Thursday 23 July 2009
Wii out of action
My Wii sensor bar cable got sucked up by my vacuum cleaner while I was having a spring clean, the wire was tore right in two -_-
VideoGame Nation
So a week or so ago I went to a game exibition in the Urbis centre in Manchester called VideoGame Nation. It was pretty good, it saddened me that they were using LCD TVs for just about all of the old games but what can you do? NES Micro Machines was by far the most popular retro game there and I couldn't believe just how sharp and light the NES pads were. It felt nice holding one after some 15+ years though :)
Anyway they had some cool stuff like an Amstrad GX4000, design documents from Revolution Software for Broken Sword and some cool 8bit computer games like Jetpac. By far the coolest thing there though was a 1983 Star Wars arcade sitdown cab. I couldn't believe it, I wasn't sure if I'd ever be able to see one in the flesh and here it was! I had a go of course and it was very impressive, hard as well! It was a little beat up but being able to actually have a go on one really made my day. They also had a Galaxian and Space Invaders cab. Space Invaders would have been much more impressive had I not been able to pump a cocktail cab version full of 20p's a few years back ^^
Overall it wasn't too bad, kind of small but fun and there was a nice focus on British games and computers which was cool, people need to know their history!
I did take some pics but it was on my camera phone so...
A NES hooked up to an LCD TV and stretched to widescreen... What the hell.
NES pads are so small, light and sharp. Playing on a real machine again sure brought back some nice memories though :)
Cursed reflections.
Anyway they had some cool stuff like an Amstrad GX4000, design documents from Revolution Software for Broken Sword and some cool 8bit computer games like Jetpac. By far the coolest thing there though was a 1983 Star Wars arcade sitdown cab. I couldn't believe it, I wasn't sure if I'd ever be able to see one in the flesh and here it was! I had a go of course and it was very impressive, hard as well! It was a little beat up but being able to actually have a go on one really made my day. They also had a Galaxian and Space Invaders cab. Space Invaders would have been much more impressive had I not been able to pump a cocktail cab version full of 20p's a few years back ^^
Overall it wasn't too bad, kind of small but fun and there was a nice focus on British games and computers which was cool, people need to know their history!
I did take some pics but it was on my camera phone so...
A NES hooked up to an LCD TV and stretched to widescreen... What the hell.
NES pads are so small, light and sharp. Playing on a real machine again sure brought back some nice memories though :)
Cursed reflections.
Tuesday 7 July 2009
Hanabi Festival
It's back!
I definitely want Ogre Battle but I have enough RPGs to last me a life time as it is ^^; I wouldn't mind Kirby's Dreamland 3 as well. I'll have to pass on Pulseman since Sega force their imports to run at 50Hz. You can see the difference below...
Speaking of Hanabi Festival games, DoReMi Fantasy: Milon's DokiDoki Adventure looks and sounds great, I think I might have to buy that as well at some point.
Fantastic.
I definitely want Ogre Battle but I have enough RPGs to last me a life time as it is ^^; I wouldn't mind Kirby's Dreamland 3 as well. I'll have to pass on Pulseman since Sega force their imports to run at 50Hz. You can see the difference below...
Speaking of Hanabi Festival games, DoReMi Fantasy: Milon's DokiDoki Adventure looks and sounds great, I think I might have to buy that as well at some point.
Fantastic.
VC in PAL Land
Yes, it sucks for the most part, outside of the C64 (and maybe the N64 surprisingly) it isn't worth buying any PAL releases since they're all gimped. I changed my Wii's region firmware to NA to gain access to their VC store but it seems the Wii's NTSC signal doesn't support RGB Scart and since my TV doesn't support S-Video I'd have to either use component on my LCD (ugh) or composite on my CRT (ugh). So yeah, that got changed back to the EU firmware sharpish and I resigned myself to only buying 60Hz VC games and using homebrew emulators for everything else.
I was surprised to find Ninja Gaiden (called Shadow Warriors when it was originally released, lol @ the EU being afraid of the word ninja) was the NA version. I love this game so I picked it up, I also grabbed Super Mario Bros. 2: The Lost Levels which is kicking my arse and The Dynastic Hero (Wonderboy in Monsterworld on the MegaDrive). I know some people say the MegaDrive version is better but I only have access to the PAL version of that so... meh.
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