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  3. Posted

    ahh cobras! homers sleep terrors from the first episodes of this(last?) years season of the simpsons

     

     

    the sound in midnight magic hitting the white sidings, and all related sounds bug me

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    i too had a dreamcast before it was dropped, for me it was my big return to gaming as i had not bought a console sonce nov 1993 :D :D ;)

     

    and as i owned all that everyone i knew woudl talk about is how they are passing it for a ps2 despite its lack of specs. one person even told me, after i tol them i just just bought a dreamcast that "my xbox will kill it"

     

     

    well lets all take a ride in the jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-bus!

     

    the x box had a whole 2 years up on the dreamcast and when i had bought mine we hadnt even seen the case design!! sighhhhh

    but it IS true the x box cam make prettier things than the dc but so what?

     

     

    it cranked out 250 or so games in 2 years not bad! and thankfully alot can be found cheap

     

    as far as the name dreamcast, i belive it come from fan fic's and dreamcasting would be like, who your idea cast of X movie/tv show

    and being the DC was the frist system advanced enough to pull of some major stuff i guess it was put up the idea that anyone of thing can be put in it

     

     

    rememebr it may be dead but its still thinking!

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    Blix said something about his younger cousin wearing an atai shirt and it reminds me yet again of my fav simpsons episode where homer tries toy "party" with his kids only to find out he isnt cool any more..

     

    "i see these kids with jive printed on their shirts, now ill show ya how to jive man!!"

     

    "i used to be with it , then they changed what it was, and what was it seems weird and scary to me and it will happen to you"

     

    the sad thing is that episode features sonic youth and smashing pumpkins, two bands i worshiped as a teenager in the early 90s and now none of the kids know of them (though in 93 i doubt anyone form my H.S. cept me knew anyway!)

     

    also keep in mind pop culture isnt taught to the youngins, like american history is, sure ***some*** kids (like me when i was one) could name all 39 :P (it was then!) presidents :ponder: but who was taught all the # 1 songs from 1970-1999? all i can remeber is my sharona was in 1979!

     

    of course we all know pop music is terrible anyways!!

     

    anyways its just a fact of life that things we hold dear will not likley move on to the next generation

     

    will the class of 2010 remeber sega genesis? or will it go back to being the first book of the bible???

     

    ah well what do the "cool kids" know anyways

     

    im gona play atari forever, forever for...ever

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    well i didnt mean it to mean like a criteria like asif it was a test, just some guidline to keep the posting in--line :)

     

    as far as not buying other systems , i mean it more as "i had a 2600 but got and nes and it the atari went in the attic" i guess its ok to play side by side but not abandon old for new. i got an nes but by brother was an ass so i didnt bother with it and stuck the 7800 which my brother hated since "atari is like a bunch of squares nintendo has graphics"

     

    but i know somewhere in the world is a madcap vcs devotee that has had only that since fall 1977 and thats it :D

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    I know it might not be a very common thing....

     

     

    but how many people out there would meet this criteria?

     

    1-the bought the VCS in 1977, prefrably as early as possible.

    2-kept in complete working order preferrable keeping all boxes and etc intact

    3- never bought another game system as others came out

    4- played it and bought games for it up until the end in 1990. and maybe continued to today

     

     

    i just get the idea

    of a heavy sixer sitting in someones gameroom all this time always being loved, so who ? and how many? i played 2600 since 82 :( and 7800 since 87 but havent let it go but thats not 1977

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    what nes and playstation, alongside 2600 are the big three systems of all time, each representing a new era and dominating during it. if you say the nes only a few games that were good, take a look at some of the pitiful stuff the 2600 also endured that sunk it in the end. when i system reaches a level of popularity you have to expect some junky titles to be churned out, but as time fades those become forgotten and the great games come in to play once again

     

     

    id call the playstation classic almost, it still has shelf space in most stores and thats my determing factor in claiming classic status not graphical ability of even great games

     

    you can call a record a classic by how many times you wear the vynal out,

     

    a car can be called classic if it harks back to a certain time

     

    but what about games? still too early to tell,, but sorry i think the majority would call NES classic gaming

     

     

    also "classic" and "classics" seems to have 2 diffenrt meaning,, hmm

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    i remeber it as OOTW was beeing billed as bringing the pc experience home. and i thought it was a great game because for most part because i didnt have the privlidge of owning a pc at the time so OOTW and similar DOS based games were amazing but i coudl never enjoy. my parents felt a videogame system (or 2) was enough and computers were too expensive to make it worth it. (thankfully after 11 years they gave in!! but by then i could afford my own!)

