Duckman

I spelt it wrong on purpose. It's was NERD lure and you took it hook line and sinker. HA!

Dear God you people sit and pick out spelling and grammer errors? Hey Kangroo boy, do you sit and play scrable with your grandma all night? Losers.....

You know just a comment about message boards. For a year I went to another web site and defended my childhood memories of games along with others. Few would cry out intelligent comments in the face of ignorance. People, myself included, would do research, quote articles, games, ect, only to get a reply like 'You're a doody head.' by some mamby pamby baby nerd seeking some sort of retribution from the way life treated them that day. And fools that we were, we would go on fighting. Not me. I gave up, no point in teaching colour to the blind. Then one day I came here. I stayed away from the message boards because that's the land of the nerds the net over. But for a moment, I thought this is a respectable web site, with older mature game players. Hell these people even show their age and pictures. (Some shouldn't.) And what do I find all over the place here? Comments like 'You're a doody head.' No research, no actual smarts, just dumb lame nerd jokes and hate speeches. Real mature for your ages. That's all I can say. And yeah I got into it today, joking for the most part. But by reading some of the boards here, I've learnt that some of you lead sad lonley lives, just as bad as the kids that have an excuse not to have any knowledge.

Sorry Godzilla man, I'm just emotional right now. This topic has gotten out fo hand.

Well you insulted me and said I was two young to have an opion. Now your telling me I can't read. Isn't that just wonderfull. I know you're joking, but I don't think it's called for when people are seriously discussing something. Sorry I don't want you to be all upset. I'm assuming you're a nice guy.

Girls just wanna have lunch? Wow long before my time. I remember I'm fat. That was funny. That was that Wierd Al guy Right? Hmm most of the girls I know watch what they eat! Of course most of the girls I know are only about 120 lbs, if that. 'Cept for this Jamacan girl I know. Man can she pack the food away. And my cousin, who's 17. Let me tell you, just pray you are never around her if there's a food shortage....... So Godzilla, you still mad at me for something?

I was just teasing him. Godzilla your mad at me? Oh...sorry man I didn't think you would act that way. By the way I'm in my mid 20's.

Hey hey Deli Invader dude, fear my three different types of subs! OOOH I love the way Deli sounds just like space, I have such a great grasp of puns. Hee hee. Oh I like your comment about the 8 years ago thing. Yeah like they changed view points and bad habbits, just because they changed the staff. So what you're saying is just because they had different people, possibly, that they are now a different magazine, inspite of the evidence in front of you?

I wouldn't talk mister Deli Invaders. What did you do? Steal that from a five year old? Oh big man. You must be a devil with the ladies.

Who the hell would say EGM was good back then? Not me. I was given a ton of them and they are as paid off and biased as they are now. OK they're worse now casue they're rude and lame. You haven't read what people wrote here have you? I'm not going to argue with someone who doesn't do research and just comes up and bashes. Maybe you should dig up the reviews for the Gamecube games when they came out. The people reviewing Wave Race came right out AND STATED they didn't want to play the game. SO why were reviewing the GAME? I mean that's just one example. Cripes. Yeah they do some reviews on classic stuff, give them a freaken medal. They kill a million inocents, then help an old lady across the street, yeah that's forgivable isn't it. But seriously, I wonder if they do that because there is some inner conflict within the mag, or if they do it for an easy fill. Ever see the article of Nintendo Power where one of the reviewers calls Namco Museum a forgetable collection from the Dinosaur age of gaming? Oh, that's mature. Is it any wonder why I hang on to sanity by a thread?

I don't get it. Are you trying to be funny? WHat's with the tos? Strange.....people. Hey Godzilla I'm way too young to have been at school with those old men. Not very nice of you by the way....

Hey you're ok. Ever see when they swear? CLASSIC.

Actaully the original EGM was just ok. It could suck when it wanted to two, of course it's all Aces compared to the trash they dish out now. A freak with a picture of guy wiht lightbulbs in his head has the nuts to insult others. God, what are you a part time Piñata?

Well that was just rude. What do you do, cruise the net with you pants down, then jerk off while you insult someone for no reason? What are you some child moletsing nipple pierced drag queen, voodoo stick waving, dead chicken humping, prince hair style wannabee 1980's retro throw back freak?

Hey Godzilla, that's a cute little character you have there. Did you make him yourself?

