Altima NEO

Man, everyone was in on it during this era, even Nintendo

https://youtu.be/yji_sBjt0_U

https://youtu.be/GmFCSc-iXBo

I’ve had good luck with ali so far. But it’s helped to buy from reputable sellers. Some of them seem sketchy AF.

Report back on how it turns out.

Where’s would Dr Song fit into all this?

https://youtu.be/c66hfqw4SKc

Man, I remember it being pretty tough at first until you get better gear. I made most of my money hacking into the matrix and doing runs there. I think I enjoyed the net running part the most.

Huh, that’s an interesting acquisition. Sounds like Nintendo wants to have a hand in porting third party games to it’s systems.

Before Xmas 2025 is more likely. They’ll announce it on the first half of next year and then drop it around August 2025. That would be my guess.

They would be announcing it at Nintendo direct this year if they were planning a Christmas 2024 release.

Neat. Might have to give this a shot.

Very cool!

Fifth Element

Why not an old gba? More buttons, nicer from factor.

2003 and 2004 were separate games, but 2004 was basically an improved version of 2003.

At the time I bought UT2003 a few months before 2004 came out and I was kinda peeved I just spent money for a new release to come out so soon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal_Tournament_2003

I never played UT3 though. Not seriously, anyway. I think I tried the demo and never got it.

Yeah, was gonna say, a lot of these brands have an aliexpress storefront. Retrobit, miyoo, etc.

Oh god… I never bothered to consider Unreal Tournament 2004 was 20 years old. I still consider it the “newer” unreal tournament compared to the OG and 2003…

The philosophies behind game development has changed so much.

Developers used to try and make fun games that they wanted to play, in hopes that fun games will sell well.

Now they have marketing teams with budgets that are greater than twice the development cost. Committees designing games to maximize addiction. And of course, the endless need to monetize everything, micro transactions, games as a service, etc., in order to maximize profits. Is the game any good? Probably not, but they just need a few whales to dump money into it.

Wii came out 18 years ago

As much as I loved street pass, I hated how little there was you could do with it. The included games on the DS got old real quick. It really needed some more variety.

I mean they had those movies on GBA. So not much of a technical limitation, aside from being highly compressed and sounding muffled.