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And the 2600 before that.
Yeah that’s at the edge of my memory. I recall a really cool space game that had planet landings too. To pick up fuel tanks.
Solaris, maybe.
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Incorrect sir. The whole point of wanting to save this machine, and emulate the code is so that it will 100% be made public. As the article states, this will happen when the time is right.
But what is the downside to sharing the code in an incomplete state, in case the folks working on emulation cease their work? The world is full of projects that never get "finished." That's an honest question, not a rhetorical one.
I would think because this whole thing occurred literally weeks ago.
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#24I remember the Ridge Racer installation at Codona's in Aberdeen, from when I was part of a team that ran a prototype networked computer games cafe on the other side of the burger bar. I might if I dig around still have some video of people playing it from a promo reel I shot!
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#25I love using the left 40% of my display to show an image of a car while the actual blog post now requires more scrolling and looks 'meatier'. Awful UX.
It would require same amount of scrolling, you can't have lines that long to keep it easily readable anyway.
What I don't like it's alighned to right, I prefer to read centered text, but it's their website, so whatever, if I don't like it I can just close it (or could try to block picture element through UBO).
edit: tried to block all elements on the left including header, but it's still aligned to right just leaving big dark left column
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#26I just remember the ps1 version. It was quite a feat to get the black car :)
My memories of this are also from playing it on the original PlayStation. When I saw the article headline I immediately heard the "Ridge Raaacer" voice in my head, it's been 20 years and I still remember it clearly.
Same for me, have driven millions of miles knowing every turn, tips and even exploiting corner cases (over speed after special drift moves). Was 1000% fun.
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#27I just remember the ps1 version. It was quite a feat to get the black car :)
Defeating the black and the white car is probably my greatest video game achievement (though that's not saying much0. Probably wouldn't have been possible without the twisty controller.
That's what i keep saying to my children. "You have no idea how difficult a game can be if you haven't wasted weeks as a child, trying to get the black and white car in ridge racer."
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I see we’ve crossed the PlayStation nostalgia event horizon, just as we crossed the NES and SNES ones before.
That horizon passed a while ago. PS2 nostalgia is definitely a thing, and the Xbox 360 turned 17 today meaning kids that grew up with that are adults.
The console wars of the 90s-10s were insane, albeit tepid compared to the various vying powers of 80s. Crazy that modern hardware can emulate all that came before, but doesn't out of legal reasons.
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#29I love using the left 40% of my display to show an image of a car while the actual blog post now requires more scrolling and looks 'meatier'. Awful UX.
That's when you're glad you're running a firefox variant and hit "Ctrl+Alt+R" to switch to reader view.
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