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I don't even enter a Gamestop any more. I visit GameXchange locally and there are a few mom and pop places like Odd Ball that carry games. But Gamestop is just not on my list. Our local one is starting to look like Hot Topic.

Oh boy! Another handheld!  I like his portables.

How would they stop you from streaming Netflix from the Wii? Some kind of update? Disable it? Not sure I understand how that works I guess.
Amazing support for one of their consoles. Virtual console should be transferable. It is the same as building a console with backward compatibility. At least that is the way I see it. But if you want to pump money out of your loyal fans...... you can make tons of money. 

I had Final Fight complete boxed, Popful Mail, Keio Flying Squadon, Robo Aleste, and a bunch of other games, can't remember them all.

My Sega CD died a long time ago. I am a cart based gamer. Love cart gaming. So when it comes to moving parts I just could not pull the trigger on another Sega CD at the prices that they were asking on ebay. Especially with the fear I was buying into another failure at some point. So I sold off my Sega CD collection and never looked back. Made some good money.

I remember walking into the foyer of a Kmart back in the day and played World Heroes for the first time. Good times.

I haven't, but it would be cool for gifts. My Family has fun watching Lamarr Wilson on Youtube open them up.

My main flatscreen is a 32 inch TCL Roku TV. I got it at a reasonable price of $130. it is my understanding that modern TVs have an expected lifespan of around five years, or 60,000-100,000 hours. (And your right, TVs are made so cheap, quick sell, low quality so they can sell me another.) Longer than that and you have yourself a winner. (Plasma is more robust.) I remember old CRTs were rock solid giving you a good 20 to 30 years of entertainment. The only time I can see myself paying a higher price for a flatscreen will be when they start broadcasting in 4K within the next couple of years. I will then get me a TCL 40 inch 4K. That would be the most I would want to pay. I guess I am just old school having higher expectations. If I could be given an idea that I can go out a get a flatscreen and it would last me the rest of my life, then I would be willing to fork out the extra dough. But it is not just the lifespan of the TV that has to be my concern in our modern era, technology just keeps changing. I use an outdoor antenna to receive my programming with the built in addition of the Roku of my TV. When they start broadcasting 4K my 32 inch TCL tuner will be worthless. Presently there is not a TV on the market that has a 4K tuner.
Having said all that.
Looking at this extra large paper-thin TV cashing in at 12-13K... (My cats would love to shred this.) I cannot see myself peeling off enough cash to have this, especially with the fact that I do not have a wall in my whole house that could hang this thing. I would cover up a window or door. Realistically the only  thing I could see this benefiting is a business. The company I work for have very large screen TVs in their meeting rooms. There might be those  movie buffs out there that would love this to go with their curtain drawn dark room full of Blu-rays and DVDs. I have yet to see an AFV video were someone throws a Wii remote into one. 

The largest TV that I could honestly accommodate would be somewhere around a 40 inch. 49 inch would be pushing it.

From day one, when I heard, I so want this. The Genesis was my first actual home console. I have more Genesis carts than any other system. I have the consoles, so I ask myself, why do I need this? I have successfully ignored myself, so far. I am going to, have to, start getting serious and begin laying back some money for this one. If they succeed in giving 32X support, it will be an amazing piece of hardware worthy of being in my possession.  Lowering the price of the wireless controller by going to a different technology, stroke of genius on somebody's part. Should have thought of this for the SNES. I will be loving that controller. I wish these people success. They are good for retro.

There's too many.
that esoteric shooter i can't ever remember but @retro junkie has the console version he'd posted on EGA a while back (he should remember what I'm talking about),

Okay, my mind just froze up. Was that Gradius or R-Type, Darius?

There are too many arcade games to just shut it down to one. I forgot about Robotron!!

This would be a very difficult choice for me. The ones that come to mind immediately are Defender, Tempest, Centipede, Stun Runner with the cycle prop, and Starblade. I spent a lot of time in Starblade. I liked climbing into that cockpit with the stereo speakers at your ears.

I might choose Tempest. 

The game is: Soldner X-2: Final Prototype  By EastAsiaSoft - Amazon.com

Why did you show me this game? What is wrong with you? You know I love a good shooter! Now I have a 1st World Problem!



I think the only game that caused me to peel off the dough was Bangai-O for the N64. It is almost complete. I don't have the registration cards. I had to have this game. It is the best version of Bangai-O, IMO. Also Last Leigion UX for the N64. I paid a little more for it than I usually do for a game. At the time it was rarely seen up on eBay and it demanded a good price. I paid around $40 dollars for just the cart, which was the cheapest that I had seen in a long time. Now you can find copies for as low as $20. Not sure if they are real or not. The game, you take control of a mech and it reminds me of VIRTUAL-ON. Single player mode is great, but this game really rocks in multi player. And like other fighters, skill plays a big part.
Another game was Sin & Punishment. The name Treasure and the videos I saw of the gameplay told me that it was mine.

espgaluoa 2 black label for the 360. I am a sucker for these types of games. Paid money for this one. And also for Deathsmiles. These are the types of games that made me want a 360.

I know that there have been others, just can't think of them right now.

