atomicpoet@lemmy.world to RetroGaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 days agoHow is nobody talking about the fact that The Simpsons Arcade Game got home ports to DOS and Commodore 64 but not NES, SNES or Genesis -- and didn't arrive on console until Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square18linkfedilinkarrow-up199arrow-down114file-text
arrow-up185arrow-down1imageHow is nobody talking about the fact that The Simpsons Arcade Game got home ports to DOS and Commodore 64 but not NES, SNES or Genesis -- and didn't arrive on console until Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3?lemmy.worldatomicpoet@lemmy.world to RetroGaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 days agomessage-square18linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareLost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 days agoI think either PS1/Saturn/N64 or PS2/Dreamcast/Gamecube would be the first time I’d trust a console to run the game authentically. An NES version would be so stripped down it would feel disappointing.
minus-squareRetroGoblet79@eviltoast.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoAbsolutely. My disappointment is owning a NES and buying a game based on me playing it at the arcade.
minus-squareatomicpoet@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 days agoTrue, but the C64 version definitely wasn’t authentic. 😅
I think either PS1/Saturn/N64 or PS2/Dreamcast/Gamecube would be the first time I’d trust a console to run the game authentically.
An NES version would be so stripped down it would feel disappointing.
Absolutely. My disappointment is owning a NES and buying a game based on me playing it at the arcade.
True, but the C64 version definitely wasn’t authentic. 😅