Thread:Velt211/@comment-2003:D6:4722:2E2A:DD17:3F8A:F36C:2C58-20190924042015/@comment-2003:D6:4722:2EEC:2D54:D298:6D34:7E18-20190927132934

Seems like the forwarding service wanted to put me in some expensive shipping category. Should be able to at least ship via SAL small package now. Also got the package that went in a weird direction just now and well, one game box is crushed. Another one has a corner crushed/pushed in which at least isn't that bad. Looked for a refund but it seems to be really bothersome to do. Meh, out of the VNs I have now, I still need to replace 6 1/2 games because they were damaged. Three I already did. Talk about wasted money.

I own the games on GOG, so that's fine at least. Graphing paper should be easy to buy from a shop, so no issues there. Will see how exhausting the whole thing will be. At least I'm not planning to do it anytime soon, unless I get some sudden itch which is unlikely. I also still need to continue playing Warcraft II. Haven't completely read it yet since I'm busy with some other things but it's basically different people writing about games they played, at times more from a professional perspective but also from a more personal one (if person A really liked person B). There were a lot of contributions after all. The thing that bothers me are the spelling/grammar mistakes. It was mentioned that they partly also went for a physical book because of a professional proofreader. While I'm not reading that book, I am reading the .pdf that accompanies it which should have the same content. But yeah, it's definitely recommended for inspiration. 20k? No town in my county even had that high a number. The largest town was 16k. Having more than one supermarket is normal, at least here. In the neighbouring town with 6k people, we actually had 6 supermarkets and some smaller ones. Hehe, doesn't sound too bad. And yep, walking and cycling is how it should be. For further distances, a car or a train or something is ok. Here, however, lots of people take a car, even if the destination is only 1-3km away.

Oh? My brother played Bleifuss Fun, I remember that. I remember Test Drive being mainly an 80s series. I guess they also got some 90s titles then. Carmageddon is pretty popular, apparently lots of people played it. Don't think I've ever heward of Car & Driver or Hard Drivin' II. I remember a F1 racing manager. That one was great. In general, Germany had some really good manager games. Sim racing? Ever since I've seen actual sim racing games like iracing, normal ones that claim to be "sim racing" are always kinda meh. As for the Rally games, do they have internet competition these days? Like in real life, another driver starts some minutes before you and then you drive a lot of km on some track. I don't even mind grinding to be honest. It can be pretty relaxing too after all. But yes, what you just wrote does seem pretty bothersome or too much effort put into it.

The LaserActive doesn't sound too bad. Looks like the price was pretty high though but at least it did PC Engine and the Mega Drive + CD variants. Pretty good. Too bad it was also an LD thing which kinda meant its success overseas was never going to be a thing.

What MIDI controversy? I meant genuine thanks since back in the day, you sold copies via the cover and such first and foremost. As such, his design helped a lot. Remember that Dragon Ball was already really popular at that point. Of course, the game being pretty good for the time helped as well. I know I would have bought it too. I don't think they necessarily have one. From where I come from and from my environment, I had totally different standards but once I entered the internet and/or moved to a city, I saw how people can actually be. Having nothing in-depth in their life (or a relationship at best) wouldn't surprise me at all anymore. It's probably also the kind that writes stupid stuff on social media and such (not that social media isn't 99% terrible anyway). I think I only ever played Empire Earth online via modem...or actually, no, I played it at a friend's house while he himself played on his father's PC. In general, I played with that friend a lot of games, either on consoles or via LAN or together on one PC (Clonk for instance). Seems like rage-quitting has become more of a thing these days. People used to be more relaxed like 14 years ago (when I played DotA online).

As you say, cheap and playable works. We also had Moorhuhnjagd which became a giant success. They were basically casual games. Hehe, yep. They basically come, take over the developer, suck out all their life and then discard the corpse. EA is the prime perpetrator in the publisher scene. Oh, Die Siedler. I love the first entry, never played the second one though. Played the third again and even though it's different, it's still pretty good. Wish the first entry was on GOG. Had to play the abandonware way to enjoy the game again (which I did, just 2-3 months ago). Die Siedler is such a relaxing game. Funnily enough, I prefer VGA over SVGA...maybe because I'm way too used to the lower resolution? The Farming Simulator series is, interestingly enough, a Swiss series. So we aren't even responsible, even though it does look like it. Nah, there is no real revival. You have to understand that the scene back then was really great. We even had competitive gaming and game tests, hardware tests etc on free TV back in the early/mid 00s. Unfortunately, the channel went off air in 2009 IIRC. To this day, we have nothing comparable. Just imagine watching competitive Starcraft: Brood War, Warcraft III, CS 1.6, Fifa on free TV, 15 years ago. And we also had formats that dealth with less popular titles like Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, DotA, Call of Duty 2, some other RTS games, some sim racing game. Man, I miss those days. Near the end, I somewhat switched to watching Koran esports since there were actually people who would restream Starcraft: Brood War which they showed on Pay TV. Our retro community isn't exactly growing though, it's shrinking. Kids these days don't care at all and older people die eventually, unfortunately. So we would need young blood in those communities.

Reminds me how I spent several hours a few months ago to look through old websites from the mid 90s. Was pretty entertaining and interesting, especially the anime-related websites which were about fansubbing VHS tapes and shipping them to other people.