GoldLeader

So I was thinking ruminating,...Introspecting on this whole Amico saga (Debacle if you prefer...I know I do). And I thought maybe it's time to give it to the robots. Yup! Gotta see what AI has to say! So they figure (well, with my help I guess)...That it could be boiled down and analyzed as a single PC screen shot, ... featuring 3 Folders labeled HATER DUNGEON, TOMMY KEEPS REFUNDS, and POETRY (yeah,...I used a little Creative License, heh ...Struck me as funny)... So here's what they came up with...And, fortunately, it becomes more unhinged the further ya go! ...

$48.69 dude

This is one of those things. If I had a 5200, well I'd probably be ordering it right now instead of writing this comment.

I'd say not to worry. Really, things don't have to make sense. ("Beat them all" works fine IMO). It's probably more important that people know what you mean, Hence I don't say "hard rock bands from the 80's that were starting to turn metal", I choke on my pride a little bit and say "hair bands"...Uccccck! PS Speaking of, didn't the French invent the term Heavy Metal (as in Métal Hurlant?...Magazine or otherwise)...I think maybe they did! Then again I may be right...I may be crazy.

"The "Grab something and Throw it at something else" single screen, but multi-level platformer." It rolls off the tongue!

Maybe we should just call them zoomers! Haaaa! (I know ...This joke makes no sense whatsoever, but I'm tired...a bit medicated)... I remember when "Shmup" became a thing...An R-Type game up to a "Bullet Hell" shoot-em-Up...And damn if I didn't try to ignore that word like I did "podcast"...Like "Hair Band"...I tried ...thought if I ignored it hard enough it might go away, But eventually the word caught on and people, even seemingly smart, everyday people (Who in all other aspects of their life were kind of normal (like me, Haaa)) began to use it as if it made sense ...Well, What are ya gonna do? Sometimes in life you make funny noises with your mouth, put'em together with syllables and accents, intonations and whatnot ...before you know it, You're using the word simply because at least out of all the nonsense you generally spout, at least in that, they will know what you mean...

"Like gold to airy thinness beat" The Amico looks like a place to rest your feet... ...Just imagining what poetry might adorn the HQ Walls...

If anybody needs them, I have extra copies of Technos Arcade 1 and Data East Arcade 1. I was thinking $30 for BOTH! I'll even cover shipping if you live in the U.S.! (PM Me!)

I've never seen Cloak & Dagger the movie, nor played the video game, but... In the late 80's, for a short time, I had a Defender cabinet in my bedroom. And on one side was the Defender artwork just like you'd expect, and on the other side was Cloak & Dagger's artwork. I guess the machine was converted to Cloak & Dagger for a time, then converted back to Defender. On Topic: There's a Star Castle machine in Maximum Overdrive (1986), and Time Pilot '84... Lots of machines in Joysticks (1983) (of course), and Satan's Hollow must have been a promo with Bally/Midway...

I don't remember exactly, but I'm pretty sure in Firefox it gives you the warning with an option to Download it anyway...

Yeah, Thank You for taking the time Albert! I got the warnings in Firefox, but knew they were False...

Yup! Ordered Codemasters!

Bobbler! Haaa, I like that! You mentioned Tumble Pop for Game Boy way earlier and it triggered a memory for me. I bought that game (as a poor college student without a lot of cash to burn on games at the time) based on a review in a magazine. Anyway in that review (about 1992) he called it a "Platform" Game, which we would later call "Platformers"...It stood out to me as that was the very first time I heard a game called that. It seems so common now, but back then... BTW, I'm not saying that was the first use of the term, but it was the first time I became aware of it.

I have a couple of Flashback 2s and a bunch of other Flashbacks, too...I got the second one dirt cheap because I wanted some extra FB joysticks. They sold it "as is" and basically said it didn't work. I tried it and it was just fine; No idea why they thought it didn't work! Maybe they had something weird happen, like the cat pulled out the A/V cable ahaha....IDK,...Maybe they had lag and hadn't put the TV into GAME mode. No idea really! I've never had an ounce of trouble with it.

That is pAwesome! heh

I hope to go check out your place sometime! I was analyzing it, in the context of a Vegas trip. You are 6 hours and 22 minutes from me! Then another 6 hours 7 minutes to Vegas! HMMMmmmm...I hope to show up one day and say hey.

