I think I told you this, but I had my Mad Catz memory cards on PS1 crap out while I was playing Valkyrie Profile and Final Fantasy IX. I bought Sony cards after that. That was a case of penny wise, pound foolish on my part.
I also lost all my Xbox 360 saves when my 360 got stolen, and I lost my PS3 saves when my PS3 YLODd.
I thought it was kind of odd that the Saturn's save memory was powered by a CR2032 myself. I bought a used Saturn a couple years ago and its battery was dead. I had to set the clock every time I turned it on, and if I wanted to save a game, I had to reset it and save it on the memory cartridge before I turned it off.
Second this one.
It'd be kind of interesting to see the Vectrex in action.
I used to love Radio Shack's LCD games. I still have a few somewhere. Most of mine run on watch batteries.
I think on the other issue, emotions are just running high right now.
I like the Wii U a lot, but it definitely needs more games on it than PS3/360 retreads.
That 8-bit version of Pac-Man is pretty sweet, all right. It's hard to imagine that Atari went from a mess like the 2600 Pac-Man to a great home version like that. The 5200 also had the only really decent home version of Donkey Kong made in the 1980s, and yes, that includes the 75% complete NES version.
Valkyria Chronicles. That game was the reason I got a PS3.
Final Fantasy VI was my entry point to the FF series (as FFIII on SNES). I loved it. FFVII is my favorite video game of all time, though.
In recent years, I've begun to appreciate FFV more and more. A lot of Americans dismiss it because of its weak narrative structure and the fact that we never got to play it until long after the SNES was dead and buried, but it really is an incredible game with memorable characters and a good battle system. The music is among the most memorable in the series even if it lacts the dramatic flair of either FF4 or FF6.
The Japanese in particular loved it. I think FF5 is probably the most-loved of the 16-bit FF games in Japan.
Fight it, GH! Stay strong!
