Sonic Virtually Fighting with Vipers

So, fancying a bit of retro fighting action, I downloaded Virtua Fighter 2, Fighting Vipers and Sonic The Fighters via the Xbox Live Arcade today. Virtua Fighter 2 was very stiff - the guard button felt very unresponsive, and I felt like there was no real way to counter Lion's low attacks. Fighting Vipers brought back a lot of memories,…
Reminiscence

Reminiscence

I’ve had a funny old day today.

I’ve spent it mostly on here doing ArtRage paintings, on YouTube looking at old videogames, and in my head, thinking about stuff. I learned that NiGHTS into Dreams is coming to the Xbox Live Arcade on Friday, and that got me thinking about the old Sega Saturn – and what an amazing console it was. I’ve owned two in my time, one was packed off to make way for an N64 (such a bad move looking back now), and the second one was sold because I felt I never played it enough to warrant keeping it. Oh, and because we were moving into The Big House and we’d have nowhere near enough room to even think about having all my consoles set up. Jane bought me the second one for Valentines Day one year, she is so awesome. It’s weird thinking back about all those old consoles, I’d love to still own them, but they, along with all their games, take up so much space. I know I could download emulators and ROMs and play all these old games again, but there’s something special, some intangible feeling, about playing a physical copy on an actual console, something that digital copies can’t emulate.

I’ll leave talking about NiGHTS until I’ve played it again, but here are some of my favourite games for the Sega Saturn.

Rare happiness

This was originally posted in the Bloggers section on the now-defunct Poopgang forum. I'm quite happy, today has been alright. Nice food, nice times, had a go on Mortal Kombat Deception... which was average. Certainly no Virtua Fighter... Which reminds me, Darwinia, great start, lacks direction. Expect a summation of it, 250-ish times larger than the four words there, mid-week…