S1500

oooh you just reminded me of

Incredible Universe

what a place that was

LaBelle's!

When I finally got to get a 2600 at Kay Bee's they were out of Pac-man.

Good one GoldLeader!

Bought a flashback portable at Bed Bath and Beyond in Dallas tonight. It is the Atari store.

Don't whiz on the Atari Portable.

"They have the internet on computers now?" -Homer Simpson

"Where's the any key?"

am still waiting for my Syn tax refund. Reportedly, there's been an error.

It's a shame to hear that. Going by forum posts and threads, it sounded like a lot of people picked up Wii U systems over the holiday timeframe.

Meh then I guess it's a flop. I'm not trying to debate I'm not a Nintendo fanboy (5200 FTW!) I'm just naive I 'spose. 4 million units sounds pretty good to me.

I've heard this song and dance before, they will do fine in 2014.Things like this were said about the DS,3DS and Wii at different points. Still prefer Wii U to Xbone.

I try to be selective in who I follow, but it always ends up with mudslinging on my feed(even if I'm on their side). Then you get twitter users who like some of the dumbest posts ever, and you can't filter likes. You can filter retweets, but not likes. So it shows tweets I wouldn't be interested in seeing anyway.

The Ben & Jerry's twitter feed is awfully political for ice cream.

David Hasselhoff follows my account for some reason.

Bubsy traffic on twitter is fun and civil for the most part.

yawn

@Flo: you forgot the spying

With OnLive, they spying was sold as a feature. It was fun to broadcast (Twitch style) and comment on other people's games, which were presented as a big moving gallery. You could turn it off but sometimes it was neat to be a part of a big video gaming hive mind.

Anything delivered digitally is going to have usage analytics. In the case of video games, at least it's going to be much less sensitive than text communication.

No doubt every user will targeted with a...

@cpuwiz

so what's changed?

Because retro gamers play new stuff too? Crazy, I know.

I know I play retro games to get something unique, as opposed to the Sgt. McShootaman games that have dominated for so long. Switch is inherently different & unique despite its newness.

Plus Nintendo has a rep for long-term playability & value, so it's a way to buy in cheap before nostalgia jacks up prices in 20 years (maybe).

With a manual how are you supposed to play with your smartphone in traffic?

Don't ask for manual when car shoppingm ask for advanced anti-theft device. Crooks can't steal stick shift cars in USA.

Don't ask for manual when car shoppingm ask for advanced anti-theft device. Crooks can't steal stick shift cars in USA.

Can we get a link to this facebook comment?

Here you go, doc:

Thanks. Scary and disappointing. You want to pay honor to something you loved in the past only to have that cause bite you later. I remember this happening with Combat 2, and people using the Atari symbol years ago. But as many say not the old Atari. But then... the old Atari was sue happy too (Sega, Amiga, I think there was one with Apple somewhere along the way...)

Hack the Gibson

Porn and cats. Order is not important, nor are the two mutually exclusive.

Make a greeting card with a phoney wife and two kids for a photo shoot. Upload on Facebook.

Except the NES was massively popular. The ColecoVision wasn't.

Nintendo became synonymous with video games. Coleco never did.

The NES sold about 62 millions consoles. The ColecoVision sold just north of 2 million.

Nintendo had a massive game library. Coleco didn't - it was all licensed from others.

Even if the Chameleon had come to market, they had no name recognition that would sell it.

Or games

Supposedly Nintendo had sold at least 2.3 million NES Mini by April 2017 (possibly excluding the Famicom Mini), and about 4 million SNES Mini by spring 2018. Let's say at least 7-10 million units together.

In comparison, 50000 units of respective Atari Flashback is within the error margin, from a global perspective. And no, I can't imagine the Chameleon would have sold even 1 million units if it had come to market.

Not until I get my ball back!

I want my two dollars!

Haha!! +1 Bryan with the Better Off Dead reference!

^Whoa!!

