ALSO:was thinking about her. my daughter I love her do you
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Being a game collector is so weird bc you tell your friends "hey have you seen this thing, it's one of my favorite things ever and if you want to try it you either have to hang out at my place for a week or emulate it which is always morally correct but there's like a 10% chance it won't play exactly right or buy it secondhand on ebay for $200 more than I did when I found it decaying on a gamestop shelf 15 years ago and you can only play it on the PS2 because that disc doesn't work on anything modern if it still even works at all"
but with movies it's like "hey have you seen Space Jam? It's an hour and a half, I've got it on DVD or we can rent it on five different streaming sites for like $5"
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I would very much like to know about "old videogames hardware" please oh great wise one.
I'm gonna take this opportunity to gush about the Casio Loopy.
Here she is in all her glory! The Casio Loopy is a 32-bit console released in 1995 by Casio exclusively in Japan. It's largely notable for its heavily girl-centered marketing and for its defining gimmick, having a built in sticker printer to print all sorts of things!
This magnificent piece of hardware is powered by a Hitachi SuperH 32-bit CPU. It's part of the same CPU family as the one Sega loved to use, being in the 32X, Saturn, Dreamcast and a bunch of arcade machines! Of course, the one included in the Loopy is much less powerful than any of those, but it's still a fully fledged 32-bit CPU running at a decent 16 MHz!
The games..... I've actually never played any of them >_> And even if I did I wouldn't get a lot out of them since they're all in japanese... Only 10 of them ever got released (11 if you count the Magical Shop, more on that in a bit), with Wanwan Aijou Monogatari looking like the main standout title (A small adventure title about a girl and her dog... notable for having its story written by Kenji Terada of Final Fantasy fame!)
(image courtesy of femicom.org)
Another interesting release is the Magical Shop, an accessory that adds AV-in ports to the console, letting you pass video through from other devices and using it for your stickers!
It's a shame the console didn't get much support... I bet it's got some hidden potential underneath it all... But I guess that's part of what compels me so much about consoles like this.
I know your day will come someday, little Loopy
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