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Re: Atari Gobbles Up AtariAge, One Of The Web's Oldest Retro Gaming Sites

romanista

Sort of a dream
And a nightmare for a retrosite

Interesting how atari has become all about history now. Just downloaded the atari memorial on switch. Really feels. Good little border in my groups between the jap and the western nso apps. Really nicely done. Tempest 2k remains magical even thouhj tempest 4k is sitting on my switch too

Re: Glow In The Dark Analogue Pocket Announced

romanista

Lovely, but personnally i am happy with my white, not sure if they are competing resources, but their firmware updates are way behind planning, so they should focus on that...

Great that they have production now under control

Re: Talking Point: Does Video Game History Have A "Nintendo" Problem?

romanista

Yes. For sure. And it get worse. I recently saw a top 100 of games voted for by amongst others eurogamer and nintendo life and it contained no amiga games at all and barely and other home computer games…

15 years ago sensible world of soccer was still one ‘the most important games of all time’ according to the games fev conference but now https://www.gamesindustry.biz/sensible-world-of-soccer-named-one-of-the-top-10-most-influential-games-of-all-time

Oh and damien pointing out that banjo sold 3 million on a smaller platform is a bit of a logical fallacy. Selling 3 million to gamers did both, so why only one with a famous developer libked to two platform holders should get the attention…

Re: Anniversary: Mario Kart Wii is 15

romanista

My ‘favourite’ moment when i finally got gold stars on the cup with bowser castle. I jumped up and the cord between wiimote and nunchuk got stuck in my lamp, taking part of the lamp down…

Re: CAVE Story: The Chronicles of DonPachi, The Shmup Series That Changed Everything

romanista

@tom-massey thanx for the article.. maybe good to add that M2 is porting a special shottriggers edition of DOJ to ps4 this year..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXqbXhVGOsE

And on the Ikaruga thing.. it might just be that Treasure was already legendary here for gunstar heroes (and radiant silvergun), and Ikaruga was ported directly to GC and DC.. (being on a Naomi board the latter was easy, more so than a specialised board like cave's)

Re: Talking Point: Where Do You Stand On "Ethical Emulation"?

romanista

My two cents,

1. For the legal compilations companies are leaning a lot on emulators developed by volunteers, partly because they still wanted a play a game (see the nintendo example cited above, when nintendo even used a rom ripped for such an emulator.

2. The people who like classic games are both the target group for those emulators and for well done classic compilations, and most of them thefore own lots of them, as well as some of those classic games themselves, as well as maybe having some roms.. I think this is a healthy diet to keep interest in classic games alive... (we would otherwise maybe never have those compilations in the first place)

3. Don't forget the role of game discovery.. I bought fire emblem engage partly because I experienced the gba games..

Re: Hands On: We Went To Japan To Play M2's Amazing 'SenXin Aleste'

romanista

Nice to have some mystery again and something exclusive japanese..

alrthough i would love a ps5/switch port ofcourse...

And it would be great in M2 released the GG rom of aleste 3 fro mtheir collection.. i would happily pay for it to play it on the analogue pocket.. (it seems to be impossible to extract until now)

Re: Analogue Pocket Update Adds New Library Function

romanista

Spend a nice afternoon putting all my GBA/GC/GB titles in and out to fill the library.. nice little touch to look at your collection.. (on the site it showed that it would be like a wii-style diary too, but it's isn't yet alas)..

and i ended up playing bugs bunny GB for the rest of the afternoon... looks beautiful on it..

Re: The Tale Of Witchwood, Team17's Abandoned Zelda Rival

romanista

Nice article, I remember reading about this game back in the day; but let's not forget that team 17 often was technical impressive, but without understanding how a genre really ticket, leaving things like (Amiga: Overdrive which was no patch on super skid marks, Body blows which looks nice, but shadow fighter playing that much better)