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Sunday, January 29, 2023 Canadian TV Listings (Times Eastern)

WHERE CAN I FIND THOSE PREMIERES?: 90 DAY FIANCÉ: THE OTHER WAY (TLC Canada) 8:00pm THE OTHER WAY: PILLOW TALK (TLC Canada)11:00pm

WHAT IS NOT PREMIERING IN CANADA TONIGHT?: VACATION HOME NIGHTMARE (TBD - Lifetime Canada)

AUSTRALIAN OPEN TENNIS (TSN) 3:30am: Men’s Final

NBA BASKETBALL (SN1) 1:00pm: Heat vs. Hornets (TSN4) 5:00pm: Capitals vs. Leafs (TSN2) 7:00pm: Clippers vs. Cavaliers (SN/SN1) 8:00pm: Pelicans vs. Bucks

NFL FOOTBALL (CTV) 3:00pm: 49ers at Eagles (CTV) 6:30pm: Bengals vs. Chiefs

NHL HOCKEY (SN) 5:00pm: Bruins vs. Hurricanes (TSN2) 7:00pm: Jets vs. Flyers

PREMIER HOCKEY FEDERATION: ALL STAR GAME (TSN/TSN3/TSN5) 7:00pm

HEARTLAND (CBC) 7:00pm: Amy helps Georgie rediscover her passion for showjumping; Lou's surprised when Peter announces he's moving to Heartland; a Winter Fair allows Tim to help Jessica and his rodeo school...with PROFESSOR HORSIE!

MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN (Global) 7:30pm: In 1979 Donna falls in love with Sam while embarking on a series of adventures throughout Europe. In the present day, Donna's pregnant daughter reunites with her mother's old friends and boyfriends on the Greek island of Kalokairi.

UNLOVED: HURONIA'S FORGOTTEN CHILDREN (CBC) 8:00pm: Filmmaker Barri Cohen leads part detective story, part social history as she uncovers the truth about Alfie and Louis, her two long-dead half-brothers. They were institutionalized at the Huronia Regional Centre in Orillia in the 1950s.

FROM ITALY WITH AMORE (City TV) 8:00pm: Sparks fly between a magazine writer and a restaurateur as he shows her the finer points of wine and Italian cooking.

IRREVERENT (Showcase) 9:00pm: To raise attendance and avoid the church's closure, Mack must reunite two feuding families and save Daisy from a vindictive court judge.

STAR WARS KID: THE RISE OF THE DIGITAL SHADOWS (documentary) 9:00pm: Ghyslain Raza breaks his silence to reflect on hunger for content and the right to be forgotten in the digital age.

THE SPENCER SISTERS (CTV) 10:00pm (SERIES PREMIERE): When Darby's friend Kaia is wrongfully accused of plagiarism, Darby and Victoria must put aside their differences and investigate, uncovering a wide-ranging scandal.

THE CURSE OF OAK ISLAND (History Canada) 10:00pm: While the archaeologists work hard to uncover a new feature discovered on Lot 5, the scientists have finally identified the area where the gold is.

INSIDE AIRPORT LOST & FOUND (Nat Geo Canada) 10:00pm: A look at what happens to all the lost stuff at airports.

#cdntv #cancon #canadian tv #canadian tv listings #heartland #irreverent #the spencer sisters #the curse of oak island #tennis #nba basketball #nfl football #nhl hockey

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dipulb3 · 4 years

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Hulu Plus Live TV review: The best value in premium live TV streaming

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Hulu Plus Live TV review: The best value in premium live TV streaming

At $6 a month, basic Hulu is one of the best deals in streaming, with gobs of current and past TV shows and movies. Its Hulu Plus Live TV upgrade may cost a lot more at $55, but that monthly fee buys one of the best live TV streaming services around. Hulu Plus Live TV is currently our favorite service for people looking to quit cable TV yet keep a healthy mix of live sports, news and local channels. And it also includes Hulu’s deep on-demand catalog of network TV shows and original programming, something no other live TV service can match.

