Tanooki

I never liked the controller. I got one that came with my SuperNT last year and it never felt 100% right, but what really ticked me off was the short battery life of it and the receiver. Maybe I'm spoiled by the ground unicorn horn powered Nintendo batteries in their controllers, but I felt like I had to keep charging the thing every few days to a week or it would be dead so I shelved it and stuck with my corded originals. It just sold on ebay this evening so it'll be out of my hair for good shortly.

I knew no one with a Saturn until I found a co-worker selling one in 2001 which I bought, then got some import games for as much as US since the library (like PCE) was weak compared. Had Sega not repeatedly shot themselves like it felt good and was fun, the DC would have stomped the Saturn given it sold almost the same total games in a fraction of the time. Sure it would have been weak and less cool against the 3 that were there in 2001 forward, but it was also the cheaper system so Sega could have positioned it as the $100-150 budget box and done alright I would hope.

I'd have to go with the vote for Shock Troopers as well on this as I own it on MVS, and blended with some Alien Syndrome (3D not original) mechanics with the powering up and what not and the alien stuff obviously. I've kept an eye out, being on the format it was originally projected for I kind of blew it off until I saw it got a posting for GoG.com so when I feel the time is right I'm going to snap that up. There are other fairly recently made throwbacks of the 90s era stuff too I'd love to get as well like Iron Fury and Project Warlock too.

I wonder if Larry would pop up again, another victim of the permanently out of stock bin at retrousb. I know or at least I'm pretty certain the ROM never got released other than a demo.

That I do remember. I've met at few from the former site and I can't remember the name of one (sorry) but I did see BalloonFight made a presence here, but I've yet to see samspade pop up.

Romi: Do you have any solid evidence of that or just something of the bs rumor mill? That's sickening if that's the case and that others colluded in on it. Bronty: I'd agree and you'll get no argument out of me. Just because someone can buy doesn't mean they will, and even if they did, odds are unless they're some charitable deep pocketed saint they'd want to see the gold at the other end of the rainbow to get something back ahead out of it when they're over it. Good, I thought I remembered that drive was fixed but I just didn't feel the need to go digging to re-check the videos out as it was done over time and not all at once. And yes that old story was and is kind of convenient and your guess could very well be true as I think being honest here, people in general would pull a stunt like that if they knew what they had and if that is the case, there you go. I thought they were nice at the show I got to play it a bit at, and it was kind of a dream thing because my best friend going back to high school had a cool story around another (same) of those units which did in fact have some stuff on disc for it he was unable to try before his buddy moved. That and well we all knew of it if you read the old NP mag and others in the earlier 90s. I'm sure the current owner's kindness is self motivated like you said and I'd be kind of shocked if it wasn't.

Ahh the fun of D-cell battery night at the park. I didn't either. I never had them back in the day, vaguely remember seeing one, but a couple years ago I found the first two locally and I tried them for a little while like as boring moment or bathroom readers due to how they're done, but they're poor, very poor and the tips range from suck to misleading so I tossed them out as they weren't even worth trying to trade or sell the things. I've got the Official guide there, so yeah it's an odd omission at the time. One thing I've picked up over the last few years since going MIA is a lot of those first party and a few more useful third party guides.

True, but you do have to question making a D battery or pretty much any battery with a system part of a complete set unless that battery came packed in the box sealed up new, and even then it would have to be the one they specifically got for the package like with Gameboy, Virtual Boy, etc. I did find it interesting skimming that I didn't see the 10 Worlds of Power scholastic reader books from 1990 there in the book section as they're all NES titles with hints to play the game by at the end of every chapter.

I thought Ben Heck repaired the disc drive and had it play audio given there are no prototype game CDs floating around to test it. There is a set of videos on youtube from a few years ago that show the entire tear down, discovery and repair steps taken. I'm curious maybe bronty is right about 4x the highest yet could be reasonable. It's just a tough one to call. What was the current most expensive proto hardware sold and for how much? I mean stepping back objectively this system as far as prototypes go probably has the most fascinating and impactful story behind it. You have a moment in time here where Sony who has been at the time a SNES partner in gaming and with the system audio core that was trusted to make the CD add-on system for the device. As history ended up showing a few key things came from that deal. One was Sony setting up their deal where Nintendo would have to manufacture the game media yet Sony gets 100% of the royalty fees on each game which is just unreasonable to put a nice word to it. Nintendo catches wind and tosses them to the curb for the Philips choice which ended up not working for games well and that goes off in its tangent Nintendo being paranoid about optical until the Gamecube. One system gets slightly retooled and has the needed components the SNES would have offered added to make the PS1, the other ends up trying to pitch VCD as a format through the CDi. I think we know the history of the Playstation brand (and CDi too.) This greats a unique point of interest of 2 great hardware game makers, a story of deceit and multi-layered backstabbing of Sony on Nintendo, Nintendo on Sony to Philips, then Nintendo tossing Philips under the bus and them stuck doing their CDi failure. It captures multiple audiences, and when you get overlap that increases value and valued interest. I'm not saying $3M is fair or perhaps even reasonable, but you do have to wonder what some business or grouping of individuals would pay to grab this.

