The Video Game Thread

Beyond Cultivation
50

Sorry was waiting till I finished work to reply properly to this.

Sega’s marketing was terrible and always has been, especially as they were ahead of their time.

Sega Game Gear (was it called that in the USA?) was full colour – but never as good as the Game Boy, battery was no good etc.

Cool video:

The Megadrive / Genesis was amazing, I think I need to buy an old TV and get one again! Sonic, Streets of Rage etc – it doesn’t have quite the same feel when you play on an emulator.

I have minimal knowledge of the Sega Saturn. Did any of you play on it?

The Dreamcast was so ahead of its time – it could connect to the internet! It also had the VMU controller where certain games you could play off console which in like 1999 (general release, Japan was 1998 wikipedia haha) was mad.

3 Likes
51

Is that true before I Google it? Much prefer gossip

52

Well I watched 7 seconds of that and I need it – trying to buy a gaming PC at the moment.

53

Indeed it was !

1 Like
54

AlienWare.

Alienware Gaming | Dell USA

55

There are a lot on there, need help, drop me a DM! I have only used Mac for the last 26 years haha

56

I don’t know, my autistic brother is very into retro games so I trust his knowledge on it :laughing:
I have been looking for a CRT TV for him, he has most of the old consoles or emulates them on PC

3 Likes
57

Well I 100% trust him!

My son is getting tested for Autism currently, and knowing the things he tells me I trust your brother, no need to Google!

One of these TV’s? Isn’t that SCART input? Or is that another UK term.

Screenshot 2026-05-19 at 17.23.16
Screenshot 2026-05-19 at 17.23.161577×815 188 KB

2 Likes
58

I’m not sure, I think you can use adapters for the ports. Just something about the CRT pixel blending makes retro games look much better and less pixelated compared to modern high def screens.

This is just what I’ve gathered from him :laughing:

1 Like
59

Bahahaha be careful peeps aren’t right on there.

1 Like
60

Picking this back up since we’re in “sit and wait” mode (execs sent everyone in evac zone 2 home)…

I’m going from memory here because I’m really not in the mood to look it all up :slight_smile:

I see Sega as the gaming worlds Apple back then, and I’ve always been an Apple fangirl. Game Gear was cool, no doubt. Seems only diehards and rich kids had them. Hardware was cr@p, mostly from Engineer ignorance, and it had few games compared to Gameboy. I’m fairly certain it cost almost twice as much.

Saturn was way better than PS, but again, it was too pricey and they didn’t expect Genesis/Megadrive hold-outs. They judged the global market like Japan’s and failed. I didn’t own one, but I knew someone who did and we played on it occasionally. (I think he still does own it).

Dreamcast, yeah, light years ahead. Engineers got onboard for this one. All internal parts except mobo was off the shelf PC parts and it ran Windows CE, which was Windows for PDAs basically. It had an Internet connection like you said, and this design was supposed to be Sega’s gateway to PC gaming. Anything they had in arcade was on Dreamcast with no game mods that I remember.

I loved arcades. Still do! :blush:

3 Likes
61

Before HD, the north America was NTSC, EU was PAL, except France which was SECAM.

SCART was a universal A/V connection for EU TVs and associated peripherals.

I don’t know what y’all used for console connections, so maybe?

62

Very familiar with NTSC have had to edit footage with it.

1 Like
63

So how does that work? Manually deinterlace and feed progressive lines into a Farouja converter for PAL output?

64

Separately, haven’t had to merge them in one project :slight_smile:

1 Like
65

I feel goofy tryin to understand this :upside_down_face:

1 Like