I had a Nokia N-Gage tshirt, it was rad
The Atari Lynx, I guess? I have one of the nicer second revisions, still works a treat. Ninja Gaiden III on it is, er, somethin’.
One of the main brains behind it passed away a month or so ago, so :<
My barely working 32X had the first near-perfect ports of Space Harrier and Afterburner. Stellar Assault and/or Zaxxon is peak flat-shading. Knuckles Chaotix looks and sounds at least as good as if not better than Sonic 1-3 but I couldn’t wrap my brain around getting through the levels so it was a chore to play for me. There is also Kolibri which is what you would expect a shmup by the makers of Ecco to be like.
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I regularly wear my Phantom shirt. It still glows in the dark.
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I still remember my middle brother explaining to me we why we HAD to get a 32X.
To be fair, I think the price had dropped to, like, $50 with two games at Wal*Mart, so it was a fine purchase.
He was saying, “32X! That means it’s got 32 bits, which means the graphics are as good as a Playstation!”
Riiiight…
It still tickles me to think that the deeply flawed hardware development strategy that was arguably the first nail in Sega’s coffin made total sense to a twelve year old boy. He was basically measuring things on a bucks to bits ratio, and he was like, “I can’t lose!”
I remember being very tempted by the Jaguar when I was a similar age and happened across it at Electronics Boutique. 64 bits! How could I go wrong? Luckily, by then the same brother shepherded me away. “Look at the games on the back of the box,” he said. “They don’t have any games.”
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I also remember hotly debating Genesis vs. SNES among my two bothers as a kid (w/r/t which should we ask for for Christmas).
My shining insight was, “Well, Nintendo has Mario, but Sega has Sonic.” My middle brother considered this to be a valid point, whereas I think my oldest brother was trying to find some way to trick us into buying a Final Fantasy box.
but the mega drive has phantasy star iv and shining force!
oddly, i was actually thinking about this earlier: did any snes srpgs ever make it to the west?
Which ones are you thinking of?
Tactics Ogre definitely did.
i was thinking of "any"
so tactics ogre would count
Chrono Trigger, Tactics Ogre, Lufia 1 & 2, Breath of fire 1 & 2 I think, Two or three of the SNES Final Fantasies. I think one or more of the STING Rpg’s did.
Many of those are not strategy RPGs in a sense that I recognize.
The Dreamcast wasn’t a failure so I don’t need to write about it in this thread!!!
NGPC is also fantastic. They live on in my heart everyday.
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The Dreamcast makes me think of Bernie Sanders, but it’s probably more of a Nader.
I voted for Nader, incidentally.
I don’t know what a “failure tulpa” is
I wish I had more left to discover on the NGPC. It would be cool if there had been some more token Sega games, maybe a few more Capcom titles.
which presidential candidate is the ouya
What is an ouya?
(Don’t bother. I don’t care enough to look it up, so I don’t deserve to know.)
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it’s not worth looking up tbh
rand paul
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It was pure pandering when Nader said that Sonic Adventure had better level design than Mario 64.
But he needed to get that 1% of the voter base to qualify the Green Party for Federal funding or whatever.
I really wanted there to be more shmups, since that click stick was go awesome. But the only one is Cotton, which used to always go for $100, which was more than I could spend and now always goes for $200, which is more than I want to spend. But I guess it will go up forever and ever, so maybe I should just buy it; I dunno. I feel like that would send me over the edge into true collector scum. Why is there no portable emu box with an NGPC click stick?
Unfortunately, I could never really gel with any of the fighting games. I didn’t mind only having two attack buttons but I guess the super deformed ratios just felt wrong, as if the hitbox placement were “muddy” somehow.
“We hired the most brilliant designers in the world to create a completely uncomfortable and ugly controller!”