Carl Williams writes, "The Arduboy just started being offered up for pre-order to the general public. For those that do not know what the Arduboy is, it is a Kickstarter success story that is a portable micro gaming device. It is about the size of a business card and about as thick as a quarter. There is a screen on the top third while controls are below that. The setup is quite similar to that of the original Game Boy that Nintendo released in 1989- a venerable, quality, design that just works. You may be wondering though, what games will I be able to play on this and why should I care about it. That is why you are reading this, I hope anyhow, to find out what is good and worth watching as you wait for your Arduboy to arrive."
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"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.
