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[#039] John Davis, frontman of current band The Lees of Memory and now-defunct 90s group Superdrag (you'll remember them as one-hit-wonders with their "Sucked Out" video) has a new and unique release; it's a commissioned covers album, which is a completely free download with no strings attached. Check it: The Lees of Memory had just released their sophomore album, Unnecessary Evil, through the PlegdeMusic platform. In doing this and to help fund the production of the CD & vinyl run, John Davis gave the public an awesome and unique buying option; for price tag of $250, ole Johnny Flame (as he used to call himself in his younger years) would do a cover song, ANY cover song of your choice. There were ten slots available. After not much self-debate (read: zero input/say from wife) I convinced my old bandmate to go in halfsies with me so we could get one of our songs covered. Long story short, I bought one of the ten slots for a song I wrote and my friend bought another slot for one of the songs he wrote. Our very talented friend Grant Lindberg, who mastered a lot of our records over the years under the moniker kustomboy, ending up buying a slot too. Go ahead and blast tracks 3, 5, and 10. Or hell, just download the whole thing because it's free and John Davis is one of the best musicians alive today. https://highbiasacassette-basedoperationtm.bandcamp.com/album/a-virtual-guided-tour-pledge-covers (this link is no longer active, the music was taken down) Also, check out Unnecessary Evil by the Lees of Memory. The best album of 2016 by a longshot! footnote: I was one of the people behind the Superdrag Tribute Project back in 2001 (and it's sequel in 2004). So 15 years later, the roles are reversed. For $250

i just got Rush the other day.

YES!

[#038] Throwing more ketchup jellybeans. ...Man, we're in the middle of August and I've barely spent any time on AtariAge in 2016. I've also kept my new year's resolution of not posting any status updates or photos on Facebook, only limiting myself to replies on others' content. I'm really trying to wean myself off that shit altogether and have more time and focus on life unfolding in front of my own eyes, particularly my soon-to-be three-year-old princess of a daughter. We've "cut the cord" and no longer have cable tv. it's been about a month. We also replaced what was probably a 10-year-old modem with a new one, since it was capping out at lower speeds than what we're paying for. We were tempted to go one tier higher with the internet speed but decided to stay at tier three (of five). in order to keep access to SOME stuff, we signed up with Sling TV but also have the Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime libraries at our disposal. I refer to those three as the holy trinity. adding Sling TV to the mix gives us some extra "live" channels (like AMC for The Walking Dead) plus some stuff our daughter would be missing like the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse episodes which are all on-demand. After my dad told me about his $170 fancy attic antenna with a rotating pole and whatever else came in the package, I did my own research and got a GE-branded non-rotating antenna from Amazon for $20, installed that in my attic, ran cables down, and we now get 34 free over-the-air channels in one room and 37 in the other. I didn't connect the kid's TV, but she has a Roku in there which connects to my external hard drive via WiFi to stream all her ripped Disney DVDs and such, plus all the stuff I mentioned in the previous paragraph. Pro tip: go to antennaweb.org and punch in your address. You'll get an illustration of the best direction to point your antenna. You don't need or want one that moves. So we're set and we don't miss cable tv. Screw Cox! In other news, I'm sick of hearing about Hillary this and Trump that. They are BOTH horrible, so rooting for either candidate makes you an idiot either way. I wish the Olympics was on 365 days a year but skip out on the crap sports like sync-diving/swimming. I also find it odd that there wasn't much national media attention with the Baton Rouge flooding. I guess that's because the people of Louisiana took a page out of the Katrina '05 book and learned how to deal with it themselves and help each other. since the media couldn't get any crying pity stories to help the journalists get an easy paycheck, they stayed out. good, stay the hell out. we got this. My parents moved there from NOLA after Katrina. Luckily they live in one of the few areas that were not affected. Had i not been working so much overtime, i would have trekked up to BR with loads of necessary items like garbage bags, cleaning gloves, cleaners, food and bottled water. Being a Katrina survivor, i feel a bit guilty that i did absolutely nothing to help. But it's not too late. As soon as I finish up this blog I'm going to find some way to donate something. One more thing before I go and then I'm done and I can go home; you can't find AM/FM radios in stores anymore. You're old. We're old.

giant dildos.

Someone else started and finished what i did not. and their colors aren't washed out either. maybe they had the source material or are photoshopping geniuses. Either way, click this to get your digital copies: http://newcomic.info/17933-double-dragon-1-6-complete.html (from there, click the "florenfile.com" graphic to access the zip file)

if we're defining the "easy way", you can't get easier than that!

the revised version: Step 1 - Don't be a pussy. but seriously, just use the baseball bat trick in Mission 2. get all your hearts right then and there.

bringing these back and not emulating the original VFD games would be an injustice to the whole movement, so do both: for example a Ms. Pac-Man machine could have the original arcade version as the main selling point and the VFD version as one of the bonus games.

