| Mail |
You might also like: WoW Insider, Massively, and more

Reader Comments (35)

Posted: Jan 22nd 2012 11:41PM The Pork said

  • 3 hearts
  • Report
I ... I can't even fathom the awfulness of the video above. I find it ironic (or ... something) that at 1:17, Leon's uniform looks like it says "RAD" instead of "R.P.D."

This is so not rad.

Posted: Jan 23rd 2012 12:40AM Faceless Troll said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
@The Pork I think at some points it actually says "MEW".
Reply

Posted: Jan 22nd 2012 11:44PM Kagiroi said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
Wow - I forgot about that Tiger Electronics abomination.

I almost bought one of those - but thankfully my conscience kicked me in the head hard enough to erase that part of my short-term memory.

3DS is still rumbling along. Looks like Wii buyers are waiting for the next gen, as sales are pretty anemic.

Posted: Jan 23rd 2012 12:25AM mrantimatter said

  • 3 hearts
  • Report
@Kagiroi
In some ways though, it was ahead of it's time. Touchscreen, internet access, non-game apps, etc.

Tiger just didn't have the technology to really do any of it justice, nor the money. After all, their previous bred and butter had been cheap, simple LCD games.
Reply

Posted: Jan 23rd 2012 2:43AM BPMOmega XBL PSN Steam said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
@Kagiroi
I bought one. Yea, it was terrible. Aside from the fact it was black & white, everything on it was slow and clunky. If it had a faster CPU or more RAM, maybe it'd been something decent.

I got the Game.com's version of "Sonic Jam".. despite the title, it had little to do with the Saturn game of the same name. It had a few levels based off of the Genesis levels of Sonic 2, 3, and &Knuckles, but they weren't exactly the same. Nor did it have the complete games. Oh, and it ran very slow.
Reply

Posted: Jan 23rd 2012 7:12PM xxxsam said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
@Kagiroi
yeah, I think everyone in Japan who wanted a Wii already got one. Wii game sales are still good, probably for the same reason...
Reply

Posted: Jan 23rd 2012 12:03AM Haunted CoinOp said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
It looks like a calculator game

Posted: Jan 23rd 2012 12:07AM A Sandwich said

  • Half a heart
  • Report
Prediction time! What comment will we see first?! Will it be:

A) Vita sales aren't so bad. Just wait till they put Monster Hunter on that thing. Just wait ...

B) Whoa, 3DS dropped 140k units? Yikes, Nintendo should be worried. (This is normally said in all seriousness and fails to recognize the fact that the 3DS outsold everything else on the list combined.)

C) Yeesh, why can't we get weekly sales from America or Europe?

Step right up and place your bets!

Posted: Jan 23rd 2012 12:14AM Heffer Wolfe said

  • 3 hearts
  • Report
@A Sandwich

I had my money on "anything snarky from A Sandwich."

Looks like I'm having steak tomorrow night!
Reply

Posted: Jan 23rd 2012 6:34AM Pure Black World Tendency said

  • 3 hearts
  • Report
Hey now, it's rude to speak of steaks in the presence of a sandwich that went stale ages past.
Reply

Posted: Jan 23rd 2012 12:09AM Cleaver said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
A minute into that video I caught myself wondering if the 13 minutes portayed covered the entirety of the game.

I guess not, but it much longer than I would have endured ever trying to play that.

Posted: Jan 23rd 2012 4:22AM Churrotastic said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
@Heffer Wolfe ...wouldn't having steak be considered cannibalism on your part?
Reply

Posted: Jan 23rd 2012 12:32AM Esposch said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
Bloody hell. What happened to the market this week?

Posted: Jan 23rd 2012 1:59AM A Sandwich said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
@Esposch

Holiday money ran out.
Reply

Posted: Jan 23rd 2012 12:37AM willooi said

  • 2.5 hearts
  • Report
I love how at about 7:34 the player runs into multiple enemies in the faux-open-3D space, and decides to turn back so that they follow him onto a more linear plane. I can only imagine the pain in turning and aiming there...

Actually, watching that video (for 7 minutes and 34 seconds longer than I should have, really) makes me feel both admiration and sorrow for the programmers in creating something far better than should've existed on that platform, but even then they still ended up with something quite garishly horrible.

Posted: Jan 23rd 2012 12:41AM HaVoK308 said

  • Half a heart
  • Report
Few more weeks and the Xbox will be outselling the Vita in Japan. A-OOOoooh

Posted: Jan 23rd 2012 12:54AM (Unverified) said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
Somebody sure sounds a little... Cranky.

