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  1. Posted

    I got an Amiga 1000 from my brother sometime around '89 or so. My brother knew a guy that worked on them and had piles of them, including loads of - how should I say this - non-legitimate copies of games. I was young, I didn't think much of piracy. (I've gone 180 degrees on that since then.) Later on, I got loads and loads of games from a friend of mine who called up some of those European BBS boards loaded with cracked copies of games. I probably have between 500-600 games around here. I loaned them out to my brother a couple of years ago, and he took them out of the storage boxes they were in and threw them into a big cardboard box. They've sat in the corner of my room, getting dusty and dirty. I doubt if half of them even work anymore. :sad:

     

    My uncle bought an old Amiga 2000 for the Video Toaster that was inside (he has a side business filming weddings, school events, etc.) and he gave me what he thought was a spare keyboard. It was actually an Amiga 1200HD. But I don't have a power supply to make it work. And also, my old mouse from the 1000 went out, and I don't know where to find another. Anybody know of a good web site (not eBay) that sells power supplies and mice?

  2. Posted

    I suppose you could say I collect for GameCube, because I typically buy any half decent looking game when the price hits $20 or less. I don't buy every $50 game that comes out though, there's no way I could afford to.

     

    I'm the exact same way. But as of late, i've been taking it even farther. I've been buying games when I find them on sale, but never getting around to playing them. I've got about 30 GameCube games, but I have about 8 or 10 that i've never really played in depth, or at all. I get excited at the store when I find a game that i'd like to play, but I have so many modern games that are unplayable because of bad design or lousy camera angles or whatever, I don't put much of a priority in playing them. It's kind of like, if I don't play it, I won't be disappointed.

     

    I bought a copy of Bloodrayne off EBGames.com, and I didn't get around to playing it for months. When I did finally open it up, there was no disc inside! That really pissed me off. There's nothing I can do about it, I waited too long before opening it to notify EBGames. At least I only paid $15 for it. With free shipping. Gotta love that free shipping.

  4. Posted

    I made it through the game all the way too. I didn't even know about the Temple of the Rubber Chicken God until much later. And damn, that was a tough game. The controls took days for me to figure out. Then several days more to get my character to stumble through to the end. I've never felt like going all the way through again. Just too frustrating. And my memory card didn't retain my saves.

  6. Posted

    Yar's Revenge and Shamus were the first non-Advance games I picked up. There's a few more scattered through the Gameboy's catalog that i'd like to get, but I really haven't put any effort into tracking them down. I can't stand the GBA's dim screen, and it seems goofy to me to play games for a portable machine on a home console like the GC.

     

    I also picked up Ballistic and Miner 2049er a few months ago. Ballistic isn't as good as my Nuon version, and Miner 2049er was lousy.

     

    With Gameboy and Gameboy Color, i'm mainly looking for old video and computer games that have been revived. Now, if I could only find a GBC version of the old TI Home Computer game Tunnels of Doom......

  8. Posted

    I wish there was a store around me selling a Vectrex...... I'd easily pay $100 for one. I've been dying to get my grubby mitts on one since 1983. I finally got a chance to play one for the first time at the Austin Game Expo. It took me 20 years to finally see what I have been missing out on all this time!

  9. Posted

    I've never bought anything off eBay before. All my games were bought at the time the console was out. I even mail ordered directly from Atari themselves back then. I've hardly ever found Lynx stuff in the wild. The only games I can find nowadays is an electronic junk shop that has about a dozed boxed and sealed copies of Telegames's Qix. They used to have a lot of Double Dragons, but those sold out faster than Qix. I bought a couple of them myself, since they were only $3 each.

  11. Posted

    Best looking consoles:

     

    Atari 2600jr. - small and sleek

    Atari 7800 - I've always liked it's angular look and sleek lines

    Odyssey2 - Great looking silver console (until you saw the ugly controllers next to it)

    Intellivision 2 - compact, elegant design

    Atari Lynx Rev. 2 - smaller and cooler than first version

    Pioneer LaserActive - looks so good racked in with my Pioneer stereo system

    Atari Jaguar - looks like a spaceship (until you attach the CD drive)

    Samsung N501 Nuon DVD player - sweet diagonal mirrored machine

     

     

    Worst looking consoles:

     

    Atari 5200 - gargantuan machine, needed shrinking down

    Xbox - big, heavy, case design by marketing team instead of design artists

    GameCube - dull Dreamcast swipe

    TurboGraphix - with CD drive, it looked awkward and clunky

     

     

    Those are just standouts from my own collection. I've seen a Fairchild Channel F (which was butt-ugly), but I don't own one, so I didn't count it.

  12. Posted

    In no particular order:

     

    Escape From The MindMaster

    Adventure (I can play it over and over and never get tired of it)

    Secret Quest

    Riddle of the Sphinx

    Yar's Revenge

    Phazer Patrol (it plays best when you fry the game!)

    Dark Caverns

    Maze Craze (loved playing against my brother when we were kids!)

    Berzerk

    Desert Falcon (it was fun until I got the 7800 version)

    Othello

    Airlock (hey, I was young. I didn't know any better.)

    Asteroids (I rolled the score three times once)

    Lock 'N Chase (it was free thru M Network's buy 2 get one free deal)

    Laser Blast

    Solaris (shows you how advanced 2600 games could really be)

    Planet Patrol (like I said before, I was young! Don't judge me!)

  13. Posted

    I bought both Space War 2000 and Phaze Zero at AGE (I wish I had brought more money with me, two-thirds of my cash was gone in the first hour!) It's a good game, but not great. Of course, I had finally gotten to play Battlesphere at that show, so after that every other space shooter seemed like a letdown. The game has limited replayability. It would have been better if Atari had kept it closer to what they originally designed it to be, which was Star Raiders 2000. As it stands now, it's definitely fun, but the enemy ships AI is poor, as they won't try to avoid you getting behind them and blasting away. The game is just - start, fly towards bad guys, pick them off one by one, go to next level, repeat. It gets a little repetetive.

  14. Posted

    I bought the demo at AGE. It's pretty nice. And FAST. If it would have come out while the Jag was still on the market, it would have done really well. A game to show off to your Playstation gaming friends.

  16. Posted

    That's another thing. Can you make the game MindLink compatible? Maybe throw one in with each game? It's just so hard, having to play a game with a controller. It just seems like too much effort sometimes. I'd just like to think about controlling the game, so I can put out the barest minimum of physical effort playing. :D

  18. Posted

    I've enjoyed Sega CD games, but I take them as they are, not how they look up against the current generation of consoles. I secretly liked some of those FMV games.... Games like Surgical Strike, Caddilacs and Dinosaurs and Ground Zero Texas were pretty interesting at the time. Sonic CD is one that everyone will nominate as the system's best, and they'd be right. Games like Rise of the Dragon (point and click adventure) are fun, Stellar 7 is a good Battlezone type game, and Silpheed is a good shooter. I've always liked StarBlade too, but the poor Sega CD just can't throw polygons around, so nearly all the ships are done in wireframes. It stays true to the arcade version's gameplay, so I never cared.

  23. Posted

    How about if you get the GB Player for the GameCube, use the TV Tuner on it so you can watch TV within the GB interface, then hook up another GameCube through the TV Tuner so you can have a picture within a picture within a picture? :D

     

    I wonder if that would even work...... I guess i'll have to wait until payday to find out! 8)

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