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Post by stratogustav on Jul 18, 2016 7:52:10 GMT
YouTube send me this video and now I'm super jealous. That collection is so badass. I want the Game Cube one, the N64 one, the Virtual Boy one, and the Wii U one. These kiosks are sick. I would love having one specially now that I know things like the Everdrive exists.
It makes me realize that for building a game room these are perfection. It sucks he doesn't have the space, but in a well designed basement these things are killers. They could make any game room look amazing, and still give you the arcade feeling many of us crave.
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Post by dschult3 on Jul 20, 2016 16:43:39 GMT
Kiosks are really cool. I really like the Nintendo 64 kiosk, since it reminds me of a few arcade set ups from the mid 90s. I remember playing the hell out of the Super Nintendo kiosk at a local Sears many years ago, and I'd love to have that. Like you said, though, space is a big problem. It would be really cool to see some of the rarer system's kiosks. I remember seeing a 3DO kiosk at a Montgomery Wards and a TG 16 kiosk at a Toys R US in the early 90s. I wonder if those exist anymore?
Great share, by the way.
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Post by stratogustav on Jul 20, 2016 23:16:05 GMT
Man, you have an awesome memory, those 4th gen kiosks are legendary and I don't remember any of them. It would be cool to have them all, the Super Nintendo, the TurboGrafx-16, the Sega Genesis, the Philips CD-i, and Neo Geo AES.
Now that you mention the Panasonic 3DO, the fifth gen also had some cool ones like the Sega Saturn, the PlayStation, the Atari Jaguar, and of course the Nintendo 64.
If we are going to go that far, having the whole collection including the 3rd gen ones which are the Nintendo, the Mega Drive, and the Atari 7800, it would just be badass.
Some people say the SG-1000 belongs to that gen because it was ahead of its time, but I consider it that belongs to the gen before just like I consider the Atari 5200.
In fact if the Microsoft MSX (built by Sony by the way) wasn't a computer, I would also include it on the 3rd gen because it had some of the best exclusives for that generation, and almost the same can be said for the Commodore 64.
The thing about the 2nd gen consoles is that those games were truly meant to be played on the arcades. Just look at Pac-Man on the Atari 2600, that's not what Pac-Man really was. So those were more like knockoffs of the real deal, which the controllers for those systems made obvious.
In Japan most people didn't even know Atari existed. In my opinion the real console market did not truly start until the NES because even the Sega SG-1000 was considered a home computer system. That's why the Vectrex actually looks like the middle ground between a computer and an actual arcade machine. It is only a subjective opinion considering there were exclusives for those systems.
For the 6th gen, which are the Xbox, the Dreamcast, the Game Cube, and the PlayStation 2, they are probably already hard to find, so I can't imagine how rare are the older ones.
If I had to choose just one, it would have to be the Wii U because oddly enough it is the console with the biggest most diverse library if you include the Wii Virtual Console, the Wii U store, and the WiiWare titles, not to mention the Wii and Wii U libraries which are all playable in the same system.
Digitally you can obtain titles from the Master System, the NES, the SNES, the TurboGrafx-16, the N64, the Neo Geo, the Genesis, the Game Boy Advance, the Game Boy Color, the original Game Boy, the Commodore 64, the MSX, and even straight up Arcade.
It also comes with the largest amounts of peripherals and diffetent types of controllers, including the Super Famicom controller, the Game Cube controller (those Smash ones), and the soon to be release NES controller. Not to mention others like the Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom fightstick, the Pokkén Tournament controller, the Wii Classic controller, the Wii Classic Pro controller, and the Wii U Pro controller.
It is interesting how the console video game industry started with computer systems for the most part and most likely will end with computer systems or rigs at some point, if it does.
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Post by dschult3 on Jul 21, 2016 2:54:24 GMT
Man, you have an awesome memory, those 4th gen kiosks are legendary and I don't remember any of them. It would be cool to have them all, the Super Nintendo, the TurboGrafx-16, the Sega Genesis, the Philips CD-i, and Neo Geo AES. The Neo Geo AES had a kiosk? I had to use Google to look it up, and I don't know if the picture I looked at was original to the time. Whatever store had that had to be legendary, since I NEVER saw one at a store. Only rumors of the mystical system existed in my neighborhood. Since the internet was not used many, the rumors only got more and more outrageous. Seeing a kiosk would have put those ridiculous rumors to rest. I remember seeing the CD-i kiosk briefly at Montgomery Ward's "Electric Avenue" too; however, my brother and I thought the games looked funny. The MSRP was insane too, so we never really paid any attention to it. It wasn't too long before that thing was removed. I want to say they had a racing game on VHS nearby too, but my mind is fuzzy on that one. Games on tape sucked, so not many brain cells were dedicated to that one. |
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Post by stratogustav on Jul 21, 2016 4:33:24 GMT
The images I've seen of the AES kiosk could easily have been just fan made prototypes. Either way, the Neo Geo has the MVS, so even without a kiosk, the MVS is more than you can ask for in terms of awesomeness.
Except that the SNK Neo Geo MVS belongs to a completely different nature of systems such as the Examu eX-Board, the Sega Naomi, the Sega RingWide, the Sega RingEdge 2, the Taito Type X 2, the Capcom CP System III, the Namco System 369, the Nintendo Triforce, etc..
About the MSRP, I agree with that; prices were crazy back then, even for games. I remember paying $150 for a new copy of Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 on the SNES, and those are 1996's $150, so it felt like a lot of cash.
It still blows my mind that VHS tapes and cassette tapes can actually play games. That's alien technology right there. The same goes for those e-Reader Nintendo cards.
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