Keep Calm And Discuss Retro Generally!

o1s1n

CiDeRmAn

Ah, Master System owners back in the day, puts me in mind of this....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaNt9-QkiHI

Retr0gamer

Kind of weird you would say that because in Europe, including Ireland, there were a lot more master system owners. It would be the opposite way around. But since most people get their news ans opinions from the US now people seem to believe the master system was the also ran console when it was the NES in Europe.

However you could put me in that picture with my C64 while everyone else played SNES and Megadrive I had that machine way too long

o1s1n

People owned Master Systems, but I wouldn't have said it was the other way around? Definitely not in the circles of kids I played with anyway. Only knew one person with a Master System but many with a NES.

OwaynOTT

I knew of only one kid with a master system as well.

Retr0gamer

When was this though, because the NES did become popular with the poor kids when it was a cheap alternative to the SNES/Megadrive. Pre-92 though you'd be lucky to see one.

CiDeRmAn

Mayhap's Balbriggan was different.
'brig cit was a hotbed of Master Sytem fandom, and island of madness amongst the ubiquitous Nes owning masses.
While they were playing Duck Hunt and Super Mario Bros 3, Master System owners had Afterburner and Altered Beast, poor b@st@rds!

o1s1n

Retr0gamer wrote: »

When was this though, because the NES did become popular with the poor kids when it was a cheap alternative to the SNES/Megadrive. Pre-92 though you'd be lucky to see one.

This was pre snes alright! My cousin had a NES. My best mate did too. My cousin's folks bought him a Snes when it came out. Mate was stuck with the NES though for years after

Retr0gamer

Sounds like you were a bunch of southsiders :P The NES was the posho's console.

We couldn't even afford a master system

I never knew anyone with a nes or snes strangly enough, was all sega down here, had loads of mates with master systems and then megadrives. In fact the only two places in town to buy/rent games only had master system/megadrive carts.

OwaynOTT

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I never knew anyone with a nes or snes strangly enough, was all sega down here, had loads of mates with master systems and then megadrives. In fact the only two places in town to buy/rent games only had master system/megadrive carts.

I knew no one with a master system! I remember renting snes stuff from down rosemary street and game boy stuff there also.
I never even played a master system when I was younger.
Nes, Atari, Amiga and those lot and then snes and a lot of megadrives. Then all ps1, I was the only fool with an n64!

OwaynOTT

No wait I played an Alex the Kid in someone's house. Rock paper scissor game right?

OwaynOTT

OwaynOTT wrote: »

No wait I played an Alex the Kid in someone's house. Rock paper scissor game right?

lol yeah, that was newman's in rosemary street. Comerfords on birr road also had a load of megadrive & mastersystem carts for rent, load of them were 'modified' genesis carts where ever they came from. It was a £5 to rent a megadrive and a game per night! :eek: I remember him trying to sell all the carts around 10 years later for almost retail price!! prolly all still boxed up in the attic i'd imagine.

OwaynOTT

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lol yeah, that was newman's in rosemary street. Comerfords on birr road also had a load of megadrive & mastersystem carts for rent, load of them were 'modified' genesis carts where ever they came from. It was a £5 to rent a megadrive and a game per night! :eek: I remember him trying to sell all the carts around 10 years later for almost retail price!! prolly all still boxed up in the attic i'd imagine.

Yeah Newman's. Comerfords was too far for myself to be going so never went in there.
I rented a snes out of Newman's once or twice with a host of games for a tenner, then I got my uncles hand me down snes.
Renting consoles :pac:

Think the folks got me one of original gameboy's there one christmas, came with tetris/super mario land, and the light attachment/magnifyer thingy. Dindt do a lick of homework for months eventually swapped it for a megadrive and a few games with a guy that wanted the gameboy for when he was on the nightshift in offray!! no wonder it closed.

deathrider

OwaynOTT wrote: »

No wait I played an Alex the Kid in someone's house. Rock paper scissor game right?

It always drives me nuts when people call Alex Kidd "Alex The Kidd". I know that it's nit-pickery of the highesh order, but it still manages to bug me. My current housemate does it all the time just because he knows it pisses me off. The strange thing is I don't even like the game.

OwaynOTT

deathrider wrote: »

It always drives me nuts when people call Alex Kidd "Alex The Kidd". I know that it's nit-pickery of the highesh order, but it still manages to bug me. My current housemate does it all the time just because he knows it pisses me off. The strange thing is I don't even like the game.