I'd have to agree warmly, not a dry concede on the WiiU doing one thing right, off tv play. Despite the limited range it gave a taste of effective freedom. I used it quite a bit in that mode when I had it for the first half of it's failed life. It's a shame it was like their most horrific and painfully dragged out bomb given the damage it did to the company. I think if I recall correctly it was the only time in their history in the video game period (if not company wide) where they turned not only a quarter of losses but year over year too. Had the 3DS not propped it up as much as that thing could the damage could have been far more devastating.

Well they're not convenient ever to where I am, but next time they're near something and I am feeling the need I'll have to try it. After you worded it that way it makes me think a bit more like other places that have that kind of fake look of fast food like Steak & Shake which have a drive through too, but you'll end up waiting like 10min for your food or more as they don't pre-cook as it's a sit down restaurant. ...and like the capn put it there, that Cane's we got one of those a few years ago, and recently multiple more opened in town too. The first went in on the opposite side of the road as a CFA too and while it does get cars in the lot, it's never backed up and depending who I know has tried it it ranges from good to overpriced bland chicken fingers so I guess it's one of those love it or hate it places. But if they opened so many in a short time and they've stood up it can't be that bad.

We have some zaxbys here but I’ve yet to bother trying it for whatever reason. I know those who went loved that orange colored sauce they use and said the chicken was more chain restaurant quality than fast food-ish style. It does seem interesting. I’ve noticed in the last five to ten years a burger equal perhaps pop up called Culver’s.

I have and it stands well alone for dozens of solid games but no it wasn’t number one due to quantity. Quantity of storage, total releases and quality due to so much saturation the odds alone allow for lots to like. I don’t think though that nutty price is that nutty. It’s a good tactic to either keep it or get it to a likely entity that’ll make a display of it and not in the hands of some frothing loon golem wannabe that’ll hide their precious away.

You got that right, and they were just kind of chilling, eating, wandering too. Someone could have come in total cosplay style and walked off as it was not bolted down or anything at all.

Well if my local one has them still I go there usually once a week on Monday before my girls gymnastics class for dinner due to the time of it and I"ll see if they have one still. The nuggets have always been average at best, nothing remarkable and bland on their own. For me, it was always always about the sweet and sour sauce as I couldn't get enough and now most those places limit the packets so much it's hard to get good coverage.

You'll get no argument out of me, I've got the whole thing. The system was never given a chance, and the whole rot your eyes and headche thing was wholly overblown by people who didn't bother to set it up right combined with some people who just can't handle 3D (such as those who get queazy and eye pain playing even a game like DOOM(1993) and their type.

It's not politics you're baiting, it is about accusing a business of something it never did. Sure the owner Cathy did, but you're laying blame down on tens of thousands of employees that have lives, jobs, and opinions of their own that rely on that place to get by. 'They' didn't make that public, the owner did, on his own, in his own time in his own life, but people who hated hearing such things just rolled up the business into it as one giant hate factory which is laughable. You're skirting over what I said about the general manager locally here which seems to spit in the face of the 'hate group' tag the restaurant gets. It makes no sense if the company on the whole was anti gay, anti gay marriage, that they'd keep someone like that around and not just that but treat the guy with respect and care like anyone else on the payroll. I'm saying there should be a public response, but bashing the company because of one idiot is the wrong message and wrong thing to do. Hey if you want to be full of that self righteous cancel culture type of people, have at it, but it's not going to win you any head way with more people than not which is evidenced in CFAs case by the business they do despite the petty attacks. When CFA decides to cross the line and make that their corporate policy written or otherwise to shame out people from working there and dissuade them from even patronizing their business then I'd have a problem with the business and want nothing to do with it.

Same here, same year I remember that. They were nice to talk with for a bit while playing that game.

