This guy’s videos are generally good and funny and doing a good service - even if a lot of it is ultimately for a laugh on YouTube, anything that annoys them, exposes them, embarrasses them or just wastes their time is generally a good thing (and, I hate that I need to say this, but his channel doesn’t have the nasty classism and racism I’ve seen in some scambait videos). I’d recommend Jim Browning for real technical deep dives into scammers and actually taking them down though.
Oh yeah, it’s incredibly immersive. Got a lot of mileage out of an iPad with a pencil taking screenshots, scribbling out patterns and puzzles and working them out even when I didn’t have the game on. Even after figuring out everything in the manual and getting all the trophies the game still has a ton of mysteries and that rabbit hole goes deep.
This game looks like a lot of fun, but who in marketing approved that disaster of a title? It sounds like a straight to VHS children’s Christian video tape your grandma surprised you with after a visit to the dollar store in 1992.
No thanks mom, I saw how you made the syrup.
Nothing’s dissuading me, I’m definitely gonna watch it. I’m just a bigger NIN fan than a Tron fan.
I HAVE broken discs in similar sets (Mr. Robot, Planet of the Apes) taking them out of those awful cases, and also had them arrived scratched up. Definitely check them closely when they arrive so you don’t realize (like I have) when you get to disc six a month later and realize it won’t play past 40 minutes. So many cheap box sets now have the same horrible packaging that ruins the discs.
When possible with those kinds of cases, I just rip out the horrible center disc holders, put the discs in sleeves and then put those in the case.
This soundtrack kicks so much ass on its own that I almost don’t want to watch the movie and understand the context
Like everyone else here, I’ve got no love for Nintendo’s business practices, but the owner of the software having officially endorsed ways of playing their stuff on modern devices (let alone replications of original hardware, like with their old controller releases) has basically always been a good thing, both for average Joe consumer that’s interested in game history and doesn’t know what a ROM is, and for the emulation community who wouldn’t ever pay for this stuff but can often build off the tech (or educate us on the problems with it). Is any of this the ideal? Of course not, locking ancient games being a subscription is typical megacorp horseshit. But a kid being able to pick up a brand new Switch 2 and play Game Boy Arkanoid and Virtual Boy Teleroboxer on it is something.
Art of all forms shouldn’t be virtually inaccessible to the masses outside of methods of questionable legality (although, make no mistake, I think those methods are good too, and these things can coexist).
Whether or not the games are objectively “good” or popular is totally beside the point. Just because I can easily download a pirated version of some forgotten 80’s b-movie doesn’t mean it’s not a good thing when it finds some form of new life through an overpriced official boutique blu-ray release.
Wario Land is still a really great game on it even today that doesn’t deserve to be locked on flawed hardware (the motherboard disconnects one of the lenses over time and it’s a pain to repair), and Red Alert is one of those games in which the limitations actually, probably accidentally, give it a really unique hypnotic style, and the dual gamepad controls (also used to nice effect in Teleroboxer) ensured it didn’t just feel like a regular Nintendo game of the time. I don’t doubt it inspired actual classics like Rez.
I get the hate for the Virtual Boy - most games on it barely feel complete, it was uncomfortable to use, it made your pupils dilate - but it is a fun and important piece of weird gaming history, and Nintendo acknowledging it as such and finally officially allowing people some way to play those games again (knowing full well it’s going to get a lot of hate) is still a good thing overall for classic game preservation.