Alex the kid

deathrider

OwaynOTT wrote: »

Alex the kid

Damn it!

CiDeRmAn

Most folk I knew at the time didn't bother with consoles until the 16 bit gen.
They were playing Atari ST, Amiga 500 and even a bit of C64.
Me, I finished with the Spectrum in 87 and didn't jump back into gaming until 89 with a Gameboy and a C64, then straight into the Megadrive in 90.

Retr0gamer

Ugh, all day working on this corona game for college. Only finishing up now and I still have another level to make and hunt some bugs that may or may not get fixed. I need sleep.

CiDeRmAn

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Most folk I knew at the time didn't bother with consoles until the 16 bit gen.
They were playing Atari ST, Amiga 500 and even a bit of C64.
Me, I finished with the Spectrum in 87 and didn't jump back into gaming until 89 with a Gameboy and a C64, then straight into the Megadrive in 90.

48k speccy was where it all started for me, then onto 128k+2 (built in tape deck woooooooo!) then the sam coupe, which my mum gave away a few years back then finally onto the consoles!! I remember drooling over the pics of atari st on the back pages of crash & your sinclair/sinclair user, the games looked amazing....

CiDeRmAn

A friend, soon to be ex-friend, suggested the other day that owning a Spectrum, back in the day, was akin to having the really naff machine as the C64 was really the proper, full fat, games computer of the early to mid 80's.
I might have told him his head was up his ass, or something like that...
But I did point out that the Spectrum had it's own good games catalogue, that it's graphics may have had colour issues but were in a higher resolution than the C64 and so on.
Didn't really matter, he had his opinion and was sticking to it.

Thing is....

He never owned either machine, no, he was stuck with an Atari computer of some description, like the 800XL.
He really wishes he had a Speccy or a C64!

I can see him now, alone in the school yard, desperately looking for someone to swap games with, hoping some day....... but it never happens....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCOS2vOxuXE

Andrew76

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Ugh, all day working on this corona game for college. Only finishing up now and I still have another level to make and hunt some bugs that may or may not get fixed. I need sleep.

Sounds like you're getting ready for life at a big game dev company.

Will we get to see/play it when it's complete?

Retr0gamer

Andrew76 wrote: »

Sounds like you're getting ready for life at a big game dev company.

Will we get to see/play it when it's complete?

Yeah I'm probably going to put it up when it's done, you'll need the corona SDK to play it and the music will be cut out since it's not mine. It's no where near as polished as my stencyl project and it will more than likely have a tonne of timing errors since I'm not sure how to fix them. It's a choice of having them throw back an error but still work or get rid of them properly and break the game every so often.

The Last Bandit

Any truth to the rumor that its a LoD clone

Andrew76

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Yeah I'm probably going to put it up when it's done, you'll need the corona SDK to play it and the music will be cut out since it's not mine. It's no where near as polished as my stencyl project and it will more than likely have a tonne of timing errors since I'm not sure how to fix them. It's a choice of having them throw back an error but still work or get rid of them properly and break the game every so often.

Good stuff. Is it browser based or an exe running locally? If the latter, will it run on Win 8 64bit?

Retr0gamer

Actually I'll have to look into if I can put it up. I'd be putting up the source code which is based on a paid for frameworks source code so have to see if it's possible.

I wouldn't be a standalone exe, it has to be source code, I'd have to pay for a corona license to compile it. It works in the Corona SDK simulator. Only other problem is you have to use on screen touch buttons!

Andrew76

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Actually I'll have to look into if I can put it up. I'd be putting up the source code which is based on a paid for frameworks source code so have to see if it's possible.

I wouldn't be a standalone exe, it has to be source code, I'd have to pay for a corona license to compile it. It works in the Corona SDK simulator. Only other problem is you have to use on screen touch buttons!

Ah no worries. Sure just make a Youtube video of the gameplay maybe.

Ok just did a quick Google of Corona SDK - designed for tablets/mobiles.

DinoRex

Retr0gamer

Very disappointed with the Megadrive RGB cable I got. There's a vertical line pattern from it and there's a bit of cross talking and blurring between pixels. It's what I get for going cheap. Lesson to self, buy from consolegoods from now on.