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Dr. Quarex posted:Agreed. I did not understand my wife's eye-rolling at it in the first place until someone asked if they could check their e-mail on my computer, saw my keyboard, and said "oh. Never mind." It was easy to get self-absorbed enough to forget that people, you know, sometimes look at the keys for practical reasons. gently caress'em. I put in many long hours with Mavis to get to where I am today.
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Oct 22, 2016 23:30
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I kind of understand being picky when it comes to keyboards, but some people seem to take it to extremes. I do have a strong preference for older Dell keyboards, and am typing on one right now. The key height, angle, and stroke depth (I have no idea about the proper terminology for these things) just work well for me. Flat keyboards drive me crazy, and chiclet keys piss me off. I pick up old lightly-used Dell keyboards from thrift stores as needed, which reminds me that I think I am down to only having two on hand and should probably pick up a spare or two.
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Oct 22, 2016 23:46
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Hi friends! I went to a retro gaming expo today. It was fun, I saw lots of neat old game systems. Here are pictures for you all to enjoy! An ADAM! (and maybe a man named Adam)  I don't know what this is!  Famicoms!  SUPER Famicoms!  Another thing!  A CAT box thing!  Possibly the coolest thing ever created.  N64 DD!  Playstation prototype! And a velvet rope.  Who remembers these things at Sears?  A Virtual Boy for $150  Also don't know what this thing did:  Neo Geo games are STILL horribly expensive. Also A Nintendo 64 Disk Drive:  Another strange unidentifiable thing:  So many things I am not familiar with:  $500. For Ocarina of Time.  So many different types of NES.  Weird thingy.  A Macintosh!  This was pretty cool, honestly. 
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Oct 22, 2016 23:49
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Dr. Quarex posted:Yes but they stopped offering blank key caps, driving me into the arms of another company when I wanted a second keyboard to match my first What? No they didn't. Full set of blank keycaps, 20 bucks, in white or gray: http://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/KSET Lots more keycap options here, straight from Unicomp: http://www.pckeyboard.com/page/category/Buttons
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Oct 22, 2016 23:52
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Woe to anyone who actually bought that Virtual Boy.
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Oct 23, 2016 00:00
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The Nintendo Playstation and N64 DD protoype models? gently caress yeah.
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Oct 23, 2016 00:10
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Yeah! And velvet ropes!
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Oct 23, 2016 00:11
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Skoll posted:Woe to anyone who actually bought that Virtual Boy. Also  at 500$ for Ocarina of Time. I got it for free with my Gamecube. (And it's even better since I don't have to use an awful Nintendo 64 controller.)
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Oct 23, 2016 00:13
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Skoll posted:Woe to anyone who actually bought that Virtual Boy. I guarantee you some poor soul actually forked out 150 bucks for that thing and then went home, played it, and died from epilepsy.
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Oct 23, 2016 00:13
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Jerry Cotton posted:Also He said they had to reduce it from $800.
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Oct 23, 2016 00:16
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I can see an original gold NES cart of the Legend of Zelda going for that much.. Orcarina of Time? Get fuckin' lost. Fuckin' video game collectors market has some insane gouge.
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Oct 23, 2016 00:19
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turn it up TURN ME ON posted:He said they had to reduce it from $800. Oh they must be Hong Kong dollars. (  Doesn't it usually go for like 50-100?)
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Oct 23, 2016 00:21
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 remember back before bullets when we had squirrels
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Oct 23, 2016 00:21
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Jerry Cotton posted:Oh they must be Hong Kong dollars. It was still in the original shrink. Which I assume is highly valuable due to the shrink wrap shortage of 2008.
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Oct 23, 2016 00:21
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You could print out a box and shrink wrap it and no one would be the wiser as long as you had the instruction manual and all that.
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Oct 23, 2016 00:23
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Skoll posted:You could print out a box and shrink wrap it and no one would be the wiser as long as you had the instruction manual and all that. Are you kidding? It could include Pilotwings 64 and you'd still make bank. A true collector won't open it and ruin the value.
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Oct 23, 2016 00:24
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Whellp. Now I know how I'mma fund that new rifle I wanna build.
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Oct 23, 2016 00:26
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turn it up TURN ME ON posted:It was still in the original shrink. Which I assume is highly valuable due to the shrink wrap shortage of 2008. It's like a stamp collector paying for gum. (For those of you not in the philatelic know, Americans were long something of a laughing stock in the global stamp collecting community because it was common for mint stamps to go for considerably higher prices than unused stamps there. The difference being a mint stamp still has the gum intact. In the rest of the world most people collected used stamps anyway. I have no idea what the situation is now since I haven't collected in a couple of decades.)
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Oct 23, 2016 00:26
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At first I thought the weird thing was an 8", that would have been a real collector's item.
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Oct 23, 2016 00:29
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Skoll posted:I can see an original gold NES cart of the Legend of Zelda going for that much.. Orcarina of Time? Get fuckin' lost. It's a really strange and stupid market. I collect big box PC games and so far that market hasn't been controlled by the same type of crowd, though copies of Fallout & Fallout 2 generally go for $150 - 200
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Oct 23, 2016 00:30
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I'm really glad I just buy games to play them. (And by play I mean stick them on a shelf in the spare room and never get around to playing them because I have a job and all.)
