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klimatron8
03-04-2003, 08:21 PM
ok first -Joe don't kill me here -I did try a search but kept getting like 4000 answers- for some reason.
I'm wondering if a Game.com is a good collectible -are they hard to find, does anyone collect for it, are the games hard to find, it it just the lamest piece of crap ever??? Thanks for any help and yes I can get my hands on at least 2 if anyone actually is interested. ;)
digitalpress
03-04-2003, 08:34 PM
You probably won't find a topic on this specifically because it's so FUCKING AWFUL LOL
Nothing is "rare". See Adrienne's DP Guide stuff at http://www.digitpress.com/lists/gamecom.pdf
I've really tried to like the games, but the frame rate is just terrible. A few titles almost make it - the built-in Blackjack game, Lights Out, and Henry, for example - games that require no animation.
That's my humble opinion.
klimatron8
03-04-2003, 08:49 PM
don't hold back Joe -tell me how ya really feel LOL Yes. I saw you trashing the games in the guide section of the site. So you're saying run away then?
Maybe I should have said "neat" instead of "rare" i.e. -Is it neat to have a game.com in your collection - to which apparently the answer comes --- No, not exactly.
thanks.
ps -the link to Adreine's stuff didn't work.
GENESISNES
03-04-2003, 08:53 PM
You probably won't find a topic on this specifically because it's so FUCKING AWFUL
why does that make me want to get a game.com more than ever now? O_O
Gamereviewgod
03-04-2003, 09:00 PM
Ditto that Joe. And to think i bought a Game.com Pocket pro thinking that would make things better. Ugh.
digitalpress
03-04-2003, 09:42 PM
ps -the link to Adreine's stuff didn't work.
I fixed the link to her Guide.
PS back at ya: it's not really very "neat". Game Boy is both a much better system and worth more, also has more games, and it's worst game is better than Game.com's best game. But you probably already knew that!
Zaxxon
03-04-2003, 10:41 PM
Resident Evil 2 isn't bad. It's slow and tedious but so is the PSX original. LOL
scooterb23
03-04-2003, 11:15 PM
I don't know, I kind of like my Game.com...it isn't the best, but when I want to chill out...I can play a nice calming game of Jeopardy...it's alright. I'd like to finish my collection...I'd also like to find my copy of Monopoly that I bought, and lost almost immediately. :hmm:
Achika
03-05-2003, 12:34 AM
I'm trying to figure out a nice way to introduce the system without bashing it TOO much. But damn....it's so damn bad.....*cries*
ventrra
03-05-2003, 01:21 AM
Game Boy is both a much better system and worth more, also has more games, and it's worst game is better than Game.com's best game. But you probably already knew that!
Hmm....well, I hate to sound like the odd-ball here, but...
I love my Game.com!! :D
(Ok. I know that many people who know about my collecting habbits aren't surprised....after all, I like the MGA GAme Wizard, too...and Sachen, Wisdom Tree, Color Dreams, Sssnake, etc.. :P )
I actually use the address book & calculator functions a lot, as well as play the built in Solitare game. Currently, I own two cartridges for it: Batman and Robin, which isn't all that bad, really and Jurassic Park, which ... er ... well, the Batman and Robin game wasn't bad, anyway :-D .
I've actually owned some Game Boy games that I liked less than the two that I like on Game.com: R-Type comes to mind. It blured enough to give me serious fits on my Game Boy.
klimatron8
03-05-2003, 09:16 AM
Don't cry Adrienne *hands her a tissue*. *Buries the game.com in the gaming graveyard* Ashes to ashes...... :)
Atari7800
03-05-2003, 09:28 AM
I remember being SO psyched when I say that Duke Nukem 3-D was on Game.com... how on earth could a b&w system do Duke Nukem 3-D? But there were the screenshots... this handheld must be really powerful, I thought.
Then I picked up a new system and about 10 games for $60 an KB Toys... how gawd awful! Duke Nukem 3-D is a total travesty... if it's 3-D, then I have a 12 inch wanker. That racing game is similarly dreadful... it's unplayable. Ditto on Batman and Jurassic Park. Fighters MegaMix and Sonic are also terrible, which surprised me. The only half-ass decent titles are the non-games like Jeopardy, Black Jack, etc.
I put that thing up over a year ago, and I don't care if I ever see it again.
Arcade Antics
03-05-2003, 02:49 PM
(Ok. I know that many people who know about my collecting habbits aren't surprised....after all, I like the MGA GAme Wizard, too...and Sachen, Wisdom Tree, Color Dreams, Sssnake, etc.. :P )
No.
No. I just refuse to believe that you like Sssnake. I mean, hyperbole is great and everything, but... Sssnake? No way.
