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@PopetheRev28 similar sound chips as well. Just the limited color palette, but smart devs, then and especially now, know how to work with it.

Guess I might’ve been in the minority, but I really enjoyed the Toshinden games. Played em alongside my Tekkens and Street Fighters. Was just a fighting game fan in general, even owned the Bloody Roar games.

AI content is novel at best, IMO.

I have an oddly specific memory of the Barcode Battler. In 95 or 96, my friends and I found one at bargain store called MacFrugals. It was in its Japanese box, and priced for whatever reason at $5.99USD. We had no idea what it was, but as hardcore gamers, we couldn’t resist. After hours of trying to figure out how it worked (again, Japanese, so we couldn’t read the manual), we found out that scanning barcodes initiated the battle gameplay. Oh man, we spent that weekend sleepless, creating our own barcode game cards from any barcode we could get our hands on. That was an incredible time.

I gotta say, the custom pixel art is GREAT.

I miss this, so much. Electronics boutique was truly an experience in the early and mid 90s. Even though I was a poor kid/teen at the time that couldn’t afford games, it was truly a utopia. Shelves of games I could only ever read about in the likes of EGM. This video is truly transportation to a very much bygone era.

In a world where the PlayStation never came into its own, I wonder if the Sega Saturn would’ve dominated? And I wonder if we would’ve eventually seen a CD-based N64? The landscape would be so different.

I was a dumb kid/teen. Instead of saving money and getting a subscription, I would go buy the latest issue at the corner store every month. This went on from like 1994-99.

I remember first seeing a Neo Geo MVS thinking, “ABCD. Huh. That’s weird.” Then I proceeded to get owned in Fatal Fury.

@JJtheTexan don’t tempt Capcom now (also, howdy fellow Texan!)

What a weird collab for Street Fighter.

@KingMike I believe some folks out there have done some colorizing of the ROMs for emulators. Sorta an interesting look at what could’ve been.

Would it have done better if it 1) was in color and 2) could be hooked up to a regular TV?

I remember being at E3 near its US debut. Colored was definitely the focus, even got a shirt. I always did wonder what happened to these guys. Crazy story.

I remember being pretty upset once the I realized that Solid Snake was no longer the main character. I let my little brother take over and watched him play though until the end. So yeah, never did finish MGS2.

@JayJ Seriously! EGM and GameFan were my only havens for import gaming (didn’t own a computer after college). In my hometown, this video game store opened and that was another time I saw import games for the first time (though I could never afford anything there at that time).

I remember seeing this game for the first time at a local anime convention. Really, it was the first time I had seen import games in person. It blew me away!

Would be interesting if it came out before the Analogue 3D.

Ah, this series premiered just as I was entering junior high school. While I did love the art style and awesome 90s anime intro, it wasn’t particularly fun for me to watch. I think the butchered story for US kiddy audiences was underwhelming, for me.

Although MUGEN and OpenBOR were exciting back in the aughts, it’s mostly just meh nowadays.

In grand scheme of things with current AI, it’s just okay at making creative things. It’ll take a few years, me thinks.

Isn’t it Cody Rhodes as Guile?

I know a lot of older games have that retro “this is actually pretty good” appeal, but Mystic Quest is a game I didn’t enjoy then nor now.

@Bakamoichigei same, I enjoyed the series.

I had the referenced EGM! I didn’t know it was a meme lol. I was still heavy into 2D games, so I remember seeing the skeletons and just being very unenthusiastic.

The fact that the Neo Geo is and has continually pushed the limits of its functionality is amazing. I thought Samurai Shodown as a teen was as good as it gets. This thing will never die and I’m here for it.

@jygsaw and just now remembering there was a Starblade port…

I guess I’m dumb, because I didn’t know the 3DO was capable of pushing polygons.

Man, Apogee was THAT game dev in the DOS days. Cool to see this!

I think we can all agree that only people that deserved to be attacked is the Supersega “team”.

Crazy, was just thinking about how the CDi lacked fighting games.

To this day, I still wonder what SNES CD games would’ve been like. If I remember correctly, what became Chrono Trigger was originally a CD game.

I know he only really covers the PC sector, but it’d be so cool to see Steve from Gamers Nexus dig into this chump.

EDIT: Annnnnd, it’s just another Android emulator machine. Mehhhhh.

Ehhhh all the PC handhelds are all the same to me now. Unless they’re doing some kind of FPGA dealy, I’m not too excited.

Yo, if this is a mini PC with oculink, I might bite 😆