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    Here we go, with my humble high score.

     

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    As for the game, it shocked me into wakefulness immediately. This is HARD... but fair. You have to keep your wits about you and try to watch the whole screen at once. The timing on the screen where DK throws girders seems a bit random to get up the final ladder, but I am still in an adjustment period.

     

    Toni's the most fun to play with for me, since his speed fits in with the difficulty of the game in general.

     

    This is EXTREMELY well done; I think this is the best of the home console versions now.

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  4. Posted · Edited by townparkradio

    Mysteriously enough, it seems to be! I think I will actually hold once a month fundraisers to cover station costs anyway though. It'll be a great way to get the work of indie artists and whatnot out there. And thank you to my mysterious benefactor, though I think I know who it is, lol.

  5. Posted

    I think he's going for the Triple Action game 2 cars that DZ-Jay pointed out. INTV did not like to release these as they thought it made them more like the VCS, but lets face it, you know you loved yourself some biplanes :)

     

    I loved biplanes! I played tanks and racing cars too, but mostly biplanes. Man, shooting while on a loop was very cool!

     

    -dZ.

     

    and it was WAY better than Combat's air variations.

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    ...ladies and gentlemen, announcing the Town Park Radio "my wife thinks even $35 is too much for a single game" telethon!

     

    I can relate. I am waiting to buy D2K when it comes out and am waiting for the wife to flip.

     

    Eh turns out legally I cannot do such a "fundraiser" without paying the royalties for the songs used to the RIAA. Even the spontaneous show I did last night was a legal grey zone. What i'll be doing is seeking out royalty-free music. It turns out video game remixes fall under a grey enough zone that I may be able to get away with it, and I'll also be seeking other forms of royalty-free music. Fun factoid: did you know the soundtracks of the Fallout games were comprised entirely of public-domain music?

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    Jeez....tell her that it is $30 dollars (which it is) but includes $5 shipping and handling.....

     

    D2K Arcade does include DK Arcade in its entirety, BUT it doesn't have the Japanese mode......so, there is one SMALL reason to own it aside from variation collecting.....

     

    Maybe you should interview the author of D2K on your show ? :-) We hope to have him on the Retrogaming roundup soon.

     

    *poke* Actually i have asked for interviews, stingers, and offered to produce a commercial for y'all in the past.

  13. Posted

    ...ladies and gentlemen, announcing the Town Park Radio "my wife thinks even $35 is too much for a single game" telethon! no joke, i'm seriously gonna host a really long live show for the charity benefit of... me! lol. If anyone wants to call in and talk live on the air, I should be able to set it up so Skype gets you on the air.. details to come once I sort out this *coughs* charity function's parameters!

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    Yeah, when on a budget, 35 is a great deal.

     

    Do you plan on, even interested in D2K? or you are just happy with D1K?

     

    That brings up another point. Should they make available, maybe after the initial sales are through, a cart only option of D2K for people that dont really care about the box, manual , overlay and just want to play the game....I think it was brought up before...but maybe it needs a second look if there is enough interest?

     

     

    ...just a thought.

     

     

    TPR, I just checked out your radio station. Interesting stuff....now I know why they play it in that Russian Prison....for torture!!!! OUCH.....sorry about that..im mean. :grin:

     

    Please forgive me!

     

    Heh, no worries. It's not for everyone. As for D2K, I have some interest but the new levels look rather difficult. Also look at it from their point of view, if they made just a cart release, who would buy D1K anymore? As I understand it, D2K literally includes D1K. Also, to be honest? I doubt printing the boxes and whatnot are the bulk of the cost, so I don't know how much they could actually cut off the per-unit price and still make a profit. I'm surprised, and glad, they're offering a cart-only D1K. It's cheaper, has all the levels I'm familiar with, looks good to me. If I saw them side by side for the same price I'd obviously go for D2K, but I can happily own D1K Arcade and know I'm not missing anything I "need" to have. I didn't grow up with those other levels. I've never even seen them before.

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    Townpark, You didnt get the Intelligentvision version?

     

    Nope. Supremely poor, remember? That was $50. Couldn't talk the wife into that. $35 though? That I can maybe talk her into. Plus from what I'm reading it's a good thing I missed that version and will be able to get this one; apparently it's a better version. The fact is at the end of the day, running a radio station with pure public domain content (you know, the legal and moral thing to do?) doesn't pay. If I decided to go like Club 977 or The Cape Radio though and completely skip paying royalties I could probably be rich.

