S1500

I remember in St. Paul there was a video store(a nice one) where you could rent Game Boy games. I mean really, game boy games! Found that to be the oddest rental availability ever. They didn't charge much at all, and gave you 5 days on rentals. So what was the most unusual rentability you could find for video game stuff at video stores? Did in fact Atari 2600s & their games get rented out? Earliest console I remember renting was a NES. Those were always fun for a weekend.

Look on the bright side. If the seller was a Jaguar fanboy, he/she would be raising the price to astronomical levels.

Maybe instead of a butter knife, have a pass through connector to a few ribbon cables, with a breakout box in the middle. Then you just experiment with connecting things with the breakout box for fun & crazy results. You just need some sort of breakout box, 2 ribbon cables & 1 cartridge port & one "male" connector for the console.

WOW is that ghoul mask useful when zipping around the underground tunnels. No way I would have survived there on guns alone. Okay, I probably would have, but this is much easier. Of course, I fall in the water and can't swim out, promptly die.Ugh. It's okay. Didn't loot too much when "ghoularity ensued" as I couldn't find Alistair tenpenny, and alas I couldn't get his nice sniper rifle. Oh well. Now I'm at a neutral karma level from all that stuff. can't find that church guy to make a donation. Hmmm..

Ahh, snoopin' in on phone calls. I used my 20 channel scanner to listen to 49Mhz calls when I lived in an apartment. A mix of English & Russian. Heck, I even heard my neighbors order pizza. For celly? A Motorola flip phone in diagnostic mode. Good times. Sadly, my 200 channel scanner I bought a couple years ago isn't so fun to listen to. All the cops, etc have moved onto digital & so forth. I had TONS of fun with my old 20 channel scanner in the day.

Perhaps this is an opportunity to make a new video game store chain, and then we can hate them as well. Nobody liked FuncoLand, nobody liked GS, and I hate that one place that tried to sell a used Flashback II for $50. face it, working in the video game bazarr is an uphill battle. If I ran a video game shop, I would have an official policy on EA sports titles. I will 1) carefully examine it 2) hold it up to the customer to cue them to look at the DVD case 3) push really hard & fast into their face I would actually have a big neon sign "NO EA SPORTS TITLES!". What happened to that website of that used video game store owner who was sassy & not afraid to tell the customers straight up? He should run a franchise.

Anyone do this as a kid? Get an FM radio, set it to an unused station area, and listen to the bleeps & blips your computer makes via the RF interference. That was fun to listen to when I had my TI-99/4A. You can hear it to some extent already through the TV, but comes in so much clearer over radio. Try running a program, and you can hear all sorts of "thinking" sounds. Heck, I still remember to this day that high pitched almost nonexistant tone when a TI is idle. Emulators of course don't have that nice touch. Do game consoles give off similar interference? Can you do junk processing to make music from said RF interference? Inquiring minds want to know.

I highly recommend the "retrobits" podcast. It's not about video games exactly, but it talks about 80s computing nostalgia. Just hosted by one guy, but the episodes are less than an hour, and he goes pretty deep. Boring Beige Box is good too. Just heard part of the latest episode of Retrocore. Still horrible.

SO I did a playaround(ie don't save), and embarked on "tenpenny towers". Without even trying, Ghoularity Ensued. Fun stuff!

I gotta stop watchin' youtube videos that minorly spoil the game for me, but then again this game is so huge it doesn't spoil it 100%. Anyways. Funny incident last night. Baddies will follow you IN to buildings. I've had raiders come out of the raid shack after I barged in. I was coming out of the grocery out of Seneca station & heard "There he is!", so I zip back into the store, hoping to be protected. Nope. They "appear"(ie go through the door) in a group of 4, and hilarity ensues. Just like before, I'm almost dead at one point in the battle, but get past them. Odd, I've been to all the referenced locations in "blood ties", but can't find any trace of them. All I found was a geeky Ghoul who will pay me 15 for each sugar bomb. Seems easer than trying to find 20 Chinese assault rifles, which seem to be more rare than Mini Nukes. Like I could find them.

Those people are apparently out of their f*cking minds. That game is a humongous overflowing shit sandwich in every conceivable way no matter how you slice it. That's weird. I thought the best survival horror game was pronounced "Left 4 Dead", according to the amount of praise this game has received.

Gotcha. I'll just steer clear of the super-radioactive areas then. I just visited paradise falls. What a creepy, disturbing town to be in. Jeesh! Got my bobblehead & left. I'll try later to steal some nuka cola quantum and see if the whole town goes freakin nuts after me.

I took Rad-X in the wet areas in the Nuka-Cola factory, and I still got rads(1/sec). I'm starting to think this Rad-X is a placebo.

