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Isnt that a bit old ? lol. But I guess we could try and see the result...
What genre of Minis do you like, or would like to see?
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The GeForce4 MX is not only old but was even underpowered for its time. :) It was pretty much the beginning of NVidia's budget product lines, such that a GeForce3 was actually more powerful. That's why, if you can actually get that demo looking that good on that GPU, I'll be really impressed.
If you can do it for an original Matrox Millennium . . . well, I'll just call you a liar then. :D
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Freelance
MemberFreelance, I gotta say I'm a bit surprised your sister spends all day in your room
Um actually it's our room, sadly. I play handheld games a lot more because of it. I love WIlliams Pin though and I got it on PS3 for the extra tables. I dunno if you've play PC games, but the Pro Pinball series is awesome too. Virtual Pinball is another game you can fiddle around with, and it's free. Judging from your response, you're much better at pinball than me :D I'm not very good at pinball, but they're so much fun to play.
I'm a bit surprised SHMUPs are at the top in the poll though. I thought nobody liked those anymore.
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I dunno if you've play PC games, but the Pro Pinball series is awesome too.
I have a pack of the Pro Pinball series (includes Timeshock, Big Race USA, and Fantastic Journey), though I've only played one of them. Whichever one it was, it left me a little disappointed, so I didn't try the other two. One issue was that there was some massive delay when I used my USB gamepad.
I also have Microsoft Pinball Arcade, which is a PC collection of several Gottlieb tables. I think it's one table per decade from the 1930s (Baffle Ball, a predecessor of pinball) through the 1990s. One of the tables is Humpty Dumpty, the first pin game to have flippers, though they weren't yet in the now-standard positions. The collection is definitely worth it as a look at pinball evolution, better in that capacity than Pinball Hall of Fame: The Gottlieb Collection.
The Williams Collection's leaderboard feature let me see for the first time how I compared to other "serious" pinball players (well, before that, I had a hint via a top 20 score in one of the PSP Pinball Heroes tables). I'd always thought I was pretty good, but since I didn't know anyone else who was any good at pinball at all, it was hard to measure. Here's something really weird: for Jive Time, a table I absolutely detest, I ended up with a top 15 score in the PS3 leaderboard--but I wonder if that was because everyone hates that table, with very few people actually playing it. :) Admittedly, also, doing well on that infuriating playfield is almost random.
I haven't bought either of the pinball Minis, though (the Amiga remakes), and I only got one of the Pinball Heroes tables. Maybe overplaying The Williams Collection left me "pinball'd out," at least as far as straight pinball. I think I'd like to see a unique take on pinball as a Mini, but I'm not sure what; I have Flipnic, a weird variant of pinball on the PS2, but something about it didn't click with me.
By the way, I've had an idea for a Gradius-themed pinball table for a few years now. . . .
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