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Tempest, likely. ... Ah, skip it. I'll take a C compiler and a good book or 2 on programming. I can MAKE my games.

Doubtful. I know Harmageddon is actually Star Trek with a new title.

Dang. Told you! *pays self 10$*

Is Videotopia still around? They'd make quite a centerpiece.

Why? Wal-Mart video game shoppers are the least adventurous there are. What makes you think they'd support a new system from a (to them) unknown company? They carried the system. And any idiot can tell you that a system without games won't sell. ... Of course, I do tend to over-estimate WalMart's electronics department. I keep forgetting that htey were asking 30$ and up for NES games well into the N64's life.

Gen2.

No way dude, MESS is awesome! When was the last time you tried it MESS lives up to it's name. I'll take standalone emus any day.

Lemme explain the C64 in better detail... The C64 was released in 1982 as a competitor to the IBM PC, the Apple II, the Atari 8-bits, and the TRS-80. Nice list. *cough*99/4*cough*

Yep, it's called Bandai Kousokusen. http://perso.club-internet.fr/sap1/kousoku.../kousokusen.htm I love the GCE-style labels they used. Adn the angle where the stripe hits the japanese logo is beautiful.

Acclaim then is what MadCatz is now. Manufacturer of shitty accessories that don't work right.

10$ says no one makes a Vectrex emu.

No, but I'll give you 5$ for a boxed Quadrun. That seems like a fair price.

For some STRANGE reason it wouldn't suprise me in the least if I saw on the news that an Atari collector had broken into Tramiel's house, stolen the sword, and beheaded him with it.

I thought that was ET.

As I recall, WalMart only carried hte systems with Sonic the Hedgehog, because they didn't want to risk buying games for an unknown system. I blame places like WalMart and Best Buy(who treated it similarly) partially for SNK's failure. Had WalMart carried the games, the system WOULD have sold there.

Never question the power of koreans looking to make a buck.

The FDS won't work with an NES unless you have a cart adapter. Only FamiComs. It actually interfaced through the cart slot, and the NES cart connector is physically diffrent than the FC one. I've been told hte japanese Famicom2(a top-load NES, only it's a FamiCom) is the best unit, owing to the FC1 only having RF output. The FC2 also takes standard NES gamepads and joysticks, whereas the FC1 had hard-wired gamepads. BTW, most of the FDS games ARE the originals. The ROM cartridge versions that US gamers know and love are the copies. If you have FDS Metroid, you MUST play it. The music is so superior(due to the FDS' extra sound hardware and a rather poor job adapting Metroid to the base NES/FC) it's like a whole new game.

Both need to be plugged in. The specs on the SegaCD supply are 9 volts, 1.2 amps, and a negative tip. You should have all the bricks you need, based on the photo. Paradoxically, teh SCD power supply claims it's for use with the Genesis console. But the plug won't fit, so it's obviously lying. RangerG: Nice score. I think the CDX alone is worth signifigantly more than 50$.

Heh. I need to do another thrift store raid. Local pawn shops in my area are good for Sega Master System, but not much else.

Ouch. I was 3 at the time. I doubt I remember anything that would be very helpful. But my 99/4a Picnic Paranoia(picked up in '88-'89) is copyright '83, and TI got out of the home computer business in '84, so they'd've been liquidating TI stock at that time too. Dunno if KayBee carried TI computers, though. ... Tried to confirm speech in the 4a version, and realized that I used to be somewhat better at it than I am now. As in, I didn't used to suck completely and utterly.

I have been treating my Genesis like it was made of gold. And now that I have a 2600 again, that too will be pampered. It's funny because my PSX with the mod-chip in it is now treated like the wicked step-mother. LOL. And my well-worn Vectrex is now being treated like platinum. Of course, when I was a kid it was treated like everything else, which means it fell off of a table once. Still worked afterwards, fortunately. My VCSes and 5200s are treated with similar care and dignity. I baby just about all my stuff, actually. VCS to DreamCast. ... Except my GameBoy. It gets treated pretty poorly. Not harsh enough to break it, though.

It's not a completely bizarre thought. If I recall, the 99/4a version of Picnic Paranoia had speech. Good ol' TI and their Speech Synthesizer. Speaking intelligibly since 1980. Is it possible you played a diffrent version of the game before?

A new Nuon player? Geez. I thought that chipset had been dead for a couple years now.

Up and pay, as I understand it. As a side note, Sega took down all DC game servers except PSO and PSOv2 earlier this month, if I recall.

Surely you mean a GOOD video card. I can't imagine the Saturn version being a black screen with just noise.