Solid mix of channels for the money

Full access to Hulu’s on-demand content

Don’t Like

DVR is quite limited without the $10 upgrade

When YouTube TV ($65 at YouTube TV) jacked its price from $50 to $65, Hulu Plus Live TV instantly became our favorite premium-priced service — especially for those who were initially attracted to YouTube TV as a way to save money. While YouTube TV offers more top channels and a superior DVR, Hulu Plus Live TV is a better value at $10 per month less.

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What do you get?

Hulu Plus Live TV expands upon the on-demand service with a healthy selection of live channels and throws in both a cloud DVR and program guide guide. Live TV is available on via Hulu’s standard app on all the major platforms including computer browsers, iOS, Xbox One, PS4, Android, Apple TV ($179 at Apple), Fire TV, Roku and Smart TV systems.

Hulu’s channel count is solid but has a handful fewer major cable channels than than YouTube TV and Fubo TV. Important channels missing from Hulu include AMC, BBC America, MTV and Comedy Central. Check the channel lineup at the end of the article, to see if the Hulu Plus Live TV’s mix is right for you.

Like most other live TV streaming services, Hulu has had a number of price increases since it debuted and currently costs $55 a month. The service’s biggest gotcha is the $10-a-month charge for the Enhanced DVR. Without it, the standard, non-enhanced DVR on Hulu Plus Live TV lacks the ability to fast-forward and rewind through commercials on recorded content. In addition to allowing you to fast-forward through commercials, paying for the upgrade also increases storage from 50 hours to 200 hours.

Premium live TV streaming services compared

Premium services YouTube TV AT&T TV Now Hulu Plus Live TV FuboTV Base price $65/month $55/month $55/month $60/month Total number of top 100 channels 75 45 59 68 ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC channels Yes Yes Yes Yes Record shows for later (cloud DVR) Yes (keep for 9 months) Yes (20GB, keep for 30 days) Yes (50 hours, 200 hours plus commercial skip for $10/month) Yes (30GB, 500GB for $10 a month) Step-up packages with more channels No Yes Yes Yes Simultaneous streams per account 3 2 ($5 option for 3) 2 ($10 option for unlimited) 2 ($6 option for 3)

Many users see commercial skipping as a must-have for any DVR. Adding it brings the monthly price of Hulu Plus Live TV up to $65, which is the same price as YouTube TV. And all of the other premium services include cloud DVRs that let you skip commercials as part of their standard functions and the best, YouTube TV, has unlimited storage, too. In short, if you’re a heavy DVR user you might consider the extra $10 per month for YouTube TV worth paying.

Read more: YouTube TV vs. Sling TV vs. Hulu vs. Philo vs. Fubo vs. AT&T TV Now: Live TV channels compared

What’s it like to use?

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Hulu has been tweaking the live TV interface since it launched a couple years ago, and the most recent changes are the best. Previously users could only see four-and-a-half shows at a time in a large font with no descriptions, but this is changing to a large marquee and “cover” art for all the remaining shows now grouped by type. On the main TV streaming devices, the top of the interface has a simplified selection featuring Home, Live TV, My Stuff (favorites and DVR recordings) and Browse. In terms of user-friendliness Hulu Plus Live TV now in line with its biggest competitor, YouTube TV.

Hulu’s program guide was once one of the least usable in the category, but it’s now become even more extensive than YouTube TV’s. The traditional grid offers guide data which is 14 days out and scrolling through pages is zippy, especially on Apple TV. In comparison, YouTube TV’s guide only displays programs up to eight hours in advance.

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Recording to the DVR is a little bit of a pain — you can only do it from the guide. If you want to record the show you’re currently watching you need to exit to the guide. Once there you need to either long-press the middle button (Apple/Roku) or press the hamburger button and click record. Every other DVR-available service lets you record while you’re still watching it.

Should you get it?

If you enjoy the mix of channels and don’t need a DVR with commercial skipping, then Live TV could be what you’re looking for. Its biggest trump card is its tight integration with the Hulu service — if you like Hulu, you’ll like Live TV. The recent upgrades are the dressing on what was already a lovely window. Hulu Plus Live TV is now the premium service to get, at least until its own inevitable price bump.

