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How much were Nuke It 1000 and Duke Assault? Please PM me if you're willing to pick them up and ship them a couple states over for Paypal moneys. My collection needs to grow. 
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Ah, the rare 2-disc set of Dangerous Cousins
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Gromit posted:My colleagues and I use Signal when we are coordinating all our teams on multi-site raids. We don't tend to send anything really sensitive over it, mind you. My most common use for Signal is texts and calls with my girlfriend. Our discussions obviously aren't a national-security-level secret, but they're also not anything the phone company, social media company, or national government needs to know either.
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Fallom posted:How much were Nuke It 1000 and Duke Assault? Please PM me if you're willing to pick them up and ship them a couple states over for Paypal moneys. My collection needs to grow. I'm Gender Wars
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Gromit posted:My colleagues and I use Signal when we are coordinating all our teams on multi-site raids. We don't tend to send anything really sensitive over it, mind you. Can I ask what sort of raids? Angry men with automatic weapons? Food safety inspections? World of Warcraft?
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Fallom posted:How much were Nuke It 1000 and Duke Assault? Please PM me if you're willing to pick them up and ship them a couple states over for Paypal moneys. My collection needs to grow. EF2000 
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Gonz posted:Found a bunch of other stuff that made me feel very old, too. Because I am. Bookmans is one of the few things I miss about living in Mesa. I try to get over there when Im in AZ to see my parents.
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I know SMS box art never really had much in terms of content but... seriously?
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Mak0rz posted:I know SMS box art never really had much in terms of content but... seriously? It kinda confused me into considering its maybe a weirdly named expansion card
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Jun 16, 2018 02:41
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The cards were pretty poo poo and got phased out fairly quick.
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Mak0rz posted:I know SMS box art never really had much in terms of content but... seriously? I love SMS box art. I love how that grid, font choice and clipart style make every game look like it's a PC program for collating tax invoices. I love how the grid background is too heavy and messes up text. I really love examples like the Ghostbusters game art, which is so devoid of any creativity at all I think it might be a genuine masterpiece. 
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Computer viking posted:Can I ask what sort of raids? Angry men with automatic weapons? Food safety inspections? World of Warcraft? The first one is more accurate than the last few, but they aren't angry and the weapons are not generally automatic.
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Horace posted:I love SMS box art. I love how that grid, font choice and clipart style make every game look like it's a PC program for collating tax invoices. I love how the grid background is too heavy and messes up text. I really love examples like the Ghostbusters game art, which is so devoid of any creativity at all I think it might be a genuine masterpiece. It's interesting how they thought that the way to beat Nintendo was to appear more "adult", calm and stylish and collected, it reminds me of Apple vs. other PCs in the early 1980s. Unfortunately 8 year olds aren't known for appreciating uniform monochrome style languages with serif fonts and grids everywhere instead of colorful box art and explosions.
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Computer viking posted:Can I ask what sort of raids? Angry men with automatic weapons? Food safety inspections? World of Warcraft? Lots of cheap harddisks kind-of glued together o appear as one?
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skooma512 posted:EF2000 I love that game. I have it installed now with some fancy DOSBOX setup. I wish I could find a way to make the Graphics+ patch work.
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I played the predecessor TFX a bunch.
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I’m kind of scared to actually try Gender Wars
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Fallom posted:I’m kind of scared to actually try Gender Wars
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Found more olde tyme stuff today:    Fallom posted:How much were Nuke It 1000 and Duke Assault? Please PM me if you're willing to pick them up and ship them a couple states over for Paypal moneys. My collection needs to grow. I was actually back there today to get rid of a bunch of old Gameboy stuff I don't want anymore (GB Camera and Printer with link cables and 3 blank spools of paper!), and I checked to see if they still had them for you. Unfortunately, they were all gone. But i'll keep an eye out for Duke Nukem add-ons in the future when i'm there; they're only a couple bucks and you can just reimburse me for the games and the S&H, no biggie.
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My aunt & uncle called me up today and asked if I could drop by and help move an old tv in an old house they just bought. I figured it was just wedged in somewhere difficult, which it technically was. Turned out it was a giant Sony Trinitron -the biggest one I've seen, sitting alone on the second floor. That thing must've weighed north of 300 pounds. We ended up pushing it down a flight of stairs, where it helpfully removed the doorframe at the bottom and saved us the time of trying to wedge it through. I wonder how the previous owners got it up to the second floor. Maybe it had been there for decades, with its imposing weigh deterring previous homeowners or renters from ever trying to get rid of it.
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My parents had a Sony trinitron for years. It died last year and they finally bought a new one. They made sure to get Best Buy to deliver it because they will also take away an old TV.
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Astoundingly Ugly Baby posted:My aunt & uncle called me up today and asked if I could drop by and help move an old tv in an old house they just bought. I figured it was just wedged in somewhere difficult, which it technically was. Turned out it was a giant Sony Trinitron -the biggest one I've seen, sitting alone on the second floor. That thing must've weighed north of 300 pounds. Trinitrons were great. Almost as good as the Wega, more or less the best consumer grade tube TV ever. Almost bought a 32” for 50 bucks once. Phenomenal deal, in the sense that a free upright piano is a bargain.
