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The guys doing this have spent years about people pirating their own software and making money of their work, now they are doing it.

They even said that they would stop doing ports as people were selling them and trying to make money of them.

It seems its only ok to make money of other peoples work if they do, not anyone else. this is piracy and the guys doing it are hypcrites.

No, I don't think they have to. Let kids be kids. they have a short enough time to enjoy themselves before real life hits anyway.

If they have a real interest in something they will learn more about it themselves.

Yes it probably different for me, but look at it this way. Has it stopped me from learning about the history of videogames, no it has not. let them develop a passion for something first then they will take it upon themselves to learn. Some will have no interest, but like many others on here, the ones who truly want to take an interest in the history of it all will do it all by themselves.

Sorry, but I was around at the launch of the jag and its rep was harmed from the start, the launch titles were rubbish.

Sure AVP was a diamond in the rough but it never made anyone wnat a jag as the rest of the games were being panned. Not ever, and I mean ever was the jag considered that elusive must have console here in the UK. It was dead on arrival.

I had a CPC 464, but with the colour monitor.

Thing is with the colour monitor it had quite a sharp picture and fair enough it was easy to laugh about it when you were looking at agreen screen but bring the colour monitor into it and its a whole new story.

I knew loads of people with Speccys and C64's and not one of them took the mick after seeing Robocop, switchblade, Pand, Rick dangerous, Chase HQ, and Gryzor in full colour on the amstrad.

I'd like to say one thing in response to the Jag talk.  That console was mightily impressive in its day, and a had a lot of hype surrounding its launch. It replaced the Neo Geo as that elusive, expensive console you had to have for a little while.  The port of Doom and Alien vs. Predator were very impressive in their day, and showed off what the hardware might be buildling towards - and then that was pretty much it.  I think the love for the Jag (at least for me, in the U.S.) comes out of the fact that it did have a few gems in its early life that left you wondering what it might have been capable of.  There is a nostalgia factor, too, but it's easy to forget that for a moment in time the Jaguar wasn't an also ran, but something you wished you could have.

Yeah, sorry, never happened.

I don't see a lot of kids these days, but I think as a whole, they're hopelessly ignorant on the subject of video games. When I was younger, my parents introduced me to the Atari 2600, even though it predated my birth by an entire decade. I was introduced to music and cinema from the 1950s and '60s because my parents made sure to pass their culture onto me. If today's parents had bothered to do the same, maybe more children would understand what a Game Boy was, and why it was an important escape for countless children throughout the '90s. Maybe they'd understand the significance of growing up in the 1980s, when video games flourished, died, and flourished again and swept the world like an African brush fire; when music contained at its nucleus an artistic rather than purely commercial vision; when films had to tell a story in lieu of the cheap CGI distractions that ruin so many pictures today. I fear for the generation of children who believe that all they ever needed to understand about our art and culture are on Xbox One controllers or tucked away in volumes of Harry Potter. It's a very somber subject: the death of a culture. When you think of the wisdom of the ancients, so much of it has been lost to fires, purges, and war. Many authors from Epicurus to Menippus only survive in some distant anecdotal form. In a few decades, unless we pass on our history to our children, the Shigeru Miyamotos and Richard Garriotts will be neglected and forgotten. At that point, you could almost see the twinkle of the apocalypse. 

Oh FFS sake get of you pretentious high horse. As much as you dislike it, kids are doing nothing wrong.

Who gives a crap if they don't know their history, this is their time, and they are entitled to enjoy it. I started with a NES as my first console. Did I know what intellivison or colecovision or what pong consoles were, no did I crap. I watched films in the 80's, did I learn the history and the classics of the 60's, no I did not. I started reading comics in the 80's, did I have to go back and learn about the golden age era of comics, no.

Kids start of and enjoy what they know, when they get a bit older they may well develop an interest in the history, but kids live in the here and now and always have done, same with most of us. Its no different now to the past 20-3- years.

I'm just glad most games cost over £50. Means I won't be blowing any money on one  " title="Roll Eyes" />

I own 23 games. mostly loose and I got them by accident.

a lot of games can actually be got for under £20

If anyone is thinking of picking one up you get burnin rubber with it. I have a spare cart only barbarian 2 and a spare console as well somewhere.

