![]() The games on this thing, while pretty good, often lack it. CV Ladybug, Venture, Carnival, and Pepper 2 NES Elevator Action and Galaga 5200 Berzerk and Qix 7800 Joust, Dig-Dug, and Xevious, all manage to do this. The game doesn't even have to be 100% accurate. Therefore, any home version of an arcade game just has to have that certain something, something that recaptures that feeling. The tournaments around that game.Ĭould a 10 year old today truly understand it? Nope- no more than I can truly understand what it was like when the Beatles first hit it big, or when Prohibition ended. The entire way things were in those days. If you are too young to have been around in that era, but old enough to have been around for the Street Fighter 2 era, think of what it was like the first time you played it. The whole "atmosphere" of the arcade and pop culture scene was entirely different. Unless you have played these kinds of games "back in the day," then no emulator, nothing- not even time travel- can replicate the experience. Well, the odd part is this: there isn't a single game on it I haven't played in the arcade. ![]() the NES version is an example.Īnyone else have one of these? If so, what do you think of it? It is interesting how a weaker system can have a version of an arcade game that is just somehow, "more like," or has more of the "feel," of the arcade version. Still, it does capture something of the arcade game. Again, if Opcode produces a CV version, it will be better. Rally-X is something of a letdown, largely because the scanner is on the playfield, and this is very awkward. I like it, but if Opcode ever did a version for the CV, it would be better. The 7800 version is much better, overall.īosconian is odd in that the joystick only allows four directional movement, and the scanner is sort of on the playfield itself- unlike the arcade. Galaxian, again, is good- but there is just something about it (sound, again?) that somehow makes the CV version better.ĭig Dug is lacking- like the flowers to indicate screen number. The 5200 version is much harder, has better sound, and the movement of the ghosts less predictable. Pac-Man is very good, but it is easier than what I remember. Yesterday, at a town-wide garage sale, I picked up one of those Namco 5-In-One game units.įor the few dollars I paid for it, it was worth it, but it isn't quite what you'd expect in this decade.
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