Review for Crack Down on Mega Drive from Mean Machines 5 - February 1991 (UK)
Very peculiar game with a strange setup, which happened quite a lot in the early days of the Mega Drive.
One of the reasons why I'm so fond of those first couple of years.
Every so often I pop over to Bluesky and it feels so much like it’s a popularity contest, squabbling for follows and likes. The vibe is just really… angry? Desperate? I dunno. Not for me really.
@CatherineFlick Hmm. I've experience the total opposite. Almost all of my gaming circles from Twitter have moved to Bluesky, so my feed is a bunch of people having fun talking about video games and mostly being friendly about it.
I only rarely see talk of follows/likes pop up, except when talking about how someone's socials are doing on each platform.
I still love Mastodon on a technical/usage level, but Bluesky is my "main" at this point.
@CatherineFlick I think part of the bigger problem too is that a lot of communities that used to intermingle on Twitter are now finding separate new homes.
There’s no longer a good place to interact with the people you most want to AND also have access to others when you want/need that exposure without trying to be active on numerous different apps.
@melroy Thanks! It helped that I was living in Japan when a lot of stores were having fire sales on anything Dreamcast. That's why so much of my library is Japanese.
Guy on Facebook was selling some controllers pairs for $10 each, so I bought the #SegaGenesis and #SNES ones that he had.
I asked if he had anything else #Sega by chance, and he said he had two games: The Lion King and Tecmo Super NBA Basketball. Before I could say anything, he messaged that “they aren’t worth much, so I’ll just throw them in.”
@raptor85 I jumped onto the Genesis pretty quickly after it launched, so the 3-button pad was the "standard" to me.
Even back then, though, I hated it. 😆 I lowered myself to using third-party controllers to find something I'd like better.
When the 6-button controller came along, it was like being rescued from years wandering in the desert and being handed the best meal I've ever had a $1 million in cash.
Checked my DMs on twitter and wow, now it's like every 3rd tweet there's an ad, and it's for all sorts of weird things like sparkly earrings and children's colouring books?
@CatherineFlick What, you don’t like seeing ads from online stores like Squink and Tylvel and Porret and Lorca and Fmeebr and Quiop who all, mysteriously, have company logos that look like they were out together in 15 minutes in Freehand?
I have four original PCE/TG-16-family consoles (TG-16, PC Engine Duo, SuperGrafx, Turbo Express) plus two FPGA devices that can play these games already, but the Duo just looks too cool to pass up.
When crafting the Saturn 3D Control Pad, Sega's design team decided to make the new controller's cord removable.
That way, when not in use playing games, owners could fly the pad around pretending it's a new prototype Starfleet vessel from their favorite #StarTrek series!
@ronald Oh no, that's the worst way to think of the Saturn! Sega of America really made a mistake with that controller. The Japanese version, which finally came West later, was so, so much better.