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| Howard_Casto:
I've got to imagine that the people this film didn't connect with weren't the target audience. The way they hit many of the major beats of my childhood around that age was uncanny. All it was missing was a reference to going to see the wizard in theatres just to catch a glimpse of super mario bros. 3 and it'd be perfect in that regard. |
| Xiaou2:
--- Quote from: leapinlew on November 29, 2021, 08:55:28 pm ---Same here! We started with Sega because it seemed to have better RPG's and wasn't all hung up on blood and gore. Overall though, the SENS got more play time than the Genesis did and I'd say the games have aged better. --- End quote --- My Brother bought the Master System for his Birthday. I was ticked.. as I really wanted to experience more Super Mario Bros., other then the rare time I got to play at someones house. That said... I ended up buying all the games for the SMS.. - Shooting Gallery - Is probably worth the entire price of admission alone. Its one of the best lightgun games ever made. I think I made it to the 2nd space ship level, which is no joke. - Missile Defense 3D - Is not quite as polished / fun as Shooting Gallery... but the 3D shutter glasses effect is simply amazing - Phantasy Star - Epic RPG - Wonderboy in Monster Land - Epic action game (I prefer it to the later in the series) - Golvellius Valley of Doom - Excellent action RPG, similar to Zelda, but much more impressive gameplay functionality - Shinobi - Excellent 8bit arcade port - Zillion - Good action + puzzle side-scroller - R-Type - Excellent Port (though, I was never a huge fan of its slow pace and difficulty level) - Maze Hunter 3D - Really cool 3D effects. Decent and unique gameplay and effects. - Teddy Boy Blues - Fast and fun shootem up - Choplifter - Excellent port - Astro Warrior - surprisingly good shump - Global Defense - Another decent shump, with a unique control twist As for Genesis vs Snes... - The color palette was dim and limited on the Genesis, which ruined the artistic look, on a lot of its games. Its the main reason why many of the games do not "Hold Up" visually, in comparison to the Snes. - That said... Genesis FM Synth Chip, often provided FAR superior music and sound effects (when it was programmed well). The SNES music was more like Generic Midi samples.. and was often boring and flat sounding. Two of the most amazing musical samples for the Genesis: Target Earth, and Thunderforce II. Neither of which could have easily been re-created on SNES hardware (if at all possible). I owned about 50 Genesis games... but the thing is... I realized that I only enjoyed re-playing about 7 of them. The rest were largely Crapolla. I only owned a few SNES games: Street Fighter II, Contra III, Super Mario World, Killer Instinct, MK1, and a few others. At that time, I didnt have a ton of extra cash to spend.. and to be honest, a lot of the SNES games didnt seem all that appealing to me. |
| Malenko:
Sorry for contributing to the "veering of off topic" I'll try to rope it in at the end of my reply :) --- Quote from: Xiaou2 on December 03, 2021, 05:37:22 am --- - The color palette was dim and limited on the Genesis, which ruined the artistic look, on a lot of its games. Its the main reason why many of the games do not "Hold Up" visually, in comparison to the Snes. --- End quote --- As a person who has spent about $600 in Genesis games in the last few weeks, I'll have to say games not holding up visually is quite subjective. The color palette wasn't dim, developers just used the darker colors more frequently. Here is a screenshot I stole from Video Chums that shows Sonic 2 and Super Mario World side by side I don't think Sonic 2 looks dim and dark at all. Is this from the SNES or the Genesis version? The fact you had to think about it just proves my point. --- Quote from: Xiaou2 on December 03, 2021, 05:37:22 am --- - That said... Genesis FM Synth Chip, often provided FAR superior music and sound effects (when it was programmed well). Two of the most amazing musical samples for the Genesis: Target Earth, and Thunderforce II. Neither of which could have easily been re-created on SNES hardware (if at all possible). --- End quote --- The SNES would be able to simulate anything the Genesis did via FM Synth samples. It wouldn't be identical but it would be serviceable. The major issue with the SNES was the forced Gaussian filter on the audio. Lots of homebrew "hackers" and devs have found use of the MSU-1 to improve the audio in dozens of games with more being done all the time. They have have also been fixing bad audio in genesis games as well, like the garbled audio in Street Fighter 2 Special Championship --- Quote from: Xiaou2 on December 03, 2021, 05:37:22 am ---I owned about 50 Genesis games... but the thing is... I realized that I only enjoyed re-playing about 7 of them. The rest were largely Crapolla. --- End quote --- I'm *really* curious what your 7 games are. Please make a new thread called "Steve's List of the only 7 Genesis games worth playing" so we don't derail this thread any more. Back on topic, I'm watching the movie later today and will report back. I also have fond memories of my NES and I never had the joy of owning a master system but I did/do own a gamegear. I remember getting an NES for Christmas one year along with Bases Loaded. The umpires names will be forever ingrained in my head. I might even get YUK DUM BOO BUM as my epitaph. I like NPH but I hate holiday movies, so I'm going in with the bar set "Ultra Violet" low. I think I might be the "target audience" but I'm not sure. EDIT: And here we go! |
| SlammedNiss:
--- Quote from: Malenko on December 03, 2021, 11:24:50 am ---EDIT: And here we go! --- End quote --- Yay, a fellow Plex user! But, Adele One Night Only? |
| Malenko:
Oh boi. Lots of goofs based on it being 1988 and not 1989 ;Camera during the ending, and the mom say its 1988. Powerglove didn't come out till 89, Zapper wasn't Orange till 89 (rich kid had an orange zapper too) The Billy Ripken error card is from the 1989 set Other smaller things like ,He didn't know what year the story took place but he knew he was 11. Intro bad mouths Chicago sports teams, but the Cubs and Blackhawks have won championships in recent years. And even though the WNBA isn't a real sport the Sky won that this year. Paperboy isn't 2 player co-op Super confused why a rich kid wanted gifts to get in to play with the power glove... he already could have whatever he wanted. Jake gets denied "summer sausage entry", but is sitting amongst the chosen kids after sneaking in and didn't get kicked out. The card sale didn't mathematically make sense or was grossly under-explained. neat things: the transition from paperboy to the flashback was really well done best dialog: "you wanted the dog, you have to pick up after it" "you got the dog before I was born" --- Quote from: pbj on November 28, 2021, 10:37:12 pm ---Was it me or was Doogie calling it an Entendo the whole time? --- End quote --- En-ten-dough, every time. He looks ---smurfing--- OLD too, makes me sad. I wouldn't deem it an "instant classic" destined to be watched every year, but there are far worse Christmas movies out there. The fake NES game didn't bother me that much, but it would have been better if it looked like a Nintendo game, like the game featured in "The Wrestler" --- Quote from: SlammedNiss on December 03, 2021, 01:36:12 pm ---Yay, a fellow Plex user! But, Adele One Night Only? --- End quote --- Happy wife happy life. |
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