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[daizee]

my beloved Coleco Vision. That thing was the bomb before atari

the bomb indeed - we used to play WarGames on it (ok, ok, and Ladybug).

 

[ThePointyEnd]

I loved carnival, and this one side-scroller where you fly an airplane (can't remember the name) but it was sweet.

 

[daizee]

Zaxxon....

 

[The Warrior]

Oh wow. I'd forgotten those. My cousin had one.

Dude, that thing reminds me of my beloved Coleco Vision. That thing was the bomb before atari and nintendo came to town.

I think I have/had like 35 games for it. Baseball was always my favorite, and the hardest to master. Every button on the controller was utilized. I believe even back then, the games were around $40 each.

 

[Battle Creek Knives]

I've always wanted a full size arcade game kicking it at the house, had a neighbor once when I was around 18 (seems like yesterday, but was about 100yrs ago) anyhow, he owned an arcade and had a garage full of 'em.. can you say FREE PLAY...

there's a game here at the local movie theater that has like 8 games on it, I'd love to have that...... hmm, maybe, just maybe..

 

[Silverthorn]

My mom worked for Coleco

I had a Colecovision, an Adam computer, and cabbage patch kids even though I didnt want the cabbage patch kids ..lol
I was actually a play tester for all the games, in their arcade room, and I had toys that they never released and toys like the Insectoids which came out around He-Mans era before they were released.

IT WAS AWESOME

 

[paperairplane]

I had an ADAM - Buck Rogers on tape drive was sweet. My favorite of that vintage is River Raid, top scroller.

 

[Battle Creek Knives]

Fitted the handles on this monster tonight...
1/4" 5160 FFG
16 3/4" OAL
11" cutting edge

have to finish grinding the swedge to his preference and its heat treat time...
Beckerheads love becker handles, and he wanted it no other way

 

[tradewater]

Fitted the handles on this monster tonight...
1/4" 5160 FFG
16 3/4" OAL
11" cutting edge

have to finish grinding the swedge to his preference and its heat treat time...
Beckerheads love becker handles, and he wanted it no other way

damn.

 

[whereismyclock]

Are you still thinking of making those build kits? I was thinking about those yesterday.

 

[Battle Creek Knives]

Are you still thinking of making those build kits? I was thinking about those yesterday.

yeah, I've just been swamped at work with deadlines, (working the weekend also) and have some builds to go out so they take precedence..

I have kits together, problem is every knife I have ground out is already heat treated and ready for scales.. when I complete my orders I will ground out some designs and throw something together..

 

[whereismyclock]

yeah, I've just been swamped at work with deadlines, (working the weekend also) and have some builds to go out so they take precedence..

I have kits together, problem is every knife I have ground out is already heat treated and ready for scales.. when I complete my orders I will ground out some designs and throw something together..

Take your time with life stuff.
I'm just one lowly clock excited for a small project knife.

 

[Flexxx]

Awesome dog trick..

[video=youtube_share;6Cn04iqT15o]http://youtu.be/6Cn04iqT15o[/video]

 

[Bladite]

I was thinking of selling my whole C-64 set-up.
It's lived at my mother's house for decades. Literally decades.
I thought I had the boxes still stored there too. Turns out my mom threw them away.
Aaaaaarrrrrrgggggghhh!!!!

parents suck.

sometimes i feel i was one of the youngest people in my then fiefdom to get a storage locker. not only to keep things from my thieving brother but my lame parents.

i told them if they throw anything out of MINE without telling me, i throw out their stuff. that MOSTLY stopped them.

then i heard amazingly spastic stories from friends of parents gutting entire rooms of stuff belong to their kids worth $$$ to $$$$ to $$$$$++. several of those people are still not talking to their parents after 10-15 years. "mom, you threw out a comic book collection worth more than this house, you s*ck, good bye"

gah

 

[Bladite]

Awesome dog trick..

