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It was a amazing show no doubt about it. Acting, writing, the style just a amazing show. And one of my Favorites. I would have liked it if it went on longer for a few more years but in the end it was short and sweet and one hell of a show.
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That's Apple, kind of Ironic that long time ago Steve Jobs was bashing Microsoft and them making mediocre products and such. I am waiting for the new Iphone, not getting one myself but just watching these folks waiting in line for it for days and watching the news cover it like people are getting a reinvention of the wheel if you will. And when they come out of the Apple store they celebrate like they found the cure for something. No different than most phones i suppose, but it will be a scene. I'll tell you myself it's not that long ago that things seem NORMAL if you will. But in the last 10 years or so, we've changed drastically. And not for the good. I'd be in the store and waiting in line with a cart full of things to pay and the person in front of me, is texting away not realizing that they have to pay and so forth. And even when they realize it, they don't stop they have to finish the text. It drives me crazy. I'm not anti technology or anything like that, but sometimes i see my VHS and remember the simpler times. Brings back those great memories.
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The PS4 is selling well, the Ps3 and the Xbox 360 are really close, however early on PS3 was sold at a loss a big one. Kind of Ironic that the PS3 came out a decade after the Saturn and pretty much copied their mistakes at launch. The world we live in is totally different. Even the PC sales are down, granted pc's are cheap, and mostly everyone almost has one but people want portability and tablets are the way to go and mostly people want one or the other. They want a Samsung one or a Apple one. Not to mention TV's aren't TV's like they once were. Home market is where Sony was great at, Their TV's were great, the VCR's after they started making them, the Stereos and so on. But the market changed so drastically in the new millennium. And with the arrival of Ipods, and Iphones and the Ipads hard to keep up as a new year brings the basic same thing over and people line up to buy it which makes me sick. At one point Blackberry was on the mountain had a clear insight into the mobility aspect and they lost track and went down. The things people want has been there since the dawn of man obviously but since year 2000 everyone wants it now. Voice control on TV, i never understood the fascination but ok. They want app's on their TV's, They want WiFi, they want credit cards on their phones, because taking it out of your wallet is too much of a hassle. We want a emoji to order pizza, and send a text to do it, because dialing a number of a pizza shop and saying i want a large pepperoni and two sodas is so outdated. Every device needs to be touch screen item almost. And Sony like many other companies who do various other things are in this loop of having to meet these needs of these needy people. PSPGo was junk don't know why they ever released that, and the PSP and Vita great machines but you're selling it to a special market. You're selling it to a gamer. Most people have a smartphone now, kids in elementary school have phones, you go back just 10 years or so ago, maybe 1 in 30 people on the street have a phone. Now anyone you pass has some kind of phone, if not a phone a Tablet. It's crazy. Now phone carriers are buying out your contracts and giving you free smartphones just so you'd come and be their customer and so forth. I remember when they wouldn't give you a 99 cent ringtone for free a 4-5 second part of a song as your ringtone. Now they can buy out your 600 dollar contract, go figure. Maybe sony has something up it's sleeve for 2016, maybe not but as i said when you are a company trying to meet the needs of many people in different needs and are in a tech field in today's day in age is harder. In the 1990's and decades before that was easier but now not really. Especially for a company in a home game console field. Not sounding negative here or like Abe Simpson and hating the times we live in but, it's the truth and the reality.
