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After all these years I'd still have to go with Final Fight. Such a classic and the game that got me back into games and sold me a MegaDrive (don't ask ) when I was around 14-15 years old and thought I was too cool to be playing games.

The MegaDrive thing was because my friend at the time told me when we played Final Fight at the yearly fare that it was out on that system.

So naturally I saved up for the system and Final Fight never arrived on it until the Mega CD was released, but i only got that many years later.

I did get Streets of Rage which we played for a long time until the early hours of the night. Such an incredible game.

But still Final Fight has something all the others lack, even though it's so straight forward.

And since the arcade version isn't on there, I picked the next best thing: the Sega CD one.

Final fight One on the GBA is awesome as well though.

I use to love swordfighting. I say "use to" because I have become very disillusioned with it in the past couple of days. For some reason my remote keeps coming unsynced when sword fighting. I will be in the middle of something and all of a sudden left is no longer left and I have to crane my arms around in wierd ways in order to block a basic overhead twap.

Not sure if this would help, but would pressing down on the d-pad fix this during play? I've hear several people mention something like that.

I don't know myself, even though I have had the game for the past 3 weeks since it came out.

Because I have only been able to try out the sports that don't require much movement, like frisbee, bow shooting, Waverace and the plane flying.

Should be able to get into the others within the next couple of weeks though.

I loved the little system and got a Japanese one even before it was released in Europe simply for Crush Roller, the sequel to the classic arcade game.

Just like it's big brother the NeoGeo Pocket has one of the most impressive quality/crap ratio's ever seen in video game history.

The Dreamcast is another one, but doesn't come quite as close as either NeoGeo's ratio wise.

Possibly the best d-pad ever with the tiny click stick. It's so depressing that no one has licensed the technology behind it so they could put it in a console or handheld.

One of my most played games on the system is without a doubt Capcom VS SNK. The mini games alone were worth the price of the game.

What more could you ask for? A great sonic game, Bust-A-Move, 2 original Metal Slugs, lots of fighters that played like a dream on the click stick, strategic games like Card Fighters Clash and Faselei. Oh and how could I forget Magical Drop.

Wow, I somehow missed Video Games & Computer Entertainment March 1990 in the release list, so I'm gonna download it right away and put it on RS asap.

It's funny how the little things in life can sometimes make it all worth it.

While I will most likely never have such a guitar (and I can't actually play any instrument either), I think I can at least understand partially what something like that should feel like.

For me a similar moment was when I finally got my own NeoGeo only a few years ago, after wanting one ever since I played one in a shop when it was first released.

I know it's not the same, but the sentiment comes close, at least for me.

Too bad I won't be able to make it to Philly since it's quite a way from home for me, but I must say that being able to talk to you like this is almost just as sweet

Hmm, tried looking it up on the wiki, but couldn't find anything besides the NES, Master System and MegaDrive versions it seems. Well at least no N64 version for now.

Could be that the index for that particular magazine hasn't been filled in though.

http://www.retromags.com/w/index.php?title...00&offset=0

Happy belated birthday Bill!

I'm so sorry that I couldn't be here on the day itself as I remember vividly how excited triverse was about the thought of presenting you with the very first compilation of the Kunkel report.

Really looking forward to the next one.

I knew someone who was sick and literally slept through an entire day. He went to bed Friday night and woke up Sunday morning. That would freak me out and piss me off if I slept through a Saturday.

That doesn't surprise me at all, you can go as long as 3 days when you get sick enough. you will "wake up" a couple of times during that, but won't even remember anything due to the fever.

by the way, the pirate talk in the Shoutbox is when I am wide awake

The fact that some people need that part to be explained alone makes my day.

Hehe, like I said it all depends.

I know someone at work who only sleeps for 4-6 hours a night and has been doing so for as long as he can remember. Never had a problem with it.

When I do that for 3 nights in a row, I start breaking down and can barely function during the day.

The longest I have slept (besides being sick, as you can do crazy hours when things get pretty bad) was just over 16 hours.

Again, nothing special happened that week, besides me only getting about 6 hours sleep for a couple of days at the end of a morning shift, so I fell asleep friday evening around 8PM and woke up somewhere after noon on saturday.

Not something I've done since though.

Guess it depends from person to person.

If I get 8 hours a sleep for a full week, like when I have the early shift, I'm a wreck by thursday.

If I don't need to watch the clock I sleep between 9-10 hours a day. This week I've pulled a couple of 11 hour nights as well, but that might be due to circumstances.

When I go one night without sleep, by noon of the next day I barely even know if I'm alive anymore. I get in something that's more like a zombie than a dream state. very weird and disorienting.

So in the end, sleeping all day long till the sun goes down, only to go out for the hunt and find some lovely ladies to turn into vampires as well doesn't sound too bad for me.

Well, listen up, sonny Jim: I ate a baby. Oh, aye, Baby: the other, other white meat. Baby: it's what's for dinner.

Well, I seem to hate sunlight most of the time, so that's a good start.

