Messages

is there any game you'd drop that kind of money on for some collectible set that's not an actual system?

I want the magic that was phantasy star online to come to the next gen stuff and be as fun as it was on the dreamcast. There continues to be whispers of a Switch version that just doesn't seem to want to come to fruition.

Ditto - I'm adding Gradius and Rtype to the Christmas list!

retro's died. my tower of power was eBay fodder during my gear-brained era... I've been searching far and wide for another add on but I've come up short. I refuse to pay eBay prices. I still have a working CDX that I promised myself if I ever found I'd never sell, and it's still here!

I've not opened mine, contemplating getting an archival case and sealing it up.

From what I can tell the retro pi is where it's at. I'd bet I could buy a neo controller and use it there, have better resolution, and spend less than I did on international w/ 2 controllers.

Showbiz Pizza! for a succinct explanation please see below Wikipedia exert...

ShowBiz Pizza Place was an American restaurant pizza chain and family entertainment center founded in 1980 by Robert L. Brock and Creative Engineering. The brand emerged following a separation between Brock and Pizza Time Theatre, owners of the Chuck E. Cheese's franchise. ShowBiz Pizza restaurants entertained guests through a large selection of arcade games, coin-operated rides, and animatronic stage shows as a way to provide a complete package of food and entertainment.
Both companies became competitors and found early success, partly due to the rise in popularity of arcade games during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The type of animatronics used in the ShowBiz pizza chain – which featured an overall-clad, hillbilly bear named Billy Bob as one of its central characters – distinguished it from its rival which offered many of the same services. Following Pizza Time Theatre's bankruptcy filing in 1984, however, ShowBiz bought the struggling franchise and formed ShowBiz Pizza Time Inc., a combination of the former companies' names. By 1992, all ShowBiz Pizza Iocations were rebranded as Chuck E. Cheese.


This place was kid nirvana in the 80's. Asheville had no large arcades when I was growing up. There was an Aladdin's Castle in the mall but it was TINY. bowling alleys, pizza huts, grocery stores, all had a few arcades, but Showbiz had them all. The essential Atari line up graced one area which housed most of the machines that would later be knows as the golden age of the arcade, then another area had some of the newer cabinets Nintendo, Bally Midway, Williams, Sega, et al's heavy hitters of the 84 - 89 era, and of course a pleathora of pinball and ski ball rounding out the experience. Of course there was dome hockey, fooseball, and air hockey tables too but Nintendo had just hit the scene as a home console and the resurgence of video gaming was spreading like fire. The vector displays were starting to become aged but were new to me so it was awesome jumping between an asteroids or tempest machine and going and playing punchout or double dragon. There were a lot of birthday parties here, Saturday nights when step dad had his kids, and special treats when I got good grades on my report card. For me this was the pinnacle of the arcades, just before the quarter crunching games of chance started taking up prime real estate.

I will cop to the fact that the 90's had MUCH better machines. The sound was better, the games were better, and the gimmicks were better. You didn't just sit in a tie fighter and play Star Wars with some cabinet mounted speakers blasting in your ears, you sat in a cockpit with the freaking machine whirling you around. It was about this time though that the golden age machines were quickly forgotten and moved out. There was a bigger mix of cranes, and claws, and ticket producing crap. The arcade games were better, but there wasn't nearly as many of them.

you better download all those vc games onto something, starting jan 2019 there's no vc or Netflix on wii

samurai showdown was in our pizza hut.

for years they had the coolest games, my friends and I even had some birthday parties there. it started with cocktail cabinets with stuff like pacman and alleyway, the stuff like street fighter and a 3 slot mvs... now there's nothing. it'd take scavenger hunt effort to find an arcade cabinet in my town.

I've never been able to attach a reason as to why the last few decades of mega man games didn't appeal to me but they didn't, and a large chunk of the blue bomber's fan base agreed. It looks like with 11 Capcom may have just righted the ship.


The difficulty is on par with a NES platformer, and it can be turned up to pretty freakin' hard if you're a massochist. Every jump seems like it's just within Mega Man's range, every enemy is placed in the most annoying spots, and even the mid level bosses tend to kill you a lot before you get the timing down, or even figure out how to hurt them. Ditto for boss fights.


In what seems to be an attempt to make up for the difficulty, Capcom has introduced (they may have done this before, just not in any mm game i've played) Dr. Light's shop. As you get your blue butt handed to you over and over again, you're amassing parts from random enemy drops. This are used as currency to buy upgrades and one time use items. Burning through a stack of five lives seems to get me anywhere from 150 - 500 units of currency which can purchase a lot. If you've not broken your controller (my ps4 controller is not chipped from being thrown on the floor) after a couple of stacks of lives, you've earned enough money to buy something that helps.


This game is currently on sale brand new for 19.99 with a game stop rewards card during their pro day promotion. Its frustrating, especially if your home theater set up causes video game input to be off by any amount, but it's a solid game that early mm fans would likely enjoy.

maybe, it's just not called to me yet

I think releasing a game in an alpha or beta and taking years to complete is silly. Very few games have the staying power of a Minecraft or Fortnight. People tend to consume a game and then move on. I think the industry has at least partially realized this and tried to take advantage with the season passes. Who's going to go back 8 months later and buy a dlc when they've already started playing the next best thing? Offering the season pass up front means they've got their money weither the people have moved from one game to the next or not. DayZ was great but, at least for me, it's time has long passed.

you wouldn't be playing with me, it'd be one of my kids!

yeah but who's got a working sega cd anymore, not I.

It's sad, I learned to fix them after I got rid of my bum one.

Double Dragon was a quarter cruncher for certain. I don't think I ever finished the first stage under 50 cents.

I really want to grab Analogue's Nintendo and Super Nintendo models but the snes and nes classics were enough... This will by my first Analogue console because there's nothing else close. At games eat your heart out!

https://www.polygon.com/2018/10/16/17979024/sega-genesis-mega-drive-mega-sg-release-date-analogue-super-nt

While I may have a piece or two sitting on my desk at home and at work I just really don't have the room. I've got bookcases going from the floor to the ceiling full of movies and games, systems that outnumber inputs, charging stations, controller rests, and portables taking up more room that i'd like. There's one room where I've mounted 4, 6, and 8 section cube organizers to the wall and put fabric bins in them to get the clutter up.

it was a repro or an import. One of the early stages had some sort of massive vehicle on tank treads...

The Simpsons
Arch Rivals
Castlevania
Coolworld
Spiderman Return of the Sinister 6
The Goonies 2
Shadowrun (genesis)
The Guardian Legend
Ghost in the Shell
Need for Speed Underground


There's a lot of cool looking famicon / superfamicon but I couldn't start to name the best of. I really enjoy their art though, that Dragon Ball style

There's too many.

Chase HQ, Time Crisis, Operation Wolf, T2, TNMT, The Simpsons, The Avengers, Afterburner, Hang On, Super Off Road, A boat load of the environmentals (star wars, discs of tron, etc), 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), sunset riders, i could go on for a while

It'd get stale if there's just one. You need a roller ball, a neo multi slotter, one with the fixed gun controller, one where its tethered (lethal enforcers, time crisis, area 51), one or two environmentals, super offroad, a side scroll shooter, a vertical scroll shooter, a beatemup, and something with a gas pedal!

Good grief. I never got into the whole video game statuary so that'll be a hard pass for me. It looks cool but 350 is a smash bros or diablo 3 switch ...

@BLUEVOODU IDK - Plasma and DLP is just too much. I'm ok being a little careful, especially since I can hang a 70 inch LED by myself. I doubt I could do that with a 35 inch plasma!

I have dropped a few LED tvs and had no problems... others have no been as fortunate.

$40 for Zelda Breath of the Wild was my limit. This is pretty cool looking though

i'm just waiting for these things to start hitting the yardsales and goodwill. eBay is full of them but it seems like eBay is now a museum. Everyone is throwing items out there for dang near retail prices.

I like the small thickness but see no reason for a flexible screen on a television. 12,000 is waay too much for a tv, especially when mine sticks out MAYBE 4". it's not like the footprint changes dramatically

Mega Man Legends 2, The Misadventures of Tronn Bonne, and Xenoblade Chronicles at one point was being "scalped" at about $5.00 above what a new one went for. Way back in the day I paid about $60.00 for Panzer Dragoon Saga without the case or the book. Those are the only ones I can think of that I paid a higher price than what they would have costed new (MML2 may have been a bit cheaper, fuzzy memory). There's a ton of games that I've paid close to new prices for but they've been rarer games like Ogre Battle and Conker's Bad Fur Day and have both appreciated since.

It's been so long since I've had a school lunch...

That rectangular pizza they used to serve, covered in ranch, was a staple though, as well as chicken rings and bbq sauce.


I look at my kids school lunch menu now and wonder WTF happened. They get whole grain this, sprouted that, organic this, free range that... My youngest isn't even allowed to take anything nut related to school - there's signs on every door (not even kidding) this is a nut free school. There's less NO GUN signs......

I saw 2 Amiibos and a few skylanders at Gamestop over the weekend. all new in package. I'm just wondering where all the used ones are.

I never got one, they seemed overpriced, even for legos.

Freshman year in high school. My best friend and I had brothers that were seniors. The previous summer we'd trade rides on our go karts and dirt bikes for rides to the mall, basketball courts, etc. We got to know all the up and coming seniors. They'd pick on us, we'd steal their beer. We'd keep guard and keep parents distracted, they'd let us hang out with them. All this attention and being known came with a price...

During our first high school pep ralley I was walking across the gym as all the seniors yell "go home freshman" (customary chant for my high school when the freshmen arrived) and all the school watching us walk through the gym. I'm checking out the cheerleaders and trip over the microphone cable. The school erupts in laughter. In a vein attempt to save some face I snatched up the microphone and annouced that Scott set me up because his girlfriend distracted me with her pom poms... come to find out our brothers did yank up the microphone cable as we walked through...

It was a complete failure. My face was too red to play it off with any degree of cool and what a horrible way to introduce one's self to the administration.

@Bomber Man

I'd say the wii u is the only console that didn't last long enough to upgrade so it was one of that few that didn't get me, but in the grand scheme of things it was really just a place holder for the switch. Since all the good stuff on wii u has been made into switch games or on their way to becoming switch games, Bomberman is right.