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PostSubject: Re: Random retro thoughts   Random retro thoughts - Page 10 EmptyMon 29 Jan 2024 - 21:20

a.k.a. the Pokémon approach.

Buska's right though, special editions are quite bad actually. I think the Twilight Princess one with Wolf Link amiibo's the only one I've seen anything worthwhile from, and even then in hindsight that figure was a curiosity rather than anything else. I never used it in either TPHD (which, er, I never played Shifty ) or BotW. In short: tat, tat and more tat.
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PostSubject: Re: Random retro thoughts   Random retro thoughts - Page 10 EmptyMon 29 Jan 2024 - 22:37

I love the tat myself but the wife is not a fan so special editions are rare buys for me, I'd still be open to buying a really special one from time to time though so they need to up their game and stop doing rubbish ones that don't even have a physical copy of the game.
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PostSubject: Re: Random retro thoughts   Random retro thoughts - Page 10 EmptyMon 29 Jan 2024 - 22:45

See I was thinking with Xbox possibly stopping physical games, the Series S making up most of X|S installbase (along with the possible X refresh being digital only) that they should do special editions still of a Halo that comes with 3 months Game Pass & a RC Warthog in the box.


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PostSubject: Re: Random retro thoughts   Random retro thoughts - Page 10 EmptyTue 30 Jan 2024 - 6:52

Should do one with a PS5 in the box, innit?

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a.k.a. the Pokémon approach.
Are you talking about, like, going into Game to get a code for a Keldeo or whatever?
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Yep! At least I presume I am, I never actually did it.
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I was just thinking make game boxes bigger and fancier as "standard physical release" boxes - like PC games in the old days!

*audio aside: my Dad (who had a large collection of immaculately-kept vinyl records from the late 60s/70s) said that people who said vinyl sounded better were talking nonsense; records were prone to damage, and once digital audio didn't have to compress things in a way that lost audio quality, it was much better in general.
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There have been blind tests and even so-called experts regularly said they preferred MP3s to records.

THAT SAID there is a nice ritualistic feeling to a physical media, and a scratchy record or grainy film can add flavour.
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Either mini system for anyone? New carts for 2600 and 7800 is neat. No Trap Door means to no sell on the Speccy
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If the Speccy is easy to whack more ROMs onto (which these things usually are) that might be a good birthday present for my dad.
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Believe on back of box even says about playing your own games via USB
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PostSubject: Re: Random retro thoughts   Random retro thoughts - Page 10 EmptyThu 29 Aug 2024 - 22:39

I’ll not get the Atari 7800+. I’m not looking to start a physical collection for those old and new Atari games. Next month’s Atari 50 Expanded Edition will include more Atari games than I’ll probably ever play.
 
I’m liking the look about The Spectrum though, it seems like they’re really taking good care of that and putting in the work to ensure it’s as high-quality as it can be. I’ve got just about no experience with any Spectrum games and while I expected to eventually get to play many of the best ones through Evercade collections I think The Spectrum will be a better way of doing that.
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Blimey, this Spectrum thing does seem to be a bit classier than I was expecting; I'd sort-of missed the news on this, and thought it was like that Vega thing they released a while ago. Actually, having a rewind function as well as proper save slots is a great thing - most emulators for 80s computers were themselves made 20 years ago, and still aren't set up to do the modern things that e.g. Switch Online's consoles do.

Oh no, am I tempted by a bit of unnecessarily old-fashioned hardware?????????????????????????????????????????

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PostSubject: Re: Random retro thoughts   Random retro thoughts - Page 10 EmptyMon 16 Sep 2024 - 9:57

Nice to see you exited about the special. I did have one but part from Trap Door can't remember what I had and a mate had one as well which I'm sure I played Hobbit on it.
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Trap Door! Yeah, that's a legit amazing game; the size of the sprites on a ZX Spectrum
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