@OutofPrintArchive Ha! Yeah A+ for effort. I’m super spoiled by modern tech for learning Japanese. I can’t imagine how people even attempted it back in the day without having access to Native Speakers constantly.
@LastContinue
It must have been 1998 when I decided to learn myself Katakana and Hiragana with nothing but a character sheet in a magazine and perhaps two dozen example words.
Then I started writing out all the Katakana words I found in Japanese Saturn manuals and translate them or perhaps I should say, try to make sense of them at that point. 😅
It felt so good to finally be able to navigate menus and understand basic words at the time.
@COMPU73E
Yeah, those have become a haven for pirates.
Luckily I got most of my games back in the day from regular stores and the ones I've picked up in the years since from sellers who know what they are doing, so I doubt I have any fakes.
They are a bit harder to spot since they don't have these kinds of easy markings.
@PixelBandits I don't know about favorite but it's up there for me (my favorite is Sonic CD). It is one of the few sonic games I own an original copy of for the actual genesis though. I would imagine a lot of people get stuck on the second zone, the machine is way more unforgiving with instant death zones, especially if you don't know where to go.
You can now easily load your ROMs on the Atari 2600+ console with Harmony and Concerto multicarts (Harmony firmware). Just rename your ROM "autorom.bin". #Atari2600#atari#retrogames#retrogaming
✅ Download quickly
✅ Can be played with a D-pad or a joystick and a couple of buttons
✅ Are incredibly well-documented now
✅ Had their DRM stripped out decades ago, or... see point above
✅ Will run on 0.03% of your PC's capabilities
✅ Are cheap to acquire in digital form
✅ Are interesting historical artefacts
✅ Are celebrated by inclusive and collaborative online communities
Save a classic gamepad from ewaste and start playing retro games today! 🎮
3D Pinball for Windows: The Space Cadet's Mission Continues
Do you know what computer games and the Voyager space probes have in common? Clever engineering can extend their missions way beyond their intended lifetime.
3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet, the iconic game bundled with the Microsoft Plus! packs and included in Windows NT4 up to Windows XP, is preserved for decades to come thanks to a reverse engineering project by Andrey Muzychenko.
I’m having way too much #RetroGaming fun with this Miyoo Mini+. Installed #OnionOS this morning which adds so many useful features. Nice theme switcher where I found a fave, which you can see in the video.
Also got hooked up with RetroAchievements, a website that creates and tracks achievements in these old #videogames. This was $70 well spent and I’m just getting started! (Literally… with the original Legend of Zelda)
@OutofPrintArchive yeah, there was also a Brazilian version with famous local cartoon characters. Weird thing is my brother married a Brazilian woman and she never even heard of it 😅
I think I might have seen that one before as someone once sent me a picture of his Wonder Boy collection and I remember being amazed that there were games in there that I never even heard off at the time.
The Lost Patrol was one of the most original and most overlooked games of 1989. It remains one of those few games that, mechanically too, manage to imply the horrors of war.
@konstantinosd The YouTube channel "Ahoy" recently published a video about another war game called Cannon Fodder which implies the human cost of war through a couple of its interstitial screens:
It took them a very long time, but Limited Run finally got both the regular Game Boy as well as the newly done Game Boy Color version of Trip World to me.
@Thaeyn
I wouldn't really know where to start. 😅
And to be honest, I'm quite embarrassed at how big it has gotten...
Then again, it started in 1992 more or less and by 1995, I actively started collecting as I was able to pick up tons of NES games for super cheap as shops were trying to get rid of them.
Then moved on to SNES, Mega Drive, Master System and basically anything I had missed out on.
Always looking a couple generations back and searching for great deals.
Review for Pengo on game Gear.
Sega Force 4 - April 1992 (UK)
I have to add that I feel they are being a bit too harsh on Pengo here.
Although I understand since the game was a decade old by the time it released on Game Gear.
I loved it in the arcade and it was actually my first GG game. 😊
I love the game so much that I have the Japanese MD, Xbox 360 and Switch versions as well.
haha, that looks great!
I have to put it on my PSP one of these days as I usually don't dabble with emulators.
Thinking back, it astounds me that besides the Atari and C64, Pengo never really got released on any of the 8 or 16 bit consoles besides the Game Gear...
Well, there was Pepenga Pengo in Japan on Mega Drive, which is super expensive nowadays, but it's very different from the original. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHBrEjjIbMY
Well since I have Pengo on my mind now, I started watching the history of this series and found out that the arcade original was actually released on SEGA Saturn in the Sega Ages: Memorial Selection, Vol. 1, which I actually have but had completely forgotten about!