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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Received on Mon Jul 16 2001 - 22:27:22 BST