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Posted: **Fri Aug 13, 2021 6:31 pm**

I wish someone would do a Super Cassette Vision Mini, for a reasonable price - I'd prolly buy that!

Posted: **Tue Aug 17, 2021 2:43 pm**

The Super Cassette Vision was very much the Video 2000 to Nintendo and Sega's VHS & Beta. (If we're just talking about the Japanese / US markets, of course...)

Video 2000 Demonstration Tape

Posted: **Tue Aug 17, 2021 6:05 pm**

Excellent. I'm not sure I've heard of that before. Or the super cassette vision either

Posted: **Tue Aug 17, 2021 6:06 pm**

Maybe I have heard of nothing at all

Posted: **Tue Aug 17, 2021 6:21 pm**

Techmoan produced a rather good vid 'bout Video 2000 - "The format that came third in a two-horse race"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeSz6MoX00Q

Posted: **Tue Aug 17, 2021 6:57 pm**

I think I posted about Video 2000 once before, on the old forum. Or at least just linked to the demo tape above. Anyway, Techmoan's vid is worth a look.

Posted: **Tue Aug 17, 2021 7:35 pm**

dng wrote: Tue Aug 17, 2021 6:06 pm Maybe I have heard of nothing at all

Not even Hitler.

Barry Hitler.

Posted: **Tue Aug 17, 2021 7:50 pm**

CandyDarling wrote: Tue Aug 17, 2021 6:57 pm I think I posted about Video 2000 once before, on the old forum. Or at least just linked to the demo tape above. Anyway, Techmoan's vid is worth a look.

I think you did. I just seem to have no memory of anything any more for some reason (the reason is old, the end of all things)

Posted: **Wed Aug 18, 2021 7:47 pm**

My son loves Zelda Botw. Loves it.

Loves it so much that he saved over my saved games.

Hundreds of hours of gameplay gone.

Urgh.

Posted: **Wed Aug 18, 2021 8:02 pm**

there is nothing like a deleted save to make you realise the futility of all things

Posted: **Wed Aug 18, 2021 8:03 pm**

you'll just have to do it all again

Posted: **Wed Aug 18, 2021 8:20 pm**

I've been thinking of starting to play that again

Alternatively I'll sell you my save for £5000

Posted: **Wed Aug 18, 2021 8:21 pm**

Also I've been playing Hollow Knight, which is pretty great

Technically I "finished" it on Monday but it's one of those games where the end is ONLY THE BEGINNING

Posted: **Wed Aug 18, 2021 8:31 pm**

Posted: **Wed Aug 18, 2021 8:35 pm**

Lovely

i think i had starforce nova

Posted: **Wed Aug 18, 2021 8:36 pm**

Gwnn sounds welsh enough to have been a dragon game

Posted: **Wed Aug 18, 2021 8:38 pm**

i love the pew sound on the C16, Plus/4. As per Xadium, lots of other games, such as Berks

Posted: **Wed Aug 18, 2021 8:39 pm**

dng wrote: Wed Aug 18, 2021 8:36 pm Gwnn sounds welsh enough to have been a dragon game

https://youtu.be/c0VY3EVSeqY

it looks like the mythical game that gave everyone epileptic fits

Posted: **Wed Aug 18, 2021 8:39 pm**

that's the exact same game as Xadium

Posted: **Wed Aug 18, 2021 8:43 pm**

Excellent. I hope all four games are exactly the same

Posted: **Wed Aug 18, 2021 11:33 pm**

endar wrote: Wed Aug 18, 2021 8:35 pm Lovely

i think i had starforce nova

*checks on YouTube*

It's a very nice rendition of Uridium, goin' orn, there.

