For some reason I can’t help but think this looks a little bit derivative of Illusion City for the MSX Turbo R.

Maybe, but this doesn’t seem to be a product made for businesses. It looks like a product designed for hobbyists.

This is cool but not for $200. That’s way overpriced for something this underpowered.

AliExpress is either a scam or a great deal. There is no inbetween. I have been successful with clothing from them, and even an Xbox One wired controller that had both joysticks at the top like a WiiU Pro controller. I haven’t been scammed yet, but I do know that it can happen.

Abyss looks cool but its so derivative with some of its elements, I would be afraid of legal trouble if I was the developer.

Obvious clones of elements from Kill la Kill, AKIRA, and Mega Man Legends, while also including some other stuff that looks like Metal Gear Solid and EVE Burst Error or Silent Mobius.

Everyone sleeping on WipeOut 64, SMH my head

The reflection effect may have been broken by vertex displacement or animation, so thats probably why its flat as glass. Similar to how SEGA created the reflection effects in the original Panzer Dragoon, the effect would have broken if the water had any sort of displacement or animation to it.

Not sure why there are no splash effects, maybe the developers just ran out of time to add it.

I wish I was good enough at Uplink to make it to the score screen. I also just kept getting sidetracked.

The word perhaps, but the seal is identical in design, color, and function. I believe now it just says “Official Nintendo Seal” which doesnt much change the function except they can’t be sued for licensing bad quality games I guess? Fits in with their anti-consumer theme though.

I doubt Nintendo will let them buy a license. Why would Nintendo sell them a license for a handheld console they don’t even make anymore? It would not encourage sales of their newest product, and therefore they don’t care. Nintendo has historically stopped people from developing homebrew games for their older systems if they get too big or popular, why would they suddenly change now?

Nintendo is the MOST anti-consumer company of the three major console makers, with Sony following in second. There is no indication they would ever change to do anything that benefits the consumer. They tried to make us all buy NES Mario on Virtual Console twice, and now you can’t even buy VC games, you have to rent them.

The Nintendo Seal of Quality is still put on Nintendo games.

My physical copy of Doki Doki Literature Club Plus on Nintendo Switch has one on the back of the box next to the barcode.

Yeah, this is the famous part where Ryo asks about sailors. You can check your notes or ask around, but I am assuming you left Manpukkuken Ramen?

You’ll have to look for a bar that is open at night, I believe its near the motorcycle repair shop. But if you keep asking different NPCs, they will eventually tell you where to go.

I am not siding with big business over small business, I am siding with a business deciding to change how they present their services over an author complaining about the change.

Google was not always the market leader, but it gained that position over a long time, with a lot of work by hundreds of thousands of people. Are you saying that the efforts of all those people now suddenly don’t count, and that their contributions to making Google what it is today are unimportant? That Google, because all those people worked to make it so big, now has to suddenly be torn down? What does that mean for the value of any employee at any business? Is not the goal of a business to become market leader? What, now the market leader has to be punished for its employees doing their job well and the business becoming the primary preference of people? Why would any employee ever want to do their job well if they know that their hard work will just be destroyed in the end? At that point, why even work at all?

Independents will never vanish. New independents pop up literally every single day. Sometimes even the same people under a new name.

This just sounds like more people complaining about AI “stealing their work” and “algorithms not pushing my content.”

Google does show a summary of sites or information that is generated by a computer. And it does create that summary using the publicly posted and available text on publicly accessible webpages. This author seems to lament that its a computer doing it, but the way the summary functions is really no different than if a human did the same thing. The generated text (that I have seen) almost never matches word for word exactly what is on a single webpage.

And regarding the algorithm, trying to do what we used to do before by abusing it with SEO is exactly what Google and other search engine want to stop. And they have every right to change algorithms to do that. Just because it worked in your favor for years and suddenly it doesn’t help you specifically anymore doesn’t mean Google is targeting you, your site, or small content creators.

And being honest, I have personally never seen RetroDodo on the first page of results of any relevant search I have made, ever.

WOMPASTOMPA and JUBJUB burned into the back of my eyeballs lol

Collect for the joy of collecting, not for the idea of a speculative vampire looking to destroy other’s hobby for short-term profit.

But is making a game harder to discourage rental and encourge purchasing stealing your quarters? Id argue no. You still get value if you renting the game, and the idea of rentals is really that if you like it then you pay to own it.

Well, only the arcade versions of games were designed to steal your quarters. The home console versions were much better about not harassing your wallet.

For instance, Gauntlet Legends on its arcade cabinet hardware drained your health at a consistent time based rate. Add more quarters to gain more health. All home console versions abolished this health drain mechanic.

Does the VCS even have a dial controller as an option? Obviously the 2600 original did, but I almost backed the VCS and don’t remember anything other than the paddle and a modern style controller as options.

What do you feel is the reason that are you losing interest?

Have you tried other genres of game? What about starting at a more modern console and working backwards? Have you tested out if applying CRT-like shaders or playing on a genuine CRT improves the appeal?