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Zero, I must have missed your earlier post, but you say it's the same game? Really? I never knew that. Any links to information on this? Wiki turns up nothing...

So, there was no system...controllers...or anything else. What did the guy pay the grand for? A box of air? Lol.

Hmmm. The opening music sounds a lot like the Tiny Toons theme. Man, this kind of game design and innovation just doesn't exist anymore.

Possibly Knoorkie The Pig? I believe it was a European release only.

Good points all, Artlover. RPGs in particular had always been a niche market, at least before FF7 blew the doors off the genre and made playing them "cool", so yeah, I can see why Earthbound didn't do too well, comparitively.

No, championship mode is the new DLC for SF. Free, and it's like a tournament ranking system. You'll have to try it to understand, though. Hope you don't mind fighting constant hordes of Sagat/Ryu/Kens, though. I played 15 Sagats in a row, and since I main Zangief, I got toasted.

I had a similar controller, the ASCIIpad. Damn, what a great controller that was. Had a similar type of auto-fire system.

Who here programmed it? The first Sacred was a pretty good little game, and if this has online multiplayer, I'm there!

Sometimes you have to take whatever jobs you can get. I did what I was supposed to, but boy, if I saw one of those asshole customers out in town away from my store, they'd better hope they have good life insurance. My granddad brought me up with a John Wayne sort of mentality. I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I do this myself and expect it of others. I've actually had customers try to get physical, and had to literally put them in their place (several years of pro-wrestling and boxing helped there). I'm a very, very no bullshit kind of person. I don't walk into places throwing fits and acting like a 5 year old, and I can't help but expect this of others. You ever work in a pawn shop? You deal with the absolute scum of the earth day in and out, and you have to have a weapon on you every second of the day. I hate the idea of service to begin with. I'm nobody's fucking servant. Laws? Things designed to control us. Fuck cops, fuck judges, fuck politicians. They've never done a damn thing for me. No protecting, no helping, just oppressing. My mother was crippled for life by a damn hospital. Held down against her will and injected with the wrong medicine. Nurse hit the bone in her arm with the needle. We sued. Three times. We lost three times. My apartmetn was broken into. I KNEW who did it. Did the cops help me in the slightest? Hell no. So, yeah, FUCK LAWS. I'm not moving to another country, either. I'm American Indian. This land belonged to my ancestors long before you were here, so no, I'll be staying put regardless. Sorry, you've touched a sore spot with me. I got screwed out of scholarships in high school because my family wasn't rich (I graduated top 10% of my class, 3.8GPA, won the History, Drafting, and English awards my senior year, got a friggin' perfect on the achievement test my junior year, and got tested at a 152 IQ). I got boned out of going to college because we weren't rich (and I applied for MANY scholarships, but got turned down for all of them). So, no, I have no marketable skills. Now I have brain damage that affects my short term memory, my body is beat to hell because of my wrestling days, and I still have no higher schooling. You take what jobs you can get sometimes. But, hey, I hate the human race in general anyway.. I'm hoping that 2012 brings death from the skies for every human on this world.

Well, I will say that each and every SINGLE player on SF4 on the championship mode who's language was set to Japanese kicked me out of the match before it even started. Hell, Larcen, you wanna see arrogance? Look no further than our own wonderful AtariAge board.

