Although I never had any of these at the time, I love the idea that Andrew's career is bookended - pun intended - by the release and re-release of these books!
I may put in for the 4 book deal, as that seems reasonable enough for the curiosity factor.
@hste if it's like the Doom mod, I found it most noticeable on things like item pickups and sprite based 'furniture' which always faced the player in the original but are much more solid and 3d as voxels.
I can understand why there might be cultural sensitivity to the flag in places like South Korea, given what the Japanese military got up to in the 30s and 40s. I once made the mistake of reading about Unit 731. It was like staring into the abyss.
South Korea also had some very strict rules about Japanese cultural imports until comparatively recently, so I'm not altogether surprised Nintendo are a bit leery of things like this.
I can't think of a reason that System 3 shouldn't provide reasonable localisation adjustments, if they want to sell into a particular market.
@The_Nintendo_Pedant At least you missed out on the satanic panic. That was something else, particularly if you were the child of newly converted born again types. Fortunately they saw sense, after a time.
Probably my favourite magazine of all time. Somehow or other it managed to be irreverent and serious at the same time. When they scored a game 90%+ you knew it was worth buying, and you could bet your monkey-ass on it!
True story: my younger cousin struggled with reading. While we were on a family holiday I showed him my copy of Mean Machines. To start with I got him to read some of the smaller box-outs. Initially he was a bit resistant... but that soon changed when he started reading some of the ruder content! By the end of the two weeks he was happily reading entire articles by himself.
What's worrying me is that BallisticNG, Wipeout's spiritual successor and which I put many hours into during the recent global health unpleasantness, is already approaching its seventh birthday.
I honestly think that when I hit my mid-thirties someone decided to crank the time dial into fast-forward.
I reckon Nintendo Power made that answer up from whole cloth.
In CAD x, y and z are 3D coordinates. Also, it wouldn't make any sense to say that A and B are primary but X and Y are secondary, either from a CAD point of view or an implementation point of view.
Who is that Lance guy anyway? Probably somebody who had nothing to do with the design of the pad, if he exists at all!
Personally I think women should be discouraged from the corporate world... But so should men!
I don't know how we got into such a miserable state where people who make things are nothing but employees of these massive corporate entities, but it needs a rethink.
And in doing so there should be a rebalancing of talent rather than sex.
For me it was Space Invaders on the ZX81. Black and white, no sound, your bullets being nothing more than a capital letter I heading up the screen, that terrible keyboard... I was instantly hooked!! I can still picture the cassette inlay which was black and white, with dark pink highlights, and featured a cool looking alien on the front.
I find it difficult to express - particularly to people who grew up with mass computing - quite how transformative that experience was. This was something none of your neighbours or friends had, no one in your family had experienced anything like it before, and yet here it was plugged into the TV letting you control what was happening on screen.
Sadly the computer was only borrowed and had to be returned. It wasn't until a couple of years later we got a computer at home. Still, it was that moment that kicked everything off for me in terms of computing and video gaming.
They had me up to "Quick Solder install". Last time I attempted to solder anything I ended up with 2nd degree burns and a lot of melted plastic. Never again.
If you have the skills to actually do the mod, 30 euros seems like a pretty good price for the features.
AYANEO are becoming the new Anbernic - a new release if the day ends in a 'Y'!
I think it's great, though. Compared to where we were 5, 10, 15 years ago the sheer number of decent, powerful, well made systems is staggering. There literally is something for everyone.
That said the trick is NOT to buy everything. It's easy to fall into that trap when you see all the YouTubers (and others) touting the latest and greatest they got sent for free. My advice is, if you're interested, wait for the price to drop (it will - or be on AliExpress cheaper with free delivery), enjoy it and then pay no more attention to the scene for at least 12 months.
I'm about an hour in. Nice little game so far, it reminds me most of Solomon's Key. It is a bit bare bones, however, and lacks a save feature but does feature a level select...
...which is why having the rom is great. Load up in an emulator and save states ahoy!
I remember Ben the Boffin on the Big Breakfast describing the first game as "Hard even on easy"!
I beat all three in the late 90's when I was ~19-20, and they certainly were hard games. They were an enjoyable challenge, though. I may try these patches out, because I doubt I still have the reflexes to complete the originals!
So the no. 1 ranked game made NFL 2K [Sega Sports] dollars and shipped a whopping Sonic Adventure number of units!
I love the Dreamcast, but didn't get one until ~2004/5 - one with a multi region mod at that.
So far ahead of its time it really deserved to do better... and it didn't because of people like me who were waiting for the PS2 to release. Thinking back, I could have afforded both but must have had a mental block about owning two (or more) systems concurrently.
Still, them's the breaks and Sega did themselves no favours earlier in the decade. Who's up for some co-op Power Stone?
If you like this style of driving game I can highly recommend 1000 Miglia: Great 1000 Miles Rally by Kaneko.
I first encountered it at a caravan site on the Isle of Wight where I probably spent too many evenings in the game room trying to complete it (which I did!).
There's a lot more to come out of this story. I'm intrigued to know why City of London police were involved. It could be that the seller lives within the bounds of the City, but I think it's an odd location for somebody who buys and resells used electronics for a living - not least because of the price of property! - and that Sega's offices are nowhere near.
(For those who don't know, the City is a tiny district in the middle of London that has a lot of historic quirks, tax exemptions, unique governance, powers, Lord Mayor, and its own police force to name a few. The rest of London is covered by the MET Police)
Does anybody know if the Android versions of DoDonPachi and Espgaluda (2?) have been resurrected anywhere? I had them both, but the last time I looked they'd gone completely. The time before that, you could still install the "downloader" but it wouldn't download anything.
I wish I still had the phone they were originally installed on.
I thought the remake of the first game was decent, but I was expecting Backbone/Digital Eclipse levels of polish so it did disappoint a bit.
It just goes to show that updating and remastering classics takes a great deal of skill and talent and, crucially, enthusiasm and love for the thing being worked on.
I think the Gizmondo is a classic case of what could have been. The device itself was actually pretty good. Had it been cheaper, had the games come, and had the company not been run by crooks I think it could have been successful, at least in Europe.
When they dropped the price I almost bought one, but as it didn't have any games I wanted to play and it didn't look like there'd be any more games, I gave it a miss. I almost regret that now, but I bought a GP2X instead which suited me better (mostly emulation and its ability to play movies).
Pro tip: use a solvent like nail varnish remover or petrol to remove rubbery coatings. Works a treat.
Additional thought: I don't rate Game Trailers list of worst consoles. They include 3DO, Jaguar, Mega-CD and 32x. These weren't bad consoles, just unsuccessful.
Wow. Where does 30 years go? I remember it as if it were yesterday, to paraphrase RLS.
I didn't get my PS1 until '97, but I remember the magazines at the time, especially Edge, covering the machine in detail. But it wasn't until I loaded up T-Rex from the demo disc and saw it for myself on my PlayStation and on my TV that I realised we were in a completely new era of gaming.
I couldn't tell you the exact date, but I still recall - as if it were yesterday - the walk into town, withdrawing money from the building society, buying the machine from Woolworths, going to McD's for lunch, going to the bookshop to see if the latest Robin Hobb was out yet (it wasn't), and then going to Superdrug to buy shower gel and deodorant (99p each or 3 for 2!), before walking home tremendously excited. It lived up to that excitement!
Aviator had a massive effect on me as a kid. The game came with a fold out map. When I realised (as a 4 or 5 year old) that fields and other landmarks mapped exactly to the polygons shown on screen... my universe expanded!
@breach187 This is for the Christmas market, specifically the "what do we get dad/uncle bob/other unspecified male relative of a certain age" Christmas market. They'll sell pretty well, I'm sure.
