8-Bit Christmas (2021)

My kid would love this movie. Fuck you multiple streaming services.

Was considering switching from Netflix to Crave and that gets HBO max. Hmmmmmmm........

Cybsled said:

SNES was definitely the king of the early 90s consoles

One birthday I got the super scope - that bazooka looking lightgun setup for the game. Some of those games were hard, though. You actually had to lead your shots on some of the games, like that alien invasion one.

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Super Scope was amazing. My brother and I used it for several years after as a heavy club for beating the shit out of each other, too.

Lanx said:

i would never shit on the 2600, a lot of great games and they tried stuff

like for yars revenge, you actually learned how to play the damn game by reading the comic book that it came with

hell, i just re-read this comic for nostalgia and it's pretty good!

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Moon Patrol was my go to game back then. I just couldn't get enough of it.

Looks like you guys probably need to watch Hi Score Girl the anime. It's basically a love-letter to 90's console gaming, Arcades and the history of fighting games.

grumblethorn said:

High score girl is great.

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Yeah but it's really just well-made boomer-bait.

If you were born after 1995 it'll just be another funny but forgettable coming-of-age anime. But if you lived through the 90's, had arguments with your classmates about nintendo vs sega and ever biked to spend all Saturday inhaling second-hand smoke in an arcade, it's irresistible.

i was the only kid i knew who had the Atari 7800 and the Sega CD. they were fun, but it sucked too because i had nobody to trade games with. my options werre to play the same games over or hit Funcoland at the mall for used games if they had them.

Xennials for the original NES, actual Millennials for late SNES / N64.

Being that I turned 40 in August, I remember Atari 2600, NES (I skipped SNES) and finally upgraded with a 3DO years later. Kept at my Dad's house, and got a PS1 at my mom's house. Those were great times.

Xarpolis said:

Being that I turned 40 in August, I remember Atari 2600, NES (I skipped SNES) and finally upgraded with a 3DO years later. Kept at my Dad's house, and got a PS1 at my mom's house. Those were great times.

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I worked as a manager at Babbage's during the 90s. I remember the 3DO retailing for $699. This was what? 1993? Freaking insane.

Failures like 3DO and even Sega Saturn highlighted the need for the "magic console pricepoint". For the longest time, no one really wanted their console to pass the $300 barrier and games rarely went past $50 after PS1 saw a lot of success vs the N64 and its pricey cartridges.

Of course, all that shit is right out the window now. In a way, I blame Apple. I think once companies saw people were willing to shell out lots of money for an iphone, then they started to push the console prices higher.

Companies aren't pushing console prices higher to squeeze customers, they're doing it to break even. When you look at the power you get a PS5 or Series X vs. a PC at a same price point, either is an absolute bargain. They are taking like no profits on the hardware to try to keep you in their ecosystem, although I guess Nintendo operates differently and does make money on the HW.

ShakyJake said:

I worked as a manager at Babbage's during the 90s. I remember the 3DO retailing for $699. This was what? 1993? Freaking insane.

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We got a used one from Game Stop. Probably around '94-95. Need for speed wasn't very good. It felt so slow. Road Rash was awesome. I used to play Gex for all hours. My favorite game to play with friends was Return Fire. That was badass.

I was only kid in my area with Sega CD as well, and let me tell you the nostalgia from playing Night Trap at 12 years old is legendary. That, Sewer Shark, Corpse Killer and Snatcher shaped my childhood.

My playstation 1 was stolen, I remember being devastated. I had to wait 2 long years until I got my first pc until I could game again. I came back with a vengeance with Rainbow Six ( one of first real fps online shooters. It didnt even have gun models ffs, you only had a picture of your gun and a reticle lol) and Asherons Call in 1999.

Also, this movie was bad. Only redeeming quality is the blatant and random assault commited throughout.

Being a Babbage's manager gave me the privilege to take games home. Consoles too, although we weren't supposed to check out hardware. But I became a master of re-wrapping stuff so no one could tell it had been opened.

Fun fact: early days of Babbage's they allowed customers to return anything as long as they had their receipt. No time limit. We literally had customers returning merchandise 2 years old for a full original MSRP refund. Right before Babbage's file for bankruptcy (and would then become Gamestop), we had a manager's meeting at their HQ in Texas. They took us on a tour of the warehouse and we noticed pallets of returned 3DOs just sitting around. We knew shit was gonna hit the fan.