JB

@28:
The "version of Nintendo" that was out when the PlayStation hit was the SNES. It would be Nintendo's primary system until the Nintendo 64 hit over a year later. At which point it was painfully clear the market had pretty much dumped sprite gaming in a ditch on the side of the road.

Sega's Saturn was the system that launched alongside the PS1, and the broken promises of THAT system are the stuff of legends. Interestingly, it HAD a strong sprite game market(at least as much as ANY Saturn market could be called strong).



I agree with the sentiment, though.
The sprite work that appeared in that era was breathtaking. Even moreso when it was placed next to the sheer awfulness of the PS1's attempts at polygon graphics.

Games like Symphony of the Night, Tales of Destiny, and Megaman 8(remember when he wasn't JUST a bad joke?) hold up well a decade later, and remind me exactly how much we lost in the move to polygons.

MISTA DRILLA!
ALL HAIL DRILLA-SAN!

HAving said that...
There kinda ISN'T a PS1 RType.

There's RTypes, which is RType and RType 2 arcade ports on one disk.
And there's RType Delta, which is a unique PS1 game.
But there's no RType.


So which is it? RTypes or RType Delta?

Space Duel was the one with the tether, not Space Wars.


And curse you Mac-exclusives! I really wanted to try this one.

Wii60 for the win!
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And my beloved pile of legacy that goes all the way back to the 2600, of course.

Give it to me and the TV is blessed with a dozen systems spanning over a quarter-century of gaming goodness.

I could use one of these...
Not that I really expect to win, I'm not that lucky.

I'll give it a shot too, I guess.
Even if there's only one, the odds are still WAY better than Amazon's were.

Niiiiiice...

America didn't miss much... only 2 of the strongest game computers ever made and a fairly nice handheld that scared Nintendo into retiring a decade-old brick that wasn't very impressive when it came out.


The MSX series(mainly MSX2) and x68ks are legendary for their games, and with good reason.
The fact that they never made it out of Japan to any real degree(there WAS an international MSX presence, but it was minimal) was a serious loss for the rest of the world.


The Wonderswan had a chance, but it was never pushed quite hard enough. Still, it DID take a signifigant number of sales from the Gameboy for a time. I believe it peaked at about 8-10% of the japanese handheld market. Not very impressive, until you realize every single one of those points was against a GameBoy in full-on Pokémadness.


As far as system evolution goes...
Gameboy Color was a quick&dirty hack to give the GameBoy an edge against the newer and better game machines that were coming out(The NeoGeo Pocket hit shelves about the same time as the GBColor, and the original 'Swan hit about a year later) and hold market share while Nintendo developed a REAL next-gen handheld.

The WonderSwan Color was a quick&dirty hack to make the 'Swan competitive with the GameBoy Color. Same deal for the NeoGeo Pocket Color.

NGPC landed about the same time as the original 'Swan, with the 'Swan Color landing about a year later, and the GameBoy Advance landing a year after that.

The SwanCrystal was going to be Bandai's answer to the GBA, but by the time it came out, Bandai was getting ready to pull out of the market. The GBA had already shredded the 'Swan, so the 'Crystal was basically stillborn.



But the PCFX was crap. No question on THAT point.

I find this to be indisputable proof that God hates EA Sports.

YES! I CALLED IT!

I KNEW that GuitarHero would wind up in court and GuitarFreaks would be involved somehow!

*sighs*

And once again there's no love for the the basic Power Suit. Wasn't in Prime 2, never shows up in art, and now it's getting the short end on statues too.
I hope when they say the series isn't limited to the 5 named models, that means they have plans for the one and only base model too. Seriously, the light suit before the core model?


Am I the only person on Earth that actually likes the look of the original better than the upgrades?