Thinking back old consoles, I had already forgotten just how much the "arcade quality games" tried to be a thing and how much it never really was until many years later.
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Thinking back old consoles, I had already forgotten just how much the "arcade quality games" tried to be a thing and how much it never really was until many years later. I think it was when I first saw Crazy Taxi on a Dreamcast that I could agree that you could call it a "arcade quality" port.
You folk have any memories of really harsh disappointments when playing arcade ports on a home console or some hidden gems?
@apzpins Stun Runner on C64 felt quite the turd
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@apzpins Stun Runner on C64 felt quite the turd
@arto_koivisto I feel like a lot of the crappy C64 titles were less of a disappointment as at least those got accidentally copied from a friend. But asking for some console cartridge for a birthday or Christmas present, waiting for it and then realising it was a turd, that shit hurt bad.
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@apzpins I mean.. Any Pac, Centipede, BurgerTime or even Frogger ports are never as good as the arcade. Golden Axe is a rare older one that I think translated well. But not a lot else
standup cabs ftw!@jake4480 Pacman ports, that brings back a memory. There was one for an early PCs, a DOS version. But that one required a mouse. It also played with it. It was just as horrible as you could imagine.
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@jake4480 Pacman ports, that brings back a memory. There was one for an early PCs, a DOS version. But that one required a mouse. It also played with it. It was just as horrible as you could imagine.
@apzpins ha! Yeah, the crappy Atari 2600 one came to mind hahaha
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Thinking back old consoles, I had already forgotten just how much the "arcade quality games" tried to be a thing and how much it never really was until many years later. I think it was when I first saw Crazy Taxi on a Dreamcast that I could agree that you could call it a "arcade quality" port.
You folk have any memories of really harsh disappointments when playing arcade ports on a home console or some hidden gems?
@apzpins The Xbox 360 releases of CAVEs bullet hell shooters were all great imo. The shooting collection is one of the greatest releases of all time.
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Thinking back old consoles, I had already forgotten just how much the "arcade quality games" tried to be a thing and how much it never really was until many years later. I think it was when I first saw Crazy Taxi on a Dreamcast that I could agree that you could call it a "arcade quality" port.
You folk have any memories of really harsh disappointments when playing arcade ports on a home console or some hidden gems?
@apzpins It didn't take the young me long to realise that there would be a big difference between the arcade machine version of a game and its play at home equivalent.
Space Invaders on the Atari 2600 sounded like people farting but it had lots of variations in the 112 games on the cartridge. Pac-Man on the 2600 was a disappointment. Asteroids wasn't bad, I kept going for hours on that. 48000 was my high score on the 2600 version.
I still feel a buzz whenever I sit in a Star Wars cabinet or at a Tron cabinet.
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Thinking back old consoles, I had already forgotten just how much the "arcade quality games" tried to be a thing and how much it never really was until many years later. I think it was when I first saw Crazy Taxi on a Dreamcast that I could agree that you could call it a "arcade quality" port.
You folk have any memories of really harsh disappointments when playing arcade ports on a home console or some hidden gems?
@apzpins The first arcade quality games I saw were on the Atari 2600, but that's only because I never saw any first generations consoles (which had arcade quality ports/clones of Pong). The Atari 2600 had arcade quality ports of various early Atari arcade games, but it just couldn't handle Space Invaders.
I think Space Invaders was when arcade hardware really pulled away from what affordable home consoles could pull off.
Even so, some home ports stood out, like Wizard of Wor on the C64.
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Thinking back old consoles, I had already forgotten just how much the "arcade quality games" tried to be a thing and how much it never really was until many years later. I think it was when I first saw Crazy Taxi on a Dreamcast that I could agree that you could call it a "arcade quality" port.
You folk have any memories of really harsh disappointments when playing arcade ports on a home console or some hidden gems?
No cause crazy taxi was one of the first games I played.
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@apzpins The first arcade quality games I saw were on the Atari 2600, but that's only because I never saw any first generations consoles (which had arcade quality ports/clones of Pong). The Atari 2600 had arcade quality ports of various early Atari arcade games, but it just couldn't handle Space Invaders.