If you don’t need as many channels or streaming locals (ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox), Sling TV Blue offers a much cheaper rate at $30 per month — guaranteed for a year — and that price makes it our favorite live TV streaming service overall (Note that ViacomCBS is the parent company of CNET).

Channel comparison

Below you’ll find a chart that’s a smaller version of this massive channel comparison. It contains the top 100 channels from each service. Some notes:

Yes = The channel is available on the cheapest pricing tier.

No = The channel isn’t available at all on that service.

$ = The channel is available for an extra fee, either a la carte or as part of a more expensive package or add-on.

Not every channel a service carries is listed, just the “top 100” as determined by CNET’s editors. Minor channels such as AXS TV, CNBC World, Discovery Life, GSN, POP and Universal Kids didn’t make the cut.

Regional sports networks — channels devoted to showing regular-season games of particular pro baseball, basketball and hockey teams — are not listed.

Top 100 channels compared

Channel Hulu with Live TV ($55) AT&T TV Now ($55) FuboTV ($60) YouTube TV ($65) Total top channels: 59 45 68 75 ABC Yes Yes Yes Yes CBS Yes Yes Yes Yes Fox Yes Yes Yes Yes NBC Yes Yes Yes Yes PBS No No No Yes CW Yes Yes Yes Yes MyNetworkTV Yes Yes Yes Yes A&E Yes $ Yes No ACC Network Yes No Yes Yes AMC No $ Yes Yes Animal Planet Yes $ Yes Yes BBC America No $ Yes Yes BBC World News No $ $ Yes BET No Yes Yes Yes Big Ten Network Yes $ Yes Yes Bloomberg TV No $ No No Boomerang Yes Yes No No Bravo Yes Yes Yes Yes Cartoon Network Yes Yes No Yes CBS Sports Network Yes $ Yes Yes Cheddar Yes Yes Yes Yes Cinemax $ $ No $ CMT No $ Yes Yes CNBC Yes Yes Yes Yes Appradab Yes Yes No Yes Comedy Central No Yes Yes Yes Cooking Channel $ $ $ No Destination America $ $ $ No Discovery Channel Yes $ Yes Yes Disney Channel Yes Yes Yes Yes Disney Junior Yes Yes Yes Yes Disney XD Yes Yes Yes Yes DIY $ $ $ No E! Yes Yes Yes Yes EPIX No $ No $ ESPN Yes Yes Yes Yes ESPN 2 Yes Yes Yes Yes ESPNEWS Yes $ Yes Yes ESPNU Yes $ $ Yes Food Network Yes $ Yes Yes Fox Business Yes Yes Yes Yes Fox News Yes Yes Yes Yes Fox Sports 1 Yes Yes Yes Yes Fox Sports 2 Yes $ Yes Yes Freeform Yes Yes Yes Yes FX Yes Yes Yes Yes FX Movies Yes Yes $ Yes FXX Yes Yes Yes Yes FYI $ $ Yes No Golf Channel Yes $ Yes Yes Hallmark No Yes Yes No HBO $ $ No $ HGTV Yes $ Yes Yes History Yes $ Yes No HLN Yes Yes No Yes IFC No $ Yes Yes Investigation Discovery Yes $ Yes Yes Lifetime Yes $ Yes No Lifetime Movie Network $ $ Yes No MLB Network No $ No Yes Motor Trend Yes $ Yes Yes MSNBC Yes Yes Yes Yes MTV No Yes Yes Yes MTV2 No $ $ No National Geographic Yes Yes Yes Yes Nat Geo Wild Yes Yes $ Yes NBA TV No $ $ Yes NBC Sports Network Yes Yes Yes Yes Newsy No No $ Yes NFL Network No No Yes No NFL Red Zone No No $ No NHL Network No $ $ No Nickelodeon No Yes Yes Yes Nick Jr. No Yes Yes No Nicktoons No $ $ No OWN No $ Yes Yes Oxygen Yes Yes Yes Yes Paramount Network No $ Yes Yes Science $ $ $ No SEC Network Yes $ $ Yes Showtime $ $ $ $ Smithsonian Yes No Yes Yes Starz $ $ No $ Sundance TV No $ Yes Yes Syfy Yes Yes Yes Yes Tastemade No $ Yes Yes TBS Yes Yes No Yes TCM Yes Yes No Yes Telemundo Yes Yes Yes Yes Tennis Channel No $ $ Yes TLC Yes $ Yes Yes TNT Yes Yes No Yes Travel Channel Yes $ Yes Yes TruTV Yes Yes No Yes TV Land No $ Yes Yes USA Network Yes Yes Yes Yes VH1 No Yes Yes Yes Viceland Yes $ Yes No Weather Channel No $ Yes No WE tv No $ Yes Yes

