/vr/ - Retro Games

That's not the Wondermega.

>>1174485
Wondermega is pretty great too. Sega always had the best looking consoles.

>>1174485
What the hell is a Wondermega?
Also late NTSC SNESes are the most boner inducing

>>1174495
pffft it doesn't even have a power LED

>>1174485
That's a funky looking Bemanistyle controller

>>1174480
I would have agreed had you said PAL Mega Drive/Mega CD combo

>>1174523
but it doesn't blast as hard at 50hz

>>1174525
Yeah, but Thunder Force IV does, and that's what matters. Thank you based Technosoft for actually making a full speed 50hz game.

It also helps that our console is just that slightly bit more aesthetic

>>1174528
NOPE.

>>1174531
The pink power LED panel on the Genesis and the garish Genesis logo kills it my friend. It just can't compete with the sophisticated white power LED panel and printed 'Mega Drive' font.

>>1174538
its not pink is a beautiful shade of maroon

>>1174538
>>1174540
oh god it does look pink in OPs pic,

Japanese Megadrive is the best though huge 16 bit

>>1174540
You just need to accept that they make PAL consoles more beautiful to make up for the 50hz. See: SNES.

Only if it says "High-Definition Graphics" on it and has the controllers with the red lettering.

Too bad those controllers wear out and have short cords, because they look so much cooler than the later ones.

Personally I think the Sufami is pretty as fuck

Sleek, tiny, the buttons on the controller look like skittles, what's not to love?

>>1174569
US SNES motherboard inside of PAL SNES case with PAL SNES controller. Ultimate combo or what?

Sucks that this particular model also happens to be one of the most expensive!

>>1174627

I have one. you jelly?

>>1174480
For me model 1 Genesis + model 2 Sega CD is the best looking combo. It looks really badass.

>>1174495
How can someone like this much less think it's boner inducing. The model 2 SNES looks like a shitty chinese clone.

The controllers were terribad, but I love the design of this thing.

>implying

>>1175243
I agree, I had one when I was a kid, and I have one now that I got a few months ago. I actually did not even know there was another model of Sega CD when I was younger.

OP please

>>1174480
>>1174485
Agree here. I really wanted my Model 1 SCD to work adter I replaced its fuse and it did for about ten minutes then the caps went. I'm satisfied with my X'Eye though and it's much, much more reliable that regular SCDs

>>1175270
>pause button on console
>ever

shig

It's actually ugly but due to my patriotic viewpoint it seems far grater than what it actually is. I always love playing ports of 16 bits to 8 bits in my Master System, especially Sonic, which came included in its memory. The video game was and still is produced nowadays by a partnership between Tec Toy and Sega, with all royalties included. Brazil is the greatest Master System market ever, and Tec Toy's exclusive games such as Turma da Mônica and SMS consoles should be quite valuable for collectors in the USA, given it would have to be imported.

>>1174485
The Wondermega is not the Saturn Karaoke Commander.

>>1175354
The Phantom System has, on the other hand, a great and modern design, especially if compared to its competition, the NES and SMS. Also, I highly doubt anyone here ever heard of it.

>>1175406
Without a doubt, the Phantom System is the best looking famiclone ever made. Even if its case is just a copy of the Atari 7800, the stylish logo with that glossy finish and the cartridge lid make all the difference.

It's also probably one of the best famiclones in terms of quality and durability, except for the controllers.

Just a friendly reminder that sega fans are the worst.

>nintendo board 4ever

>>1174612
Wouldn't exactly work. You'd need to mutilate the cartridge slot in order for NTSC-U carts to fit.

>>1175437
cool satirical article, friend

>>1174612
Just use a Super Famicom.

>>1175446

It'd be cool if they made universal SNES carts that are shaped like SFC carts but have the pinholes for SNES consoles. Something like pic related.

