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  • Birthday 10/03/1974

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    What's for tea, luv?
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    The Beatles, Wondermints, Mountain Dew, wreaking public havoc with my wife. Oh...and I also played the title role in a Broadway production of [i]Waiting For Godot[/i].

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  1. At this point, I just hope I get to see downtown Milwaukee with a clear sky -- that's never happened to me!
  2. I saw that last year's was still pinned but no mention of this year's! Same place as the last few -- Baird Center, formerly Wisconsin Center, Milwaukee. I have my Amtrak trip booked (I've found that it's much easier than driving there and the same amount of time), hotel booked, ride to the train station scheduled -- holy cow, they have a dinky-ass intermodal station there; quite a difference from Union Station in Chicago! For me, it's not just a chance to nerd out, but also time for me to just be on my own for a couple of days. I'm thinking of spending a few hours away from the show and seeing what else there is in other parts of Milwaukee; I've only ever really been downtown and the lakefront, and downtown Milwaukee is ****DEAD**** on the weekends! Maybe check out a record store or two, I dunno. It feels a bit weird going to these given that I'm not really on the market for a lot of home video gaming stuff; I use multicarts rather than individual cartridges whenever possible, Edladdin has my controller needs fulfilled, etc. Might grab some Vectrex overlays from Sean Kelly, and I'm hoping to join Guys, Games & Beer for their annual game of Werewolf... I don't know if they've announced celebrity guests yet, though.
  3. Hmmm...wonder what the chances are of them releasing a fixed version of Impossible Mission. I imagine some licenses would need to be acquired though.
  4. Pie Factory Podcast is back with episode 144! Today we discuss the ins and outs of opposing prepositions, while our listeners enjoy complex sentences and the deep meanings of racing with superheroes. Enjoy, dear friends, for this will likely be the last ever episode of January 2024. https://piefactorypodcast.wordpress.com/2024/01/30/episode-144-buggy-boy-and-x-men/
  5. I doubt that AtariAge -- which is now a property of Atari -- would make custom carts with the Popeye ROM given that 1) it's a Nintendo game (you'll notice that homebrews based on Atari-owned titles are still available), and 2) there'd probably be some licensing issues with the Popeye characters. I wouldn't be surprised, though, if homebrew developers sought out alternate ways of getting carts made. AtariAge was not the only way to get homebrews pressed to cartridge.
  6. There are exactly two things that everybody likes: podcasts and video games. Nothing else. And boy, do we have some good news for you: for the first time ever, Jim and Sean have put the two together! Your 2023 will certainly go out on a high note as the two trade barbs over two arcade compilations. Who will win? What will their ultimate settlement be? The world may never know. But listen to episode 143 for at least some clues. https://piefactorypodcast.wordpress.com/2023/12/27/episode-143-namco-classic-collection/
  7. We here at Pie Factory Podcast do not do turkey drops; we do EPISODE drops. And today we're dropping episode 142! There's more to do in the world than just eat (although, listening to this episode, you'd never know that). We also like to play video games from time to time. So join us! https://piefactorypodcast.wordpress.com/2023/11/20/episode-142-join-em-and-phozon/
  8. EDIT: sale pending I have two Atari 7800 Mateos carts -- one with POKEY, one without -- and one Vectrex cart, plus the burner. I'm selling these because I literally never ever use them. (Since I got a Dragonfly and a Concerto, I've not needed to use 'em.) I have NEVER used the Vectrex cart, so I can't say for sure that it works, but the 7800 versions do. Long story short, you "burn" ROMs to the cart via the enclosed burner, and you need to use a mini-USB cable to do so. You just drag-and-drop from your OS desktop*. Don't know about the Vectrex ROMs, but the 7800 ROMs have to be the .BIN format, not the .A78 format. I'm asking $35 for all three carts plus the burner, including shipping, US only. Caveats: - Again, I don't know if the Vectrex cart works. - Juan Mateos has seemingly disappeared off the face of the earth, so there's not much official support aside from the archived version of his site, currently reachable via https://web.archive.org/web/20221205013128/http://www.vectrex.hackermesh.org/index.php/en/ - The reason for the * is that lately it's been tricky with new OSes, including Windows and Mac, because they tend to want to put extra hidden garbage on USB devices, including the Mateos. So you might have to do a bit of trickery in copying the ROMs over so that other system files don't come with 'em; the Mateos is very picky in that it wants ONLY the ROM and nothing else. Picture enclosed.
  9. Just in time for Portland Retro Gaming Expo (kinda), we present episode 141! This time, instead of the usual booing from people listening, the boos we here are from the spooky creatures that come herewith and thereto and therein with two creepy-themed games. Join us for our usual reviews, commentary, and side-splitting hair-raising banter! https://piefactorypodcast.wordpress.com/2023/10/14/ghosts-n-goblins-and-monster-bash/
  10. Episode 53: Where I've been, where I am, and where I'm going Whatever happened to this podcast? Well, listen on and find out! Lotsa new homebrews out, so little time! http://homebrew78.fab4it.com/index.php?name=hbh_episode_053.mp3
  11. FWIW, still the #1 rated morning news in the market.
  12. My wife and I were watching WGN (Chicago) Morning News on the TiVo (it's a very unusual news program in that they get very silly and irreverent and aren't all stiff and formal like most news programs), and I saw the Atari 2600 E.T. graphic. I paused the TiVo and said to my wife, "If this is a story about how E.T. is the 'worst video game ever,' I'm gonna go ballistic." Unpause. I hear Mike Toomey say, "Now, here's a story about the worst video game ever." DAARAAAARHHHERHGHRHRHGRHGRHRGHGHHAHGHRGHHGRHGRRGHHHH!!!!! Some of the claims Toomey spread included: it was a poor seller it was so bad that retailers shipped so many back to Atari that they had to be buried in a dump It nearly tanked the video game industry I messaged him on Facebook on the off chance he 1) checks his FB messages and 2) will notice that a non-friend messaged him.
  13. I knew about that -- but can you tilt it when in video game mode as opposed to pinball mode?
  14. BTW, fun fact about Baby Pac-Man that I don't think I've seen mentioned before... At least year's Midwest Gaming Classic, I learned from watching nateo's wife play that you can actually trigger the tilt on Baby Pac-Man while playing the video game portion! The cab that was at MGC wasn't level and it was constantly rocking back and forth when moving the joystick!
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