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    A friend of mine had season passes to SixFlags (he's from Dallas so I asume thats where it was), so he goes there all the time in the summer and he saw a park worker give someone a free game of skeeball with a type of slimjim that looked like a token on a long spoon handle. So he goes home and makes one, goes back to SixFlags and it works. He gets an idea and plays skeeball for a hour or so, gets a but load of tickets and trades in for the biggest stuffed animal they had, and sells it to a dad for his little girl. He told me he would do this alot since it was free to enter the park, and he had nothing better to do in the summer and wanted some money to play video games, and buy weed.

     

    My favorite skeeball trick is to find a little kid to run up ramp and drop the balls in the middle hole. This is fun because you teach kids that cheating is fun and they use up all that extra energy they have.

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    That sounds about right, if you consider you dont have to pay a mint to have it shiped, and you can test it first. I had a lot of fun with the apple 2 back in the day, and have one on my list for the future.

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    Picked up Super Smash TV for Genesis the other day for a buck at a pawn. Its pretty close to the arcade version, and I noticed you can set it up for 1 player/2 controllers. I guessing it would be best with 2 joystick controllers wich I dont have. Has any one tried this? How well does it work?

     

    I made a custom dual joystick for Genesis Smash TV back in the day from a pair of 7800 contollers, and it worked great! I attached them to a piece of sheet metal by removing the screws from the bottoms of the controllers and reattaching them through the sheet metal. Had to experiment with the buttons to select the game options, but they worked fine as well.

     

    It game me a real arcade feel, and I still had it around until I found the version of STV on the PS1 Arcade Party Pak that utilized the dual analog sticks...a great port!

     

    Rich

     

    Thanks for the 7800 joystick idea, I can get a set of those cheaper than genny sticks. I'll have to check out that PS1 title to. To bad you dont have a pic of that old joy stick.

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    Whats all this about mission skip again, WTF. Its a game its suposed to be at least a little challenging. I've never played a game where I didnt have to do some things at least a few times before I advanced. Sure some of the missions are kind of goffy, but there are plenty of things to do when you get tired of doing missions. Go explore, go on a killing spree, or just pimp it.

     

    I do miss the rampages from the previous games though.

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    EA seems to buy up cool franchises and then corpratize their new

    company and never recapture the old magic. They crashed all of the

    once mighty franchises of Origin for example.

     

    Yes, it's a tragedy to see what happened with Origin. I moved here to Austin not long after EA took them over, and still had aspirations to work for them at some point (I was working for Looking Glass Technologies at the time). However, many of the people I worked with here in Austin had worked for Origin in the past, and they all had stories about how the company had gone downhill after EA took over. The axe finally fell a few months ago, sending several hundred employees looking for work elsewhere. It's sad driving by that building and seeing that the Origin sign has been removed. :(

     

    ..Al

     

    Ya I read recently they baught "Criterion" a company that makes development tools "RenderWare" wich is said to be being used in over 500 games that are out or in development, or something like 1 in 4 console games in the works. Meaby EA is getting to big for its britches, or for the betterment of gaming in general.

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    Picked up Super Smash TV for Genesis the other day for a buck at a pawn. Its pretty close to the arcade version, and I noticed you can set it up for 1 player/2 controllers. I guessing it would be best with 2 joystick controllers wich I dont have. Has any one tried this? How well does it work?

     

    This is tied for 1st on my all-time favorite arcade games list. Me and my buddy would play till the end, put in a couple bucks and go. We'd be sweating profusely and have blisters from the joysticks, it was "aaaawesome"

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    I sure did, is it supposed to be in fron of the hangar or on the side or what? I checked all around almost every hangar in the airport.  :x  

     

    -kemsted

     

    I dont know what to tell you, I havent completed any airport missions. I only have the pilots license, Tried the first one a couple times thats it. Have you used any codes? meaby you need a certain level of pilot skill? The brady guide says you only need a license though. :?

  23. Posted

    wasnt able to steal the "Hunter" from heli hell, once I completed the mission I returned to the checkpoint menu. The other time I landed at the airstrip and after the counter stoped I also returned to the checkpoint menu ?

    You have to stow it in the big hanger at the airstrip, the one w/ the garage-like closing doors.

     

    got it, didnt know those doors opened, thanks.

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    I think that in order for that heli hell thing to show up, I must first complete the mission where you first see the harrier. Im not completely sure though. Have all of you who have done heli hell completed that mission? I guess Ill know for sure in a few days when I get the time to play some more.

     

    -kemsted

     

    Did you go inside the airport gate (las venturas) and to the first hangar on the right ?

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