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Horace posted:They don't mind a bit of fire. That poo poo don't got nothing on a Gameboy.  https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/unstoppable-game-boy/
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The Wurst Poster posted:That poo poo don't got nothing on a Gameboy. Sadly, they replaced the guts. Trying to trawl through google to find a proper article citing the replacement parts is hard to find.
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Humphreys posted:Sadly, they replaced the guts. Trying to trawl through google to find a proper article citing the replacement parts is hard to find.
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I could be wrong but I seem to remember a nintendo power where someone left a Gameboy or maybe it was an NES cartridge outside in the snow for a winter. Of course it worked perfectly fine when the snow thawed.
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I also remember a letter to Nintendo Power where somebody asked if NES carts would stop working if he left them in a room with chairs in it, so with Nintendo hardware basically anything is possible.
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"Dear Nintendo Power. I never thought it would happen to me but..."
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:I also remember a letter to Nintendo Power where somebody asked if NES carts would stop working if he left them in a room with chairs in it, so with Nintendo hardware basically anything is possible. The NES version of Fan Death!?
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Data Graham posted:Man, Dragon's Lair with C64 graphics instead of full-screen laserdisc animation must have ... https://youtu.be/ivw4lMg3Xos The music was stellar. Sometimes a game’s only redeemable quality was Rob Hubbard’s SID chip programming.
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WescottF1 posted:Wow - i had this exact thing when I was a kid back in the late 70s. A bit late, but what exactly is it then? I assumed a radio made to look like a petrol pump?
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Speaking of personal electronics that will stop a bullet, I saw a couple of Panasonic Toughbooks in a consignment shop a few months ago. I was tempted, at $100 per, but they were Pentium 1 machines, so can't even run youtube. In other news, my parents seem to have misplaced the TRS-80. I don't know how youcan lose something that big, but it's not in the attic where I last saw it.
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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jojoinnit posted:A bit late, but what exactly is it then? I assumed a radio made to look like a petrol pump? Six tranny radio
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Chillbro Baggins posted:Speaking of personal electronics that will stop a bullet, I saw a couple of Panasonic Toughbooks in a consignment shop a few months ago. I was tempted, at $100 per, but they were Pentium 1 machines, so can't even run youtube. I love my Toughbook. Been through a lot of poo poo including me backing over it in the garage. What killed it was hooking it up to a dodgy 12V - 240VAC Inverter when camping. Charger works fine, but it cooked the charge circuit. Can't buy the part anywhere it seems. I have the service manual and an handy with board repair but gently caress the amount of screws just to get to the circuit is just effort.
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jojoinnit posted:A bit late, but what exactly is it then? I assumed a radio made to look like a petrol pump? Yep - there's a little speaker in it or you could use an included single earbud style piece to listen to it too. It might still be in my mom's basement with a bunch of other old toys. I'll try to remember to look next time I'm over there.
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  Found some really interesting relics of early video game history at the pawn shop today. The first one was produced as part of an early partnership with Atari. Nintendo was working on a new video game system called the Famicom, but they had no foothold in the US market and were reluctant to spend much money on getting one, since the American video game industry wasn't very stable at the time. They approached Atari to take over production and distribution in the West, and having ports of Nintendo's existing arcade game library for the 2600 was part of that deal. The second cartridge holds a much more interesting part of the story. Before the Atari deal was signed, Nintendo had already licensed some of their titles to other companies, and those companies still held the rights and were making new versions. It just so happens that there a version of Donkey Kong for the Coleco Adam on display at the 1983 CES show. The president of Atari happened to see it, assumed that Nintendo had struck a deal with Atari's biggest competitor behind his back and immediately called off the deal. If you've been reading this thread for a while, you'll know that this scheme is remarkably similar to what Nintendo actually did to Sony ten years later. It did not work out in their favour that time. flavor.flv has a new favorite as of 22:05 on Apr 9, 2018 |
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RandomFerret posted:If you've been reading this thread for a while, you'll know that this scheme is remarkably similar to what Nintendo actually did to Sony ten years later. It did not work out in their favour that time. And the greatest video game console ever was the result of that.