@Futureshark Depends on what you want to emulate, how much you want to pay, how portable you want it to be, and how bothered you'd be if it got nicked, lost, or damaged.
My most used handheld is the TrimUI Smart Pro, which will pretty much do everything up to and including PS1. My most powerful device is the Odin 2 which will emulate pretty much everything including, Switch.
If you're mostly into Gameboy and other 1:1 screen resolutions, I recommend the Anbernic RG CubeXX.
I've got a bunch of other handhelds, which are all pretty good too.
SotN is the game that got me into Castlevania. I think I got very lucky and managed to pick it up on sale when it was new, when most people weren't interested in 2D games on their 3D powerhouse machines. I actually managed to buy it twice, having completely forgotten I'd already bought it and not played it.
Managed to sell one copy, new and sealed, several years later for a surprisingly (to me at any rate) tidy sum. I still have my first copy, however, and that's never leaving what passes for my collection.
I was going to get Shinobi, being a huge fan of the Mega Drive games, but having watched some reviews AoV doesn't look (or seem to play) like a Shinobi game. I think it's been modernized too much for my taste.
I don't know that I'd call Ironclad almost worth the price of admission when it's less than £1.50 on GoG.
Still my main beef with a number of Evercade releases is the seeming lack of curation and total lack of value added content. When retro compilations are done well they're worth the extra outlay.
I'd love this, even though I'm mostly terrible at fighting games due to age. I can still beat CPU opponents, but online is out of the question... Unless the put in a 45+ league 😀
I wish Nightdive would just announce that they're doing NOLF. If nobody claims the rights, they're good to go and if they do it opens the door to negotiation.
Exhumed was an absolute classic ! I remember picking it up for £20 for the PS1 and playing it to all the way through twice. It particularly sticks in my mind because it was at that time Princess Diana died.
I remember some of the comments when Barcadia was announced. I've never seen so much anger towards a community based project, almost as if some people were determined it should fail.
Was it just because Nostalgia Nerd was behind it? Or because it involved Kickstarter?
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Re: GBA Gem 'Scurge: Hive' Infects Modern Platforms Later This Week, With Its Retro, Isometric Take On Metroid
@hisownsidekick It was a bit of a struggle to find, but I found this interview with the people at Orbital Media.
https://www.ign.com/articles/2006/08/24/ign-goes-orbital
Hope it helps!
Re: Over 100 Arcades, Including Mortal Kombat, OutRun And Daytona USA, Are Going Under The Hammer Down Under
What was it that Oscar Wilde said? We have everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
Never a truer word spoken!
Re: 40 Years On, And Andrew Hewson Is Remastering '20 Best Programs For The ZX Spectrum'
Although I never had any of these at the time, I love the idea that Andrew's career is bookended - pun intended - by the release and re-release of these books!
I may put in for the 4 book deal, as that seems reasonable enough for the curiosity factor.
Re: Over 100 Arcades, Including Mortal Kombat, OutRun And Daytona USA, Are Going Under The Hammer Down Under
A bobby dazzler, and no mistake!
Re: Duke Nukem 3D Is About To Get An Ambitious New Mod That Replaces Its 2D Sprites With "Nearly A Thousand Voxels"
@hste if it's like the Doom mod, I found it most noticeable on things like item pickups and sprite based 'furniture' which always faced the player in the original but are much more solid and 3d as voxels.
Re: Miyamoto's "Forgotten" Game Boy Masterpiece Mole Mania Gets The Unofficial 'DX' Treatment
I didn't need an excuse to replay Mole Mania, but this mod pushed it up the priority scale! Jimbe is about to get owned all over again!
Re: "Nintendo Has Made Serious Objections" - Last Ninja Collection Delayed On Consoles
I can understand why there might be cultural sensitivity to the flag in places like South Korea, given what the Japanese military got up to in the 30s and 40s. I once made the mistake of reading about Unit 731. It was like staring into the abyss.
