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  1. Well, I don't really see that as a huge difference, any more than saying the new ones support 4k resolution versus the old ones that only support mid-level SVGA resolution. The thing just seems to be that no one is really using them... for anything. Lots of people still gaming... almost all of them on their phones, with a declining console market. Kind of an odd place we're in... but I just don't know that VR will ever be the thing we think it would have been, like in Ready Player One. Everyone thinks it's cool, but then no one does it.
  2. This is an area that really interests me, and I just don't get why it hasn't really taken off. Probably a good thing... but maybe it has to do with the barrier to entry (cost to buy a VR headset). I don't want to lose perspective, I could afford one, but not everyone necessarily would. VR headsets have been around since the early 1990s... and they honestly have not been much different. They're just wireless now, and have better screen resolution. But even games like System Shock (the original one that came out in what, 1991?) has support for a 800x640 VR headset with full axis support (controls the mouse with your head). The new Apple one (and I guess the new Meta one), focus on "augmented" reality... basically super-imposing things onto what you already see in the real world. It's possible that VR just never really becomes a thing, and that instead... we end up doing this (see movie below). It's actually a pretty good "short" if you've never seen it. I want to say it's probably over a decade old already... but basically... it's all done through contact lenses.
  3. I'd definitely be interested in some kind of jelly-bean gate... just not the scenario I presented. We could leave the prophylactics out of it. I'll just take the jelly beans.
  4. I love how the fact that something happened at the Watergate Hotel in downtown Washington D.C., has led to the de-facto name standardization for all quasi-conspiratorial / controversial events occurring in the world. Even when so and so controversial event happens in like... India, or Egypt, or Laos... it'll be like... <insert foreign language here>gate. I love it... hahah. So what exactly is Driver Gate? Someone crash through a gate with condoms filled with jelly beans?
  5. Did the Atari 400 already get released? I am committed to buying it, but won't be pre-ordering it out of protest since the last few things I pre-ordered, I got way after everyone else who didn't. But I definitely want to get one.
  6. Interesting. I wonder if there was a cabinet / drawer that went with them?
  7. Thanks guys! I didn't get a chance to play it last night... my wife was monopolizing the TV with the Wii / Rock Band. I noticed it has a little picture of him, I didn't realize he was no longer part of Atari at that point. I guess this is when he sold Atari to Time Warner?
  8. Grand Prix was one of my all-time favorite games growing up. I don't know why or what prompted my mom to buy it... probably because my dad liked Formula-1 when I was a little kid... but man, I played that game almost more than any other. That game, Pole Position, Battle Zone, Maze Craze, and Solaris were my go-to games...
  9. I was driving around checking out thrift stores with my wife, and found a shop that sold classic video games. They did not go for cheap... I paid $25 for all three, but I felt it was kind of worth it because I'd never seen them before, and ... at least based on the label, they seemed pretty cool. I'll check them out tonight and see if they play on the 2600+. I figure they're probably mostly just "uncommon," but still cool.
  10. When I was really little, my parents had an 8-track player and I used to shove the Atari cartridges into the 8-track slot of their stereo system to see what it would do. I apparently broke the 8-track, which they ended up replacing anyway with cassettes.
  11. I have totally not seen this in the store! And I just bought a bunch of games last month. That's crazy... I'll search for it tonight. I love these kinds of games!
  12. Is this already on the VCS? How did I miss this? I didn't see it last time I logged in. I absolutely NEED this...
  13. Definitely worth buying @NeuroPsyche, I have one and actually play it more than my 2600+ or my VCS (which I love).
  14. Yeah, the "hate" for flat-screen monitors is a bit much. I think generally, if you're restoring an arcade machine, you should probably use a CRT if you can. But if you're building a generic multi-game cabinet from something that's basically already trashed, then there's no reason why anyone should care if you're using a flat screen display. For my Super PacMan... I bought it as a multi-cade. Everything had been completely stripped from it. The coin door had NOTHING installed on the inside. It was missing the coin tray, and all the guts. It didn't have the graphics on it, or anything else. It was just configured as a generic. I bought all the parts and re-assembled it, and then bought new Super PacMan graphics and installed them. But still... it already had a flat screen, so it was no big deal. Honestly... it's way better than a CRT anyway.
  15. This... I seriously think it would be nice to have a well-laid out arcade cabinet that allowed me to switch between say, the Atari 50th (guts from a 1Up), the 23452345234523456 in 1 system that's in there new, a Raspberri Pi w/ Jamma connector, and maybe something else. There are 4 in 1 Jamma connectors that allow you to switch between them, almost like a KVM, I just don't know yet what that would look like inside. My Polybius is kind of sweet... it has an 100 watt amp in it with dual 40 watt speakers and a powered subwoofer all installed. I've never cranked it, but when I play the 10000+ Capcom fighting games, you really feel the punch.
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