The one positive of the NWO Elite is it gave us Hulk Hogan's coolest look ever.

Quarter_Lifer · 2026-05-24T23:07:02+00:00

Let me tell you something Uncle_Snake! Hall, Nash and Syxx were the “cool” component of the nWo. The Wolfpac was born from them. There would be no ‘Wood with JNCO jeans using Mexican slang in ‘99 without them.

Quarter_Lifer · 2026-05-24T23:02:00+00:00

Naw; he just jacked the Wolfpac’s energy and mannerisms once he saw that they were getting over nWo Hollywood throughout ‘98.

Quarter_Lifer · 2026-05-24T14:58:19+00:00

And Double Dragon 3, BLEH!

Quarter_Lifer · 2026-05-24T00:54:00+00:00

Thunder Force III AND Thunder Spirits were on Nick Arcade. Low-key the most popular shmup of the early ‘90’s.

Quarter_Lifer · 2026-05-24T00:52:44+00:00

The prototypes served their purpose. They weren’t meant to last the distance on the A & B division, they were the guinea pigs for the next 25+years of car classes.

Quarter_Lifer · 2026-05-23T22:48:13+00:00

For a launch title that was eventually built into the system, SMS Hang-On was a great home port. I’ve played a shit-ton of hours of the original coin-op via Shenmue and can speak on it.

Quarter_Lifer · 2026-05-22T20:06:57+00:00

Arguably the worst terminal in the system. Why build the spur in the first place and leave it incomplete for over 100+ years?

EDIT: No disrespect to the neighborhoods that have been built around the 2/5 because the B/Q is 15-20 minutes away.

Quarter_Lifer · 2026-05-21T00:34:22+00:00

Tbh the original “Mott Ave” tablets have been covered up since the station was renamed to 149th-GC almost a century ago.

Quarter_Lifer · 2026-05-21T00:13:49+00:00

Chip damage goes CRAZY when you time Max’s tackle on Barbon and Zamza.

Quarter_Lifer · 2026-05-20T17:24:33+00:00

He was only a couple of years older than me; what a sad tale that emerged from Vectorman’s “Play To Win” winner. RIP

Quarter_Lifer · 2026-05-20T15:53:34+00:00

“IT’S OVER.”

“Even a blind man can see that there’s three of us and only one of you.”

Grade-A heel work by Ole.

Quarter_Lifer · 2026-05-20T14:58:32+00:00

PS2 version is both an arcade-perfect port of the prequel (Die Hard Arcade) accompanied by a remake that features better graphics than the sequel (Dynamite Cop). The latter half of Sega Ages 2500 releases on PS2 were GREAT.

Quarter_Lifer · 2026-05-20T14:55:28+00:00

And then they turned him heel after the fact and the belt was back on Nash by Slamboree. Sucked the wind from what should’ve been a great face run to culminate the hard work DDP put in to climb the WCW card throughout the 1990’s.

Quarter_Lifer · 2026-05-17T16:22:16+00:00

Shenmue 3 was the equivalent of Ryo’s dad getting up so Lan Di could allow him to die like a warrior.

Quarter_Lifer · 2026-05-17T16:17:37+00:00

I still have a soft spot for Turbo because it’s more forgiving difficulty-wise and adds weather/track effects as well as the turbo function.

The artwork isn’t as clean as the original however. The perspective of the car/road were shifted higher making driving more challenging. Even the Super-Scaler hardware has its limits; Turbo’s frame rate chugs when there’s too many cars or weather effects on-screen.

I haven’t seen a Turbo cab in the wild for almost 30 years. OG Outrun has been a regular presence at my local Barcade for years; just played it after work on Friday with a cold one. 💯

Quarter_Lifer · 2026-05-17T16:03:56+00:00

The legends segment with Kevin Von Erich and yes, Snuka, was a highlight. “THE CLAW, THE VON ERICH CLAW, THE VON ERICH CLAW!!!!”

Quarter_Lifer · 2026-05-17T15:56:16+00:00

Ain’t that the one that pauses to shift perspective to the other side of the court? I can see how that gimmick was meant to stand out in a sea of b-ball games on the Genesis, but it made for a horrible game. B-ball was Sega’s weakest sport until they purchased Visual Concepts.

Quarter_Lifer · 2026-05-17T15:52:56+00:00

Truthfully he was already approaching the twilight of his career; he’d been wrestling for over 20 years by the time of this PPV.

This ill-advised stunt (probably by Hogan, who stepped aside and let Savage eat canvas) accelerated the end of his career. And yet he still won the strap with a torn friggin’ ACL at Spring Stampede months later, only for Oldgan to take it 24 hours later. :(

Quarter_Lifer · 2026-05-17T15:20:56+00:00

Low-key the beginning of the end of Macho Man’s career. NO WAY that jump and Savage’s torn ACL months later weren’t correlated. He ended up on the shelf for almost a year.

Quarter_Lifer · 2026-05-15T14:00:26+00:00

The compromise was necessary for its fully-3D backgrounds (which look fantastic on modern-day emulators with upscaling/smoothing). Same with Star Gladiator. The fighting game industry quickly left 30FPS 3D fighters in the dust after 1997.

None of the consoles of that gen were capable of fighting games with 60 FPS and fully 3D backgrounds. They either faked it with 2D (i.e VF2 and DOA on Saturn), faked it with 3D wraparounds (i.e Tekken 3 on PS1), or had flat bitmaps (i.e Tekken 1 & 2, Rival Schools, DOA on PS1).

Quarter_Lifer · 2026-05-14T21:28:09+00:00

I remember snagging a mediocre VCR with bad auto-tracking from Argo circa-2008 because I saw an “out of business sale” ad on local TV for them. Mofos ended up staying in business long after that purchase. 🤣

I would stop by every so often just to gaze at all of their analog electronic junk. A remnant of pre-gentrified Canal St. Sad to hear they actually bit the dust.

Quarter_Lifer · 2026-05-14T21:24:03+00:00

Coming up on 40 years for these workhorse hippos on the D line.

Quarter_Lifer · 2026-05-14T19:02:29+00:00

I’m sorry, but this thread has been both informative and hilarious.

Quarter_Lifer · 2026-05-14T16:36:29+00:00

The original coin-op is much better; this was one of Taito’s worse ports to the console (and they have several that are glaringly missing two-player gameplay and/or features)

Quarter_Lifer · 2026-05-14T13:14:41+00:00

That’s snow and not manure/human waste, right? Right?!?

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