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almostarchaeology · 7 years

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A Lesson Plan for Videogame Archaeology in the Museum

By Adrián Maldonado

I didn’t wake up that morning thinking I’d be playing an original Street Fighter II Championship Edition arcade console in just a few hours. It turned out to be a very good day.

So I was on Long Island recently for our annual, far-too-short family visit to America. It was also my daughter’s second birthday but it was raining and we needed an indoor activity. She loves planes, trucks and trains, and we were assured that the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City has all that plus good hands-on activities and a toddler room. We were not disappointed on any of those fronts.

But unbeknownst to us, the Cradle of Aviation Museum also has a major videogame history exhibition on at the moment. And this was no ordinary rinky-dink travelling exhibit. I’m talking all the consoles, or at least 60 different ones, all playable, alongside some 30 original arcade cabinets. Whose birthday was it again?

It’s been a minute since my last post, so get ready for a nerd onslaught. This post will attempt three things: a straightforward review of a videogame history exhibit; some sense of the wider context within videogame museums I’ve been to recently; and finally, something a bit different: a lesson plan for teaching kids about videogames in the museum. I should probably change the blog title to Things No One Asked For, Ever, but in the meantime, do enjoy the blatant work avoidance.

Capsule review

This exhibit is actually a sequel. It began life as a temporary event called The Arcade Age in December 2015, which focused on recreating the experience of arcade gaming using some 50 playable cabinets. The recreated arcade was only accessible in three daily 90-minute sessions. The layout showed the influence of superhero arcadologist Raiford Guins, who was consulted for this exhibit, in its attention toward recreating the dark, cramped, noisy ambiance of an arcade. Judging by photos of the original exhibit, it also had a cool sideline on related material culture like Street Fighter II action figures and Pac-Man lunchboxes. It originally ran through April 2016, and was then extended to September 2016.

After its success, it was redesigned as a more comprehensive exhibition, From the Arcade to the Living Room: A Video Game Retrospective 1972-1999 in November 2016, now including a full history of home gaming consoles alongside a reduced but still impressive list of arcade cabinets. The website doesn’t say whether this will become a permanent exhibit, but they are selling season tickets for hardcore gamers until December 2017. It was this exhibition I stumbled upon one fateful day in June.

Wall of ancestors

The games are laid out in roughly chronological order, beginning with the carcass of a Computer Space cabinet from 1971 at the start. Curator Seamus Keane has been damn near exhaustive, going beyond the usual focus on ‘Golden Age’ arcade games and providing real working examples of lesser-performing systems like the Neo-Geo and the Atari Jaguar. Fulfilling the dream of a 90s indoor kid, it was perhaps the first and last time I’ll ever play a CD-I and a 3DO (note to me 25 years ago: neither was worth the wait).

Besides the snippets of information provided next to each console, historical context was a bit light and there was no clear aim or agenda for the exhibition. Media surrounding the opening fleshed it out a little more, but not much: for curator Keane, it was “a concept I had in my head of telling what I felt was somewhat of a lost history about the social culture and the popular culture, as well as the technological history of the arcade game itself and of the arcade as a social setting.” Hope you caught all that between rounds of Marvel Vs Capcom.

There were only a few thematic displays but they worked well – a wall of ephemera included a Nintendo Power Pad, several strategy guides and a Game Genie (!). A wall display on the Great Video Game Crash of 1983 included a screen playing the documentary Atari: Game Over (2014) next to an Atari 2600 with an ET cartridge you could load yourself, a crucial part of the home gaming experience you rarely get to experience in a museum setting. A cabinet of dead peripherals was also eye-opening in an unexpected way; the juxtaposition of Sega 3D Glasses and a Sega Dreamcast mouse from a decade apart made me think of how Sega was so often ahead of its time, and yet somehow lost the console wars. In the tech world, it doesn’t always pay to be first.

