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Cars? Cars?? Oh no, oh-. . . What, what. . . What year is it? *runs hands through hair* oh no, oh no oh no. Cars. It's too late. Oh no. I said, I said. . . I said, what YEAR IS IT???
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Dec 17, 2015 23:53
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Guess what's back http://www.retrovgs.com/ Now called the COLECO CHAMELEON 
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Dec 18, 2015 03:41
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Are they allowed to call it that?
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XYZ posted:Guess what's back Coleco Coleco Coleco Coleco Coleco Chameleon It comes and goes It comes and goes
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Dec 18, 2015 03:50
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Otisburg posted:who wears a watch anymore? I do. It feels weird not to.
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Dec 18, 2015 04:45
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XYZ posted:Guess what's back I give up, what is/was that?
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Dec 18, 2015 04:47
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TetsuoTW posted:I give up, what is/was that? Its a whole new retro console!! Buy REAL CARTRIDGES to play your lovely android faux retro bullshit. Finally, the burden of digital ownership is over!!
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Dec 18, 2015 05:33
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Gutcruncher posted:Its a whole new retro console!! Buy REAL CARTRIDGES to play your lovely android faux retro bullshit. OK? Why was other poster so energized about it being "back"?
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Dec 18, 2015 05:40
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TetsuoTW posted:OK? Why was other poster so energized about it being "back"? Because they tried before with an amazing display of incompetence.
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Dec 18, 2015 06:03
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Can someone just say what this dumb thing used to be and why we're supposed to care instead of being weirdly coy about it?
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Dec 18, 2015 07:26
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TetsuoTW posted:Can someone just say what this dumb thing used to be and why we're supposed to care instead of being weirdly coy about it? the exact same loving thing it used to be with another name. It's completely useless and expects people to make cartridges for their lovely indie retro games and nobody wants it. NO UPDATES = GOOD
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Dec 18, 2015 07:28
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TetsuoTW posted:Can someone just say what this dumb thing used to be and why we're supposed to care instead of being weirdly coy about it? Yeah, sorry, I wasn't being coy. They literally tried the exact same drat thing with a different name and everything they do is amazingly incompetent.
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Dec 18, 2015 07:36
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Wait, Coleco as in ColecoVision? How does Coleco still exist?
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Dec 18, 2015 10:23
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whyyyy are they using the atari jaguar moulds. Christ I mean colecovision nostalgia is itself a pretty uncommon thing, is there a single person alive who has fond memories of the Jaguar of all things?
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sinking belle posted:whyyyy are they using the atari jaguar moulds. Christ I mean colecovision nostalgia is itself a pretty uncommon thing, is there a single person alive who has fond memories of the Jaguar of all things? Jaguar molds are used to make modern dentistry equipment, iirc, so they're probably more readily available for use than molds of other old consoles.
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cyberia posted:Jaguar molds are used to make modern dentistry equipment, iirc, so they're probably more readily available for use than molds of other old consoles.
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Zereth posted:... what? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qCtiRu-G_M
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Dec 18, 2015 12:34
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The Jaguar molds have been flying around since Atari died, since it's a hell of a lot cheaper to design your thing to fit a mold someone else made and you got for a few bucks than to get a whole new design made and molded.
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sinking belle posted:whyyyy are they using the atari jaguar moulds. Christ I mean colecovision nostalgia is itself a pretty uncommon thing, is there a single person alive who has fond memories of the Jaguar of all things? *Ernest Cline slides up from out of a toilet like the liquid metal terminator, speaks in an inexplicable The Mask voice* Diiiiiiiiiiiid SOMEBODY say the EIGHTIES? *waggles eyebrows while chainmaille bowtie spins*
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:*Ernest Cline slides up from out of a toilet like the liquid metal terminator, speaks in an inexplicable The Mask voice* Diiiiiiiiiiiid SOMEBODY say the EIGHTIES? *waggles eyebrows while chainmaille bowtie spins* 
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Paladinus posted:Wait, Coleco as in ColecoVision? How does Coleco still exist? Well it doesn't. Coleco went bankrupt and closed shop in 1988 and had all their stuff sold off. A completely unrelated company in another state was founded and bought the Coleco video gaming IP and naming rights in 2005. You know the Atari Flashback systems, those self contained systems that have like 50 Atari 2600 games and plug right into your TV? New Coleco was behind the making of a Colecovision Flashback, which was that but with like 50 Colecovision games. As it stands, it seems like the Retro VGS people have some sort of deal going where they'll license the Coleco name to use on their dumb console, but I don't think New Coleco is involved beyond that. sinking belle posted:whyyyy are they using the atari jaguar moulds. Because the morons went and dropped a few thousand bucks on buying the molds fromt he dental company, so by god they're going to use them.
