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I heard you the first time.

It's better than ALF.

I just played through Double Dragon for SMS. I was quite impressed with the sound - while not as good as the NES version of DD, the sound was very, shall I say, NES-like. Certainly not typical of the SMS sound hardware.

The SMS DD was mostly based on the arcade version. You could play 2-player simultaneously and the levels were the same. Of course the graphics weren't as good as the arcade or Genesis but it was quite faithful to the coin-op version. Although my favorite part of the DD game for NES was the music and that was better on NES than on SMS. P.S. After doing some research online I'm wondering if initially the name of the console was just supposed to be "The Sega System". They sold two configurations: The "Sega Master System" which included the light gun and the Hang-On/Safari Hunt pack-in (pictured above) and the "Sega Base System" which had no light gun and included a pack-in of Hang-On and Astro Warrior. This would be the box for it. As you can see the documentation just says "The Sega System". But although it is very hard to see, from the best I can tell the console itself says "Master System".

I read somewhere that you can get through something like the first 2/3 of Afterburner just by holding the "left" button. It's time to put this to the test. P.S. I do remember one time when I was nine getting quite far in Afterburner and being impressed with my skills. Perhaps it was all due to this apparent gameplay quirk.

Psycho Fox and Alien Syndrome were both pretty cool. The SMS port of Altered Beast was real bad. It wasn't a good game in the arcades or Genesis but at least it had good graphics. The SMS version didn't even have that, although it was still better than the NES version.

Whaddayamean? The sports games were GREAT! It wouldn't be part of the game's name if it wasn't true!

Don't tell me you couldn't figure out that the whole site is a joke.

Basically for being too honest and not telling them what they wanted to hear,

I just don't get it. A lowercase "i" looks like an upside-down exclamation point. This is not exclusive to Nintendo's new machine.

Wii Wii Just testing. Now that's reassuring.

If Marv himself had written that sentence, it would be written "Marv!n !s really just fantast!cally pathet!c."

That kind of word-filter circumventing doesn't fly 'round here, Marv.

You could have posted this in the other Fall Out Boy thread, SIR.

I'm sure it was. I believe that's why they pre-taped the Sabu/Sandman match - so they would have something to show while they repaired the ring.

Credit: wrestlingobserver.com

ECW wasn't on WWF's payroll back then. And Doink was in WWF through the end of '95.

If I am not wrong, I could have sworn this was hosted by Joey Lawrence and Candace Cameron. AMIRITE?? EDIT: Yes, IAMRITE!

Shame you can't say the same thing about PPV buys, which is where the money is made. If they are not watching the t.v. shows, then how are they going to be tempted to purchase The PPV's? With the exception of WrestleMania and possibly The Royal Rumble, few purchase PPV's based on name value alone anymore. It's not like HTQ is arguing that Russo should be aiming for BAD ratings. It's just that ratings are not everything, which is something that Russo has never quite grasped.

YES

It's funny Matt would say that, because Inc doesn't really do anything in the Music folder except talk about bands he likes. Meanwhile, I remember once Inc was making fun of Matt's old girlfriend and Matt got all upset and then Inc flamed him and Matt was like "I'M GONNA HACK YOUR MYSPACE". I'd figure that would be more of a factor in Matt's opinion of Inc.

Not really. Wario Land 2 DX was a Japanese launch title and came out in the U.S. in February of '99. Zelda came out in December '98 in both countries. SMB DX came out in May '99 in the U.S. but in Japan was only available through some sort of wacky downloading service and sold around 150,000 copies when it would have sold millions if released on a regular cartridge.

Deuce and Domino have been scheduled to be brought to the main roster for a year now. Seriously, I remember Meltzer on the LAW right after the Royal Rumble last year talking about how they would be debuting soon.

Sting offered to do the job for Abyss after they told him that he was losing the title. TNA insisted that the match end by DQ.

So, apparently WWE 24/7 starts on Cablevision this week. I've heard nothing about this before now but dudes on the Death Valley Driver board are saying that it's happening.