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  2. Posted

    1 hour ago, H.E.R.O. said:

    I thank those who responded but some were weird from 'Can you give me the games for free?" (ummm...no!) to 'Can you sell me roms?' (???).  

     

    Here's a price since seems no one who is asking about them want to give an offer. $220 for both which included USPS flat rate shipping fully insured. Remember, continental USA only, please.

     

     

    It reminds me of all the kids on yahoo questions asking if anyone has free game codes. It sounds almost like a cat meme. Can I has free gaimzz?

  5. Posted

    7 minutes ago, GoldLeader said:

     

    Oh did you edit yours to also include the Uzi commercial?  Or was I just not paying attention the first time around?  hahah 

    Yeah, I was trying to find an earlier commercial, but it didn't really match. I must have been adding the Japanese one at the same time you were posting. This was the one. I know it was 85 or 86 cause I used it on a class trip in 11th grade. By 1990 they were neon colored.

    r/nostalgia - LARAMI UZI battery-operated water gun that we all played with in the 80s before the Super Soaker

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  8. Posted

    2 minutes ago, GoldLeader said:

    I remember in the 80's I bought a squirt gun that looks nearly exactly like a real Uzi...The very next year all the squirt guns were white and bright orange...Growing up, our toy guns often looked like the real thing.  I seem to remember, that the incident that set everything off was a cop thought a kid had a gun, but it was a toy or something, but I don't remember details.

    I had one of those. 1985, I believe. 

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  12. Posted

    Here's a popular board game: One Night Ultimate Werewolf

     

    https://www.amazon.com/Bezier-Games-ONUWBEZ-Ultimate-Werewolf/dp/B00HS7GG5G?ref_=Oct_DLandingS_D_0cb56893_61&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

     

    Here's another: Codenames:

    https://www.amazon.com/Czech-Games-00031CGE-Codenames/dp/B014Q1XX9S/ref=pd_bxgy_img_3/138-5890454-8060315?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B014Q1XX9S&pd_rd_r=76048260-cc1f-4587-89ac-125053d10b11&pd_rd_w=h7jAu&pd_rd_wg=3BlWO&pf_rd_p=ce6c479b-ef53-49a6-845b-bbbf35c28dd3&pf_rd_r=4NWTWQKRA61BKJAC59AB&psc=1&refRID=4NWTWQKRA61BKJAC59AB

     

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  15. Posted

    11 minutes ago, frankodragon said:

    I remember a restaurant that had a "secret" arcade when you go past the restrooms.  You think it was maybe an office or something but when you look inside, you get to see arcades like Centipede.  

    Seems like no one cared if kids went into bars back in the 70s. The drunk adults would look at you with surprise and laugh. But by 1985 I couldn’t be in them anymore. 

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  16. Posted

    I was eight when the 2600 came along, but I spent a lot of my evenings and weekends in bowling alleys because my parents were  bowlers. So, I became a pinball and arcade fan at a very young age, cuz what else was there to do in a bowling alley if you weren’t bowling and waaayyy to young for the bar. So, mom would give me three bucks or so to go play pinball and arcade games. They also had them when the carnivals and fairs went through town in the summer. 

     

    BTW, I am old enough to remember when half the arcade in the mall was taken up by pinball machines. That was probably 1979-1980. I’m remembering Super Bug, Sprint, Sea Wolf, Night Driver, Space Invaders and Asteroids. I remember some game like Head On, as well. 

     

    As an aside: Head On - made by Sega/Gremlin — if that doesn’t bring back a blast of smoke filled hoopla. 

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  17. Posted

    I remember a new game coming in every couple months and I imagine some old neglected one went away. If it was a great new game like Ms Pac Man, Tron, Star Wars, Dragons Lair or Gauntlet ( especially Dragons Lair). There would be a crowd of teens around it with people queuing quarters/tokens for the next play on the panel. If you were new at the game some stranger might be casually trying to guide you to hep you out. 

     

    P.S. I’d edit that typo but it’s too endearingly colloquial. 

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  19. Posted

    4 hours ago, electronicsibley said:


    Somehow that’s more reassuring than Atari releasing botched hardware, but not by much. 

     


    Sounds like at least a few games in the 7800 light-gun collection are ripe for hacking to (at least) correct for accuracy. 

    The Wikipedia article provides the following, although only gives the "Atari 400/800 Hardware Technical Reference" as a source for the first sentence. The nature of this hard-coded value is not explained or referenced and neither is why it wouldn't vary due to calibration drift.

     

    "The Atari 400/800 Hardware Technical Reference recommends a "calibration procedure" each time the light pen is used, so that the software can compensate for this offset. A calibration procedure would improve the accuracy of the light gun. But both Bug Hunt and Barnyard Blaster for the XEGS both have "hard-coded" values, different ones in fact. While Bug Hunt appears to shoot slightly to the left, Barnyard Blaster seems to shoot slightly to the right. The Y readings for the gun are more predictable, equal to half the number of the currently displayed scan line."

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  21. Posted

    2 hours ago, Shawn said:

     

    And I still think he just bought a ton of the commodore guns and sold them as the best gun. If you look around that exact mold and pinout was used for a 3rd party commodore gun back in the day.

     

    COMMODORE 128 COMPUTER (C64) - Marpes Light Gun and Gun Collection games - Room of Doom

     

    Just sayin'

    Looks right. He did something similar with the Best Trackball, using a PC trackball.

  22. Posted

    1 hour ago, gilsaluki said:

     

    AND, if they make it another color, Charcoal Gray, or black.  Man, I don't like the Evercade's White color at all.  And that racing stripe.  Nope. 

    The black ones were for founders or something like that. Well, black face plate, at least. Back was still white.

     

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  25. Posted

    On 2/29/2020 at 7:19 PM, Swami said:

    Strange. I find the "tdyoda.zip" (turret defense and yoda's escape gamekey) listed in text files as working on github sites and at link below (no roms available there, just MAME itself), but not in rom sets up to 0.218. Guess I'll just wait up for it to turn up somewhere.

     

    http://adb.arcadeitalia.net/dettaglio_mess.php?software_name=tdyoda&software_list=jakks_gamekey_sw&search_id=

     

    I did eventually find the well hidden tdyoda.zip file. It is in something called the SL folder for 0.206. Not snap_SL or Title_SL, just SL. I already have the Sith PnP and the gamekey, but really wanted to use them with my analog joystick. Turret Defense gets a little repetitive and is more endurance. Yoda's Escape is a bit like Mario with a Light Saber.

     

     

     

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