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  1. DiscoDr.Bones

    I’m looking for 16 bit era side scrolling beat-em-up recommendations. I have the Streets of Rage series, Final Fight CD and TMNT for the Genesis/SCD and Final Fight 2, Super Double Dragon and TMNT IV for the SNES. I have had all these for years and am looking for something new. Please tell me some of your favorites from back in the day!

    1. DiscoDr.Bones

      DiscoDr.Bones

      I don't know if "Mutant Rampage" is a joke or not. If I ever get a CDi, is that worth seeking out?

      I have heard of the Golden Axe series but never played it. And I have them on Steam (Genesis collection), so I can try them out legit. Thanks snakeboy!

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  2. DiscoDr.Bones

    I’m looking for 16 bit era side scrolling beat-em-up recommendations. I have the Streets of Rage series, Final Fight CD and TMNT for the Genesis/SCD and Final Fight 2, Super Double Dragon and TMNT IV for the SNES. I have had all these for years and am looking for something new. Please tell me some of your favorites from back in the day!

    1. DiscoDr.Bones

      DiscoDr.Bones

      Thanks all! From a quick Youtube glance "Pirates of Dark Water" is along the lines of what I was looking for. I see that there is a "Battletoads and Double Dragon" game that I missed too. Shinobi is great, I have the first two, but what I was looking for is more along the lines of some good Final Fight/Streets of Rage clones that I might have missed back in the day.

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  3. PacManPlus

    Thinking I might not have a home to come back to once Irma passes through, judging from the latest news reports regarding wind speed and 9 foot storm surge...

    1. DiscoDr.Bones

      DiscoDr.Bones

      Best wishes! It's crazy down there.

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  4. DiscoDr.Bones

    Picked up the 7800 "Space Invaders" from the Atari Age store. Came in yesterday… played for several hours throughout the day. Good stuff and now my favorite classic console port of the game…

    1. DiscoDr.Bones

      DiscoDr.Bones

      Frogger is one of my favorite games of all time. I have been following the thread on Froggie and I'm sure I will pick it up when it comes available.

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  5. DiscoDr.Bones

    Normally when playing Centipede in the arcade, I can post scores > 100K. Picked up the game and a trackball for the 5200, I’m only posting around 25K. Either I’m WAY out of practice or they gave that 5200 spider some Brazilian Bump and a homing device then said you are the guy who squished his mother…

    1. DiscoDr.Bones

      DiscoDr.Bones

      Hey Defender_2600, I haven't tried it yet... I'll have to give it a shot.

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  6. PacManPlus

    Listening to "A View To A Kill" (DD) earlier. Just noticed that the song is: Verse - Chorus - Verse - Chorus -End. That's it... and it's still three and a half minutes. No chorus repeat, no solo, no third verse... kind of odd to me :)

    1. DiscoDr.Bones

      DiscoDr.Bones

      The best Bond theme song... IMO...

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  7. DiscoDr.Bones

    Was out this weekend, came home to one of my recently purchased Best Reconditioned 5200 controllers in pieces, seems that the kid felt it wasn’t working correctly and she thought she could fix it. Not sure what I’m going to do about this one...

    1. DiscoDr.Bones

      DiscoDr.Bones

      and travistouchdown, that's what the circumstances were for a long time, but as she was getting older I was becoming more lenient about letting her in when I wasn't around. Provided that there are no shortages or quotas (the two 5200 controllers were my first ever purchase from Best only month ago) I'm glad to be out only $50. Could have been a lot worse.

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  8. DiscoDr.Bones

    Was out this weekend, came home to one of my recently purchased Best Reconditioned 5200 controllers in pieces, seems that the kid felt it wasn’t working correctly and she thought she could fix it. Not sure what I’m going to do about this one...

    1. DiscoDr.Bones

      DiscoDr.Bones

      That's what I would like to do BigO, but after looking at a youtube video and trying on my own (admittedly, I'm not the most mechanically inclined) there seemed to be different and missing parts and I was not able to figure it out.

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  9. DiscoDr.Bones

    I have decided that an Xbox One with Kinect @ $300 is the price point in which I would be willing to take plunge. Gonna happen in 2016? Ever??

    1. DiscoDr.Bones

      DiscoDr.Bones

      Buying them separately over time would lessen the blow a bit, but the family demands Kinect if I get one, but I won't do it at $450 total.

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  10. DiscoDr.Bones

    I have decided that an Xbox One with Kinect @ $300 is the price point in which I would be willing to take plunge. Gonna happen in 2016? Ever??

    1. DiscoDr.Bones

      DiscoDr.Bones

      Yes there have been and I almost pulled the trigger once, but I got a GTX 970 instead.

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  11. segasaturn

    Saving up for my first car. Selling a portion of my game collection. Post in marketplace!

    1. DiscoDr.Bones

      DiscoDr.Bones

      My first car was a big, white 1985 Ford T-bird. It only lasted a year or so... we named it "The Challenger" post-mortem because the engine caught fire as I was driving it driving on the highway...