Daytona, have you ever worked with customers or with the public? Let me put it to you like this, if murder was legal, I'd have a body count in the thousands by now. I'd kill the asshole customers, then go home and do the same to their families to make sure their tainted seed could spread no further. I HATED customers with an absoulte, burning, irrational raging hatred that I truly cannot express in words. I'm actually glad he did those things, and you know why? FUCK CUSTOMERS. Period. What I used to love is these little Napoleonic assholes coming in and getting shitty with a guy behind the counter who could easily twist their head off (like me). I will never go back to customer service, ever. I'll starve first. Funny story, though! I worked at a game store for a while, and yeah, we as gamers do tend to be losers. Very, very pathetic losers. There was this one guy we called "cane boy". Morbidly obese, smelled like a sack of shit boiled in rancid cheese, and with a shitty attitude to boot. Walked with a cane. Picture Pat from the old SNL skits, but uglier and less intelligent. Loved to tell us how stupid we were when he'd ask stuff like "Is the Gameboy Y2K compatible?" He finally went too far with one of my employees (I was the manager at the time), and I perma banned him from the store. Oh, did his mom ever get pissed, but I was feeling saucy, so I told her that they could take the money he saved buying video games and put it towards some Jenny Craig and a bar of soap. Never saw either of them again, thank god. I loved what I did there, but the asshole customers eventually ruined it to the point where it was either quit or go to jail for sticking a pen in some jerk's eye.

What, a Japanese person being prejudiced? The devil you say! Seriously, though, he comes from quite possibly the single most xenophobic culture in the history of the world, so if he is, who can blame him (and oddly, while they are xenophobic, the Japanese still maintain a hardcore fascination with other cultures, and in particular, American culture). I grew up Baptist in the deep South, so it's my culture to hate blacks, gays, non-christians, etc. Fortunately, I was able to break out of that life and form my own opinions instead of having those idiotitc views around me constantly impressed upon me. He may just be jealous that Japan is no longer the gaming center it once was. Most of the stuff coming from Japan nowadays pales in comparison to the stuff made in the US. Games like Bioshock, Oblivion, Fallout 3, some of the greatest games of our time are made right here. Hell, when was the last good Final Fantasy? Way back with FF9. When was the last great JRPG? Probably Xenosaga III. US gaming has grown up considerably in the last few years, and will only get better as time goes on. Sure, it sucks we get stiffed on some great games (still pissed that Melty Blood was never released over here...), but hey, we still get games from Bethesda and the other great companies, so it all balances out.

Look on ebay for a guy selling composite and s-video cables for the Commodore 64. If I remember correctly, they are the same type of connection, so they should work. He sells 'em cheap, and you can always buy it now. Help me here guys, if it works on the 64, it should work on the TI, right? (meaning the cable)

Meh, you can get used ones all day long around here for 20 bucks.

When I was a kid, there was a small independently owned place called Arcade Pizza. ALL of the tables were cocktail type arcade machines, and if I remember right, each table was a different game, too. They had a HUGE area in the back for the arcade proper, too. I remember tossing coins into Galaga like no tomorrow, lol. The pie wasn't bad, either. Nice and thick Chicago style. They're no longer around, in fact, they closed shop before I even left the town they were in, but man, it was fun to go there while it lasted.

New Vegas is going to be Fallout 4 basically, a whole new game with an actual disc release. Maybe the developers really thought that the PS3s horrendous sales performance would hamper both the sales and the development costs of DLC for the PS3? I personally think the PS3 is an overrated pile of crap. Not that I don't want to own one, of course (for MGS4 and Resistance, mainly), but the price point versus performance is just ridiculous. Blu-Ray players are falling in price every day now, and if the price point of the PS3 doesn't reach acceptable levels before this holiday season, it just might not have ANY DLC for ANY game ever again.

A toothbrush for getting into the small areas. Q-Tips (for game contacts and other things), rubbing alcohol (contacts and counteracting the greasiness of the next item), WD-40 for stickers and marker (works better than Goo Gone anyday), and for general cleaning, Formula-409. Works great. For controllers, I always take it apart and give each component a good cleaning.

Look up Free McBoot. I believe their main site has some HD programs you can install to the memory card and access it from a front end. I don't have a HD, but I hear the program is pretty good for what it does.