South Korea also had some very strict rules about Japanese cultural imports until comparatively recently, so I'm not altogether surprised Nintendo are a bit leery of things like this.
I can't think of a reason that System 3 shouldn't provide reasonable localisation adjustments, if they want to sell into a particular market.
Re: Random: No, Ridge Racer's Reiko Nagase Isn't Based On The Man Who Created Her
@The_Nintendo_Pedant At least you missed out on the satanic panic. That was something else, particularly if you were the child of newly converted born again types. Fortunately they saw sense, after a time.
Re: Anniversary: Mean Machines, The UK's Greatest Console Magazine, Turns 35 Today
Probably my favourite magazine of all time. Somehow or other it managed to be irreverent and serious at the same time. When they scored a game 90%+ you knew it was worth buying,
and you could bet your monkey-ass on it!
True story: my younger cousin struggled with reading. While we were on a family holiday I showed him my copy of Mean Machines. To start with I got him to read some of the smaller box-outs. Initially he was a bit resistant... but that soon changed when he started reading some of the ruder content! By the end of the two weeks he was happily reading entire articles by himself.
Re: Anniversary: Ready To Feel Really Old? WipEout Turns 30 Today
What's worrying me is that BallisticNG, Wipeout's spiritual successor and which I put many hours into during the recent global health unpleasantness, is already approaching its seventh birthday.
I honestly think that when I hit my mid-thirties someone decided to crank the time dial into fast-forward.
Re: Here's Why Controllers Have 'A, B, X & Y' Buttons, And Not 'A, B, C & D'
@Slider2711 well I stand corrected!
Re: Here's Why Controllers Have 'A, B, X & Y' Buttons, And Not 'A, B, C & D'
I reckon Nintendo Power made that answer up from whole cloth.
In CAD x, y and z are 3D coordinates. Also, it wouldn't make any sense to say that A and B are primary but X and Y are secondary, either from a CAD point of view or an implementation point of view.
Who is that Lance guy anyway? Probably somebody who had nothing to do with the design of the pad, if he exists at all!
Re: This Modder Has Revived Imagine's Infamous 'Megagame' Add-On Concept, And The Results Are Jaw-Dropping
@MartinPiper Wow! That's even more impressive!
If you're ever inclined to exhibit the machine at a retro/computer show, do let us know. I'd love to see it hands on!
Re: This Modder Has Revived Imagine's Infamous 'Megagame' Add-On Concept, And The Results Are Jaw-Dropping
I've always wanted to use the word flabbergasted in a real world context, and now I can. I'm flabbergasted!
Did Martin actually write his own version of After Burner to run on this?
Re: "It Shouldn't Be That Way" - Tetris Company CEO Laments Low Female Representation In The Games Industry
Personally I think women should be discouraged from the corporate world... But so should men!
I don't know how we got into such a miserable state where people who make things are nothing but employees of these massive corporate entities, but it needs a rethink.
And in doing so there should be a rebalancing of talent rather than sex.
Re: Game Changer: Donkey Kong II Game & Watch - My First Ever Taste Of Video Games
For me it was Space Invaders on the ZX81. Black and white, no sound, your bullets being nothing more than a capital letter I heading up the screen, that terrible keyboard... I was instantly hooked!! I can still picture the cassette inlay which was black and white, with dark pink highlights, and featured a cool looking alien on the front.
I find it difficult to express - particularly to people who grew up with mass computing - quite how transformative that experience was. This was something none of your neighbours or friends had, no one in your family had experienced anything like it before, and yet here it was plugged into the TV letting you control what was happening on screen.
Sadly the computer was only borrowed and had to be returned. It wasn't until a couple of years later we got a computer at home. Still, it was that moment that kicked everything off for me in terms of computing and video gaming.
Re: Forget Nintendo Switch, You Probably Own A Great Way To Play Virtual Boy Games Already
What I found is that the games aren't very good. Worth exploring as a curiousity, but nothing you'll ever want to return to.
