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I'm in Texas. And the machine was probably already trashed and smashed by the time I noticed it was gone. Even if they would have sold or given it to me, I don't have room for anything like that right now. Pretty much everything is in boxes and the only systems I have out to play are what will fit on top of my dresser: Xbox 360, Wii, and TG-16.

Nah, you don't use currency, you use valuables. Use the machine to first go back and get gold or silver (who knows, tell people you're god or something when you appear and tell them to give you gold) then go to the 80/90's with the gold. Sell the gold for cash, use the cash to buy the games, bring the games to the future... Wait... as far as that goes... why bother with the middle man... just bring the gold to the future/present and sell it at the increased prices... What the hell, don't pay for anything. Go back and mug someone then bring the loot to the future.

Sigh... there's a new district manager and the store managers were running to "clean up" the "off stage" areas and decided that the arcade machine had to go. I come in one day and it's gone. I guess they just threw it in the compactor.

Highest I've managed so far is 162,400. I still haven't figured out the third stage patterns, but I haven't been messing with it long. Sorry for the crappy picture, had to rush and take it with my phone before the screen went to the Continue screen.

I haven't been a big fan of the plug and play type systems, not real sure why even. Maybe they just seem too limited or the games (in the ones like the Spongebob or Scooby systems) don't interest me. That Ms. Pac Man one looked really nice. I used to have the Playstation Namco Museum vol. 1 game that had Bosconian. Seeing it in the video reminded me of how much it looks like the multidirectional parts of Thunder Force II.

Didn't see this one mentioned, but the TurboGrafx-CD (not the Duo), has an issue with a certain gear inside that breaks or wears down or something. I don't have one and haven't had to deal with it, but I have heard it is a problem.

Reread my post a little closer. I said "to the arcade and from the arcade" not "to the arcade from the arcade". There is a difference. I did not say to the arcade from where. I did not say from the arcade to where. I tried to clarify that by saying "Tennis was copied/reverse engineered/ported to Arcade as PONG then PONG ported to PONG clones as home console." If I was still unclear, I apologize. I did know that the Odyssey was a home system, although I did not know the exact dates or timing of releases. That's why I looked it up. The information I found said that Bushnell saw the Ping-Pong demo then went to his engineers and asked them to recreate it or whatever, renaming the resulting arcade machine "PONG". (That's the "to the arcade" or "copied/reverse engineered/ported to arcade".) Then, because of the popularity of the PONG arcade machine, the game was made/ported/copied into a hundred or so PONG clones. (That's the "from the arcade" or "PONG ported to PONG clones" part.) I don't want to fight you, but I don't feel I was necessarily wrong.

Um. I know. I didn't realise PONG was based on the Odyssey's Tennis game so I looked it up. You were right. Tennis was copied/reverse engineered/ported to Arcade as PONG then PONG ported to PONG clones as home console. Lighten up.

Tennis for Two didn't have an on-screen score either and was developed in 1958. Or are we just talking about home console games?

Then maybe PONG was the first game ported to the arcade and from the arcade.

Many of these were so fun because I had so much fun playing them with friends, not necessarily because they were/are great multiplayer games. Also, they are in no particular order of greatness, just as I think of them. 1. Military Madness; TG-16 (my best friend and I used to play this all night, many fights and arguments over the game, but still great memories) 2. Contra; NES 3. Xybots; Arcade 4. Lifeforce; NES 5. Super Off Road; Arcade 6. Mario Kart 64; N64 7. Wii Sports; Wii 8. World Class Baseball; TG-16 (best friend and I will still say the name of one of the teams "The Stars" in the SNL "The Bears" style) 9. Golden Axe; Arcade 10. Altered Beast; Arcade (never really that great of a game IMO, but much more fun when 2-player simultaneous) 11. Rampage; Arcade 12. Bomberman; SNES 13. Mario Bros.; NES 14. Combat; 2600 15. Space Invaders; 2600 Side note, the SNK game Iron Tank for the NES has a mistake in the book that mentions a 2-player mode. When i was in 7th grade, a friend and I rented it and called the toll free SNK tip line to ask about how to get to the 2-player mode and were told about the mistake. It seems the book was written/printed or whatever before the game was finished and the 2-player mode was never included. Always thought it would have been a great 2-player simultaneous game.

I wouldn't mind going back and just getting a couple of those $32,000 NES games... And a few other rare and currently expensive games...

I think you mean compatibility, right? The TurboExpress could play the same Hu card games as the TurboGrafx (Called PCEngine GT and PCEngine respectively in Japan) Another first for the Turbo was the first to offer a CD-Rom on a home console. First ported from an arcade was Pong I would guess. Tennis for Two by William Higinbotham did not have a score on screen. I guess you could keep score manually, though.

Any opinions on Silver Surfer for the NES?

1. I had an Advantage "back in the day" and sold it in a garage sale. I have since acquired another one, used. I never had issues with button sticking on my original one. On the new one, the buttons don't stick, but the rubber under one of them wore down so that it wouldn't work unless I really pressed hard on it. I took it apart and found that the previous owner had tried to repair it. I tried re-repairing it with parts from a broken regular NES controller, but the parts are different so it still doesn't work correctly. (I saw one at a game shop yesterday that, on the outside, looked far worse than mine, but I may buy it if it works correctly and use it for parts.) 2. I don't know about the NES Advantage, but I do know that the Playstation Arcade stick was made by ASCIIware and had their logo printed on the outside. Was this the one you're thinking of?