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In the meantime the campaign for the impossible shoe made out of waterproof color e-ink screens reached 650k€ whitout even a prototype, proving once more (as if it was needed) that indiegogo is great way to part idiots from their money https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/shiftwear-customize-your-kicks#/
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:*Ernest Cline slides up from out of a toilet like the liquid metal terminator, speaks in an inexplicable The Mask voice* Diiiiiiiiiiiid SOMEBODY say the EIGHTIES? *waggles eyebrows while chainmaille bowtie spins* Get back to writing MST3K.
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1284726646/the-lampster-a-lamp-with-attitude Who wants an obnoxiously large, ugly and expensive lamp? 4,218 people want one! They had a target of $30,000 which means they were hoping to shift a couple hundred of these things at most. If they're as artisinal as they claim aren't they going to have trouble scaling up to twenty times that amount?
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SpaceGoatFarts posted:In the meantime the campaign for the impossible shoe made out of waterproof color e-ink screens reached 650k€ whitout even a prototype, proving once more (as if it was needed) that indiegogo is great way to part idiots from their money Obviously this looks totally unfeasible, are there any good articles/blogs from people in the fashion/technology industry detailing exactly how unfeasible each of the promised features is in excruciating detail? I love reading that kind of poo poo
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Gilganixon posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1284726646/the-lampster-a-lamp-with-attitude 
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if you want to see me do a war crime, point me at the factory creating app-controlled light sources and give me a tank. I'll smelt the earth beneath it, I'll salt it with the blood of the guilty. I will burn ashes in the raging fire of my wounded ego. this much i will do, to stop apps. this much, and no more.
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see these were the types of kickstarters i was talking about. i'd never even try to make one because i'd never believe even a single person would buy that poo poo.
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That lamp thing is something I could see myself buying on a whim if it was both a lot cheaper and the body was posable.
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Waffleman_ posted:Get back to writing MST3K. I didn't know he was involved in that until this moment. What a loving bummer.
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LOVE LOVE SKELETON posted:I didn't know he was involved in that until this moment. What a loving bummer. In the old days on Comedy Central and Sci Fi channel they had a bunch of pop culture trivia books for references. Now they can just use him!
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LOVE LOVE SKELETON posted:I didn't know he was involved in that until this moment. What a loving bummer. The new MST3K is kind of a who's who of ~Nerd Culture~ and it's going to be insufferable.
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Cheez posted:NO UPDATES = GOOD Love the old FAQ. But guys, without online patching how can bugs be fixed? Duh, the solution is to instruct all developers to release bug free games. We have no idea why nobody else thought of this idea!!
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fishmech posted:You know the Atari Flashback systems, those self contained systems that have like 50 Atari 2600 games and plug right into your TV? Are these things any good?
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bongwizzard posted:Are these things any good? The Atari Flashback 2 is so good that they left some stuff on the board inside so that you could cut out a cartridge slot int he case and solder in a cartridge port, and play original Atari 2600 cartridges on it. It also takes the original controllers. The Atari Flashback 3 up to Atari Flashback 6 lose that cpability because they go back to full emulation, but they have progressively more games built in - the 2 has 40 games, some of which were unreleased and some are homebrew, the 3 has 60, the 5 has a full 100 games and came out in September. So I'd recommend picking up the Atari Flashback 2 if you ever plan to buy real Atari 2600 games, or to buy that Harmony flashcart that lets you load roms for all the 2600 games onto a single cartridge. And if you just want to play about 60 of the best 2600 games and another 40 decent ones, get the latest one, the Atari Flashback 5. You can still plug in the original console controllers to it.
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Or or OR, you could download Red Faction: Guerilla, and install the mod that lets you shoot miniature black holes out of the tank's chaingun, and use that to blow up prisons on Mars.
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fishmech posted:The Atari Flashback 2 is so good that they left some stuff on the board inside so that you could cut out a cartridge slot int he case and solder in a cartridge port, and play original Atari 2600 cartridges on it. It also takes the original controllers. The Atari Flashback 3 up to Atari Flashback 6 lose that cpability because they go back to full emulation, but they have progressively more games built in - the 2 has 40 games, some of which were unreleased and some are homebrew, the 3 has 60, the 5 has a full 100 games and came out in September. I'm confused.
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CommunistPancake posted:I'm confused. They release new versions of the console like every 18 months when they get more game licenses. There's been 6 versions so far, and only version 2 is worth getting Vs the latest, because it's the one moddable to play real carts if you're into that. Also I lost track of the numbers at the end, there's so many of them.
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