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I used it a lot with Ridge Racer and, iirc, Beetle Adventure Racing (I might be the only person who liked that game). It worked great if you were mostly doing basic driving operations (steer,accelerate,brake) and wasn't so good for complex button-mashing. Since I generally prefer simple controls, it was just right for me.

Ewww, it's a flat screen. Real gaming is done on a CRT.

I've got that Ultraracer controller for both N64 and PS1. it's my favorite way to play most racing games. Meanwhile, here's a picture I took a few years ago of various 3rd party controllers I own for Commodore and Atari systems. Most are pretty common but there are some oddballs in there.

This post reminded me of one I forgot. I picked up a 1541 disc drive (5.25" floppy drive for C64 and similar,for those who don't know) for a couple bucks at a thrift many years back. Opened it up to inspect and clean before trying, and found someone had jammed a CD into the slot, then shattered it when they tried to close the drive. Hadn't even occurred to me someone would try to use a 1541 that way. The drive worked after a bit of effort, so no harm done.

Solid 8, held back only by the small US library. The TurboExpress handheld is a real winner, too, and the way I play most of my TG-16 games.

I had one from ebay back in the early days. Bought a set of Atari 7800 games that unexpectedly came with the console. Seller then contacted me to say she'd found another box of 10 or so games I could have for free. Didn't even have to pay shipping, which was much cheaper 20 years ago, but still... I've also gotten a couple lots of supposedly empty DS clamshells that came with some games and/or manuals. And I've bought several consoles at thrifts that unexpectedly came with forgotten games inside. On the down side, I've occasionally bought games I forgot to check and gotten home to find missing, wrong, or damaged beyond playability games. I've also bought many, many pieces of hardware that ended up not working. I figure it all evens out.

Its gotten too late in the moving process to deal with selling and shipping individual items, so I don't have a choice but to move it now and thin it later. Which is why that's my 2021 goal.

Looks like I got a negative reaction (maybe? what's Wow mean when you say your goal is to downsize?) A picture being worth a thousand words: here's part of my collection being boxed up for moving (ignore the obvious garage junk in the corners): This is only 25-30% of the collection that I need to pack up and move, too.

My goal is to have less at the end of the year than I have now.

An 8 from me, too. I confess some my enjoyment of the movie stems from the fact that the actor who played the role of the Predator went to my High School and was the star of our basketball team, but its still a fun movie and worthy of the occasional rewatch.

Strip Poker, or isn't that the 'completion' you're referring to?

6. Some pretty good games in the library BITD. Not very well made, unfortunately, and i find the controllers awkward, but still better than its Intellivision and Atari 5200 competitors. The Roller controller and Steering wheel options were pretty good, though the Adam computer left me cold. Mame might be a better way to play many of the games today but that wasn't an option in 1982. Oh, and its Connecticut Leather Company, not Colorado.

I look at this the opposite way. Why would I buy a Switch just so I can buy the same games again?

I'm a fan of the WiiU, too. Might end up being the last system that doesn't need massive, multiple downloads to make the games functional. I always found the controller to be a nice comfortable fit for my two big hands, too.

I've played a ton of Mario Golf and Mario Kart on the N64, and they're both still fun so if those count the N64 is a clear winner. If its just team sport stuff, then I have no idea since those games don't interest me much.

Weird poll - you'd have to either be a movie critic or a fan of schlock to have watched enough of these to pick a 'worst'. Personally, I only saw 2: Birds of Prey and Invisible Man. Didn't hate either of them but am unlikely to ever want to see them again. Just based on trailers, though, Trolls World Tour looked awful.

One of the better looking consoles of its day, but reliability has proven to be poor and it has, I think, the worst controllers I've ever used. Original library seems mostly uninteresting to me, with too many sport games that require 2 players. On the plus side, it is fairly fun to collect for with a manageable 125 game library with multiple variants if you're into that sort of thing, and a very active homebrew scene that has produced some games that are better than the original releases.

I liked SG-1 bitd, at least until McGuyver left. Watched Atlantis and Universe, too, but with so many other choices out there I haven't felt the urge to rewatch them. I'd agree that the SG-1 series was better than the movie.

Old idea. I can just set my chicken on top of my C64s power supply to keep it hot.

I have one. Smells like smoke.

Just another fee sellers will have to pay. Frankly, you'd have to be stupid to spend $2K+ on something as widely counterfeited as a watch on a site as sketchy as ebay.

Gave it a 6. One of those movies where the individual bits are much better than the sum total. I do love the idea that Slim Whitman music causes heads to explode, mostly because at the time I worked with a Whitman fan and sent him off to see the movie without explaining why. He was not amused.

An all time favorite, and one of the few I bought to keep. Helps that I'm a huge Burton fan.

Memorex VIS, easy. Unless you include handhelds, then it might be the R-Zone. To my shame, I own both of those turds. Either make the 3DO look great.

I guess I'm approaching this differently than most voters, since I got my systems & games used before the price explosion. It wasn't expensive to me (1st system was $7 and games were $2 each) so I don't care what it cost initially. Sure most of the good games weren't exclusive, but I don't necessarily have the other versions of those games, so the 3DO is what I fire up to play some of them. I find the FZ-1 to be one of the very best looking systems around, it stacks well (hurray for flat tops and front-loader design) and it seems to have been built like a tank. All of my FZ-1's (I've had, I think, 5 of them over the years) have worked great. Can't say the same about other vintage optical-drive systems. Resale value is great.