>>1175427
Indeed, the case is so disturbingly similar because Gradiente planned to officially release the Atari 7800 in Brazil, yet due to its poor reception in other countries they gave it up. However, it already was under production, which Gradiente halted and used the carcass of these already produced 7800s that never went to the market in order to cut costs of release and manufacturing for the Phantom System.

>>1175427
I think the Aaronix looks nice too, specially for a Famiclone.

>>1175698
I love how they based the whole look off a PC Engine.

I'd totally buy that clone.

>>1175736
Good luck finding one. Most of the cool looking Famiclones are located in remote parts of the planet like Oshkosh B'gosh where shipping could EASILY be three digits.

I'm not talking about places like Thailand or even China. I'm talking about tiny ass countries in Europe that are still behind the iron curtain and still think the USSR exists.

>>1175805
>I'm not talking about places like Thailand or even China. I'm talking about tiny ass countries in Europe that are still behind the iron curtain and still think the USSR exists.
You can get a legal famiclone rigt on Akiha-fucking-bara.

>>1175813
Yeah, those boring looking shits. I'm talking about the Aaronix, the Phantom, or even those mini NES clones (not the Generation NEX) that also have a Famicom slot on top.

Atari XEGS

>>1175251
Chinese clones of the SNES used the SNES Jr's mold quite a lot actually. There's still clones that use it

>>1174485
Is there a cartdrige port on this thing? Or it can only run Sega CDs?

>>1176282
The cartridge port is on the left. We sort of kind of got a version of it in America as the X'Eye, but the American version is missing the motorized disc tray that can open with the push of a button on the controller, the LED lights on the tray itself, the MIDI port, and S-Video output. That and it doesn't like nearly as snazzy as the original Wondermega (The X'Eye being based off the second model)

>>1174480
The American Genesis logo makes the console look like someone just slapped a sticker on the poor thing. Does it say 'support our troops' on the back?

I like the original PS1 myself. It came in that special time before the 'gun-metal black' shit ruined all aesthetics of gaming.

>>1175354
Just a reminder that the Master System currently produced and sold in Brazil is not a real SMS - it's just ARM hardware running an emulator, and it's been like this for a very long time. It doesn't even have cartridge or SD ports, you're stuck with the roms it carries in its memory. Same thing with the Mega Drive / Genesis.

Besides, I believe these days only clueless grandparents and aunts buy them for children (since they're almost as expensive as a PS2).

Best color scheme of pretty much anything.

>>1176287
Nice Leds, but not nice enough.

I thought the PC-FX was a very handsome and modern-esque looking console.

Shit library, though.

>>1176497
I wish I had a close-up of Will Smith's eyes.

That looks like a consolized PC.

>>1176287
>We sort of kind of got a version of it in America as the X'Eye
I saw one of those for sale at a classic gaming expo for $500

I could never justify paying that much for an old console.

>>1176684
The X'Eye or the Wondermega? That's honestly an average price for the Wondermega. When I first heard about it in 2004, before the huge retro boom happened, they were still going on eBay for five, six hundred dollars. I could never justify it, myself, but it's always been a pipe dream of mine to own one. The Genesis is my favorite console and the Wondermega is just so damn sleek.

If it were the X'Eye going for $500 on the other hand, then yeah, that's a huge rip off. X'Eyes should never cost more than $100, or $200 boxed. Still, even though they don't look nearly as nice and are missing the S-Video and MIDI outputs, they perform really well. The load times on this thing are way faster than any of the Sega-built units and I've never had any trouble with the lens like I've had with just about every other Sega CD I've had.

The Pippin.

>>1175294

>>1175406
it looks great because it's a copy of the 7800

yeah the sega cd looks really cool and has some pretty cool games

too bad every single sega cd ever is broken

OP, I seriously disagree.
Fuck the genesis, all revisions except the last one look like shit.

>>1174489
the wondermega/x'eye wasn't designed by sega at all though, it was a product of RCA/Victor of Japan

>>1176287
the MIDI port probably left out because there wasn't much interest in music based games at the time in west, also S-Video wasn't very popular back then either, the rest... maybe because it would some how make it too expensive or problematic to ship over seas.

