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evobatman posted:Hasn't anyone made custom ROMS for these or something so you can sideload your emulators and game APKs and the Google Play store, and connect a bluetooth controller of your choice? lovely controllers aside, I believe the hardware was just fine as an Android device, it was the business management and lack of third party support that made it a disaster. Well, that, and it was also less powerful than the average smartphone at the time.
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Dick Trauma posted:They had to teach people how to use calculators? You have to learn how to use various functions of scientific calculators.
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Humphreys posted:Remember those transparent calculators that were put on the overhead projectors? Man. I remember some math teacher having what appeared to be a TI-83 with a transparent screen like that for OH use. It was the weirdest thing. Jerry Cotton posted:Only 90s kids will remember penis inspection day. I remember going into what I thought was a regular health checkup. The doc explained what was going on and I believe my first reaction was, "Nah, that's hosed up and you ain't gonna do poo poo to me." It was a dark time in our history.
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Clitch posted:Shiiiiiiiiiiiit. I have an Onlive box lying around here, somewhere, and I'm stil LOLin' at that poo poo. Friend of mine was one of the first OnLive employees. Spent like two years telling me how it was going to revolutionize gaming, all the demo coups at the trade shows, the whole nine yards. Then it just sort of ... went away I guess. Somehow I couldn't drum up the surprise.
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Humphreys posted:Well when everyone moved from sliderules... My dad got a TI-30 when they first came out, before that he did all his calculations on a sliderule and he taught me how to use one.
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Frozen Pizza Party posted:I used to work at Kinko's (pre-fedex) and the amount of idiot teachers coming in to make copies onto transparencies while breaking the machines was the only part that really got to me about that job. The fuser was a mess. I just said gently caress it and junked it. That was a fun day.
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Spy_Guy posted:I remember going into what I thought was a regular health checkup. The doc explained what was going on and I believe my first reaction was, "Nah, that's hosed up and you ain't gonna do poo poo to me." Uhh.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Uhh. 
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GutBomb posted:At a friend's house tonight they busted this out of a closet: Psychedelic Eyeball did a short LP of Puddle for the Ouya. Works really well overall despite the very minor framerate issues.
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För kungen.
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Somewhere in my old room is a TI-83 with a weird connector for the overhead projector screen - I inherited mine from a high school teacher friend of the family (he bought himself a fancy silver 83+ model). I remember the projector screen as being kind of crap - low contrast and horrid refresh rate. Still, we borrowed one and played Tetris and Ski or Die in a break for the novelty value.
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Man, I miss playing terrible calculator games. Anyone remember DrugWar?
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Neito posted:Man, I miss playing terrible calculator games. Anyone remember DrugWar? No because that game was banned from school and you weren't allowed to play it.
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TI-83 had a surprisingly competent port of Bubble Bobble
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Cojawfee posted:No because that game was banned from school and you weren't allowed to play it. Man, my school was lame. We never banned anything. Hell, we played Magic for ante for the first couple years. Same with POGs.
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DopeWars was banned in my school too. I remember versions of it on calculators and phones.
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I have downloaded and am playing Minions of Mirth, the Everquest You Don't Have to Pay For (TM)
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I never had any cool stuff on my graphing calculator because I lost the transfer kit. I was stuck doodling when I didn't want to pay attention in class.
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Humphreys posted:Remember those transparent calculators that were put on the overhead projectors? This was even more impressive: Useful for teaching the class how to use these new toys. I'm class of 97, and my high school made buy an 82. I surpassed my teacher by the end of the year, and started programming games on it. I made a dodge game, and a side-scroller shooter, and a scorched earth clone. I still have dumps of two of those, if I could be bothered to install an emulator I could take pictures. defaultluser has a new favorite as of 04:06 on Nov 7, 2016 |
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evobatman posted:Hasn't anyone made custom ROMS for these or something. The great fun was watching a company take all the Android phone enthusiast buzzwords and mash it into a pesudo console. One big feature was the "one button root" which quickly faded as it meant you'd be able to side load and avoid the Ouya store. The "console for all" rapidly built a walled garden and just got mired in hubris and horribly concieved ad campaigns trying to prove their underdoggyness. The rest was a story about a company who got an unexpected windfall and decided to push their prototype into production well before it was ready and soon the dumpster fire was hard to put out. They even invoked the Osbourne effect and suggested an Ouya 2 at some point.
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If you want a little ARM computer that runs emulators you might as well just get a Pi 3 and install Retropie on it. It's cheap and it mostly just works.
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SwissCM posted:If you want a little ARM computer that runs emulators you might as well just get a Pi 3 and install Retropie on it. It's cheap and it mostly just works. Even my Pi 2 B+ just works. A Pi 3 seems amazing in comparison, which means something like an Ouya is just permanently outdated.
