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Post by gliptitude on Mar 2, 2013 15:03:21 GMT -5
Now playing every original Game Boy game I can get my hands on, with awesome LED backlight that I just installed! Attachments:
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Post by VectorX on Mar 2, 2013 19:19:29 GMT -5
Sure is amazing what people keep on doing with systems years after they supposedly "die"...
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Post by TrekMD on Mar 3, 2013 0:08:04 GMT -5
I've been playing 5200 homebrews as I'm writing reviews for several of them. Adventure II, Koffi Yellow Helicopter, Pac-Man Arcade, Beef Drop, and Castle Crisis.
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Post by VectorX on Apr 12, 2013 18:28:45 GMT -5
It's all Sega stuff for me now at the moment I've played Golden Axe 2 when the nephew's come over, along with Super Space K'noidtrix (mini-game on The Adventures of Willy Beamish Sega CD) and making my way through Ecco the Tides of Time CD. Also just finished up a game of Shining in the Darkness on the Genny.
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Post by gamezone on Apr 13, 2013 22:06:52 GMT -5
Sweet! I have not played Willy Beamish in years.
Wish Golden Axe 3 had been released here. It is available on the Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection as it is listed on the Xbox 360 release.
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Post by VectorX on Apr 13, 2013 23:11:52 GMT -5
Sweet! I have not played Willy Beamish in years. That sure was a different game ;D
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Post by gamezone on Apr 24, 2013 9:08:51 GMT -5
Sega CD load time for W. Beamish is/was horrible.
Older DS game but I finally set down and started playing Plants vs. Zombies. A game we bought for the kids and did not get played much after the first couple of weeks. My youngest came and said Dad can I have my game. I said Go play the 360 as the Wii was already in use. She said NO. Go play the Dreamcast, Gamecube, Playstation II or one of the Gameboys. All, no answers. Well finally I said You can go to room. She got mad and stormed off.
I'm not going to get parent of the year and felt really bad later. But all is right with the world now, because they are in school and I can play without anyone asking for their game. ;D
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Post by VectorX on Apr 24, 2013 12:19:29 GMT -5
Sega CD load time for W. Beamish is/was horrible. Yeeeeeeeeep (I replied slowly there in slow loading Sega CD style ;D ) I'm not going to get parent of the year and felt really bad later. It sucks sometimes, but you can't back down or else they won't learn discipline and you could be walked over.
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Post by gamezone on Apr 24, 2013 12:39:21 GMT -5
Sega CD style. lol
Absolutely. It has been raining the last couple days. Being stuck inside and bored was probably the root cause.
Sometimes I forget what is like to be a kid. Back then it was 3 channels on the tv set. Maybe 4 if the antenna and the weather cooperated. Party line telephones. Only 1 gaming system. Sometimes 2 televisions. One was usually black and white.
Now with digital, the antenna picks up about 20 channels. Cable or satellite offers more. Everyone has cell phones. More systems then can be played. Computer with internet.
Sometimes I can't imagine what it is like now to be a kid. ;D
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Post by VectorX on Apr 24, 2013 12:43:37 GMT -5
^You'd have entertainment overload! KaBOOM!
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Post by gamezone on Apr 24, 2013 12:58:25 GMT -5
Now playing Kaboom. ;D
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Post by gliptitude on Apr 24, 2013 13:01:34 GMT -5
Now playing: Verzerk! with VecVoice audio. I still find this game to be tedious and less robust than it should be, but the robot voices definitely make it more entertaining.
I want more Vox games for Vectrex!
Also playing Defender (ported to GBA) whenever I sit on the toilet.
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Post by wyldephang on May 11, 2013 22:58:25 GMT -5
Last night, I finished Mass Effect 3 on my "paragon" (good guy) playthrough. The ending was widely panned by critics and fans, and I understood going into the game that I might be disappointed in the outcome. Now that I've seen it, I must comment on the overwhelming sense of dejection I felt in watching the trilogy conclude the way it did. Of course, spoilers will ensue. Consider that I began playing the series in 2008, which means I've spent five years building a personal connection to the characters in the franchise, caring about their circumstances and empathizing with their worries and problems. This may sound crazy, but BioWare did such a great job of inviting me into the experience that the boundaries between fact and fiction were blurred. And with the characters reacting and responding to my every move--BioWare ensured that a decision from one game would influence two or three other decisions in the next game--I began to feel I held a much greater influence over the world of Mass Effect than I actually did.
So, as the gates began to close on Mass Effect 3, I felt an inexorable frustration in knowing that I couldn't reverse what I was seeing, that I was an unwilling participant in it. Look, many games force us to make big decisions. And many games taunt us with the destruction of everything we hold dear. But few of them stoop to actually destroy the world you helped create. O.K., so the galaxy is saved from evil in Mass Effect 3. So, what? I already expected that when I started the series, for we haven't reached the state of gaming where the bad guys actually win the game. I already predicted the ending, and all BioWare needed to do was leave me feeling exalted when it came, so that I might scoot away from the TV and say, "Man, what a great game." A classic happy ending. As it turned out, I sat there mouth agape for an entire two minutes, watching the credits, hoping that I could somehow rewind them through the top of the screen and step back into the final chapter of the game to create the ending I would have wanted to see. Have we become so cynical that we cannot accept a happy ending? Is there no enjoyment anymore in saving Princess Toadstool from Bowser, or in plunging the Master Sword in Ganon's skull and restoring peace to the world? Because I certainly didn't feel uplifted at the end of Mass Effect 3.
My character was romantically involved with an alien girl, a little innocent thing. I chose her as my companion in the second game because I figured, out of all the ladies on the ship, she was the sweetest and most selfless. In the third game, the moment came that my character needed to fight an extremely risky head-to-head battle against a Reaper, which is a giant, sentient machine, as you may remember from my previous discussion. In any context, battling a Reaper head-on is a guaranteed suicide mission because a single Reaper can tear apart entire space fleets, to say nothing of one man. Before my character stepped on the battlefield, this alien girl said, "I love you." And I remembered that moment from The Empire Strikes Back when Princess Leia finally confesses her feelings to Han Solo, just before he descends into the cryo-freeze chamber. ("I love you." "I know.") And I remembered how he actually lived to reciprocate the feeling. At the end of Mass Effect 3, one of the greatest disappointments was knowing that I couldn't return the love of that tender soul. (Admit it, if Han Solo was squashed by an AT-ST on Endor, I think we would have suffered a little for Leia.) I don't wish to cheat immortality. But I'd love a chance to wrap up my affairs while I still live, or to not leave them dangling in the coldness of the void. My character didn't have that chance. Are there no happy endings anymore?
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jammajup
Vector Runner
multi-format retro gamer
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Post by jammajup on May 17, 2013 4:30:56 GMT -5
MEGADRIVE - Devil Crash,Duke Nukem 3D,Battle Squadron,Bubble And Squeek, A2600 - Polaris NES – Crisis Force ZX SPECTRUM – 3D Space Wars
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Post by TrekMD on May 18, 2013 13:26:00 GMT -5
I recently purchased this clone of the NES, the Retron N1. It was selling for only $15, so it was too hard to pass up. Along with it, I've gotten a few NES games to play with it. Here are some pictures...
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