Re: Dimitris 'Modern Vintage Gamer' Giannakis Leaves Limited Run Games To Join Digital Eclipse
@smoreon well there's definitely something up with the old grey matter. The only other retro Dave I can think of is Dave from This Week in Retro.
But if you showed me a picture of MVG I'd definitely say "I know him, that's Dave from MVG".
Re: Aspyr Removes AI-Generated Vocals From Tomb Raider Collection After Voice Actor Takes Legal Action
Well good on Françoise for standing up to this. As I've said before, AI isn't necessarily the problem, but the people who use it is.
However, I feel there's an important question here that's been missed:
Does French Lara sound sexier than English Lara?
Re: Random: The Xbox Is The Least Likely Candidate For A Portable Mod, But This Guy Did It Anyway
If nothing else, it puts a smile on your face!
Re: Dimitris 'Modern Vintage Gamer' Giannakis Leaves Limited Run Games To Join Digital Eclipse
I must be having my own Mandela Effect moment.. I'm sure MVG used to call himself "Dave" on his channel.
Re: Mega SmartDrive Is "The Ultimate Accessory" For Your Genesis / Mega Drive
@slider1983 Welcome to the club!
Re: "We're Building The Future Together" - Commodore Has Sold Over 10,000 C64 Ultimate Systems
Well fair play to new Commodore. I would never have predicted there'd be that many people on the lookout for a new C64.
Re: Mega SmartDrive Is "The Ultimate Accessory" For Your Genesis / Mega Drive
They had me up to "Quick Solder install". Last time I attempted to solder anything I ended up with 2nd degree burns and a lot of melted plastic. Never again.
If you have the skills to actually do the mod, 30 euros seems like a pretty good price for the features.
Re: Review: KONKR Pocket Fit - Like A Portable PS2, But Even Better
AYANEO are becoming the new Anbernic - a new release if the day ends in a 'Y'!
I think it's great, though. Compared to where we were 5, 10, 15 years ago the sheer number of decent, powerful, well made systems is staggering. There literally is something for everyone.
That said the trick is NOT to buy everything. It's easy to fall into that trap when you see all the YouTubers (and others) touting the latest and greatest they got sent for free. My advice is, if you're interested, wait for the price to drop (it will - or be on AliExpress cheaper with free delivery), enjoy it and then pay no more attention to the scene for at least 12 months.
Re: "A New Challenge Born From An Old Soul" - NES Puzzler 'Midnight Yammy' Brings Its Magic & Trickery To Steam
I'm about an hour in. Nice little game so far, it reminds me most of Solomon's Key. It is a bit bare bones, however, and lacks a save feature but does feature a level select...
...which is why having the rom is great. Load up in an emulator and save states ahoy!
Re: These New SNES ROM Hacks Aim To Make The Super Star Wars Trilogy A Whole Lot Fairer
I remember Ben the Boffin on the Big Breakfast describing the first game as "Hard even on easy"!
I beat all three in the late 90's when I was ~19-20, and they certainly were hard games. They were an enjoyable challenge, though. I may try these patches out, because I doubt I still have the reflexes to complete the originals!
Re: Here Are The Best-Selling Dreamcast Games Of All Time (In The US)
So the no. 1 ranked game made NFL 2K [Sega Sports] dollars and shipped a whopping Sonic Adventure number of units!
I love the Dreamcast, but didn't get one until ~2004/5 - one with a multi region mod at that.
So far ahead of its time it really deserved to do better... and it didn't because of people like me who were waiting for the PS2 to release. Thinking back, I could have afforded both but must have had a mental block about owning two (or more) systems concurrently.
Still, them's the breaks and Sega did themselves no favours earlier in the decade. Who's up for some co-op Power Stone?
Re: Review: Polymega Collection Vol. 4 - Drift Out - 2D Rally Action At Its Finest
If you like this style of driving game I can highly recommend 1000 Miglia: Great 1000 Miles Rally by Kaneko.