Yeah, I gotta say, who really cares?  I have a lot more serious things in my life to worry about.

I am not really big on either the SNES or the Sega - I am much more interested in the pre-NES scene.  Now, an argument about the 2600 versus the Intellivision, or the Colecovision vs the 5200 - _that_ I could get into!

That sort of begs the question, why are you even reading and replying?

I have had one for a few months now and love it.

NES and Snes slots are fine, no problems at all on mine. all regions working fine.

MD is a little tight, but nothing too bad. I just use an import adpator in the slot, leave it in there at all times and just plug the MD games into that which means I never have to insert and remove carts all the time.

Famicom worries me a little, a bit too tight TBH and it feels like it could be a problem. official carts are a little better tham the pirate and multicarts. for some reason ( may be a thicker connector ) the console has a death grip on those.

GBA is fine and it upscales GB and GBA games and makes them look great.

Some of you guys should read this. apparently the world could have done without the 2600 and the gaming industry would have been no different.

https://forum.retrogamer.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=49473

Yeah, I think here (from what I've seen) peoples opinions are "why have a ps1 when the ps2 can support it, and play DVD's"

PS1's themselves are far easier to mod. essential as a PS1 collector if you want to find all the amazing hidden gems that only came out in japan.

The ps1 has some really good games. Found this though for any people really into ps1

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/121391707546?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

Not going to lie, when you start going on about every forum being the same and then talk about how you have problems with every Forum then at some point yoiu have to stop and ask yourself, is it actually the forums or is it you.

Laird was a decent guy, but his atari goggles just did not allow him to see things evenly sometimes. I will actually miss him.

Rush, not so much. not surprised at his behaviour TBH,

[allow him]

We have respect the wishes on this, as Zapiy mentioned in the first post that Kieren Hawken asked for his reviews to be withdrawn and its been respected because of his contribution here good or bad, we felt obligated to allow him to graceful take them away with him, personally I found it incredibly petty and childish, but as a global moderator, moderators and Admin, we have to remain a professional outlook and respect all those involved.

So ill chime in...

First off you ALLOWING is BS, this just goes to show there is some thirst for power with the driver at the wheel here...

Ive been censored on here many times in my posts, ive now had my rights to MODIFY my posts (after a certain time period) removed because a few moderators didnt like that i was removing information i had posted. Kirens issue is totally separate of what im about to speak about here and has nothing to do with my decision to leave, however i am starting to see shit behind the cracks here that isnt looking good...

Ive been seeing some stuff recently thats just been wrong and hadnt said anything really about it until now. Im sure once im either banned here or my account is forcibly closed, the shit talking will begin, but i really dont care.

This is the last straw. Ive been strongly considering not bothering with forums anymore because they are a breeding ground for people on a powertrip and trolling and i have no desire to bother with any of that. RVG Seemed to be different at first but seems to be going the way of other forums and it sounds like its starting to leak out.

Sorry but when you start censoring people or removing their rights here just because you are trying to control the spread of info for your gain and your own interest due to another recent issue, this is where you lose your users...

For anyone that was following heretic or any other projects, i apologize. I edited and removed all my posts as i saw fit and was punished for it sadly by having my rights removed for editing my own posts.

For future info about these issues you'll see it on the web somewhere like a blog, tweet, or homepage that i run from now on. Sorry but ive kinda had it with forums and heavy handed moderating, censoring and removing options.

Its been real fellas. To the staff...... might want to think again, your just going to keep losing people if you keep it up.

sheesh, the words "toys" and "pram" come to mind here.

It simply is and was a case of moving on and I'm sure will live on as will the rest of us, we can't put things on hold while there is some much to get done here at RVG, its a lose to the site but we'll bounce back and so will Kieren on his new forum etc..

So again we want to wish him good luck and stay retro

Well he should at least be happy he was part of this one. I am really reluctant about forums and only visit 3 game related forums. This one, RetroGamer, and RetroCollect.