SteveW

You can't find the web browser for the DC? I've seen loads of them in the wild over the years. And the later coverdiscs for the Official Dreamcast Magazine had the latest versions of the browser. The web browser by itself is kind of like Combat for the 2600, they're very common, and usually piles of them are for sale wherever DC software's sold.

Ugh. Windows CE. I wish them luck, but I don't think another portable will make it in the current marketplace. GBA, Sony PSP, N-Gage, Tapwave Zodiac, even NeoGeo Pocket Color (it's still in stores). The portable market's saturated.

That's good. I'm glad no Vectrex carts were lost to make Protector. It's not like they're Combat cartridges, after all.

I got my Y.A.S.I./Protector cart today! Unfortunately, I don't have a Vectrex to play it on....... yet. I can't wait to play this game. The cartridge cases are copyrighted 1982 by GCE. So, what Vectrex carts had to die for us to get our Protectors? It kind of saddens me when old cartridges are recycled to make new games. I wouldn't mind paying $25 for the game to pay for a custom case that didn't sacrifice old carts. Especially when games for a system like the Vectrex are rare to begin with.

Wow. I can't believe someone doesn't like it. I think it's one of the coolest looking consoles i've ever seen. It looks sleek as hell. If it would have come out, I'd hope that Atari would have done something with the joypads. I personally like the Jag's joypads, but non-Jaguar owners always whine about the bulky looking controller. A few alterations to the design to make it visually pleasing would have been nice. They could possibly throw in an analog stick while they were at it.

I went over to meet my best friend tonight, did some of the only shopping i've done for Christmas (i'm not in a Christmas mood this year), and he bought me a Playstation2 for my birthday! Last year, he bought me an Xbox because the year before, I had bought him a Samsung Nuon-Enhanced DVD player. That's definitely cheered me up!

I remember getting online with the DC years ago. It's not something i'd do on a regular basis, but Sega's old web site had some nice things for download, like game trailers (I wish I could find the Ecco movie again) and some VMU stuff. I never had a keyboard, either.

Looks official to me. My friend bought me a Jaguar baseball cap years ago out of one of those catalogs with those t-shirts and other odd Jag merchandise in them. Too bad I can't wear hats. My head is just a little too oddly shaped. Hats don't look right on me.

As of today, December 23rd, i'm 35 years old. Yike. I always thought my life wouldn't suck as much as it does at 35. I foolishly hoped i'd mellow out and be happier. I'm more stressed and miserable now than i've ever been.

Did Atari just re-badge their own stuff at their factories, and then ship the Sears labeled stuff to only Sears stores? I doubt that Sears would set up a label/box printing operation just for Atari carts. I'm guessing that Atari boxed and labeled the stuff for Sears at their own facility. Which would mean that occasionally, a case might get sent to the wrong retailer. Sears couldn't do anything about it, so they priced them and put them out. This kind of thing happens every once in a while with store brands at the supermarket where I work.

I just came back from Best Buy, and my local store had 3 giant bins of games, all $19.99 and under. Most of the games are PS2, but there's some Xbox, and if you look hard enough, a handful of GameCube games. I picked up Midway Acrade Treasures GC for $19.99, Konami's Arcade Advanced GBA for $14.99, and the 20th Anniversary Special Edition of A Christmas Story! I'll play the games once i'm done with A Christmas Story.

I don't remember EGM saying anything about Jag Doom being the only console version done by id Software themselves. Or that John Carmack once called it the best home version to date. I'm not sure where I read that, but it damn well wasn't EGM.

That story's so idiotic that it might be accurate. I didn't watch the awards show, because it just looked stupid. I wouldn't voluntarily watch an awards show at gunpoint, anyway. Even when it's about videogames. I just assumed it would be all about sports and racing games, and not about GOOD games. There's still one of those Spike VGA billboards up in north Dallas. There's so much construction going on over there, the billboard posters probably couldn't get to the thing to change it to something new.

I used to like GamePro, years ago. That's the only place i've ever seen Atari 7800 reviews in print. But eventually, when Atari wasn't giving them any advertising revenue, they started crapping all over Atari consoles.

I've got a couple of those type of game playing devices. One I got out of some stupid gaming machine in the lobby of the store I work at. You've got a bunch of lights that circle the inside of the cabinet, if you push the button and stop on a red light you win a prize. I got a Mirada brand game machine with a bunch of seriously lame games in it. The only one playable was a tetris clone. The second one, I knew what I was getting, but it was Playstation shaped, and only cost a few bucks. I wouldn't pay more than $10 for the M-Gage, even with a calculator function.

Y'know, i've never tried using my Suncom Sensor Pads on my M-Network games. It might actually be like playing the Intellivision on the Atari!

It sounds like you just need a new machine. Something's obviously wrong with the one you have, that's why the old owners got rid of it. I've got a spare one. I'd like my spare TI stuff to go to someone who'd give it a good home, and not just turn around and re-sell it all on eBay. If you ever pop into Dallas, let me know. I'm almost always at work in the afternoons, so you can just drop by the Kroger I work at and pick the stuff up.

I've got a couple somewhere in storage. I never cared for them. They're just a little too awkward to use for any length of time. Kind of like Intellivision controllers, without the movable disk. It probably sounded like a good idea to the Suncom managers, to make a membrane joystick. That's why Suncom is gone now. That little rectangular sliding switch on the front is to change it from a 4-position to an 8-position directional controller. Plus, it has a built-in autofire function. Too bad it just wasn't all that useful.

I'm not sure, I can't play for more than 5 minutes without my brain just switching off out of self defense.

All my local Dairy Queens have closed.... I always loved those steak finger baskets......

I am so jealous. I'd like to find SOMETHING that would be worth my time and effort. You're incredibly lucky.

I put mine in the dishwasher. On the top rack, next to the coffee cups. And I use Jet Dry so that the case doesn't develop spots.

I haven't found anything good in thrift stores here. I found a few Atari 2600 joysticks, that's about it. I'm not as much of a thrift store hound as some people around here, though. I've only been checking those stores out for a few months. There might be better thrifts around here, i've only been in about 7 or 8. I have a box of random TI stuff, a bunch of books, cartridges (nearly all educational and home economics), and even some cassette cables I could give you. I might even have a spare Peripheral Expansion Box with a disk drive in it. One question: do you have Cherry RC Cola available in Houston? I'm dying to get a couple of cases of it. (i'm a serious soda junkie.) I'll trade you for some good sodas!

That was the thing with me, too. I bought nearly all my games while they were still available in the early '90s. But I used it so often that I just get bored with it now. I've played the hell out of it, and now i've moved on to newer things. But there were loads of great games I enjoyed at the time they came out. But I didn't seem to finish a lot of them. How long was the Lynx in production for? I know it debuted in 1989, but I don't remember exactly when Atari gave it the axe. Some of the later games I have are copywrited 1993. I don't have all my games here at the moment, so I can't easily go through them to figure out production dates. So, when did Atari put the Lynx to sleep?

I'm looking through my Lynx collection right now, and I just realised that I haven't finished very many of my games. Or at least the games with definite endings. Blue Lightning, Turbo Sub, Switchblade II, Slime World, and RoadBlasters are the only ones i've been able to finish. I'm not sure if I ever finished Power Factor and Scrapyard Dog. And I got close to finishing Rygar and Xenophobe, but my batteries died. All the other 50+ games I have are unfinished. Anyone else here finish games like Toki? Hydra? Kung Food? Gordo 106?