[video=youtube_share;6Cn04iqT15o]http://youtu.be/6Cn04iqT15o[/video]

some people should not be allowed to have dogs

and some people should not be allowed to post links

 

[Bladite]

Zaxxon....

ah, i was just about to post that one

also: xevious was a big thing for me. there are many many many others. countless hours spent. productively

we had to BEG as children, like, for months, to get an Atari 2600. $250.00 in monies. that was a LOT back then. i still have that system, with maybe 40-50 games. a few years ago, i trash picked a second system with some games, but i think i had them all. activision was the BOMB for game companies.

i have now, for almost all current systems/consoles, emulators for almost all that old atari stuff. rock. have some of the other older consoles, but a lot of those just don't run QUITE right.

we never did get the commodores, or intellivisions. i remember playing the original production pong in Sears once. later the intellivision came out, but i couldn't figure that one out and never liked it.

many other systems came and went, esp portables. could never afford those until i was an adult. the atari was KING in our house. was esp good at tank

mmm.

after college, i got a PS1. amazing system. still have it, and all the games. need to get a PS-SLIM at some point and archive it to make sure i can play the extensive library of PS1 discs i have.
PS2. got one. sweet. got LOTS of games for that. probably more than the PS2. good lord. loved that system even more, plus i could play allllll my PS1 games seamlessly. i REALLY stinks that sony took the ability away to play those games on the PS3. some of those games were AMAZING.

PS3. well, fall down time. not able to play older games (okay, it can manage a bunch of PS1 games oddly, badly, but most people don't know that, or have them anymore)... cannot do PS2 at all. lame. the set of games that are GOOD for the PS3 that you can't play elsewhere is VERY small. but it's a good blu-ray player and ideal for Netflix cough.

PSP - got the original, and it's great. optical media. the later version with downloads? suck. have TONS of games. need to pull that out. good system, great games. the newest system i hear about doesn't have external media, more downloads? might be awesome, but might skip. decades has shown me that if i don't have carts or discs, it won't last.

nintendos... managed to completely ignore these until the Gamecube. even gameboys. never managed to get around to it. perhaps i thought they were too lame? later of course, i have a few gameboys, and even a DS. not interested in the latest ones though.

the WII is exceptional, and i hardly tough it... except in groups and parties. BLOCK smash or something, is really good, but it's also easily forgettable for some reason.

dreamcast! sweet! for $50-75 during their downfall, it was a good, if shortlived system. a few notable games.

sega! oh yeah. SAIGA! the original, up. never got into the later models.

XBOX. managed to skip that one.

XBOX 360. the king. so many good games.

advertainment: http://www.watchmojo.com/index.php?id=9694 - video games as entertainment, advertising, and more... remember the spot video games? sweet. i have all the burger king xbox games. oh my. some of the best games game in cereal boxes

i esp like twitchy games, like geometry wars, and certain, games with control systems like that, from robotron to super smash tv, and beyond. lurve them.

quirky games. sony had some of the best ever games in terms of innovative and quirky and good, but nintendo made really PLAYABLE games.

smart phones and pads have really taking gaming to some cool places. i LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE tower defense games, and ipad has a lot. board games and touch screens? win. the ancient game of Go? cool! major popularity upgrade there. lots of resources.

and that's all i have time for. i could babble for days on this topic. i'm sure i've left too much out. now i'll have to ponder my old systems...

some friends gave me a pile of their old systems. someday, if i have the space (i doubt it these days), i'd like to have a room with monitors for my old systems. like a museum or something.

 

[daizee]

Wow, um, you should see someone about that.

 

[Bladite]

http://gunshowcomic.com/464

just sayin'

 

[jarodmichael]

If there is anyone in the southern Alabama/Western Georgia/Northern Florida area, the Westborough Baptist Church is coming to picket the funeral of fallen Marine Lance Cpl. Jason Barfield. I am going to help surround the cemetery to allow the family to bury their Hero in peace. If any of you guys are in the area, the funeral is Saturday, Nov 5. in Ashford, Alabama. PM me for more info.

 

[Guyon]

It took nearly 12 years and 5 computers, but I finally hit 34K. At last I can stop posting! :thumbup: