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  1. Posted

    A lot of what came to my mind has already been mentioned, but I have a few more to throw in the ring for underrated:

     

    • Fathom - Lots of fun for me, but probably not for someone who was not into mapping the item locations.
    • Mountain King - nice graphics, awesome use of sound, a "secret world" to discover and lots of challenge
    • Tax Avoiders - not saying it is one of the greats, but tons more fun than it gets credit for
    • Human Cannonball - along with Skydiver, Surround, Dodge Em and Flag Capture already mentioned, this one is something I just keep going back to for simple fun
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    I am probably one of the few who regret not buying a TS-100 back in the day. I kept looking at them as they were getting discounted deeper and deeper. Finally, they were down to two of them left at my local drug store at $12.50, but instead I opted to spend $10 to buy two 2600 titles I had never seen before; Fire Fly and Starfox by Mythicon. I absolutely know I would have gotten way more fun out of the crappy little computer.

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  5. Posted · Edited by Chuck D. Head

    Yep! I am into anything, especially media related. Some examples are old radios from 70's novelty stuff to radios from the 30's to 50's including a big Zenith radio with tuning eye; record players including a cylinder player and a cool portable Japanese unit from the 30's; CED (RCA disk) player, 8-tracks, some old appliances, probably a lot of stuff I am forgetting.

     

    Edit: Haha! I see I really misread your intent, but the above still stands. As far as computing, I am into almost any of it, the more obscure the better; I have all the Coco's and TRS-80 1 and MC-10, I am really into and active with the Aquarius; Apple IIc; I have a PS/2 PC I want to restore; Commodore 64 / 128 and would love to come across both a PET and a TRS-80 model 3.

  9. Posted · Edited by Chuck D. Head

    In my area there are at least 3 others that I am aware of, all members of AA. My area is southwest Washington.

     

    Well, make it four then; unless you were already counting me for some reason :D Not sure how "active" you would consider me, I got mine a year ago, picked up a few more since, play a few games every few weeks, and slowly building a software library and learning what I can about it.

  11. Posted

    #5 - New Adventure Island - TG-16.

     

    Now, of course, my version of completing this required about 23,000 continues, but if anyone can beat this cruel bastard on three lives I will bow down before them. Some of the stages were just plain sadistic. And it looked like such a casual game.....

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  12. Posted · Edited by Chuck D. Head

     

    Not to set a precedent here, but I just swapped Stampede for Fathom. Stampede is a great game and doesn't belong here. Think of Super Cobra as the best game on the list and we'll leave it in.

    Interesting, I have yet to play Fathom on Inty, but it is top ten for me on Atari. I am going to have to go home and play DK, Space Hawk and Zaxxon before I decide. They are all contenders.

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    Congrats on the 10k. I remember on GS we would have birthday-y threads for these, so here ya go --

     

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    The more I look at this picture, the more worried I get. The alcohol is a good sign until; well, the dude is wearing a shirt that is at least very metro, then I noticed that they have carefully covered everything in plastic and then there is what looks like a giant cucumber on the table......

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    I am just now really starting to love this system. My son gave me the Star Wars (R2-D2 console w/ gold C3PO controller) edition about two years ago. I still have not purchased a game at retail, but have built a nice library of 30 games or so without paying more than $15 for any of them. Good games are starting to be prevalent at garage sales and thrifts and now that I can get Netflix and Youtube without paying for Gold it is really starting to get a workout.

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    Mario Kart won't save it by itself, but between that and Smash Bros, it should stay afloat until a slew of big games hit in 2015. From their E3 showing, it is clear that Nintendo isn't giving up and that maybe they have gotten some help with their messaging. A lot if chatter has been made that the next move may be a new iteration of the console rather than a whole new platform. This would give them a chance to rework the stupid name and deliver a concise message to consumers so they understand what they are being sold. I still havent bought one, but thinking that once the new Xenoblade game and Splatoon come out, I will take the plunge.

  18. Posted · Edited by Chuck D. Head

     

    Do you have the cassette or a internet file?

     

    No, I just use the files in the emulator's "cassette" folder as Jay mentioned. I am unaware if there are any cassette games that aren't captured in the Virtual Aquarius package. I saw a YT video of "Disco Fever" awhile back, so it has been tantalizing me and my stock machine ever since. I am also eager to play Scramble, as it is one of my favorites from the arcade version and all the many ports, although I am keeping my expectations low.

  20. Posted

    It would resolve a deeply unresolved childhood need, if the future project would be called the Aquarius Master Expansion Module.

     

    http://www.intellivisionlives.com/bluesky/media/aquarius.html#drives

     

    A fellow can dream.

     

    I was only peripherally :-D aware of this device, and had no clue about the System Command Console. Was this the only way to make use of the X-10 software, or could you interface directly to the Aquarius? I had hoped to play around with that someday, so I hope it wasn't dependent on a non-existant peripheral.

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  21. Posted

    Oh! I didn't realize that was the one. Definitely not the only time I've been referred to as Fern. :)

     

    I was thinking after the previous episode that you may have a hard time shaking that nickname now, but when you said it in the intro this week, I literally spit coffee all over my steering wheel. I am not joking, I cleaned it up but noticed this morning there was still some on the speedometer bezel.

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