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What do you mean by “get?” They’re downloadable in all the digital stores.

Sure, but the player PAID twenty five cents for each attempt at violence!

This topic keeps drawing me in because I think it’s about the old Mac game called Crystal Quest. I haven’t been this disappointed since some game show called Wipeout came out and it had nothing to do with futuristic hovercraft racing. Well I hope the sound gets fixed for you guys. That’s some quality control they’ve got going there. Game looks cute though. 😃

Real pinball has got to be an expensive, risky business. I’ll definitely get this on console. Is “Pinball M” the place where they’re putting all the “adult” themed Zen Pinball tables to keep them out of PinballFX? It’s getting confusing.

If you meant it sarcastically, I missed that. But it sure read to me as if you were saying, without a hint of irony, that Kevtris got the idea for making an FPGA-powered multi-system from Mike Kennedy and Coleco Chameleon. I don’t see how that could be a serious statement, that’s all.

I agree. Lots of people have ideas. But there aren't many people with the abilities of @kevtris to carry them out. Don't give Mike more credit than he deserves.

Yes. Cheaper media, nothing more. Going download-only is even less expensive.

They really nailed @Tommy Tallarico‘s salesdouche style! Good satire https://hard-drive.net/hd/video-games/microsoft-to-bring-gears-of-war-to-intellivision-amico/

Bert is my spirit animal

Isn’t it all a matter of perspective? If you’re an ape in his cage, of course Mario is the bad guy. If you’re Pauline getting hauled up unfinished buildings against your will, DK is no victim. This isn’t that complicated.

Thank you to all who have contributed to this project. The art was gorgeous and unique, as well as hard to find online or in real life these days. Bravo!

I doubt he feels like talking about it but his handle on here is “parrothead.” You’ll learn more about it from the threads here than you would from him though. There’s a book written from one of his former friends called “Smoke and Mirrors.” The author is not a professional writer and it’s in need of an editor, so I haven’t made it all the way thru the 666 pages. https://www.colecochameleon.org I believe in people’s right to be left alone and would urge you not to harass or stalk the guy. He’s not going to try and pull anything like that ever again.

@Razzie.P I agree that forcing the Xbox One Kinect into the bundle was the wrong move. It needlessly raised the price and was dropped without half the support that the old 360 version got. Hardware should only exist in service of software, and that software should be interesting enough to justify making dedicated hardware. “Xbox as a service” where you get a “free” (subsidized) box while subscribed to GamePass for 24 months or more makes sense to me. Pushing a weird add-on that only works with some fringe software titles does not.

I don’t think you guys understood how these big conferences worked. It’s not a meritocracy, it’s pay to play. Anyone who splashes out enough money for a big booth would be “recognized” by this kind of media.

I still have my 360 and Kinect hooked up because Kinect Party was such a hit with all the little kids in my circle at the time. It was a blast, and unlike anything else. Now all those kids are teenagers bound for college soon, so it hasn't been used in a long time, but I'd much rather have a Kinect than some other game console gimmicks I've seen since then.

So were you on Tommy’s payroll or not? Seems like a lot of people think you were. That was a LOT of output for an unpaid volunteer or outsider.

Welcome to the dark side! So do you just go with whatever way the wind blows? Someone made a collection of all the photoshops you did when you were serving as Intellivision Entertainment’s art and advertising department: https://www.reddit.com/r/Intellivision_Amico/s/ZcthRhjwoJ

Yes, all the little pirate game players out of China are Linux-based. I’m going to look for these games and put them on my Miyoo Mini, where I have a big collection of PICO-8 stuff already. Maybe they’re already on there, as the file sizes are minuscule. Some tips: https://www.reddit.com/r/MiyooMini/s/4L2UUbi2d5 @roots.genoa I had a pocketCHIP from Kickstarter many years ago. It worked as it was supposed to (complete with keyboard!), but the form factor was incompatible with human hands. I like the Miyoo, Anbernic, and Retroid devices much more for this kind of project.

It’s probably just stuck on there real good after 41 one years of being there. I don’t know what the ribbon cable is though. This current eBay auction for an o2 and voice module includes 2 AC adapters which makes me think it has its own power supply. How strange it is that I can’t find a scan of the owners manual for The Voice? Here’s that auction if you wanted to ask the seller a question. I think you were right to go to Atari Age first though.

I think that’s most CRPGs, honestly. Sometimes I see the appeal, sometimes, it’s just doing the same thing over and over again to see the numbers go up. I’ve spent most of this weekend trying to finish Final Fantasy IV. It will be nice to have (finally) completed the game, but I can’t say I’ve enjoyed this last bit of it.

NYT, July 7, 1983

Play some Tempest 4000 while you wait, that’s like a high-res Tempest 2000 and it even uses the same music.

It's "just" $100K if Tommy Tallarico just pays it, and less if he gets his accomplices to help him out. If he fights in court, add legal fees on top of that. He has a big house and at least one Ferrari car, which he could liquidate to pay his debts. There are costs to storing these items, too. The leasing company was under no obligation to do what would make the most money for their deadbeat client, that's not their business and it's not the contract they signed. If Tommy went to court and told a jury that he's broke, maybe they would cut him some slack out of pity, but it's not the fault of the furniture company if Tommy overpaid for something. That's 100% on him, his fault and liability. According to this, the judge set a bench trial for Nov 12, 2024. No jury for Tommy, he won't get to work that charisma on them!

You know how they say a new car loses a big chunk of its value the moment you drive it off the lot? This kind of furniture has to be the same way, but more so. It comes in unassembled flat packs which are easy to move, but once assembled is meant to be used and age in place. The leasing company did Intellivision a favor by repossessing it and crediting back the amount they could fetch in an open auction— at a time when real-world demand for office furniture must have been at an all-time market low. There’s still a nationwide glut of office space even now, a few years post-pandemic. It’s not the leasing company’s fault that Tommy Tallarico bought a bunch of pumpkins the day after Halloween, and unloaded them right around Christmas. That wouldn’t be his first Homer Simpsonism, either.

I’m no lawyer but the thinking is, lawyers and lawsuits are expensive, and Amur receiving something would be preferable to receiving nothing, so a compromise avoids all that unpleasantness. If you read TT’s lawyer’s responses, they’re all rather lawyerly and technical, and don’t pass the smell test. “But but but Covid!” doesn’t make the leasing company whole again, and $100K doesn’t seem like much when the company blew many times that on rent, salaries, licenses, travel, and who knows what else. Tallarico said he they spent that much on Barnstorming Games’s small updates to the Evel Knievel mobile app.