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I don't know if Saved is the right term. When i think of a company being saved i think of IBM and Lou Gerstner taking over. IBM in the early 90's was on the brink of going extinct until Lou came and took over. He came from a Tobacco and Food company. Obviously IBM is a different beast and a different field but he saved them. Sure IBM is one of the best and well know companies in the world and the thought of them going out was huge back in the day. Just need someone to come in and give a new approach. Not saying everything he did was right but it saved the Big Blue. Yes Sony like any company tried different things and the big loss for sony was the VHS and Betamax war. As far Playstation goes obviously it helped the company really well. I don't think sony was in any severe financial nightmare like i mentioned IBM, i'm sure they had sluggish sales and not meeting the quota on some things and making the expected profits for a small period, no different than any other company. But that's far from being on the brink of extinction. Not to mention Playstation was a gamble, a big one, because as i mentioned before they had no games, or well known mascots that you can quickly identify with the system. And above all else it costs Millions to start and make a console. Also when the Playstation lunched it was perceived as it's own thing rather than a Sony machine. Sure like any company who is either making big money, or losing just a little or losing a lot of money they all want to stumble and come across the next big thing that will reward them well. And Sony hit the jackpot with the Playstation. Nintendo had problems with the N64, great console some of my favorites are on it as well but compared to the original Playstation it was not even close. And then the Gamecube, once again didn't do well compared to the arrival of the Xbox and the PS2 juggernaut. They came back with the Wii, and that helped them out really well. At the same time the Game Boy color, the Game Boy Advance and the eventual DS helped Nintendo really well during the time their main console sales were sluggish. Sony does however need something now. The last several years haven't been kind to them.
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No Not all of them but a nice portion of them, still you get like 35+ extra levels. Here is a list of the levels available. Really cool. http://raymanpc.com/wiki/en/Back_to_Origins
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Sure we can say that, but would it have been the same game? sure it might have had some of the characters and somethings that are similar to the final product but i'd say i wouldn't have been the same game at all. Also would the N64 have been the same machine had Sony not released the Playstation and so on? We can speculate on so many levels as to what could have happened and so forth, As far as Saturn goes that is true. In The book Rise And Fall Of SEGA the saturn is well documented, it is a great read. However, the Sega CD was already on the market and the 32X was pretty much on it's way, and they were leaving a bad taste in the mouths of developers already. i still believe that the downfall of SEGA during this period was inevitable, i don't think they would have lost as much money as they ultimately did but nonetheless they would have operated just a little better and maybe longer. A lot of people forget that Sony pretty much really had nothing like Sega and Nintendo. No Mario, No Sonic, No Castlevania, No Mega Man and other well known franchises that were appearing on the Sega and Nintendo consoles as well as others. They earned the people's hard earned cash and rewarded the people with it. Between 1995-1998 Sony had it all. Great platformers, Multiplayer games, Sports, Fighting, And those great RPG's. Sure some games also appeared on other consoles, Resident Evil and Tomb Raider were also on the Saturn, in 3 years to earn the trust and reward the gamer is something special. MGS, Symphony Of The Night, Crash Bandicoot, Twisted Metal, Gran Turismo,, Spyro, FFVII, Tekken 3, Blood Omen: Legacy Of Kain and the list goes on, N64 was great during this time as well, but for a company like sony to come along and give quality titles on it's console like they did was amazing. At the end of the day, it worked out for almost everybody. Great games across all platforms during this period and to this day great games all around and one hell of a thing when Sony came to play. Gave us more and it made for better games, and it hurt our wallets but worth it.
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James and Mike Mondays - Killing Time (Panasonic 3DO)
Kain replied to Phillyman's topic in Retro Video Gaming!
It was a good machine and one that looks better in retrospect with a some solid titles but initially yes it was a disaster from launch. Overpriced and games that were ok graphically but in order to enjoy them you had to pay a lot of money. If you can get one at a garage sale or flea market for a hundred bucks or so with some games and hook ups and controller go for it. -
Anyone here remember and love In Living Color? One of the best shows of the 90's and one of the best comedy shows ever. Wayans family did a amazing job and Jim Carrey was awesome I loved the Men On Skits. Funny as hell.
