Don’t need anymore. See?

robio said:

Gronk is a goofball, and definitely has a frat boy for life syndrome, but I'd argue he's actually one of the smartest guys to ever play the game. He has managed his money incredibly well and got out while he is still extremely healthy without burning any bridges.

Definitely. He's living the way he wants & just has kind of an along for the ride attitude. Good for him. He's a good guy too.

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Today is the 20th anniversary of the mighty SEGA DreamCast!!!! Happy Birthday you glorious bastard!!!

I wish things would have went better for you.

Archangel3371 said:

While there are a few NES games that I don’t mind playing again, hello StarTropics, the SNES is easily my favourite console to go back and play many of its games again. It is great to see some of those games on the Switch now through their online service I do very much wish that these were available to purchase separately. I’d rather just pay once for a game and have it available to play anytime instead of needing to subscribe to a service where you need to keep paying.

Anyway I’m really hoping that we see a lot more great SNES games make their way to the service. Most anything from Nintendo, Capcom, Square-Enix, and Konami was godly back then.

Ravenprose said:

I loved the Dreamcast. So many great games.

I was just thinking that last week.

Well here's a thing:

Being the altruistic type I am, I proposed to help out my son's friend, who recently got gifted Splatoon2, but has no Nintendo Online account.  And by 'help out' I mean, 'allow him to mooch off our own family subscription'.  Of course, this being Nintendo, there were hoops withing parallel dimension in hoops.  A quick summary of the adventures of myself, and the boy's father, who knows preciously little of videogaming:

1. I ask how many accounts they have on their Switch, which is only the one
2. OK.  easy peasy.  I invite him to join my family
3. big no go, as he is the admin.  The admin of what you say?  Why, of his own family account that he created to get the free 7 days of Nintendo Online and to which he is now stuck.
4. The guy checks his online account, and turns out he has 3 members in his family.  He has his own parent account, his son's account, and a dormant evil alter ego of his son's account.
5. He doesn't know what email account he has added to his kid's account, nor does he know what password might be in place.
6. We have no clue how to get a child account to leave a family group.
7. Some more digging around online unveils that child acocunts can't leave family groups.  They can be transferred.  Totally different same thing.
8. The father follows some, admittedly easy and well explained, steps that boil down to him asking my account to take the child off his hands.
9. I accepted the request I received in my mail box.  I did not read the fine print, so I might end up having to pay for his college as well.
10. The kid is now part of our family.
11. Mario Kart is still saying he has no Nintendo online account.  

I'm still befuddled, dare I say flabberghasted as to why his online didn't work.  Here's hoping the servers just needed some time to realign themselves and it'll work later today, because as far as I know, we did everything right and there is no reason it should not work.  Unless I mistakenly adopted his dormant evil alter ego...

So all in all, once you know what to do, it's not that much of a hassle.  As long as you don't go in expecting it to actually work in the end.  

Foolz said:

Also, the Dreamcast is my favourite console I never owned.

Same here.  I loved the idea of having one.

robio said:

I hated the Dreamcast controller. I enjoyed Crazy Taxi, SF3 and Sonic Adventure, but that damn controller never clicked with me. As a result I did own it, but never spent a lot of time playing it.

Same here. I eventually bought a PS2-to Dreamcast controller adapter. I also hated how annoyingly loud the disk drive was too.

The Dreamcast was a really cool system. It had some great games like Soul Calibur, Power Stone, Marvel Vs Capcom, Resident Evil: Code Veronica, etc. I also got a kick out of those VMU things.