Video games of all kinds.
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There are generally two types of people who play racing games, those who love cars and those who love driving. While there's some overlap, you can usually pick one side or another based on the games you play. I fall pretty squarely into the latter camp, as I prefer the immediate action of competition between equals.
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There's a stereotype that the majority of video games are space combat simulations. It's a misconception that frightens parents and confuses journalists, and it is based on an outdated but certain kernel of truth. From the incessant rhythmic pressure of Space Invaders, to the clean lines and unending labor of Asteroids,...
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Possibly one of the best games you've never played, Mezase Senkyuoh (known as Battle Balls outside Japan) is a little-known game from Seibu Kaihatsu, the shooter masters who brought us Raiden.
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If you ask any serious gamer which video game console controller is their all-time favourite, odds are they'll tell you it's Sega's Saturn pad. Not the awful, what-were-they-thinking pad that launched with the Saturn in North America, but the one Japanese players always had
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A long time ago I was digging through a bin of Atari ST games and came across Garfield. If I remember correctly the game was rubbish, but the title screen caught my eye. It featured a logo for a company called Edge, and I looked at this logo and I thought gee, that almost looks the same upside down!
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So like many old people I don't play as many games as I used to. What with real-life commitments like work, lawn bowling and shaking my cane at the kids on my lawn I just don't have the disposable time.
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In 1988 Sega was an also-ran console maker, constantly chasing Nintendo but never really achieving significance. They were becoming a dominating force in the arcades, but they just couldn't parlay that success into the home. And they tried very hard indeed:
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If you've ever seen Sega's Dreamcast controller you might have noticed its cross-shaped d-pad. If you follow these sorts of things, you might have noticed it and thought to yourself didn't Nintendo patent that? And you're right, they did.
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The Neo Geo CD pad is typical SNK: it's strong, impact-resistant, supremely comfortable and utterly unique in its manufacture. It's also fundamentally flawed and so prone to failure that you're virtually guaranteed to get a flaky one if you buy it used.
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Capcom's Megaman series is widely loved and deservedly so. Capcom pulled out all the stops in every single game. No expense spared! Their graphic artists were unstoppable.
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[NFG Note: This topic was split from the PacMan CE DX guide thread as it is now a discussion of PacMan as a whole, rather than DX specifically.">
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Cave is possibly the last great shootermaker, but for my money their last truly great game was 1998's Dangun Feveron. It's very interesting to hear Yukihiro Masaki, Cave's mobile head man echo similar sentiments over on GameSetWatch...
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OK, so Namco/Bandai (or is it Namco Generations now?) released PacMan Championship Edition DX yesterday, and I - because utterly adored the first one - I bought it immediately.
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You've probably seen it before, but wow, this looks great. A must-buy for me:
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Kinect is out, and there's a lot of people talking about it. I don't have one and I don't really think I can name anything I'm less likely to buy in the foreseeable future. Gaming is about control, and the Kinect doesn't seem designed to enhance that.
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So now that Krome Studios has closed Microsoft has, for the first time (AFAIK) not released any new games for their GameRoom retro-gaming download service. They normally update weekly....
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so... here's the splashy ad video for "the jungle" or whatever they are calling it. great marketing but it seems like vaporware to me. i'm sure they are still schmoozing their way back into the game market after the brilliant success of the 3DO. :)
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When we were running the game store in Canada we were fond of unusual things. Our store had consoles and games and silly things that no mainstream shop would touch. We sold Cherry Coke that we had to drive into the States to buy (couldn't get it in Canada). We sold imported games, we had retro arcade machines, and we...
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Last night I had a couple of girls over. They were born in 1992 and I introduced 'em to some game systems that were nearly as old or older than they were. Specifically, a GameBoy Pocket, and a TurboGrafx Express.
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