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There's a lot of homebrew for pre-NES consoles which have 8/16-bit quality gameplay. Many new games are receiving huge carts, similar to Pier Solar and Project Y and new programmers are really pushing the hardware, alongside some talented pixelarts and chiptune composers.
Even if people have a problem with a lot of pre-8bit generation games, they're still missing out on a bunch of great games that they would enjoy.
Legend is the game that'll teach you how many different "legend" games were on the SNES/SFC if you try to track down a copy online. It was cheap for a long time, but apparently the price has shot up over the past couple years. Definitely glad I got mine before that.
Man, I LOVED Pitfall 2 on the 2600. I was amazed by that game at the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by MasterGenesis
Far superior to the 1st. My cousin got it on the C64 for his 17th birthday back in 1984 and it was the last game I ever bought for my Atari 2600 (I would've been 21 at the time). I remember getting Super Pitfall for the NES and although it isn't as bad as some make it out to be (except for the random items that are hidden Milon style), it isn't as good as Pitfall II: The Lost Caverns. The only thing I wonder is why it scrolls vertically but not horizontally, it's just confusing and weird.Quote:
Originally Posted by Melf
I had Pitfall II on the 5200, and it was one of my favorite games as a kid. Still is, in some ways.
When I met Joe and Dave last year at Too Many Games, I asked them more about why they didn't collect the older stuff, let alone review it. I think Dave said he still had a 2600. I got the impression they would be bored by it. Understandable. Frankly I think the pre-NES/SMS era wouldn't fit with Game Sack's logic. Couple reasons, first, the games are all simple, and short, making extended reviews kind of difficult. Second, GS has always been based on Joe and/or Dave's recollections growing up and collecting. I just didn't sense a connection with the classic era stuff.
"Hi everyone watching our videos! Here are some underrated old school games you might have missed out on. You should check them out!"
"Hi classic game youtubers! You do a great job but there are underrated slightly older school games you might have missed out on. You should check them out and give them some coverage, too."
"Why would we do that? Why do people keep asking us to cover pre-NES and 8-bit computer games?"
I love their videos but I just think if we bug them enough about it, they will expand their horizons further.
It would be quite hypocritical of them to cover the NES ports of Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., Pac-Man, Kung Fu(Master), Qix, Marble Madness, City Connection, Mario Bros.(note the lack of "Super"), Burger Time, any Zapper game, etc., if the pre-NES era was too simple and short.Quote:
Originally Posted by Greg2600
Oh, I don't know guys, because people who love a hobby might want to know more about it, like it's history, what it was like in foreign regions, etc?Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater
Hell, Nintendo and Sega both were making video games pre-NES.
Joe and Dave are not our pet monkeys, they should make videos on what interests them, and not what we demand. That's what they're passionate about, that's what will make for the best videos.
If you want to watch videos about pre-NES stuff, there's plenty of other channels that are excited to talk about it.
It was one of my favoirtes also, Such a unique platform run and jump game on the 5200!Quote:
Originally Posted by DJ_Convoy
It was also the first game that I never could beat. No matter how much I played, and I played it for countless hours, I was never able to figure out how to complete Pitfall II.
Wow, I've meet more people on this forum that owned a 5200 as a kid than people I know that owned one when it was knew. Makes me wonder if anyone here owned a 7800 when it was new.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prince Talmit
that's odd because in his room tour video, I didn't see it, although it could've been hiding in his basement. It's funny that Pat Contri and James Rolfe, who would've been 4 by the time the 2600 became obsolete and outdated, mentions pre Atari consoles but Game Sack, people who would've been about 4 when the VCS was first released, don't bother with it. They avoided Atari compilations in their gaming compilations video and there's only one reference to it (in the Console Modding episode, the modder says "i thought it would be good because it was Atari").Quote:
Originally Posted by Greg2600
There's plenty of coverage of Atari and other pre-NES consoles from other sources. I don't think people do a good job when asked to cover subjects they don't care about, and I don't think Joe and Dave would approach Atari, Intellivision, ColecoVision, etc. with the right combination of goodwill and personal engagement. Basically, if they wouldn't do it with love, better that they leave it alone.
The one exception might be Vectrex, since it's such a cool piece of hardware (and so visually different from any other home console) that it's hard to imagine anyone being unmoved by a game like Vector Pilot.
I get that at the end of the day it's their call, but while that particular excuse is being thrown around, how much passion could they have possibly had for the Amiga CD 32, Sharp X6800, and PC-FX?
If they don't want to do it, that's fine, but at least understand why people might want to see that, which is, as I've stated before, people who are passionate about the hobby are interested in damn near every facet of it.
I can understand to an extent them ignoring Atari 2600, Intellivision, Colecovision, etc. but if it were truly because they have no interest in it, then does that mean they prefer these:Quote:
Originally Posted by goldenband
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Over these:
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