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Atari, like Sega, seems to have found success despite themselves.
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Atari is dead. Atari today is just the dead husk of Infogrames possessed by thirsty lawyers.
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Star Man posted:And the greatest video game console ever was the result of that. Nintendo 64?
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Cojawfee posted:Nintendo 64? 
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Cojawfee posted:Nintendo 64? Yes, the best video game console of all time has less than ten good exclusives.
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Star Man posted:And the greatest video game console ever was the result of that. What does the GameCube have to do with the Nintendo/Sony fiasco? 
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Randaconda posted:Yes, the best video game console of all time has less than ten good exclusives. It has the best game of all time, Majora's Mask.
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Cojawfee posted:It has the best game of all time, Majora's Mask. This is true.
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So does my New 3DS.
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Cojawfee posted:It has the best game of all time, Majora's Mask. lol Not even the best Zelda game on the system, which in turn was inferior to aLttP.
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The best Zelda game is Skyward Sword played on a softmodded Wii with cheats to disable the stamina gauge.
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RandomFerret posted:The best Zelda game is Skyward Sword played on a softmodded Wii with cheats to disable the stamina gauge. What the gently caress was going on with that game, goddamn. Pretty good has a new favorite as of 06:58 on Apr 10, 2018 |
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That Atari 2600 Donkey Kong isn't very good tell you what. Worst 8€ I ever spent at the flea market 
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My dad had Donkey Kong on the Atari. I thought it was cool because it vaguely looks like Donkey Kong. Like a drawing of a house that your 5 year old kid would make that you’d stick to the fridge.
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I'd never heard of it until now (and am not even in same hemisphere so wasn't going to make it to the closing sale), but it sounds like the WeirdStuff Warehouse was full of this kind of stuff. Plenty of pictures and anecdotes on Twitter but I don't want to dump a heap of links here.
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I don't like the implication of this past-tense statement... nooo, going back there was the only thing on my bucket list. I've probably posted this before, but among the things I bought there was a bag of spare mouse balls 
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I swear the Donkey Kong I had for Atari said Coleco on it. I think the cartridge was cream colored. Am I misremembering? Also, Dreamcast was the best console ever.
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:I swear the Donkey Kong I had for Atari said Coleco on it. I think the cartridge was cream colored. Am I misremembering? Speaking of tech relics, every so often I remember that the Dreamcast came out at a time when CD burners were becoming super cheap and didn't even try to implement copy protection. Like, I know the PSX could be defeated with a blu-tack and a shred of timing, but it still strikes me as pretty loving wild that the Dreamcast would just play whatever you put in it.
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This made me remember things. As a child I remember on road trips I'd occasionally manage to wrangle a quarter or two out of my parents for an arcade machine when we stopped. I remember at least two different reskinned versions of Super Mario Brothers, one of them they were carrying a surfboard and wearing sun glasses.
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Not Operator posted:Speaking of tech relics, every so often I remember that the Dreamcast came out at a time when CD burners were becoming super cheap and didn't even try to implement copy protection. Nah, the DC had copy protection and would not simply play a burned CD unless you modded it first (or ran a boot disc)
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uvar posted:I'd never heard of it until now (and am not even in same hemisphere so wasn't going to make it to the closing sale), but it sounds like the WeirdStuff Warehouse was full of this kind of stuff. Plenty of pictures and anecdotes on Twitter but I don't want to dump a heap of links here. Oh that’s loving terrible, I’ve been going there sporadically for like 20+ years. I still have a ton of well...weird poo poo I’ve bought from there stashed away. Man, this news ruined my whole day.
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spog posted:Nah, the DC had copy protection and would not simply play a burned CD unless you modded it first (or ran a boot disc) Okay ignore me, I'm stupid with a bad memory.
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Not Operator posted:Okay ignore me, I'm stupid with a bad memory.
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The Kins posted:I believe a lot of pirated games commonly posted online were modded to be "self-booting", meaning you didn't need to put in a seperate "boot disk" first. So that's probably where you got it from. Yeah the DC did have copy protection but it was pretty thoroughly defeated, you didn’t need a modded console at all.
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