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The obvious answer is INTERNET, but then again it's much more than that and it goes deeper. Think of it like basketball. To win, get the ball in the basket, simple right? What about shot clock violation? Traveling? Double Dribble? Back Court Violation? And other things so all of a sudden something that looks simple goes much deeper and complex. It's many things, The user and reader got older and has more priorities in their life, spending $30 or more on monthly gaming magazines when the money could be spent on home bills takes a back seat. Thats just one person lets say in 1997 who is 22 years old imagine their whole generation of people who are 22 at that point in time. People just losing interest, we all at some point like somethings and a year or so later we don't care about it. Companies being bought out and some publications not meeting the subscription and selling quotas, so they just cut them out, no company wants to lose money for the sake of it. TV is also another one, during the holidays i remember seeing many commercial for the playstation and n64 advertising the specials. But not just the holidays in the summer there were many tv spots for games and consoles daily. So you can see the game in question rather than just a screen shot. Content is huge, can you sell issues and issues of the same thing that appeals to a small audience in the world like PSM or Nintendo Power which focuses on one brand with many other in the field? Sure for a while yes but time will come when it starts to go down and you'll need to do something about it. If you cover a lot of things like EGM you will last longer a little but not that much longer. The medium hits it's stride and goes down. You look at the 1990 till 2000 and you'll see a lot of magazines slowly dying out, and after 2000 even more dying out, but it's not just the magazines look at the gaming websites. they are internet based, if internet killed gaming magazines how can it kill it's own? From 1995 till 2005 there were hundreds of websites dedicated to gaming and now how many are there? Same thing for computer stores. Every city in the 1990's had at least 20 or so computer shops how many does each city have now just for computers alone? User interest, lack of content, running servers and publications cost money an ad revenue is and might be good but not enough to cover all the costs. People need to be paid. So one company merges with another and so forth. People get to a point where they don't need to read a review to see if something has their interest. Sometimes a title is enough to spark interest or a game cover and so forth. Gaming even in today's day in age is a special market and is misunderstood and i don't mean iphone games. People still see games like a 1980 and 1990's thing for kids and teenagers. I don't know if anyone has also seen this but Best Buy is selling gym equipment, and selling pots and pans and things like that. They are trying to evolve to a bigger business need rather than just technology. Mos Def said it best on his song Mathematics. Why did one straw break the camel's back? Here's the secret: the million other straws underneath it.
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Rayman series in general is amazing, a very underrated platformer. It's a shame that the series doesn't get a lot of love but i love it and it is a joy to play. Platforming at it's finest. The original is still one of my favorites. Rayman 2 The Great Escape on the Dreamcast when it came out was phenomenal, i own it to this day as well as the ps2 version Revolution. The great things about Legends is it has Back to Origins section in the game so you can play many levels from the previous Rayman game, which was Rayman Origins.
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He will be getting into the hall of fame which is a great honor and well deserved. Now i am looking forward to see what he does with the new studio of his, as well as his partnership with sony. I know he will deliver. http://www.engadget.com/2016/01/06/metal-gear-mastermind-hideo-kojima-will-be-a-hall-of-famer/
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I will give the magazine publishers benefit of the doubt when it came to reviews back in the day, they did do a amazing job and tried to be fair and honest in their reviews, at the same time there is no denying that there was sometimes bias towards one version of the game compared to another on another console. Someone who played the game today will more than likely compare it right away to the same version on another console and indicate the differences rather than review the game itself. To me that is one of the biggest differences i found out in the last decade is that more and more folks are discussing the differences rather than reviewing the game itself. Not saying it's everyone but a nice portion of the today's gamer is. Giving a fair review while playing a classic? Possibly yes but more than likely they won't. One of the main parts is restarting from scratch should you lose a life and not a lot of check points/saving(then again depends on the system and the game). Graphics is another one, sure the older games were the works of their time, and graphically pushed the limits in their day but doesn't hold up today compared to what we have. Once again it's not reviewing the game, the characters, the plot, setting, the soundtrack and so forth but rather comparing it to today's standards. And that is the issue. I can like may people who enjoy and love classics can play Castlevania, then go and play Art Of Fighting, and then switch it up and play Amped 2. Those games were fun. And i would put Amped 2 on my list of best games of all time because i had so much fun playing it, loved the soundtrack, the mountains, the goals, the presentation just a fun snowboarding game and overall just a fun game period. I play it a few times a year, also the original Amped. If you talk about the game for what it is and how it plays, how the characters are and so forth you will come across a great piece of work, but if you talk about what it doesn't have then you will not be talking about the game and will miss a great piece of work. GTA III for example, when it came out and to this day a masterpiece. But you can't swim, so you go in the water and you're done. Compare it to San Andreas where you can swim and other games since. it makes GTA III look stupid in that regard and a bad game, right?
