My new PC Engine related site

SignOfZeta · 07/02/2006, 12:23 AM

Keranu · 07/02/2006, 02:48 AM

I dig this site a lot actually. It's a very simple site, but it's got a style I love and I'm sure this would definitely be intriguing for new comers to these fine platforms. Is anything else planned in the future?

SignOfZeta · 07/02/2006, 11:58 PM

Quote from: "Keranu"I dig this site a lot actually. It's a very simple site, but it's got a style I love and I'm sure this would definitely be intriguing for new comers to these fine platforms. Is anything else planned in the future?

Thanks. My next site will be automotive related, and not very exciting I'm afraid.

I do have a regular podcast though. You can get hooked up by clicking on the Messerschmitt in my sig.

Keranu · 07/03/2006, 12:47 AM

Sweet, I was meaning to check out your podcast a couple weeks ago actually.

grahf · 07/03/2006, 09:15 AM

Agreed, i love the style of the site.

Tatsujin · 07/03/2006, 11:42 AM

it's all in white, very fine just missin' the core

esteban · 07/03/2006, 12:59 PM

Nice layout and aesthetics, for starters...

esteban · 07/03/2006, 01:00 PM

Nice layout and aesthetics...

TR0N · 07/06/2006, 03:44 AM

Quote from: "stevek666" Nice layout and aesthetics...

Agreed add more to it in the future.

Tatsujin · 07/06/2006, 05:20 AM

just as i said before, add the real core to the family and it would be just as perfect as it gets!

SignOfZeta · 07/07/2006, 12:03 AM

I must have not done a very good job of explaining the point of the site. The systems are all white, yeah, but that's just part of it. Other white systems like the Intellivision III, SG1000, Mark III, and my old GBA are all white, and will never be included.

The PC Engine had...a spirit, if you will. The shooters, the Kunio games, the chick sims, the SNK fighters, the memory upgrades, the super small developers with some of the most honest, and heartfelt productions...that spirit moved into the Saturn, then the DC, then...died pretty much. There is a bit of it in the PSP, the Xbox (in Japan), and some of it was in the PC-FX (those systems are all availible in white too, btw), but in all honestly it died with Sakura Wars 4 and Ikaruga.

I don't know, maybe I'm imagining this, but all of this seemed pretty obvious to me as it was going down back in the 90s.

As for the OG PC Engine...its kind of redundant. Ultimately the original PC Engine/CDROM2 combo is the most legit, and durable of the systems, but the PC Engine "sprit" didn't really hit its stride until the Duos were released.

As for the site, probably the only thing that will ever change will be the TWL Diary section, which I just added the other day.

Tatsujin · 07/07/2006, 12:15 AM

Quote from: "SignOfZeta"but the PC Engine "sprit" didn't really hit its stride until the Duos were released.

u really think so? I really don't think so!

takashirose · 07/07/2006, 11:49 PM

It's kind of interesting how NEC provided the Power VR graphics chip in the Dreamcast and it was released 10 years(1989/1999) after the Turbografx 16 in USA. And both of them didn't sell as well as it should because of competitors, Genesis and Super NEs for the Turbografx 16, and PS2 and the Nintendo Gamecube for the Dreamcast, which was released 2000 and 2001.Their history is very similar if you look at it historically. So yes they did have similar spirits. In addition the gamecube was released ten years after the Super NES. I love shooters. 2-d shooters. Now they are mostly released in Japan. When I was in Japan in 2001, I was playing 2-d shooters in the Arcades. But I did find an arcade in Edgewater, NJ that still has some old games. They have Raiden II, TMNT: Turtles in Time, SPider-Man, The Simpsons, and I believe Sky target. Raiden II is awsome and TMNT. The old games are the best bang for your buck. They are mostly one token, which is 25 cents. WIth a couple of tokens, I play for nearly an hour, while on the new games people last ten minutes, max.

CrackTiger · 07/13/2006, 09:53 PM

Quote from: "SignOfZeta"I must have not done a very good job of explaining the point of the site. The systems are all white, yeah, but that's just part of it. Other white systems like the Intellivision III, SG1000, Mark III, and my old GBA are all white, and will never be included.

I assume you mean the Intellivision II. Numero III was a silver/black remake of the originator.

Its too bad that Intv and MarkIII/SG1000 will never be included, because they are my fav systems along with those already featured on your site and share the same spirit for me.