New cartridge based video game system by Coleco.

Stupid idea

Seananigans_sl said:

Yeah, I dunno. Something about emulators changes the experience for me, I'm willing to pay a bit for ... realness? I guess I'm weird.

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Mostly they're just a pain in the ass to setup sometimes. Then you get a glitch and bam.

It would be a nice novelty, but would get old real fast

I mean, I would buy a legit NES/SNES/N64 rerelease with HDMI for a few bucks, no way I'd spend same dollars they cost then now. I'd then regret it after going 'oh, yea those did kind of look awful' but *shrug*.

It would be worth it for all the Dragon Quest, Finsl Fantasy, Crystalis titles. Hell, just Chrono Trigger by itself could be worth it.

I wonder what the economics of catridges are. They still use them for the smaller consoles, don't they? But there's a reason that they moved to cd's / dvd's in the first place. Mostly cause they're cheap as fuck.

They had factories cranking out those cartridges back in the 80's. Somehow I feel like, even if this should take off, it would be an expensive novelty that didn't really offer anything you couldn't do cheaper with a steambox and a few dedicated linux nerds.

Tuco_sl said:

Emulators are superior.

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I'm going to sound like a broken record here, but if you check out the emulation thread we've detailed how to use a raspberry pi to make an emulation station for your TV that can play all the games from the 32-bit and lower era. Whenever we have people over it's like nostalgic overload - no matter what we were doing everyone gets sucked in trying to beat the water level on TMNT for NES.

To me making a cartridge based system is just a shitty money grab. It's outdated technology that they're hoping will get some old dudes chasing nostalgia to buy.

BTW, my brother bought my dad one of those Sega Genesis 'retro gaming systems' that you see at like Target and Walgreens and it is a piece of shit. The controllers are awful and you can't even save games.

Tuco_sl said:

Emulators are superior.

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Not to mention they allow you to skip all the bullshit scrolling text and unskippable cutscenes.

Also emulators let you keep the true resolution without stretching if that's your thing. If you plus an SNES/NES into your widescreen TV it will stretch to fit and look bad. It never bothered me but people swear by it.