Game List from video:

0:03 Astro Boy : Omega Factor 0:26 Boktai 2 0:49 Car Battler Joe 01:11 Castlevania Aria of Sorrow 1:33 Cima : The Enemy 1:56 DBZ Legacy of Goku II 2:18 Demikids 2:41 Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 3:03 Fire Emblem the Blazing Blade 3:23 Golden Sun 3:46 Gunstar Super Heroes 4:08 Kirby Nightmare in Dreamland 4:30 Lufia : The Ruins of Lore 4:53 Lunar Legend 5:18 Mega Man Battle Network 5 5:44 Mega Man Zero 4 6:07 Metal Max 2 Kai 6:32 Metroid Zero Mission 6:58 Monster Rancher Advance 2 7:23 Onimusha Tactics 7:50 Rebelstar Tactical Command 8:12 Riviera the Promised Land 8:37 Shining Force : Resurrection of the Dragon 9:00 Sigma Star Saga 9:22 Sonic Advance 2 9:44 Summon Night : Sworcraft Story 10:02 Sword of Mana 10:24 Tactics Ogre Knight of Lodis 10:47 The Legend of Zelda Minish Cap 11:10 Yggdra Union

Yeah I kept hoping when they said that they meant more like VOY or TNG but now that we get half as many episodes it’s just a natural result that the arcs are more prevalent. Sadly that was not the case.

You are absolutely correct in it being personal preference. I agree I’d definitely watch a random SNW over some of the others. Honestly i think (and this probably goes for everyone else with my view) it’s more about just missing 90s TV. 30 episode seasons that you dont have to schedule your life around. There are TNG, TOS, VOY episodes i watch all the time and some it’s been years since i last saw. Same goes for pretty much anything from that time period that i rewatch now. I think that’s the underlying issue, no one makes episodic shows anymore unless it’s a reboot. Just wish this reboot was the same.

I think you’re missing that TOS and TNG were written as an episodic show and not typically as a serial. Aside from the faintest of arcs, that came via arc specific episodes, you could pick a random episode in syndication and it wouldn’t matter if you could name the previous or next episode as there wasn’t no need to connect them together. Many episodes were written by single episode writers who had the faintest notion of the show and that was all the was needed.

I don’t agree about the payoff for arcs in shows like SNW because the arc is both too controlling of the episodes while also never really being the point of the episode. If you’re going to do an serial drama then do that. Picard was that, you must watch in order and not miss any.

The arcs of TNG were sooooo faint you only knew about them if you chose to dig in deep to a handful of episodes in the season that specifically pushed the arc along. Otherwise you could take the middle 80% of episodes and scramble their order and absolutely nothing would change. Instead with SNW every other episode drops a new plot point for Pike’s dooms day, or Spok’s love life or what character died or went to another dimension, etc.

Character development in TNG was more about us learning about them than it was about having the characters grow. Again, you don’t have to see all the episodes in order to understand the intricacies of a character to understand why they acted the way they didn’t in a TNG episode. At best the growth was seasonal but even then it wasn’t massive. In SNW the character development is probably the biggest tie back to previous episodes.

The reason why I wanted another episodic ST was that I feel none of these shows have any rewatch abilities. We can binge the seasons before the next season starts but I don’t think it’s ever be sitting in a hotel room and turn on the TV and find an episode of SNW and care to watch it on its own. Though I guess that type of TV just doesn’t exist anymore. Maybe it’s just me who likes to flip on the TNG station on Pluto or turn on cable when I’m visiting my parents and watch a random episode and enjoy it without all the extra baggage. I need to finish the last season of Picard and I doubt I’ll ever watch it again. Same with Discovery.

Ugh.

I was hoping the ST revival with all these shows would produce just one Alien of the Week shows like TOS and TNG. No season long arcs, no dramas where the events in the episode are less important than the character development. One show out of all of them where it can be tossed into syndication and I can catch a random episode and not have to remember anything else in the series.

SNW was supposed to be that and yet we get this kind of nonsense. /facepalm

Good to know, they are pretty much Pokemon and Farming games so the biggest ergonomic question is how well it fits in their hand.

Thinking of maybe picking up two for the kids, 6 and 4. Put some Pokemon or Mario on there and they’d be set.

Oh i was mostly joking. I’ve been on the fence about buying one as i could make housings for electronics and radio projects i design and build. Maybe end of the year.

Great now i need to buy a 3D printer

I just started playing this the other night. Was one of those games as a kid I wanted to buy but for whatever reason I never did. Amazing so far.

Yes, awesome. I saw them before and totally forgot about it. Thanks.

Just recently picked up an RG353V. Works great though I have come to realize that the GameBoy form factor doesn’t do well for dual analog sticks and trigger buttons. Playing Doom on it runs amazing but the way you hold it feels off. Same process as the landscape devices, pressed between your palms, but it feels less stable.

Other than that I’ve been basically playing it every night.

Here is the link directly to the mods.

https://keenwiki.shikadi.net/wiki/Keen_4_mods

Has anyone tried these on any of the floss keens? I know Commander Genius is part of PortsMaster for some of the retro handhelds.

That was kind of my thought. When the systems only exist with collectors and garage sales running roms on emulators feels like an acceptable position. You don’t make the games so you aren’t losing out on sales. But charging $20-40USD for a SNES remake…idk feels ridiculous.

I still MUD on the server I started back in the mid 90s. I don’t play enough or really that good at it. I’m basically one of the oldest accounts with the least XP. But it’s still fun.

NRG files are one of the Nero CD burner app’s proprietary file type. Should check to see if the app can convert it and if not…burn it to a DVD?

Playing Atari2600 on a device the size of my phone isn’t like the old days. But them again I dont have Coke in a glass bottle, good music on the radio or a drive-in movie either.

I do get a kick out of showing my 6 year old the video games from when I was a kid. That look on her face when she is baffled we even call these video games 😆

I always liked the switch that went on in Terminal Velocity. Half of the fame was free space flying while other parts were tunnel flying. It was a nice way to transition between surroundings.

I was a Nintendo kid but had a neighbor who was only up in the summer and they had an Atari so my game fix for consoles was pretty good. Was on BBS downloading games via dialup for my PC (back in the 386 days).

Think it was around 5th grade when this new kid moved to town from Califorina. He was a Sega and Neo Geo kid. So of course I fawned over his system as he was the one that diferent from all the rest of us.

So random. Just installed ScummVM on my retro gaming handheld and now I’m playing DotT.