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Re: "I Will Always Cherish That Chapter Of My Life" - A Million Subs Later, One Of Retro Gaming's Most Famous YouTubers Calls It Quits

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I always found his channel overrated. His research is detailed and in-depth but he covers the same topics that have been covered endlessly by everyone else. Norman will put out a video on Super Mario Kart and then everyone will think this is the first time it's been covered. That channel could have done a lot more interesting stuff.

@X68000 The irony of course is Norman started as a sort of early AVGN copy. Laid back, no nonsense with arms folded and slightly arrogant. Then he stopped making videos for a few years and when he came back he became the more natural "well that's just swell" persona he's been since. ๐Ÿ˜‚

@Banjo- Try to widen your search. There are more channels out there covering more variety of topics. I'd hate to think you think this is as informative as retro gaming content gets.

@Sketcz I had no idea about this. I'm somehow not surprised as my comment above shows his audience believe his topics are new only when he's covered them. It's very frustrating. His sources could easily be put into his videos but then creating an ignorance might be unintentionally beneficial to him I guess? ๐Ÿค”

Re: Looks Like Zool Is The Latest '90s Mascot To Get A Revival

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My favourite game of all time is coming back!!! Again! Wasn't too keen on the changes made to the console ports but the Amiga original is terrific fun. ๐Ÿ˜Š

@Fallingshadow The version they ported was the Mega Drive version so here's hoping they have access to the original Amiga version this time and can get the Chupa Chups licencing.

Re: "This Is A Regret In My Life" - Sonic X-treme Designer On The "Fork In The Road" That Killed Saturn's Most Famous Unreleased Game

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One of the main problems as we all know is Japan just was very toxic to the American branch. That's ultimately why Sonic X-treme was never completed. What still baffles me to this day is they were clearly capable of doing a 3D Sonic game as Sonic Jam shows so why not just do more of that? ๐Ÿค”

@Sketcz Yes it does look like Bug! which is great as a Bug! as that's a classic platformer game for Saturn but it doesn't fit Sonic well.

Re: "The [NES] Is Not Gonna Go On Forever" - Forget GDC 2026, Take A Trip Back In Time With Recordings From The 1989 Event

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@KingMike I mean it was a technically worse console than SMS. I'm not trying to negate the popularity of the NES but it was very overrated compared to what the SMS could do. SMS had more potential but as you've stated was let down by not enough big third party support. What we got however was still incredible.

To be clear I'm also not putting 100% of the ignorance on North America. Nintendo made sure all gamers knew there about their console and nothing else. They created a drone loyalty that still exists today. Japan is guilty of this as well.

My position of being in Europe is actually beneficial because I was able to expose myself to many different regions of gaming, unlike NA and Japan.