LOL
ashbourn
03-05-2003, 03:37 PM
hehe not much to get i spent $150 to trying to get everything. I have never liked a game enough to want to beat any.
digitalpress
03-05-2003, 03:39 PM
What concerns me here is that the few positive responses by obviously deranged individuals might sway some hapless gamer into purchasing one of these things.
All I have to say is that we, at Digital Press, will not be held responsible for the rage you may feel after getting suckered in by the promise of a viable Game Boy alternative, and views expressed here (in favor of said system) most certainly don't reflect the views of Digital Press, it's families, it's sponsors, the people who live down the road from us, or the creepy old man across the street. Thank you.
I hope that covers my ass.
Zaxxon
03-05-2003, 03:49 PM
I remember being SO psyched when I say that Duke Nukem 3-D was on Game.com... how on earth could a b&w system do Duke Nukem 3-D? But there were the screenshots... this handheld must be really powerful, I thought.
Then I picked up a new system and about 10 games for $60 an KB Toys... how gawd awful! Duke Nukem 3-D is a total travesty... if it's 3-D, then I have a 12 inch wanker. That racing game is similarly dreadful... it's unplayable. Ditto on Batman and Jurassic Park. Fighters MegaMix and Sonic are also terrible, which surprised me. The only half-ass decent titles are the non-games like Jeopardy, Black Jack, etc.
I put that thing up over a year ago, and I don't care if I ever see it again.
Those games do suck but you must not have played Resident Evil 2. It's actually a good handheld translation. It never did come out for the Gameboy Color. It was announced and screenshots were shown but it was cancelled. Have you tried Frogger, Centipede, Monopoly or Scrabble?
My brother played Metal Gear Solid on it at the Tiger booth at E3 a few years ago. I have the Netlink(sp?) package that allowed you to upload your high scores to the net. This isn't the internet cartridge. Well, it comes with a cd-rom that has the original commercials on it and there are games shown in the commercial that never came out. There was a contest on the Tiger game.com website for RE2 that whoever uploaded the highest score by a certain date won something like $25,000. I couldn't even find a copy of the game anywhere to do it but I wonder how they handled that contest. How many hardcore game.com gamers were out there near the end of the systems lifespan who were 1. aware of this contest 2. had been able to find the RE2 cart 3. had internet access and wanted to enter the contest 4. also had the special cart needed to upload your score 5. were able to finish this game?
Unreleased game.com game info here
http://www.handheldgames.com/products_all.html
ManekiNeko
03-05-2003, 05:32 PM
Remember all the hype surrounding the game.com? Magazines were telling us that it was so much more advanced than the Game Boy, and used detailed pictures of games like Duke Nukem 3D and Fighter's MegaMix in an attempt to convince us. Of course, they never bothered to tell us that those games had all the animation of your average episode of Transformers: Armada. I was astonished when I watched advertisements for the game.com... the software looked terrible EVEN IN THE COMMERCIALS! If your product can't even shine in an advertisement, you know you've got problems.
JR
ventrra
03-05-2003, 05:33 PM
No.
No. I just refuse to believe that you like Sssnake. I mean, hyperbole is great and everything, but... Sssnake? No way.
LOL
Trust me on this. Joe might have played more games of Maze Craze than most people, but I've played more games of Data Age's Sssnake and U.S.Games' Picnic than probably any 3 people. No hyperbole here.
game.com is fairly easy and cheap to collect until you come upon the three rare titles: Wheel of Fortune 2, Quiz Wiz, Henry.
Henry is the easiest of the three to obtain, WOF2 the hardest.
Oh, and the original 14K modem is a must, I just received mine and it even works with the game.com (with Internet cart).
@ventrra: You only have two carts? Would you be interested in buying some others for the Game.com? I have several (with boxes and manuals) which I would really love to unload...
Zaxxon
03-05-2003, 06:28 PM
game.com is fairly easy and cheap to collect until you come upon the three rare titles: Wheel of Fortune 2, Quiz Wiz, Henry.
Henry is the easiest of the three to obtain, WOF2 the hardest.
Oh, and the original 14K modem is a must, I just received mine and it even works with the game.com (with Internet cart).
They actually released the modem? I saw it in the catalogs but I never saw it for sale.
Michael Thomasson
03-06-2003, 07:23 AM
Okay, I had low expectation of the Game.Com when I picked it up, and found myself to be pleasantly surprised. Perhaps it was my low expectations, but I had a decent time with the device. While they made a terrible error in making the sprites big (So that they looked good) for the major player controlled characters, it really hurt gameplay, especially in fast games like sonic because your view wasn't panoramic enough to see what was coming. However, the games that use the touch screen, which was a novel addition, play great. While these are usually slower games like wheel of fortune, I have to say that the Game.Com version is the best to play, because you can simply touch the letter on the screen instead of scrolling through an entire alphabet like on the SNES and Genesis or any other version. The Arcade Classics all played pretty good except for Sinistar. Frogger and Centipede were good adaptions, too. I can't tell you how many hours my wife has spent on Solitaire...