I first encountered it at a caravan site on the Isle of Wight where I probably spent too many evenings in the game room trying to complete it (which I did!).
Re: Sega Dev Kit Raid "A Preservation Disaster" For "Collectors, Archivists, And The Gaming Community"
There's a lot more to come out of this story. I'm intrigued to know why City of London police were involved. It could be that the seller lives within the bounds of the City, but I think it's an odd location for somebody who buys and resells used electronics for a living - not least because of the price of property! - and that Sega's offices are nowhere near.
(For those who don't know, the City is a tiny district in the middle of London that has a lot of historic quirks, tax exemptions, unique governance, powers, Lord Mayor, and its own police force to name a few. The rest of London is covered by the MET Police)
Re: "This May Be One Of The Rarest I-Mode Games Preserved So Far" - A Lost DoDonPachi Game For Japanese Phones Has Just Been Recovered
Does anybody know if the Android versions of DoDonPachi and Espgaluda (2?) have been resurrected anywhere? I had them both, but the last time I looked they'd gone completely. The time before that, you could still install the "downloader" but it wouldn't download anything.
I wish I still had the phone they were originally installed on.
Re: "Reject This Ugly Husk And Play The Original" - Panzer Dragoon II Zwei Remake Isn't Going Down Well With Fans
I thought the remake of the first game was decent, but I was expecting Backbone/Digital Eclipse levels of polish so it did disappoint a bit.
It just goes to show that updating and remastering classics takes a great deal of skill and talent and, crucially, enthusiasm and love for the thing being worked on.
Re: "The Worst Console Of All Time" Turned 20 This Year – Is Gizmondo Worth A Look In 2025?
I think the Gizmondo is a classic case of what could have been. The device itself was actually pretty good. Had it been cheaper, had the games come, and had the company not been run by crooks I think it could have been successful, at least in Europe.
When they dropped the price I almost bought one, but as it didn't have any games I wanted to play and it didn't look like there'd be any more games, I gave it a miss. I almost regret that now, but I bought a GP2X instead which suited me better (mostly emulation and its ability to play movies).
Pro tip: use a solvent like nail varnish remover or petrol to remove rubbery coatings. Works a treat.
Additional thought: I don't rate Game Trailers list of worst consoles. They include 3DO, Jaguar, Mega-CD and 32x. These weren't bad consoles, just unsuccessful.
Re: PlayStation Launched 30 Years Ago In North America, And This Book Aims To Celebrate Its Remarkable Impact
Wow. Where does 30 years go? I remember it as if it were yesterday, to paraphrase RLS.
I didn't get my PS1 until '97, but I remember the magazines at the time, especially Edge, covering the machine in detail. But it wasn't until I loaded up T-Rex from the demo disc and saw it for myself on my PlayStation and on my TV that I realised we were in a completely new era of gaming.
I couldn't tell you the exact date, but I still recall - as if it were yesterday - the walk into town, withdrawing money from the building society, buying the machine from Woolworths, going to McD's for lunch, going to the bookshop to see if the latest Robin Hobb was out yet (it wasn't), and then going to Superdrug to buy shower gel and deodorant (99p each or 3 for 2!), before walking home tremendously excited. It lived up to that excitement!
Re: The Making Of: Geoff Crammond's Formula One Grand Prix Series
Aviator had a massive effect on me as a kid. The game came with a fold out map. When I realised (as a 4 or 5 year old) that fields and other landmarks mapped exactly to the polygons shown on screen... my universe expanded!
Re: The Atari Gamestation Go Launches Next Month
@breach187 This is for the Christmas market, specifically the "what do we get dad/uncle bob/other unspecified male relative of a certain age" Christmas market. They'll sell pretty well, I'm sure.
Re: AYANEO Unveils The Pocket AIR Mini, A New 4:3 Retro Handheld With A Supposedly "Entry Level" Price
@Futureshark Depends on what you want to emulate, how much you want to pay, how portable you want it to be, and how bothered you'd be if it got nicked, lost, or damaged.
