Most gamers like to think their opinions matter more than the average gamer. That’s not a good thing.

Thank you

An insightful article. I was on hiatus from gaming during the gamergate fiasco, but in your descriptions of the toxicity involved, I couldn’t help but be reminded of how in the last 20 years, excessive violence in video games has been defended as free speech, in much the same way that misogyny has been trivialized.…

Coming from someone who calls themselves “chronoboy”, I’ll take that with a grain of salt. 

The AT Games one can only be called serviceable if you don’t care about Genesis music. It handled the Genesis sound horridly.  

Chris, weren’t you the main reason Retronauts had to do a ‘mea culpa’ second Genesis episode? That said, a fine review.

Perhaps find a gas station chain where this doesn’t happen? I understand your frustration, but my guess is most of the people you’re angry about don’t read Jalopnik, and probably couldn’t care less about your plight in any case. Your options seem clear to me.

Any chance of posting a YouTube video for those of us who don’t have the game?

Looks like it didn’t post my initial comment, but I see here you beat me to it. I play 4-player VT with my friends and my kids TO THIS DAY. It’s literally the ONLY game my wife will play. 

You mistakenly left Virtua Tennis/VT2 off the list. Anyone who has played this game with two to four players knows it is the distillation of video crack.

Glad to hear all the interest. There is a huge community of game music enthusiasts out there, and the number of game music podcasts is growing all the time. Legacy Music Hour, the VGMbassy, Pixelated Audio, Rhythm and Pixels, XVGM Radio, Sound Test Roulette, Super Marcato Bros, VGMpire, and the late, inimitable VGM…

Sure it was Uematsu? He did a few tracks on CT, but the lion’s share of the soundtrack was done by Yasunori Mitsuda. 

No Sega love(yet), I see. I’d definitely purchase a print of a Mega Drive. 

I’ve heard it’s a soft reboot, whatever that means. 

It makes about as much sense as the cartoon rendering the Cybertronian Transformers’(pre-earth) robot modes to show parts that pertained only to their earth vehicles. Why would Optimus look like a robot that transforms into truck and the seekers look like robots that transform into jets when their alt modes don’t look…

I did not love the movie on release. I think I rated it a C+, and that was mostly because of Peter Cullen. I also watched Dark of the Moon or whatever, primarily because our local paper ironically likened it to Heironymous Bocsh’s “Garden of Earthly Delights”. I felt it was more like being force-fed cotton candy and…

Eh, I think the humans were fine in the cartoon, as long as they’re the secondary focus. 

Yes. I am largely happy with what I’m seeing, but it is a little strange that the two triple changers are new characters, and Blitzwing is not a triple changer at all in this movie. Also that he looks like the real Starscream. 

“Erase Michael Bay’s taint”. Sounds like a campaign for the ages.