isiolia wrote:VCDs are more regional. Commercial implementations never caught on in the US (popular in the Philippines, Hong Kong, etc though). Probably the main interest here was in the window between CD burners becoming commodity items, and DVD burners taking over.Dikdikvandik wrote: Anyways my Question WHAT IS the Complete mid 90s gaming experience?
A friend of mine was deployed in the Persian Gulf during the mid-to-late 1990s. He watched VCDs on his Saturn. He told me that he could buy pirated VCDs in Kuwait for the equivalent of less than one dollar, but he couldn't buy a beer anywhere.pierrot wrote:Also, I don’t think anyone really used the mpeg card to actually watch VCDs with. Maybe a handful of Japanese people, but certainly no one in the West.
That— is— AWESOME! I mean, not your great grandmothers passing, but the other parts.Dikdikvandik wrote:I didn't really get super Hardcore as a gamer until I bought a Dreamcast with some money I inherited from my great grandmother, ironically enough her name was Naomi.
Early 90's is arbitrarily being a die hard Nintendo or Sega fan, depending on which console your parents bought you, and arguing with kids at school or on the bus that were fans of the opposite console. This also meant arguing if Sonic or Mario was better. Mid to late 90's is the same, but with Nintendo and Sony instead. You may also argue about which franchise is better, Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat. When you aren't arguing, you will be trading cheat codes or Pokemon. Or perhaps rumors. "Nah-ah! I know because my father's cousin's roommate's neighbor works at Nintendo!"Dikdikvandik wrote:Anyways my Question WHAT IS the Complete mid 90s gaming experience?
This I was quite active in. I was kind of both, Had a master system, then NES and SNES never had a Genesis until a year ago. even when I had an SNES It was just Fighters I don't think I had anything that wasn't a fighting game other than Super Mario World. I had a friend who had a TG-16 never saw it in the flesh.Ziggy587 wrote:Early 90's is arbitrarily being a die hard Nintendo or Sega fan, depending on which console your parents bought you, and arguing with kids at school or on the bus that were fans of the opposite console. This also meant arguing if Sonic or Mario was better. Mid to late 90's is the same, but with Nintendo and Sony instead. You may also argue about which franchise is better, Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat. When you aren't arguing, you will be trading cheat codes or Pokemon. Or perhaps rumors. "Nah-ah! I know because my father's cousin's roommate's neighbor works at Nintendo!"Dikdikvandik wrote:Anyways my Question WHAT IS the Complete mid 90s gaming experience?
Indeedmarurun wrote:There are lots of rumors those video game contests were rigged, because there was never a winner. Further, the image on the TV is from the TurboGrafx-16 game Sinistron (Violent Soldier in Japan), but there is no TG-16 as part of the prize package.
No S-video BOOOOO BOOOONemoide wrote:Let's not forget the Samsung GX-TV, the TV specifically designed for video games!
I remember seeing this thing advertised in GamePro (maybe the most 90s gaming magazine?) and it being on display in Toys R Us. I actually have a friend who owns one of them now; the picture quality is okay but pales in comparison to the Trinitrons or broadcast monitors hardcore CRT folks seek out. But as you can guess, the audio quality is good!
Years ago we used to talk about that TV set on this forum. I think it even got mentioned in a front page article one time. To be honest, I never saw the attraction. What's so great about this TV set in the first place? It's a small picture tube with cheap, plastic speakers that fold out on little hinges. I fail to see how this makes video gaming any better. Even back in the 1990s I could hook up my Sega Genesis to a real stereo and get better sound. Practically any working TV set can give you a picture as good or better than this one.Dikdikvandik wrote:No S-video BOOOOO BOOOONemoide wrote:Let's not forget the Samsung GX-TV, the TV specifically designed for video games!
I remember seeing this thing advertised in GamePro (maybe the most 90s gaming magazine?) and it being on display in Toys R Us. I actually have a friend who owns one of them now; the picture quality is okay but pales in comparison to the Trinitrons or broadcast monitors hardcore CRT folks seek out. But as you can guess, the audio quality is good!
It's probably more important to compare it to other offerings in the space. Most people were probably not shopping for a 13" TV to put in their living room. It was ostensibly a product designed as a bedroom TV, probably a kid's bedroom, right? The majority of products like that had mono sound, and one set of RCA jacks (on the front usually), if they had them at all. Plenty in that size just had an antenna connection. Meanwhile, this TV is fitting in multiple stereo RCA inputs and likely much better sound - things that really would have made it a compelling option at the time..if it had been remotely competitive on price, which I don't think it was. For the MSRP you could likely just go buy a better equipped 20" TV.samsonlonghair wrote: Years ago we used to talk about that TV set on this forum. I think it even got mentioned in a front page article one time. To be honest, I never saw the attraction. What's so great about this TV set in the first place? It's a small picture tube with cheap, plastic speakers that fold out on little hinges. I fail to see how this makes video gaming any better. Even back in the 1990s I could hook up my Sega Genesis to a real stereo and get better sound. Practically any working TV set can give you a picture as good or better than this one.
