That was the last banger for me on the n64 and I got my copy new for 5$ when they had a lot of unsold stock.
Space Station Silicon Valley cucks can get fucked.
I remember getting a used copy of that game and was wondering why it would freeze in the intro and that one gold trophy you could not collect since it was bugged. Thank goodness someone patched the game to be playable and one of the rare times that online patches do help than being a sloppy bandage after rush releases.
I went ahead and bought a MagSafe mount for my Switch Pro controller and it works great for what I want.
Old game and old anime art is fantastic. Even the OG zelda art has a tone that has been replicated.
That's how the Nintendo Playstation was found iirc.
Same with the manuals. Japanese games especially are full of original full colour illustrations. The DQ manuals are great because of how explanations/tips are turned into accompanying visual gags.
Up until 2000 that's similar to how a lot of American manuals were. They weren't all like that--a lot of the video game ones were basically a page of backstory, the controls, and warnings not to fry your system with static electricity...but some had more than that. For Pokémon, for instance, you had zero excuses on getting through Viridian Forest because the manual had full maps up to Brock.
As a Sega Genesis appreciator, the Genesis manuals are so lacking compared to the Japanese Mega Drive manuals with the art and color.
Europe got it the worse. Our manuals were B&W, with no illustrations; with only a few screenshots. Text was kept to minimum because our manuals were made with 5-8 languages in mind to save on localization costs. If they were even cheaper they'd put every language on the same page. It's laughable how bad Europe got it back then.
You know, your computer IS an Xbox.
Europeans have tried to explain (cope?) but everything about computer and video games kind of sucked when it came to Europe. For the consoles, up until the early 2000s, they might get a few releases that were in Japan that the U.S. never got (Terranigma comes to mind), but in general the exclusives were nothing to write home about, games arrived late or not at all, you had the whole 50 MHz/letterboxing thing going on, you had absurd censorship like Contra becoming Probotector. Kids on the NES in America had Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game back in December 1990, in November 1991 Europeans got it as Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles II: The Arcade Game. The cope usually is "yeah, but we got ZX Spectrum titles like 'Wet Willy' and 'Gentleman Egg', so it wasn't that bad".
The anecdote that got me was that the first Final Fantasy released in Europe was 7. (I was told this by a Dutch guy so I'm not 100%) My friend's friend got FF1 in 1990 and it blew my pre-pubescent mind. I loved that game something fierce, and still do. Can't imagine if FF7 was my first entry into that world.
Weird but true, the first videogame ever released in Europe was Grand Theft Auto San Andreas. I saw it in a Did You Know Gaming video on Youtube.
That’s bullshit but I believe it.
For console games back then most developers operated on Japan first, then America and Europe if the game did well in the states. It always meant in addition to Europe's own retardation you also got the American censorship on top too and as you said the slower frame-rate that was a toss-up if the devs were bothered to at least speed up the music to try to hide that the game played slower.
JRPG's basically skipped all of Europe until the 2000s. The first Dragon quest game to get a console release here was DQ8, when at that point the series was a month from being 20 years old, and DQ8 itself was almost two years old from the Jap release. They didn't even put the 8 in title becuase they knew how stupid it would look.
What I find funny about those manuals was that they wound up having screenshots of beta versions that look completely different from the final release.
I'm European and I have the best taste in games. I also represent all Europeans.
