One or two 32-64 colour animated, but mostly 4-8 colour b/w comic scans with a transparency (If you were lucky white,grey & black with a transparent colour, but sometimes that looked bad so you had to use more shades of grey). I always tried to make the files as small as possible for the same visible image quality so…

I was using dial up in ‘96/97 & created & edited a few GIF’s on the Amiga 1200 for a Geocities site after a friend taught me how to use the software & I’ve NEVER heard anyone in real life pronounce it as jif, so as far as I’m concerned it’s a regional thing & that being said if you lot can pronounce herbs & several…

This will kill free experimental games on Steam like “Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist” & “Accounting” & as far as I’m concerned that’s a bad thing. Ok, games like these might find homes elsewhere, but Steam is the largest highest profile store, so of course new developers…

This will kill free experimental games on Steam like “Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist” & “Accounting” & as far as I’m concerned that’s a bad thing. Ok, games like these might find homes elsewhere, but Steam is the largest highest profile store, so of course new developers…

This will kill free experimental games on Steam like “Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist” & “Accounting” & as far as I’m concerned that’s a bad thing. Ok, games like these might find homes elsewhere, but Steam is the largest highest profile store, so of course new developers…

The stupid thing is that the Commodore 64 & Zx Spectrum had Invade-a-Load & Pac-Load interactive loading screens years before Namco’s silly patent, so there’s no sensible reason why it should’ve been allowed in the first place, because several other people had already done the same thing on earlier hardware.

Or longer if you were playing a multi-load game like R-Type or Gauntlet where you had to load each level separately from tape after you’d finished the last one. Then if you died you had to rewind the tape & reload level 1...

Then license it to a third party manufacturer who has the infrastructure. As long as they only include licensed games & the hardware is of a high enough build quality why not let one of the company’s making unofficial NES on chip consoles do it officially, then collect royalties? It’d require very little effort on…

I know right? Even without various emulated (pi, etc... based) NES clones there are loads of Chinese manufacturers selling NES on a chip consoles with pirate roms. There’s a market & money to be made, but apparently Nintendo have decided they don’t want it.

It’s a shame Nintendo decided they didn’t like money, especially considering you can still get various unofficial Nes clones from Aliexpress for a fraction of what the Classic cost. I mean there’s obviously still a market, it’s just pity Nintendo couldn’t work out how to exploit it instead of the money going to people…

Not sure if it’s still obscure or overlooked, but Grandia (ps1) & Grandia 2 (Dreamcast), were good as well & worth a go.

What do you mean? Of course Polybius existed, otherwise how could Jeff Minter have remastered it for the PS4 ;)

I thought it meant fascist who’s supported by Putin & will undermine the west to strengthen Russia?

You people are so young. So Nintendo released a platform game with minor bugs that could be exploited/played with by hacks & pokes in 1988 to create unplayable levels? [shrugs] Meh, That’s nothing. In 1984 the most popular platform game in the UK was released with bugs that made it impossible to finish without…

Odd, it was completely opposite for me. I own boxed copies of Icewind Dale 1&2, Baldur’s Gate 1&2 & Planescape, but could never get any of them running properly* (well, not well enough that I was happy with them) in fullscreen widescreen at a decent res on Win7, apart from Planescape which was fairly easy to mod &…

Ah, the good old “No True Scotsman” logical fallacy. Old, dependable & can be very tempting & attractive. Good for you.

Ant Attack (1983) on the Zx Spectrum & C64 got there first. The hero has to rescue people from the ruined city of Antchester (which also just happens to be infested with giant ants... :) & you have to rotate the play area to be able to see or work out how to get to several of them. Ok, it didn’t take the dynamic…

I don’t know how patent law works, but I was thinking the same thing. Ridge Racer Galaga wasn’t a new idea, it was basically just a slightly updated version of invade-a-load on the C64.

You can sort by discount on sites like Steam Database’s Sales Tracker: https://steamdb.info/sales/ so I just check that regularly to see if anything catches my eye or is a bargin. It can be very slow to update in big sales or when there are generally a lot of updated listings though & it does occasionally list things…