Contra Shattered Soldier Fatal Frame Final Fantasy X Gauntlet Dark Legacy Guitar Hero II - this one in particular is magical for some reason. Klonoa 2 Marvel Vs Capcom 2 Mega Man X8 Mortal Kombat (i forget which one, one was really awesome) the PS2 is home to many great compilations, too: Activision Anthology intellivision Lives Mega Man Anniversary Collection Mega Man X Collection Midway Arcade Treasures 1 & 2 (i guess 3 too if you want a disc full of racing games) Namco Museum Sonic Mega Collection Plus Street Fighter Anniversary Collection Taito Legends

[#037] i haven't posted a blog in over two months, so i threw a ketchup-flavored jellybean on the floor and waited a couple of minutes. nothing happened, so i picked it up and threw it in the garbage. so fuck Apple. there's that. my Kickstarter limited edition copper iMpulse bluetooth gamepad/controller bit the dust after a few years of heavy use. when i inserted the microUSB jack into the charging port, the metal piece that accepts the jack broke off and fell inside the unit. i was able to get the piece out but i won't try to open the unit from fear of breaking something else, as there are no screws holding it together. i wouldn't be able to reattach the piece myself, anyway. i sent several emails to the company, who seems to be non-responsive and defunct now. my two latest gaming obsessions: 1) it's common knowledge that Super Dodge Ball on NES is one of my all-time favorite games. i hadn't played Super Dodge Ball Advance on GBA in quite a few years, so I've been playing that on an emulator on my android using on-screen controls. I've gotten good enough to kill off Team Atlus with only losing one or maybe two guys. when I plugged in a wired USB controller, I was able to win easily, barely taking any damage. however, the controller (it's an NES controller clone, maybe Hyperkin?) muted the sound on my tablet, and i can't figure out why. oh well. back to virtual on-screen controls. because even my 8bitdo NESPro won't connect to my tablet 99% of the time. i gave up on that thing. 2) after anxiously waiting for months and finally getting a copy of MegaMan Legacy Collection: Collector's Edition mailed to me from Target, i finally had a reason to dust off my 3DS and fire it up. i've already cleared about 1/3 of the challenged in a matter of a few days (or a few hours of actual playing it). i wish there was a chart out there that showed the minimum completion times i need to get Silver or Gold helmets. clearing the challenge but taking too long gets you a regular Blue helmet. that's all for now. I need to order some pizza to feed me and my awesome little girl, who's been watching Paw Patrol. all. effing. day. that reminds me, i watched an episode of G.I. Joe Real American Hero last night before dozing off. just because, i hadn't seen it since my age was in single digits and i didn't remember much. holy shit is this show violent! it's so awesomely violent! i watched what was labeled as S1E1 (pyramid of darkness part 1), but apparently there are 2 miniseries of the same name that take place before S1E1. confusing shit. whatever. oh right. pizza.

Fall Down is still my favorite 2600 homebrew even after all these years. so fun. i built a version from scratch in Qbasic back in 2005. my cart is half red, half blue from the original run. looks so cool.

this one's okay, but i love the Saturn version. i still suck at it after all these years, trying to set up a mega-epic full-screen combo only to have the computer drop a bunch of crap on it.

i didn't buy a PS1/N64/DC until the PS2 and GCN were out for years. more recently, i don't own a PS4/XBONE although i do have a sealed Wii-U.

1. google search "game gear romset" 2. choose an option and download the ONE zip file. you'll have to deal with ads & links. boo hoo. 3. extract the file to get the collection of zip files contained within 4. extract the *.gg files from those zip files onto your SD card. 5. repeat steps 1-4 using "sega master system romset", since the game gear plays it too. 6. use a program called DriveSort to sort the contents of the SD card. the Everdrives (and Harmony carts) do some wonky shit when you're filling the SD card and some stuff gets put out of sequence. my Everdrive GG came in a week or so ago and i already have both collections on my sd card. it's now essentially two systems in one. my root directory looks like this: --- 0 gg (A-L) gg (M-Z) sms (A-F) sms (G-L) sms (M-R) sms (S-Z) --- my "0" folder has my five favorite GG and five favorite SMS titles, listed as 10 items on one screen.

My daughter is obsessed with the animated Disney film Aristocats, and refers to it as "kippies" lovingly. How hard would it be for someone to transform Miles "Tails" Prower into Marie, the little white kitty? edit: to be more clear, I'm asking for a graphic hack of Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (Sega Genesis / Mega Drive)

unless you mentioned it's a reproduction, then no you're doing the same thing that was done to you which makes you no better than the guy who ripped you off.

here's an idea... threads of this nature should be in their own forum which is hidden from the public, as in you have to be a member of AtariAge to access them. for example: perhaps as a topic is started, the forum software could search for key words which would automatically move the thread and lock out anyone who has less than, say, 100 posts, excluding the topic starter of course. these threads, with their responses from video game "know-it-alls", are pretty much providing free information to scam artists who can learn what to avoid doing in the future and also to keep them one step ahead as a dispute is unfolding. does no one else find that bothersome?

just bought a used complete copy on feeBay, hoping to sit back and have my 2-year old girl mesmerized by all the aquatic life and whatever else the game has to offer. hoping to make this step 1 of a long process of raising a gamer girl. in reality, i'll probably fall asleep and she'll throw the Wiimote through the tv.