Videogames in the Museum

Touch the artefacts

I’ve been to several videogame museum exhibitions now (and even some videogame museums!) and can confidently say that this was one of the most fun. There was a wall of NES games and a wall of Atari games, but the core of the arcade was in a long, low-ceilinged dark hall. There, the half-assed display cards dwindled to a minimum and the game was the thing. Original cabinets, many of them with fucked-up decals from years of play, were ready to rock, no MAME here. Aside from the usual Golden Age of Arcade stuff, there were plenty of classic 90s cabinets from my era, and even some left-field entrants like Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker, which I thought was a masterpiece when I first played it in 1990 and has accrued tremendous baggage since then.

Best of all was the chronological row of home gaming consoles buried deep in the bunker-like arcade hall. Here in glowing cubicles of glass but not out of reach were the venerated SNES and Genesis games of my formative years, alongside the also-rans like the Sega Saturn. I showed my 2 year-old daughter her first game of Super Smash Bros for the N64. She picked up the control and held it up to her ear like a phone. I have never loved her more.

The ragtag army of 90s CRT veterans

Each console was hooked up to a full-on CRT TV, no messing about with flatscreens, as I’ve groaned about previously. As the exhibition website puts it, they are “all on old school TV tubes!” Each TV was different from the next one, as they had clearly been scavenged piecemeal from various Long Island attics. Some had flatter screens, some bulged out lewdly, but all were hard-bitten survivors from the 90s. They are the real heroes here.

How does this rate? While the Computerspielemuseum in Berlin clearly wins out in almost every way in terms of playability, historical context and design, there was something about the scale of the recreated arcade and lack of interpretation here that charmed me. As Guins has pointed out, the material presence of the cabinets and the consoles are part of the gameplay; they are designed to draw you in and beg you to grab them, and whatever their flaws, their physical interfaces shape how the game is played.

Beyond Retro-Nostalgia: A Lesson Plan

Ready player one

At one point I was able to play technician: I was able to revive a blank TV screen by switching it to channel 3. I felt like a wise elder. I also may have felt very old because I was surrounded by schoolkids. It was a weekday, and we shared the exhibit with a group of fifth-graders (Year 6 for UK readers). For once, it was genuinely interesting to share a museum with a school trip. There have always been children in the videogame exhibitions I’ve visited previously, but they’re always there with their aging nerd parents (of which I am now very much a number). It is certainly worth recording the stories told to a new generation about their cultural heritage. But it was enlightening in a different way to hear what kids said to one another when playing these games.

What I heard blew my mind. I was playing the Double Dragon (1987) arcade cabinet (I’d only ever played the NES version, so this was very exciting indeed), when two boys walked behind me – one of them said to the other, “Double Dragon! I love that game!” How did he know? What else did he know? Has the Internet already made everyone like Wade from Ready Player One? Other kids swapped stories about the games they’d tried, and I felt almost compelled to start writing these candid observations down. They were like little archaeologists unearthing the artefacts of my past and puzzling over what they might mean – but also making more interesting connections with recent games than I could with my nostalgia specs on.

On my way out I ran into one of the schoolteachers and thanked her for taking the kids here, and congratulated her on how well-behaved they all seemed to be even though they were surrounded by a hundred flashing screens. I asked whether this was part of a specific class, and she said no, they usually take the kids to the Cradle of Aviation Museum because science and whatnot, but they dropped into the arcade exhibition because it was there. I asked if they would follow it up in class at all, and she said no.

The Atari Jaguar: and alternate future of 64-bit gaming

That struck me as a bit of a missed opportunity. Here were a few dozen kids having a great time in a museum, handling the technological ancestors of their favourite devices and games. The kids I heard were knowledgeable about videogames, native to them. For all the action in teaching history through videogames, there are no easily accessible resources out there to teach videogames as rare artefacts of a meaningful past. In what other museum exhibition are you allowed to handle, let alone grab and generally get all up in, the archaeology? What better way to learn than by playing?

