Son Of General Retro Discussion

Kolido · 03-05-2012 1:28pm

I'm thinking of getting a Neo Geo pocket colour, does anyone recommend it.
What kind of game library does it have, big/expensive, and what kind of price range would I be looking at for the handheld on ebay?

I appreciate any help guys, thanks.

Steve X2 · 03-05-2012 1:32pm

Sparks43 wrote: »

Cheers m8

I am probably going to do the CCNA if i dont get a job before August.

Even if i get a job im still going for more Qualis

CCNA is good to have all right. My last exam was a Cisco one but to be honest I bloody hate Cisco work and wouldn't like to have to do it every day.

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o1s1n · 03-05-2012 1:33pm

Congrats Sparks43!

Exams freak the crap out of me. I got away without doing any in college as it was all project based work, so no tests. Just presentations to get through.

Thought I was home free - then I started working in software licensing

Andrew76 · 03-05-2012 2:08pm

@Sparks: Well done sir!

Kolido wrote: »

I'm thinking of getting a Neo Geo pocket colour, does anyone recommend it.
What kind of game library does it have, big/expensive, and what kind of price range would I be looking at for the handheld on ebay?

I appreciate any help guys, thanks.

Yes it's definitely worth getting. Not a huge library but lots of great games and cheap too if you don't mind cart only. Metal Slugs, Neo Turf Masters, Sonic, Pac-man, numerous figthers, puzzlers, lots of good stuff. The Console itself is fairly cheap too the last time I looked - fabulous thumb stick on it. Shame the screen isn't back-lit but not a major issue. As always, ebay is the best source for them.

o1s1n · 03-05-2012 2:32pm

Giant +1 on the NGP, I love the thing

Cart only are cheap alright, but you can't beat the glory of those clamshell cases. They're beautiful.

Hank Scorpio · 03-05-2012 2:35pm

Picked up SMW and super bomberman 2 for 8 yoyos delivered from Japan. Only have SMW on an all stars cart and was in dire need of a bomberman game!

OwaynOTT · 03-05-2012 3:49pm

nuxxx wrote: »

Picked up SMW and super bomberman 2 for 8 yoyos delivered from Japan. Only have SMW on an all stars cart and was in dire need of a bomberman game!

Everyone should have a bomberman game.

Retr0gamer · 03-05-2012 4:35pm

Everyone should have Bomberman '93 and Saturn Bomberman, all the rest are irrelevant.

DinoRex · 03-05-2012 4:51pm

Eric and the Floaters is highly relevant!

Andrew76 · 03-05-2012 5:06pm

@DinoRex: How far did you get in Grimrock that time? Do you run out of food in the later levels I wonder? Sitting on lvl 4 I think, 4 or 5.

DinoRex · 03-05-2012 5:11pm

Andrew76 wrote: »

@DinoRex: How far did you get in Grimrock that time? Do you run out of food in the later levels I wonder? Sitting on lvl 4 I think, 4 or 5.

Oh yes. 4 had some tricky moments. Have you gotten to the part with the trap doors opening underneath you and you have to make your way down the corridor really quick?

I've made it to level 5 but got distracted by The Wticher 2 then. May go back to Grimrock this evening.

Andrew76 · 03-05-2012 5:15pm

DinoRex wrote: »

Oh yes. 4 had some tricky moments. Have you gotten to the part with the trap doors opening underneath you and you have to make your way down the corridor really quick?

I've made it to level 5 but got distracted by The Wticher 2 then. May go back to Grimrock this evening.

Hah so I'm still on lvl 4 so, think I fell down to parts of lvl 5 then warped back up. I seem to remember seeing giant green blobs of ooze at some stage. Have that trap door run still to do, some of those timing puzzles where you need to throw something across pits at just the right time to catch a warp are tricky. There's also a section where the mobs seem to endlessly spawn.

I could do with finding more flasks to make potions etc.

DinoRex · 03-05-2012 5:17pm

Oh yes. They re-spawn for a reason. You need to use them to solve the puzzle.

DinoRex · 03-05-2012 5:43pm

Why I hate being asked to press 'X' in a QTE:

Doge · 03-05-2012 7:50pm

They should have went with:

....N
W.....E
....S

Would have been so much more universal.

Retr0gamer · 03-05-2012 8:12pm

They should keep the SNES layout. Sony should be murdered for making the bottom button select and the primary button when the right hand button is so much more ergonomic.

Myrddin · 03-05-2012 9:22pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

They should keep the SNES layout. Sony should be murdered for making the bottom button select and the primary button when the right hand button is so much more ergonomic.

The Snes layout should have been definitive.

o1s1n · 03-05-2012 10:58pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

They should keep the SNES layout. Sony should be murdered for making the bottom button select and the primary button when the right hand button is so much more ergonomic.

Isn't that only a Western thing though? Don't a load of Japanese PS1 games have right button confirm layouts? Or is that just my imagination?

DinoRex · 03-05-2012 11:02pm

I like the SNES one as it looks the most like skittles.

Although the US ones were boring... but had the dimples on the top two buttons.

o1s1n · 03-05-2012 11:10pm

DinoRex wrote: »

but had the dimples on the top two buttons.

It's odd isn't it? I'd love to know why two buttons are concave. Aesthetic or something more?

OwaynOTT · 03-05-2012 11:11pm

DinoRex wrote: »

I like the SNES one as it looks the most like skittles.

Although the US ones were boring... but had the dimples on the top two buttons.

US ones look like smarties after you had them in a class of coke.

Retr0gamer · 03-05-2012 11:16pm

o1s1n wrote: »

Isn't that only a Western thing though? Don't a load of Japanese PS1 games have right button confirm layouts? Or is that just my imagination?

Some do,others have changed. All DS games at least have it proper. MGS is still holding the fort in the west.

Retr0gamer · 03-05-2012 11:25pm

Who ever is responsible for Batman on the NES is a sadistic ****.

Jack burton · 03-05-2012 11:33pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Some do,others have changed. All DS games at least have it proper. MGS is still holding the fort in the west.

Yeah I was going to mention MGS reppin the JDM!

Just got money into my paypal and I already had to pay for this

http://www.ebay.ie/itm/130679305113?var=430061798206&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649

and I have to send a board off to get repaired for my arcade machine

Have to get mameing my Naomi then, that should be fun! I was half thinking of leaving it as a stand alone cab for an awesome game though. Anyone got any tips if I should and get another cab to mame

Hank Scorpio · 04-05-2012 1:31am

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Everyone should have Bomberman '93 and Saturn Bomberman, all the rest are irrelevant.

Don't have those consoles bro, so bomberman 2 on the snes will do for now

OwaynOTT · 04-05-2012 1:48am

Dynablaster! was one of the other games I had with my original gameboy. I know it was like a bomberman game but not called bomberman but it was Bomberman but called Dynablaster. Loved that game.*

*nostalgia mode activated.

DinoRex · 04-05-2012 1:50am

It was Dynablaster on the Amiga as well.

DinoRex · 04-05-2012 2:09pm

Now this is one of those Lego vote things I can get behind:

http://lego.cuusoo.com/ideas/view/6809

CiDeRmAn · 04-05-2012 10:09pm

I'm looking to buy Super Star Wars for the Snes, found some going for frak all but they are German localised versions, anyone know if this extends beyond the instructions? Might get them if not.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 04-05-2012 11:37pm

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DinoRex · 05-05-2012 4:43pm

Another podcast now in the can.

(there may not actually be a can)

Hank Scorpio · 06-05-2012 12:49am

nm was looking for the name of a game and found it!

johnny_ultimate · 06-05-2012 1:07am

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o1s1n · 06-05-2012 1:26am

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Sparks43 · 06-05-2012 1:56am

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

¡pɹɐnƃ ɹnoʎ uo ǝq ˙ǝʇısqǝʍ ssǝlʇuıod ɐ ƃuıɥɔɐoɹddɐ ʎlpıdɐɹ ǝɹɐ ǝM

http://www.upsidedowntext.com/

(-: sɹǝıplos ɟo ǝɯɐƃ ɐ ɹoɟ ʇɐɥʇ ʞɔnℲ

OwaynOTT · 06-05-2012 2:10am

Upside down. Ah it's like my pics I post in the everything you get new thread.

Oh I cut up a super adventure island box today open my post!

Myrddin · 06-05-2012 12:15pm

Johnny Ultimate defending the FIFA franchise in the games forum, seriously does not compute :P

johnny_ultimate · 06-05-2012 12:25pm

I've become far more peaceful and open-minded in my older age. It's easier to love than hate, man. I have grown to appreciate FIFA's place in the world, even if I have absolutely no ****ing interest in playing it myself.

And anyway...

o1s1n · 06-05-2012 12:28pm

EnterNow wrote: »

Johnny Ultimate defending the FIFA franchise in the games forum, seriously does not compute :P

He's also started defending EA too.

Myrddin · 06-05-2012 12:37pm

I suppose he's right about the meme, it does apply here. I just can't get my head around the whole thing

o1s1n · 06-05-2012 12:38pm

What happens when he starts hating mainstream again because liking mainstream is too mainstream because hating mainstream is too mainstream?

Myrddin · 06-05-2012 12:42pm

o1s1n wrote: »

What happens when he starts hating mainstream again because liking mainstream is too mainstream because hating mainstream is too mainstream?

An uber-hipster? I dunno if I could handle this forum if that ever happens

johnny_ultimate · 06-05-2012 12:48pm

o1s1n wrote: »

What happens when he starts hating mainstream again because liking mainstream is too mainstream because hating mainstream is too mainstream?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou6JNQwPWE0

CiDeRmAn · 06-05-2012 2:44pm

Yeah, when that happens the known universe will undergo a massive collapse and be reborn, with Johnny U as God, then he has to hang around until there's enough heavy elements to support a life form that can create and play videogames.
At this point he can define "mainstream" for himself....

A slightly easier pathway is to become a fascist dictator of this country, then use his secret police to enforce fashion and taste, altering this every few months and destroying the evidence of the previous "mainstream" incumbent, eventually spreading his powerbase to the rest of the planet...

safetyboy · 06-05-2012 9:18pm

http://probertson.tumblr.com/

pixel madness!

Doge · 06-05-2012 11:10pm

safetyboy wrote: »

http://probertson.tumblr.com/

pixel madness!

*pixelgasm* overload!

Atavan-Halen · 07-05-2012 2:28am

Starships, were meant to flyyyyyyy!

Lol I'm drunk, **** all the haters. Also I want a ghetto bitch like nicki minaj.

Atavan-Halen · 07-05-2012 2:36am

Also, I drive a BMW now so you know like whatever.

Atavan-Halen · 07-05-2012 2:43am

Also also. Why isn't okamiden the best game ever. I've Inly played 30 mins and it's. My face game ever.

johnny_ultimate · 07-05-2012 3:27am

Ah, drunk atavan. When the liquor goes in, the rules of grammar go out

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