Five hours on a single battle? To hell with that! Man, totally, fuck that! I guess the developers didn't think that anybody needed to do things like, oh, I don't know, go to the bathroom...or eat...or have a damned life. I don't want to sit for hours micromanaging and strategizing every battle, I want to kill stuff, level up, kill more powerful stuff, level up some more, kill the bosses and finish the stupid thing before my hair turns completely white! Take a GOOD game like Fallout 3. I really wanted to do all the side quests and stuff because the game was so absorbing, the characters compelling, and the combat rewarding. Not so with the shitfest that is FF12. If I ever do get it again, I'm just gonna shark it for infinite hp and run through it non-stop to see the story, then trade it off asap.

Wow, I'd never seen that game all the way through. Good to know that a knife can destroy a helicopter...

I hated those "one hit wonder" type of games back in the day, and still do. It was fun for a while, then just got frustrating.

I have Crisis Core, but not played it yet. Looks like I'll be taking it back. Sorry, but I have no tolerance for super difficult games like that. You'll NEVER catch me playing those idiotic modern Ninja Gaiden games. Ever. I hate the designers for their outlook on things. "Let's make this so tough, nobody will want to play it! We're cool! Seriously! Some of us have even gotten to second base before! I have a nice car, but it doesn't help me get chicks because I'm an arrogant asshole who thinks he superior to everyone else!". Bleh. Difficulty does not make a good game! It makes a hard game! When will the designers learn this!? I like a challenge, sure, but some of this stuff is just ridiculous. I was talking with a buddy today, and he said he had FF12, but traded it in. Why? Well, he's a sharker, uses a gameshark for everything. He'd rather just experience the story (and I agree to an extent). So, he levels his characters up to 99, max everything, max equipment, so he can blow through things. Gets to a hunt where you gotta kill something called the Marlith I think? At max level, everything possibly maxed out, it killed his entire party of six characters plus a guest character. That. Is. BULLSHIT. He traded it in the next day for Metal Gear Solid 3, a DAMN fine game.

FF 1-6 all brilliant. 4 and 6 rank as two of my all time favorite games ever. FF7 IS my all time favorite game, no question. Nothing even comes close. FF8 sucks, period. It's not a really BAD game, per se, it's just that nothing ever really came together right. It would have been better if it hadn't had the Final Fantasy name attached to it. FF9 was solid. Lots of fun, but nothing groundbreaking. Took everything back to it's big-headed roots. FF10 sucked. Hated the voice acting, hated the characters, hated that the main bad guy was a huge ass blobby thing. Blitzball sucked, too. FF10-2 The most unnecessary game EVER. It's a glorified dress-up game, nothing more. Will never be in my collection, under any circumstance. FF11 doesn't count. It's an MMO, and those are in a league of their own. FF12 is the worst of the bunch. So, we have the first 7 games, all of which are great, classic games, and after that, only ONE game manages to be halfway decent. Maybe they had the team that worked on the SaGa games do the bad FF ones or something, I dunno. Instead of a real, true sequel to FF7, we get a mish mash of crap games that really aren't even standard FF type games, and a movie. Ugh! Dump FF13, Squaresoft, and give us a real, true, next-gen sequel (or even a friggin' remake!) of FF7. We deserve it!

Wow. I was doing a little research, and now I find out that the monsters "scale" in relation to your level. So, if you're the maximum level, monsters will reach a level concurrent to yours, and still be able to kick the shit out of you, rendering leveling up completely useless. Wonderful. Just wonderful. They take the whole idea of leveling up to take care of powerful creatures, bend it over a table, and rape it with sandpaper. Seriously, what the hell is up with this game? Was it just designed to piss off all of the loyal FF fans, and take a big steaming dump on years of built up good will and fan service? This experience has almost made me swear off Square games completely! Some of the worst character design I've seen in years (the bunny chicks are just stupid beyond belief), a bland, unremarkable world, characters who I actually wish bad things upon, and the worst battle system quite possibly ever invented. Ugh! I'm definately not sad about losing this one. Hopefully it's at the bottom of a landfill somewhere, covered in dog crap where it belongs!

Booyah. I've always felt that the Wico was overrated. The TAC-2 just feels so solid in your hand, like no other stick I've ever used.