Don’t get me wrong – museums with videogame exhibitions often provide their own series of educational resources and programmes for school visits, but a quick and very unscientific search shows little coherent agenda for dealing with the historicity of videogame and the material cultures of gaming. As more videogames end up in museums, we do the next generations a real disservice if the whole message is just about how videogames used to be pixellated and now they’re not. The game is not just the visual but the physical, and every console and medium enabled and constrained ways of playing, creating cultures of gaming. To get beyond nostalgia, we need to draw out the untold stories which will engage kids who are playing these objects for the first time.

There’s at least a PhD thesis in here

Digital archaeology guru Jeremy Huggett recently reminded us about the need to deal with the historicity of technology: as the workings of our gadgets inexorably disappear into smaller and more efficient packages, we know less about how our devices work, and think little about why they are built the way they are. So break open a few controllers and cartridges to teach the history of computing. We assume a linear progression from worse to better technology on the basis that the invisible hand of the market chose the best products over time. So tell the story of the Sega Dreamcast, recognised for its merits only long after its demise. The market of ideas is always in conflict with the actual market, and real innovation is always pitted against the chance for real profit. Teach the Great Video Game Crash and its mountain of destroyed cartridges; debate the value of excavating the recent past, and what else of theirs will remain to be excavated.

It’s not all about the tech, either. You don’t have to wait for Assassin’s Creed: Cuban Missile Crisis to teach kids about the Cold War and why we’re (still) not playing nice with Russia. You can start with games like Contra and Missile Command and talk about ways in which war found its way even into children’s bedrooms in the 1980s. Maybe have a frank discussion about all those Battlefield games they’re playing now. Play the first ten seconds of Double Dragon to introduce the term ‘toxic masculinity’.

There’s a million ways to sneak learning into a trip to the arcade. Teach the kids how to critically read the artefacts; what could be more archaeological?

More photos here.

#Cradle of Aviation #video games #museum #review #education

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retrowarriors · 7 years

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Neo Geo is Dead, Long Live Neo Geo!

By: Justin Baker

From the moment NEOGEO came out and for its entire lifespan on the market, it was known as “that one really expensive console.” Sure, people had seen them. Everyone had a cousin that went to school with a kid who saw one once at FuncoLand, but only on the third Tuesday of every month that had two full moons. The closest most people got to Neo Geo games was usually in local arcades and bowling alleys with the arcade unit (Neo Geo MVS), and even then that was only if you were lucky.

Shin Nihon Kikaku Corporation’s Neo Geo was, tragically, suffocated out of the market over the course of many years. SNK Corporation declared bankruptcy in 2001. The SNK name and rights were transferred to another company, and their properties started slowly petering out (with notable exception, SNK vs. Capcom in 2003) Although, in recent years SNK Playmore (as it is now known) has made a somewhat of a comeback with the newer King of Fighters titles getting some real competitive attention.

But it’s just not the same. Neo Geo games were the epitome of 90’s in-your-face extreme arcade action. Ninjas slicing each other up, machines guns to the face, flamethrowers, bone-breaking punches, and a massive roster of first-party characters. While everyone else was worried about games like Mortal Kombat teaching kids to kill, Samurai Shodown was spraying blood clear across arcade monitors. SNK was as 90s X-TREME as you could get without putting on a pair of JNCO jeans.

But time rolled on, and their consoles failed left and right (Neo Geo Pocket Color did no better than the home console). People seemed to forget about the old SNK. Metal Slug was relegated to laundromats and the world moved on to more sophisticated, story-driven video games.

Then there was the Neo Geo X. For a short time in the not-so-distant past it seemed that the Neo Geo X would be the second coming of the SNK glory days. It was a handheld Neo Geo emulator that had a base station you could drop the system into for instant TV play. You might even say that you could easily “switch” to playing on the television.

I’m winking really hard right now. This is called foreshadowing, kids.

