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@hisownsidekick the zoidberg on the rails racing bit genuinely have me rage

Don't suppose this has been uploaded to YouTube as well? Can't being myself to go near twitter these days.

I feel privileged to have experienced that time first hand. The big boxes. The mental 3rd party accessories.

And it's cool to find out all these years later the microbyte shops in Wakefield that I went in all the time were linked to team17

DRILL KLAW!
DRILL KLAW!

I always loved the original Activision box art there was and still is nothing else like it.

@Blast16 box art in modern games is rubbish for sure. I think it started going downhill about when mass effect series was out lol.

it's so damn good i yoinked it for my avatar.

It's called a hawker hurricane, it has a vaught Corsair etched on the back and 1942 featured a P38 lightning. This is doing my plane nerd brain in haha.

@InfiniteStateGames Yorkshirepud from the old battlefield days says ayup. 😉 Hope you're doing well!

This post is making my 43 year old knees ache.

cOnTeNdEr eLiMiNaTeD

Top Trivia i can remember getting my copy of 2097 second hand towards the end of the 90s from a second hand entertainment shop in Bridlington during summer hols. Absolutely played it to death in our caravan when i had nothing better to do. Think i drove my parents mad with the sound effects....

People shouldn't have to share such bad news just to appease people. But I also emphasise with it making a massive dent in what he loves to do. In autumn of 2022 I started to get really ill. I had constant toilet troubles ended up going to my GP (doctor for the non Brits). After several months because of them dropping the ball I got referred to a hospital I was checked by god knows how many blood and poop samples. I had genetic tests, and endoscopy, gastroscopy (oh they were fun).

So all this time later I've been diagnosed with CVID (no not COVID) more specifically a flavour of it called..... Inhales "panhypogammaglobulinemia" in a nutshell my immune system is out of balance. And might always have been all my life. Yet somehow I've avoided nasty infections. Anyway turns out my immune system is attacking my guts. They also suspect but cannot confirm coeliac disease, so I'm on a gluten free diet which is really.... REALLY FUN!

Why am I waffling on about this? Because living with a guts that were so battered meant I got no nutrition from what I was eating, no fuel, no goodness no energy, Harley anything. I started to look like a ghoul. Every day was a battle to get up. It absolutely sucked my enthusiasm for life out of me. I couldn't even be bothered to play a game while lying on my sofa at the end of a working day because I was so physically and mentally spent. I had to give everything I had just to complete a day at work. Because yay money.

But I'm pleased to say I'm much better now. I still have now confirmation on if I have coeliac disease. Jury's out on that but I definitely have a banjaxed immune system. And I'm enjoying playing games again now.

So I can see how illness can take it's toll on things like that. And all the best to Voultar going forward. He's clearly had some great support.

Now if you've stuck with me up to now then lads.... Listen up. Do not die of stubbornness. Not well? Especially if it's something you may think is embarrassing like a toilet problem. Go get help and support. And get yourself better. Even though I've had a bad time of it, I sought help immediately and I'm glad I did.

As a proud button masher this makes no difference to me. No offence intended to the designers. 😂

DMG GB R-type was one of my first games i got with it at christmas. It was god damn nails. Never got past stage 4 without the use of a game genie.

Stage 1 music lives rent free in my head. If i can get this on PS or xbox then shut up and take my money.

i remember a friend having this. or maybe my cousin. I think a lot of us lucky kids of the 80s/90s certainly had an assortment of these. Probably alongside something like an atari, home micro or early console. Before GB came along for me. What i always remember the most though was that Grandstand Astro wars. absolute beast.

I never knew he worked for LRG. I really enjoy his videos.

Now hurry up and remaster DF2 JK and descent haha!

No trench run no sale.

Joking.

F14 so sold.

@jruasap this is my complaint about what seems like an otherwise excellent thing for me the optical drive should be part of the whole thing. Not a separate part. Could we at least use any external usb optical drive?

I realise that there was probably some pragmatic reasons to make them separate. But it just puts me off potentially getting one. Even if it looks like it will do a lot of other retro consoles now as well.

Then again maybe I'll be swayed down the line haha.

In contrast to wipeout my favourite soundtrack tim ever worked on was colony wars. It was bloody brilliant. It perfectly suited the game but had its own identity to it. I can still hum the main theme and other ones. I even had to tape it directly off the game in the 90s when my ps1 was hooked up to my stereo. 😂 Does Tim have a downloadable version somewhere that I could pay for?!

I'm absolutely over the moon for fans of the game that they'll get the same treatment us dark forces fans got. I heard of the game at the time but never thought to play it. A western setting seemed boring as opposed to shooting stormtroopers in the face. Decades later and I'm happily roaming the west in RDR. Go figure. I'll definitely add this to my wishlists. But speaking of DF2 Jedi Knight. Make it happen. Somone, anyone. Nightdive would be my top choice. But aspyr could have a stab since they've handled other games from the series?

Hell the terminal velocity boosted edition from ziggurat was slick. More please!
Also someone do DESCENT. I will absolutely not shut up about a descent remaster.
(Yes I know you can play it on modern pc with community remasters).