Michael
klimatron8
03-06-2003, 09:12 AM
:) Holy Baloney! I had no idea this thread would take off like this. Thanks for the input from everyone. Apparently there are at least a few folks that have heard of/actually have this system. With DP's input I have decided to stay away. ps -Ashbourn -nice avatar!
Arcade Antics
03-06-2003, 09:54 AM
Trust me on this. Joe might have played more games of Maze Craze than most people, but I've played more games of Data Age's Sssnake and U.S.Games' Picnic than probably any 3 people. No hyperbole here.
LOL LOL LOL
I definitely believe you've played more games of Sssnake than most people. Probably more games of Sssnake than the rest of the world combined! :D
But I can't bring myself to believe that you *like* the game. It means that the very fabric of time and space is about to be torn apart! LOL
christianscott27
03-06-2003, 12:02 PM
to all of you game.com haters- get off the bashing bandwagon already, its beneath you as classic game collectors. what sucked more than the game.com? the action max, channel F, r-zone (also from tiger), supervision, rca studio 2 and plenty of other things people here collect and covet.
i've lost count of how many times i've posted in defense of the little system that tried to be too many things but here i go again. had this platform been able to gain a foothold in the market, which just wasnt possible against gameboy (then or now) it could have done some amazing things. the concept of a PDA/game system/online device was years ahead of its time and is still out of reach. sooner or later all of these features will come together in a workable, affordable device and you'll see what i'm talking about.
i enjoyed arcade classics, duke nukem and mortal kombat and yes i have a gameboy. its a nice little footnote in gaming history and as collectors you should appreciate for that.
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klimatron8
03-06-2003, 12:08 PM
Christian - If you'd posted this earlier I might have grabbed the system. I agree that the premise was definietly way ahead of it's time -that's what peaked my interest when I saw it.
ventrra
03-06-2003, 12:37 PM
I definitely believe you've played more games of Sssnake than most people. Probably more games of Sssnake than the rest of the world combined! :D
But I can't bring myself to believe that you *like* the game. It means that the very fabric of time and space is about to be torn apart! LOL
***RIIIIIIIPPP**** Goodbye fabric of space and time!
....and I still love my Game.com, too! :P
Arcade Antics
03-06-2003, 12:38 PM
GAH!! Noooooooooooooo...
*unverse implodes*
LOL
rbudrick
03-06-2003, 01:45 PM
think the game.com would suck a whole lot less in emulation, since the framerate could be made normal, and therefore playable. AFAIK, there is no emu for it yet.
-Rob
ventrra
03-06-2003, 03:05 PM
think the game.com would suck a whole lot less in emulation, since the framerate could be made normal, and therefore playable. AFAIK, there is no emu for it yet.
-Rob
I made the same observation on AtariAge when there was a question about if there was going to be a Game.com emulator.
here it is, Zaxxon:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1942252584
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Zaxxon
03-07-2003, 12:03 PM
here it is, Zaxxon:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1942252584
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Thanks for the link! They must have made them but never bothered shipping them to stores since the system was bombing and they got picked up when they were blowing out all their Game.com stock. Even the old Tiger Toys website online store which sold the game.com and all the games didn't carry the modem. I think they did have the game.com padded carry case.
Zaxxon
03-07-2003, 12:08 PM
"the concept of a PDA/game system/online device was years ahead of its time"
Amen! My thoughts exactly at the time. And all that for $65 new. Touch sensitive screen, internet cabable, built in PDA plus games. Jack of all trades, master of none.
I purchased my game.com on its day of release in the UK, for £79.99 ($130.00).
It came with Lights Out and Wheel of Fortune carts included. Instead of WOF I got a letter apologizing that the game cannot be shipped yet and they included Batman & Robin instead. Also, enclosed was a pre-paid envelope for a free WOF, once it becomes available. So to speak, in the UK the game.com came shipped with 3 free games.
Yes, I love my game.com, and hopefully will be able to complete my G.c collection (7 more titles to go) soon.
ashbourn
03-07-2003, 05:25 PM
ps -Ashbourn -nice avatar!
Yea I do need to change it some day.
Game.com is a fun little pos I like wof and wof2 and frogger is not that bad, but like everyone has said the frame rate is way to low and everything is too big can not not see much Sonic is a blur.