In the news of other 1st World Problems... I want to buy a second switch... but cannot get myself to spend the money... nor should I.

  I don't want to even think about purchasing a 1st Switch. Just the price point alone has discouraged me. It makes me totally satisfied with my "new" 3DS.

I have experienced a great speed increase. Right now this little laptop is fast and smooth. It is amazing when you get just the right combination together, makes all the difference in the world. Even in Libre writer, when I hit a key I instantaneous have the letter on screen. Before I would type the whole sentence and I could sit and watch the words appear, if you know what I mean.  Scrolling in a browser is no longer choppy. No long waiting for everything in a page to load.

I have only worked with the Linux OS. I have never ventured into any server stuff.

Okay I got the itch. I have been wanting to do this for a very long time. I had been using Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa on my Lenovo R60 laptop. It is a very good OS and I have been using it for a very long time,  since its availability. I would still recommend it. It will be supported until 2019. And it is a very good stable OS that will just run. But on this laptop there has always been this slight sluggishness that I have overlooked. So this weekend I did a big backup of everything, wow 32g of stuff. The rest I deleted.
I went for something very minimalistic. Hoping for some speed and power out of this old laptop. Can that happen to something so, retro? Computers get old so quickly. If it is on the shelf for sale it has already been replaced.
So after downloading and burning a few Distros I think I have finally settled on "Bodhi Linux."  I have loaded and installed Bodhi Linux 5.0.0 Legacy, 32 bit. Bodhi Linux is a lightweight Ubuntu-based (18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver) distribution featuring Moksha, an Enlightenment-17-based desktop environment. The download installs a very simple, basic, light linux OS. There is really nothing here in the way of programs, only five pre-installed applications. You get Midori as the browser. I really like the simplicity of nothing but a starting point. The first thing you have to do is download the synaptic package manager. From there you really just build your own Distro. I loaded up Chromium for my browser, I don't like Midori. Installed LibreOffice and GIMP. I will gradually add more programs as I think of them. The install configured everything but my aspect ratio on the screen. That was easily adjusted. The GUI has a nice clean fresh look. And it runs fast and smooth on this old clunker. I think this would be okay for linux noobes if they had a little instruction and some guidance. But I do not believe it is friendly enough for anyone that is a first time user. And this has just been released and has long term support. Loving this a lot. Already downloaded me some wallpaper. I am ready to go. Going to try this out for the next month.

Good idea.
Here are just some of the things that come to mind.

Compatibility is a big issue that I have found over the years. There doesn't seem to be any up-to-date lists floating around. Sometimes I have found myself digging through forum's old topics just to answer a question. Or maybe I have not been able to locate a good list in my searches. And when it comes to compatibility, we are also talking about Distro orientation too, not just if it is compatible to Linux. And the item may be compatible with all linux Distros, it is just you need to tinker to find out why the Distro did not pick it up. Sometimes I just do not feel like fiddling and tinkering, so I find a Distro that works for me.

Wacom tablets seem to have a good compatibility rating. I have one on my desktop. I like drawing, so I use paint programs, I like piddling and dealing with graphic stuff. I have Photoshop CS3 loaded up with WINE. And of course GIMP. And I do have Krita and Fire Alpaca on my desktop as well. I have Blender loaded up but I do not have time to mess with it. Maybe when I retire.

I use the office program, Libre, a lot.

Printers are a big issue I have yet to resolve. HP seems to be the friendliest to linux. I usually end up with an old outdated printer. They are the easiest to find that linux has the drivers for. As Canon scanners are friendly also. The all-in-one printers are difficult to deal with when it comes to linux. Linux cannot find the scanner, or that has been my experience.

I don't game on my computer.

When picking a Distro it is either hit or miss trying to sort through the clutter. You can have a fully compatible computer, whether it be desktop or laptop. But when it comes to selecting a Distro, you end up trying and trying until you find one that will work with all of your hardware. The disappointment comes in when it isn't the one you wanted.

I also surf the net. Because of this, at some point I, or a user, will need to upgrade to a newer Distro. A Linux rolling release distribution is the best route to go. You will have a long term support with updates, usually five years, using that same install. Point release Distros, you need to do a full install to get the newer release of updates, usually every six months. If you have brought to life older hardware, as I like to do, at some point you will no longer be able to upgrade to a newer Distro release. Why? Because at some point a newer Distro release may have needs for a bigger faster processor, graphics card, require more power, more ram, etc. You can use older hardware to run linux just fine on an older distribution. But going on the net there might be some sites, like this one for example, in which an older browser cannot access. (Going to a lite weight Linux Distros can resolve this issue.)

@retro junkie How were they broken?

Broken arm, weapon, leg, head, etc.

I am sorry to see this, (should we call it a genre?), not sure, type of gaming vanish into thin air. At one time I was so hoping it would catch on. I don't mind downloadable content when I get a figure for the cash involved.  I was so hoping for RPGs, Fighting games, etc would began to have figures with their own additional content added to a game. Not sure how Nintendo's amibos are doing. I know they seem to have disappeared locally from shelves also.

I really like the concept.