Looks great probably wont ever be able to visit sadly. I have a very high standard set now by arcade club bury. Everything was just absolutely amazing when i visited. Its local (well if you are north west based. You can link it up with a day out in Mancunia, ride a tram (TRAMS!!!) and bury market. Which is absolutely MENTAL. Love it.
**life in a northern town starts playing**

All together now! "ULYSEEEEEEEEEESSEEEEEEEEEEEEE NO ON ELSE CAN DO THE THINGS YOU DOOOO"

Young me never saw the point in a magic and swords doom.... Young me was daft. Just look where doom ended up!

Can't wait to give this a try since I never played it. And nightdive can do no wrong in my eyes, now if only they could remaster DESCENT

Speaking as a Yorkshire man I feel my accent is ready to add abaht three versions.

Gerron this.... 😂

My biggest grumble about this is having to buy a separate disk drive. I've said it before on here.

I get why. I just don't like it. If it had been sold all integrated from the get go I'd very likely have bought into it. I'm sure it will do well however and hope everyone who gets one is chuffed with it of course!

I need to get around to putting emulation on my series s....

I'm from Yorkshire and didn't even know this existed. Bugger.

"just because we can do a thing, it does not necessarily mean we must do that thing."

@The_Nintend_Pedant indeed. Eneloops ftw.

On another note with regards to the screen. I was mocked by my game gear owning friends that my Gameboy was monochrome. Well Andrew, it might have been black and white. But it was sharp and I could see what was going on most of the time. Unlike you unable to get past the first level of sonic.

This sadly doesn't surprise me. I work in a small brewery and i know just how bad it is for pubs and bars right now. Even a USP like having it as an arcade bar and food can't be enough if the sums just don't add up. I am concerned about staff not being paid? This is deeply wrong and should be righted. But hospitality staff in this country are treated like *****. And it isn't regarded as a career or appreciated by people like it would be elsewhere in the world. Turnover is appalling.Why should you care when your on minimum wage but the boss wants maximum output and your dealing with the great british public.

I'll be looking into this staff not getting paid.

My only memory of the amiga directly is my best mate having one and playing some amazing games on it. First encounter with cannon fodder and it had a load of Pysgnosis games. I found "agony" particularly mesmerising......

This literally sounds like a king of the hill episode. I can actually hear hank hill in my mind saying "Space aliens"

yup.

yes but will it run doom?

micro$oft gonna microshaft....

@JackGYarwood think the last strike series game i played was the LAPD 3d thingy one on playstation 1. remember the demo on a OPSM disk

Raul Julia
Nuff said.

Cool! I have very very fond memories of absolutely smashing the leaderboard on the air combat arcade machine that featured the f-16? Im guessing that was the first one? Nobles amusements, Bridlington in east yorkshire. For as many summers as i could while they had it. Then i got ace combat 2 on my ps1 and never went back haha.

honestly surprised no one has remastered or re-released the collection. i mean.... this is EA after all....
**thows money in the air**

ah nowt like fomo to cause you issues down the line....

@ArcadeRacingCENTRAL I had a 6128 though not the plus in the video. I always felt very chuffed with it especially since it had a disk drive.Something i lorded over my c64 owning mates. But the cpc suffered from lots and lots of really bad ports. thats the real shame years later i know now it had very capable hardware. But most places just didn't or couldn't make use of it.

nobody has told CEX this.... lol.

@Jrs1 good to know thanks. I actually had psp rr2 on my wishlist for some time. I've added AA RR to it now as well but doubtful they will hit sale prices soon. In fact none of these 7.99 pan games seem to have.

Been waiting patiently for silkworm to go on sale.... Should probably just resurrect my amstrad 6128 for that....

@Jrs1 i've had my eye on that but couldn't work out if it had the original RR?

I suppose the interesting question is how will they genuinely compare? Are they two different things in essence?

im one of those people who only know about yojimbo thanks to its TMHT crossovers....

high or low gothic?

shhh nobody show Hasbro that branding....

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say i still don't think it would have "won" that generation against playstation. If sony maintained the same approach but sega got a better start i still think people would have opted for a playstation because it was new and edgy. Even if more 3rd parties had been involved and more ports happened. Thats just me though! And its no shade on saturn. (only jupiter could do that.... badumtish)

@Damo hoard mode where you have to evade the impenetrable wall of tourists.... And that bloody wizard shop... Because I dunno.... Shambles and some wizard alley... 😂

this probably goes without saying but checkout LGR on youtube. He's had some fantastic "oddware" peripherals on his channel. Some gaming and some general pc use. All crackers though!

Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate special stage remains unconfirmed.

@smoreon I maybe remembering differently or wrongly but I just remembered it feeling different as @-wc- also mentioned. It may have been buried in options as well. Someone would have to start it up to tell me haha

ummm gt had an arcade mode. so.....? did he just encourage this bit?

Oh hey back to update my comment. This is good news! Shame it's not bundled with RR2 or maybe it is? Either way for a few quid I'd be happy to buy it. If namco pulled there finger out they could do a whole collection like.... 🙄