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  1. Posted

    I've got a copy of Wired Magazine (the one with Linus Torvalds on the cover) that has a charity eBay auction listing on page 60. You can win a new SNAP console and a night of gaming with Nolan Bushnell. The console is supposed to have 50 games pre-loaded. I've never heard of this new console. I'll admit that I haven't Googled for the info yet. Has anyone heard of this before? I didn't know Bushnell was working on anything like a new console.

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    If you want to hook it up to a TV, just use a standard auto-switch RF plug, like the kind that come with Genesis/NES/Turbo machines. If you're looking for S-Video or composite, you'll have to find one of the Jag-specific cables.

     

    You really should of picked up a Jag and games back around 1997 or so. You could pick them up dirt cheap then. Nowadays, eBay makes everything cost like they were high priced collectables. Back then, I picked up two controllers (one regular and one Pro) for $3 each, and a copy of Myst for $4. Now those controllers cost $35. Ouch. If it weren't for eBay, these things would probably cost $10 at the most now.

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    My favorite type of game would have to be automobile/vehicular combat types of games, like Vigilante 8 on the Dreamcast. I love almost any kind of game where you shoot from cars. I am one of the few people who love the game Fatal Run on the Atari 7800. My favorite Sega Genesis game was Outlander, which was kind of an extension of Fatal Run, in which you had to get out at the towns in side-scroller mode and fight/scrounge for supplies. The best part of Outlander would have to be when one of the bikers gets right behind your car, and you slam on the brakes. You see his burning body fly over the hood of the car. Sweet!

  4. Posted

    I just tried it out with Windows Media Player 9 for Mac and it worked fine. I know you end up feeling kinda dirty going to Microsoft's web site and downloading it, but bite the bullet....

     

    It pisses me off when I see someone doing something like that to a video game console, no matter what company makes it. And at the end he buys another GameCube with a GBA Player just to destroy it. How much money does this loser have, that he can just throw it away with childish acts like that?

  6. Posted

    The Atari 10-in-1 joystick being sold nearly everywhere helps too. The grocery store I work in stocked a case of the things out for Christmas! They're mixed in with other holiday toys like Easy-Bake ovens and Play-Doh George Foreman toy grills(?). I wish there were TV sets I could plug one of those joysticks into and play on my lunch breaks.

  7. Posted

    Psygnosis hired a lot of great graphics designers back then. All their games had a style that elevated them above every other software house then (and even now). I played a lot of those games just to hear the incredible music! I always loved the music from Blood Money, even if the levels each took a fucking hour to get through, if you actually survived that long. Stuff like the music and intro animation to Leander blew my mind. I only had a demo of Agony, and it was kind of glitchy on my machine, but it looked incredible. Psygnosis needs to go back to those days and re-establish themselves as the most graphically stylish game company around.

     

    By the way, one of their graphic designers went on to do a great CD-ROM graphic novel called Sinkha. I bought it years ago, and it was cool as hell. They're coming out with a sequel that looks even better. Check it out. http://www.downloadsinkha.com/default.htm

  8. Posted

    I also have to vote for Cybermorph. It was a great game and incredibly advanced for 1993, it was what the system needed at the time, to show off it's graphics capabilities. Too bad the Jag didn't have very much memory, it would have been nice to have less pop-up.

     

    How about the Japanese Jaguar's pack-in game, Aliens vs. Predator? Sweet! They should have done that over here. Or packed in Tempest 2000. That would have sold a lot more machines.

  9. Posted

    I just bought a copy of the Collector's Edition of Robotech: Battlecry. Only cost me $20. I want to know how they managed to cram an XL t-shirt into a tiny shrinkwrapped disk shape. And it's not true, what the little sticker on the bottom of the shirt disk says, that the wrinkles will come out when you wash it. It didn't with mine.

     

    There's a pretty good chance that I won't even get around to playing Robotech: Battlecry anyway. I bought the Xbox version, and it wasn't all that great. I just bought the collector's version because it was cool.

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    But 'frying' on a 2600 actually did something other than give you garbage graphics. I found out that frying the Arcadia/Starpath Supercharger pack-in game Phazer Patrol would make the enemies meaner, faster, and sometimes invisible! It doubled the challenge! Frying Space Invaders always did something fun, and there were a few others I can't recall off the top of my head that got a lot more interesting after frying. Were there other consoles you could fry and actually change the gameplay, instead of giving you scrambled graphics only?

  14. Posted

    I've got several Xbox games, and I really don't care for any of them. The only one I really spent time on was Futurama, but only because the GameCube version got canned. But in fairness, the Xbox was a gift from a friend who didn't seem to understand my personal beliefs, that Microsoft is an inherently evil company, and that the world would be a better place if Bill Gates was drug out into the street and shot through the head. :twisted: Therefore, it's a little hard for me to enjoy playing it.

  16. Posted

    Or someone could hack Commando or Ikari Warriors to work like the arcade game, with it's rotational controller. Maybe someone could try making a game along the lines of Robotron, and use the stick for movement and the paddle for directional auto-fire.

     

    The ultimate would be if someone ported the Tron arcade game and made it compatible with the Gemini stick.

  17. Posted

    That commercial was jerky as hell.... damn WMV format.... one thing I noticed watching it was that they were playing La Bamba. In Spanish. In Japan. Which of course made me think: why? It's not like they don't have a zillion j-pop bands over there. And all those singers sing in their native language.

  18. Posted

    One Jag and Jag CD, but no bypass cart. I'm wanting to buy one, though. I've seen stuff like Caves of Fear and another one for sale at AGE, but I didn't have enough money for all the gear I wanted to buy. I would definitely buy one if BI/WN were widely available. Or some of the other games floating around out there, like Robinson's Requiem.

     

    By the way, everyone here seems to have a copy of American Hero, but how do I order one?

  19. Posted

    A lot of kids in the early 80's (like me) figured out that if you screw with the Atari 2600's power switch, you could "fry" a game and get it to go squirrely. Most consoles didn't use that 2600 flip switch, but could other consoles (up to present day) be fried somehow? And if you removed the old power button and installed a power switch on a console, could you fry one of those? Or is "frying" a game something only the 2600's hardware is capable of?

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