Think I've overdosed on Megadrive games. Made myself switch it off in the end. Started Shining Force 2 then had a quick go on Headdy. Want to play through both again eventually. Still haven't got round to Gunstar Heroes, Beyond Oasis or Landstalker. May also try Phantasy Star 4 eventually.

Over half of this collection is nothing more than historical curio, but there are a dozen or so games that are still genuinely very good (especially with save states and rewind/FF), and it's worth the sale price just for those.

Doughnut Plains, or something like that. You're going to tell me that's just the first section of World 1, aren't You?

Maybe the amount it gets better, if I carry on, is unbelievable, but I really can't see this would be worth a 10 today so far.

Oh, there's nothing wrong with anything (TV's on game mode, so adds as little latency as it can) - I'm just rubbish at this kind of game. The game could be performing my inputs before I've thought them* and it wouldn't get anywhere.

I was playing with sticking Retroarch on there, but I think I'll hold out on making a full little retro box until I can get a reasonably good N64 out of something Pi sized. The save state interface on Canoe is too good to sacrifice for a bit less lag, especially considering the amount I'll actually play.

* as it technically could now, I've just found out.

I wish Sega would add gg/master system/megacd/32X rereleases on that package.
They should rerelease the whole back catalogue, not just sega ip. There are many more hidden gems in their 8bit/16bit/32x library.

The 32X is mostly a curio console of what could have been.
Some decent ports of sega's arcade titles; Virtua Fighter and Virtua Racing come to mind but also some super scaler titles like After Burner and Space Harrier.

Mega CD has a decent port of Final Fight (the cd soundtrack is sublime and worth it over the cps version). There's also Shining force cd and stuff like robo aleste if you like shoot 'em ups.

It's hard to argue with this MD collection when there are 50 odd games on it, but as always with these things there are conspicuous omissions that stop it being the best representation of the console it could've been.

Lack of shmups is an obvious one, with only Biohazard Battle making it, as it was very strong in that area. Surprised that there are no Thunderforce games at least. And yet Galaxy Force, Thunderblade and Space Harrier are all there, despite being fairly poor versions.

No racing games either, which isn't necessarily a loss seeing as they don't tend to age well, but Super Monaco GP and Super Hang On were big games at the time.

Some of this is probably due to licensing issues of course, which is always going to limit these collections.

Portal 2 is even better than I remember it. Nothing feels as special as that first Portal 1 play through as it just had that once-in-a-gen uniqueness. Perfect, really. 

Portal 2 has to contend with unoriginality but it's still glorious. Reading the supplied comic (in the extras) first is recommended. The writing is once again excellent. Better, maybe. The puzzles aren't as pure as the first but they explore the mechanic fully and the inclusion of gels is out of necessity to make something new. 

Now my PC can handle the maxed out settings it's still a beautiful game. Most of all I love the atmosphere. It reminds me of Metroid Prime in all the right ways and Merchant only reinforces the isolation when he's not there. You and Her works so well. You and Him slightly less, and you and New Him even less, but the humour carries it through. I reckon both games are in my top 10 ever. 

I find it hard to believe Valve's VR game trilogy doesn't include Portal.

* waves *

Does split screen work on Bone?

I’ve got the 360 version digitally plus my brother to entertain today. Might be a good shout if so.

(Sorry Muzz).

* weeps *

Darn it.

* waves *

So, finished Advance Wars with the gb micro last night. Lovely game but then I found another menu option - war room? Holy shit.

But you only started that the other day?! It's not as big as FE Awakening then? I'm about 25 hours in I think, chapter 17 and loads of side quests to do.

Was afraid to pick up Advance Wars soon after but I've been wanting to play it for a while now. If it's not as time consuming as FE then I might play it sooner rather than later.