     

    anyways... OOTW was the original it featured lester knight chaykan(sp?)

    then flash back IIRC was sort of a nonsequel, similar style but not connected i think the characters name in that was CONRAD am i right on this or no?

     

    than came heart of the alien, for sega cd which was the offical sequel and makes the end of OOTW a but more understandable.

     

     

    as far as a fourth game in this style, beats me, bu i wish polygonal type games would have stayed poly gonal looking, instead of realistic sighhhhhhh

  21. Posted

    i just find it weird, because you spend a tin of money you canhave for much less and if you try to play it then about 90% of the money you spend goes away... and you knowyou can NEVER EVER EVER have every game sealed so why bother? other than the seller who can sell it to a moron

  22. Posted

    i see it as this

     

     

     

    there are clear lines that divide the history of videogames such as the time before and after pac-man and before and after cd games

     

    and of course before and after the market crash of 1984 of course one millimeter to the to the right of that would be the magical marker of before and after super mario brothers, which at one ponit or another everyone has been caught saying it was "the best game ever" or something to that extent. it was hard to escape this juggurnaut from 1985-1990. it IS an awesome game and back then it was like how we look at some of those ps 2 and x box games when they were first revealed.

     

    to me atari could've had a dozen of these style of games in the pipeline , i doubt it would have mattered. many people bought the NES just for this game, and unless you had a 7800 first you probably didnt get to own both.

     

    I had neighbors kids who were much younger than me and around 1990 they said they hoped they got a nintendo for xmas or b-day (who cares!) . i said. hey what about a sega or turbo grafx, those are 16 bit mindblowing games.

     

    all they could say was it didnt have super mario 1!!! a game thats 5 years old at that point. and i think that the nes selling for 90$ until 1993 is proof people just kept buying it basically for one game (at leats at first)

     

    so unless atari bought out the nes thered have been no chance...... you say atari would have fudged it up? i say no. like most deals i heard of atari would have likely only retained home gaming rights leaving nintendo free to release "VS super mario bros" in 1985. the clamor for a home game would have smacked some sense in to the late 80s atari and it would have come out, though with the focus on computers at that time, maybe on that!

     

     

    also, lets not forget nintendos propaganda machine! everythign from fruit snacks to underwear had mario on it! (hmm fuji boxers..? ah another thread!) plus the kid down the street whos dad would only let him play nintedo 1 hour aday and you had to pray hed mess up so youd get a nice long turn , just made everyone itch for nintendo. even i did, i wanted SMB 3 like a mo-fo and did get it in 2/90 when i first came out. while nintendo would mail you catologues (i even got DRAGON WARRIOR for free once!) where you would give them MORE money to it, i cant remeber one atari commercial from 1987-1990 and not again until 93. true word of mouth is good for true gamers but wont convince legions of youngsters with rich parents.

     

    the brainwashing went down to the cartridge, how many times has someone told you nes games were "better" because the "game paks" were huge and atari's were small? youll try and rebut by saying 89%

    of the game is just space the chip is only an inch big. then they will say " ya but its got more pins so its got 'better graphics' " i swear nintendo must have subliminaly flashed idiotic phrase of "better graphics" that into EVERYTHING on tv. im just glad when genesis screamed across america that argument was a plentiful as a hover board. :D :D

     

    and yes after 84 atari was mocked. it was a that was then this is now mentality. and its true in a way it is dumb to have 1976 technology in a 1987 market price breaks and budget models work in the PC world not the 'box on top 'the tv " world! alot of times people woudl argue that atari's (2600, but to an uneducated mine 2600 was all that existed) games were just "all squares" while NES had smooth (?) graphics. when the lynx came out , i took it to school to show it superiority over the B/W game boy. the shock when i heard people say " ya its in color but game boy is better because it has an actual cartridge and not a card! WHAT THE *&^%@ !! that actually happened!! :shock: :shock: :shock: and then the jaguar, when i brought mine home i showed my brother the 64 bit superiority and when he saw cybermorph all he coudl say was honest to god! "it still a bunch of squares!"

     

    so conclusion any processor is capable , just depends how you use it, if you use it and how far you take it the specs are just an on paper idea , its more about the whole experience even beyond the games at times. just my take at an angle i dont think was fully touched yet...

     

    sigh im tired now, tune in tomorrow for my predictions of the future (for real. its gona be in off topic!)

     

    ak64

     

     

    ps after this anychance i can write for someone (free of course! )

  23. Posted

    what about the packaging for these units? ive seen the typical red lettered atari 7800 box alot but what about one closer to the 1984 design of the carts?

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