deepthaw

Got mine for $30 at LameStop. Still have yet to even use it and probably never will. So long as I have a real system anyway.

I got mine from Gamestop and have been playing quite a bit. I like that it is so quick & easy to load the games. 
Joystick is not great, but I've solved that with an old Gravis Gamepad PRO. 

To me it's a great value at $30. I look forward to the full size version. It might just be that I am nostalgic about the C64. I owned one for many years. It was a great early 8 bit computer. 

I'm pretty tired...Did you say $40 for a Chevy Citation?

All those Zachtronics games are a ton of fun, I think Shenzhen I/O was my favorite but TIS-100 was definitely good - can't go wrong with any of them.

I've been forcing myself to not use walkthroughs or anything for TIS-100. Feels so good to figure them out for myself, then go back when I've learned more from later puzzles to optimize my earlier ones.

Most people that try and cover Bjork really screw it up. In this case I think it was very well done don't you?

Fantastic. This morning I was reading a Guitar World magazine from 1991(ish) that had a big Yes blowout, right before their tour with both lineups. I never realized that happened...

Going to see them in concert in July when they visit Dallas. (love that album... also got the record.)

Sounds Awesome Deepthaw! I remember when they came through with Dream Theater, a lot of people I worked with went to see them.

Or maybe I should start buying broken Joy Cons on the cheap, repairing, and reselling them? They're more fragile than one would hope.

That is the one big downer about the Switch, the analog sticks drifting if you so much as look at them wrong. I haven't had it happen to mine yet but I know it'll happen eventually. The Switch will probably end up being future generations of collectors' Atari 5200 lol

Friend gave me four 5200 controllers the other day. The first two I tested worked, and I'm not touching the other two so that they can stay in a state of quantum-superposition with working.

I would.

Nah, too late. Already blew all your good luck on 5200 controllers.

I figured their vampire CEO would have bled them dry by now.

Wow. I had no idea they still that much use in the real world.

AT&T still installs on one as a back-end to an internet router.

I have a few out at clients' remote sites where there are no data (or cellular) services. Still very useful for remote monitoring.

Very interesting history, thanks for this, was unaware of it...

Millenials are ruining the landscape TV business!

Oh, cool - just add a keyboard and you're got the 2019 version of the Sony eVilla! That's *sure* to be a hit in the marketplace!

http://techland.time.com/2011/08/23/ten-of-the-shortest-lived-tech-products-ever/slide/sony-evilla-2001/

"Tate" mode, here I come. It is literally on like Donkey Kong (and Scramble, and Pac-Man, and Galaga, and many others).

Oh God! I had to let that one settle for a sec, then I bust out laughing! LOL!

Pinbot for the NES has very bad speech. "I am the master, that's the day of week."

These HAPPY DAYS are YOURS and MINE!! RAWWAHHOOOU!!!

LESS SHOW MORE GO.

i kind of felt that way when i replayed FFVII recently. I'm playing through FFX now and my comment to my wife is I didn't remember there being so many movies in it, lol

I wish JRPGs respected my time more. I keep meaning to finally get into FF7 now that I can skip all the random interruptions but still haven't gotten around to it.

Exactly! My guess is they are simply waiting for a plea deal, yeah a second plea deal, because you can't get one with a guilty plea...if I understand correctly. Still....seems risky to me.

Its still been a shorter time than plea deals normally take. I think the difference is that the others' offenses were supposedly small by comparison. Although, all blocked a more deserving student candidate.

I heard her lawyer is Barry Zuckerkorn

Super Columns!

Does Breakout count? I'm biased.

Cap'n Break'n: I'm speaking more generally of "objects fall towards the bottom of the screen and must be removed via grouping and pattern matching" type games.

Although I guess the definition could be twisted to fit Space Invaders.

They're pretty good at that!

Sounds like a good call...

The only reason I'm even considering it is I was given about 30 5200 games at the same time. I'd much rather have an Atari 8-Bit.

same goes for parts for any of your other appliances.

They really don't want you repairing your appliance. They want you to buy a new one.

^-- yup. That said, I was very pleased that I was able to order the exact bracket I needed for my maytag dishwasher and fix it myself in 10 minutes. They actually had the part, it wasn't ridiculous, and it all worked. +1 to Maytag, I've had good luck compared to other appliance brands. YMMV.

And when time traveling.

Or in your resume.

Okay - other than the times it is not overrated, continuity is overrated. Star Trek. I'm talking about Star Trek.

Yes. Same here but with quiet snow outside! Super cozy.

Awesome! I still have my MOD collection, but I converted most of them to MP3s in the early 2000s. Enjoy!!!!

Conversion, schmonversion; most of the time the originals take up less space anyways, and all my Android phone needs is Droidsound-E. Look it up! >

It's stretchy Mom-jeans.

Sounds about right.

Damn it, Brian O beat me to it.

I keep hearing a lot of praise about the Sega Ages stuff but never really able to determine what makes them so great. Guess I'll have to fork over a few $$$ to try this and Phantasy Star

The praise is because they're very tastefully enhanced. Thunderforce IV has an option to disable slowdown (or at least slowdown the developers didn't design around), a "kid's mode" that makes it easier, sound tweaks (keep music from dropping out when audio samples play), etc. Phantasy Star has an automap added for dungeons among others. And all the extra features are optional and can be turned off.

The SEGA AGES version is the only way I'll ever put up with this game and complete it (as I have always wanted to).

Good explainer of the differences here:

https://postgamecontent.com/post/179890999413/phantasy-star-switch-sega-ages

@deepthaw "tastefully enhanced" is a nice way to say it.

It's weird. They've taken what was in essence a party game, exploited the systems to turn it into a maddeningly execution heavy fighter *and* as a community decided to turn off 75% of the features that make it interesting.

Thus why I'll never be a pro fighting game player, I just like jumping around and hitting things with other things. XD

I'll never be a pro fighting game player because I'm 40 and my reflexes aren't what they need to be. I'm squarely in that frustrating spot of "too good for my friends to enjoy playing me, but not good enough to play with the really skilled people."

Called job security for car mechanics.

Some cars require you to remove the bumper cover which is insane.

Had a hell of a time trying to change the headlight on my motorcycle, until I watched a YouTube video someone made. Try looking there.