Oh what I would’ve given to be at this particular CES.
Hell yeah.
1UP had a little article a while back about "E3" from 20 years ago (when games were shown off at CES). Aw man, this was during the day when the original Nintendo was in power and the Sega Genesis had only been around a short time. If only I could travel back in time, because to me this was when gaming REALLY started to get interesting with the introduction of the Genesis. Still to this day my favorite console. Click right here to see the article in all it's glory. Thanks to Windows Gamer.
A new NBA Jam game coming to the Wii has me a little worried.
See that screenshot there? Those are my memories of NBA Jam … just insanely fast paced 2 on 2 basketball that I would play the shit out of in the arcade. Sometime this year there’s going to be one coming to the Wii. As one may fear, it supports motion control. But from what I read on Kotaku, you can also turn the remote sideways and just use the directional pad and use it as … well … a real controller.
I don’t play many sports games, after a 20 year hiatus I finally picked up a baseball game (The Bigs for the PS2 and The Bigs 2 for the 360 if you’re wondering). But I do like to play the arcadey titles. And NBA Jam definitely fits into that. I STILL own both the original and Tournament Edition for the Sega Genesis, and I still pop them in from time to time to see those tiny, grainy graphics and muffled grainy voices. But since Tournament Edition, the series hasn’t just gone down hill … it’s plummeted face first into a bed of spikes.
I love you, Sega.
As both a smoker and a Sega fan, I highly endorse these. I am personally partial to the Sega Genesis one, but I want them both because the Saturn is awesome. I just wonder if it comes in black, because those are my memories of the Saturn. They run $114 apiece and one can start ordering them November 6th. They’re being sold in Japan, and a little more information can be found right here. Although it’s not in English of course.
God if I had one of these I probably wouldn’t even use them. I’d hang them on the wall. :) This almost … ALMOST makes up for the horrible HORRIBLE Sonic games they’re released lately.
Almost.
Altered Beast for DOS
It's great catching up with all these old DOS games I missed as I was a kid, and this is no exception. While it doesn't compare to the Sega Genesis port or any other future ports of the game, the DOS version is actually really good and just as much fun as the arcade in a day where the PC got some truly horrible arcade ports. PC gamers of the day definitely weren't stuck with this port if they didn't have the appropriate console.
Shitty Movies - House of the Dead
I, for one, actually admire Uwe Boll. The fact that the man's movie CONTINUOUSLY get slammed, and he keeps making them. This movie is one of them. Based off of the Sega game of the same name, the story is pretty much as follows : A group of teenagers are on their way to island to the "rave of the century" I believe was the wording. And get attacked by zombies and thus they have to defend themselves and try to make it out alive.
Zero Tolerance - A Sega Genesis FPS?
All screenshots courtesy of Neoseeker
Yeah, a first person shooter on the Genesis is the last thing anyone would expect, or want to be perfectly honest. For the era, even the venerable Super Nintendo had problems with it (DooM is a perfect example, except it's got some really kick ass music). The 32X was much better suited for an FPS. But that's another thing all together. I'm talking about Zero Tolerance here. And nevermind that Duke Nukem 3D was ever released for the Genesis. Terrible ... just terrible.
My small but proud Genesis collection grew a little bit today.
Just got Sonic Spinball, Super Street Fighter 2 and Quackshot today at the pawn shop a little ways from me.
All of them have the cases, but unfortunately the only game that actually has a manual is Sonic Spinball. Good arcadey-type pinball game, but nothing compared to the excellence that is Dragon's Fury.
And I got a Game Genie for the Genesis for about 4 bucks, even has the code book that originally came with the unit itself and 4 issues of the code updates or whatever. Looks like the box and books came in contact with water at some point, but other than one page in the code updates book they're fully readable . And the genie itself works great.
I've found that even with the power of the Game Genie I STILL can't pass the level in T2 : The Arcade Game where you have to defend John Connor's truck. The weird thing is, it's ONLY the Sega Genesis version where I can't pass that level. I do fine in the arcade, SNES and DOS versions of the game. Very frustrating. Not a very good arcade port since the Genesis unfortunately has issues with sprite scaling, but a good game regardless. And plays great with the standard controller.
One of these days I'll write a full out review of the game itself, and I'm still working on my Outrun for Genesis article. That game has a lot of love from me, so I wanna make sure it's just right.
Just a quick one …
Here's my collection as of this writing. The picture kinda sucks because all I've got is the camera in my phone.
I know it's not the biggest collection out there, and it's not even everything right now (still got a bunch of PC, Playstation 1 and 2, XBOX, 360, Gamecube etc etc to dig out. Even a couple of Virtual Boy games hehe) but it's still growing. The cases themselves are 2 deep, and package on top of them is a Tiger Woods '97 LCD game that I just stuck up there. In between the Sega CD Mortal Kombat and the Genesis cases is a little tiny binder with some Sega CD games ... Dragon's Lair being one of them.
And then there's the original Nintendo and Nintendo 64. There's some Gameboy and Gameboy Advance games up there too.
Galaxy Force 2 for the Sega Genesis
Back in the 16 bit era, they had half-assed releases of several astonishing arcade games to the home consoles. Some worked out, such as the original Outrun and Afterburner ... others didn't fair so well. Especially to the Genesis. As much as I love this system, they had some terrible arcade ports.
Okay, I think I may have a problem. :)
Just got back from a flea market about half an hour away from my house, and snagged the following:
An original box NES with 2 controllers, the NES Advantage joystick (which, while it works perfectly, has a weird see througgh yellow golf ball lookin' thing instead of the normal ball, but it doesn't affect anything), a zapper and had the games Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt