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Post by Johann Chua on Nov 4, 2008 13:47:11 GMT -8
My Dreamcast died...again. Was planning to buy a bundle of used games from a local seller, but I guess Santa wants me to save some money for presents. Fortunately there's a used DC for sale on tipidpc.com right now. Guess I should keep/sell the old one for spare parts. I think only the power supply is dead, so the lens/GD-ROM would come in handy (replacement GD-ROMs cost more than a good used DC).
First up, a PS2. Lots of good and cheap games, and fixing it shouldn't be a problem (i.e., expensive). Then a Wii, when it's not so massively marked up.
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Post by jessebaker on Nov 4, 2008 16:58:57 GMT -8
A Game Boy DS (plays DS and Game Boy Advance Games) and maybe an old-school (IE Battery operated) Game Boy Advance for playing old school Game Boy games (which can't be played on the DS) along with Game Boy Advance games.
PS2 is a good choice as well, since it's also backwards compatible with PS1 games.
A PSP is so-so, some decent games plus you can jury-rig it to play certain emulater games.
Personally, I'm just about ready to ready to splurge and get an X-Box 360; problem is that the cheapo model ($200 version) doesn't have backwards compatibility, meaning you can't play old X-Box games (which for me means, no X-Box GTA 3 Trilogy) and $400 for the top grade version is a little steep even for me. A $300 version supposedly exists but I haven't been able to find one yet in stores.
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Post by Johann Chua on Nov 4, 2008 17:41:06 GMT -8
A Game Boy DS (plays DS and Game Boy Advance Games) and maybe an old-school (IE Battery operated) Game Boy Advance for playing old school Game Boy games (which can't be played on the DS) along with Game Boy Advance games. Still have an old school 1989 model Game Boy. Only thing wrong with it is the battery lid (broken latch). Just need to buy more Ni-MH batteries so I'm not stuck with AC power or tons of alkalines. My sister already has a PSP (gift from her boyfriend/my future brother in law). Yeah, a 360 before the Wii is likely; it's less hideously overpriced here. XBLA even has Soul Calibur, the reason I got a Dreamcast in the first place. SC IV and Dead or Alive 4 are probably the first 360 games I would buy. Microsoft needs to simplify the 360 SKUs. And stop over charging for what's basically a laptop SATA HDD in a proprietary case, or offer bigger HDDs, given how much DLC they have on tap. Still gonna get another DC for stuff like Tech Romancer and Virtual On: Oratorio Tangram (with Twin Stick controller, of course), but when I have money to burn. Like getting new old stock so I don't have to worry about it dying on me in mid-game. |
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Post by jessebaker on Nov 4, 2008 19:27:39 GMT -8
I dug out one of my two OG Gameboys a couple of months ago out of the closet (my original GB has massive pixel damage to the screen) and played it for a couple of minutes before turning it off due to the graphics causing my eyes bleed.
Having played the Gameboy Color/GBA/DS exclusively for the last decade, going back to the OG GB was insane as far as the poor picture color. It's like all of those Game Gear commercials were right all along, in retrospect about the shit nature of the colorscale of the GB screen.
(Of course, the story goes that Nintendo purposely held back going full-color with the Gameboy until around 1998 SPECIFICALLY because of the big flaw that the Game Gear had, IE the full color graphics drained all of the battery life from the system. It wasn't until Nintendo found a way to solve the battery draining problem that they put out the Game Boy Color.)
Speaking of broken battery latches, I have the same problem with my GBA.
I also have my old Game Gear lying around with two games for it (Lion King and Bart Vs Space Mutants) but haven't really tried playing it since again, major battery guzzler and the fact that the only game I owned for the GG that I would want to play (the GG Power Ranger game, which IMHO is the only decent OG Power Ranger game put out) is missing and probably gone for good unfortunately.
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Post by Johann Chua on Nov 4, 2008 21:28:48 GMT -8
My main problem with the OG Gameboy is the lack of backlighting. I'll probably get the DS Lite and the GBA SP. The Lite should be getting cheap once the DSi comes out.
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Post by jessebaker on Nov 4, 2008 21:49:17 GMT -8
If what I've heard about the DSi is true, I doubt that there will be a price drop on the DS Lites. The DSi seems to be a niche product at best and I don't see it overtaking the regular DS/DS lite or Nintendo slashing the prices for the DS Lites, seeing as most people would rather buy it instead of the DSi, which IIRC is supposed to cost around $200.
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Post by Johann Chua on Nov 6, 2008 1:49:26 GMT -8
Well, I was thinking that local stores will want to clear their stock of DS Lites once they get their hands on the DSi.
Anyway, the gameplan is PS2 -> 360 -> Wii -> PS3 (when we have an HDTV) for the house.
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