Sorry to hear that, but welcome nonetheless.

It's indeed in the wrong section, or should I say in it's own thread instead of the introduction thread, but we won't hold that against you.

Moved it to the correct one btw.

For the record I always used EAC at a VBR of 256. After playing around with all the different settings and various different formats at the time, I came to the conclusion that a VBR at 256 was good enough for me not to hear any difference between the original CD and the MP3s.

This is all electronic music mind, going from New Beat to chillout and minimalistic techno, so perhaps the rules of encoding these kinds of music differer from encoding Celine Dion CDs.

One thing I've done when I was converting all my House, Trance and Techno CDs from the 80s, 90s to MP3s was scan in the covers and booklets to keep inside the folders. Now that iTunes for instance allows you to include images into the MP3s that's come quite handy.

Especially since there were lots and lots of very rare CDs in there which you'll never find online.

Been thinking about scanning Japanese manuals since they are so beautiful compared to the European manuals we get.

The only problem is that it would take a lot of time and work and I really want to get back to scanning and editing magazines as quickly as possible.

Well, I can't blame myself since Tony_32 is on a role it seems. It's hard even keeping up with all of his quality releases! Fantastic job there!

The very first system I "owned" was a Space Invaders arcade cabinet.

Now let me explain, I grew up in a café which my mom owned every since my deadbeat father left her when she was 3 months pregnant with me.

So while I didn't exactly own the arcade cabinet in there, it sure felt like it.

The very first one that was mine would have to be a Popeye Game&Watch in '83.

I played the 2600, C64 and especially the Oddysey at a friend's house all the time but the first actual console I owned was the NES, which came out on September 1st 1986 in Europe and I got mine for my good grades somewhere in December.

Oh man, now that's a difficult question, if not impossible for me to answer.

Right now it would probably be Lost, but there are just too many good ones.

V

Battlestar Galactica, old and new series.

Married with Children

X-Files

Alf (don't laugh )

Star Trek! all of them.

House

Dexter

24

Sleeper Cell

And I'm probably forgetting way too many at this point.

This one has just been put up as well: http://www.retromags.com/forums/Game-Infor...O-file1335.html

Just wanted to let everyone know that all recent releases have been uploaded to rapidshare as well.

Due to unforeseen circumstances I hadn't been able to update the links this past month, but that has now been rectified.

I'd have to say Chungking Express by Wong Kar Wai.

The first time I've seen it was about a year or so ago after seeing it in many peoples "must see" movie list.

Didn't know anything about it and the movie is not very heavy on plot, but focusses on atmosphere and changing relationships.

For some reason it's very close to my heart and when people ask the question about what's my favourite movie, that one always jumps into my mind first.

Well, we know what you are like Triverse....don't try and force your ways on Philly like that...we can only handle one of you as it is!

Sorry about that, I didn't think about it that way. It won't happen again. ;P

Happy birthday Philly and welcome to the old grumpy gamer faction.

Thanks everyone.

I could write a book about all the things that happened to me and that I've seen and heard when I was there, but I just want to put it behind me.

A few tidbits about the food for instance.

At one time I got yogurt that had expired somewhere in February.

The bread we got in the morning and evening had a production date of 3-4 days ago, without exception, except for the one time they gave me bread that was repackaged by hand and someone else already had put butter on top of it.

The bread was even harder then usual and the butter had already dried and turned yellow. No need to say that I didn't eat it and skipped quite a few meals.

I normally weigh 76kg and when measuring myself on WiiFit yesterday I ended up on 69kg.

Lots of other horror stories, from male nurses threatening to hit some poor 89 year old guy, with drawn fists and all in the middle of the night while he thought me and the guy next to me were still asleep.

Simply because the poor guy had terrible pain in his groin area since they quickly put a new diaper on him and only checked up him (or basically everyone) every 4-5 hours. So when the diaper started cutting into him due to him turning in his bed, or when he was wet from doing his business, he needed to wait hours until they came back.

And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

The guy laying besides me was the youngest person I've seen there (21 years old), and the only one which I had some fun times with and could talk to and laugh with, since the others were so old they either didn't hear anything or suffered from some kind of mental problems due to old age, so that it barely made a difference what you said to them.

Oh and I also had this one guy, around 45, who sat there for 3 days drinking beer, eating chips and going out for a smoke every 10 minutes.

Then laid there coughing and snoring all night long.

There were plenty of nights where I only slept for 2-4 hours, so needless to say that isn't a good environment to get well in.

A scary fact is that the young person next to me got released on monday and had to go to another hospital on friday because the wound on his lower back had become infected again and started smelling like roadkill.

When he arrived at the other hospital, they had to re-open the wound and cut of the scar tissue as it had already started to decompose.

And his was a relatively simple operation. The best part is that the same surgeon that did that to him also worked on me, so I'm scared to death thinking about what might still happen to me.

To end on a lighter note though, I had a good laugh when they took me off the IV and I got my first antibiotics in pill form.

I just had to take a picture with my DSi.

Retard pills all the way!