Bivotar
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Looks like Best Buy has a couple Gamecube titles on sale for $20, including Outlaw Golf and Turok. I've heard lots of bad things about Turd-ok, but have read mixed reviews about Outlaw Golf.
Anybody play/own this title, and if so, is it worth picking up for $20?
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I have the 2600 adapter for the CV and it's pretty cool. I actually have it hooked up to an Adam, which gives me nice audio and video outputs instead of RF, so I get a super clean picture on a monitor.
While the video is great, and gameplay on 2600 games seem perfect, the sound is pretty scrappy. It's really low volume and kind of 'scratchy' sounding.
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I assume you tried the obvious and hit the Reset button a few times on your Intellivision? Some games/specific consoles seem to need you to hit the Reset when you fire it up the console.
Other than that, have you given them a good cleaning? It's pretty suspect that two of the same games don't work, but you never know. On games I suspect are dirty and don't work, I definitely get out the FINE sandpaper and give the contacts a light rubbing. Follow that with alchol and qtips. I don't even bother with the old 'rub them with an eraser', as I've never had much luck with that.
Good luck. Cool game, hope you get it working.
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I have a problem with the Z26 emulator I'm trying to run here at work. It is using the PC speaker for sound and I can't figure out how to disable it. Since I'm at work, I'd like it to be completely silent
I'd prefer not to jack with the Soundblaster settings. Is there some switch to completely disable sound??
TIA
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Soon after I bought my NES back in the 80's, I picked up Super Pitfall (or something close to that title). I thought, "hey, it's based on Pitfall. It HAS to be good." Oh how wrong I was.
I truly hated that game. Surprisingly the store I bought it from let me take it back. After that I tried to adopt a 'rent before purchase' philosophy, unless I knew I was going to LOVE the game.
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Wow, I'm surprised to see how many people included WarGames... I thought I was just weird (especially since I don't like Missile Command nearly as much).The sad thing is that I didn't even know you could use the Roller Controller with it until about a year ago... and I had that damn thing since I was 5.
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SAY WHAT?!?!?! I can't wait to get home tonight to try this!
I had the game since it originally came out too, but only got the roller controller about 2 years ago. But it never occurred to me to try it. WOW! Thanks for the tip. -
The good ol' Colecovision. Here are 10 I consistently go back to playing:
Mr. Do!
Wargames
Donkey Kong Jr.
Carnival
Pepper II
Mousetrap
Beamrider
Popeye
Frogger
Gateway to Apshai
There's a couple others that are fun, every once in awhile, like 2010 (pretty hectic when you get the hang of it). Even Cabbage Patch Kids: Adv. in the Park is a hoot.
Lots of variety on the old CV.
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A friend of mine received one for Christmas and I had a chance to check it out. Very cool packaging and concept! It's nuts having what is essentially a working Atari enclosed in a joystick!
After playing with it some, it seems more of a novelty to me, aimed at people who want a quick nostalgia kick. Not the "collector" or actual player of 2600 games. The front end menu is pretty cool, the game selection so-so (paddle games with a joystick?!?!!), and the help screens are cool. The games themselves aren't bad, but they seemed off (speedwise) and the sound was awful.
Overall pretty cool, but I don't feel really compelled to go out and pick one up.
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I had a real blast playing the Pokemon Stadium games with my 7 year old nephew. Eventhough I hate Pokemon, it was a good time.
I also play Smash Bros. with my neice and nephew. We get in to some pretty raging battles sometime!
Mario Tennis can be a good time too. I think the biggest thrill with my niece was that she also has it for the Gameboy, and could transfer stuff with the Transfer Pak.
Games you can play WITH a youngster seem kind of rare. The games above are just a couple I enjoyed playing with young kids.
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I picked up a couple used games cheap for Christmas. Pac-Man World 2 being one of them. I am quite pleased with this one so far. While the camera gets a little tweaky (it makes Super Mario Sunshine's camera look brilliant)' date=' I'm still having a lot of fun. The levels gradually get more involved and offer new elements of play. Plus you gather coins to unlock a few arcade games.[/quote']How much did it cost you? I'm not about to pay $50 for it new but if it was cheap used I'd probably get it. I assume wherever you went locally though' date=' they probably only had one copy.
[/quote']I got it used at Block Buster (132nd Maple). It was only $20 plus it was buy two, get one free. I picked up two other $20 titles. So depending on how you look at it, it could be considered 'free'.
I'm a big fan of Block Buster used games. A good chunk of my N64 collection was built from them. It was awesome when they really started to weed out N64!
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Star Fox Adventures was really a good game, IMO. Of course, I'm a big fan of Rare Ltd. games (really bummed to hear they will no longer be doing GC games
) While it looked great, and like someone pointed out, played like Zelda, it seemed a little short. Maybe I just didn't want it to end though! 
Super Smash Bros Melee was a surprise to me how much I liked it. I don't like and don't get "fighting games", but my wife picked this up for me and I have really enjoyed it! Unlocking a new character or getting a new trophy brings me much joy! I still play this regularly after getting it a year ago. And it looks damn pretty.
I picked up a couple used games cheap for Christmas. Pac-Man World 2 being one of them. I am quite pleased with this one so far. While the camera gets a little tweaky (it makes Super Mario Sunshine's camera look brilliant), I'm still having a lot of fun. The levels gradually get more involved and offer new elements of play. Plus you gather coins to unlock a few arcade games.
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My brother and I wanted an Adam when they came out in the 80's SO BAD. We begged our mom and dad for one, using the "computers are educational" angle and everything. They were around $400, as I recall, at that time. Fortunately, our parents didn't cave and we didn't get our Adam. We did end up getting a Commodore 64, which ended up being a much better decision!
Since then, I have picked up an Adam at a thrift store for $5. I had to get it just to say I finally got that Adam I wanted. No regrets I never had one though! Pretty weak compare to a C64. I do like that you can get AV out of the Adam without major hacking. Coleco games, and even 2600 games through the expansion module, look GREAT on the Commodore monitor I have hooked up to it!
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Demon Attack is pretty dirt common.
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The sound quality of the 2600 games played in the expansion module isn't nearly as good as playing the games on a true 2600. For lack of a better term, it sounds "squawkier".
Generally all the standard manufactured games seem to play fine though.
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The CV power supply generates more than one voltage, as I recall. That's why it has 4 prongs. One pin is ground, and the others are something like +5v, +12v, and -12V. You could probably rig up an old pc powersupply, but that would require a voltmeter and knowing what pins are what. Unfortunately, the Colecovision FAQ doesn't cover this.
But the short answer is no, you can't find a generic ps for the Colecovision.
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While game graphics have without a doubt improved since the beginnings with Pong and the 2600, haven't they really reached a peak and are now mainly limited by display resolution of TV's? Not everybody owns HDTV yet, I personally don't know anybody that does.
Just imagine when mega-displays are a reality and affordable. I always envisioned a display that basically takes up a whole wall, almost like wall paper, and has a very very high resolution. When not being used for entertainment, it could display vivid photorealistic scenes or movies (imagine having dinner while viewing a grand canyon landscape). Games would of course be able to take advantage of this 'mega-display' and have full size, interactive characters to deal with.
And of course VR would be a hoot.
But overall I think it will be up and coming display technology that will help determine the future of video games.
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I stopped in at my local Super Target last night and they had just set out a big stack of a DVD's with new and upcoming Gamecube demos (movies only!). It ranged from stuff like Metroid Prime to Harry Potter. There are actually quite a few different movies on the disk. It has a fairly cool menu.
Metroid Prime was probably the coolest demo, with a menu choice to view the history of the Metroid series, including actual game graphics playing in a window.
Pretty cool stuff! It of course is free. Now why won't they release some of those actual Gamecube demo disks, kind of like the Playstation JamPak series.
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I can't say on the PS2 version, but I picked up Gauntlet:Dark Legacy for Game Cube and was disappointed that it was basically a rehash of Gauntlet Legends on the Dreamcast. A few new worlds, some rearrangements, but overall it felt very deja-vu like (been there, done that). Oh some new characters you could play as (which wasn't a huge appeal to me, oh boy, I can play as a weird jester looking guy!).
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I picked up a "MegaJoy 8000" and it's kind of neat. It looks like an N64 controller. It only has AV out (which is okay by me, I hook it up to the overhead projection system at work and it's FUN).
It has a couple hundred games on it, but many start repeating after a while. Most are the original games, with a lot being early run NES and Famicon stuff. Seeing some of the Famicon only titles (like Nuts and Milk) was interesting. It has a lot of arcade ports, like Galaga, Dig Dug, and Donkey Kong.
The control pad pretty much sucks. Both A and B button have a corresponding mate for 'turbo fire', but all buttons and the pad are really damn spongy. Kind of takes some of the fun out of it. I thought about wiring up a NES Advantage to it, but that seemed to defeat the portability purpose.
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It seems like most, if not all the NES carts I've picked up 'in the wild' have needed a good cleaning (at a minimum, lots of alchol, sometimes a little very fine sandpaper).
Plus, it is VERY easy to simply open up the case on the NES and bend the cart connector pins back up. It makes it a little 'stiffer' to insert/remove a cart, but it is worth it in terms of the blinky-blink frustration. You could replace that connector, as someone else pointed out, but simply bending the pins a little sure did the trick for me.
Your poor NES. I can't ever imagine destroying a game system with my fist.
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I was a late comer to the N64 and never regretted finally picking one up.
My collection really swelled (up around 50) by swinging through Blockbuster Video and picking up cheap used games. For a while they were really blowing them out, with great titles going for $9.99, and every so often would be a "buy 2 get one free" special.
I liked many of the Rare games, including DK64, Banjo Tooie, and of course CONKER (which absolutely rocked!).
N64 was probably the last cartridge based console (not handheld), wasn't it?
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I caught "I Spy" this weekend, and before the previews was a commercial for Metroid Prime. It was AWESOME!
The game looks absolutely incredible and they showed a lot of in-game action. I want to get this game badly, but for some reason fps games on consoles (not pc's) make me extremely motion sick. Does this happen to anybody else? I really tried to play Perfect Dark but after a couple times of getting near puking sick, I gave up.
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Getting back to the original poster, have you seen the city all flooded yet?No, I haven't seen the city flooded yet. That happens when the final world is opened up? What triggers that event?
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Yes, I've been over to gamefaqs.com and read through a couple. But they all seem to talk about how to finish each world and episode sequentially. I couldn't really find a definitive "you must do this..." type of answer so I thought I'd post here.
I'm sure there is somebody out there that has finished the game, or am I the only one here at AA that is close?
I have about 67 shines.
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I hate the way the way the games shelves in the R Zone work. They are "spring loaded" and push the games to the front of the rack with considerable force. What I don't like is taking a game out to look at the info on the back, and then trying to put it back on the shelf, only to be thwarted by the spring not wanting to push back! At that point, I just say piss on it and lay it on top of the rack.
But back on topic, WAY COOL LABEL AND BOX!!!!