Man, I wish I had the funds to pick up the "Rare Super Pocket," if only to have an official way to play Banjo-Kazooie on a handheld device that I can actually take with me on-the-go ("Nintendo Switch Online N64 Classics" notwithstanding, though I can't exactly fit a Switch into my pockets...).
Honestly, I've been having trouble justifying purchases like this. I'm trying to cut back on things I "want" and focus only on the things I "need," and since this isn't something I actually require, I can't seem to bring myself to buy it no matter how badly I want it...
Though it WOULD have been nice if they included Banjo-Tooie and Conker's Bad Fur Day (among others, wherever possible) to sweeten the deal. Maybe in a "Rare" cartridge collection someday, perhaps? Though I don't know if the device would even have enough buttons to account for all the controls, at least probably not without making a few compromises, anyways...
There use to be a time where I'd divide my gaming time equally between portable handhelds and home console gaming, depending on the circumstances. But now, I play EXCLUSIVELY on handheld devices.
If you had told me as a child that one day in the future, I would be able to play all these classic games I originally missed out on, on my favorite system of all-time, my response would have been "So did they invent the Time-Machine yet?" Which, now that I think about it, jailbreaking my 3DS was probably the catalyst that started my interest in home console gaming to wane.
That being said, I now mostly do all my classic retro gaming on the PS Vita - a nifty little device in its own right - so long as a game isn't already available to play legally on my 3DS or Switch (i.e. Virtual Console, NSO, Classic Gaming Collections). After all, it's small, thin, and lightweight, so I don't have to worry about it taking up much room and weighing me down when it's in my pocket. It plays Vita games natively, is backwards-compatible with every PSP and PS1 game in existence, and can even emulate almost-anything that is less powefull than THAT at full or nearly-full speed. And if you use an official Memory Card in conjunction with an SD2Vita adapter, you can maximize storage by placing all your Vita, PSP, and PS1 games on your "main" card, and all of your classic retro games on the other, which would essentially go unused.
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Re: Evercade Range Expands With Two New Carts And A Banjo-Kazooie-Packing Super Pocket
Man, I wish I had the funds to pick up the "Rare Super Pocket," if only to have an official way to play Banjo-Kazooie on a handheld device that I can actually take with me on-the-go ("Nintendo Switch Online N64 Classics" notwithstanding, though I can't exactly fit a Switch into my pockets...).
Honestly, I've been having trouble justifying purchases like this. I'm trying to cut back on things I "want" and focus only on the things I "need," and since this isn't something I actually require, I can't seem to bring myself to buy it no matter how badly I want it...
Though it WOULD have been nice if they included Banjo-Tooie and Conker's Bad Fur Day (among others, wherever possible) to sweeten the deal. Maybe in a "Rare" cartridge collection someday, perhaps? Though I don't know if the device would even have enough buttons to account for all the controls, at least probably not without making a few compromises, anyways...
Re: Poll: Handheld Or TV - How Do You Play Retro Games?
There use to be a time where I'd divide my gaming time equally between portable handhelds and home console gaming, depending on the circumstances. But now, I play EXCLUSIVELY on handheld devices.
If you had told me as a child that one day in the future, I would be able to play all these classic games I originally missed out on, on my favorite system of all-time, my response would have been "So did they invent the Time-Machine yet?" Which, now that I think about it, jailbreaking my 3DS was probably the catalyst that started my interest in home console gaming to wane.
That being said, I now mostly do all my classic retro gaming on the PS Vita - a nifty little device in its own right - so long as a game isn't already available to play legally on my 3DS or Switch (i.e. Virtual Console, NSO, Classic Gaming Collections). After all, it's small, thin, and lightweight, so I don't have to worry about it taking up much room and weighing me down when it's in my pocket. It plays Vita games natively, is backwards-compatible with every PSP and PS1 game in existence, and can even emulate almost-anything that is less powefull than THAT at full or nearly-full speed. And if you use an official Memory Card in conjunction with an SD2Vita adapter, you can maximize storage by placing all your Vita, PSP, and PS1 games on your "main" card, and all of your classic retro games on the other, which would essentially go unused.