RodimusPrime wrote:
TBH, I think this thread has been a little pointless. The OP even says in the very first post that carts are best but basically eliminated them from the conversation by saying no-one should be picking them because of cost. Setting out an agenda before the conversation has started.
Talk about twisting a person's words!
Spector wrote:
Last night on the IRC chatroom there was a heated argument about what the best format was for playing games, taking into account the context of playing them in that particular decade...
...Remember - I'm not asking which is technically the best- because obviously that's cartridges- but what is best in terms of from a practical and economic sense as well as desirability.
And as I suggested back then, cassettes to me were much better
for the time. If the C64 and Spectrum had been cart only, the 80s would have been sh1t. Thank god £40 games didn't take away our ability to build huge collections of games until the 90s.
As for reliability, there was a device called The Eliminator on sale in 1990-91 for the NES, Master System and gameboy for cleaning cart sockets to stop various errors/crashes etc that would occur. If carts were super reliable, this device -expensively advertised on the back cover of The Complete Guide To Consoles IV- would not have been made.
You may continue the debate guys; I'll be on IRC after Germany-Scotland if you want to argue with me there!
