Yars' Revenge was my favorite 2600 game
I have the Atari and Activision collections on PS2, so I can actually play both of these games on PS3 (since mine is a 60-gigger). Still, it's not quite the same as playing them on a 2600, as you said to GH.
I kinda agree with this. At the end of the day, I prefer my PS3 to my PC as a gaming machine. A lot of it is because of all the games the PS3 has that I love that aren't on the PC, but I'd really rather just fire up my console and play even for those games that are on both platforms.
I was a PC gamer back in the early 90's but that was because I didn't have an NES or SNES. After the Ultima series died, though, I switched to the SNES from the PC, and haven't really had a burning desire to go back to the PC. And even when I do fire up Steam, I'm mostly playing console-like games like Ys instead of stuff like ArmA or The Witcher.
I know what I'd like: a game with an indie spirit and an AAA budget. :)
That said, most indie games are as derivative of other works as the AAA games, while not all big-budget games are bad. Ni no Kuni, a big-budget RPG, has been quite wonderful.
I will never spend a dime on microtransactions myself. I guess if the company wants to include them, they can, but I think liberally sprinkling your games with cash shops even if the content is not required to win would make even an AAA megabudget game like GTA look like tacky low-budget trash.
The PS3 Youtube app is pretty good. I have never had problems with it.
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.
