My Sega Genesis is spreading the legacy. I bought it in '92 and it just wont die. I don't have kids, so I gave it to my sister's kids along with a box of about 25 gaves. They will play my old gamesbefore they start on the current gen systems. It's more suitable for young kids anyways. When they are done the games go back to me. The plan is to keep passing it on b/c it is so rare to play one these days and will be even more so in the future. I played on it about 3 weeks ago and the thing is a champion. The save states still work for all the games as well.
Nintendo's first major attempt at completely going against the grain. Mario 64 is a good example of how the 64 simply had a better 3d engine than the other consoles. In that case, it could be considered a sucess.
The thing that was a real slap in the face was that there was no CGI. This was a new technology that Nintendo fans were robbed of. Think it isn't a big deal? Play Mortal Kombat 4 for 64 and PS2. The endings are pretty pathetic for the 64. I worked at the old babbages store in the 90's when these games were released. This was the first time I seen a flood of people who wanted their money back for a game.
Not to mention the lack of a single traditional U.S. released rpg was a big "we don't care about you" stance on their part. If the Snes had not releases an overabundance of rpg's the system wouldn't have been a fraction as sucessfull as they were. I've always thought it was because they couldn't fit in the cgi, which pretty much became standard with rpg's. Simply put, they let alot of people down and had a pretty good idea that was going to happen and did it anyways. From then on, Nintendo had strayed from tradition and new technology(btw, infared motion sensor is not new technology).
GH's drum set is set up like a lot of smaller electronic drum kits. It's really solid also and doesn't make alot of noise. I was able to jump right in and start playing(I play a few instraments).
The RB drumset feels very cheap. Basically, you hit four lined out pads and a kick. I had to learn the set's arrangement and it still feels akward to this day. It's just noy very natural. The only time I break out the RB instraments is when we use the guitar for a bass with GH. Unfortunately, the songlist on GH is god awful and the RB tracklist along with the downloadables is great so I don't play much GH. I'm glad I got both though so I could pick and choose myself and find out what works best with what.
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