Alas, the Neo Geo X was hot, dirty garbage. The games, made to play on a 4:3 aspect ratio, looked terrible on the wide aspect ratio screen built into the handheld and the emulation was passable, at best. The base station was a replica of the original Neo Geo AVS, but for all its looks, it was just a plastic box with some connectors inside of it. The games came in “packs” which were little more than SD cards containing a handful of ROMs each. It was pitiful.

So once again the system itself wasn’t worthy of the remarkable games. And so it came to pass; everyone got past their disappointment with the Neo Geo X, hacked it to hell and back, and then moved on to the next thing.

Then something magical happened: the Switch came out. And which games started hitting the eShop within a week? Neo Geo games. And not ten different shitty versions of Fatal Fury, but Metal Slug, Neo Turf Masters, Alpha Mission II, Garou: Mark of the Wolves, and so many other great titles in that vein.

Hallelujah! The gods have looked down upon the Switch and graced it with their glory. And it was good.

These “Arcade Classic Collection” versions by Hamster did have a bumpy start with some less than stellar emulation options and muddy graphics. Just for a moment, it looked like yet another sad chapter in Neo Geo history, but lo and behold, Hamster started patching things.

Some have complained that Hamster is just taking advantage of the fact that the Switch is still young and has few games on it. That SNK is just shitting out old games for quick sales to desperate gamers. But they’ve shown some real care not only in their patches, but in their game selection. A lesser company would drag these releases out with six different King of Fighters games before even considering a gem like Neo Turf Masters.

For my money, the Switch is the perfect platform for Neo Geo games. The portability and flexible control options match perfectly to arcade games; they are meant to be played in short bursts and to be played with friends. No, you probably can’t sit down and play ten solid hours of Shock Troopers; the game only lasts about thirty minutes. But if you’re looking for some pick-up-and-playability, then look no further than the Neo Geo... Er, the Switch…. Neo Geo on the Switch.

...You know what I mean.

So what are you waiting for? Embrace SNK doing the right things in the digital age. Go grab a copy of Metal Slug, hand your friend a Joycon, and start wrecking shop.

#neo geo #switch #nintendo

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everything-is-vent-blog · 6 years

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Entry #1 - Monday, February 26, 2018

The day started out like any other, waking up at the crack of dawn to get ready for school.

I got ready, my dad drove me and I waited in the cafeteria until my friends came to talk.

Then i met more of my friends in the area outside the cafeteria. I forgot what we talked about, it might’ve been the drama club show, they put on Anne Frank & Me and the last night (last Friday) I filmed it so they have a copy of it. Anyways let’s dissect this group of friends, although I’m only going to be talking about three of them because they are my closest friends and will definitely be reoccurring (remember fake names) also this officially the point in which if anyone from school or my friends or family are reading this, I’ll be screwed or at least people will draw comparisons if anyone hears about this, oh boy

Kate - Knew her since 6th grade english, a nerd like myself, and although we ‘dated’ for a bit and we’re friends now, and also the fact that I might be asexual (or romantically asexual) I think I still like her. She likes D&D and we’re planning on co-DMing a game for a D&D club. Everyone ships us but, when we ‘dated’ I had such a lack of confidence that I did jack shit and now we’re back right where we were. and I only asked her out cause my ‘friends’ slightly pressured me. Idk what else to say, I guess more will be revealed

Ruby - Knew her from same 6th grade english class, really really close friends with Kate, basically sisters. We both really want to be directors and we are currently trying to find an idea to pursue and film. idk what else to say, more to be revealed and rememebred

Greg - Best way to describe him is a dick but a friendly dick, idk really how to explain the enigma that is him. A) somehow he got a girlfriend (who’s a year olde than him) B) he draws smut and just causally brings it up every now and then. He is/used to be very depressed but we cheer him up and he seems happy now. Idk what else, leaving a bit out and also not remembering a bunch

So yeah, then we went to class after discussing something, I can’t remember. History class was normal, i like my teacher, she’s nice and cool but sometimes she uses memes or is trying way to hard to be hip and cool like that one Steve Buscemi meme. Then is Geo where I blaze ahead of everyone, I got a 100% on a quiz from last week and had to tutor two kids in the class on questions they got wrong.

