I remember Michael117. Very sad to hear of another community member passing.
You are already a Switch friend. I'm loving Mario Kart World myself. It's basic bones are a big improvement over MK8. Ongoing support will make it even better.
I had Munch-Man. It was one of the better Pac-Man clones. The pseudo 3D mazes and shape changing monsters kept it interesting, and it was really fast. My dad bought the TI in 1983 when they were winding down production of the computers.
TI is actually a huge company. They made those $200 TI-83 graphing calculators my college math professors wanted everybody to have. They mostly do behind the scenes work, like chips for Apple and such.
I'm enjoying DK Bananza. I really like how Nintendo is going back to Donkey Kong's roots in Bananza and Mario Kart World, which started with the Super Mario Bros Movie. At the same time, they've kept a lot of the Rare lore.
Anyway, Happy Birthday! Here are a couple of tickets to Namco's Wonder Eggs amusement park in Japan.
Same here. I didn't know that was where Oils Well had originated until I was an adult.
Oils Well is faster and smoother than Anteater. Despite the fact that it was technically the "clone," it was far better known in its day than Anteater, which was somewhat rare.
Actually, the latest version of Atari 50 does include that system's port of Anteater. It's called Ant-Bear.
Oils Well was on the C64. If it's not built into the C54 mini, can games be added to that? I know they can be added to the Atari 400 Mini.
The guy that wrote Anteater in the arcades also wrote an Atari 8-bit home version of the game, called Aardy the Aardvark.
I missed out because the store websites all crashed. I'm going to make one last stab at getting a Switch 2 by hanging out at Gamestop the day before launch, as they say they'll have entras for in-store purchases. We'll see how that goes, as everybody else will have the same idea. I did sign up for an invite, but even though I signed up early, the only thing I've gotten is an email assuring me that I'm still in the invite queue. I'm definitely jelly. If I can snag a Switch 2, I'm probably going to get Cyberpunk with it.
I'm probably going to go ahead and get the Switch 2 at launch. Might as well. It is getting off to a messy start, but the games at least look great.
The Sega Genesis version got all the press at the time and was the Genesis's best-selling non-Sonic game. It was also a big coup for Tommy Tallarico, the composer. Capcom's SNES version seems to have been somewhat vindicated in hindsight.
I do sometimes enjoy tinkering, but the stuff on the Deck is stuff that's not available on Switch or PS5, for various reasons. And every once in awhile, a game that was not available for wide distribution suddenly becomes available on Switch and PS5. When that's the case, I'll play it on Switch/PS5. The most recent example of this was Senkyu (localized in the 90s as Battle Balls), a very rare puzzle arcade game that wasn't available commercially for decades. Guess what? It just got an Arcade Archives release last week, so going forward, I'll play it on Switch (or PS5) instead of on the Steam Deck. Generally, I do just want games to play, but I want to play old abandoned stuff from time to time. In that regard, Arcade Archives has been a godsend, especially when it comes to Nintendo arcade games like Donkey Kong and Mario Bros (I still have to use an emulator to play Popeye, though).
That, and the Steam Deck's official dock from Valve is complete dogs**t. Unlike the Switch's dock, which works instantaneously and consistently, the Steam Deck dock frequently doesn't display when it gets turned on or changes between game/desktop modes, and apparently this is a Valve issue rather than a user issue. So every game that shows up on Switch saves me a lot of aggravation of plugging, unplugging, and restarting stuff when I want to play old games. That said, it plays my favorite Atari 8-bit games, plus a lot of arcade games that are almost guaranteed not to get re-released, as well as old RPG favorites like Ultima, Nethack, and Umoria.
