Throwback Gaming Handheld “Playdate” Announced - Apparently they never heard of emulators.

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XYZpdq said:
There was an actual fishing rod controller for the DC port of that stupid normie bass fishing game that all the walmarts had in front back then. I think it ran on the Naomi board.
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Yeah and it was only used with Reel Fishing Wild, Sega Bass Fishing, Sega Bass Fishing 2, and Sega Marine fishing.

And to be entirely honest the 3 Sega fishing games(especially Sega Marine Fishing) were worth the cost of the controller. No fishing game to this date has topped Sega Marine Fishing.

ducktales4gameboy said:
I hadn't heard about that and it was an interesting read. At least that had a tech-demo reason to exist and wasn't intended to be a commercial product.
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It was later released on one of the Activision retro collections. I think the GBA version was the only one that came with it.
 
Just when I was starting to think that furfags were the most easily exploitable fanbase, the nostalgia faggots show their retarded, soy-filled faces.
Nostalgia should be a capital offense.
 
Promestein said:
Just when I was starting to think that furfags were the most easily exploitable fanbase, the nostalgia faggots show their exceptional, soy-filled faces.
Nostalgia should be a capital offense.
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It's only specifically Nintendo Nostalgia.

Notice no one is trying to make a new gamegear with a 10 pound battery pack or base everything around a Sega Genesis controller(although there are quite a few new and improved versions of the 6 button genesis controller that came out recently).

People will cite Chrono Trigger as BEST RPG EVER because it appeared on the SNES as an exclusive but they'll never mention Phantasy Star 4.

Earthbound will also get a mention frequently and faggots will try to sound cultured by correcting others and say MOTHER 2 because it it a hardcore game for weebs that only Tru-Weebs play! But nobody will give a rats ass about Ys 3, Dragons Quest 1-6. Lufia or Illusion of Gaia.

And they'll be fucking hard pressed to have played things like Tokimeki, Cho Anaki, Axelay, Power Instinct or Spike McFang.

Oh yeah SMT will get a nod occasionally because these fucks saw the Switch trailer for 5, but they would never touch shit like DDS or Devil Summoner.
 
Panic isn't even a video game developer.
They published - not developed a single game, which was a walking simulator. The rest is Mac software.

And they're supposed to make a handheld with a library worth playing. Together with a company that made nothing but gimmicky synths? With a price that gets you a 2DS already?
 
Corypheus said:
I meant to bring this up a few hours ago, but aren’t gameboys more or less the single most durable piece of consumer tech ever behind that one Nokia?
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Yeah, pretty much.

One of the amusing recurring things in the letters column of Nintendo Power were literal gameboy war stories, most famously this one which survived a firebombing during the gulf war and is now a display piece at the NYC nintendo store.

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There was also one that wound up outside underneath a pile of leaves for two years in Minnesota winter and still survived unharmed. Bring back brick hardware.

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Marissa Moira said:
Illusion of Gaia, Spike McFang.
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IoG is getting weirdly popular on Twitch right now since there's an openworld randomizer for it now (the existence of which baffles me given how linear IoG is).

I think we're the only ones who remember Spike McFang though. I'd love for someone to make a roguelike/beatemup with that game's core combat loop and weird exploitable jump mechanics.
 
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>no backlight

Yeah fuck you, your Firewatch, and the autistic meltdown you had over anyone streaming your walking simulator.

You managed to make an unmodded OG GameBoy Advanced a better deal, not like that's a valiant effort or anything.
 
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Marissa Moira said:
Yeah and it was only used with Reel Fishing Wild, Sega Bass Fishing, Sega Bass Fishing 2, and Sega Marine fishing.

And to be entirely honest the 3 Sega fishing games(especially Sega Marine Fishing) were worth the cost of the controller. No fishing game to this date has topped Sega Marine Fishing.
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ducktales4gameboy said:
Yeah, pretty much.

