Mom's Minute welcomed Mike Kennedy to talk about the new Retro VGS game system on her latest podcast episode. Mike gave Ms. H the rundown on the upcoming game system that's designed with retro-style games in mind. Mike lets a lot of information out, including price points and system configurations. The interview even attempt to pry out a few possible developer names.
Do you miss the days when a home console was nothing more than a slot for cartridges, a device that immediately played games as soon as they turned on? Well, someone is trying to make those days come back.
if this retro console able to update ol skool graphics games such as Contra alien 3, R-type, Gradius , Raiden , Gun starhero, Metal slug im in .
playing same she-it over and over getting BORING
Battlefield, Destiny, Mass effect, Assassin creed,Call of duty.Gears of war, Halo.
i have been following their progress via their FB page:
https://www.facebook.com/pa...
I miss them nostalgically but I wouldn't want to move back that way, unless it was a new side console or my old ones for a bit. I love the new systems.
You know, after reading the article, I want this. However, I believe they don't plan on having Internet support yet he talks about Fighting games. I shouldn't have to point out that Fighting games are one of the genres which NEED online. Sure, the hardcore pro gamer scene is offline, the tournaments that matter are offline, there's a whole offline community, but online is absolutely huge and not everyone has access to a thriving offline community and sometimes you just want to play online.
Sorry but the thing needs basic online features. Internet isn't a PS4 thing, it dates way back to Saturn with games like Duke Nukem and Bomberman, even further back in Japan. There's no excuse that old systems did not have it, some did, many which did not planned it, and it was desired but hard to implement.If the Internet features were as easy to include and the Internet wasn't so new then they would have been there online since the Atari.
TL;DR: Include basic Internet functionality.
They got the original molds for both the system and the carts. but it wont be a jaguar under the hood.
Welcome Mike Kennedy to the show. He is the publisher of Retro Magazine. Retro Magazine is a videogame magazine that focuses on the smaller titles and retro inspired games. Talking to Mike is like taking a class in old school gaming. We take a look back in history before there was hour long tutorials and regenerating health.
If you are interested in the history of videogames, be sure to follow Mike and the crew over at Retro. theMulticast is lucky to have someone with such a wealth of knowledge on the show. Most of the core game mechanics we enjoy today are just iterations of the original design that Mike was there for. Mike isn't stuck in the past though. Listen and find out what his game of choice is when not playing retro games. I will surprise you.
