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  3. Posted

    Dragonfire has been one of my favorites for years. I'll start playing later this week. This doesn't matter for the HSC, but I've always enjoyed it as a 2 player game. Like some other Imagic games, such as Demon Attack, you switch from Player 1 to Player 2 at the end of each level, so you're not sitting there forever waiting if you are playing with someone who is good, and you're not feeling guilty if you are playing really well and the other person is getting bored :thumbsup:

     

     

    ps - Sir noble award winning Ze_ro, it looks like I'm not on the Season 2 list. Could you please add me?

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    I have the money for a CC2, but not for the reader thing and a MMC card.

     

    Anyway to ensure it works before the warranty period ends? Don't want to get stuck with a 200$ paperweight. Does it load up anything when its powered up in a 7800 without a MMC card (And if does, does that mean more than likely its in working order?)?

     

     

    You can get a reader thing and a MMC for less than 25 bucks total. Easily.

     

    $8.80 MMC reader

     

    $13.51 MMC

     

    Shipping is free.

    Total cost = $22.31. No tax (depends on where you live) and free shipping.

     

    I personally use the larger 128MB MMC from SimpleTech for $18.23 and it works great. The 32MB is big enough for all of today's 2600 and 7800 games and most of the manuals -- the 128MB is big enough for future growth, hacks/homebrews, etc.

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    Yes. My select and reset buttons are almost shot. I've opened holes in the membrane surrounding them and sprayed in Radio Shack TV Tuner contact cleaner, which helps. I wouldn't mind a link to new switches that could be soldered in, though.

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    Pick mine... it'll get out grass stains too!

     

    :D

     

    Another reason to pick JoeyBastard's design: It will be ultra-rare after Procter & Gamble x-rays Big Player's apartment (as part of their ongoing Cincinnati collective mind control experiment -- if you don't believe me, check out the Bengals' uniforms this year!), finds the cartridge, and demands that AtariAge changes the label!

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    Nobody mentions that HSW and Will Wright also got in the Onion this week?  AFAIK, this is the first time anyone in gaming has done an interview with the AV Club, although I could be wrong . . .

     

    And Wil's column definitely rocks. . . Someone ought to clue him in to the homebrew scene if he's not already a good AA customer, which wouldn't surprise me. . .

     

    The HSW and Will Wright interviews were already mentioned in this post in the AtariAge classic gaming forum earlier today.

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    This week's The Onion A.V. Club just came out - and its lead story is a long interview with HSW and Will Wright (the guy who wrote SimCity, btw)

     

    They are also going to do classic gaming reviews every week! Check it out - highly recommended.

     

    Here's the editor's note, btw

     

    Editor's note

     

    It's been 33 years since Nolan Bushnell debuted Pong, the first commercially successful video game, and in spite of the predictions, society has not collapsed. In fact, video games have become a fact of everyday life. The video-game industry has continued to grow, becoming as viable and pervasive an entertainment habit as music or movies.

     

    So with this issue, The Onion A.V. Club expands into the world of video-game coverage: Game reviews will join our weekly film, music, DVD, and book reviews. This inaugural issue also offers interviews with two gaming luminaries: Atari pioneer Howard Scott Warshaw, and Will Wright, creator of SimCity and The Sims.

     

    The Onion A.V. Club also extends a hearty welcome to a new contributor who comes to us from Hollywood via the Internet. Each week, actor/author/gaming enthusiast/ icon/renaissance man Wil Wheaton, who maintains an online presence at wilwheaton.net, will take a look back to games past with his Games Of Our Lives column, reaching beyond Pac-Man and Donkey Kong to find the dusty arcade games and worn-out cartridges that paved the way for the games of today.

     

    It might not have been obvious from Pong's first flickers and bleeps that games would enter the cultural conversation in any significant way. But with each year, their presence becomes a little stronger. Would The Matrix's vision of virtual reality have had as much impact in a world without Myst? What does it mean when a popular game series like Grand Theft Auto mimics film in a way that allows players to take on bad-guy roles? And where would the world be without cinematic game adaptations like Alone In The Dark? Okay, bad example. But The Onion A.V. Club is now happy to steer readers toward better ones, this week and each week thereafter. —Keith Phipps

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    Lousy idea, IMHO. I really like the proxy bid system, and think it's much more fair than a live auction, because it places a value on my spare time. A good proxy bid beats a good snipe every time you want to buy something at a fair price (ie not an insane honking bargain), and lets me bid early and not be around the computer when the auction ends. If someone wants to live on the edge, they can slavishly sit at their computer, or they can go ahead and use eSnipe or one of the equivalent sniping services to do the sniping for them. I also think that sniping is not wrong. A sniper is still willing to pay more than anyone else was for the auction -- isn't that what it's all about?

  24. Posted

    I sent my donation today.

     

    @Inky - I really your new signature - great Random Terrain parody! You have lots of friends on this board.

     

    @Random Terrain - I really like your stuff too, and am eternally grateful for your contributions to the Hack-o-matic movement! You have to admit that Inky's new signature is beef-droppy hilarious...

     

    @CPUWIZ - thanks for setting this up.

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