I would really suggest checking out Russ’s channel Retro Game Corps for reviews as he almost always covers every handheld PC including some of those from Ayaneo and such and he’s very in-depth. https://www.youtube.com/@RetroGameCorps

It’s either that or just lose him anyways 18 months from now for nothing. Sell when his value is as high as possible.

Don’t even give him the hits.

Everything’s uninstallable for me.

I put the phone down as the light coming from it is part of the reason your brain is staying awake.

It’s not really true anymore. Thanks to the last two generations of console games and all the various re-releases and remakes, AAA game publishers and developers have woken up to the need to preserve their games, their source code and assets. They are hiring archivists as well as having archiving as part of the tasks for finishing off a game.

Him showing up at AEW and still thinking it’s WWE would be hilarious.

Really, really love this particular version of the song so very much. One of my personal favorites.

Appreciate you bro.

“but console manufacturers have been known to brick or flag devices if they get connected before official launch.”

Big citation needed on that. There’s zero need for console manufacturers to do that when they can simply hold down the servers on their end until release date anyways, Never once heard of a device bricked simply because you received it early and tried using it.

Wish I wasn’t allergic to wearing white.

It’s never talked about these days but yeah, back in the day it was a pretty well known hit. I don’t know why but almost nothing makes me laugh harder than playing the BMX event on the Atari Lynx version and just making this poor bastard on the bike eat shit in the worst ways.

Mutant League Hockey was also a lot of fun, also based on their NHL engine on Genesis back then. Great choice. There was some sort of spiritual successor to Mutant League Football that came out recently if I’m remembering correctly…?

In the arcades, NHL Open Ice, AKA 2 on 2 NHL Open Ice Challenge. The sport of hockey done by the same team behind NBA JAM, which sadly never received the Tournament Edition version - like NBA JAM did - that it always deserved. The source code for it, and several other arcade games from Midway, did eventually get leaked to Github, so my hopes of a hack that adds stuff or gives us updated rosters is still alive: https://github.com/historicalsource/open-ice

Ladybird will save us all.

There’s so much I love about this game. I’m not a baseball game fan in general but I keep coming back to Base Wars. The fights triggered by a runner sliding into a base as the ball is arriving was always fun. The velocity of the ball when you hit a homerun was awesome. Great pick.

Depends on the streamer, I guess. Personality probably matters more to those that are variety streamers - people that play many different games at any given point with a large general audience and probably less important for those that specialize in a specific game that has a built-in community of people interested in that game.

Personally, I don’t care as don’t follow streamers myself. But seems like the right thing to do is to not abandon the people that built you up to begin with because something shinier shows up. Make a transition over time to something new, sure. But when it’s sudden like this, it’s hard to see it any other way.

New game = new community = new dollar signs, I suppose.

It would have been incredible if Nintendo allowed them to add the Atari Games/Tengen NES version of Tetris in this compilation.

Also, anyone else out there remember/used to play TetriNET?