I was watching my I Love Lucy thing I bought yesterday and today. So far, three episodes have been watched: the unaired pilot, the one where Lucy thinks Ricky is trying to murder her, and the Vitameatavegamin one. I was watching and it began to strike me: TV sure has changed in the last 60 years. We've gone from black and white to color and now ("thanks" to the US Government) to digital, there were only 4 stations back then (if you count DuMont), now there are hundreds of them. You could actuall
I know it's wrong of me to assume that a magazine is no longer in print, but just in case it is, I've resurrected it. Yes, TV Crosswords will be made every three weeks by me. The inaugural issue has 12 crosswords, but I hope to have more next issue, at least 18 (which would mean I would have to make a crossword an average of one per day. Why not?) I know most of you probably don't care, but it's just another thing to keep me busy. You know what they say about idle hands. Well, anyway, if you do
Hi all. I got to making these again. Each week, probably on either Sunday or Monday, I'll post one of these I made. The design of where the black and white squares are is determined by the design of the one in my local paper's TV listings. All I do is just fill in the crossword patterns with new letters, essentially making a new crossword, which is apparently what the people who make the ones in the paper do. Maybe if I can find out who makes them, I could start working for them. Now wouldn't th
You know those television listings you get every Sunday in your newspaper? Well, the one in my newspaper is called "TV Week." And, I probably mentioned this before, but they redesigned it in July of 2006. And call me crazy, but I have every single one since. That's 54 issues of TV Week in my dresser drawer. Sometimes I like to take a look at them. I tried to find out when the OJ Simpson special "If I Did It" aired once, but I couldn't find it. I remember it was in the listings, but it didn't act
On July 2, 2006, something happened to my local paper's TV listings. They got bigger. A lot bigger. And the cover changed. And, they got a lot better. So impressed with the new design, I decided to keep every single one since.
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Now it's week #37 of the new TV Week, and on the cover this week is "Andy Barker, P.I." on NBC. What's even more interesting is the one program that didn't get to be on the cover: Super Bowl XLI. Well, anyway, if you care (and you probably don't), you ca
So the cable box quit working this morning. We had to drive out to the Xfinity store and switch our set top box for a new one. While there, there was an f.y.e. store next to it. I went in and got a new DVD: Ancient Aliens season 10 volume 2. I had doubted they'd have it, but they did. No Animaniacs DVD sets though. So we went home and it was a total nightmare hooking it up. We waited two hours for no reason. Mom called the people and it started working. It's working now except I can't sync the
I'm a big fan of the old-style TV Guide crosswords, before they stopped using two letter words. I was recently going through some stuff and came upon an issue of TV Guide Crosswords (a whole magazine devoted to TV-related crosswords.) I thought since making crosswords is a hobby of mine, I thought I'd give it a try. So I tried to do a "themed" one, but three out of the four longest answers were the only ones related to my theme I had picked out. I found that this is much more fun than making the
I have a few issues of TV Guide from the early '80s. It always amazed me that they had two letter words in the grid. It's taboo most of the time, but you can get some really weird looking grids if you allow them. I don't know why I enjoy looking at weird crossword grids. I don't even know how to define to you a weird crossword grid. Well, anyway, there were two magazines that had TV-related crosswords: TV Guide Crosswords and TV Crosswords. TV Guide Crosswords reprinted classic crosswords from t
I have good reason to believe there will be no more TV shows in 2025. If you want entertainment, you will have no choice but to subscribe to Hulu or some other crap. Which is sad because I liked not being able to pay for network shows. But even those will be gone 10 years from now. All this stupid crappy world is about is money. And greed. Greed is stupid. If I was president, anyone who showed even the slightest bit of greed would be executed. Not only would the world be a better place, but we'd
Does anyone ever do these? I won't quit making them because I enjoy it, but am just wondering. C'mon, there must be at least a few people who do crosswords on this forum. And I made a mistake in yesterday's blog. My dad is turning 64 on April 1, not 65. Sorry, Dad!
C'mon and vote for the first game in my new Lynx HSC!
I'm going to send away for 2 Lynx games on Monday: Ninja Gaiden 3 and Pit Fighter. I'd really like Checkered Flag, but nobody seems to have it for <$20. Do you? So, right now I have 43 games. This next purchase will make it be 45.
And here's another TV Crossword. I know these aren't the most popular things in my blog, but I like making them. Also, here's the answer to the last one (=indicates black spot)
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One of my hobbies is crossword puzzle-making. Inspired by crosswords in just about every single TV guide, I decided to start making my own. The result isn't as perfect as those in the TV guides, but I hope you'll have fun with this new blog topic. The answer to this crossword will appear the next time there's a new crossword (which will probably be every week or so.) So, print these out and have fun with them.
A while back I said I'd make a crossword every week and post it here...then forgot. As it turns out, I had made two more with the intentions of posting them here. So here's #2. And the other will be next Sunday. Hopefully I'll keep this up this time.
