22nd March 2011, 4:36 PM
Quote:The whole idea of a Mario Paint knockoff on the Genesis is failed from the start. The Genesis can compete with the SNES on some levels, but in terms of both color count and sound, it lags behind. That is, the two things that Mario Paint and anything trying to copy it would need to be good at. As an aside, pretty much everyone I know played Mario Paint for the music player more than the painting. Yes it used a mouse, but I got a lot more fun out of some children's painting program in DOS back then than that. Oh, yeah I did have fun with the fly swatting game, so there's that too I suppose.
That's not being fair, sure the SNES has better graphics and sound than the Genesis, but the Genesis could do some nice things too... certainly more than good enough to do for basic painting and audio programs.
Also, yeah I have Mario Paint and the SNES mouse, the mouse isn't something I've used much (apart from the flyswatter game Mario Paint isn't interesting) but at least it makes TinStar, Terminator 2: The Arcade Game, and Arkanoid: Return of Doh much more fun. :)
New stuff
Genesis
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Championship Pro-Am - $5, complete (cardboard box title) - It's just a port of the original NES game, which I have, but for $5, complete, meh, why not?
PC (both jewelcase only, with the manual in the jewelcase, $4 each)
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A Fork in the Tale - 1997 PC-only FMV game. 5-CD game. I think reviews said it was okay for a "watch the video and occasionally interact" FMV game, but the game utterly bombed at retail because by '97 people just weren't interested in FMV games anymore. I don't like the FMV game genre much, but occasionally they can be amusing... we'll see how this one is.
Blade Runner - Late '90s PC adventure game from Westwood. Four CD game. I've always heard good things about this game. It's odd there aren't more Blade Runner games, this is one of the only ones... cool find.