I didn't have much luck using my iPod with my 360. It just sat there, eternally, "connecting" with it. It worked a few times, but meh. I just use the linux server now. Sadly, the Xbox media stuff seems to love playing the same songs again, without any shuffling or entropy.

I went to the Nuka-Cola plant and had some fun. Was expecting to get more Nuka Cola Quantums though. Oh well. Got some needed experience & plenty of neat stuff to sell. I can almost afford my first infirmary/lab! Even got a protectron to "frenzy" & kill the other one nearby. But those pulse grenades sure come in handy.

That's what I don't get. The energy weapons seem to have less kick(at least the laser rifle & pistol). Sure, they aren't at 100%, but still don't have the kick my Chinese Assault rifle has. One advantage for energy weapons: quickie-fire. Sure, I'll find better energy weapons, but for now, it seems bullet weapons are the way to go. The combat shotgun has been essential in close-quarter combat(ie buildings, etc)

While I only have one of the three(360), I'm quite satisfied with my purchase. I watch torrented TV shows on it, listen to my MP3 collection & play fun games. It's a straightforward console with media stuff.

Good news from the homefront... I embarked on a crazy suicide mission into the Bethesda ruins. Came out with a bobblehead & other goodies. Didn't die. When I first went into the west office, they ambushed me like no other. There were 4 of em on me, so I flamed 'em all. BTW don't put mines in front of you, as the explosion will affect you. Gotta space 'em out. Wish I could have taken more of the conductors, etc as there were a TON of supplies to sell here. Took what I needed + then some, killed both offices & ran for it. A few were on my tail as I was leaving, but I got out of range after a brief scuffle. And the bad news. Literally EVERYTHING is trying to kill me on the way to arefu. I just want to deliver that damn letter and suddenly Talon Mercs, one mutant bear, 3 raiders, TWO supermutants & some mirelurks standing by. I have never seen such a well-paved path to hell. I also had fun following two Outcasts and helped 'em along on their journey. One died, so I took his armor I can't use yet. So good progress. I even prepped myself for the future mine sidestep perk, as just ONE freakin mine can ruin your day. So is it standard operation to zip back & forth between megaton to trade & heal & journey outwards?

Earlier on our adventures, he seemed to take almost no damage, despite being set on fire, shot at, etc. Of course, he stupidly goes after fire ants(dies), and against a hostile protectron(dies). I forgot how he died last night, as he just loves to scurry off & bravely attack baddies. I'm gonna shoot for the bethesda ruins tonight. It might be a "kamikaze run" type thing where I just run & gun without saving the game. I've done that before, clearing out most of the raiders near fort independence. Guess that one time I fast-traveled there & died in a minute discouraged me. Yet I was able to kill most of the raiders OUTSIDE the building when my levels/weapons were much lower. Someone on YouTube said they ran into a raider there with a freakin' alien blaster.

I finally got back into playing the game. I'm up to level 8 now(yeah I know, low), and here's some fun highlights. 1. 2 Talon mercs come after me, and I almost die. These guys have Chinese assault rifles & I didn't do too well. Shot one rifle offa guy & he goes for the laser rifle. After many stimpaks & grenades later, I kill one & the other runs off. 2. I go into the sewers, kill some ghoul named "gallo" & take all his awesome weapon-making loot. 3. Kill all the ants in the tunnels the raiders were digging & don't get much at all. 4. Ran into my first mutant bear(yhao goa?) and WOW does he do some damage. 5. Dogmeat finally bit the dust. Didn't expect him to last long anyways. I move onward. Now I already have to waste one of my perk opportunities to get my SPECIAL stat for Agility up, so I can get mine sidestepping ability later. It seems no matter what level you're at, a mine will do an amazing amount of damage.

What's TD podcast? I'm not recognizing the acronym offhand. Did you mean the live chatroom on drunken gamers a few days ago?

New contender: 72-pin connector podcast - Hollow audio, lots of hooting & hollering, and everyone talks over each other. Skip this one.

I agree: Asteroids 2000, Star Castle 3D, Scramble 3D, Galaxians 3D, etc. Other updates I'd like to see us do or someone do.....in 3D Zaxxon Sinistar Defender/StarGate Blaster Robotron Berzerk/Frenzy Solar Fox Wizard of Wor Eliminator Space Fury Circus Atari(might do this in Paddle Baddles) Klax Astro Chase from the 8 bitters....loved that game! I would not call Stunn Runner a 'classic' classic. It's another generation from the originals like Space Invaders and such but it would be a great Jag game. These games don't get the TM symbol?

Video game high scores: serious business

Awww, isn't that cute, the guy from Infogrames thinks whatever he says is relevant to today. I, s1500 officially declare: "I hate stuff that is bad!".