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Dogen posted:Ice Hockey Get Super Blood Hockey on Steam, it's hilarious. edit - oh hey it's on a bunch of consoles now too
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xzzy posted:Get Super Blood Hockey on Steam, it's hilarious. Steam is good. The premise reminds me of Mutant League Football on Genesis, which was also great. Also sport games and chiptunes reminds me that Super Dodge Ball was a non-terrible early NES game.
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veni veni veni posted:As an old that grew up with the NES, and also lived through the 20 or so years that old consoles and CRTs were literally worthless, watching zoomers pay top dollar for old dated tech that weighs 100lbs is very funny to me. I'll just play those old games on my switch, and sparingly because tbh they aren't that good for the most part. 100% this. Last year I wanted to play Donkey Kong Country, so I dug out the SNES and game.... and poo poo wouldn’t boot up. I wasn’t in the mood to troubleshoot the problem for more than a few minutes or mess with setting up an emulator, so I just bought the game on the Wii U Virtual console for 5$ and had a blast with something that worked. I suppose now it’s free with the Nintendo subscription on the switch, but I was happy to pay a few bucks for the experience then. Less than I’d pay to see a movie. Plus, I still haven’t figured out any way to display cartridges, they’re just in a bin, taking up space with the hope one day I’ll figure out something to do with them. That being said, I love collecting vinyl, especially new releases because it’s a different listening experience, supports the artists I love, and something tangible that displays nicely. I’ve about hit my storage capacity with Lego though, even after purchasing a bunch of shelves and bins. Though, every so often I see something I have to buy
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OSU_Matthew posted:100% this. Last year I wanted to play Donkey Kong Country, so I dug out the SNES and game.... and poo poo wouldn’t boot up The batteries in the cartridge were probably dead. Some of them still turn on with saved info from 30 years ago, and for others you might have to get them swapped out for new ones. That's one of the best things about Lego, that no matter how long it sits it's ready to go right away and you're immediately back into it with no fuss.
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COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:The batteries in the cartridge were probably dead. Some of them still turn on with saved info from 30 years ago, and for others you might have to get them swapped out for new ones. Oh yeah, derp, I don’t know why I didn’t think of that. My brain was stuck on power supply or the cartridge connector not making good contact like the NES ones that often went bad. Much appreciated-I’ll crack open the cartridge and give that a shot!
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Waltzing Along posted:It looks pretty cool, but $200+? Eeeuurgh. For $200 you could buy a real NES with some games and get a nicer old CRT from goodwill or craigslist. It would look about the same on display but you could actually play games. Or I can play those games via emulator and not have a bunch of poo poo I don't want.
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OSU_Matthew posted:Oh yeah, derp, I don’t know why I didn’t think of that. My brain was stuck on power supply or the cartridge connector not making good contact like the NES ones that often went bad. Much appreciated-I’ll crack open the cartridge and give that a shot! There might be a local outfit that can take care of it for you. I don't know the exact type of battery, only that it's closer to a watch battery or those little silvery disc/cylinder types. Harder to find at the store than your average AAA battery for sure. I might post the space racers I made later. I just haven't had good light despite it being summer on account of living in a haunted house (I don't own a light box)
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My googling is failing me but has anyone else come across a remember a Lego fans blog where they were modding the Jurassic Park gates and detailing the progress? Thanks if you can!
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Jul 14, 2020 00:09
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Well, glad other people like the look of that set. I'd much rather a scene out of a game or something.
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Barracuda is up for back order
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Captain Duvel posted:Barracuda is up for back order Ooooooooooooo
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I know it's crazy, but I really want a second copy of that set. It's so good.
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COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:you cant get all that for $200 Waltzing along is the obnoxious old man sitting around complaining about kids these days of the thread
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Captain Invictus posted:Waltzing along is the obnoxious old man sitting around complaining about kids these days of the thread Get off my lawn
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I don’t know designer names etc but I’m fairly certain I saw a MOC exactly like that Nintendo set at bricks cascade last year. It did indeed have a rotating scene on an internal tread.
