It turns out there are differences in the manual text with these copies"

okay, what was strange about the cartridges, then?

I now realize I have been sleeping on Thimbleweed Park for... checks calendar... falls asleep... dies.

"I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!"

"the other 64 bit console"

also the only other major console with a single analog stick standard (and the second to launch with one,) and only the second with 4 controller ports too.

I hope this goes well! But I admit I don't really care about these unofficial ports when the consoles are this close in capabilities (I find remakes and dramatic glowups a bit more interesting.)

@ItsAlwaysSunnyyy

I wouldnt hold my Breath (...) for more classic Zelda after the success of the Switch games and the upcoming live action movie film for theaters.

but yeah I'm with you, BOTW and TOTK arent Zelda to me! They are as "spinoffy" as the Hyrule Warriors series IMO. BOTW has good vibes but TOTK has zero appeal for me personally.

it's 2026 and people are still calling it the "Game Boy Advanced" 🫠

@slider1983

there's a game sack video about 60fps games on n64.... it's short 😆

strong SN-PROGRAMPAD vibes

@JackGYarwood

thanks! I guess I'm showing my "retro" bias 😂✌️

I've always struggled with staying "present" in my media consumption, undervaluing a persons contemporary work while endlessly revering stuff they did in the distant past. I should try to correct this, perhaps!

"Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka (better known today as Chip Tanaka)"

better known? is that actually true? 🤔

anyway! my all time favorite game composer maybe ❤️ you can ID a hip tanaka from the first couple bars, usually.

@ECP

if you put together a list of other game companies owned by governments, I'll be happy to boycott them. it's only fair.

update 2026 july 22: still waiting for that list. hope all is well!

-Willie

@axelhander

what do you think would be the correct course of action for this organization?

@CookieByte

That didn't even make sense.

Try again, you'll get it! 😘

all digital art just looks like slop to me now. thanks a lot, a(i)holes

Personally I hope there's a backlash against overly polished "digital" looking art, and that more stylish, angular, iconoclastic, upsetting, gritty, personal, what we used to call "artistic" work gets a renaissance.

That smooth wizard just isnt doing it for me 😂✌️

PS - BIG fan of Hitoshi Sakimoto, and I'd never even heard of this game! so thanks 😊👍

btw I don't really consider it having "a foot in each camp" to buy both physical and digital media. more like, having both feet in THE camp, and Sony is here trying to cut one of your legs off.

in my thinking there arent really two sides to this argument. there's the side that is pissed that Sony is killing physical, and there's the side that doesn't care.

Sony is fully siding with the people who don't care, which you should keep in mind when you are thinking of giving them any more of your money.

they'd have to make interesting games on compelling hardware again for me to GAF about physical on their platform.

still, as Dennis Reynolds famously put it: "It's the implication..."

@Martin_H

plug, sure, if you're into the whole "brevity" thing...

tbh I'm not really satisfied with "plug" but it's a lot better than "power prongs" and I can't top it. 😄

@jygsaw

OH MY GOD you are the first person I've ever come across that remembers those! 🥳 people looked at me like I was crazy, And I was even starting to believe it myself 😂✌️

This was one of the last toy lines I fully bought into. I was 7 or 8. I remember being excited to get them but then when I did, I just didn't feel the "magic."

@jygsaw do you remember the one that was 4 mutant snails, and they had removable armor, rockin bods, and each was named after a canonically significant US president? 😂✌️

I have the smaller INIU bank with the built in usb-c cable and flip out ...power prongs (am I having a stroke? wtf do you call this? 😂) and it has changed my life in a tiny but not insignificant way. it hasnt left my bag since day 1, and besides charging my phone overnight all my devices get charged inside my bag as needed, and if I ever need a power supply it functions that way too.

thanks for the review! I think this company is a winner, and If I ever need a larger bank I'll be looking probably to this one! ✌️

minor detail, but depicting a naked VMU without its cover is an odd move. you dont see nintendo commemorating the GameBoy with no battery door, or N64 with the jumper pak removed.