I think Space Invaders was when arcade hardware really pulled away from what affordable home consoles could pull off.
Even so, some home ports stood out, like Wizard of Wor on the C64.
@apzpins Of course, the Neo Geo achieved arcade quality via the most obvious and expensive way you'd think.
Aside from that, though, there were some excellent ports, such as Forgotten Worlds on the Turbo Duo.
But for really affordable and widely available consoles, it was really the Sega Saturn that brought it, with extremely good ports of 2D games like X-Men vs Streetfighter, Pocket Fighter, Dungeons and Dragons.
For affordability, it helped that for various reasons the Saturn went out on
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@apzpins I mean.. Any Pac, Centipede, BurgerTime or even Frogger ports are never as good as the arcade. Golden Axe is a rare older one that I think translated well. But not a lot else
standup cabs ftw!I played Pacman off one of those direct plug into the tv things and on my PS1 and liked it better cause wasnt at an arcade… >.>
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@apzpins Of course, the Neo Geo achieved arcade quality via the most obvious and expensive way you'd think.
Aside from that, though, there were some excellent ports, such as Forgotten Worlds on the Turbo Duo.
But for really affordable and widely available consoles, it was really the Sega Saturn that brought it, with extremely good ports of 2D games like X-Men vs Streetfighter, Pocket Fighter, Dungeons and Dragons.
For affordability, it helped that for various reasons the Saturn went out on
@apzpins fire sale prices at a time when Japanese Saturn games were kinda peaking.
So, you could pick up a Saturn and many games from a Blockbuster fire sale for like $50, mod it for imports, and pick up new high quality ports of games that the Playstation simply couldn't handle.
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I was definitely not someone playing too much that wasn’t any game with a wheel at the arcade. And people generally lose if its two player to me in a racing game. That’s what ate my quarters. And it also guards you from people and extra sounds to sit there.
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@Energetic_Nova @apzpins okay the plug into the TV one, I have one of those too (I'm a bit of a Pac fanatic haha) - but yeah, those are better. Wasn't it on NES too, I think? That one was.. kinda okay. I do love the later 3D ones too haha
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@Energetic_Nova @apzpins oh that's awesome- I love ones with wheels. So are you a fan of S.T.U.N. Runner, one of the best video games ever made?
My friends and I played a LOT of Rush 2049 too haha. And of course Cruisin. Big influence -
@Energetic_Nova @apzpins oh that's awesome- I love ones with wheels. So are you a fan of S.T.U.N. Runner, one of the best video games ever made?
My friends and I played a LOT of Rush 2049 too haha. And of course Cruisin. Big influence -
@Energetic_Nova @apzpins there are some AMAZING new indies with that vibe, too.
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@Energetic_Nova @apzpins okay the plug into the TV one, I have one of those too (I'm a bit of a Pac fanatic haha) - but yeah, those are better. Wasn't it on NES too, I think? That one was.. kinda okay. I do love the later 3D ones too haha
My mom who was a pacman arcade player only liked the plug into the tv one. Its her fave.
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@Energetic_Nova @apzpins I guess Diablo counts as RPG, which is the reason I set up my PS1 mini on my desk again- and of course the shooters. I got hooked playing some of the old shooters on it again. Eventually, Tristram.
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Thinking back old consoles, I had already forgotten just how much the "arcade quality games" tried to be a thing and how much it never really was until many years later. I think it was when I first saw Crazy Taxi on a Dreamcast that I could agree that you could call it a "arcade quality" port.
You folk have any memories of really harsh disappointments when playing arcade ports on a home console or some hidden gems?
@apzpins Rampage on the Atari ST might be the one that comes to mind. Ateast I remember it being very good and faithful to the arcade.
But the correct answer is probably Super Sprint on the ST. It's almost identical to the arcade and extremely fun to play, even today. I didn't mention it because at the time I didn't know it was an arcade game.