My daughter and I found a bag of them at Goodwill like at the first of Summer, half of them broken. But the only other place that we have found them is at our local Game Exchange. They sell right beside the Infinity Figures, $3 to $5 each.

I just loved the books. I use to like thumbing through them and loving the character artwork that would be in them. Especially the RPG booklets. Here is what I am talking about. I eat this stuff up. Two of my favorite RPGs for the PS1, complete.

I started collecting this stuff back years ago (15?) when the prices were still reasonable. There used to be a lot of stuff up on ebay back then. Back then they were giving the consoles away. I have a Final Fantasy edition WonderSwan Color which did not cost hardly anything back then. I don't think I paid over $30 for a SwanCrystal console, free shipping. And games were not that bad either. Never been to Japan. None of this stuff came over here except by import. Maybe some stores in big cities, I don't know. I have always purchased my WonderSwan stuff over eBay. My Daughter and I both got into it back then. One if the best fighters on the console is One Piece Swan Colosseum. And you can still find that one at a reasonable price, I am surprised. I would like to pick up the megaman games, sometimes I can catch that one for around $40. Even at that price, and I know it can be higher, still haven't pulled the trigger. The Guilty Gear games were not that much back then, but now, wow, prices are through the roof.

Yes it was designed to play in two different directions. Puzzle Bobble and Tetris would be played long ways. There is a shooter that is also played that way. Puyo Puyo doesn't seem to use that option. Or I don't know how to change the orientation.

Just thought I would share. Had mine out this past week. Initially designed by Gunpei Yokoi. 15 hours of gaming on a single AA battery. Reflective screen technology. Graphics, gameplay and animation that rivaled the GBA.  This was a 16bit system. It had a short life but it was good while it lasted. It was an RPG gamers dream come true console. Had tons of them, but never left Japan. Even though I do have the Final Fantasy series, I can't play anything but English friendly stuff like fighters, puzzle, and platformers. The Digimon stuff that was ported to the GBA is better gaming on this system, graphics, gameplay, feel. And not everything was ported.

My English Friendly game list:
Digimon Battle Spirit
Digimon: Zero Two
Digimon Battle Spirit 1.5
Battle Spirit: Digimon Tamers
Digimon: Veedraman Verson
Buffers Evolution
Guilty Gear Petite 1
Guilty Gear Petite 2
Puyo Puyo
Puyo Puyo 2
Bust-A-Move
Klonoa: Moonlight Museum
One Piece Swan Colosseum
Lime Rider Keroikan
SD Gundam Operation UC (repetitive shooter action)
Pocket Fighter
Gundam Seed (There is a need to know Japanese to get the most out of the story, other than that it serves as a shooter. I do have the anime movie so I do know sort-of what is going on.)

My first question would be about the music. Darius Gaiden was my favorite music. Loved to play that one just for the music alone. Does this one compare?

I know I have all of those Gradius games, but it has been so long that I have pulled them out, I can't remember how they were. This is the Gradius that I keep coming back to, and the one I use as a watermark for any other instalments. Maybe it is just the 16 bit era ingrained into my brain, but this is the one I love.

I also tackled Space Mega Force this week.

I would like to play through Star Fox 2 just to have the experience. I still like playing through the old SNES Star Fox, but I like the N64 version better. And enjoy that one more so. The last Star Fox game that I thought was awesome was the GameCube Star Fox: Assault. This brought me back to the feel of the first Star Fox, yet refreshing. This game would probably cause me to be disappointed in Star Fox 2 SNES.

I took my fall Vacation this week. Always in October. Been retro gaming and found myself going through Gradius on my SNES. Back in the SNES era there were two games I brought home with my SNES, Gradius and R-Type. Yeah Mario was the pack-in but I wanted to save the Galaxy. At one point I thought slow down was my friend. But go through this game on normal only to be rewarded with a restart in hard mode, stripped down to nothing, bullet hell going on now, faster enemies, and slow down becomes a nightmare. Still this is one awesome game that still packs a punch for me after all these years. It feels so good just to sit back and hack my way through this, again, and again, and again. There are some places in this game I know where to sit and let my "options" do the deed. That is if that nasty scorpion doesn't steel them. I learned a long time ago that you watch your ship and spend your time dodging bullets while holding down, or tapping, the fire button. This game rocks! 

Sounds like real life interrupts. Know exactly how that feels. 

I used to have stacks of C64 magazines filled with programs to type in. Some in basic and some in machine language. 

I would spend hours typing in some of those games.

The directional pad has clicky switches. Or it sure feels that way.

Just looked this up. I'm impressed that I can pull out my old Playstation keyboard and hook it up to the USB. That would be the only thing that would get me interested. Although I have passed along anything that is C64 a long time ago, I still miss the simple basic programming. (wished I still had everything) I have totally forgotten all I knew back then. Wished I still at least had the programming book. Lot of memories.

I remember pealing off several hundred dollars for a C64 only to turn around and get the C128. My Daughter was around 5 or 6. I would come home from work and she would meet me at the door wanting another round of bubble bobble, two player. Fun stuff.

I am interested but right now I can't do a preorder. And it looks like the AC adapter is not included?!