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thebrokenarrows) wrote2015-05-02 07:12 pm
thebrokenarrows) wrote2015-05-02 07:12 pm
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after much wiffling decided to go up to save point, because i felt pulled. like something was waiting for me there. idk man. is this some ~crazy techno woo~ or just a desire to burn money that i shouldn't WHO KNOWS.
we have set up the secondary ps2 [the tiny one!] in the living room and it's v nice, but needed its own AV cable, which is what we picked up. and also we have realized that my old controllers are becoming old and buggy from years of use, so we got two new ones. which turned out to be an awesome thing because the ones we got were like BRAND NEW and BLUE AND SEE THRU??? SUPER NEAT i'm a sucker for that kinda thing. didn't even know ps2 had first-party ones in that color YAY :D so now we have two gorgeous blue ones for the mini ps2 as well as our three older kinda broken ones lmao. and i also decided to pick up Starfox 64 becauuuuse... idk felt weird going in and not coming out with at least one game. and it's necessary for my collection and i know for a fact it's damn good SO. yeh. i need another case for my n64 games i am really truly out of room in my first case lmao.
and then we checked out their arcade cabs and they just recently got in an Initial D racer made by Sega in the mid 90s. and like. damn. so cool and so old 90s anime aesthetic. me and bb played a couple rounds [i lost both, barely] and we were both like DAMN!!!! SO LEGIT. like. PLAYS SO WELL AND SO WELL CODED AND LOOKS AMAZING and we forgot how much ridiculously more advanced arcade graphics were than home console ones for their time. that game looked like a ps2 or circa 2005 PC title graphics wise, not a mid 90s one wtffff. and handled so SO well omg. felt great. never played a racer made by a first party developer before and was SO damn impressed. glad we came in right after they got it in and was still on free play!
also i noticed a little thing on the side of the cabs that said "insert Initial D card" and i realized that these were cards with a person's save data [note: after a quick google, these were referred to as 'drivers licenses'] that you would presumably buy from the arcade and keep with you in order to bring back and use the next time you came to the arcade. god damn!! that just made me kinda emotional LOL. i'm so sad that i missed out on the golden age of arcades in the west. they are if anything, a sad shadow of what they once were. i wanna go to a REAL arcade with Sega and Nintendo cabs and all the other good ones from the 80s and 90s. do retro arcades exist the way retro game stores do lol???
ALSO i jabbered to bb for a while about my wish for there to be an indie company out there that produces its own retro-style console, producing indie games [either ports of popular ones like shovel knight, super meat boy etc, or original IPs] in cartridge form. i realize how prohibitively expensive that method is and that's why most indie console attempts these days are 'next gen' with entirely digital games. sadness. but maybe it'll happen. it really needs to, it would get SO damn popular if only the start up costs could be afforded. just make a kickstarter or something sobs. i would do it myself if i were more business minded. srsly. i want retro stores to have a tiny corner section with this new indie console and its CARTRIDGE BASED GAMES. yas.
in other news... ehh? not much. was a day of chilling out and gaming. work is gonna be uhhh interesting tonight. ten hours on a saturday. ain't that just always how it goes. but whatever. my life is a pretty cool life other than that.
we have set up the secondary ps2 [the tiny one!] in the living room and it's v nice, but needed its own AV cable, which is what we picked up. and also we have realized that my old controllers are becoming old and buggy from years of use, so we got two new ones. which turned out to be an awesome thing because the ones we got were like BRAND NEW and BLUE AND SEE THRU??? SUPER NEAT i'm a sucker for that kinda thing. didn't even know ps2 had first-party ones in that color YAY :D so now we have two gorgeous blue ones for the mini ps2 as well as our three older kinda broken ones lmao. and i also decided to pick up Starfox 64 becauuuuse... idk felt weird going in and not coming out with at least one game. and it's necessary for my collection and i know for a fact it's damn good SO. yeh. i need another case for my n64 games i am really truly out of room in my first case lmao.
and then we checked out their arcade cabs and they just recently got in an Initial D racer made by Sega in the mid 90s. and like. damn. so cool and so old 90s anime aesthetic. me and bb played a couple rounds [i lost both, barely] and we were both like DAMN!!!! SO LEGIT. like. PLAYS SO WELL AND SO WELL CODED AND LOOKS AMAZING and we forgot how much ridiculously more advanced arcade graphics were than home console ones for their time. that game looked like a ps2 or circa 2005 PC title graphics wise, not a mid 90s one wtffff. and handled so SO well omg. felt great. never played a racer made by a first party developer before and was SO damn impressed. glad we came in right after they got it in and was still on free play!
also i noticed a little thing on the side of the cabs that said "insert Initial D card" and i realized that these were cards with a person's save data [note: after a quick google, these were referred to as 'drivers licenses'] that you would presumably buy from the arcade and keep with you in order to bring back and use the next time you came to the arcade. god damn!! that just made me kinda emotional LOL. i'm so sad that i missed out on the golden age of arcades in the west. they are if anything, a sad shadow of what they once were. i wanna go to a REAL arcade with Sega and Nintendo cabs and all the other good ones from the 80s and 90s. do retro arcades exist the way retro game stores do lol???
ALSO i jabbered to bb for a while about my wish for there to be an indie company out there that produces its own retro-style console, producing indie games [either ports of popular ones like shovel knight, super meat boy etc, or original IPs] in cartridge form. i realize how prohibitively expensive that method is and that's why most indie console attempts these days are 'next gen' with entirely digital games. sadness. but maybe it'll happen. it really needs to, it would get SO damn popular if only the start up costs could be afforded. just make a kickstarter or something sobs. i would do it myself if i were more business minded. srsly. i want retro stores to have a tiny corner section with this new indie console and its CARTRIDGE BASED GAMES. yas.
in other news... ehh? not much. was a day of chilling out and gaming. work is gonna be uhhh interesting tonight. ten hours on a saturday. ain't that just always how it goes. but whatever. my life is a pretty cool life other than that.