>>1176487
it looks like a VCR, yuck

You all have no taste. Look at the sleek curves on this baby.

>>1176823
Yeah, but consider what's inside. It has internet connection, a hard drive, SCSI connections, IR remote controllers, 5+ video outputs (including native s-video), half dozen audio inputs/outputs, can connect to a 50-disc jukebox, it can do karaoke songs, etc... AND it can play Saturn games.

Also the audio/video outputs are all on extremely high quality Denon boards, with S-Video out I can't tell the difference between this and my Saturn with RGB (with the official, individually shielded Scart cables). And no audio noise whatsoever.

>>1174485
That's not a TurboDuo

>>1178513
Oooooh SNAP Turboduo vs Wondermega. Classic. Bring it.

>>1174480

I can spoon my Model 1 Genny/ Sega CD 2 combo like a dakimakura.

No Vectrex love?

Super PC engine was designed to look like an actual engine.

Sega Mega Jet

A little modern but awesome nonetheless, Panasonic Q.

>>1179208
I can't say I like any retro console's look more than I like the Dreamcast, to be honest.

I'm getting a sega sports model and switching the LED out for a UV one. That's all the modding that I feel it needs to look its best.

>>1179213
While I love the quick-reply, I feel like an idiot when I forget to axe the reply link.

>>1174480
I agree, but I know I'm wrong.

Straight outta star-wars yo!

too bad it crashed, burned and dropped of the radar when the megadrive came out a few weeks later

What about this ?

Look how fucking elegant this is

>>1179225
Should've came out in black and it no doubt would have won the 90's console wars

PC/Mega Drive master race.

Did this thing ever get released?

>>1179269
wow is that yours? PC/mega drive combos like the mega pc and teradrive are sexy as hell

>>1179272
Never had one myself, but holy shit were those things ever cool.
Bored of Sonic? Switch over to PC and fire up Darkseed!

>>1174520
...y-you mean Beatmania controller, r-right anon..? Right?

>>1179270
Someone posted a pic of one in a recent pickups thread. I had no idea these things existed.

>>1176467
looks so sissy to me, always have hated the color scheme

>>1176292
>complains about gun metal black
>praises gun metal grey

>>1179225
>>1179269
>amstrad mega pc
I have an erection

>>1179270
>amstrad mega pc
I remeber the department store in my town had an NES 'jukebox' type thing. But other than for a display or demo model, I have no idea why you'd need this thing for your home when you can just replace the damn cart.

Genesis has always looked better than the SNES. The Nintendo looked like a child's toy. The Sega looked like a real piece of machinery.

>>1176792
I can never get over how fucking tiny that thing is.

>>1176291
PAL Megadrive is the sleekest model; no garish red and green and no clunky Genesis logo.

>>1176792
The PC Engine may well be the most beautiful console ever.

The TurboGrafx, with its empty chunk of plastic on the side, is a vile blasphemy against the wondrous PC Engine.

>>1176287
I incline to think Sega should have released the Wondermega as a "Megadrive Version 2" and released the Mega CD as an add-on for those who already had Megadrives.

>>1179269
Fitting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSyIzGfTEBA

>>1181035
I don't think they had the technological capability at the time, and by the time they did it was obvious nobody was into it.

>>1175427
you sound like Patrick Bateman

>>1175294

THAT LOOKS AMAZING!!!!!!

The king of ascetically pleasing systems.

>>1181039
Looks like one of those shitty old electronic word processors except they replaced the printer section with a Famiclone

>>1184595
I wonder if anyone ever contemplated making a Doom port just for funsies.

>>1179269
This is about as attractive as my ass. I've seen one IRL and it's all typical Amstrad cheap-looking shit. The monitor looks worse than the typical Taiwanese stuff of the day, and once you go beyond 15 kHz its support of VGA modes is shit.

