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Bigger videocassettes for games?
What on earth are you talking about?
PC Diskettes?
Megadrive/Snes carts?
Maybe even NeoGeo MVS carts?
What madness is this?
You know you are getting old now when a retro gamers first machine was a 360, DS or worse again, a V-Tech Smile!
You do know that there are VCR based consoles. Just a few lightgun games on them and awful rubbishg but they do exist.johnny_ultimate wrote: »I was too young to own a NES! It's shameful, but at least I have the excuse I would potentially have just drooled all over it, unlike certain other retr0 gamers around here (no-names mentioned) :P Actually, an older cousin lending us his NES - with, I recall, Duck Hunt - was one of my earliest gaming memories, next to Sonic 2 in my slightly less older cousins' house.
Well now you are also showing your age. Unless you wanted to be an outcast then you didn't own a NES. Everyone in Ireland and most of Europe had a C64, ZX Spectrum or an Amstrad if you were unlucky :P The NES only became kind of popular when the price of the machine crashed during the 16-bit era when poor families that couldn't afford a SNES or Megadrive would buy the kids a NES instead. I'd feel sorry for those kids but at the time my parents were so poor that I was left with a C64 until Christmas 1993
In fact you'd be more likely to find a master system in someones house than a NES.
I find the fight pad servicable for most 2D games but it's no arcade stick or the glorious MK1 microsfot sidewinder I used to use (wish I could get this working on a new machine). The problem comes when you need a lot more precision like in a fighting game were it totally fails to register commands on the d-pad, such as doing a fireball I found I had to press up into the diagonal up position before it would register.0 -
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Retr0gamer wrote: »Unless you wanted to be an outcast then you didn't own a NES
So, that makes you still an outcast then!
Or are you a rebel, living on the edge, refusing to conform???
Rebel without a Nes perhaps??
And Kerbdog was in a similar situation, folks got him a 2600jr when the rest of the planet was playing Nes, he got an Amiga from me, back in the day, and the rest is history, when he rules the solar system with an iron fist he'll have the video toaster logo on the side of his ships and I'll be blamed....
I fancy renaming Ireland "Halo-land" just because, assuming he lets me have this country after the fall....0 -
HAHAHAHA!
About bloody time you shower started to feel the weight of time upon this earth start to lean on your shoulders.
Next, greying hair, receeding fringe, a desire to tell younger folk your personal bigoted notions, imagining yourself as some sort of seer, keeper of secrets.
And no, your never going to fit into those pants again, keep eating the pies and get over it!
Bigger videocassettes for games?
What on earth are you talking about?
PC Diskettes?
Megadrive/Snes carts?
Maybe even NeoGeo MVS carts?
What madness is this?
You know you are getting old now when a retro gamers first machine was a 360, DS or worse again, a V-Tech Smile!
haha :P I know the difference in carts and cassettes
And yes, Retr0gamer is right, there was video cassette games but they were epic fails :pac:
and... my first console was the GBA
It kicks ass0 -
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The GBA really is one of the best little formats out there, the GBA SP is a almost perfect little console, only the screen lets it down, and only in retrospect, we were breathless after playing the GB, GBC and GBA then seeing the clear lit screen of the SP, but the subsequent GBA Micro left us reeling, only the little seen (no pun intended) AGS-101 fixed it AND I WANT ONE!
But it's a cracking console, more than just a mini Snes, so many great games, sure Advance Wars alone would keep me entertained for hours!
ya, its exactly like a snes shrunk down to pocket size!
I have two SP's and i've lost every game except super mario bros 3 and road to wrestlemania
Cant wait for my gbc to arrive! It will be here in like 10 minutes !!
I'l post pics
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GBA is 32 bit of pure magic!!
All Gameboy lineage is awesome, including the DS all these little gems add up to thousands of hours hardcore gaming on the go
Just arrived
Atomic purple mint condition gbc with Super Mario Bros DX for gbc and King of the Zoo for the gameboy :cool:[IMG]file:///C:/Users/Chris/Desktop/2011-07-12%2018.13.29.jpg[/IMG][IMG]file:///C:/Users/Chris/Desktop/2011-07-12%2018.13.25.jpg[/IMG][IMG]file:///C:/Users/Chris/Desktop/2011-07-12%2018.13.17.jpg[/IMG]0 -
SdoowSirhc wrote: »Just arrived
Atomic purple mint condition gbc with Super Mario Bros DX for gbc and King of the Zoo for the gameboy :cool:
Whats that king of the Zoo game like, I've never heard of it.
Love the GBC though it lacks the library of the original it still has one or two gems and is a must have for GB fans0 -
Retr0gamer wrote: »Any VB recommendations ciderdude that aren't Mario Tennis, Warioland, Galactic Pinball, Teleroboxer, Red Alarm or Vertical Force?
Thats most of the romset really 0 -
Whats that king of the Zoo game like, I've never heard of it.
Love the GBC though it lacks the library of the original it still has one or two gems and is a must have for GB fans
Its good, but not great... Its a port of Penguin Wars, an old arcade game.
Its a game where you have to throw balls at the other animal in a sort of messed up dodge ball match
weird and wonderful
where can I buy gbc games in an actual shop?0 -
Retr0gamer wrote: »Virtual Boy is the best. Better than the NES
The next tenner you get, will you just buy a nes ffs...this is getting ridiculous 0 -
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SdoowSirhc wrote: »Its good, but not great... Its a port of Penguin Wars, an old arcade game.
Its a game where you have to throw balls at the other animal in a sort of messed up dodge ball match
weird and wonderful
where can I buy gbc games in an actual shop?
The Rage on Fade Street is the only real place to get GB games. You should try car boot sales and the like aswell as fleabay0 -
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Thats most of the romset really
When those all arrive I'll literally have 30% of the entire VB library I might go for a complete set! There's only 20 games.The next tenner you get, will you just buy a nes ffs...this is getting ridiculous
Not unless it's 60 Hz :PSdoowSirhc wrote: »what does Retr0 have against the nes?:rolleyes:
The lads just slag me off because I don't have one yetThe cost
Edit, its also too mainstream for him. He'd also prefer a Famicom for all those extra chip games that he'd never be able to play (japanese). So there...three valid reasons why Retr0 is the man who bought a Ferrari before he had a Micra.
I'll get one eventually but at the moment I've not got the room and feel that I should be spending what little money I have right now catching up with DS games I missed. NES games aren't getting anymore expensive.
Also I've a Clio not a Micra :P0 -
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Retr0gamer wrote: »I'd say get an O2 card and use ebay but if you do you'll end up spending money you don't have, like I do
ha good idea, is there an age limit on those? 0 -
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