My most used handheld is the TrimUI Smart Pro, which will pretty much do everything up to and including PS1. My most powerful device is the Odin 2 which will emulate pretty much everything including, Switch.
If you're mostly into Gameboy and other 1:1 screen resolutions, I recommend the Anbernic RG CubeXX.
I've got a bunch of other handhelds, which are all pretty good too.
Re: Game Changer: Super Castlevania IV - Why Simon Belmont's 16-bit Debut Is A Stone-Cold Classic
SotN is the game that got me into Castlevania. I think I got very lucky and managed to pick it up on sale when it was new, when most people weren't interested in 2D games on their 3D powerhouse machines. I actually managed to buy it twice, having completely forgotten I'd already bought it and not played it.
Managed to sell one copy, new and sealed, several years later for a surprisingly (to me at any rate) tidy sum. I still have my first copy, however, and that's never leaving what passes for my collection.
Re: AYN's Successor To The Odin 2 Will Be The First Gaming Handheld Powered By The Snapdragon 8 Elite
I think this is actually more powerful than my PC!
Here's hoping they get the ergonomics right and you won't need some sort of grip to use it comfortably for extended periods.
Re: Can't Decide Between Shinobi And Ninja Gaiden? This Steam Bundle Should Help
I was going to get Shinobi, being a huge fan of the Mega Drive games, but having watched some reviews AoV doesn't look (or seem to play) like a Shinobi game. I think it's been modernized too much for my taste.
Re: Review: Neo Geo Arcade 1 (Evercade) - A Bold, If Familiar, Debut For SNK On Blaze's System
I don't know that I'd call Ironclad almost worth the price of admission when it's less than £1.50 on GoG.
Still my main beef with a number of Evercade releases is the seeming lack of curation and total lack of value added content. When retro compilations are done well they're worth the extra outlay.
Re: "We Should Do Something Like That" - Sega Seems Keen On A Virtua Fighter Collection
I'd love this, even though I'm mostly terrible at fighting games due to age. I can still beat CPU opponents, but online is out of the question... Unless the put in a 45+ league 😀
Re: "I Lost Myself" - Nostalgia Nerd Opens Up On "Starting Again"
Good for Peter. I've enjoyed his channel over the years.
Re: The Making Of: The Operative - No One Lives Forever, Monolith's Classic Spy-Themed FPS Trapped In Licensing Hell
I wish Nightdive would just announce that they're doing NOLF. If nobody claims the rights, they're good to go and if they do it opens the door to negotiation.
Re: The Source Code For The Engine That Powered The Sega Saturn FPS PowerSlave Has Been Released
Exhumed was an absolute classic ! I remember picking it up for £20 for the PS1 and playing it to all the way through twice. It particularly sticks in my mind because it was at that time Princess Diana died.
Re: "I Wouldn't Wish That Version On My Worst Enemies" - No One Lives Forever Dev Shares Story Behind Its "Awful" PS2 Port
NOLF is my second favourite FPS, after Red Faction. I don't remember the PS2 version as being bad.
Re: Poll: How Do You Pronounce "Amiga"?
West Country folk and pirates say A-meeg -aaaaaaaaaaaaaar! Me hearties.
Re: "As CEO, My Mission Is Clear: Ensure Commodore Never Falls Again"
@Amm Just like Victor Kiam!
Re: Review: Earthion (Steam) - A Genuine Shmup Masterpiece From Yuzo Koshiro And Makoto Wada
Spent the last hour with the Steam version... It's awesome!
Re: "I Wouldn't Change A Thing" - Nostalgia Nerd's Crowdfunded Arcade Bar 'Barcadia' Is No More
I remember some of the comments when Barcadia was announced. I've never seen so much anger towards a community based project, almost as if some people were determined it should fail.
Was it just because Nostalgia Nerd was behind it? Or because it involved Kickstarter?
Now it has failed, are the same people pleased?