My dad won an Atari 2600 and some games as a door prize thing at a supermarket grand opening. We already had a 2600, but he let us have one of the games (Yars Revenge) and put the rest up in a closet. No idea what became of the system or the rest of the games... come to think of it... there were lots of things that got put away in a closet that I never knew what happened to, like my BB gun...

These are systems I got new: Atari 2600: Pack-in was Combat, but we got River Raid and Pac Man pretty soon after. NES: Pack-in was SMB/Duck Hunt. Also received Castlevania, Metal Gear, and 1943 at the same time. That was a great birthday. TurboGrafx-16: Pack in was Keith Courage. Received The Legendary Axe that same Christmas. Genesis: Lion King (bought recently on eBay as a NIB item with this pack-in) Playstation: Don't think there was a pack in (except maybe a game demo disc). Don't remember the actual first games, but I know Cyberia and D were a couple early ones. Playstation 2: Gran Turismo 3: A-spec Game Cube: Legend of Zelda: Windwaker and four game Zelda collectors disc XBox: A Tennis/Football pack-in. Fable was first game actually bought, I believe. Wii: Wii Sports pack-in. Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess first game purchase. XBox 360: No Pack In. Grid was first disk and 1942 Joint Strike was first downloaded. As for Used consoles... I bought most of them as bundles on eBay or something, so there's long lists of first games with most of them. But some notables are... Master System: Space Harrier and Choplifter Saturn: Virtua Cop, Daytona USA, and Virtua Fighter 2 (was pack-in bundle with original system, got them with other games in lot), and Darius Gaiden Dreamcast: Shenmue Jaguar: Zool 2, Cybermorph SNES: Super Mario All Stars, Mario Kart, Yoshi's Island, Darius Twin Nintendo 64: Super Mario 64 (still the only game I have for the system)

M.U.S.H.A. Sega Genesis via Wii Virtual Console Soldier Blade TurboGrafx-16 via Wii Virtual Console Raiden TurboGrafix-16

Sigh, right now, because of very limited space, it is my XBox 360. But before I moved, it was my TurboGrafx.

The job is at Target, actually and it's probably an old display or something. And like has been mentioned above, it's not that great. It's a little short for me to be comfortable (I'm about 6ft tall) and there are some issues with the video (some buildings are invisible on Rampage as well as the bridges over the lava that you start out with on Joust). The screen is small, also. But it is free and better than watching soap operas on break. It also doesn't appear to save high scores.

Yeah, sometimes. It depends on what the game is and why I'm considering cheating. Some examples... On Batman Arkham City: There is an achievement if you talk to Calander Man on certain days of the actual RL year. I had missed/forgotten on some days so I turned off the internet connection on my 360 so I could reset the date/time setting to different days and get the achievement. Otherwise, I'd have had to wait a whole year for the chance to talk to him on Valentine's Day (or whatever) again. On Blazing Lazers: There is a midpoint boss during the level where it looks like you're inside a large monster/alien thing (the level with brains flying at you). It is like eight eye like things that continuously spit out eyes that home in on your location. Destroying these eyes give you points. With weapon IV maxed out (using the purple orbs, not the Full Weapon powerup), you have four balls that rotate around your ship in a circle as a kind of shield. I found I could just let my ship sit at the bottom of the screen with this weapon at this boss and the eyes would fly into the rotating shield and slowly build up points. I would get there, then turn the TV off, go to bed, go to school the next day (this was back when I was in high school), then when I would get home from school, I'd have a ton of points and the extra ships you get from points. On Suikoden (I think it was the second one): There is a gambling game you can play that is like three card monte or something. There are three cups and a ball underneath. If you pick a low amount to bet, the cups move slowly and you can easily keep track of the cup with the ball underneath. The more you bet, the faster the cup goes. At the highest level, it's really difficult. So I ran my Playstation through my VCR and recorded it. Then I played the tape back in slow-mo to follow the cup and picked the correct one. On Final Fantasy X: I used a Game Shark to get infinite money, then used Rikku's gil toss skill to attack enemies. Since it does damage equal to the number of gil you throw, I'd just ramp it up to all 9's. Lots of one hit kills then... There are several games where I got stuck and tired of trying so I looked up how to get an object or where all the collection things were... I don't cheat all the time, but sometimes I just do it for the hell of it.

Guess I know what I'll be doing during lunch...

Turbo fan here. Yeah, it's worth it and you got good deal. I never was much of a Splatterhouse fan. I rented it "back in the day" but didn't enjoy it. There are lots of really good titles available for the system and several have been listed already. Congrats and happy gaming!

Also interesting (to me) is that this is one of the first games I ever remember playing for the NES.

Hey! No one told me there would be refreshments! Nah, I liked the 2600 and Jaguar and all, but I admit there were faults and whatever. A lot of the games were cash grabs and the hardware usually seemed to be a bit behind the competition (although this was usually because of the suits, not the engineers). Similarly, I'm a pretty big TurboGrafx-16 fan, but I'll readily admit that some of the games sucked and pretty much everything that had to do with its North American distribution/advertising/game selection was terrible. But I still like it and play it somewhat regularly.