Thanks for writing out how your experience is. It’s how I imagined it. I would need to have more battery life to make it worth it to me to buy it. For example, a long trip without any way to plug it in. I definitely wouldn’t expect it to run AAA titles.
I loved playing this game. I was always asking people to play it with me because I was a little kid. I’d be like, “Hi. Pleased to meet you. Can we play Mario arcade?” whenever someone new came to the house.
It’s probably something to do with age. In 1998 I was 22. I was probably too old for Pokemon. I remember my nephews played the card game throughout the 90s. I didn’t play Ocarina or Pokemon, but I knew tons of people into Ocarina, like my nephews. Memory is also unreliable and yes, it’s listed as number 2, which surprised me, my poor or selective memory would have placed it number 1.
You mean when I was a kid and had a dinosaur as a pet instead of a dog? Compute!'s Gazette, Compute!, Ahoy!, Your 64. Amiga Format, Electronic Games, Nintendo Power, and some other magazines I can’t remember. I was a junky for magazines and still am.
I remember using cassettes, but never vinyl, and I got the magazines when I was a kid, never saw one with a record. By the mid 1980s the magazines started including a floppy disk with all the programs stored on them so you could copy the code from the magazine if you wanted to or you could just grab them from the floppy. I guess it depended on what computer you used. I had commodore computers all through the 80s. It could be a regional difference, too. Maybe in the US in the 80s nobody wanted to use records and preferred tapes and floppies. Anyway, nice article. It was fun and interesting to read!
Valve: don’t expect a faster Steam Deck ‘in the next couple of years’ (www.theverge.com)
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The best-selling video game of each year since 1993 (ftw.usatoday.com)
Out of Print Archive - classic video game magazines (www.outofprintarchive.com)
found this account on Mastodon and seems like a cool project trying to preserve some nice video game history...
Spin machines: the curious history of video games on vinyl (www.theguardian.com)