That was interesting, buddy. I don't recall ever seeing one of these before.

I love those old PDAs! I didn’t realize how sought after that game is. Super impressive you got it going too, thanks for sharing!

definitely remember borrowing STREETS OF RAGE and WC LEADERBOARD from somewhere back in the GG days. i only ever had one cartridge for my SMS (!), the pretty good (if single-player) port of GOLDEN AXE. luckily, the model 1 came with HANG-ON & SAFARI HUNT built-in; there was also a secret game, a real basic maze thing. i might actually prefer the 8-bit SONICs to the 16-bit versions. not sure. been a long time.

I loved this game! This and the bowling one!

I remember playing SVR 2007 on my cousin CJ's PS2 and my other cousin Danny Printed some Codes for GBA like Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire Version, and True Crime NYC for my GameCube Hidden Codes

i can't solder well, but i don't try to get better at it, either. the couple of times i've had to replace cart batteries (mostly all still saving after nearly 40 years!) i've secured them on the PCB with duct tape. any preference on GC color? i've had two. my second one was black, and the whole time i wished i'd held out for another purple. weird how that bothered me when there's zero functional difference.

Many hours spent in the late 90s playing this.

i'm doing BOTW now. 130 hours or so and all i've done is open up most of the map and 32/120 shrines. i don't understand the "best game of all time" stuff. sure, it looks pretty and all that, and there's a big wide-open world to explore; problem is, there's only like four or five main ways to interact with it. this wasn't an issue with the older entries, when play was more structured/confined (not the right words...). i guess i just like my games to be games, and not so much trying to reflect real life or a provide a movie-style experience -- the player-controlled element never integrates successfully, and i haven't seen any truly great writing on consoles. but, hey, i'm still playing, so it must be doing something right. that, or i want to get my money's worth.

Never seen this before. I did like playing dodgeball in school though, lol. I hear Ben Stiller is making another dodgeball film. The og was a hoot so id definitely watch a sequel.

that makes 2 purple guys who host pinball

Dragon’s Lair and Space Ace are both awesome FMV games in their own right. I’ll have to track down Kingdom II and give it a try

"Does anyone care about gaming on a CRT TV in 2024?" Well, I'm pretty sure 110,000 people, including myself over on reddit r/crtgaming say YES! :) of course it's considered a niche hobby BUT to the 90's kids and retro gamers like yourself it's a way life. Take care.

Are you running this on a Windows 10 machine? I'm attempting to run the game, but I'm having issues with pink and janky textures on the golfer, ball and flag. The game plays fine, but the graphics issues are horribly immersion-breaking.

It's not accurate enough though. It's missing the torrential rain, lol. It always rains in Scotland. I used to have to go Scotland atleast half a dozen times a year for work, and no matter what time of year it was, it rained. One time i was there on a contract for a month in the height of summer and it rained every day.😂

This looks pretty darn good.

probably came from 99'ER MAGAZINE #2 (1981). reprinted in a 1983 "best of" book you can find at the internet archive. isn't it wild that these days you can instantly copy an entire listing into memory from the scan of a printed page, fire up an emulator to save it out and run it (even on real hardware). these things used to take us hours to type in!

Dragons lair time warp? Was that in the arcades? I don't remember ever seeing it.🤔

this is a truly excellent version. was a launch title for the famicom and very well ported, as most early arcade games were. only problem is it's missing a stage. but what're you gonna do? too iconic not to have in the collection.

𝙻𝙾𝚅𝙴 𝙶𝙾𝙻𝙵 𝙰𝙽𝙳 𝚃𝙷𝙸𝚂 𝙾𝙽𝙴 ⛳️🏌️‍♀️

similar to TETRIS PLUS (1995), whose puzzle mode has you clearing lines for a little character who walks from side to side over the blocks as the ceiling closes in.

Retro gaming hippie approves! Nice pickup and great insight as usual. I love the merchandise catalogs that are in some of my old wrestling and Nintendo magazines. You see some crazy stuff they use to sell.

I need that shopping music fr

What brand and model is your trackball?

dunno how the rumor got started, but i still routinely find defaced CDs where somebody put sharpie around the outer edge of the playing side thinking it would improve the sound...

Guys what nokia phone model is this

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Oh man, I used to play the heck out of Dragons Lair back in the day. 1st video game to be on laser disc

i have no idea how these doodles are being done on the switch. (that's a pretty good bill the cat @ 2:27!)

I’m surprised this game doesn’t get much love today. It’s so prime for a budget Switch release.

