Comments on: The Mass Genesis Exodus

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:53:13 +0000

This is pretty funny…I literally just came from a thrift store during my lunch hour and picked up Super Offroad for the Genesis for $1.99 and Silpheed for the Sega CD for the same price! I remember when I got my Genesis (back in 1990 I think it was) I bought it solely to Play PitFall the Mayan Adventure, being a kid in the 80’s I loved the Activision Pitfall games. The “sell to replace” value just makes no sense to me…like you, most of my games/systems are from when I was a kid, so they owe me nothing…but replacing some of this stuff down the road could cost you a small fortune…and I only see it getting more expensive as years pass by. Back in the summer I remember going to a local “Buy & Sell” store, they had a Colecovision with about 6 games, 2 controllers, asking $175! good grief!

By: Chris Chandler

Chris Chandler — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:51:01 +0000

There was a game I bought at a computer fair in the 90’s called “Mario” and this guy had a demo setup, this game ran Mario on a 486 SX! Looked incredible, SNES style graphics. I promptly bought a 3.5″ disk, no instructions no box. I miss those computer fair days, you never knew what kind of program someone might have that you hadn’t seen before. The internet is great for finding stuff, but there is nothing better than seeing software in the box on the shelf, especially back in the 90’s when PC game packaging was unique to each game.

Here it is!: http://www.wieringsoftware.nl/mario/

I hear what you are saying about the genesis / NES / 2600 games. i am in a similar situation. I recently purged my XBOX collection, and I almost purged 200 loose NES carts, but then I realized they weren’t worth anything, and if I wanted that collection back, it would be expensive like you said. But space becomes a large factor, especially now that I have joined the ranks of Arcade collecting!

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:51:25 +0000

11 1/2 years, actually — can you believe that?

Not to sound like an old fart (side note: I find myself sounding like “an old fart” more and more lately), but I remember when iNes was released. It was simply amazing to see Mario running on a PC. Emulation was more like a trick than a viable source of gaming. I remember the first NES emulator I had ran in a small window (my 486/100 wasn’t fast enough to run it full screen) and did frame skipping and it still seemed pretty incredible. Back then the goal was Atari 2600 emulation at full speed; NES was a dream and SNES was just crazy talk.

And yeah, when NESticle and GENecyst showed up, that blew the world of emulation wide open. Particularly NESticle took NES emulation from being a parlor trick to being something you could actually play and enjoy games on. I don’t remember iNes specifically but some of the old emulators were all command line only and took a lot of tweaking to get to work, so an emulator that played games at full speed AND had a GUI? That certainly set the bar high for everybody else.

By: Chris Chandler

Chris Chandler — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:32:32 +0000

10 years for genny emulation? Dang. I can’t believe it’s been that long. Forever will NESticle and GENecyst live in my heart.