Games Acquired 2016

Retro Achievements · Post by **Jagosaurus** » Tue Sep 13, 2016 11:17 am

Kaneda wrote:Yea but the states had S-video on most tv's so it's basically the same as scart.

And the official colour/color named by Nintendo for the US SNES controllers is lavender.

S video is not RGB. S vid is a nice upgrade over composite but it isn't RGB over SCART.

Also, s vid was NOT widespread in 1991. It was only on high end monitors. I had only laid eyes on it once by 1995. My uncle had a nice Sony projection big screen TV & a high end laser disc player with S vid output. He was an AV nut.

My family didn't get a TV with S vid until 2000. I personally didn't get one until 2005. My TV before that (got it in roughly '93) didn't even have composite! RF only.

A lot of gamers first experience with S video was the Dreamcast as it started becoming common place among most TV sets. I've heard a few ppl state that. That makes the DC VGA output that much more ahead of its time!

Post by **ElkinFencer10** » Tue Sep 13, 2016 11:28 am

S-video looks almost as good as a SCART, but it's definitely not quite as good. SCART has an undeniable edge in video quality.

Post by **Kaneda** » Tue Sep 13, 2016 12:14 pm

Scart is slightly better as the S-vid only has luminance/colour separation rather than RGB, the funny thing is how HD has changed our whole concept of what is good quality- as we are so used to modern displays and when you start getting involved with CRT's again you expect the best picture quality. I can remember in 1992 having a 14" trinitron and believing it had the most amazing picture through scart, not knowing at the time RGB was only on 25" and above sets- so I had been watching composite the whole time!! Now I'm using a larger screen with RGB/scart and it does look awesome but I can't help getting fussy over a tiny bit of blur or the screen settings not quite right, that's part of the fun of analogue I suppose.

edit* I took the RF amp out of my pal SNES so I had space for the mod switches on the back!

Retro Achievements · Post by **Jagosaurus** » Tue Sep 13, 2016 12:54 pm

Was SCART on most TVs across the pond in '91? Seems like we got S video common place 5 to 10 years behind.

RGB over here was only really an option via SCART or BNC on high end CCTV & Medical monitors.

Post by **isiolia** » Tue Sep 13, 2016 1:53 pm

Kind of depends, since there'd really be two factors at play there.

SCART itself is a standard for a connector, which was basically a given for EU equipment (it was required in some countries). So, yeah, far, far more common, starting the late 70s/early 80s.

The catch is that SCART doesn't automatically mean that a device does anything better than composite video and mono audio. You can have cables without the required pins for RGB/etc, or devices that aren't capable of utilizing them in the first place.

Having the RGB standard built in might have encouraged its use more, but a lower end TV that was only wired for composite in NTSC land could just as well have composite-only SCART in Europe. So I'd imagine the actual television support probably paralleled S-Video and component adoption elsewhere, for the most part.

Post by **ElkinFencer10** » Tue Sep 13, 2016 5:41 pm

Those in italics are digital games; those in standard font are physical. Anything crossed out has since been sold and is out of my collection, but I'm keeping those counted towards the YTD count since I did acquire them this year.

Acquired Year-to-Date: 612 Games; 300 physical, 312 digital

January (160 Games Acquired; 31 physical, 129 digital)

February (76 Games Acquired; 28 physical, 48 digital)

March (79 Games Acquired; 42 physical, 37 digital)

April (39 Games Acquired; 22 physical, 17 digital)

May (55 Games Acquired; 42 physical, 13 digital)

June (29 Game Acquired; 21 physical, 8 digital)

July (74 Games Acquired; 48 physical, 26 digital)

August (73 Game Acquired; 49 physical, 24 digital)

September (27 Games Acquired; 17 physical, 10 digital)

New for September 13
MeiQ: Labyrinth of Death (Vita)
Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness (PS4)
Batman [TellTale series] (PS4)
Bioshock: The Collection (PS4)
Recore (Xbox One)

Post by **noiseredux** » Tue Sep 13, 2016 9:16 pm

Batman on PS4... it is only the episodes that are out on pc so far right?

Post by **Fragems** » Tue Sep 13, 2016 9:29 pm

noiseredux wrote:Batman on PS4... it is only the episodes that are out on pc so far right?

Yeah I'm pretty sure they just do it like a season pass with them unlocking as they release.

Gamestop description:

The Telltale Series comes to retail as a Season Pass Disc, and grants access to the remaining four episodes in the season as they become available to download.

Post by **Kaneda** » Wed Sep 14, 2016 5:33 am

Jagosaurus wrote:Was SCART on most TVs across the pond in '91? Seems like we got S video common place 5 to 10 years behind.

RGB over here was only really an option via SCART or BNC on high end CCTV & Medical monitors.

Here in the UK 1992 Scart was on almost everything except some portable TVs, although many people carried on using the RF socket- similar to all those people who bought HD TV's and watched them in SD.

*edit sorry folks I digress! This thread was about games acquired if I remember

Post by **ElkinFencer10** » Wed Sep 14, 2016 7:36 am

noiseredux wrote:Batman on PS4... it is only the episodes that are out on pc so far right?

Yeah, the disc just has episode 1 and acts as a season pass to let you download the rest for free. Well, I say free, but I had to pay for the disc, so yeah.

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