Now lets get to french. In 6th-7th grade I had the single greatest teacher I have ever had in my entire ‘academic career’ she was fun, nice, caring, helpful, and the amount of happiness she emitted everyday just can’t be described with words, she was just an amazing teacher, at the end of the year me and a couple other students made a small movie with clips of students saying thank you or saying why they loved her and it was intercut with the speech before she received the teacher of the year award that year and we premiered it at our french production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as a complete surprise to her, one of the greatest moments in my life I think. Since then, my 8th grade french teacher was the same teacher that my sister had had up to 8th grade so she knows my family pretty well, there wasn’t much that important for last year’s french. But then this year, we had french honors and our teacher is atrocious, she barely explains things in english and expects us to memorize things in a day, and also to understand her when she’s using words we don’t understand. there’s so much wrong with her as a teacher but I can’t get into it all. But it has occurred to me more than ever this year that I want to pursue film and be a director and i want to know when there are people whose job it is to be a translator for movies and also we have the internet, when the fuck will I need a language, if I go to another country I can hire someone or I can just try another means of communication and it’s not like the only foreign country I’m gonna travel to is France so yeah.

Now my next class is filmmaking where we just watched our short films on different angle shots. Then in ceramics (which I didn’t even want but I ended up with for some reason) we just started decorating our pots and also because people in another ceramics period did bad on a vocab quiz, she’s making everyone take a new quiz on more shit to memorize. Ugh. Then was lunch, which was normal if not a bit lackluster, we talked about the normal stuff, playfully roasted someone at the table for reading the entirety of twilight and being an emotional wreck afterwards. Then we had english where we talked about an article we wrote a response to about cloning and also plans to make a mini book club to read Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda and then skip school to see the movie version Love, Simon. Then in bio, where I am one of the top 3 smartest kids in that class because at least 75% of the kids are popular thots or fuckbois and can’t do work for themselves and are mind numbingly stupid. Like usual I speed through my work with extreme accuracy. Then in gym I talked with my friend Natalie (again fake name), she’s usually the one I console in a lot, i used to have a small crush on her back when we had health together last year and when I first talked to her I was more nervous than the most nervous person you’ve seen in your life but times 10. Anyways we’re close friends now and we just talk about life, how people suck, ideas, etc. It’s dun, our teacher is laid back so instead of doing actual PE we just walked the entire time like a lot of classes.

Then when i got home my mom and I went to McDonalds to get the resurrected Szechuan Sauce which was amazing and worth the wait. Then I just did homework and shit for the rest of the night. I started watching Heathers (the original) because I watched the new reboot TV show and it was really fucking bad. i also listened to the musical soundtrack and that was good.

Last bit of the day, so a few weeks back at ruby’s birthday party she invited one of her friends Emma, and it was the first time I had talked to her (she was more of a popular kid and I am in no way popular lol). It turns out she’s not like the thots at all and is genuinely nice. We finished the night off with like a 40 minute gossip session where we talked about her terrible boyfriend and how I nor Kate had had our first kiss and other gossip which was nice to hear for once as I am someone who is always on the outside looking in (DEH reference). But anyways i might have developed a tiny tiny bit of feelings but I know she’s out of my league and would not at all be compatible with me, I mean she came to school high once so yeah. And also the only times we talk are just saying hi in the halls or as we’re leaving school and even then we don’t actually talk. She said she would try to help me overcome my confidence problems and also she joined the group of my friends who said they’d bust down my door and drag me to semi even though I think it’s really stupid. Anyways I bring this up becuase she posted on her snapchat a thing about that if “anyone wants to be friends or doesn’t want to fade away and all that then actually hmu and don’t wait” something along those lines. and I’ve been debating doing this, it’s already too late because it’s like 11:00 and idk when I’d do it tomorrow. Also there’s the whole thing of us not really knowing each other that well so it would be weird if I, a nerdy, acne faces, semi-nobody just sent her “hey’ in an attempt at making friends and all that. Here’s a perfect example of my confidence and anxiety issues. Ugh everything just sucks sometimes.

That’s all for now, fml

Yours truly,

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