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I thought the ad was really cool, but I was like 3… It definitely made me think Zelda was some awesome mysterious thing, and Zelda 1 is.

That said, rewatching it now, it’s not as neat as I remember 😂

It probably should be Adventure/Colossal Cave Adventure.

However, I said Super Mario Bros and presented an argument for that.

@sdelfin Super Mario Bros has a bearing on something like R-Type because Super Mario Bros was one of the first games to really do horizontal scrolling well.

It's gotta be something OLD... like Wizardry, Ultima, or Super Mario Bros. 1.

@GeneJacket That's a bummer! It ends up hurting their playerbase, since there are like no wireless Xbox controllers except the official one... which is a pretty good controller but is the only controller in the history of the world to give me hand cramps. I used an Xbox One controller til it got horrible stick drift (first time that's ever happened to me, too).

They sometimes make themselves hard to defend. But it does get old seeing the never-changing commentary of habitual hatred every time they’re mentioned.

It’s crazy to me that these things aren’t wireless on Xbox when they’re Xbox controllers. I’m still using a wired 8-bitdo on my series x. Don’t need anything for my switch!

That’s a neat surprise! I hope it turns out great and does well. I want more stuff like this in more genres!

More relaxing? What were they playing? 😆

Although the difficulty is often higher in retro games, there’s way less clutter and junk going on.

That seems kind of awesome. Also seems worth the price.

@Bakamoichigei Assuming you get one with a drive belt that works and can get (and install) a replacement if not. They're not as solid and everlasting as the Famicom itself.

I seem to recall the first collection being a bit of a mess? I’d like to get both

Now if someone could just 3D print me a Famicom disc system

Really depends what the thing costs tho, and what the games cost. And if it can capture the magic without a keyboard. No keyboard means no zork I’d guess!

Also looks like kind of a chonky design with some oddly placed buttons

I remember thinking something like this would be cool way back when the first Amazon kindle got released. The first kindle actually had a keyboard, unlike this. But I believe this does have an e-ink screen.

They’re not using anything working designs did, are they? So it’s the original Japanese version, not the rebalanced working designs version?

Ancient should make a turn based pixel rpg!

I had no idea he worked on any Castlevania games. No wonder I like portrait of ruins soundtrack so much (not to omit yamane’s amazing work, just assumed it was all her)

Dune had amazing music. I’m guessing it was the adventure game, not the RTS

I had been waiting all this time to actually buy one. I probably waited a little too long. 😂

@Angelus3K compared to what we’re used to now, dvds are laboriously slow, and I can’t imagine the ps2 has some kind of super fast optical drive. (That said, it could have been possible that the memory card read is slow since it never had to transfer much data, but happily, it apparently isn’t.)

Can you run ps1 games on it like this too?

I’m not sure there are any ps2 games I want to play that I can’t play elsewhere better and more easily. But there are ps1 games!

@Steel76 It's too bad they can't do a Rebirth collection of some kind. I suppose that would be impossible with licensing.

I’m confused between this and their collection (where the super Famicom sequel to this is included but apparently not in English)

I really wish more of these games would get English releases. There’s still a lot of Japanese stuff we’ve never seen in English. I get that it’s a niche within a niche but…

It’s just two of the games, not the whole series? Sheesh.

@-wc- the guy left his email address at the bottom. I wonder if it’s still active 😂

Funny thing is if it had been full of goofy half naked women people might have had other opinions. Or who knows.

Does he still get royalties from Atlus on anything in the smt series, like persona for instance? Atlus made a mega franchise based on his stuff.

Castlevania the adventure rebirth needs a re release. And maybe a new name.

Watch it all at once without stopping and

@hste that’s true. I do like the 8bitdo controllers. I use a wired one (reluctantly!) with my Xbox in fact.

I don’t know if I want to early adopt. But if it ends up being twice the price in the future I’ll be sad that I didn’t!

