pickhut's The House of the Dead 2 review

My first question when I saw you reviewed this was "Don't you need a CRT TV to play it properly?" I'm glad you made that central to your review. I'm luck enough that I live about 90 minutes away from a popular vacation spot that has huge arcades, and the House of the Dead is well represented there. Never tried the Dreamcast ports, and because of the CRT problem it will be a while before I do.

Yeah, I think it should be a requirement now to mention the CRT TV/in-game cursor for reviews, as it wouldn't be fair to the reader otherwise. And I probably would have never touched the game as a review if I never played both ways. Thanks for reading!

Man, I wish I still had an arcade near me to go visit. The last "big" arcade that was close was 14 years ago, and it had a buttload of Sega cabinets. At one point or another, it had Street Fighter III, Virtua Tennis, Virtual On twin, Capcom vs Marvel, Metal Slug X, Daytona 2, THotD1, Crazy Taxi, etc. They also served beer. I should know, because I was stuck listening to the ramblings of a drunk guy on a bench outside one time. Then they closed it.... and reopened it as an internet cafe that's still open to this day.