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    You know, a few of us had great fun playing Advance Wars By Web a few months ago. Any interest in firing up a new game? Turn based games work well over the web because we don't have to be online at the same time to play, and you get an email when your turn is up. The downside (if it really is) is that the games usually take a couple of weeks to finish. I'd be happy to set things up and dredge up our old thread...

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    There's plenty of room for competition in the microtransaction space, especially now that there are 3 consoles playing this game (4 if you count PSP, with it's semi-implemented system -- and 5 if you count the downloadables coming to DS via Wii). I hope the big three companies try to undercut each other to compete for our money and attention. XBLA was a big part of my purchasing decision for a 360, and I suspect while I'm an anomaly, I'm not completely alone.

     

    I personally wish we could have a subscription model for these old games. I pay a few $ per month to Yahoo! Music Unlimited and I get to download to all the music they have onto my iRiver music player and play it. And if I stop paying (or don't sync every 30 days) the music becomes unplayable. Why can't Sony do the same for classic videogames? Heck, even PSP native titles? The PSP is certainly powerful enough, and we all know Sony loves their Digital Rights Management! And it would nicely counter what Microsoft is trying to do with XBox Live.

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    Stargate is nice but I can't deal with the second stick thing. How do you guys manage that? With yr feet?

     

    I just use the button on the second stick, and don't bother with the stick movements. Quoting the manual, the second button activates the SMARTBOMBS. If you run out of SMARTBOMBS, pressing the fire button will activate INVISO. Once you run out of INVISO, pressing the fire button will send you into HYPERSPACE.

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    Hey, what a lie! $12,500 doesn't even come close to buying a lifetime of tacos, now that Taco Bell is forcing us to have a "5th meal" every day!

     

    At $5 per meal, 5 times per day, your $12,500 would run out in way less than 2 years! Then you really need to "good to go -- get a job"

     

     

    ;)

  15. Posted · Edited by 128bytes

    Wasn't there a french gal named Theresa (or Tes) who wrote a book called "Undo It", which sounds a bit like "un deux huit" in french, or "1 2 8"? That's probably what it means.

    Nah, you've got it all wrong. It's the advertising slogan for the new Beowulf Cluster of 16 Atari Jaguar consoles. Didn't you hear the tagline?

     

    "Jaguar 128-byte: Do the Math!"

     

    :P

     

    Hmmm. Kirk might be on to something. I need to get the memory back from those six months of my life - they certainly could have been glorious :lust: . Certainly explains the scars :o

     

    And to think my theory was that it had something to do with my collection of Byte Magazines from 1983 - couldn't be.

     

    Maybe that Route 128 traffic was really bad when I traveled to Bedford to program an obscure program (I'm sure none of you have heard of it, so sorry for the tangent) called "Ms. Pac Man" for GCC - and I said, in a fit of bad punning brought on by gridlock, "128 bytes!". Could have been, if I wasn't in high school at the time.. :?

     

    I better keep thinking. :ponder:

     

    @jbanes - just the thought of Beowulf clusters of Jags is making me :ROTFL: Though that laughter is counteracted by my realization that I am familiar with Beowulf clusters confirms the depth of my geekiness :( ;)

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    GBA Micro always seems to be on sale -- I recall a $50 deal on Amazon soon after its release. It's a great little machine. Small, yes, but at this price, everyone should have one as a spare.

     

    I carry mine in my jacket pocket just in case I get stuck somewhere. It's like a hip flask full of liquor, or a security blanket to me.

     

    And yes, it has Activision Anthology on it. :)

     

    If you want full backwards capability, this post on cheapassgamer says that Circuit City will be selling GBA SP's for $49.99 on Black Friday. It also says that Wal-Mart will be selling GBA Micro machines for $39.92.

     

    As for the GBA Micro: Same with me. It is an awesome machine (and a better deal than the SP deal imho) . Though mine has WarioWare Mini Microgames on it - I am oh so close to discovering the joys of Pyoro 2....

  18. Posted · Edited by 128bytes

    I have loved the gameplay of Activision Tennis since it first came out. I remember hearing an interview with the game designer on the radio, and as soon as I heard how much care went in to making it play realistically, and that the game even had a drop shadow, I was hooked.

     

    I think the gameplay on Activision Tennis is just as good as on Virtua Tennis for the PSP (both are very fun). I don't think the gameplay has aged poorly at all - possibly the least of any 2600 sports game! And I agree that Activision Tennis has better gameplay mechanics than RealSports tennis.

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    [Emotional Female]

    I see many people pointing out faults with the game and wanting more and more, but why?!

    It's cool to have so many people helping with testing and fixing flaws and doing box designs. Heck PacManPlus is doing it all for the love of the game! I have rarely seen people do this kind of work and put it out in public as it is evolving. It's effing amazing if you ask me and I just wanted to take a moment to thank him deeply for everything. :love:

    [/Emotional Female]

     

    I agree 100%. I couldn't pull myself from a game of Puck-Man last night (in the quick amount of time I had) in order to play Food Fight (one of my favorite games of all time) in the HSC!

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    You may want to check into a cheap RS MMC card. The smaller size fits completely inside the CC2 shell, and will avoid any catastrophes from pushing the CC2 in and accidentally applying pressure to the MMC card, and consequently snapping off the internal card reader/mounts and screwing it all to hell ;)

     

    Excellent advice - my CC2 also looks much more elegant with the RS-MMC card. I will suggest to Chad Schell that he adds the suggestion of an RS-MMC to his website. I use a Simpletech RS-MMC myself. In fact, you can buy BOTH the card and a reader for around $20! link

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    I think the question is "What System Will Your Casket Look Like"? Nothing like going six feet under in a replica of a heavy sixer ;)

     

    And wouldn't it be cool to have a gravestone with a solar powered TV and a Flashback II built in, so people can stop by to see you and do some graveside gaming :)

  23. Posted

    Salem Willows, as of this summer, had some great old games - an original Seawolf (with periscope 8) ), Space Invaders (still nothing like playing those old Taito games on real cabinets with the images projected onto a mirror with colored background elements), Tapper, Asteroids, Arkanoid, Ms. Pac Man, Space Invaders, etc. etc. I posted when I went there - I will have to look it up.

  24. Posted · Edited by 128bytes

    I would like to play Atari with 3 random AtariAge people online. Warlords or Medieval Mayhem, to be specific. 8)

     

    One of these days, maybe someone will come out with the ultimate multicart - one that plugs into your cart slot and the joystick ports (with a passthrough for the left joystick port for your real joystick or paddles), has space for ROMs, built in wifi, and software (most likely running on a personal computer running somewhere on your home network, though it could be on board the cart if the cart is really a flash ROM based special purpose computer running linux) to allow for real-time multiplayer Atari 2600 gaming over the internet, using real VCS hardware, along with AtariAge.com as the online gaming hub (which I would gladly pay for access to). This is technically feasible, folks.

     

    I must be a geek since my dream is more exciting to me than NE146's :ponder:

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