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  1. It's not even 8 yet and it feels like midnight.

    1. adam242

      adam242

      On the other hand, it's not even midnight yet but it feels like 8AM.

    2. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      I fell asleep on the couch earlier so...Yeah, that was how I felt until I got up and drank some tea.

  2. Nothing like a pop-up ad that tells you to buy something you already have.

    1. roadrunner
    2. atari2600land

      atari2600land

      I usually don't need it since I visit the same non-pop-up-ad-getting websites.

    3. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      Anyone ever see a pop up ad for an Ad Blocker?...OK I haven't either, but ya gotta admit that'd be pretty funny.

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  3. Why bother putting an eBay listing for Make an Offer if it turns down all the offers?

    1. atarian63

      atarian63

      reasonable offers are within 20%

    2. derFunkenstein

      derFunkenstein

      I use the auto-reject for weeding out stupid lowballs. My auto-reject is at 75%, and my auto-accept is at 90%. In between, I'll think about it.

    3. carlsson

      carlsson

      If they have free insertion and no unsold fees for the first ~100 items per month, not strange that they would auto-enable Make Offer in order for goods to move and eventually bill for some sales fees. One has to think about that too, eBay is not a charity.

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  4. Footage of the Game Boy version of Fast Food I'm making:

    1. WAVE 1 GAMES

      WAVE 1 GAMES

      There are 2. Both are working. You are lame CyranoJ

    2. OldSchoolRetroGamer
    3. CyranoJ

      CyranoJ

      Don't think I've seen a 'working' version by anyone's definition except yours.

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  5. My computer froze and then restarted for no good reason. While I was working on something. My progress was lost. Luckily it was only like 30 seconds or so of music I composed, but it's lost forever.

  6. I apparently have to remove dead gerbils from my nephew's gerbil cage. Whoopee.

    1. Keatah
    2. atari2600land

      atari2600land

      This is a gerbil, not a fish!

    3. Jess Ragan

      Jess Ragan

      At least you didn't have to remove a gerbil from Richard Gere!

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  7. It's 9:30pm, yet there's still fireworks going off? Argh!

    1. Random Terrain

      Random Terrain

      They went on past midnight where I live.

    2. carlsson

      carlsson

      Still? I thought the majority of fireworks are fired between 11 PM and 1 AM. At least that is how it is done over here.

    3. high voltage

      high voltage

      It was Tina's, my sweet little cat, her first fireworks. Boy she enjoyed it, jumping from one window to another, watching the rockets explode.

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  8. If you score 200 lines or more in Tetris on "Tetris & Dr. Mario", the color scheme turns gold, silver and green. Why green? I don't know.

    1. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      CASH? Jealousy? Christmas? I have many theories.

  9. There was this point in Wario Land where I just could not get by using the Super Game Boy. Irritated, I went and got my Game Boy and Game Genie and I didn't even need the Game Genie because I beat the part of the level I was having trouble with on the first try. Which leads me to conclude that Super Game Boy slows down Game Boy games.

    1. Clint Thompson

      Clint Thompson

      Maybe you just needed that 2.4% boost increase to adjust to your timing ;)

       

    2. deepthaw

      deepthaw

      You can also fix it on the US super game boy by soldering in a clock crystal.

    3. DragonGrafx-16

      DragonGrafx-16

      Actually the Super Game Boy runs faster than a Game Boy.

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  10. "First video game based on a movie: Raiders of the Lost Ark (Atari, 1982)" - from an Uncle John Bathroom Reader.

    1. pacman000

      pacman000

      First officially licensed vvideo game based on a movie may be more appropriate, unless RCA paid Lucasfilm for the Studio II's Star Wars game.

    2. carlsson

      carlsson

      Most likely neither RCA nor Apple paid for their Star Wars games. Supposedly Apple was a such small company back in those days that it wouldn't have been worth suing them.

       

      However I wonder if not Death Race is considered to be the first, though again unlicensed.

  11. Why no MicrosoftAge for the X-Box?

    1. CPUWIZ

      CPUWIZ

      Try PantsOnTheGroundAge.

    2. CyranoJ

      CyranoJ

      I believe it's a 'pants up' Christmas, this year :P

  12. Why did someone delete my status update replies?

    1. Random Terrain

      Random Terrain

      You are the moderator of your own status updates. You can delete comments you don't like. For example, if you post a comment about hating the nasty skunk piss smell of pot in a pothead's status update, he or she will probably delete it.

    2. Joe C.

      Joe C.

      AA sells the same info Facebook does. :)) Facebook private messages can be deleted by other companies now!

    3. frankodragon

      frankodragon

      Unless you're lucky that the Way Back Machine caught a screenshot of that moment with the posts intact.

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  13. Golden Girls Chia Pets. Now I've seen everything.

    1. Joe C.

      Joe C.

      I want a Bernie one.

    2. Inky

      Inky

      There's a Golden Girls version of Clue.

