Keep Calm And Discuss Retro Generally!

Mr.Saturn

My 3rd-party Dreamcast memory-card just seized-up and deleted my entire catalogue of saved-games. Lovely stuff.

a5y

Mr.Saturn wrote: »

My 3rd-party Dreamcast memory-card just seized-up and deleted my entire catalogue of saved-games. Lovely stuff.

You have my condolences.

Steve X2

Managed to give all 77 C64 games I got the other day a good clean this evening (cases and tapes). Some had a thin layer of what looked like mould on the cases but a quick wipe with some window cleaner/natural vinegar cleaner mix and then some Febreze sorted them out. The tapes themselves seemed clean and mould free but I cleaned them anyway.

Nothing makes it into my main collection until its been cleaned and decontaminated



Now, the testing to see what works and what doesn't begins.
Again, some great games in this batch and I hope the ones I really wanted are working. All the soccer games can burn in hell for all I care.
"Thunder Blade" and "Parallax", you're up first.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbksq8PF71s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36WQnnX_rQs

DinoRex

The most exciting part of the Steam sale is wondering what those little guys are building up in their tree fort in the background.

Steve X2

Angry Birds on the Mega Drive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2_pUkjeHGQ

http://www.retrocollect.com/News/angry-birds-arrives-on-the-sega-mega-drive-no-really.html

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

insertcoinclothing are making bag replicas of Dreamcasts and Mega Drives, they also have the coolest Jet Set Radio Beat tee and Gum tee, but they're so expensive! put 3 tees in the basket and with shipping was close to €100 ||(¬ n¬)

DinoRex

DinoRex wrote: »

The most exciting part of the Steam sale is wondering what those little guys are building up in their tree fort in the background.

Actually going back and looking at the previous backgrounds it looks like that evil black cat has gotten into the Freindship Fort and is up to no good.

James Howlett

Steve X2

An Post, bunch of idiots!! :mad::mad:
You arrange to be home to take delivery of 2 packages and pay the duty fee's and the show up with the smallest box and of course want full payment for both.
Why are people so crap at their jobs?

Steve X2

On a brighter note, I have to have this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqAUmgE3WyM

OwaynOTT

Quite useless.

DinoRex

This one is better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmQ5LsNMXZ4

DinoRex

Amazing price for Witcher 2 if you don't already have it.

http://www.gog.com/en/promo/the_witcher_series__gem__promo/

It's the closest thing you'll ever get to a decent Game of Thrones game.

Retr0gamer

It's cheaper to buy both together I might have to give it a miss though. I still have the first game to beat and god knows when I'll get around to it.

johnny_ultimate

Everyone vote for Driver San Francisco on Steam! I want it cheap, and they've had the rare decency to have a Mac port.

Retr0gamer

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Everyone vote for Driver San Francisco on Steam! I want it cheap, and they've had the rare decency to have a Mac port.

I'll Need for Speed. It's your own fault for going for the hipster option. I also do want that game :P

a5y

DinoRex wrote: »

This one is better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmQ5LsNMXZ4

For one minute I really did think it was going to seek out a table and flip it over.

I really miss Robot Wars.

DinoRex

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Everyone vote for Driver San Francisco on Steam! I want it cheap, and they've had the rare decency to have a Mac port.

I'm waiting for this vote:

a5y

DinoRex wrote: »

I'm waiting for this vote:

Why would you post this??? I'm going to agonise over this all day now.

I'm not even a big Half Life fan, but by Odin I want something to give the brown coloured waste high wall filled misogyny screaming FPS genre a kick up the arse and move it forward. I'm having logical mule paralysis here.

a5y

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Everyone vote for Driver San Francisco on Steam! I want it cheap, and they've had the rare decency to have a Mac port.

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I'll Need for Speed. It's your own fault for going for the hipster option. I also do want that game :P

Alas poor Ultimate.

(Yeah OK, I voted for Need For Speed too. But only because I've fond memories of The Need For Speed on Saturn and sour one's of Driv3r)

Steve X2

Just a heads up to anyone wanting to grab some Sugru.
You can get 50% off with the coupon code 50facebookjuly18 until midnight tonight.
I just got some there and it works perfectly and postage was only about 2 Euro.

http://sugru.com/buy

safetyboy

just bought 2 packs, cheers!

DinoRex

I KNEW IT!

That cat is a total prick... look what he's doing to the Friendship Fort on steam!

Retr0gamer

Tihs article on MGS 4 is probably the worst piece of pretentious horse**** I've ever read:

http://www.1up.com/features/sons-big-bucks-metal-gear

Mr.Saturn

The author has an MA in Poetry. A degree that, from what I've met, seen and read, actively rewards getting away with bull****.

Myrddin

Following on from his obscure NES titles video, Mo' Fo' Mike is at it again with top ten obscure SNES titles

Dr Bob

a5y wrote: »

Alas poor Ultimate.

(Yeah OK, I voted for Need For Speed too. But only because I've fond memories of The Need For Speed on Saturn and sour one's of Driv3r)

The steam sale is killing me!
have..to..check ..every...few..hours
at this stage the only one I'm looking out for is oblivion, which missed out on the vote by 1 freakin percent
plus I keep getting a weird urge to buy that train simulator thing....
Thief 13 is up there at the mo cheap if anyone doesnt have them

Retr0gamer

EnterNow wrote: »

Following on from his obscure NES titles video, Mo' Fo' Mike is at it again with top ten obscure SNES titles

It was no where near as good. Knew all of those games unlike his NES one which had quite a few new ones to me. It's also got a ciderman scaring amount of capcom belt scrolling beat em ups

a5y

Retr0gamer wrote: »

It was no where near as good. Knew all of those games unlike his NES one which had quite a few new ones to me. It's also got a ciderman scaring amount of capcom belt scrolling beat em ups

I think by the time the SNES launched Nintendo's marketing machine in the US had gotten its act together so there really were far less obscure US SNES games to pick from. Ruling out obscure PAL region stuff didn't make sense to me though. I mean, sure there's huge language and culture barrier between the US and Japanese stuff, but why's he rule out stuff that's available in the English language when its all equally available on eBay? That's just silly.

And is Rock & Roll Racing obscure? I certainly know it, and there are tons of SNES games I'm not familiar with. Maybe it sold poorly in the US.

DinoRex

Dr Bob wrote: »

The steam sale is killing me!
have..to..check ..every...few..hours
at this stage the only one I'm looking out for is oblivion, which missed out on the vote by 1 freakin percent
plus I keep getting a weird urge to buy that train simulator thing....
Thief 13 is up there at the mo cheap if anyone doesnt have them

I got the Train Sim along with the Zombie DLC for it.