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me, a 1990s teen at 3am, hearing that jingle, knowing full well that Gradius III is about to kick my butt

That’s really too bad. While novel (I definitely have no space for em, anyhoo), they played nicely. CAPCOM ones were fun for a quick go.

I don’t think this about most people, but I wish he’d trip and fall into a ditch after which a donkey relieves itself on him.

Something about the design harkens back to the 16-bit era for me. Kinda cool.

Love the keyboards, but not for that price.

@cyxceven saw that on a bathroom wall once. They must’ve really loved Sega.

Such an iconic voice. Heck, during the Alpha/Zero-era, my friend and I would often taunt each other with Bison and Akuma win quotes, IRL. Condolences to his family.

The NES port was the only version I knew of the game. I thought it was immaculate.

Are you a bad enough dude to have a burger with Ronnie?

Noooooo, legitimately one of my favorite actors 😢 he will be sorely missed. Condolences to good family.

Can’t wait to dig into this!

Much too young to go. My heart goes out to his loved ones.

@Deuteros USA! USA!

Huh. Turbo with scaling would’ve been something.

@Sketcz Interestingly, from what I’ve read over the years, Secret of Mana sprang out of the cancellation of the SNES CD. Chrono Trigger was supposed to an action RPG for the CD platform, but once that fell apart, it became the SNES game we know and love. The action RPG elements were used to create SoM. It’s my own theory that that’s why Chrono and Marle sorta resemble Randi and Primm. But yeah, imagine that. A world where Chrono Trigger played a lot like Secret of Mana.

Game Gear was an increasing duck. I once borrowed it from my friend who had long stopped playing it. The only way I could really play it was with the AC adapter in a well lit room. So most of my gameplay was in my family’s small apartment, in the kitchen. It was nowhere near as fun as my Game Boy, in the long run.

There’s a difference between making AI slop for a good laugh and keeping it to yourself vs releasing out to the public, hoping people will love it.

Perhaps they could create an update with a “Classic Mode” that reintroduces the PS1 lag and difficulty tweak?

People keep mentioning “the people involved” and how it’s not surprising. Can anyone elaborate? I’m in the dark here :

@Sketcz heck, how about the Game Shark or Pro Action Replay?

@Deuteros The long short of it is that the GBA is nowhere near as powerful as the consoles you mentioned. You could think of the GBA as a kind of SNES+. Outperforms 16-bit consoles, yes. But the rest of the 32-bit systems (and 1 64-bit in the N64, as well as 24-bit in the case of the Neo Geo) are more powerful.

@h3s That’s technically true, but I knew not one person with those consoles. Heck, the rich kid at my school who had most of the consoles (Ryan Sykes, what a guy!) had everything from an Atari 2600 up to a Neo Geo, but not those two.

This port is INCREDIBLE. A harken back to an era of just good old fashioned fun. I hope that homebrew devs keep at it. I would love to continue to see “new” ports drop in the consoles I have so much love for.

There was something about imports, back in the 90s. I remember a small shop opened in my town, the only one to ever carry import games. It was an experience to actually hold Japanese game boxes. I sure do miss that feeling.

In a perfect world (at least, for PCE) SF2 Turbo might’ve been a pretty cool port with the CD/arcade card combo. The SNK ports in that fashion were pretty good.

Having messed around with AI pretty extensively, I can tell that logo in the YouTube thumbnail is AI-generated. It’s a font that ChatGPT likes to default to when you tell it something like “and make it a JRPG logo”

Huh, interesting. I wonder if it’s the same for something like Chrono Trigger.

@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.