The PC section also sucks balls - it's a shitty low-spec 386-SX with very little room for upgrades, and the BIOS does not handle any decent E-IDE HDDs so you're stuck with some shitty specific type like 42 MB - if the original fails just give up trying to find another that it will recognise.

The concept sounded really cool when I was 8 but in reality it's just stupid and pointless. I had a real 386 PC and a real Mega Drive, and they could be both used at the same time! Holy wow!

>>1176806
>it was a product of RCA/Victor of Japan
JVC had nothing to do with RCA since before WWII - their use of the Nipper logo was just a relic of this previous association.

But the Wondermega was sold available in both Sega and Victor branded forms.

>>1175381

God I miss the days when Japan ruled the video game industry and niche stuff like this was still being made.

>>1176792
I have no idea why they changed the shape of the PC Engine when they brought it over to America.

It's such a sexy console design.

This thread is hilarious. Bunch of bright white kiddie consoles posted as competition to the sleek "means business" look of the Model 1 Genesis. Not even close. I mean, not being black disqualifies you right off the bat.

What's better than the NES 001? The NES 101. But what's better than the 101? The Famicom AV. Nothing can come close to the sleekness of this compact square machine. Except of course, a BLACK Famicom AV clone with GOLD LETTERING.

>>1185098
>Happy Angel
Hahahaha

>>1185125
Got a problem with the name? At least it's not named after a one hit wonder Canadian synth rock trio.

>>1185136
There was a Canadian synth rock trio called Nintendo Entertainment System?

>>1174480
I really think the massive "Genesis" and "Sega CD" logos are obnoxious. Do they think Americans have poor eyesight or something?

>>1174528
The PAL MD1 looks too plain IMO.

Either way, I don't think any MD1/CD combo look good. The seams across the middle make it look like cheap shit, and there's too many grooves and curves all over the place. It's just messy.

>>1174627
Looks like a fat Discman

The PC Engine, Mark III, and SFC/PAL SNES are probably my favourite out of what has been posted so far. X86000 is cool too but not really a "game system" per se.

>>1185327
Maybe he got really confused over the band Genesis.

>>1176002
Shit is trek as fuck.

>>1184686
Probably that weird old assumption that Americans expect bigger systems. Many systems were designed or redesigned with things like that in mind. NES, Lynx, Xbox come to mind.

Personally, I have no idea why they would bother making a system look like a fat bulb.

That has given me a boner

>>1175243

You disgusting pervert. Models 1 & 2 should never mix

>>1179208

Mega jet? Ha! That's just a poor mans nomad

>>1185690
Sega should have waited a few years then released a portable Megadrive.

Imagine if the Game Gear had been monochrome and used Sega card format. Longer battery life and bigger sales.

Imagine a handheld Dreamcast.

>>1185379
The PC Engine was a thing of beauty, one of the sexiest consoles ever...it was then brutally raped to appeal to Americans. I was interested in buying one until I saw the fucking Western redesign, it so appalled me it completely put me off.

>>1188208

I thought the nomad came outa bit too late as it was. And a portable matter system still wouldn't have been as good asa gameboy...

A portable Dreamcast would be godly though

I like the simplicity o the Dreamcast myself.

Also, call me crazy but I love the sound it makes when the lid opens. I swear there's something about that noise that I like.

>>1179571

>PS1 gun metal grey

More like just grey.

Might not be retro but I always liked this design. It's compact and it just is what it is. I might even consider it the last classic game console.

>>1189950
Have to agree with this guy. Mighty fine taste.

>>1189950
I much preferred the bigger version. I love tray loaders, plus it had the hard drive expansion bay.

>>1189997
I have some amount of hatred for those tray loaders. While they're interesting and look cool, they tend to fail quite often, through one means or another.

Though it does work to my advantage when I can buy an xbox 360 with a jammed tray for $3 and fix it in less than a minute to sell for several times that amount.