After this is out of the gate, I wonder if we’ll see comparable generalist devices. I dont have a ps1 controller and dont need specifically ps1 features. But a similar box that only plays games off microSD, similarly works with many system cores, has hdmi (maybe suited specifically for 4k tv—I don’t have tube!), and comes with a good controller that works for whatever… would be hard to say no to. At $150-200 anyway…!

I’m really looking forward to getting it on switch or Xbox.

My friend is going to get the genesis cart!

That’s really depressing. Very sad. Too young.

What’s with the giant dancing ladies?? 😆

Looks fun! Reminds me of a wacked out snes game, like if the cd-rom had ever come out. But then I guess it would have redbook audio

😂 the writing style reminds me of some of the spam I find in my inbox.

@RetroGames I hate having fake plastic consoles around, but even I would be super tempted!

Devil Blade Reboot needs a console release.

Super excited for when UFO 50 is out on consoles.

I went to it with two friends for my birthday as a kid. Or one of their birthdays? Either way, we were not expecting it to be what it was and were pretty disappointed even at that age

@KitsuneNight yeah it’s depressing. I did notice that the English (only assuming you’re English) are more likely to keep old buildings rather than knock them down and build a new one. Small thing. But I can’t stand how over here we bulldoze everything more than ten years old.

Pentium 2 laptop is kind of awesome!! That said, I think I might have had a dell pentium 2 laptop myself which was decidedly not amazing 😂 had that until 2008 or something crazy… poor thing.

Edit: woops just realized you’re Dutch! I should know better than to make assumptions. Sorry!

@KitsuneNight I wish more old stuff was still in use. America is like that in general, usually replacing things that are still perfectly usable…

Suppose all those were before my time too, but I still feel like I missed out!! I borrowed an 088 as a kid, and my first computer was a 286, but they were both absurdly out of date by the time I got my hands on them. I really would have been better off with an amiga if I knew they existed (would have been cheaper too)

But I guess I’m making a point against the point I was trying to make

@KitsuneNight I live in the US. I’ve never seen a single C64. Or an Amiga. apparently my dad’s friend had an old C64, but it burned up in a fire. Sad days. I feel like I missed out.

I bet they’re more common on the coasts tho.

Definitely saw plenty of 088, 086, 286, 386, 486… in my time tho. And Macs and Apple IIs and… you get the idea

That’s based. I wish C64s were used for more stuff 😂

@DestructoDisk I almost always have the Japanese audio playing for stuff, so I can't really comment! It does strike me that one solution would be to offer a more literal translation to go along with Japanese audio, and a more localized version to go along with a dub. But of course that would be extra work/$$$, and there are probably only about 5 of us who care.

I bought it back in the day. It really is amazing. But in the end it was “just” dragons lair in 2001. I wonder if it would have sold better on snes or genesis, but I suppose no one had the idea in 1989-92, And by 1993, cd-rom was a thing on genesis and pc engine, and pretty soon there was Saturn and psx anyway.

@turboxray be that as it may, the WD translations went pretty far in the other direction. Some of that is normal practice now, but they kinda just said whatever they thought would be entertaining, more of a re-write at times. I speak enough Japanese that if there’s voice acting, I can usually tell how close the translated text is sticking. So I know most translations do some deviation. but I suspect the WDs really went for it back then!

I was certainly baffled by kings field 2, not least of all by it taking up my entire memory card! But… it was an rpg… and we weren’t getting the 2d jrpgs I wanted at the time…

Personally, I’d rather play the games with a more literal translation, and the original Japanese voice work. I realize others really want the original English voice work, and others really want the original WD localization. I get it.

Whole thing about clear as mud tho. I’d imagine what’ll happen is it will be a new localization, and there will probably be new English voice work.

Looks like a simple misunderstanding. Not that I’d be surprised if they left someone hanging to squeeze in another mt dew and doritos crossover ad.

AI be like: this art needs more nipples!