Carl Williams writes, "Easter eggs are popular, at least they were before taking a nosedive worse than scrolling shooters did in the first decade of this century. There was a time when Easter Eggs were frowned upon, we are looking at you Warren Robinette and your “sticking it to the man” egg in Atari’s Adventure for the Atari 2600. During the 8-Bit Nintendo NES days though, Easter Eggs took on a whole new meaning and were lauded by fans, there were publications detailing what games had them, how to find them and more. Jump one console generation to the Super Nintendo and a little game known as “Lemmings 2: The Tribes” by Psygnosis (prior to Sony buying them out they were capable of unique and interesting games). Add in a recently discovered trick using the Super Scope 6 and you have a, rather pointless but, fun method of disposing of your little onscreen guys (there is a nuke button but what fun is that?)."
Nintendo 64 version of Killer Instinct Gold now available on Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack with classic training and combat modes
"That’s not how you launch a system".
I wish we lived in the Alternate Timeline where Sega was still a dominant force in the console space and it hadn't been Microsoft.
Saturn was a fantastic piece of kit... they just went a little too ambitious with its dual CPU setup. which turned a lot of developers off (at the time). The homebrew community have done some amazing work many years later, thanks to multichip experience. It is still the best platform for arcade fighters and shmups of all time. Dreamcast is a close 2nd though.
Yeah it was a interesting decision especially when looking at how dual CPU is considered a root cause of why the Jaguar was a failure.
Also the hardware rendered four sided polygons where the standard was three if they kept with triangle polygons I feel the systems development would have been easier to work with and we would have seen more third party ports in the west.
I think it was a victim of its time more than anything it saw huge success in Japan but the leadership and internal turmoil in the west meant games were not getting localised along with a focus on arcade like games were the PlayStation and later the N64 were pushing more in depth experiences over coin munching high score driven games.
I still enjoy my Saturn it was the first console I mowed lawns for and saved up for to purchase. I went so far as to purchase a used Saturn to run off an SD card. I even have a second Dreamcast modded to run off an SD card as well.
The second edition of gamescom latam brought some heavy hitters from some of the best developers in Brazil.