One of the amusing recurring things in the letters column of Nintendo Power were literal gameboy war stories, most famously this one which survived a firebombing during the gulf war and is now a display piece at the NYC nintendo store.

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There was also one that wound up outside underneath a pile of leaves for two years in Minnesota winter and still survived unharmed. Bring back brick hardware.
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It wasn't just the OG Gameboy that was unkillable, pretty much all iterations of it were. Electronic Gaming Monthly dropped a GBA in a toilet and flushed and it still worked afterwords. Nintendo knew kids would drop the things left and right so they made them sturdy as fuck.
 
Ambidextype said:
How do you think it will go? Will it be another Ouya or will it have a potential to be success?
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> it will ship in early 2020, with limited stock.

It's not a real market product, it's an expensive collectible. The soy demo will gobble it right up. Expect RockPaperShotgun to publish a hundred articles letsplaying its "exclusives".
 
Marissa Moira said:
It's only specifically Nintendo Nostalgia.
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To be fair at the time period we're talking about with this product, the 2D era before the PS1, Nintendo was basically uncontestable to the vast majority of people who played video games while not fucking up everything else massively right after. SEGA was the only really relevant competitor as every other console sucked and the game gear sucked as a handheld so who seriously wants that thing back? Edit: After typing this I remembered the Virtual boy existing after the SNES, I still think the SEGA dumbfuckery is worse especially the small gap between the 32X and the Saturn being insultingly small for anyone that bought a 32X. The GameBoy for its time was pretty good, so if you're going for nostalgia might as well remake the good portable system of that era. As far as the Genesis/Mega Drive goes SEGA screwed up those memories because of the absolutely pants on head retarded 32X, CD, and Saturn developments that made no sense because SEGA had no idea what it was doing across the Pacific ocean. By comparison, the N64 is a masterpiece even with the 3 arms requirement, this is ignoring the PlayStation 1 existing to make SEGA look even more garbage.

When you have the lead that Nintendo had back in the day, you're going to keep it unless you massively screw up and while the Wii U was a failure it wasn't for the same disastrous reasons as the SEGA add-ons, as most Wii U games made by Nintendo were pretty good and the console itself wasn't that terrible to play at least in my opinion.

So Nintendo was the best for its time in the 2D era of games before the PS1, so why no one cares about SEGA these days except Sanic is because SEGA didn't care about SEGA and Sanic is a meme franchise that has survived because of an autistic fanbase that'll buy basically anything just to keep the corpse alive. So if we're going for that retro 2D early 90s nostalgia Nintendo is basically the only option.
 
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If the crank could be used to charge an internal battery and was at least 60$ cheaper, I may have been interested in it as a curiosity. "Maybe the world ends and I need something to distract my soy-brain while I starve to death" sort of a thing. As is? Lol no.

I'm more interested in how feasible it would be to make a knock off, but better considering how disgustingly overpriced it is.
 
They should have made a kickstarter for this, they would have very easily made an extra $5 million to feed their financial black hole with.
 
That Playdate thing is impressive, I've never seen a game console that could strictly appeal only to soy hipsters. I guess non-backlit handhelds are the gaming equivalent to penny farthings, both ignoring decades of QoL improvements.

Here's a credit card-sized device that can play (officially licensed) Tetris, and it's backlit:
 
Man, the Gameboy Pocket was so cool. Even though it wasn't backlit the screen was a huge step up from the muddled original Gameboy, it was super sharp.

Marissa Moira said:
It was later released on one of the Activision retro collections. I think the GBA version was the only one that came with it.
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Venetian blinds showed up in Xbox Game Room in one of the Atari packs. I think that was the only release of it.

Pepito said:
So basically they're re-inventing the Tiger games but with only one piece of hardware instead of a trillion different plastic shells.
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The Game.com was hilarious. I bought one new and a shitload of games for $15. They should make a throwback version of that instead and sell it for $20 and now that Resident Evil 2 has a remake they make a terrible handheld version of that again.
 
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