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Offline TheBilgeRat

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Re: Was America nonchalant about Amiga arcade gaming?
« on: May 17, 2010, 05:39:45 PM »
I think it was mainly due to the uncommonness of the Amiga in many areas, and then another subset (geek) of people on top of THAT.  You could go to the Sears or local box store and buy a console that was simple and just worked.  I had the luck of being a friend of a kid whose uncle ran an amiga store, so we spent a lot of time on his A500 playing the crap out of whatever games we could get our hands on.  I also had a nintendo, and played the crap out of it too.
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Re: Was America nonchalant about Amiga arcade gaming?
« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2010, 05:38:29 PM »
You know, this kind of comes back full circle to why aren't we seeing more cart based systems again?  16G on a chip is darn near blu-ray storage.  Is it that everyone wants network distributed everything now, or is it that DVD's and game discs get scratched all up necessitating the purchase of another game later on?  I suppose there is considerable more money tied up in a cart than a DVD, but at 60 bucks a pop isn't there room to profit?  And to think-you can't just stamp out a cart!  DRM wins!
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Re: Was America nonchalant about Amiga arcade gaming?
« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2010, 05:45:12 PM »
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I am hoping we can get the hell rid of cd's soon. I hate the damn things

Yeah-I want to be able to blow on my cartridges again to get them to work :lol:
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Re: Was America nonchalant about Amiga arcade gaming?
« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2010, 06:18:18 PM »
Exactly.  DVD size thumbdrives are under 10 bucks.  Add content and make them read only and sell them for 25-50 (whatever your margin price is).  Boom!  Insta-cart with off the shelf components.
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Re: Was America nonchalant about Amiga arcade gaming?
« Reply #4 on: May 20, 2010, 07:57:35 PM »
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That would be interesting if consoles started being run off USB sticks. one for each game.

though, CD's if properly taken care of, last forever, store rather nicely, and, I think they are still cheaper to produce than even USB sticks and stuff right now.


absurdly cheap, like in the pennies (US).
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Re: Was America nonchalant about Amiga arcade gaming?
« Reply #5 on: May 21, 2010, 12:27:23 AM »
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You are high and being a biased amigatard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH1hTSwHirc

I think Whitaker would have killed for the possibilities of the percussion in that version.  The rest of the soundtrack doesn't disappoint either.


yeah, that's damn good.  Wish the Amiga version could have rocked out like that.
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