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Buca di Bepis posted:It's a really strange and stupid market. I collect big box PC games and so far that market hasn't been controlled by the same type of crowd, though copies of Fallout & Fallout 2 generally go for $150 - 200 I just couldn't imagine paying above retail for video games, especially now in the age of everything we grew up playing on digital. One of my best friends is a massive Star Fox sperg and I picked him up the SNES cart about five years back and it was like $10 bucks at a traditional gaming ( board games, etc ) store. I'd hate to see how much that poo poo goes for now since retro is seemingly all the rage these days.
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Oct 23, 2016 00:33
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I got Lylat Wars for free I wonder if it's worth anything. Oh about 5-15€. I guess it's because it's a bad game.
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Oct 23, 2016 00:36
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Jerry Cotton posted:It's like a stamp collector paying for gum. (For those of you not in the philatelic know, Americans were long something of a laughing stock in the global stamp collecting community because it was common for mint stamps to go for considerably higher prices than unused stamps there. The difference being a mint stamp still has the gum intact. In the rest of the world most people collected used stamps anyway. I have no idea what the situation is now since I haven't collected in a couple of decades.) p sure the name for new new gbs is in this post somewhere if we just look hard enough
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Oct 23, 2016 00:38
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I wonder how often people just buy lovely game cartridges for cheap and just put new stickers on them of "valued" games and make bank.
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Oct 23, 2016 00:40
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Skoll posted:I wonder how often people just buy lovely game cartridges for cheap and just put new stickers on them of "valued" games and make bank. This will end up making lovely game cartridges highly sought-after collector's items. I mean some already are.
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Oct 23, 2016 00:42
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I think I still have some of my old n64 boxes. I should shrink wrap them and get some  I won't even put the game in since they don't open it maybe I'll just throw a rock in there to give it weight haha
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It's just like any other collector's market honestly. The poo poo is overvalued because some people think it's worth it for some reason. Whatever, I don't judge them (loudly) for it. It was fun walking through nostalgia lane though. I did pick up a still-in-shrink copy of Gary Gygax's Cyborg Commando for $20. Which is about what I would want to spend for it, honestly. And seeing some of the prototypes was kind of cool. I wish it weren't so busy at the one booth where a group of hobbyists were making new Atari games though. I would love to know more about how you actually do that, what the code is like and what it's like to try to work with such incredibly limited hardware.
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turn it up TURN ME ON posted:It's just like any other collector's market honestly. The poo poo is overvalued because some people think it's worth it for some reason. Whatever, I don't judge them (loudly) for it. It was fun walking through nostalgia lane though. I was always curious, too. I found this one day while youtubin around: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNyebnxV9R8 And then here's the more modern, cheaty way to code new 2600 games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww3her2zk_I
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turn it up TURN ME ON posted:Hi friends! I went to a retro gaming expo today. It was fun, I saw lots of neat old game systems. Here are pictures for you all to enjoy! Also, 100% agreed that is the coolest thing in the world. I am so sad that satin jackets are so uncommon in this era. And ... is that a cartridge storage system that looks like an Atari? Or an Atari with built-in storage? Or, uh ... uhhhh Powered Descent posted:What? No they didn't.
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Oct 23, 2016 02:30
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I don't get the Virtual Boy hate. I have one and Mario Tennis on it is sweet as.
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I sold a well-used copy of Ogre Battle on eBay without a box or anything for a dumb amount of money recently. I don't understand this attachment to physical cartridges.
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turn it up TURN ME ON posted:
It's evidently a wireless, 4-player adapter. I'd never seen one. Great post, btw.
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My sister sold our NES with like a dozen games for $30 a while ago. It wasn't mint, but it was still working just fine. Made me and my brother a bit ill when we heard it.
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turn it up TURN ME ON posted:I don't know what this is! turn it up TURN ME ON posted:A CAT box thing! Dr. Quarex posted:What in the hell is that CAT box and why did I not own one?! Dang. turn it up TURN ME ON posted:Also don't know what this thing did: turn it up TURN ME ON posted:So many things I am not familiar with:
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The Kins posted:That DVD player is a NUON, which was like a game system on a chip that was licensed out to DVD player manufacturers. Less than ten games were released for it, and only one of them (Tempest 3000) was any good. It also included a trippy visualizer for audio CDs, which was further iterated upon for the Xbox 360. Here's a good video on it if anyone is interested.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I kind of understand being picky when it comes to keyboards, but some people seem to take it to extremes. My problem is that I've been using an original MS Natural split ergonomic keyboard for so long, I think I've ruined myself for other keyboards. I really should get around to finding a few old ones, and trying to resto-mod mech switches into one.
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Dr. Quarex posted:And ... is that a cartridge storage system that looks like an Atari?
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Clitch posted:My problem is that I've been using an original MS Natural split ergonomic keyboard for so long, I think I've ruined myself for other keyboards. I really should get around to finding a few old ones, and trying to resto-mod mech switches into one.
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