Microsoft did all of Sony's work for them. Sony just had to sit back, watch, and they were ready at every turn at E3. They just did to the Xbone what they did to the Saturn. Microsoft got sodomized.
Sony just made the Xbone its bitch.
I disagree. Let Microsoft talk, if they're going to pull this crap, so they can keep hanging themselves. For consumers, forewarned is forearmed. :)
I enjoyed the SNES. I still have mine, gotten in 1994, and it still works, with about 13 games. I do have the emulator on my computer, but I really don't like emulated games nearly as much as the originals. Emulated games on PC never look, sound, or play as good as the originals. The only stuff I have on emulator are fan-translated games like SD3, Tales of Phantasia, and Romancing SaGa 3, as well as Earthbound, and I will no longer need that ROM once Earthbound hits the Wii U VC this fall.
I love used game stores. My favorites are Vintage Stock, Game X-Change, and a local store in Lawton, Oklahoma called Game King which I visit every time I work in Lawton. My primary passion in game collecting is 5th-generation games (PS1, N64, Saturn). The PS1 is a bottomless treasure trove of RPGs, the Saturn has some of my favorite rare games, and the N64 also has some unusual titles.
I tried to go to A-Kon. I love anime conventions, and I'd have liked to have met Cathy Weseluck (the voice of Shampoo from Ranma 1/2 and C-Ko from all of the Project A-Ko movies except the first one). Unfortunately, I had a blinding migraine headache the past weekend and was not up to doing the two-hour drive to Dallas. :(
MNSG didn't have a battery-backed RAM save chip in it. Like all of Konami's N64 games, you had to use a Controller Pak to save.
Loved Lunar 1 and 2, and Alundra was great too. On the Saturn, I understand they were trying to bring English versions of the hugely popular Sakura Taisen games, and it's a pity Bernie Stolar's Sega of America shot them down on that. I love the Sakura Taisen series. Sakura Wars on PS2 is one of my favorite games ever, and I would have loved to have seen the earlier games in English.
I bought the digital version of KOF XIII when it was on sale. I was one of the liucky recipients of those $10 PSN vouchers Sony was giving away earlier this year. I like it, but I'm more of a Mortal Kombat/Arc System Works kind of guy when it comes to 2-D fighting.
I liked Other M, but it is a flawed game. However, I've enjoyed it more than Metroid Prime 2 and 3. I have always wanted a 3-D third-person Metroid done in the style of 3-D Mario or 3-D Zelda.
I might have to download the SNES game from the Virtual Console while I have the chance to do so.
The PS2 Goemon was interesting-looking. Thematically, however, it was a more somber departure from the slapstick antics of the earlier Goemon games. Sony's objection to a US release of the game had to do with the fact that it was a launch-window title for the PS2 in Japan and wasn't graphically up to par with the PS2 games that were coming out by 2004-2005. Goemon PS2 was called the last straw in WD's closure by Victor Ireland in his December 2005 announcement, after Sony had refused to allow WD to sell Growlanser 2 and 3 separately instead of a single collection. Still, I would have liked to have given Goemon PS2 a try, and WD was the perfect company to localize Goemon games.