Hmm here's how I've got it setup, be amazed, bored or annoyed depending on your levels of OCD. What isn't seen, below the PCE stuff are 2 correct height to stand sideways MVS carts and one where 6 can lay 2x3 flat, and under switch is a space for just a few PSP and PS3 cases, and under there a few PS1 double cases or specials like Lunar, and under that a couple very low space N64 lines. All stand up cases and MVS stickers run the same direction so really just the NES is reversed with the grip up top. Everything else has toys, you can see some of them in that as it is. I wasn't kidding when I said I don't have what i used to.

The cheapest ones (Ninja Gaiden and Blaster Master) are worth around $10 shipped or local to save shipping. The others seem to get like $15-25 for the next few. Shadowgate unless you get lucky seems to get a little bit higher than the others of the original set of 8. Then there were two junior readers bigger in dimensions and larger print for Mega Man 2 which is cheap, but the (like shadowgate) lower run last book Bases Loaded can get really expensive as it turns up not much at all (currently not even a sold or ignored one on ebay.) Back in the day I got them at those old scholastic book fairs as a kid. I know I had MM2 of the larger print even if it was easy just because it was Mega Man 2. The standard books I know I had Castlevania II, Ninja Gaiden, Metal Gear, Blaster Master, and I think I had Wizards and Warriors. I never did get Bionic Commando, Infiltrator, or Shadowgate so that one is a new read for me for casual fun. They're all around 110-130pages each about so it's an easy hour read for light fun.

It's just either the owner being delusional from years of fanboys sucking up to them and all the glory from shows and the ben heck repairs, or that's truly the I don't want to tell price just to put a number on it to quietly and nicely say screw you not for sale without just saying it. In other words, even Dr Evil can't afford it.

Agreed, a truly terribly designed system Nintendo fouled up and third parties made them pay over given the library. And due to the sad sales of the thing, they take most of the single party greats and stuff them on Switch, a couple on 3DS, and then the titles get the sales, profit, and respect they had been lacking and deserved. It really does say a lot. I still wouldn't call anything else about the WiiU good as it's a dumpster fire in design, but the games, you can't argue Nintendo had some great stuff thankfully spared the indignity of bottom dwelling due to the ports.

I need an I'm on the fence option with this as I really feel that way, and still do about 2018's ATGames Sega Genesis too considering the last one they did was the only one that was done so well it even topped Sega's Mini out now (which is kind of sad.) I've got a Core Grafx2 with an everdrive along with two dozen legit games for the system as well. The thing that keeps me on the fence are the CD titles because I love Ys1+2 and Dracula X as I use to own those 15 years ago. I know it sounds maybe terrible, but if that thing can be easily cracked open as the NES and SNES systems were I'd probably go from fence sitter to committed buyer. I wouldn't remove the existing at all, but I'd love to add the other CDs I used to own, not much beyond that, I'm not greedy, just want a trip down memory road with Cotton, Godzilla, Panic Bomber, RayXanber2 and 3, Gate of Thunder/3in1, and a few others.

Well I don't about it being a misstep. Maybe an oversight at best not letting the public know that in time there would be too many to fit into one game storage device. It's pretty insufferable and immature for people to get so pissed off and nasty about it really flaunting that negative stigma of the whole entitlement culture going on. To think that when it hit 500 they kept them all was pretty generous, but now that we're teetering near a 1000 of them it's asinine and delusional to think they'd keep placing everything in every game. Stepping back to think about it you'd need all the end user statistical data, goofy texture descriptions, the sound effects, the bodies from all angles and every single animation of them, their attacks, their defenses, and other odd animations too. That stuff really begins to add up. And despite the obvious giant amount of space to hold all that data, you have to figure the dedicated members of the team that would solely be stuck on just working this junk into each game every year or two. And that would be a job in itself on top of designing a whole new set of characters, worlds, stories, and the new batch of critters and all their requirements to work too. At some point enough is enough, grow up and respect the developers and understand you can't expect to get 15, 20, 25 year old creatures in each new game.

I forgot that Darkwing was 1992 out like almost a year after the SNES. A very good game using the mega man engine on that one and earlier this year I bit for the GB version of it too and due to that fairly recently I decided to grab the two Duck Tales handheld releases as well. I like the little differences so they're not just straight cheap ports exactly. Looking back, unlike the over inflated orgy that Taito stuff gets I felt the Capcom games were more impressive 1992 and after, and I have owned all of them but Gold Medal Challenge and Rescu Rangers 2 and currently I don't have GiJoe either. They really did ahead of expectation quality stuff right along side of their workers doing that amazing SNES stuff in those days.