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Astoundingly Ugly Baby posted:My aunt & uncle called me up today and asked if I could drop by and help move an old tv in an old house they just bought. I figured it was just wedged in somewhere difficult, which it technically was. Turned out it was a giant Sony Trinitron -the biggest one I've seen, sitting alone on the second floor. That thing must've weighed north of 300 pounds. Like, doesn't anyone have these things in their house anymore:  (Or, alternatively, are people just too dumb to rent them for like a few dollars a day when they're moving in or out?) e: In case it wasn't clear, carrying everything just with your puny hands is the tech relic.
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Or just rent a motorized stair-climbing hand truck for a day, which makes moving pretty much anything smaller than a grand piano a ten minute one man task.
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Collateral Damage posted:Or just rent a motorized stair-climbing hand truck for a day, which makes moving pretty much anything smaller than a grand piano a ten minute one man task.  I had no idea those existed. Also here's a literal relic:
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Horace posted:I love SMS box art. I love how that grid, font choice and clipart style make every game look like it's a PC program for collating tax invoices. I love how the grid background is too heavy and messes up text. I really love examples like the Ghostbusters game art, which is so devoid of any creativity at all I think it might be a genuine masterpiece. I wanted this as a kid but my parents wouldn't buy it because it said "Mega Cartridge" on it, which made them think it was for the Sega Mega Drive (European Genesis) and not the Master System, meaning I wouldn't be able to play it. The guy in the shop also told them that it was  I got it on Amstrad CPC 464 instead.
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Guys, ghostbusters is back--
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Collateral Damage posted:Or just rent a motorized stair-climbing hand truck for a day, which makes moving pretty much anything smaller than a grand piano a ten minute one man task. we rented one for a recent move, largely for our heavy-as-gently caress washer and dryer. When the guys who were unloading the truck showed up they were all "pffft" and moved everything by hand.
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Quote-Unquote posted:I wanted this as a kid but my parents wouldn't buy it because it said "Mega Cartridge" on it, which made them think it was for the Sega Mega Drive (European Genesis) and not the Master System, meaning I wouldn't be able to play it. I think I had that on NES, and that game was hard as gently caress
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Astoundingly Ugly Baby posted:My aunt & uncle called me up today and asked if I could drop by and help move an old tv in an old house they just bought. I figured it was just wedged in somewhere difficult, which it technically was. Turned out it was a giant Sony Trinitron -the biggest one I've seen, sitting alone on the second floor. That thing must've weighed north of 300 pounds. I bought one of those off Craigslist a few months back. I was looking for an old CRT for retro game stuff, and I found a listing for $20. Judging by the price and the picture he sent I figured it was a smaller one. Fucker was a 32". Nearly threw my back out getting it off his entertainment center let alone into the car.
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Iron Crowned posted:I think I had that on NES, and that game was hard as gently caress That doesn't really mean anything, as games were often completely different between platforms.
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Cojawfee posted:That doesn't really mean anything, as games were often completely different between platforms. I'm pretty sure the NES Ghostbusters was an illegal port of a different system.
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I'm reading/listening to Console Wars right now which sort of chronicles Nintendo and Sega in the 80's and 90's, but also the industry as a whole (more than just video games: toys more generally) Seems to have been a wild time with companies like EA covertly reverse-engineering systems like the Genesis to get around Japan-style licensing.
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Cojawfee posted:That doesn't really mean anything, as games were often completely different between platforms. The Atari 2600 version of Ghostbusters was weird as hell, but I liked it. I still remember the first time I got past the marshmallow man. Play in your browser: http://www.virtualatari.org/soft.php?soft=Ghostbusters (Reading the manual is recommended. The controls and such aren't as weird as, say, Raiders of the Lost Ark, but it helps to know what you're supposed to be doing.)
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Looks like the MSX version I played as a kid. Couldn't understand what to do at all. Intro soundtrack kicked rear end, though.
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Iron Crowned posted:I'm pretty sure the NES Ghostbusters was an illegal port of a different system. Yeah, something like that I can't remember the details but it was ported and not able to be released in the US for some reason. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F--ilZQ27G4
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Iron Crowned posted:I'm pretty sure the NES Ghostbusters was an illegal port of a different system.
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CONGLATURATION !!! YOU HAVE COMPLETED A GREAT GAME. AND PROOVED THE JUSTICE OF OUR CULTURE. NOW GO AND REST OUR HEROES !
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The Kins posted:NES Ghostbusters was a legally licensed port of Activision's C64 game (which was written in like, six weeks!), but it was outsourced to a newly-formed company in Japan called Workss that clearly rushed things super-hard (so hard that there's no ending in the Japanese release, the game just crashes to a black screen after the final boss!) Man, I played the gently caress out of the C64 version! And unlike 99% of C64 software in circulation at the time, I think it was actually a legit retail copy.
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Code Jockey posted:Man, I played the gently caress out of the C64 version! Having pirated C64 games was great except for the cases where having the manual would have really helped. I remember one game in particular where you started the game by having to pilot your spaceship or whatever out of the hangar, and my brother and I could not figure out how to open the loving hangar door. We called the friend we had got the game from, and his answer was "put something heavy on 6." This actually worked, and we eventually figured out the actual key you were supposed to press was F6. 
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