@DS, exactly. Not sure how it is today, but years ago if you tried to upgrade a store bought PeeCee, could look forward to their special version of Windoze not liking the new card or processor. Conflicts galore, drivers not found, download a driver only to find it still doesn't work or makes matters worse. Before long your HD and config is so screwed up, that you decide to format, remove your upgrades and reinstall all the crappy bloated software. Temporarily "happy" that your system appears to work again. Until the next "upgrade" attempt.   

If you buy a name brand PC then you're more likely to get their bloated version of Windows. Mine is a cheap Cyberpower and it came with the most barebones version of Windows I've ever seen. It didn't even have 7-Zip  for heaven's sake. I'm sure I can upgrade it, but I don't want to... yet.

Shatner sitting at a table eating tacos with obsessed Hello Kitty in Star Trek clothes.

Bryan: Been there, just done that!

I came for the tacos, but stayed for The Shatners!

@Eltigro King Sooper's? (Possibly called Kroger's). I do that one too...

@GoldLeader Nope, but I used to have a Kroger card. This is for Brookshire's. According to Wikipedia, they're just in Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana.

^Cool...Interesting are the parallels...Save on gas & groceries, nicer than WalMart...

Outer Worlds is part of the Xbox Game Pass for PC. Kind of surprised they’d let you “rent” a high profile new release like that. 

This is on my Xmas wish list. This and Civilization 6.

Outer Worlds being Fallout in space makes me think that there needs to be a game that follows the premise of "Fantastic Voyage" so we could have a Fallout type game that takes place in inner space. 

Only a lot of spam.

Marissa Meyer..poke or no poke?

Damn! I guess I'm the only one who actually likes Yahoo...

That's GOLD, Jerry!

Do you have a name for this magazine?

I was pondering a few titles, but nothing sounded right. Retro Gaming Magazine Review? Heh

Yes. I lived in Toronto in 2004-2005 and despite a hortons on every other corner, I loved the coffee, ice caps and maple donuts. Ice caps sometimes gave me brain freeze, of course. I've bben planning to check out the ones in the Twin Cities, but maybe best I didn't.

Bummer! I'd only heard good things in the past, but I'm a diehard Dunkin Donuts fan. They died out then came back to Colorado but not Wyoming, had people camping out when they first opened!

Maybe it's like when Budweiser buys out a small brewery, then cheapens all the recipes, making high alcohol versions they then water down and quality suffers...

Sadly replicators can't create lifeforms beyond the most basic of microbes (I think? not to sure.)

^ Picard replicated a live houseplant in one episode of TNG.

(It was the one that introduced Earl Grey as his signature tea, in fact.)

He's quite capable of playing all the characters, just set him loose at chewing scenery.

Everybody's heard his circumcision story, right?

I have too many actual PS1 games and many systems to play them on to be interested in this. Cool idea though.

I think there was a country, where this year, is the year of "milking".

Anybody else waiting for the "Pong Classic" console from Sears? I hear it includes to built-in paddles and 6 variations of Pong, including Hai Alai!!!

Yes. If you had taken one of those clock/radio/phone combo units and wrapped the whole thing in layers of electrical tape, it would look a lot like "that Ataribox?".

Several thousand Indiegogo users can't be wrong. Well, I mean, they CAN, but who knows. I'm still stunned that there's even this much interest in the stupid thing.

If you can't see what's "under the hood" you might as well pass on it.

Drink from a toilet bowl. At least then you'll have a pretty good idea of what's in there.

Have some coffee instead. Tastes much better and it won' rot your teeth.

I just can't get away from it, can i

I'm reminded of the weird 3am been-up-for-3-days rantings of THE SPACE BOSS on rec.games.video.classic. Classic weirdo overthinking of things. .

Looks like that Acorn thread was removed?

Yeah, there's a very Space Boss like vibe here

Am I the only person who didn't like the 1995 anime film?

^You're the first person I've heard say that...But hey to each his own.

I'm not a big anime fan myself, so this movie really didn't even tempt me. Now, Guardians of the Universe Vol 2, ooooh yeah!