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I utterly loathe sports games, mostly because I utterly loathe sports. The two absolute exceptions to this are wrestling and boxing. I LOVE a good boxing game, and I'm a total goon for wrestling games of all types. My number one game type is RPG's. Second to that, a good action/adventure game (and hey, Foxy, you liked Omikron too! That game RULED! Too bad I couldn't get past the stinkin' final shooter phase...). I love survival horror games (in fact, I'm playing through Resident Evil Zero as we speak), but I'm not a huge FPS fan. Metroid Prime and Medal of Honor being the exceptions to this of course. Did I mention I hate sports games?

Sorry, but I played DAOC for over a year and loved every second of it. You obviously didn't get into it. The Realm versus Realm system was just phenominal. There was NOTHING like the feeling of laying seige to an enemy fortress, and the military precision needed to pull off such things was incredible. The ol' heart sure got pumpin' when you and your band of friends suddenly get rushed by a pack of wild Hibernians topping a hill. Even better, you're alone in a high-level area where the other realms have access to because you need to get a specific item and you KNOW you're being hunted by a MUCH higher level character than you. Make him a stealthed character and it's that much more nerve-wracking (in a fun way, though). I remember once I was in the battlegrounds late at night, just seeing who was out there. My Dwarven Berzerker could pretty much take any character 5 levels above me in hand to hand easily, so I wasn't afraid. I noticed some enemy players crossing the forest on their way back to their keep, so I hid behind the trees and slowly crept up to see what was going on. All of them went inside and teleported out, except for a lone Druid who decided to sit at the edge of the bridge for a bit (away from the guards, hehe). Well, I jumped into the water quite a ways downstream, then slowly crept up under the bridge. As I popped out and went into my Berzerker rage, I could literally feel the poor guy piss his pants. He was dead in like maybe 6 seconds. Poor sap didn't have time to run to the guards, or even land a blow for that matter. THAT was what DAOC was all about man, knowing that you could either play against the computer and fight monsters, or go against a human enemy that could acutally use cunning and tactics. No other MMORPG has come close to that level of FAIR Player versus Player interaction. It's too bad you didn't give it a chance.

Lessee here. I played the original Metal Gear Solid from beginning to end non stop. That took me...maybe 15 hours total I'm guessing? I've played awesome 15-18 hour marathons of Dark Age of Camelot. RPG's were my main marathon games. I'd usually spend between 8 and 15 hours on them (on my days off, of course).

Yeah, MOH is a great game. One of my favorite PS games, right behind Metal Gear Solid and the Resident Evil games. My favorite missions are the espionage ones, where you dress up like a German soldier and have to show your papers to advance to new areas. Too cool! And the feeling of POWER you get weilding the BAR is just unbelievable. I see a lot of Playstation bashing around here, but games like this just reinforce to us fans how GOOD of a system it really was.

It's called a Movie Card. I'm sure you all know what it is, and I'd heard of them, but have never seen one. Anyway, it only cost me 5 bucks. Oddly, it doesn't even have a manufacturer's name on it anywhere. It's one of the external ones that fits in the parallel port and the multi-AV out port, and it has a little lighted switch to toggle it from the game to the VCD player. It works fine as far as I can tell, the little title screen shows up and everything, but I have no VCD's to play on it. Now, question about these VCD's. I assume that this is a standard format MPEG player, correct? If so, I should be able to just burn off some MPEG files onto a disc and it'll play (I'm unable to currently test this as I'm all out of CDR's at the moment). I dunno very much about VCD players, so this has piqued my curiosity on the matter.

Well, I think MP was one of the best games I've played, period. A true masterpiece. It REALLY gave you this claustrophobic, empty feeling of being on an alien planet all alone. I like the directions they took the stories. It made it make sense for the mysterious Chozo statues to be the ones that held your weapons and upgrades. There was SO much they did right with this title. Halo on the other hand, is quite a fun game, especially in multi-player, but I still think Metroid beats it handily. And this is in NO way influenced by the fact that I have Samus as my avatar......

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I've had more heart wrenching loss in my life than most people will ever know, so, no, adding another notch would be counter productive. He could have sold the thing to a pawn shop, then taken that money and donated it to a local homeless shelter. I've BEEN on the streets, I've EATEN from garbage cans, so all this means very, very little to me. Needless to say, I'm doing much better now. :wink:

All my friends call me the "King of adding shit in" when it comes to cooking. Hehe. Now, mind you, I don't drink caffeinated soda PERIOD, so I can eat pretty damn good on very little money if I try. But, I'm a HUGE eater. I can eat an entire Big New Yorker pizza with a 2 liter of Sprite and dessert to follow and be just about full, so eating for me is gonna be more expensive anyway. One of the first things you're gonna want to do is spend a few bucks on a decent set of spices. Basil, paprika, black pepper, chili powder, garlic salt, and you MUST have a bottle of Ms. Dash, cause that is the best stuff ever made. So, here's a few of my fave recipes. Mega Mac 'n Cheese. You should LIVE off Mac and Cheese if you're broke, since it tastes so much better than Ramen. Anyway, whatcha do is get a pound of the cheapest hamburger you can find, a 50 cent package of some sort of ham (I've seen it as cheap as 40 cents, too), a box of Mac 'n Cheese, milk, and butter. Make the Mac and cheese like normal, and brown your hamburger meat. Season the meat with any of the aforementioned spices you want. When it's about halfway done, take the ham and cut it into small pieces, then toss it in and let it cook too. Mix EVERYTHING together and enjoy. Beef Noodles. This one is SO easy. Get some egg noodles (cheap, like 85 cents for a good sized package), and cook 'em up. Get a jar of beef gravy (1 dollar to a dollar fifty at most places), and a pound of hamburger meat. Once the noodles are cooked, add the gravy and your cooked meat. Simple, easy, and cheap. This also works great with rice, and you can substitute turkey or chicken gravy to suit your tastes. Basically, you can make cheap food taste MUCH better if you add something else to it. Mac and cheese is the best for this, since just about anything goes well with it. Chop up some hot dogs or some smoked sausage and toss in, you'll see. Same for Spaghettios. Some hamburger makes it GREAT. Ramen can also be done like this, but generally meat don't go well with it, so veggies of some sort seem like the better choice (one of my favorite things to do with Rice a Roni (generic brand of course!) is to chop up some celery and tomatoes and toss those in. Mmm...good stuff). And if you're working, go EASY on the lunch. I'm currently trying to lose some weight, and my diet calls for a very light lunch. I can get a 6 pack of generic diet shakes for about 4 bucks, and since that's all I have for lunch, that's about 70 or so cents a day. Another alternative is a cup of yogurt. 54 cents at Wally for a cup of Yoplait (and believe me, pay the extra few cents cause cheap yogurt SUCKS). And in closing, I'd NEVER go hungry just so I could collect something. I like to eat too damn much. I guess I'm just not that hardcore...

One of the funniest things I've ever seen was in an arcade about...10 years ago. I myself had just finished a nice little session of Sinistar when a woman and her quite little boy walk in. She hands him some quarters and he excitedly pops it in the first one near the door, which was Sinistar. I was playing some MK2 in a machine near the Sinistar machine, and was kinda sorta just looking over at his game, not really interested, but I could beat MK2 with my eyes closed at that point. Anyway, he doesn't know how to play, but manages to keep alive long enough for Sinistar to bellow "Beware, I live!". They had the game turned up pretty loud, too, and I guess it scared the kid because he started bawling and ran behind his mother who promptly grabbed him and dragged him outta there but quick.

Found a copy of Encounter at L-5 for a buck and a copy of the Archie comic Adventures of Bayou Billy for a quarter, and it's in MINT condition, too!

Well, with limited shelf space, I subscribe to the "less is more" theory. That's why I like the GameCube and Dreamcast designs. Small, compact, and there's a whole lotta gamin' goodness packed into 'em.

I actually found the Playstation Blaster Master to be quite an enjoyable little romp. Nothing groundbreaking, true, but it was still a fun adventure. They even had a remixed version of the theme song for the first level of the original Blaster Master, which I though was pretty nifty. Add to this the fact that I payed a whole 10 bucks for it and it makes it all the sweeter!

The Yar with a half-eaten brick wall. Underneath... "Eat Me." Q-Bert with the little word bubble coming from his nose/mouth and the word "Shit!" inside it. A large picture of E.T. (graphics, not an actual picture of him) Underneath... "E.T. Sucks Ass" And, last but not least, a simple one. "Tramiel can blow me" I still like my Metroid shirt best of all, though.

Sounds like one of the pins may be broken or bent. Look inside the little connector where the joystick plugs into. If you see one of the pins is bent, you MAY be able to (veeeeery carefully...) straighten it with a pair of thin needle nose pliers. If it's broken, I dunno what to tell you.

Too bad I got on here too late. I have a working disk of Crush, Crumble and Chomp. Great little game actually.

How bout this one?

Hmmm. How about a "Garbled Game" contest? Take an Atari cart and put it in the machine, then "fry" it by flipping the power button on and off rapidly. Then, show a pic of the garbled screen and have everyone guess what game it is. Another possiblity. Show a screenshot of a single sprite from a game, then have everyone guess what game it's from.

Doki Doki Panic, that's it! I wonder why I thought it was Arabian World. I think I have a MAME Rom named that...mebbe that was it...

As far as I know, the Lost Levels is a direct port of the Japanese Super Mario 2 game. Our Mario 2, as you may well know, was basically a game called Arabian World (I think, it may have been something different, but it definately had Arabia in it somewhere), but with the Mario characters instead. I dunno, I REALLY liked the US Mario 2 game.

Yeah, I think so. There should be one for each of the "Big Three", otherwise they'd be losing out on a lot of revenue. Almost to the end with Niobe. Then, I'm gonna unlock the sword and go back through it with Ghost! Sweeet...

249 lbs with a 42 inch waist. That's pretty much me, too, but I'm 6'5", so it's a little easier to take. I wanna hit 230, though. I've been just doing my own diet for the past few months. NO caffeine of any sort (that shit is a damn poison), very little sweets, a low carb weight loss shake for lunch, and a decent to large (and sometimes my normal SUPER large dinner. I'm a major huge eater. I can down a Pizza Hut Big New Yorker and a 2 liter with no problems whatsoever. And yeah, I mean the WHOLE pizza.) dinner. I went from 274 to where I'm at now, about 248 in about 4 months, but taking the weight off slow means it'll STAY off, too.

It was probably Caveman Games.

It's the Cube version, but I just skipped the cut-scene and it's cool. Working fine now.

Okie dokie, I was playing through at Niobe (and guys, you may wanna get this game if for nothing else but the scene with Persephone and Niobe!), and right after the Twins chase you around in their SUV, you get a nice little FMV. Immediately after it ended, I get a "Alloc 443924 (some number sequence, I dun remember what it exactly was) DivxBuffer error" and the game crashed. Whattafuck? Has anyone else had this problem? This is gonna suck if I can't finish it with Niobe! Ghost's game was fun, but Niobe's game is quite a bit different, and I wanna see all it has to offer!