Yeah Jake from State Farm walks up and says, "Man after a long day of all this insurance bullsh*t, Gonna play me some 'Bitche's Brew!" But before he pops a quarter in he looks the artwork in front of the cabinet and says, "Jesus Christ! What kind of butt barnacle thought this artwork looked good? A spastic 2 year old with his hands in the fingerpaints could have done a better job!" Then he spits on the Atari logo and begins unzipping his khakis...

Some time ago, companies began to team up with movie studios, TV studios, etc. to collaborate and pay each other money to feature products. Before that I assume it was more incidental. Product placement wasn't as much of a thing in say, the 70's... Anyway, I've already said my piece that I think Atari could have (possibly) teamed up with State Farm in some way...Maybe they could have made a deal that in some future racing game, the billboard could be a State Farm ad, I don't know, haha...Only that this is bringing Atari more negative publicity if you want my opinion... On the plus side it reminds me of this...

Did Volkswagen tell you to say that? (You're right though...IMHO, More modern VWs are largely not good, but the Phaetons are Great! I also fondly remember Sciroccos, though I wish they were built better...And they had another couple of standouts actually; Knew a guy with a Corrado that was pretty neat and BITD my family had a couple of old Bugs)

FWIW, My friend saw this at the Expo. He said unfortunately it just wasn't much fun like real Asteroids. He (like myself, ) owns an Asteroids cabinet. Now, it looks fun to me so I'd probably still give it a whirl...I mean I'll play it, not buy it... He sent me a very short video of him and his friend playing it. I'll try to attach the video here, but no guarantees...I can do pics no prob, but for videos, I have horrible luck and a bad track record on stuff like this. Most of the time I've tried to attach video (like to emails etc. It has Never worked) also I can make the video not be sideways for me, but when I share it; I'm sure it will be sideways... Video.MOV

That's a fair question - and the first one said "I paid for this with my own money. It's not some freebie"...Pretty sure I also saw one saying,"I ordered this from Amazon", implying he paid for it not got it free...

IIRC, The PS1 Classic was just fine out of the box, Give or take a few issues that people exaggerated (frame rates and wrong versions or something), but it was Playable and Fun, With GOOD CONTROLLERS!!!. Then with some doing it became, Well a CLASSIC! (But, I get it, people love to mod, hack, and tinker...Hell I played my PS1 Classic for all of 5 minutes before changing it up)... The 400 MINI OTOH was the WORST Mini I personally have Ever seen. Everything was confusing and crap right out of the box. People online, people actually old enough to know better in some cases have actually already been conflating the CX40 (Awesome controller from BITD Included with the VCS (NO The REAL VCS from the 80's etc.)) with whatever Abomination came with the 400 Mini. I Kept the Original Atari Flashback (and it was crap too but not this bad). I kept the Jakks Pacific Plug & Plays, I enjoy the C64 Plug & Play in a joystick!...And then you get to High Quality stuff like the NES, the SNES Minis, the Genesis, The Turbografxs, etc. And there is No Contest! Those are fun! Those are well made! This is the ONLY one I Returned. (Everybody has their limits.) Every time I click on a YouTube video about this one I expect to see someone Open fire and not hold back, But instead they instantly start making excuses...Like well lemme just grab another joystick here and see what's up...Weren't these the Same people who ripped on all of the Atari Flashbacks? The Later ones, from 2 on up, with the Good joysticks, which were by and large just fine? Yeah I suppose I could have done the same; But I wanted it to be fun right out of the box, with More Fun later on...Not CRAP from the get go and maybe we can make it Average with a ton of Tweaking... I guess the Only difference is people love tinkering, modding, and tweaking and figure its part of the experience (Unlike the closed system Atari Flashbacks before they added the card slot)... I actually gave it a 3 instead of a zero or anything because other people on YT and in comments seem to be Doing OK with it, and they probably enjoy tinkering with it to see if they can salvage it...

Sweet!

BTW, Don't let me stop your fun. If you have a different joystick lined up (and remapped) and you bring your own games, it might be worthwhile...I'd just lower expectations...