43:43 -- i had the yellow & black electronic drums on the bottom left. they were radio shack brand. these must have been on sale for a long time 'cause i had them in the '80s. four basic syndrum ('70s) style sounds and an adjustable delay effect. not samples. honestly surprised to see this here in late 1992!

commenting way too early during a very long video otherwise i'll forget -- BATTLE MASTERS was a r e a l l y simplified version of a miniature wargame in a fantasy setting, probably aimed at sub entry-level players or younger kids. board was a huge vinyl playmat. NIGHTMARE, the VCR horror game on the same page.

congrats. would love to finish this one, too, but life always seems to get in the way -- after 20 years with the NES, i've beaten exactly three games: POWERBLADE (a great MEGAMAN rip, 1991), FELIX THE CAT (1992), and got the best ending on THREE STOOGES (1989), ha.

going by the first three issues, it looks like i had a majority of the early games at one time or another. from pak-watch: missing TERRA CRESTA. never even heard of CHESTERFIELD or EMPIRE CITY 1931; possibly changed names, or fami-carts that were never ported over. i like NP, not for the player-tips and stuff that makes up 85% of each issue, but as artefacts that reflect a specific time. the art design, the history as it was being lived, the contemporary takes and observations... all that tends to melt away as time goes by. really, applies to all old things and their connection to the past. (about desensitization: i don't understand this seemingly new obsession around "true crime" . . . like, real people had to die for the serial-killer story they're blissing-out over or whatever. i just don't get it. not entertaining to me. what if it involved someone they know, would it be fun then?) really enjoyed these three read-throughs. hope i didn't clutter up the comments too much!

the original METROID's on my list of games to complete -- i did SUPER METROID all the way to the end and gave up (which i'm now realising is kind of a pattern with me!). would love to beat GHOSTS & GOBLINS but that's never happening...

SUPERMAN did make it to the NES; doesn't review well. i thought 1943 was the best of that series on the NES. with you on not caring for ADVENTURE ISLAND. really want to beat KID ICARUS at some point and would like to make time for BLASTER MASTER. including the players' choice, video shorts & pak-watch sections, from this issue i was only missing MEGA MAN, DK JR. MATH, and NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET which commanded stupid prices even when i was collecting. this is probably wrong: i think i read somewhere that magazines were dated a month ahead so that they appeared newer for longer -- more time to sell a "new" publication. i estimated from readers' letters referring to content of previous issues that most were written around three months before they hit shelves. back page ad reminds me i really need to teardown/clean my NES "advantage" stick. even if i never use it, i've always thought it looked great and would be good to have on display. similarly, the "max" controller looks cool, just not sure how usable it was.

never spent much time with DR. CHAOS. resembles a horror-themed GOONIES II. probably not as good (pony canyon vs. konami).

i never had an NES in the '80s, but was gifted a stack of 27 NPs one christmas about ten tears ago. earliest issue was #10 (jan-feb, 1990). most of them were from the (far less special/familiar) N64 era. more than the game tips & showcases (don't wanna spoil stuff before playing), i enjoyed the reader mail sections, and celebrity profiles, some of which read like obviously made-up promo pieces. i had every game mentioned in this issue except DR JEKYLL, and all of that month's top 30 at various times over the years. as for favorites: when i sold everything and started over with the famicom, i was very happy to learn that TECMO BOWL and PUNCH OUT!! were "world" carts in english.

famicom version has some different holes and three extra courses -- australia, france and hawaii.

masters of disasters, to coin a phrase, though you did start to rein it in towards the end. only knew the MEAN 18 title; never saw the game until now. accolade would publish the much-lauded TEST DRIVE a year later.

Did you just haggle with the recyclers?

more than any of the typical golf games, this one really makes me think about how it was programmed and the kind of calculations going on behind the scenes. a USB keyboard would have you zipping around the course in no time.

My firt computer was a Compaq Presario 633.

I never had a Nintendo DS. I heard good things though. I just wasn't gaming at that point. I'd stopped in the mid 90s and didn't start again until about five years ago. Dang! Deep purple are still touring?

i still haven't beaten it. stage 15 was the best i could do.

about the illustrations in the earliest catalog: that style is so familiar to me, especially with all the big toothy smiles. can't place where else i've seen it and it's driving me nuts. maybe it's someone who used to draw for MAD... aarrghh. also you flipped to the VIDEO PINBALL page, and that art was really evocative of the old "1,2,3,4,5" pinball count segments on SESAME STREET.

oh, god, he's got a pinball machine, too! (25 years ago i almost pulled the trigger on an ADDAMS FAMILY table. the usual concerns about upkeep scared me off. shoulda went for it!!)

ooh, THE NIGHTFLY! TOLEDO WINDOW BOX... the record covers are a nice idea for wall-art. (i'm kinda OK with most of my gaming being vicarious these days, and flipping through an old magazine now and then scratches the itch, but when i see great setups like yours, i wish i had space to keep some systems permanently out.)

THIMBLEWEED PARK! knew i was forgetting another modern game i'd completed...

i spy WKRP S1 over in the corner! probably my favorite sitcom. i was ecstatic about ten years ago when shout factory did the restored box with most of the original music...

had a difficult time with the 3D makeover in the mid-late 90s, to put it mildly. i completed SILENT HILL on the PS1 in 1999 then never played another new game for ten years! WINDWAKER was my first "modern" ZELDA. i came to it five/six years late, and never knew people were down on it because of the graphics. i liked 'em! i got to the end and gave up when they threw all the previous bosses at you in sequence. fast forward another gameless ten years, and i've fully embraced the nintendo switch -- working my way through BOTW now.