i started playing shenmue iii, and i think maybe the most important ingredient of a good-looking game is the colour palette
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i think a lot about how my littlest brother (11âŚ?) started making the mario 64 long fall noise when encountering any minor inconvenience. like heâd drop a chip or something and look down and quietly say âwaAaAaAaAahhhâ. i donât think heâs ever played that game.
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this reminds me of how i (and other people i knew) used to imitate the Wolf 3D âYEAH!â victory jump as kids
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there were probably people who bought an n64 because they were anime fans, and the snes was the anime console of the early 90s, and they assumed that that would continue to be the case for nintendoâs next console.
most would probably have just traded it in for a playstation or a saturn eventually, but there were probably a few who stuck it out, living on desperate rations of evangelion and pokemon snap
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I wonder which consoles can be considered anime consoles & which are just the most popular to release any sort of licensed game on like the sfc. I do think there is kind of a cd-rom fmv/voice aspect to anime games that people were probably ready to switch to psx/saturn right off the bat. and they had like a year and a half to decide. Just saying I think about this kind of stuff too lol
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I dunno if itâd be anime in general, but the casio loopy is absolutely the sailor moon console
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the pcfx was specifically intended to be an anime console, with a regular disc magazine of anime trailers and voice actor interviews and such.
then they forgot to release actual games on it, oops
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Sort of unrelated but in my head, sailor moon was really into her pc engine, then as a hardcore gamer decided to get a Japanese 3do or a pc-fx right when it came out, and pretty much stopped playing video games shortly after that without really understanding or pondering why she got bored.
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The Dreamcast was the last non-handheld anime console, succeeded by only the Vita.
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i always considered the vita the handheld hd dreamcast (because of the many many arcade ports you could officially play on it, between the ps1, psp, and native libraries), so thatâs acceptable
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They both use Hall effect sticks and PowerVR graphics too
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gucci gang sounds like stone tower temple from majoraâs mask
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360 true weeb console forever
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Last night I got so mad when someone linked a YouTuber saying âyouâd be surprised that the 360 had a shmupâ and I was like NO you would NOT cuz if you were really hardcore you woulda known that Microsoftâs willingness to throw around money and Sonyâs refusal to grant licenses to smaller Japanese devs meant all the good Japanese HD Era games were on Xbox
Also those were almost the only good HD era games
Also the only good PS3 games were Spelunker HD and Demonâs Souls 
so not all the good Japanese games but close enough close enough
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and Tokyo Jungle
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still haunted by the âLinksâ page for worldâs first gamer webcomic, Polymer City Chronicles. interesting in reading more about videogames on the net? hereâs a little gamerâs tip for you: why not take a trip to xbox dot com.
the comic itself defies description but i will say that the penny arcade format of two little nerd guys make jokes about videogames turns out to have been a significant step downwards from having a single little nerd guy make jokes about videogames while his enormously buff amazonian wife constantly tries to drag him off panel to have sex with. also all the strips have titles like âhalf-wifeâ and in the FAQs he talks about how his sense of colour theory is mostly influenced by Unreal Tournament. truly it was all downhill from here.
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i ws just thinking the other about how bleak that era was. on the ps1, ps2, and dreamcast, i was constantly getting excited for new games. then with the xbox 360, it was a couple of times a year.
now with the ps4, iâve got backlog of games to play and a backlog of games to buy
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Iâm pretty sure sheâs usually depicted playing sega-like consoles in the show but my memory could be failing here
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I always thought of sailor jupiter as the megadriver. Idk how to explain it though. She would quit videogames after that, except to play ff7 on a friendâs psx.
Sailor mercury is loaded, especially in the manga, so she would have her own pc-98. She would mostly use it for studying though, sheâd only own 1 or 2 games. Definitely no horny games or robot games. JB Harold Murder Club & 46 Okunen Monogatari I would say.
Sailor mars would have a super famicom and play only the big name jrpgs like dragon quest & final fantasy, plus anime licensed games. and I think would have continued this trend into present day.
Sailor venus would have gotten an atari lynx when she lived in the UK and barely played it. Later she would have been suprised to see some lynx games being sold in japan but not cared enough to buy any.
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