Posted: Jan 23rd 2012 1:00AM liquidsoap89 said

  • 3 hearts
  • Report
Don't worry Sony... I've got my pre-order for a Vita already. No chance you can fail with my purchase! NO CHANCE AT ALL!

Posted: Jan 23rd 2012 1:09AM vidguy said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
Forget unlocking, I would be the master of smashing that GBC cartridge if I had ever played that.

Posted: Jan 23rd 2012 7:46AM Punkrawk Bbob said

  • 1 heart
  • Report
@vidguy

GBC cartridge? First think about that. GameBoy COLOR. That has no color. Second, Joystiq clearly says "GBC never existed, but this Game.Com version did."

Now think about what you said.
Reply

Posted: Jan 23rd 2012 9:38AM vidguy said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
@Punkrawk Bbob

First, the link to the GameBoy Color game is in, you know, color. Is your monitor broken? Second, this was clearly a joke.

Now think about what you said.
Reply

Posted: Jan 29th 2012 9:33AM Punkrawk Bbob said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
@vidguy

Try and hide behind the guise of a joke. You were an idiot and gave a knee-jerk response.
Reply

Posted: Jan 30th 2012 2:54PM vidguy said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
@Punkrawk Bbob

Do you not get the reference then? Too young to know the "master of unlocking" line, which was in the original RE (linked, in color), not RE2 (above, in B&W)?

Anyway, enough with this.
Reply

Posted: Jan 23rd 2012 1:20AM BoBsS said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
The Xbox 360 numbers don't make sense.

It's sales went up by around 300 units, yet it somehow dropped 44% from last week?

Posted: Jan 23rd 2012 2:01AM Zenith said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
@BoBsS

The second number is the number of units /difference/, not the current week's total sales. It went /down/ 1219 units, or by 44%. The first number is this week's sales.
Reply

Posted: Jan 23rd 2012 1:36AM SEGAGAGA said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
A group on the internet is actually trying to preserve a ROM of the game boy color version of Resident Evil that some collector has. I saw this post on Unseen 64

http://www.unseen64.net/2011/12/03/cancelled-resident-evil-for-gameboy-color-fundraising-effort-to-preserve-and-share-it-with-the-world/

Posted: Jan 23rd 2012 2:32AM Vidaluko said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
O

Posted: Jan 23rd 2012 9:02AM KrizB said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
I bought one, it was like $5 clearenced at Walmart.

Can't remember if I figured it out or read it somewhere, but there was a cheat code for it.

Posted: Jan 23rd 2012 9:45AM ballistic90 said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
I was so pissed when they cancelled Resident Evil for the Gameboy. It actually had a lot better graphics than that piece of crap.

Posted: Jan 23rd 2012 9:56AM Design by Adrian said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
Back in our day, we actually had AWESOME games!

Posted: Jan 23rd 2012 11:37AM AFATALERR0R said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
So do people not want the vita as bad as Sony thought?

Posted: Jan 23rd 2012 3:27PM CamelCamelCamel said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
I COMPLETELY forgot about the Game.com. I bought one on clearance and absolutely had RE 2. And more than that, I LIKED IT. Haters gon hate.

Posted: Jan 23rd 2012 7:01PM pluupy said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
I've never actually played a Resident Evil game, but from what I know they were apparently the basis for Devil May Cry. Since i've played DMC, I guess have some sort of idea of how the Resident Evil games work. (or at least used to since i'm assuming the game as evolved in terms of UI and gameplay)

That game in the video there isn't all that bad. I've played some bad games from the old days, and honestly that one looks great. Certainly not as bad as say Grand Theft Auto on the gameboy.

Posted: Jan 23rd 2012 7:08PM vidguy said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
@pluupy

RE was amazing back in the day. It loses a lot of its luster with its famous "tank controls" and anything from that era is hard to enjoy now because of the jaggies, but there is good reason that RE and RE2 are still considered among the best in their generation.

It still managed to scare you despite the original's cheesy intro http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw5sQn5Cviw

Reply

Posted: Jan 23rd 2012 10:40PM fatguy88 said

  • 2 hearts
  • Report
when the dude or what ever it was said resident evil 2 it sounded like my stomach when its upset

Featured Stories

Image

Stiq Figures, May 14 - 20: He's heating up edition

Posted on May 27th 2012 11:30PM

Image

The Joystiq Indie Pitch: Ballin

Posted on May 27th 2012 10:30PM

Engadget

Engadget

TUAW

TUAW

Massively

Massively

WoW

WoW