Posted: **Thu Aug 19, 2021 10:17 pm**

Sighrim

Posted: **Thu Aug 19, 2021 10:24 pm**

i almost bought skyrim on the ps4 a few weeks ago in a fit of utter depression

Posted: **Thu Aug 19, 2021 10:24 pm**

but then i didn't

Posted: **Thu Aug 19, 2021 10:27 pm**

also i finally played/finished bastion today, which i probably bought around about the time i first also bought skyrim, in 2011/11/11/11/11/11/11/11 (actually I think I got skyrim for christmas)

anyway it was good i liked it

Posted: **Sat Aug 21, 2021 8:20 pm**

I have now also actually played/finished hotline miami,, ten years or whatever after it came out. anyway i'm not sure i like hotline miami, but the musics quite good, so there's that at least

Posted: **Sat Aug 21, 2021 8:20 pm**

the final boss was probably the most bullshit terrible unfun boss ever made

Posted: **Sat Aug 21, 2021 8:24 pm**

i still have hotline miami 2 to play but i'm not sure i'll bother for now

Posted: **Sat Aug 21, 2021 10:12 pm**

I finished Hotline Miami but it made me feel quite ill

Posted: **Sat Aug 21, 2021 10:53 pm**

That'd be a great quote for the front of the game box.

Posted: **Sat Aug 21, 2021 11:28 pm**

i took a pretty much instant dislike to it when i tried the demo

Posted: **Sat Aug 21, 2021 11:50 pm**

I shouldn't read retro computer / video game articles penned by people who know sod all about it. Here's the BBC getting it very wrong.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58281812

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The Intellivision was a portable console? Nope.

No mention of the booming European home computer market (Spectrum / C64/ Beeb / Amstrad) in the 80s, which meant that we never suffered "The Video Game Crash Of 1983".

The Nintendo NES - that's the Nintendo Nintendo Entertainment System, I presume?

No mention of Sega.

"Doom. The game depicts a soldier fighting demons on Mars, and was the pioneering First Person Shooter " - What about Wolfenstein 3D?

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The thing is, if the Beeb can mess up a very easy to research article like that, what else are they getting wrong, also, ie, more important stuff?

Gawd!

Posted: **Sun Aug 22, 2021 12:49 am**

Sounds like he got his information from an equally ignorant youboober, like 8-bit twat perhaps

Posted: **Sun Aug 22, 2021 1:03 am**

The complete americanisation of gaming nostalgia, where all was Atari and Nintendo and other tediously corporate behemoths, is one of the most depressing things the internet has wrought

Posted: **Sun Aug 22, 2021 10:03 am**

vom wrote: Wed Aug 18, 2021 8:21 pm Also I've been playing Hollow Knight, which is pretty great

Technically I "finished" it on Monday but it's one of those games where the end is ONLY THE BEGINNING

I'm at 106% complete now and I think I might be done. Good game though

(the maximum is 112% apparently, due to extra quests being added in DLC updates)

Posted: **Mon Aug 23, 2021 3:35 am**

blombluss wrote: Sat Aug 21, 2021 11:50 pm
"Doom. The game depicts a soldier fighting demons on Mars, and was the pioneering First Person Shooter " - What about Wolfenstein 3D?

Maybe they were referring to Doom's pioneering usage of walls that weren't all at 90 degree angles?

Posted: **Mon Aug 23, 2021 6:37 pm**

The only walls that matter are at 90 degree ankles.

Posted: **Wed Aug 25, 2021 7:47 pm**

I might play a game.

Posted: **Wed Aug 25, 2021 9:08 pm**

I might have to play EGG on Dreamcast.

Has anyone played EGG? It looks gorgeous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yISn2d5ZPm4

Posted: **Thu Aug 26, 2021 6:22 am**

Apologies for the late reply to this:

blombluss wrote: Sat Aug 21, 2021 11:50 pm I shouldn't read retro computer / video game articles penned by people who know sod all about it. Here's the BBC getting it very wrong.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58281812

[...]

The thing is, if the Beeb can mess up a very easy to research article like that, what else are they getting wrong, also, ie, more important stuff?