     

    ...don't mind me. I just got back from a conference call with other internet station owners who were complaining about how Internet royalties are insane so they refuse to pay. I was the sole voice saying "You know what? You really don't own those songs and cannot legally be making a cent off of them, but you are. And now you're all complaining about how the content providers want their cut." Maybe it's just sour grapes, but it pains me to see people pulling in a thousand plus a month by what's essentially stealing, when I can;t even make my damned station pay for it's expenses every month. Everyone I talk to thinks that family-safe radio drama is a wonderful idea and the world "needs" it, but nobody ever wants to PAY. This kind of thing is why Air America can't stay on the air, "Liberal talk radio! Sign me up! Wait, you want me to pay? eeew, no!"

     

    All the intelligentsia folks love my station. There are prisons in Russia that literally play it all day in their common room, I know because I get thank you letters from Universities and said prisons, but nobody wants to pay a cent; yet they all suggest I do this and that to amke the station "just a bit better". Well "this and that" all cost money to license, and...

     

    Blargh. I'm ranting. I just hate being the only person in a sea of corruption willing to do this the right legal and moral way (as well as child-friendly, you'd be shocked how many stations advertising "clean" on iTunes have rap songs with offensive lyrics on them), and I'm the only one not making any money. It makes one bitter about digital piracy, claiming it "hurts nobody". Bologna. The artist deserve a cut of the take internet radio is getting because it's THEIR ART these people are making money off of. And I don't much care for the pirates' line of "I wasn't gonna buy it anyway" either. If you won't buy it, you don't get to consume it. The entitlement attitude is just.. stunning. It doesn't bother me when people download roms of games from decades ago, but really, what excuse does anyone have to pirate Mass Effect 3? If you think it's worth playing, then it's worth PAYING FOR.

     

    ...still ranting. I'll just stop. So how about this whacky weather?

  21. Posted · Edited by townparkradio

    Actually "yelling Pixx" is how they interacted back then, but the games were way more compressed into something usuable for TV broadcast during the time era.

     

    The current "TV-Pixx" redo is only due to WPIX wanting to relive it's past, consulting with Robinson of the Blue Sky Rangers to provide them an Intellivision with one of the most "readily recognizable" games from the era.

     

    The aspect ratio is due to the network wanting to broadcast in HD, when no classic game or system was built with anyone eve remotely thinking about "HD"...

     

    Yelling Pixx used to do something. It didn't in this segment. It was literally a guy playing Astrosmash while a lady uselessly yelled Pixx. Furthermore, I have NEVER owned an HDTV that didn't give me the option to set the aspect ratio correctly for older systems. it's pure laziness or ignorance on the part of the producers.

     

    Oh and for the record it didn;t actually do anything worthwhile back then either, due to the delay in broadcast time.

  25. Posted

    Not sure if this is the right way to go about this but... I have an Amiga 500, several disk holders of games, and the necessary serial cable to transfer games to the Amiga form your PC (you'll have to buy your own Amiga Explorer code) as well as the necessary software on one of the Workbench boot disks.

     

    I am looking for some of the rarer Inty games (Commando, Tower of doom, ECS and it's baseball, et cetera) OR a Colecovision with some games, or I can be talked into 5200/7800 possibly.

     

    I'm lacking these games:

     

     

    Body Slam Super Pro Wrestling

    Buzz Bombers

    Championship Tennis

    Chip Shot Super Pro Golf

    Commando

    Defender

    Dig Dug

    Diner

    Dragonfire

    Happy Trails

    Hover Force

    Ice Trek

    Kool Aid Man

    Motocross

    Pinball

    Pole Position

    Popeye

    Sea Battle

    Sewer Sam

    Slam Dunk Super Pro Basketball

    Slap Shot Super Pro Hockey

    Star wars: Empire Strikes Back

    Stadium Mud buggies

    Super cobra

    Super Spiker

    Thin Ice

    Thunder Castle

    Tower of Doom

    Tutankham

    Worm Whomper

    Zaxxon

     

    Make me an offer? i'm pretty wide open here, but I'm leaning primarily Inty, so I figured I'd post here.

     

    The Amiga does have the card necessary to hook up to a standard RCA connection, as well. It's an NTSC model, and I had to replace the keyboard, it's British, but the English pound sign makes a $ sign.

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