The controllers are 2nd release. Original controllers were silver & Black & no star shaped grooves . Just a square & were far better for touch & control. My dad worked for polydor/phonograph/phillips at the walthamstow factory site & the staff shop was at the chadwell heath site. A great game console
As a Sinclair kid, I couldn't believe how poor the Commodore BASIC was on both the VIC-20 and the C64. I learned to program several of the 8-bit machines and the Commodores were the biggest PITA. Also the huge size of the characters made the VIC-20 display limited.....but it did have good use of colour and sound, and some pretty well made arcade games right from the start.
Realize that it was 1977 ! The hardware of this console seems really advanced, in my opinion. PS: 2:16 The “hello” loop was also my first coding experience (on Amstrad CPC)
I had it, and the 32x, it was all garbage except the genesis, and it is genesis because mega just sounds generic and lame. But 99% of the CD games were trash.
@18:20 Hmm..I don't know about that, If anything Sailor Moon is probably one of the most well known Anime IP outside of Japan. Most people who know nothing about Japan or Anime, know about Sailor Moon. It's also one of the very first Animes that really brought awareness to the genre and play a pivotal role in introducing westerners to Anime. So while it's not nearly as popular as it is in Japan, saying that series is still mostly unknown in the west simply just isn't true. I mean, people may have not watched every single episode or whatever, but more people than you think will instantly recognize the characters and/or will know who or what sailor moon is if you asked them. I'm not sure what it was like elsewhere, but it was HUGELY popular for a time in the states, with the tv show, clothes/costumes, toys.. the whole gamut. And it became one of the first things people think of when they think of Japan and anime, at least to the average person who may not be as well versed in such things.
I came here expecting to see at LEAST (1) Amazing game get a mention: Panzer Dragoon Zwei. I was not disappointed. It's a 10/10 Saturn game that nicely represents the console's merit and Greatness.
I wonder if his books are each a small volume in a series in the original French. A bit like those free books you used to get with cimouter and video game magazines? The cover looks good but it does seem to only have a chapter or twos worth of writing there.
Thanks for the review very informative. I did pick up your Atari 8-bit compendium recently off of Amazon and also saw you had an XE Game System book but was out of print, was wondering if the XE book you get another printing (or if it was just available a a digital download) along with yout Atari ST book.
The XEGS book is digital only, I wasn't sure if there would be any demand for a print version and most of the reviews from it appear in the Atari 8-bit Compendium anyway (with the rest in Volume 2) so there is a lot of crossover. The Atari ST book will be getting a second revision, just like my Atari 8-bit Compendium, and that will probably come out just after the summer as I want to get my second Atari 8-bit Compendium finished first. The new version of my Commodore 64 book came out today.
What would the world look like had Nintendo decided to go with a full computer instead of a console? Would they be a PC/ARM computer business today? Would we even have consoles like we do today? Perhaps that might have been enough to get Sega to jump the console ship as well...they were no strangers in the computer market. Addendum- I typically read the articles you flash on screen as they're so damn cool (plus I'm a nerd). If you read the last section of the article titled "The Graphic Difference" you will see something I find hilarious. Atari wanted customers to call them to oder a brochures on everything an Atari 8-bit computer can do. The funny thing is Atari wanted the consumer to pay 30 bucks for what essentially was a targeted advertisement. Bro, that's $114.16 today! Freaking crazy.
Well Sega did release the SC-3000 computer alongside the SG-1000 console, I think that was why Nintendo developed the computer add-on for the Famicom. I never noticed that charge, well spotted! That was always the big problem with the Atari 8-bit in the early years, everything was so expensive, it definitely cost the machine a lot of success, which was a shame.
The Saturn was so legendary with its ability to run 2D games that it even outpaced the Dreamcast. Street Fighter Alpha 3 released on both machines at the same time and there was no competition. Now, of course you needed the 4MB cart to play it.
@TheLairdsLair it's just that we had a 64 from Christmas 84, but my younger brother saved every penny from every possible source for 2 1/2 years to buy an A500, so the 64 got less and less use, and I left school in 90 too, so had less time for it, so there's a ton of stuff from it's final years I never saw, and was just curious to see how things were at the end is all mate.
Virtuality was the product I believe - the company behind it was W Industries. I worked with one of their machines at a shop in meadowhall in Sheffield in the early 90s. F***ing hated that thing!!
One has just appeared in a local Facebook For Sales page here at Folkestone (that's what made me look it up on RU-vid), apparently complete with several cartridges and two joysticks all for £20. I thought it might be worth a bit more given the rising interest in retro computers.
Sadly the CD32 stomped all over all these systems but was never marketed by Commodore :( Capable of FMV easily, silky smooth locked 60fps on all these games the Mega CD and 32X with CD struggled with. Oh, what could have been
I'm not a materialistic person but before I die I really want a Sega CD again. I don't need a Lambo. I just want to relive my childhood one last time. Wonder Dog, Rise of the Dragon, Sewer Shark and Batman Returns. Oh sonic CD was really good as well. I played Luna to death too. Really good version of Streets of Rage. Silphead was fun as hell.
I remember my dad drooling over an article of a 1450XLD in either "Compute" or "Antic" magazine in the 80's. I was about 7 or 8 at the time and we'd had a maxed out 800 with dual floppies since the early 80's. I remember the faster drives were called Happy drives or something like that and you could convert existing ones to this standard. He was part of the big UK Atari scene. Atari really missed a trick with not releasing this or the other model with enhanced graphics and sound.
Congrats on the 15k but I swear I saw videos of yours about 2 years ago and you had 12k then? Have things slowed down a lot? I am a big fan of gamer channels like Guru Larry and Kim Justice plus the niche smaller ones like yours so keep it up! Here's to 16k next year dude!
I had an old channel that I lost due to copyright strikes and that was on 17k when it was taken down, but that was a lot longer than 2 years ago as I started this new one in Feb 2020.
IMHO we need to separate this into 2 lists "best 1 player games" and "best 2 player games" as the system had some terrific 2 player games that were terrible or impossible with only 1 player
60 programs for the dragon 32 book has some errors too - its two different books i think (the pdf is different from the real book) thanks...................