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OSU_Matthew posted:I’ve about hit my storage capacity with Lego though, even after purchasing a bunch of shelves and bins. Though, every so often I see something I have to buy 
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https://twitter.com/LEGO_Group/status/1283008429162979329?s=20
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Up on the store pages as well, Aug 1st release, 299$ Canadian, 199$ US. Oof, Figured it'd be around there
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Jul 14, 2020 13:26
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200 bucks huh, not bad, not bad.
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ok that's cool with the cartridge that can go in and the scrolling screen
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Captain Invictus posted:200 bucks huh, not bad, not bad. Yeah, I was anticipating $300 US considering the license and the target demographic being in their 30s and 40s.
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Oxyclean posted:Up on the store pages as well, Aug 1st release, 299$ Canadian, 199$ US. edit: now it's saying $230 after reloading the page. um
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Well that makes a bit more sense then a 100$ difference between regions. e: I'm glad that I wasn't the only one who saw the 199$ US price and didn't just mis-report it. 
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It was definitely $200 when I checked earlier, but it’s $230 now.
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Baron Snow posted:It was definitely $200 when I checked earlier, but it’s $230 now. $200 sounded too good to be true, $230 is manageable, $300 is too much
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Jul 14, 2020 13:55
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It seems like the initial rushed out press release has the price at $199.99 and a lot of sites have reported that. Still, $230 is £183, and the UK price is £210, so that’ll be a US purchase for me (whenever the border reopens).
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Deceptive Thinker posted:$200 sounded too good to be true, $230 is manageable, $300 is too much LEGO watches this thread and they saw we were all expecting more than $200 so they added 30 bucks.
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Wish I could go pick it up day one in a lego store instead of having to order online and wait for it to be delivered.
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Now to figure out how to replace the rotating screen with Tecmo Bowl also I would buy this in a second if I could just casually toss $200 to China for 1-2 months https://astrobricks.com/products/real-madrid-49
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Jul 14, 2020 14:42
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Can’t wait to see the “mods” people make by replacing Mario with scenes from different games in the tv. This is almost opposite to the electronic Mario sets as far as how intricate it is and how much room people have to change things up.
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COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:Can’t wait to see the “mods” people make by replacing Mario with scenes from different games in the tv. This is almost opposite to the electronic Mario sets as far as how intricate it is and how much room people have to change things up. The demo video shows it's clearly designed to allow that too. Pop off the top of the TV and the whole belt slides in as one piece? That's gonna be fun. Fell asleep last night thinking about how to do a metroid scene. Making Samus at that scale is gonna suck, but one of the hallways should be pretty easy. Hopefully some third party lego company starts making custom character tiles.
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Please do a Commander Keen mod
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It's almost like Lego knows what we like
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Day one buy for me. It’s like a heat seeking nostalgia missile.
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So there's a rumour that the Nintendo system set advertises other cartridges coming later this year with new backdrops and pixel characters. Apparently its designed so you swap that out with relative ease.
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PriorMarcus posted:So there's a rumour that the Nintendo system set advertises other cartridges coming later this year with new backdrops and pixel characters. 
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OSU_Matthew posted:I’ve about hit my storage capacity with Lego though, even after purchasing a bunch of shelves and bins. Though, every so often I see something I have to buy The fact that this knockoff company would rather spend dozens (hundreds?) of pieces building up the shape of the molded baseplates rather than actually try to replicate said baseplates is amusing but makes a lot of sense. The manufacturing process is totally different, after all.
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Is there a regular schedule for when they release new Architecture sets? I know they do them on a rotation but wasn’t sure if it was a yearly thing or what.
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PriorMarcus posted:So there's a rumour that the Nintendo system set advertises other cartridges coming later this year with new backdrops and pixel characters. Jesus christ Although Metroid and Zelda NES aren't as visually iconic as Super Mario Bros Butterfly Valley fucked around with this message at 01:08 on Jul 15, 2020 |
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Don't know if you guys could help me on this, but I had a set as a kid that came with one of those big sculpted bases with a river running between two raised section. It had like a jungle theme and one half was a temple with little traps you could play with. I think the bridge was on a hinge so it could fall into the river where there was a little alligator figure. Anyone know what this would have been? This was probably between 1998 - 2000 or so. I also had the big soccer set that was sick. I was thinking about getting a new set to build and display but nothing's caught my eye. I might spring for that NES but I really liked the play aspect of those sets I had as a kid. little moving parts and contraptions were always fun.
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