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Shoot, I love PayPal. Y'all remember the first posts I made? Some scumbag bilked my wife out of a hundred dollars for what he claimed was an Ewok Adventure prototype. Not only was it not a proto but a repro, but it didn't even work. He threw a hissy fit because the first thing I did was file a dispute with PayPal, but it turns out this guy had scammed dozens before and because they were too "polite" to use PayPal's buyer's protection fast enough, he successfully scammed them all. Eventually PayPal froze his account and kicked him entirely off their service. If it weren;t for having used PayPal rather than a money order, the best we could have done was filed a negative feedback.

It was down for some time yesterday, but I can get through now.

I just want to double check here. The summary is some guy made a homebrew, and wants to charge megabucks or it because he's afraid of piracy... and he's not even the rights holder to star castle in the first place? Basically, this guy is hopping up on a moral high ground and whining about people pirating his piracy?

I realize this is an ancient post, but I remember getting the same treatment when I stuck my head out into 5200 emulation. Can;t get any straight answers on what emulator is decent, and a lot of really smug attitudes. "What do you MEAN you don't want to use a commandline interface? You must be stupid or incredibly lazy." to which I replied, "GUIs have been the standard for almost TWENTY YEARS NOW. It's not an unreasonable expectation to not want to type something and a bunch of switches that require you to know what memory pattern every rom uses every time you want to play a game." I never went back to the thread. And I haven't tried to emulate a 5200 since; as well as lost all interest in actually owning one.

Pm Sent!

Agreed. Joystick=nogo. We're not playing Street Fighter here.

Hmm. You guys are making me look aorund my own lil' shack and go "Wow, there's a lot of expensive stuff where little hands can get it"

I love me some Burgertime! We're hoping the baby on the way will as well.

Right... what about a Ice Hockey Manager game then? Actually, making a simple old school RPG might be possible too... See now I could get on board Ice Hockey Manager.

Delicately put, you'll find that Football Manager will sorta be a nogo for most folks. the primary collection audience seems to be the US, and we find soccer boring enough without not being able to actually PLAY.

That works for most wells, but it's not always the best thing to do: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh4U3BwlTcY&list You are correct good sir. I would better sum my technique up as "Make sure there's no well edges under your feet when you leave". But still point is it's not that hard. Hopping the guys at the end of Jungle Hunt is harder. Getting through the marshmellow man's legs is harder. There's a lot of things on the 2600 that are way harder than the pits, lol.

*head-desk* Everything is easy when you've mastered the technique. That's why it's called mastering it. Considering that "technique" is "go sideways out of the pit" it's not hard to master in the first place.

Check out the Wikipedia page's comments. They can't find a single source from the time saying the game sucked, or even that it sold poorly (it didn't, it was just overproduced) but everyone is SURE it was awful. And I don't think HSW believes it was bad at all, he just decided it's better to go with it than go down the path which would eventually lead to being angry about it.

Huh. If someone with decent design skills could make a Christmasy version I'd happy to be in y'all's brotherhood and order a t-shirt.

I guess that joke was too obscure. Dirk Benedict is one of the actors the Brady Bunch girls accused of passing them around.

Awesome stuff. Me I'd prefer one in red and green. With wreathes and holly and.. don't mind me. I have a year-round Christmas obsession.

That's a Commodore 64 cart. And I see i'm late to the party, lol.

I cleaned up Rev's crappy box art.

Of course that kinda misses the theme, how about something like the old Koei games like Gemfire and whatnot? Or am I WAY overestimating what is possible?

How about this? http://www.youtube.com/embed/dpAJuFVCBYY

Bea's 17 inch bombers?

He's gonna have a fun time trying to discipline his children about language and respect once they find the Internet.

Thats it! The next peripheral for the Inty should be a Ouija board. I think we'd need an expansion module to handle that. someone call Egon!

Those are fighting words! ok. then i challenge you to fisty cuffs! Are you saying he's not man enough to fight for himself? nope. just saying this is like a bar.. if two people fight, everybodys got to fight. fine then. everyone dogpile Intellidrunkendude!

Those are fighting words! ok. then i challenge you to fisty cuffs! Are you saying he's not man enough to fight for himself?