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  12. DiscoDr.Bones

    Among the list of things your local network admin is likely unwilling to address in 2015: complaints that your online media provisions are too slow from a user accessing the internet via dial-up...

    1. DiscoDr.Bones

      DiscoDr.Bones

      So you would be a good group of people to ask then… we do offer 64Kbs AAC downloads of everything we broadcast and break long segments up specifically for low bandwidth users… do you on dial up find that unacceptable?

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  13. DiscoDr.Bones

    So I got my first reasonably good score for the XE version of Choplifter (62 saved. 1 chopper lost) and all I got was a "The End." Is that really all to the game?

    1. DiscoDr.Bones

      DiscoDr.Bones

      I have spent months off and on just getting to that point and enjoy the game thoroughly, but yea, I was expecting more levels... or something...

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  14. Keatah

    I’ve rarely seen a TV set or monitor correctly adjusted. Most people just randomly fiddled with the controls until they could tolerate the result.

    1. DiscoDr.Bones

      DiscoDr.Bones

      I used to be an A/V tech and my specialization was display calibration. This was at the tail end of the CRT days into the modern era. I no longer have the equipment, but still feel like I can eyeball it reasonably well. It isn’t exactly an “in demand” set of skills, but hey… my TV’s and monitors look pretty good…

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  15. DiscoDr.Bones

    Out of the blue, my G/F asked me why I didn’t have a ColecoVision, I responded that no one I knew had one growing up, so I don’t think I had ever played one, but that it was on my radar as an “eventual.” She smiled and said “ok.” I’m calling that consent…

    1. DiscoDr.Bones

      DiscoDr.Bones

      That would be super cool. She is really supportive of me getting something like that it if she has any level of familiarity with it, but this is the first time she has mentioned ColecoVision.

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  16. goldenegg

    I'm fairly furious about the Arkham Knight issues on PC. There's absolutely no excuse for the game to run like crap with a 4790k and 2 x GTX980. It's nearly unplayable in certain parts.

    1. DiscoDr.Bones

      DiscoDr.Bones

      I got the game with my new 970 and I gave up on playing it after about 20 minutes. I'll revisit it in a couple of months when they have it fixed.

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  17. Austin

    24 years later, I have finally beaten NES Battletoads.

    1. DiscoDr.Bones

      DiscoDr.Bones

      I don't remember anything past the snake level. Musta been as far as I ever managed to make it...

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  18. AtariBrian

    Playing Ninja Gaiden for the NES tonight . Last time I played this was sometime in 1989 .

    1. DiscoDr.Bones

      DiscoDr.Bones

      That was one of my favorite games growing up. I'm pretty sure it wasn't until I was an adult that I actually beat it.

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  19. DiscoDr.Bones

    Managed to survive the Monster Summer Steam Sale down only a tenner or so. I'm getting better....

    1. DiscoDr.Bones

      DiscoDr.Bones

      I picked up Ikaruga, Another World and random DLC's. None of the stuff I was really after got much of a discount either...

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  20. DiscoDr.Bones

    I forgot how terrible Realsports Baseball for the 7800 was until I played a game last night. Any baseball recommendations for the 2600/7800/8-bit?

    1. DiscoDr.Bones

      DiscoDr.Bones

      I have heard really good things about Realsports Baseball for the 5200 from other sources as well. It's going to be near the top of my list when I get a 5200...

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  21. TheObscureGamer

    Why do people hate Duke Nukem Forever so much? Yeah it's not as good as it could have been but it still has decent gameplay and Duke's 1 liners

    1. DiscoDr.Bones

      DiscoDr.Bones

      I think people had unrealistic expectations due to the years of hype and development time. I would have been unhappy at full price, but for the $5 I paid it was good dumb fun.

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  22. DiscoDr.Bones

    I forgot how terrible Realsports Baseball for the 7800 was until I played a game last night. Any baseball recommendations for the 2600/7800/8-bit?

    1. DiscoDr.Bones

      DiscoDr.Bones

      Thanks, I'll check those out. I see that HardBall! is on the 8-bit, I bet that is worth checking out too?

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  23. DiscoDr.Bones

    Whenever I come into possession of an older game system that I haven’t played since back in its day, I always try to give it a pretty significant run under the circumstances of the time. So in the case of an Atari 7800, proline controllers, an RF connection to my CRT and original published carts. This is partially nostalgia, but it also helps me greater appreciate what the community has managed to do when I add custom controllers, an S-video mod and homebrew carts in the not too distant...

    1. DiscoDr.Bones

      DiscoDr.Bones

      Call me Ishmael. Some years ago never mind how long precisely having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen, and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth ; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul ; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and brining up t...

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  24. TheObscureGamer

    And they said you can't build a decent gaming PC for under $600. I just brought around $385 in parts and when built, can run almost all games above 60fps and if not, on high at 60FPS

    1. DiscoDr.Bones

      DiscoDr.Bones

      It is crazy how underpowered this generation of consoles is. A 750ti and i3 can compete with a PS4, and since most big name games for PC these days are console ports, it looks like that might be all one needs.

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