Chuck D. Head
-
Content Count
3,583 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
8
Posts posted by Chuck D. Head
-
-
Nice! The biggest part of succeeding is having a plan, and most people think about how they will economize on everything else, but don't consider how they will fill their spare time. It looks like your spare time is accounted for, so no spending time or money that you can't afford. Hope it works out!
-
Hmmm, well pretty much everyone who frequents this sub-forum is a wiseguy, so rounding up the usual suspects will be quite a chore. I do defy you to try all those games and not find something fun.
-
1
-
-
"He's hooked, he's hooked, his brain is cooked!"
Loved the Space Invaders episode. Loved the Retro Junkies' Galaga show. Really enjoying the avalanche of retro-themed gaming podcasts at the moment.
Get ready for another one. You may have created a monster.
-
2
-
-
I have noticed a particular propensity for the original Intellivision to overheat when used on carpet. In general, if the bottom of a piece of electronics has ventilation slots or holes, then it should be sitting on a hard surface.
-
1
-
-
I kind of side with option #2. I only consider value as it relates to what I am paying (did I get a deal or get ripped off?) and buy the games to play and probably hold onto. I think the relative investment value only factors in as far as the fact that I am comfortable spending money on games knowing that I can liquidate when needed and am not likely to lose money.
-
1
-
-
I have a LVL 37, 5 star town, so please add me as I purged about 20 non-players last night.
On TSTO, I am: grogtheslayer
Also, I'm doing the Squidport tile exploit, so if you see my tile, please tap it. (Unfortunately I tapped my last handshake just tonight, so now it's another 2.5 days until the next one.) In Other Springfields I tap every tile I see.
Freind request sent. I know not of this exploit; I got tired of waiting for those damn tiles and stopped building long ago, but if there is a way to do it faster....
-
Here are some series two suggestions that I posted on the Retroist article:
Fisherman from Fishing Derby
Prisoner from Kaboom
Pilot w/scarf from Barnstormer
Grandpa from Bridge
and, for the girls, how about Rhonda from Pitfall II?
-
No, you can't buy them, but they are very cool:
http://www.retroist.com/2013/11/21/atari-era-activision-custom-action-figures/
-
1
-
-
Both!
Hmm, That sounds like a lair design I have had in mind since early childhood. Included missile silos, secret labs, underwater sub launch tunnels and immense underground caverns with artificial light, where I would grow crops for food and pigs for bacon.
-
Heh, heh. Yeah, I think some folks just keep one street to make it easier to find all the characters to task them, but I don't like the look at all. I also cant stand seeing large expanses of "house farms" even though I have small one myself. I seem to be accumulating cash OK right now, so when I rearrange all those blue houses are going into the box.
-
Nice lookin' town Spiceware! I like how your Noiseland Arcade diversified with the bumper cars out back and the arrangement of the open air amphitheater thing looks nice. Hope you didn't get lost in my junky little Springfield; I really need to spring for some land expansion and spread stuff out. I really like how wide-open your Krustyland is.
-
OK, I cut out the slackers and am down to a manageable 17 friends. I sent requests to the three of you that posted your ID. If I remember correctly, I did have to add some temporary friends for the holiday season last year and many of the ones I deleted just stopped playing between then and now,
-
I will prune my list and add all of you tonight. I play every day, but don't necessarily visit everyone everyday if there is not a push for something (goo, snakes, etc.). If there is something like that, I am all over it, otherwise I might skip a day here and there. My ID is wewent42.
FYI, it looks like I have been playing a whole year now, one of the first things I bought was the Itchy parade balloon and now we are back to thanksgiving.
-
I'm not even sure Cmart is a real person, maybe a bot or an alias for someone else. I keep thinking I am going to get to meet him at PRGE, but something always comes up. Kinda suspicious. Maybe Rev is pulling the strings?
-
Even Atari had one of these. I still have my Touch Me.
This was the one I had as a youth. Fun to play and fun to make jokes about the name. I picked up a pair of boxed Tiger Simon clones recently, I will toss up some pics of those for posterity.
-
I recently picked up another one, Talking Baseball All-Stars, which is kind of interesting. Usually, "announcers" are the most irritating part of a sports game, but in this case they really enhance the "acceptable" (by lcd game standards) gameplay. The players from the most recent all-star game are announced by their last name with their accurate batting average and the gameplay is announced also.
There is supposedly also a talking Die Hard game by Tiger, which I would like to find, but I am sure the catch phrase would be truncated to a disappointing "yipee ki yay".
-
Wow! I just caught up on this. For the most part, I will just let sleeping dogs lie, but..........I do know what I will get my buddy Rev for christmas:
http://www.goodstufffromus.com.au/MDI-BX-SS-SS
The models I used for my Paddle Party art gave me that link and swear by the product.
The irreverent sense of humor usually makes the AA Inty community more fun, but I suppose you live by the sword and sometimes die by it. Go play some games guys.
-
3
-
-
Sigh. Why the HELL did you have to bring this up? Upon further review, yes, I would like to have a set with my boxed games and an additional set of at least one each to collect and thumb through like trading cards. Damn it.
-
**ignore**
-
2
-
-
Very cool collection!
-
-
Just relived some of the magic Backin89 threads and wanted to reflect upon it through a Shatku:
Sleeping in the cold
Wish I'd helped him get that bike
crackpipe won't stay lit.
-
4
-
-
As usual, Bill makes some good points, but being neither as rational or mature as him, I will just edit his post to reflect my feelings...
While the hyperbole is excessive, at a basic level it's absolutely true that Nintendo and the NES revived videogames in the biggest market in the world, North America. What's also true is that other videogames never stopped selling in North America, but many companies did pull out of the market and there was excessive product dumping for a few years as a result. The NES was the right product, right approach, etc., at the right time to reignite excitement in videogames. While those of us who were fans of the pre-Crash systems lament the NES's rise, the fact of the matter remains that none of the pre-crash competitors were in a position to move the industry forward the way it needed to be. In other words, we probably needed the proverbial house to be cleaned to bring the industry to the heights that it was. Eventually the same thing happened on the computer side, where dozens of competitors eventually pared down to just a few competitors. Choice is good, but excessive choice does present a great deal of market confusion andretardsgrowth until the market expands enough to support more competitors again. -
Nice looking job there! I gotta get me one of them deluxe joysticks, too.
Like us on Facebook
Follow us on Twitter
AtariAge on Instagram
Watch us on YouTube
Chat on Discord
Current thrift store console finds
in Classic Console Discussion
Posted
Same as everyone else here; PS1, cube and xbox in that order, but, I have seen a rash of Genesis lately, probably five or six in the last two months. I did see a Goldstar 3DO for $25 but the return policy was not good, so I left it.