As I mentioned in previous blogs, I keep all the local paper's TV listing booklets since the format changed last year. I don't know why, just something to keep me sane besides Atari, TV, eating, and sleeping. Anyway, I now have 60 of said booklets and me & mom are now using the 61st. So, who's on the cover this week? Lotsa people. The cover is about Fox airing season/series premieres of 14 of their 19 shows by Sep. 24th. So on the cover this week are "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?" "Te
About a month ago, I tried to make a gray shade in Frank the Fruit Fly and failed miserably. It worked, but Frank kept acting weird. I decided to come back to it today. I think I found out the reason why. I was using the a variable to move Frank around AND to switch between the two screens that made the gray shade possible. So I tried changing the a to b and lo and behold, Frank quit acting weird.
mov b, [graytimer] inc b mov [graytimer], b
I've been trying to stay up later so I can go to sleep later so I can lead a more normal life. Yesterday I went to sleep at noon instead of about 7am. Partly due to the fact that the neighbor's dog got loose again and came up to our window a couple times, and our dog kept barking at it. And it just stood there like nothing was wrong. Idiot dog. Oh well. I got up at about midnight. And I worked on the Pokemon Party Mini 2 game I was working on. Last time I worked on it was July 7 apparently. I
I'm beginning to think getting the TG-16 wasn't such a good idea after all. After getting 5 games I thought I'd be interested in, all of them turned out to be duds. JJ and Jeff and Victory Run came in the mail today. I couldn't beat stage 1 of either of them. The other games I have are Keith Courage, Splatterhouse, and Bonk's Adventure. Nevertheless, I think it's a cool machine. I like the looks (small), the game cards (smaller than a cartridge), and the design of the cart cases. The controller
I'm in the mood for TurboGrafx 16 games again. I got two $5 off coupons from eBay since my game was one day late. I don't know why they felt they had to do that for me, though. I don't care. So I figured I might as well use 1 of them. So I got Vigilante, which is the Turbo-Grafx 16 equivalent of Double Dragon (or so Digital Press claims.) I'd get out my Atari 2600 version of Double Dragon, but it's in the garage. And it's cold out there. Which is a reason I didn't put the three recently bought 2
I finally got a light bulb that will work. It took about 10 minutes to figure out how to plug it in in the dark. I just noticed my Turbo Grafx games sitting there. I decided to add some more to my pathetic collection. So I bought China Warrior. It was the only non-sports title that was affordable. I wonder why the TG-16 games are so freaking expensive. If anyone wants to trade, though, I have an extra Victory Run if you want to trade for an equally common one I don't have. I lost it when I was t
Why is it that the cheapest sports titles for the TG16 on eBay are like $10?! And the half-way decent games start at $20? Is it really that rare of a thing to have a Turbo Grafx 16? I just bought Pac-Land. Cost me 21 friggin dollars. $21! Why?! All I want is a few decent TG16 games. Why do I have to spend hundreds of dollars just to get a few half-way decent games? It's ridiculous! So I have that, Alien Crush and Victory Run coming my way. I feel like I want to sell some sealed DS games I have.
Since my user name is atari2600land, and I haven't played Atari 2600 lately, I decided to plug it in and play it. After a few tries, Tunnel Runner came on. I was on run 5 and had the key and was facing the door but it wouldn't let me in and a blue monster was about to eat me. And I was down to my last life. And it ate me because the stupid game didn't work the way it was supposed to. How do they expect you to find the exit when the map is covered? The game is hard enough at that point with four
After five billion trial programs, I think I've found the right program to program. It's easy to program, yet interesting. I want to limit this to 4K, so there'll be few SFX. It's kinda like AStar, only there's only one fruit to get, but (hopefully) hard to. It's called BStar (name could change.) There's three screens so far, but there will be more. (BTW, I found the AStar ROM in the 2005 Minigame Compo page.)
So I thought my Saturn wasn't working right. I jiggled the cord a little bit and as it turns out, the RF switch needs to be in just the right place for it to work. So great, I got a semi-working RF switch. What could be worse? I just got a Saturn game today (In the Hunt, DP rates it as an R4, but who knows really?) and as it turns out, the game won't work. I test another one to see if it was the whole Saturn or just the game, it was just the game. I looked at the disc. There were a whole bunch o
Well, I got back from Best Buy VHS-to-DVD recorder-less. They only had one and it was out of stock. Not only that, the warehouse didn't even have one. So if I wanted it, I'd have to pay for it before I got it while it was shipped from another warehouse, and I didn't want to do that. But I didn't go away empty-handed. I got a really nice Herman's Hermits CD that has all their hits on it. I like "I'm Henry the VIII, I Am", but I'm in the middle of writing a parody of "There's a Kind of Hush".
I hate going to sleep. It's hard trying. I spend like 20 minutes just laying there bored out of my mind and unable to sleep. Eventually I do go to sleep, but after three or so tries of staying up for a few hours after the first try. Anyway, I accidentally erased the index.html for my website. I blame this on the stupid stupid stupid website hosting company who insists I log on every three or so pages of working. It was because of this I thought I was putting an index.html for a subsite when I ha
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