Game Sack

[seieienbu]

Glad to hear you guys are updating weekly now.  Here's hoping the quality remains as high.

[esteban]

I'd do that. What an insane topic that would be but I'd do it for the sketch. Did it once before for the "gaming on a budget" episode or whatever we called it.

This will be award-winning filmmaking, truly.



I am trying to think of the hairiest characters, besides the obvious...I think the obvious stuff (Donkey Kong, Arthur from Ghosts n Goblins)&, the  rodent category (Mr. Nutz, Conker, ) could be acknowledged briefly, but focus on bearded and mustachioed characters. Or quaffed hair + stubble (the last boss in Vigilante?)


Hmmmm, this is tougher than it sounds.

[ClodBuster]

An episode on facial hair would be awesome. Because everyone knows:
A man without a beard is like a woman with one.

[wildfruit]

An episode on facial hair would be awesome. Because everyone knows:
A man without a beard is like a woman with one.

A secret taboo?

[TR0N]

[MrBroadway]

Good episode. This is definitely a console that I always eyed but never really researched, so it's a very welcome overview.

My only very minor complaint is that I wish you guys would have talked more about NTSC compatibility (as you mentioned that most games had PAL TVs in mind).

But man, most of those games are games are super weak. Crazy that Overkilled is just killed by Atlantean, even though the PC Engine came out six years prior. And Starfox, Doom, and Zombies Ate My Neighbors just crush their Amiga counterparts. "If you want awesome platformers look elsewhere, because this is Superfrog!"

I'll second your opinion about Banshee, though. It'd be awesome to see that game come to the PCE Engine *cough* *cough*.

[ClodBuster]

Poor CD32. I had an Amiga 500 in the mid 90s, which must have been the most popular home computer of the Amiga line. It shows through that game developers seem to went the safe way in that many games needed to be able to run on these basic Amiga machines with low specs. Thus the pitiful 1-button joystick controls, 32 colours on screen and restrictions for simultaneous BGM/sound effects output.

[Dicer]

Great episode, and a sad way for Commodore to go away...

Stupid CD32

[DragonmasterDan]

Stellar episode Joe.

It would have been fun for you to try the Street Fighter II port for it. It's TERRIBLE.

It runs at like 6 frames per second.

[esadajr]

Great quality ep. CD32 graphics and palette look kinda creepy. Pretty cool Toshiba TV set you got there. Cant wait for the next obscure console.

[esteban]

I have never played CD32 and look forward to this episode.

[EvilEvoIX]

Above average for sure.  What a failed console. 

[toymachine78]

Same as the Jaguar.... This is it? Where'd all the extra bits go?

[BigusSchmuck]

Same as the Jaguar.... This is it? Where'd all the extra bits go?

Are you sure its 32-bit and not 32 kilobits?

[Joe Redifer]

My only very minor complaint is that I wish you guys would have talked more about NTSC compatibility (as you mentioned that most games had PAL TVs in mind).

Well we didn't have an NTSC console to test compatibility with. We did run across a couple games that were NTSC only... Zool and Flink. They would not run in PAL mode. You can boot the console into "NTSC" which is using the term VERY loosely. It runs at NTSC timing (59.94 fields per second) but it still send the color information out as PAL. As a result, the games ran in black and white for me. I was able to find and download a PAL copy of Zool so I could play and record it in color. Could not source a PAL version of Flink to download. All copies uploaded that I could find were NTSC.