MagicEngine

Awesome! Lately I'm into collecting rare and totally uncommon vinyl recordings (i.e. Hatebeak, a death metal band with a parrot on vocals!... etc...). Man, I'd love to get my hands on (at least) one o ...

...Incredible. I downloaded the Numen demo and after seeing it I still can't believe what they accomplished on a system with a 1.79 MHz processor.
If this program was made 20 years ago, people's jaw ...

The Atari 400 computer was WAY WAY ahead of its time when it first came out (for those who don't know, it was released back in 1979).
With a little tweaking it could display a full 256 colors on-scre ...

True, Fatal Fury Special not only had faster loading times than Fatal Fury II, but the graphics and AI were also improved. Just goes to show how much optimization can be achieved within (not even) a y ...

I agree. If it had come out a year earlier then we would have seen more incredible games on the PCE. It's too bad the arcade card was released when next-gen systems were already in the market.
Becaus ...

Faceball doesn't have any sprites; I verified that by toggling sprites on/off in Magic Engine. Everything is drawn on the fly.
As for Dungeon Master type games, Dungeon Master itself as well as Might ...

jammaniaclord wrote:

Kan suhmwun tel mee ware i kan git an eyeso fohr Drackeula Ex ? The wun that duzzn't tern yor karackter bloo in thu wauter levels.

Ah verzeeon laihk thees eggzeests? Butt wh ...

For Sapphire one could argue since it uses the extra memory cart which could hold tons of frames of animation, but Faceball IS real-time. If the mazes and scaling enemies had to be prerendered then it ...

Kaminari wrote:
Yup, it would be like saying the isometric 3D genre is limited to Knight Lore and Head over Heels

Of course the isometric genre is not limited to the aforementioned games, but I be ...

As far as colors are concerned, I was talking about the non-existent hues that can be "created" on the PC Engine.

The following page has several interesting demos, one of them being a greyscale de ...

Rockman wrote:
I knew a kid who was about 7 or 8 years old and played NES games with the controller upside down! The cord came out of the pad towards him instead of away from him. He used the control ...

Rekrul wrote:

I can't play arcade games any more since I'm not left handed and all the games now have the stick on the left. I also can't play action games with those left handed control pads that ...

I haven't played the game for like 10 years but I remember the 'Mankind has always been the poison' part being spoken in the ending. If you didn't hear that on your Duo, maybe the CD has scratches or ...

If you take the time to read the messages posted you'll find references to many other games that are worth purchasing.
Rainbow Islands could be found on e-bay every now and then.
As for the Shadow O ...

If you take the time to read the messages posted you'll find references to many other games that are worth purchasing.
Rainbow Islands could be found on e-bay every now and then.
As for the Shadow O ...