Comments on: Gaming follows in Sega Genesis’ Footsteps

By: ahmed

ahmed — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:13:54 +0000

Any recommendations and resources for basketball drills for kids?

By: bobby

bobby — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:16:40 +0000

…how much do you figure the genesis pictured is worth? i have a launch unit that looks exactly the same also in box with altered beast in mint condition. also have a few unused genesis controllers still in there boxes. the old school ones with the red font.

By: Seumas

Seumas — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:52:24 +0000

Home consoles do a rather poor job of emulating the ‘arcade experience’ on any level other than graphics. You’re generally by yourself, on your sofa, at home, playing on console controllers or poor versions of “sticks” and “wheels” while at an arcade you have crowds and competition and discussion and big machines that you can actually lean against and have some substance to them.

As for peripherals? The Wii’s “wheel” solution (or almost any of them out there for that matter) are about as close to the real thing (or even the arcade version) as a latex sex toy is to a hot three-way.

Not to mention, at least in an arcade you’re forced to use the peripheral (which is usually quite high quality). At home, only suckers use the peripherals (depending on the type, of course — some sticks are good while wheels aren’t). For example, nobody plays with a steering wheel because it impedes your reaction time and makes it difficult for you to compete with the pros who *are* only using their hand controllers.

So yes, on “graphics”, the arcades have long been passed. But there’s a hell of a lot more to gaming than graphics.

By: L1A

L1A — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 04:27:13 +0000

wow 1st time that i actually feel old =)
just played some genesis games on my mac few days ago

By: Benj Edwards

Benj Edwards — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 03:32:01 +0000

I’ll plug this here since this is kinda my home turf. In 2008, I wrote an article for Ars Technica to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Genesis’ launch in Japan (known as the Mega Drive there). Technologizer readers might enjoy it:

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2008/11/sega-genesis-turns-20.ars

It specifically focuses on the “five ways the Genesis changed console gaming.” Even Genesis fans might learn something new, so check it out.

By: librarianchat

librarianchat — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 02:48:06 +0000

The arcades are going to have to move more and more to the basketball shooting, skee ball type games that cannot be replicated at the house.