Gawd!

The BBC get all kinds of things wrong, and on occasion deliberately do not report on certain things or twist the actual story because otherwise it makes the Tories look bad. Then again, the entirety of the British media in 2021 does that. British newspapers / TV news channels seem to be actively evil and bigoted thanks to a select few media barons who can't cope with the idea of things moving on in any way.

The most recent atrocity they've carried out is that Ofcom have been pressured into withdrawing support from Stonewall, as part of a long series of sinister Tory-created attacks on that charity and the LGBT community as a whole. Ofcom claim that they're not doing over LGBT issues - meanwhile, just about any rich white man who says something vile on TV gets a pass from them, and has done for years.

Sorry for the rant. I'm just disgusted by everything in this country nowadays

Posted: **Thu Aug 26, 2021 8:33 am**

Posted: **Thu Aug 26, 2021 9:36 am**

Spelunky and Spelunky 2 are out on Switch today!

Posted: **Thu Aug 26, 2021 5:12 pm**

To make up for that last angry post of mine, I can recommend a Spectrum-esque speedy platformer thing called "Quickly, Quackley!" on Steam:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1585 ... _Quackley/

Posted: **Thu Aug 26, 2021 5:14 pm**

oh god, all those spikes remind me of the trickiest parts of Hollow Knight, but faster!

Posted: **Thu Aug 26, 2021 6:39 pm**

I tensed up just watching that!

Posted: **Thu Aug 26, 2021 6:51 pm**

Spelunky 2 is delightful chaos, hooray

Posted: **Fri Aug 27, 2021 1:15 am**

CandyDarling wrote: Thu Aug 26, 2021 6:22 am Apologies for the late reply to this:

blombluss wrote: Sat Aug 21, 2021 11:50 pm I shouldn't read retro computer / video game articles penned by people who know sod all about it. Here's the BBC getting it very wrong.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58281812

[...]

The thing is, if the Beeb can mess up a very easy to research article like that, what else are they getting wrong, also, ie, more important stuff?

Gawd!
The BBC get all kinds of things wrong, and on occasion deliberately do not report on certain things or twist the actual story because otherwise it makes the Tories look bad. Then again, the entirety of the British media in 2021 does that. British newspapers / TV news channels seem to be actively evil and bigoted thanks to a select few media barons who can't cope with the idea of things moving on in any way.

The most recent atrocity they've carried out is that Ofcom have been pressured into withdrawing support from Stonewall, as part of a long series of sinister Tory-created attacks on that charity and the LGBT community as a whole. Ofcom claim that they're not doing over LGBT issues - meanwhile, just about any rich white man who says something vile on TV gets a pass from them, and has done for years.

Sorry for the rant. I'm just disgusted by everything in this country nowadays

Oh, I couldn't agree more.

And we mustn't forget all those media people who keep being 'silenced' for their views - as they repeatedly keep telling us in their newspaper columns, magazine articles, and on television. Grr!

Posted: **Sun Sep 05, 2021 12:09 pm**

Posted: **Mon Sep 06, 2021 7:53 pm**

I am certain that the makers of Mr. Wimpy had never seen Burger Time.

Actually, I seem to recall thinking at the time that a sponsored game was 'cool'.

Posted: **Tue Sep 14, 2021 8:08 pm**

I have been playing battle chasers: nightwar, which is exactly as generic a game as its name suggests.

I didn't even know I had this (i assume in a humble bundle or something, or maybe it was one of those free games sony gave everyone six months ago) but it's a bland rpg with turn based fight fantasy style battles and the sort of shit oversized character sprites you'd get in some neo geo fighting game and also really terrible voice acting and seemingly no story whatsoever somehow. also its not a sequel despite having a name like a sequel and also the story is written like a sequel where you're supposed to know who the characters are and why their bbanter is funny but you don't and its not

anyway i have spent four hours killing spiders and bats now and that is probably enough

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