16 Jul
2001
16 Jul
'01
10:27 p.m.
Zane H. Healy skrev:
> >In some ways it still is, a Cartridge system
can still cost you as much as
> >a Playstation 2! The thing to remember is some of those carts are pushing
> >1 Gig! With the oldest ones still being in the 50 meg range.
>
> It's really absurd...
Not really, they've never been produced in high
volume, and there are a lot
of very good, visually appealing games, even by todays standards.
I know, I just think that so many megabits stored on ROM is a bit absurd. And
expensive.
> >>I'd really like a cabinet with Puzzle
Bobble/Bust a Move. I'm spending
> >>too much money on that game.
>
> >As of yesterday my wife is officially addicted to that game!
>
> Thankfully, last week, my favourite pool hall modified its cabinet, so that
> it is now a bill-op in addition to a coin-op. =)
Do yourself a favor, investigate MAME. I invested $220
yesterday on a PCI
ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon and a second USB Gravis Gamepad Pro. It took a
couple hours, but my old PII/333 that had basically been retired as a Linux
box, is now running Windows (ugh!), and is sitting in the living room
connected to our TV (without a monitor). Really need a faster system with a
better disk though, as some of the games need a lot faster processor, but
it's about good enough for the Neo Geo stuff. Puzzle Bobble and Puzzle
Bobble Again rock on this system! Now the only problem is getting my wife
off of it.
333 MHz and old? I'm writing this on a 25 MHz machine, and I don't consider
that old. My fastest machines are a 133 MHz Pentium and a 166 MHz Alpha,
neither of which is fully assembled or running anything.
Besides, obtaining a fully-fledged multiple-megahertz PC system in order to
play 10 MHz games really strikes me as crossing the river to fetch water.
> Modern games just fail to attract me. I was raised
on sprite games, then it
> all died out in the course of a year. I'm sitll wondering why.
Overall, I'd just as soon have a really good game
with seriously dated
graphics (TacOps on the Mac & PC comes to mind, and I think the original Mac
versin is old enough to be on topic). However, I do enjoy good 3D fighters
with totally killer graphics.
I did enjoy Tekken after som manual reading, but beat'em-ups (save IK+) are
too complicated for me. And 3D lacks the level of control I like.
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