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I'm trying to work out the particulars of building a Pi media panel that cycles through weather, rss, and pictures. Seems like a doable enough project.
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SwissCM posted:If you want a little ARM computer that runs emulators you might as well just get a Pi 3 and install Retropie on it. It's cheap and it mostly just works. I am doing exactly that, and I'm thinking about putting it in an old empty SNES case, just for the hell of it.
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Trunko posted:Good grief did you even watch his ghost busters review? That wasn't his point. At. All. I will grant that if late in the video he revealed he was pranking everyone I would have had no idea. And as a data-driven information consumer I would have to update my Pop Culture Opinions Database posthaste. Platystemon posted:The similarity to “emoticon” is complete coincidence. It comes from Japanese words for “picture” and “character”. Also oh good lord I just remembered this for the first time in ~20 years. I think I was too young to figure out how to get this terrible homebrew-caliber game running on my system for weeks until someone else did it for me. It was not worth it. Tech moments lost in time like e-tears on rain.com. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OtF2l147b4 Dr. Quarex has a new favorite as of 16:34 on Nov 7, 2016 |
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It's really hard for me to care about MRAs (sadsack neckbeards) or the new Ghostbusters movie (mediocre at best). So here's a game series I just finished collecting (no, I am not getting the portable/mobile-only games, because they suck. I do own RDR and Bully, though).  The first 4 games are definitely relics. GTA, GTA London and GTA2 are of course almost arcade-like in their difficulty, gameplay and controls. And just try and play the original PS2 GTA III without going mad. No free camera control, no option to disable inverted aim, the world's worst targeting system and the overall difficulty is punishing, both because of the other issues and because of ridiculous mission requirements. GTA III is OK on PC, because at least you can use mouse aim, but Vice City is the first 3D GTA that is actually enjoyable to play on the PS2.
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TI Calc talk reminded of this little gem from way back when I actually attended demo parties. (I was one of those kiddies who came for the Counter-Strike and  before broadband at home was a thing.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTdBZffnqfs I remember the crowd going pretty wild when everyone realized you could get sampled sound out of those things.
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KozmoNaut posted:It's really hard for me to care about MRAs (sadsack neckbeards) or the new Ghostbusters movie (mediocre at best). I remember playing GTA 1 on Gameboy and having to hide it like it was forbidden fruit. I think 2 and Vice City are still my overall favorites of the series.
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I remember GTA on the Gameboy Color, holy poo poo that was hard to play. I'm amazed they got it even halfway decent. GTA 2 has a great dystopian aesthetic, I kinda wish they would do a near-future GTA like that again. And Vice City is obviously just full-on 80s excess, how can you not love it? I'm kinda sorta betting GTA VI will be set in Vice City, but probably not during the 80s. A well-realized Vice City akin to Los Santos in GTA V would be amazing, and they could do all kinds of stuff like swamps in the surrounding areas. KozmoNaut has a new favorite as of 17:08 on Nov 7, 2016 |
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It would be amazing if someone did a 80s total conversion of GTA V.
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I was thinking more like 70s, oil crisis and big mustaches and stuff. E: They could do a Carcer City (Detroit, basically) based game set in the 70s, and have a dirty cop, a broke hooker and a car thief as the three protagonists. With a thick Dirty Harry aesthetic. KozmoNaut has a new favorite as of 17:17 on Nov 7, 2016 |
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KozmoNaut posted:I was thinking more like 70s, oil crisis and big mustaches and stuff. So a remake of Interstate '76? Sound good to me!
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Veth posted:So a remake of Interstate '76? Sound good to me! Interstate '76 is coming up on 20 years old. Imagine Interstate '96 coming out next year.
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KozmoNaut posted:I remember GTA on the Gameboy Color, holy poo poo that was hard to play. I'm amazed they got it even halfway decent. Late 90's to early 2000's would be a worthwhile time and place to explore; especially to explore how much 9/11 changed everything, the various kinds of pop culture stuff to parody and the excesses of the dot-com boom.
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Triple A posted:Late 90's to early 2000's would be a worthwhile time and place to explore; especially to explore how much 9/11 changed everything, the various kinds of pop culture stuff to parody and the excesses of the dot-com boom. Instead of having to use your cell phone for everything, you just get missions via beeper. Half the loving playerbase wouldn't even know what it is.
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Skoll posted:Instead of having to use your cell phone for everything, you just get missions via beeper. No minimap, you just have to know where payphones are. Or ask if you can borrow someone's phone and they'll always say no.
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You could receive a basic cellphone but only after halfway thru the plot and even then, the reception sucks in most parts of the map. Oh yeah, there would also be plenty of opportunities to parody the early days of the internet.
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Most of the cars will have manual transmissions and you'll have to actually shift gears in-game.
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