Gaming

I dislike game subscription services on principle, but at least the other guys have new games on their subscription services, not just ancient ones. Nintendo being the first to charge $80 makes it an extra kick in the balls.

Devil’s advocate here, I subscribe to movie services that are much more expensive to watch movies I’ve already seen. If playing these old games is important to me, that doesn’t seem too bad. $80 for Mario kart on the other hand… never.

I'm all 3 here.

What necromancy must be cast for me to say I still have my woodgrain Atari 2600?

i had an nes emulator on my ericsson phone in 2005. good times.

Well yes, if you are paying Nintendo to rent games you already own physical copies of.

Me too. I feel gross giving Nintendo money, but at least I split a family plan with a bunch of friends

i hung on to every single console my family had growing up!

Krikizz Everdrive! They are awesome on every system I have them for, snes, gbc, gba, and n64. They can be picky about the sd card you use but work flawlessly once you have the right one.

My buddy still prefers the golden eye control scheme, now called “legacy”. I remember him emailing a developer because they didn’t offer legacy sticks as an option in their game. They had no idea what he was even talking about lol

Nobody knew any better at the time, lol

It was so much slower than fps games are now. Dual joysticks would have been overwhelming at the time when people were still getting used to 3D.

I got good at it back in the day. Still found the controls awkward as hell, but that game (and later on its successor Perfect Dark) had hours and hours of gameplay because it was one of the best fps games of its time (that wasn't on PC where wasd and mouse was already a thing right from the Doom days).

Halo was revolutionary. One stick moved, the other rotated, plus grenades were always a button away (in GoldenEye, the rare times you had them, they were selected like any normal weapon, which limited their versatility. Proximity and remote mines were way better.)

Metroid Prime also had a really awkward control scheme on the GameCube.

It was so nice being able to rent games and never having to pay a subscription

Lucky. I have my PS3, and I'm having a horrible time finding decent replacement controllers. You can't use the new DualShocks, and compatible controllers you can buy are built so cheaply they don't work very well.

SNES. The sound chip slightly degrades, and since the CPU waits to sync with it, the overall timing of the system is affected.

There are hdmi mods for basically all pre hdmi consoles including n64 but they tend to be fairly pricey

N64 has pixelfx retrogem which has 2 models for 100 and 190 dollars, the more expensive model has 4k and additional scalers, the cheaper model is 720p

N64advanced v2 is open source, 4k output, and pricing depends on the group buy you can get in, 150-250

Highspeedido is on AliExpress, 720p output, and is 40-50

There’s also a few that aren’t sold anymore that you can sometimes find on ebay for $$$