No 'Freeway?' Denied!

@Lanmanna

It's actually wishful thinking, as (IMO) they've already destroyed their legacy years ago, before they were already doing so directly with AI, of all things. The hole just gets deeper and deeper, and they can't even make the return of Crazy Taxi feel like a good thing on the balance.

SEGA, please go out of business and preserve what's left of your legacy before it's too late.

signed, a fan.

@KingMike

in all seriousness, most of my all time favorite games use like, two buttons mostly. even stuff on, say, PS2 and Gamecube.

I didn't play the new Contra, but I did recently try that 3D Bionic Commando game from like 2010 and was so turned off by all the BS it had going on, and explaining sh*, and extra crap I gotta do.

in general, I know I'm in videogaming Hell when the game continuously prompts me stuff like "∆ to open" "X to talk" etc and the buttons and verbs always change but its still just pressing a button to do a thing. like, A is do it, B is don't do it, we figured this out in probably 1983, why do companies keep trying to reinvent the wheel?

Anyway. PS vita, I hardly know her.

btw does anyone know how relatively popular Steam/PC gaming is in Japan? I simply hadn't ever considered it somehow 😅

PS - has anyone tried making a "japanese" Steam acct for playing region locked games?

Minor typo:

"Just as a reminder, if you're considering the Steam version of Ganbare Goemon! Daishuugou[, it] is unfortunately region-locked."

✌️

@Serpenterror

I think the Switch has too many buttons and analog sticks because when I play Gameboy games on there I hardly use any of them!

not to mention the touch screen, gyro, and IR sensor!

over engineered and overpriced. 😂✌️

""And if you were bringing a game from Game Boy, let's say, onto Vita, all of that back touch input was meaningless. I don't know why that was true. And that added cost."

wtf is he talking about? 😂

please don't bother.

looks legitimate! 👍

hard to go back to a barebones arcade port when the home port was so good, especially for that price 😬

I've owned these games enough times in my life that I feel zero regerts just emulating as I see fit. 👍

@everythingiscool

that's kinda cool! screen name checks out. ✌️

@gojiguy

I came to say the same thing. It looks like about as much effort as theyd put into a sonic themed box of cheerios.

@N00BiSH

For what it's worth, I was intending to be more observational than hostile. I guess my sense of humor is a bit meaner than some (though I think I'm a sensitive, gentle and thoughtful person where it counts.✌️)

wording is very important, but is/ought is a lot more than wording, incidentally.

@N00BiSH

"The difference between 'is' and 'ought.'"

very cute that anyone would think Spyro is for "a new generation."

I'm sure plenty of kids are dying to break from Minecraft, Roblox, and Fortnite to play Spyro. 👍

Copeland is a musical genius and this game will be worse off for his absence.

I have everything BUT the box 😫😅 wonderful package! it's like one of those gilded Bibles from ages ago, before they realized they really didnt need to go that hard 😂

BTW Damo, did you put the demo disc in the Lunar sleeve or leave it in the vanguard box? either way, you are left with am empty space for a disc 🫨

(i put mine in the lunar 2 sleeve 😁)

@Deuteros

if you REALLY like the Cube xx form, and square screen, (and I love both very much,) but need something that plays cube and DC, you might look into the original RG Cube which looks almost the same but is far more powerful, has analog triggers, runs android, and apparently runs those consoles much better than the XX.

I havent played with one personally, and it is a bit more expensive, but I thought you might want to know it's out there! ✌️

PS - the ergonomics on the Cube are close to what I'd consider perfect. it really is like a tiny little steamdeck, in looks and feel.

@Martin_H

Great suggestions, in fact I did both of those just about a week ago! Both great. I'm so glad to finally have "a Pico!" 😁

now I'm working on getting gameboy and gbc games running properly, of all things ><

the bad news: I felt I needed to slay 15 puppies in order to make this game.

the good news: there are no dead puppies in the final product.