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Windjammers would be one of my games. Simple, Fun, Fast, and done with the Street Fighter IV engine would be awesome,
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SEGA Dreamcast 2 to be PC and console hybrid?
Kain replied to Phillyman's topic in Current Generation Video Gaming!
I see this something along the lines of the Neo Geo X that came out a few years back. The Market is run by Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo. Sega back in the day couldn't compete when Sony was just starting with the original Playstation, in the place where there was room for more companies and games were easy to make and sell, and were cheap, now AAA titles costing 100 million dollars or so to make. Some companies don't have the same recognition that they once had or have. Namco, Midway, Acclaim, Sierra, Konami, Square Enix(Soft) not the same and some of those have gone bankrupt. This is for the fans by the fans nothing more. Even launching this will require millions. Homebrew will more than likely be it's main support, original Dreamcast is still running strong thanks to Homebrew. Not sounding negative but that is the reality of the situation. Sega will more than likely give permission to use their name, their hardware, and so on and Ip's for porting and what not, but as far as being a 100 % Sega Of the 1990's with their hands on the hardware market i don't see it. Sega would be better off giving people some of their older Ip's back. A new Outrun, Panzer Dragoon, Jet Set Radio done well would be better. Wish the folks best of luck. But i'm not holding my breath. http://www.amazon.com/NEOGEO-GOLD-Limited-Edition-Electronic-Games/dp/B00AASU8A4 -
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It seems that Hideo Kojima has officially left Konami. http://www.polygon.com/2015/12/15/10220372/hideo-kojima-new-studio-leaves-konami As a huge Metal Gear Solid fan, to see the way he was treated as well as his workers has been a shame. For the amount of years he has been there and how he has helped that company over the years, to see it go down like it has played out over this past year or so is something else. We don't know the whole story and i hope one day we will, but the whole fiasco has been something else. I hope that Hideo continues to give the world some more great games and i wish him the best. Maybe some spiritual successor to Snatcher Perhaps.
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I do have that one on my radar as well as a few others so maybe for me it will be a early 2016 purchase.
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I did have the The History of Sonic the Hedgehog on my list over the last year or so to add and read as well as The Making of Prince of Persia: Journals 1985 - 1993 from amazon have been on my radar for almost two years. Hoping this christmas and going into 2016 i'll spoil myself with them.
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Not as much as controls. If the game has bad controls, it's hard to go back and replay it after you are done with it. It may have great, story, characters and so on but controls add to it being great and take away from it as well if it has a ok story and so on.
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Brick phones, who doens't like it. Nice item to get from ebay. Nice holiday gift for someone.
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What are some of your favorite reads as far as gaming goes? Not necessarily books continuing a series of games like a sequel and or a prequel, things like Deus Ex: The Icarus Effect. One of my Favorites that i read last year is Service Games: Rise And Fall Of Sega. It was a bittersweet read. Growing up in the 1990's and playing lot of those games and consoles, and looking back on it brought back great and sad memories. For many of us SEGA will always be more than just a name, but in today's day in age, and for a long time for many it is just that. Masters Of Doom, is another one. Having a insight into the world of two great individuals and the team at id software is one hell of a journey. The roads they took to the big time and giving us some great games, is something worthy of a read.
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On the kickstarter states only NA games, still great though, One of my all time favorites is Battle City and i know i would give it 5 out of five stars love it.
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How much would you pay for 136 of first 150 NP issues?
Kain replied to RexRogers's topic in Magazine Talk
It is a great price for 136 issues, Just over a buck a issue. Obviously if it is missing pages and damaged then it does go down. But if it all seems ok, and it is in acceptable condition why not. Maybe talk them down to even 150 or so.