Proof that the Genesis can even appeal to newer gamers (pics of Genesis party inside)

[Zz Badnusty]

If I'm not mistaken there is a German language version of Landstalker available, (though I suppose it is PAL) you guys need that asap!

[17daysolderthannes]

this reminds me of something funny I did recently. The youngest employee at my play n trade is 19 and his first system was a PSX and pretty much has only played RPGs. One day I had said something about Mega Man and it came out that he had never played it, and I was like "WHAT THE FUCK? NO!" So yesterday I log on to virtualnes.com and I'm like "here. play. now!" and he literally fell in the first hole. He couldn't even make it to the drills on Metal Man's stage. This is what's wrong with video game players today, they play bullshit games instead of something that takes real talent and skill to master. If a game can be beaten with a strategy guide in one hand and a controller in the other with no skill embetween, I don't want anything to do with it.

[Exolen]

Don't hate on RPGS yo. It's da new lazy breed of gamers. I'm 18 and I played all kinds of games growing up, Genesis being my first system.

[retrospiel]

I remember German classes from my HS years. It consisted of 70% assholes, 20% good people and 10% exchange students.

Yep, sounds like you had a decent representation of germany there!

My thought exactly! ^ ^



- Regarding taking Spanish instead of German: I think the only thing I'd regret would be to not be able to read Jungle World and Konkret.

[Sudo]

this reminds me of something funny I did recently. The youngest employee at my play n trade is 19 and his first system was a PSX and pretty much has only played RPGs. One day I had said something about Mega Man and it came out that he had never played it, and I was like "WHAT THE FUCK? NO!" So yesterday I log on to virtualnes.com and I'm like "here. play. now!" and he literally fell in the first hole. He couldn't even make it to the drills on Metal Man's stage. This is what's wrong with video game players today, they play bullshit games instead of something that takes real talent and skill to master. If a game can be beaten with a strategy guide in one hand and a controller in the other with no skill embetween, I don't want anything to do with it.

Try playing some of the Shin Megami Tensei games and say that RPGs require no skill.

[Rusty Venture]

He couldn't even make it to the drills on Metal Man's stage.

Metal Man, and his level, are pansy ass easy.

But his music rocks and the Metal Blade is the best weapon in the game.

[ZJT]

although the Mega Drive pretty much domineered across Europe

I thought that it was Germany that domineered across Europe?

@TmEE: Lies, Europe constitutes of nothing but Germany and France and their everlasting rivalry-turned-friendship!

Whoah, calm it bad boys! Keep that stuff for the when the lights go out ...

[Grooter48]

It'd be nice if some of my friends enjoyed older games like that. I'm in high school too, and I have one friend who doesn't mind playing Genesis. Everyone else stays far away from it like a disease. It's pretty sad.

[17daysolderthannes]

Metal Man, and his level, are pansy ass easy.

But his music rocks and the Metal Blade is the best weapon in the game.

Which is why its so inexcusable, I got this game when I was like 6 and had no problem getting through in a couple tries. In his favor, the keyboard he was using is probably the worst keyboard I have ever used in my entire life. Think of the most unresponsive input device you have ever used in your life, then imagine trying to play a game on it. Even worse, it was the Play N Trade point of sale computer, so imagine what a PITA it is to search for an item when the button doesn't register half the time. We really need to buy some different keyboards for those computers, especially considering we don't use the credit card slider on them.

Try playing some of the Shin Megami Tensei games and say that RPGs require no skill.

Unless reading Japanese is the challenge, I would like to know what is so "skillful" about it that couldn't be turned into cake with a strategy guide. Contra, Silver Surfer, Gradius, etc. (referring to NES versions) are hard no matter how many strategy guides you have, I doubt the same could be said for ANY RPG.

It'd be nice if some of my friends enjoyed older games like that. I'm in high school too, and I have one friend who doesn't mind playing Genesis. Everyone else stays far away from it like a disease. It's pretty sad.

why? Atari was big long before I was born, yet I love grabbing a set of paddles and having an impromptu pong tournament or (especially) whipping up some burgers on Pressure Cooker (love that game, if anyone has a copy of it they want to get rid of, I'll buy it). 2D games are a whole other world to be experienced, the only reason we don't see more of them is because every possibility has been pretty much exhausted (space shooters for example, holy christ there must be 1000's). The gameplay is just different as well. Most 3D games strive to be some sort of a simulation, but 2D games were more like an action-puzzle game because every level was a maze and every boss needed a special strategy to defeat (unlike now where you just shoot at them for 20 minutes, if there is a boss at all).

[Tanegashima]

Which is why its so inexcusable, I got this game when I was like 6 and had no problem getting through in a couple tries. In his favor, the keyboard he was using is probably the worst keyboard I have ever used in my entire life. Think of the most unresponsive input device you have ever used in your life, then imagine trying to play a game on it. Even worse, it was the Play N Trade point of sale computer, so imagine what a PITA it is to search for an item when the button doesn't register half the time. We really need to buy some different keyboards for those computers, especially considering we don't use the credit card slider on them.




Unless reading Japanese is the challenge, I would like to know what is so "skillful" about it that couldn't be turned into cake with a strategy guide. Contra, Silver Surfer, Gradius, etc. (referring to NES versions) are hard no matter how many strategy guides you have, I doubt the same could be said for ANY RPG.



why? Atari was big long before I was born, yet I love grabbing a set of paddles and having an impromptu pong tournament or (especially) whipping up some burgers on Pressure Cooker (love that game, if anyone has a copy of it they want to get rid of, I'll buy it). 2D games are a whole other world to be experienced, the only reason we don't see more of them is because every possibility has been pretty much exhausted (space shooters for example, holy christ there must be 1000's). The gameplay is just different as well. Most 3D games strive to be some sort of a simulation, but 2D games were more like an action-puzzle game because every level was a maze and every boss needed a special strategy to defeat (unlike now where you just shoot at them for 20 minutes, if there is a boss at all).

Have you ever seen Hi Fidelity? Is your play 'n trade like the record store in that movie?

[MrMatthews]

^
*chuckle*

Tanegashima, do you see 17days as Jack Black?

[Rusty Venture]

I remember my time as a game store worker, I was the "Genesis Expert". The owner of the place was into games, but was mostly an Atari 2600/Coleco/Intellivison guy, and the other part timer was more SNES and on kinda guy.

After the store closed (RIP) I was known at the other retro store (RIP) as "The Genesis Guy". It still amazes me that that other place had like 8-10 people there any a general lack of good knowledge about Pre-Dreamcast Sega systems.

But I scored some great deals on Sega stuff.

[MrMatthews]

The last line spoken in the second clip pretty much summarizes my opinion of all video game store employees . . . whether their high opinions of themselves are justified or not (in my experience, more often "not" than not)

[johnnyb]

One of the guys who works at EB games here wears a suit 3 sizes too big and has a small mohawk.

[Rusty Venture]

So David Byrne works at the EB in NZ?