Mistersinister1

Mistersinister1 t1_jeex8d8 wrote

Reply to Nearly 30 years after playing one at a classmates house and thinking "OMG, I NEED THIS," I've got a Sega Saturn in my living room by wowbobwow

Missed the Saturn and Dreamcast. They were way ahead of their time and they got swallowed up by playstation. It's too bad because I would have liked to see where they would have taken the consoles. Now we only have 3 to choose from. Competition is good, Sega had some good creative games. Just look at the state of gaming now? The standard has become games being in constant state of beta, pay to win, loot boxes, unfinished sold at full price. Publishers abandoning games, closing successful studios. Honestly I miss the early 90s and early 2000s gaming.

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Mistersinister1 t1_j2ej88p wrote

Reply to comment by Griffdude13 in Let's make people feel old by just-for-nsfw-things

Yeah, they were really taking advantage of video games popularity after the nes was such a hit. The technology really took off once there was a lot of competition. Healthy competition brought us the Sega CD in 91 and then eventually to the N64, more disc based consoles started to pop up. hard to believe that the original playstation came out in the states in '95. I was just entering highschool, yeah that makes me feel old. But it really felt like after that it just exploded with the variety of different consoles. It's too bad that the Dreamcast couldn't hold a candle to ps2 release, I really think it would have been the superior machine but the ps2 set that benchmark and the industry hasn't slowed down since.

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Mistersinister1 t1_j2ehpz0 wrote

Reply to Let's make people feel old by just-for-nsfw-things

I remember getting this as a free game when I got my Genesis. Yes, consoles typically came with a free game that wasn't a premium, plus, or special edition. The earlier models came with altered beast and I really wanted that over sonic but a free game is a free game.

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Mistersinister1 t1_ixepoty wrote

Reply to comment by AncientProduce in The ESA aims to make 24/7 space-based solar energy harvesting a reality | Solaris program will study space-based solar power amid rising energy concerns by chrisdh79

Of course it won't be free but it should be. The things we wouldn't have to worry about with free energy, people would be free to spend money on so many other things. Wishful thinking and we know free energy will never be a thing.

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