    3. DZ-Jay

      DZ-Jay

      No, the freaky thing is that the seeds in a Chia pet kit are now being sold a high prices at trendy health stores as a "natural supplement". WTF?

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  14. You know what? Pac-Man should have had a button to activate the power pellet instead of it automatically beginning upon eating it.

    1. DZ-Jay

      DZ-Jay

      @atari2600land: You go write NAMCO a letter and be sure to tell them how they did it wrong. They love that.

    2. frankodragon

      frankodragon

      Maybe there should be an anti-pellet (it acts like a bad drug) and makes Pac-man's movements screwed up. Kind of like in that Yoshi Island game.

    3. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      way back when, I thought it'd be cool if a maze game had a gun, where suddenly you could shoot the monsters...BITD I thought of it as a Pac Man meets Frenzy idea...Dark Cavern is a tiny bit like that I guess...

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  15. Going through the memory of my used X-Box console I bought. Tons of war and sports game saves. I deleted all of them. I guess people actually DO buy those sports games even though they update every year.

    1. Flojomojo

      Flojomojo

      They wouldn't make those kinds of games if they didn't sell, right?

       

      There should be a word for studying someone's game saves to learn something about them.

       

      Mine would be full of ancient arcade games, each one played for am embarrassingly short period of time.

    2. Cobra Kai

      Cobra Kai

      It's certainly metadata. Plus paleontology, so combine the two and there's your word.

    3. Flojomojo

      Flojomojo

      Paleogamerprofile

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  16. The Weather Channel is bragging about they're America's #1 Weather Network. Is there another one I haven't heard of?

    1. frankodragon

      frankodragon

      Anyone remember AM Weather on PBS stations with the guys using sticks and large weather maps?

    2. Flojomojo

      Flojomojo

      I prefer Wunderground.

    3. ClassicGMR

      ClassicGMR

      I hate to throw spoilers GoldLeader but there's a hurricane headed to Mexico Beach

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  17. There is a word that rhymes with "orange." It's "sponge."

    1. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      I saw a dog on the open range...I was thinking he had mange...And he was orange!

    2. xucaen
    3. Shawn

      Shawn

      Everything rhymes with TACO.

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  18. Why can't Alabama just lose ONE game?

    1. atari2600land

      atari2600land

      Cleveland actually won more than one game this season.

    2. xucaen

      xucaen

      How can you lose with sweet home in your side?

    3. NE146

      NE146

      They call them the Crimson Tide.. call you Deacon Blues?

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  19. Defeated Scrabble for the game.com on intermediate level 244-196.

  20. It seems like there's no way to delete an entire thread on here, even if I started it?

    1. CPUWIZ

      CPUWIZ

      Delete what?

       

    2. Kiwi

      Kiwi

      There is, you can ask a moderator or admin to delete a thread.

    3. DZ-Jay

      DZ-Jay

      Don't delete it! Let the whole world know that you can't play Intellivision Bowling even after reading the instructions.

       

      j/k :)

  21. It seems fitting that the last word in the dictionary is "zzz", because that's what you do when you're finished reading it.

    1. DZ-Jay

      DZ-Jay

      My dictionary doesn't list "zzz". Now I will never know what it means!!! I will live my entire life in ignorance! OMG! Whatever will I do?

    2. DZ-Jay

      DZ-Jay

      Wait ... does "zzz" mean stand "watch TV"? Because that's what I do when I finish reading.

    3. carlsson

      carlsson

      A couple of weeks ago, I tended to go zzz for a couple of minutes somewhere around 6-7 PM. Lately I tend to have a brief case of zzz around 4-5 PM. I didn't read the dictionary either time it happened. I wake up by my own snoring.

  22. Okay, the PRGE is over, can you take the ad for it down now?

    1. Rick Dangerous

      Rick Dangerous

      Makes sense that he's not going to fly with all those monitors, game systems and games.

    2. Eltigro

      Eltigro

      I didn't even bring back much, but was afraid my suitcase zipper was going to fail and the resulting explosion would kill/maim anyone in a 10 foot radius.

    3. Arenafoot

      Arenafoot

      yes he drives back and forth to Portland each time AA goes there

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  23. I just bought an X-Box and it plays audio discs but I tried two differnt X-Box discs and they wouldn't play. What do I do?

    1. Kiwi

      Kiwi

      Make sure it is an Xbox disc. Not a Xbox 360 or Xbox One disc.

    2. Skippy B. Coyote

      Skippy B. Coyote

      Return it, for sure.

    3. SoundGammon

      SoundGammon

      It's NOT the drive! You need the remote adapter to make it play DVDs!

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  24. On this day in 1916, Georgia Tech defeated Cumberland 222-0 in college football.

    1. DZ-Jay

      DZ-Jay

      Dude, this day is actually in 2018!!

    2. Rick Dangerous

      Rick Dangerous

      Worst beatdown ever in football?

    3. Atarian7

      Atarian7

      Talk about running up the score. lol

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