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Even as a collector, I've never laid my hands on one of these. (lemmy.world)

submitted 22 hours ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/retrogaming

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Wtf? I've never even heard of this thing. Might have to look into emulators, for curiosity sake.

[–] criss_cross 10 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

You're better off watching videos. The games are all notoriously bad.

An emulator also isn't going to give you the experience of dropped inputs that the CDI was known for.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

You probably don't, there is not a single good game on there!

So yeah, Philips was granted usage of Mario, Luigi, Bowser, Peach, Link, Zelda, Impa, and Ganon. One Mario game and two Zelda games were made, and they were so bad they were funny, to the point they were basically the backbone of Internet culture when several people made silly nonsensical remixes of the cutscenes.

Those games were in fact so important to many people's lives that a spiritual successor, Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore, was a success and even had a limited edition that came with the infamous CD-i "spoon" controller. What an amazing way to play a platformer...

There is also one more Zelda game that is forgotten by just about everyone. As the others were so bad they were funny, this one was so bad it was just bad. Try watching this without getting bored (impossible) https://youtu.be/IqFZ1iVmhIo?si=Aqy6kr2mKySWMw4H

[–] criss_cross 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Honestly that Zelda game is my favorite for how absolutely ugly it is. I can't make heads or tails of what's going on in it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

What were those devs thinking? No textboxes so deaf people can't play, there's one dungeon whose boss cannot be defeated with the weapon found in it (the weapon does NO DAMAGE lmao) and the ending is so bad the whole thing is just BAD

Edit: I keep coming past this thread and I just realized I forgot to include that pausing or unpausing the game takes not one, not two, but THREE SECONDS. And scrolling the screen takes five seconds.