Comments on: Retro Gaming http://www.freelyassociative.org/2005/retro-gaming Freelyassociative.org Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:49:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Paul http://www.freelyassociative.org/2005/retro-gaming#comment-16 Paul Wed, 10 Aug 2005 19:03:27 +0000 http://www.freelyassociative.org/2005/retro-gaming#comment-16 I'll have you know that the ~4 Gigs of ROMS sitting on my HDD are <em>absolutely legitimate</em>. In every way. No, really. Ahem. The problem I always run into with MAME is that the games I really want to play are the ones with weird controllers. Tempest just isn't the same without a spinner, and neither is Marble Madness without a huge trackball, or Q-Bert without the joystick fixed at a weird angle. If I had the space I'd toally have a dedicated MAME cabinet though. We had one at the last place I worked, and it was really neat that when visitors asked "What game is that" we were able to answer "Uh, <em>all of them</em>" I’ll have you know that the ~4 Gigs of ROMS sitting on my HDD are absolutely legitimate. In every way. No, really. Ahem.

The problem I always run into with MAME is that the games I really want to play are the ones with weird controllers. Tempest just isn’t the same without a spinner, and neither is Marble Madness without a huge trackball, or Q-Bert without the joystick fixed at a weird angle.

If I had the space I’d toally have a dedicated MAME cabinet though. We had one at the last place I worked, and it was really neat that when visitors asked “What game is that” we were able to answer “Uh, all of them“

]]> By: Chris http://www.freelyassociative.org/2005/retro-gaming#comment-15 Chris Tue, 09 Aug 2005 21:07:49 +0000 http://www.freelyassociative.org/2005/retro-gaming#comment-15 On a similarly old-ish note I'd thoroughly recommend MAME and copies of DoDonPachi, Progear, and ESP.Ra.De. Obviously they're all pretty much impossible but after the likes of WoW/Xenosaga episode 2/other random bloated tedium, it's the single minded bullet-hell purity that counts. If you can rustle up a joystick and a monitor that flips vertically they're even better but then not everybody is as AMAZING as I am. Either way: long live Cave. Obviously if you don't legitimately own them you're funding terrorism and paedophiles and robot-zombie-Hitler but it's probably worth it. You certainly wouldn't download them from www.romnation.net, that's for sure! On a similarly old-ish note I’d thoroughly recommend MAME and copies of DoDonPachi, Progear, and ESP.Ra.De. Obviously they’re all pretty much impossible but after the likes of WoW/Xenosaga episode 2/other random bloated tedium, it’s the single minded bullet-hell purity that counts. If you can rustle up a joystick and a monitor that flips vertically they’re even better but then not everybody is as AMAZING as I am. Either way: long live Cave.

Obviously if you don’t legitimately own them you’re funding terrorism and paedophiles and robot-zombie-Hitler but it’s probably worth it. You certainly wouldn’t download them from http://www.romnation.net, that’s for sure!

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