AussieAtari

Ms Pac-Man for me, we used to use a cocktail version at a local pub as a breathalyser back in the 80's, a great way to test if your reflexes were way down due to the effects of too much beer! Lately I have been getting into Pac-Mania on MAME, so that would be my 2nd choice.

As reported by one our friends the next day after about 4 hours of solid bowling, she was really getting into the whole replicating actual bowling and reckoned the crouching as she bowled stiffened her up the next day. Or, maybe she and her husband kept the good times going after playing Wii when they got home and the sore thighs were really a result of some frantic Horizontal Folk Dancing.......

Congratulations, I'm sure you will find it worth the wait. It's the reverse down here, we've had our Wii since December but games are still few and far between and there have not been any nunchuck or classic controllers available since launch day and won't be until March. No 2-player boxing or half the Super Monkey Ball mini-games until then......

She Who Must Be Obeyed smacked herself in the chin whilst playing one of the Super Monkey Ball Mini-games last night, I don’t know which injury was worse, her bruise of my cramp from laughing so hard! We have recorded injuries from Sports from friends who come over to play during parties, usually sore shoulders from playing Baseball and sore thighs from Bowling.

Gee, here in Oz it was available on Wii release day back in December, so we finally got a title (and in PAL) before you guys...... We have only played with Wii Play once as it really did not grab us, I am interested in your views as maybe we missed something and should persevere.

According to Curt, no, but I'm running a US FB2 though my PAL/NTSC TV and using a step-down voltage transformer fine, as MIMO suggests.

That is great news, GH is one of the few games that made me consider buying a PS2 and one that should work really well on the Wii.

I tired of curling cords and the inevitable tangles so I hang my loose controllers off hooks on the back of doors. When I finally get around to completing the fit out of The Cave, I'm going to put up a slotted rack along one wall where the controllers will hang by their plugs.

Bomberman Colour is the only GBC game I still play to this day.

Most. I'm really just not that good at playing games and my obsession with them is sort of like a catholic self-flagellation thing.

I've just found some Commodore C16 cassettes in a drawer and that's a system I have never owned nor probably ever will.

I am most impressed, you have some great games there that I have not seen on the TI since it was selling in the shops. I'm very envious of Congo Bongo, Moon Patrol and Miner 2049er.

Jaycar, I saw them in a Jaycar agent just last week and they are a current (joke) line in their catalogue. You can order from them on-line as well.

TRS-80 Model 1 at school and then Apple IIe at home followed by all of the variants on Vic-20, C64, TI99/4A, ZX-80, ZX-81 and the Spectrum. Ah the days of programming the Apple IIe to draw a "drop net" graphics design and then waiting for 4 hours for it to draw it before crashing with the inevitable "Syntax Error".

Now that is an impressive display of "getting carried away". I did a similar thing two years ago, jumped on eBay whilst waiting for the birth of my son and all of a sudden I was back into collecting video games again after a 5 year or so hiatus. I'm envious of course.

It's the TI99/4A at the top of the list for me, followed by the Apple IIc (with monitor on the original stand) and then the BBC Micro as it looked so chunky and tough with the Eprom slot on the side of the keyboard. Mind you, all three have pretty bad keyboard ergonomics.

RE4 on the Cube for me, closely followed by Code: Veronica on the DC. RE4 is just an outright shootfest and with the zombies fighting back, just more ass-whoopin' fun than the others, if not quite as deep.

Boxed Conker's for $10 is a pretty good price all the same, even if he was a complete tosser.

The video cable is the same as for the 2600 (and anything with a splitter box, it's the cable from the box to the TV). The stepdown transformer should be fine.

Further evidence on how easy and fun the Wii is to use, we had a party Friday night with a couple of families over and one lot of parents had never played video games, even though their kids have a PS2, and they had a ball playing tennis and bowling and even set up their own Mii's. If nothing else, Wii may be the modern replacement for Twister (although naked Wii probably is not as much fun as naked Twister)

Now that's just blatant gloating Does anyone know why these things are only available on eBay and not through a vendor or direct?

In one day, CoCo II, Mac Classic and a PII PC. The former were just dirty, low-end units with nothing worth salvaging and I have at least 2 of each still in the Cave, the latter was a busted PC, which happens over time and multiple re-builds.

How much power is the unit drawing when in stand by? I support the go Game Cube games suggestion until more, better suited to the Wii games come out. With the low price point and a heap of games we have not played before (did not own a Cube until this year) we have been using our Wii more as a Cube than a Wii.

Sorry to take so long to get back but I went away for the weekend. No luck - the power supply is going to be a bitch to get, you may need to investigate Best Electronics in the States or try to lay your hands on a non-working unit with power supply. The output is 5V 1W with a unique plug. Mine states that it is for PAL 7800 although I shouldn't think it would be any different for a NTSC unit (apart from voltage in). I run my NTSC systems with US adaptors through a 240V to 110V step down transformer without any hassles. Maybe you should post an appeal for an adaptor and get the questions answered on the 7800 thread? As for the video cable, it is a generic RCA-type male plug at one end and a Co-Axial at the other, you can get those cheap at any Jaycar, Dick Smith, Tandy and I have even seen them at the larger "Bargain" department stores such as Trev's or Go Lo.

The original is the best for me, it was the first game I ever played that held my attention for hours and had just the right mix of skill and playability.