Big fan of #Utaite (particularly doing covers of #Vocaloid music,) games, and technology. Unfortunately I’ve been falling out of anime these days (harder and harder to get into things for me) and don’t watch much anymore. I’m also a very slight bit of an audiophile (but limited budgets make it hard to be much of one.)
@[email protected] I would have died to have had magazines like that to read back then. My parents rarely let me get any magazines really.
Though, that said, it was kind of torture seeing all those games I couldn’t actually play and really really wanted to, lol.
@[email protected] I don’t believe the game has been released in any other form (eg no VC or whatever – although that is actually emulation anyway) so if you played it but didn’t play on emulation, then that’s how you probably would have had to have done it.
Surprisingly good controls and such and a decent platformer for its time. Most license games phoned it in on their name alone to sell. I felt like that one actually provided a decent game though.
@[email protected] I just say that because much of the West didn’t know much about anime back in the early 90s. I would have killed for Nadia to have been on local stations back in the day (even with a bad dub.) I always loved adventure-style anime.
@[email protected] +1 for crazy Puyo Puyo ad, lol.
I actually got to play Ghost Sweeper Mikami a long time ago. Never saw the show (probably won’t really, not my sort) but the game was actually surprisingly fun, especially for a license game.
@[email protected] I was looking at that image on the right on page 2 and trying to figure out why it seemed so familiar and, ah, it’s Nadia. Neat that someone did that way back in 1993 and sent it in to a magazine. Kudos.
@[email protected] FWIW, for some reason turning off hardware acceleration seems to reduce overall memory usage. Somehow. Doesn’t make sense (it should only affect VRAM) but it helps.
But your fundamental point stands. A simple page uses far far more RAM AND CPU than it should. I like to do a handful of things on a little mini PC I bought a long time ago (I use it sort of like an HTPC) but the processor it uses shoots up to 60+C just opening some sites. Simply opening the site. If I open two bad tabs at once it spikes to 70.
@[email protected] I always found the PS1 soundtrack for Doom to be really interesting. Ultra-atmospheric and dark. It’s weird because it’s definitely a completely different vision from the original soundtrack and they had the medium to really break loose with what iD wanted, but instead just went a radically different direction instead. I never really quite understood why they made it so different, but they did interesting things with it.
I’m not sure about the game itself (how much did it really change?) but the soundtrack definitely should be available for people who want something a bit spookier and more atmospheric.
@[email protected] Yeah, I got the Switch port. I’ve rather enjoyed the Puyo Puyo games for some time, but their history is too complicated to keep up with. 😁
@[email protected] Rofl, they called it a “potential sequel to Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine?” Not, uhm, you know, a actual sequel to Puyo Puyo 1? 🤣
Wasn’t Puyo Puyo 2 already out long before the Saturn anyway? Rather than potential sequel, that would make it potential port, no?
@[email protected] Neat. Seems like this could be useful for quite a lot of things.
@Debs Agreed 100%. I think the primary problem here is that most of those who could possibly forgot about its existence.
Imagine a much more complex modern game with its basic mechanic too. I could see this actually being really interesting in a 3D world. Sort of like Deception, but less dark, lol. First person might make it even more interesting still.
@Debs @trd As far as I know there never was a spiritual successor other than of course Lode Runner 2 itself which really wasn’t the same thing at all. I think licensing issues caused the Lode Runner games to fall into an IP limbo or something and somehow somewhere along the way everyone seemed to have forgotten about these games.
I have seen a recent “3D” Lode Runner appear on the Switch, but IMO it wasn’t any fun at all. I’d still consider Sierra’s Lode Runner game to be the best of them all personally.
@Debs This was one of my absolute favorites back in its time – though I far preferred the PC version. (The editor is better with a mouse and save to files that could be shared/downloaded.) Something about a game having an editor always appealed to me as a kid even though I never really did anything significant with one. (I just enjoyed building stuff, lol.)
@[email protected] I can hardly even imagine.
The language barrier can be significant for many things though. Especially RPGs which were some of the absolute best from Japan in that timeframe. I’ve done it with a few games like the Pop’n Music games on the PS2 (not released outside of Japan of course.) Luckily the interface was super easy to figure out.