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  6. Posted

    I didn't see this posted anywhere else ... so here goes.

     

    There is another one of these on eBay right now:

     

    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...6150408592&rd=1

     

    This one is 10-15 minutes from my house. It's probably too late for me to go look at it for you, but if anyone wins this and would like a place to store it until they can arrange for shipping and/or pick it up, I've always got garage space (wife wouldn't notice it amongst all the arcade games out there right now anyhow).

  7. Posted

    Back then, 4K of memory was a big deal. Now, it's a small word document.

     

    A small Word document? Try a small plain Text document.

     

    It's amazing to think those original games were smaller in size than most of our avatars.

  8. Posted

    That's the great thing about this hobby -- there are no rules! You can collect Combat carts for all anyone cares! It's all up to you, what you want to do and what you want to get out of it.

     

    Personally, I collect boxed Star Wars toys and opened videogames. Do the opposite, do both, do neither. Regardless of what you do, you're going to die poor and wonder why the heck you blew your 401k on videogames. Might as well spend it on ones you can play, IMHO.

  10. Posted

    I'll say it again: The real thing is best, emulation is convenient.

     

    There's the key phrase of the thread.

     

    I used to travel a lot for work. It would be impossible or at least greatly impractical to tote console systems or classic computers around with me. It's nice to be able to play some classic games (pick your system of choice) while on the road. Likewise, when stuck at an airport, on a plane or on a road trip, I've got hundreds of old roms sitting there on my GP32 just waiting to entertain me.

     

    I currently own 20 arcade cabinets, and one of them is running MAME. I love them all, but to tell you the truth when "average" (read: normal) people come by, they don't know and can't tell the difference. Maybe it's just me, but a lot of MAME's ROMs have little glitches or scroll funny or don't sound exactly right ... if you're a perfectionist and it's that important to you, buy the original cabinet (I have; 19 times).

     

    They both have their place, and I support both.

  11. Posted

    Unfortunately, Stingray's seen my garage. I've got seven games out there that were "overflow" from the gameroom. The problem is I filled my gameroom up with mediocre games -- once I started getting the good ones, I had no place to put them! I think I said this earlier, but now I've got crappy, semi-working games in my gameroom while I've got games like RoadBlasters, Gauntlet II and Karate Champ gathering dust in my garage.

  12. Posted

    I think part of the confusion comes from people's different interpretations of the word "innovative".

     

    Some people seem to think innovative means an entirely new genre. For example, to those people Katamari Damacy is innovative because there's no other game like it; MGS3 isn't innovative, because there are other games out there like it.

     

    To others, specific details make games innovative. I'm seeing this in the defense of Prince of Persia. Some people say that the new features in this title make it innovative, while others see it as just another 3D platformer.

     

    No opinion either way, just an observation.

  13. Posted

    I feel like the proverbial ant who has been stockpiling food for the upcoming winter. Not counting emulation, I have hundreds of games for a dozen systems lying around that I either haven't played or haven't mastered yet. With emulation, that number is in the thousands and might be more than ten thousand. One of my goals someday is to play and brielfy review every game in the GB64 library -- that's around ten thousand games right there!

     

    If there were a crash tomorrow, I think it would be a good thing. I'd like to see the game industry re-evaluate itself and the constant stream of mediocre games I see filling the shelves. Even if the next drought lasted five or ten years ... I'm covered.

  14. Posted

    Im looking to buy a dual slot Neo Geo cabinet. Can any one give me an idea of about how much they usually go for, and is there any one in Michigan looking to sell one :)

     

    I sold mine to Stingray for $200, and sold him 2 fighting games for $20. I don't know if that reflects actual market value or not. My guess is that's slightly lower than what you might see in other parts of the country.

  15. Posted

    In one of my arcade lots, I picked up "Super Baseball Double Play Home Run Derby". I don't know if the game is rare or not -- KLOV doesn't seem to have much information on it (LINK). I don't really care for the game one way or the other, just got it thrown in with a lot.

     

    Here's the deal; the game is in a fairly nice Robotron cabinet. The control panel is shot (they screwed the Baseball controller into the top of it), but the cabinet itself is decent -- I'd say a 6/10. On top of that, the game has a really nice Joust glass bezel in it.

     

    You guys think I should part this out? Does anyone need any one of those three components (baseball game w/controller, joust bezel, robotron cabinet)? I can provide better pix if anyone's interested. The cabinet is in decent shape, has regular wear (scratches, a little water damage on top).

     

    baseball.jpg

  17. Posted

    When they're not cooking.

     

    (ducks)

     

    Unfortunately my wife falls into the stereotypical category. She likes Tetris, Bust-a-Move, Tetris Attack, and a few racing games "so I can drive around and look at the scenery." I asked her once if she could do anything to make videogames better what would she do, and she replied she'd make it where none of them kept score so people would play them for fun instead of competition. :?:

  18. Posted

    ScooterB23 did me a huge favor by picking up one of these recently and mailing it to me at cost -- thanks bro!

     

    I was and am a huge Commodore fan, so I've been dying to get my hands on one of these joysticks. Without giving a complete review, I'll just add these comments.

     

    @joystick quality: I don't really see the problem here. I'd rate it as good, but not great. As a kid growing up with a Commodore 64, all I ever had was crappy hand-me-down Atari sticks anyway, all of which were missing the black rubber piece. I guess when I think of Commodore, I think of cheap joysticks anyway. This didn't really bother me.

     

    @game selection: A little odd. There were some good games, but some of the choices were downright odd (specifically the Californa Games/World Games events). I would have rather seen BMX from California Games than all the other events they provided. My second fav from CG was Hackey Sack. It's liked they picked the three lamest events and used those. :/ Paradroid alone makes the stick worth the price of admission for me, with Uridium being a close second. Good times.

  22. Posted

    There's also the arcade version, which I have sitting in my game room. :) I've always liked this game, it's like the battles of Pirates mixed with Tetris. The arcade version was available both in a trackball mode and a joystick version. The trackball made it easier to shoot attacking ships, but tougher to fix your castle IMHO.

     

    And by the way, SpectreVR was a bit of a stinker on the SNES, but was pretty decent on the Mac back in the day. In fact, I think it may have been the first LAN game I ever played. Capture the flag, woo woo!

  25. Posted

    If you have that many carts, you're definitely not just starting.  It just seemed that you were buying a lot of common games.  But then, I see you passed up most of the super common games in the display case.  You found a couple of games that I haven't come across.  Stellar Track, Wabbit and Worm War I are ones I haven't seen in the wild.   I don't have Squeeze Box either, which I see in the same picture.  But then, I don't know if it's a good game or not.  If I won't play it, I don't collect it.  

     

    I started collecting 2600 games because the emulation wasn't good in 1995.  This was when all I knew about 2600 emulation was the Activision Action Packs.  I bought all three.  I wasn't on the Internet yet and the average computer back weren't fast enough to emulate the 2600 full screen.    

     

    And you can get a Krokodile Kart to play those rare 2600 games on the real hardware.  I look forward to using it to play test homebrews as well.

     

    Yeah, I think this shopping trip took care of most of the commons I was missing. I'd tried several of the homebrews and stuff on that A26 cart and they all seem to work great (I bought it before I knew about the Krokodile Kart, but I don't regret the purchase at all).

     

    I remember those early days of emulation as well. Sitting there, trying to play NES in some 240xwhatever Window, with Japanese menus. Good times. :)

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