I wouldn't talk about ignorance if I were you. And if you want me to name some articles, how about we start with their top 100 of all time they named in the fall of 2001? They came right out and stated classic games don't hold a candle to anything produced from the Nintendo era on. Hmm? Remember that little article do you? No, you just want to come out here and praise a foolish magazine. Good for you. Now you have pointed out that the article may be entended to the bash kids. I only read the opening and a few choice games reviewed, before throwing the piece of trash back on the shelf. However by reading the parts of the article I did read and knowing the magazines history as far as classics go, they hate them, nuff said, I fail to see how a small blurb in their defence anywhere can act as forgivness for printing such trash. I have to say that a respectable publication wouldn't even bother with this sort of thing. Getting kids who don't know video game roots and therefore are not really into game characters, etc and are making stupid brain dead comments, is not the way to get a true reaction to the past. These kids are like the reviewers in the mag, idiots. It reminds me of the story of the 10 year old kid who goes to Sam the Record Man and ask what a record is. I'm sorry, but even in todays day and age a kid at 10 who doesn't know what a record is, is REALLY ignorant of the world around them. So would you want this kids opion on anything? I can sit here for HOURS and type about their ignorance. I've got over a year of that craptastic magazine from 2001-2002. If you want me to, I'll find a ton of more crap. Dictionaries don't have links, pretty lame joke.

Oh I used to really like Gamefan too, though no magazine is perfect! I guess I should have noted that I liked the way they stuck up to the big corprotations by coming out and telling the world how they get manipulated. I've personally wondered if this was part of their downfall, though I doubt it. I remember Ultra Gamer too. I think I have a couple copies of that magazine somewhere. My best friend had every gamefan and almost every EGM from the 90's. He gave me his EGM's back in 98. His mom went and took and donated his Gamefans to the library back in 1999! (He was away at university at the time.) Man was he cheesed at her. I got suckered into a subscription with EGM in late 2001. They have nice posters you're right! I wish someone had told me not to read it.

Hey Greg that takes me back. One of my favorite stories is when the two Aladdin games came out and the horried Genesis version got all the attention over Capcoms masterpiece on the Super Nintendo. Ugh those over animated homemade Disney games all stank, but it got huge reviews because of it's somewhat new character sprite design. Yet the game reeked in every other aspect, story, control, sound, (Midis? Come on!) bosses, etc. I remember once in GameFan they came right out and told the public, that 'yes if we don't give game A from Square, or Sega the highest rating ever, they wouldn't send us anymore games, etc.' They once did two reviews for Sonic 3D blast for Saturn because of this. They back tracked and said, that they were two harsh on it. The magazine didn't last for two many years after that. Anyway ever since I was like 14 I haven't trusted the video game media. I just make up my own mind anyway. I mean that's like going to Gamefaqs to read a review, or get info.....oy are they ever cluseless and ignorant. I honestly think they get the Stupiest people to write up stuff. (Not everyone of course.) But I read a review for Atari 2600 Pac-Man that said that they thought it was very close to the arcade due to the different coloured ghosts and various fruits! WHAT? That site will post anything I guess. Just putting wood on the fire that site is....but that's way beyond the point.

I don't know if this is the right place to write this, but I have to say that for YEARS I have hated EGM. Let me say that their staff are a bunch of no nothing no it alls, who CONSTANTLY go back on what they say a month ago and CONSTANTLY show to anyone with the slightiest knowledge of games that they are nothing more then a bunch of uncoth, skater wannabee, 30 year old wish they were 14 year old geeks. OK long sentance, sue me. This is the first time I picked up the magazine since January. (And believe me if I hadn't been waiting an hour for a friend and had been not bored out of my mind, I wouldn't have.) This time they have taken some no-nothing kids and asked them, not to give real opions of games, but to insult every classic from Pac-Man to Donkey Kong, to Q*bert. Why? As a friend of mine pointed it, it looked to him like a sad attempt to make a crappy magazine look cool. Mayself I think they just want to devide the game generation gap, if there really is one. (Namco Museum anyone?) I won't go into details, but if you haven't read the article, don't. And just to let you know, I have MANY kids in my family and yes they all play everything from Atari to Gamecube and enjoy and respect the different game experience each console has to offer. I hope someone hires a sniper to take out EGM! Sorry, I've been traveling for most of the day and I'm not in the best mood! I am curious to know what the classic community thinks about this. Night!

Thanks. I'm really bad with technical names and my system, while new didn't come with a manual, but I guess I just plug in the jack from the Atari 7800 that went into the switch box, into the female RCA Adaptor then. Yeah I noticed that the picture wasn't the greates with the switch box. Again thanks! I have all sorts of systems, but it's been years since I had an Atari up and running in my house. And believe it, or not, the younger generation love to play it. Especially two player centipede and Joust.

I don't usually post on message boards, I just have a simple question though. I hope someone can help. I haven't started looking yet, but last night my brand new (less then a month old) Atari 7800 RF switch box just died. Sometimes you can still see the game through a lot of 'snow', but the TV feature isn't working at all. I'm just wondering if anyone has any solutions, or knows where I can pick one up outside of E-bay? The one I have has two 'sockets?' where the wire from the 7800 plugs into the switch box. These are marked game. I haven't seen any even on E-bay like this. I checked some web sites like Futureshop, but they didn't seem to have any similiar units. Anyway thanks for your time.