I have never found the Gex series to be “exciting,” even when it was new. Gex was always a shallow also-ran mascot in the time when everyone was trying to recapture that lightning in a bottle without understanding how it actually worked, and desperately trying to recreate what Sonic and Earthworm Jim and to a lesser extent Toejam and Earl had.

He was marginally less annoying than Bubsy. That’s about all I can say about Gex.

If I really decide to play some sub-par 90’s platforming stuffed with stilted and dated TV and movie references, my 3DO still works. Yes, really…

You should check out an original Famicom, then. Not only are the controller cables only about two feet long, but they’re also permanently affixed to the console. Well, unless you’re willing to dismantle it, anyway.

It seems Nintendo expected gamers to keep the console in front of them and connected to the TV via a cable running across the floor, rather than our now familiar methodology of keeping the console under or next to the TV and only bringing the controller(s) with you. The limited amount of space in Japanese households may have also had something to do with it.

Anyway, if you’re a modern western gamer nowadays it’s annoying as hell. Big N made the right choice when they brought the system to the US in not only making the controller cables significantly longer, but also unpluggable.

The Legend of Zelda… & Knuckles. I like it.

It’s clearly Hyrule, though. Similar art style, but new map. Death Mountain is shown towards the end of the trailer.

The Link’s Awakening remake got released at full price, so there is a 0% chance this will be a budget title even though it probably in reality should be.

Maybe in full HD we’ll be able to determine definitively if anyone in Ivalice actually has a nose.

I have nothing of value to add other than I used to have those exact same plates. I bought them at K-Mart.

Was it actually him? I was under the impression that history did not relate what happened to him afterwards, nor who he was. That’s not to say the CCP did not murder a couple of thousand people during the crackdown regardless, because they did, but I have never seen a verifiable claim that a picture of any particular corpse actually was the Tank Man. There are numerous theories I’ve seen floated over the years alleging what may have happened to him afterwards ranging from him being caught and imprisoned, executed, living anonymously in China, or fleeing to Taiwan. All of them are unverified and, of course, mutually exclusive.

The tank operators absolutely did attempt to (and succeeded at) avoid running him over. That much is plainly visible in the video. Whatever happened after the video ended is undocumented and pure conjecture. Plenty of well documented atrocities actually were committed that day, before and after that moment, so there’s not much sense in inventing new ones and bickering over details we haven’t actually got.

This guy… he’s un-fuckin-believable.

I’m down with Parrotland.

We can rename Antarctica to Penguinland, while we’re at it.

Even at the time I found the contortions they put themselves into to avoid your protagonist from either speaking or having a name to be equal parts sad and hilarious.

Well, VoxeLibre (formerly Mineclone 2) is not quite feature complete compared to the latest Minecraft release. It’s got feature parity more-or-less up to 1.12 but a few odds and ends are incomplete or behave differently from vanilla Minecraft in subtle ways. I expect the situation to improve over time.

I will say that Minetest’s performance is loads better than Java OG Minecraft. Night and day.

Psst. Check out Minetest.. It’s an open source block game engine. There are plugins that turn it into what is functionally vanilla Minecraft, plus a whole lot more. No Microsoft BS.

Which was the secret knowledge for those of us with pen lights or active stylii back in the day that required AAAA cells. And then you’d find a cheap brand of 9v that actually had a stack of nonstandard square cells inside it instead… Bastards.

No matter what it is you do or how well you do it, even if you do it for free, a specific subset of motherfuckers will still act like you owe them something.

I love Ikaruga from an aesthetic, mechanical, and presentation perspective.

But it’s been 23 years and damned if I still don’t suck at that game. This coming from someone who can fairly reliably at least see the final boss of Progear on one credit.

No one is arguing which game came out first. I didn’t say C&C was the first game. I said C&C was the first one to nail the modern RTS format, and because of that I think Dune 2000 is a less irritating game to play from a modern perspective than Dune 2.

Warcraft, especially the first one, was quite archiac compared to C&C.

If I can get at the connector I prefer to de-tarnish it with Flitz, then after a bath in contact cleaner I’ll goop it up with dielectric grease, which ensures I will not have to do it again any time soon.

You can realign the leaf contacts carefully with a dental pick or, if that doesn’t come to hand, a pin with a short 90 degree bend in it. You can also truly realign the pins in specific connectors if the fancy strikes you; my front loader NES will now happily (and easily!) play cartridges without having to push them down.

And while Dune 2 laid much of the initial groundwork for early real-time strategy games, I highly advise anyone from current times who is interested to play Dune 2000 instead. If you ask me, the original Command and Conquer (same developers, Westwood) is the actual genesis of the modern RTS, and Dune 2000 is built on the Command and Conquer engine and is this significantly less clunky and irritating to actually play.

And it’s got John Rhys-Davies in the cutscenes. You can’t really go wrong there.