Was lucky enough to have a sit-down cabinet version of Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator (Sega, 1983) at a local arcade. Very comfortable with the controls built into the chair. Along with having set all the games to free play, the operator had the volume cranked on this one so Nimoy’s voice would resonate inside!
Gift-wrapped with a card and all, decades ago to my former significant other. That it was so long ago, and that I don’t remember what the present was would seem to speak volumes against the significance. Damn my cold heart!
Last time I felt like giving somebody a gift was three years ago. Burned a DVD of Spicediver’s fan edit of Dune (1984) and sent it to an old friend in a case with a printed color slipcover. With the first part of Villeneuve’s adaptation set to debut I wanted my friend to see this great version of a flawed film we enjoyed together in our youth.
Few months ago I gave a few Famicom game cartridges to a former co-worker because his wife collects Hello Kitty stuff. Not really being generous; was happy to get rid of them as those characters kind of give me the creeps.
Thought it was odd to call this a sequel to an “NES classic” considering Shadowgate originated on the Macintosh, but judging by the screenshots in the article it seems the authors indeed decided to implement an interface very similar to the one Kemco developed for their NES port. Interesting choice! Having played the Mac-like Amiga port and the NES port I do prefer the controls of the latter as they better suit the use of a keyboard or gamepad.
The music in the NES port is very memorable to me as well. If Beyond Shadowgate will feature sound, I would hope that cues are taken from the sound of the NES and the prior composer’s work.
Developed by The Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium.
Hey, good luck! I keep mine silenced and out of sight and just use the wifi hotspot for internet, VOIP etc. Didn’t know dumb phones could do that, else that’s what I’d have!
Much longer list at Lamest edit wars, including the one I was looking for: Genesis vs. Mega Drive.
Bus ride meant I missed a good hour of the 'toons. But every Wednesday evening there was a test of the local fire station’s air siren, and I’d know it was time to rush home and catch MacGyver!
First time a political ad got me to laugh (in a good way):
Harris (…) got [transnational gang members] sentenced to prison.
Trump is trying to avoid being sentenced to prison.
Over my head body.
Cthulhu, is that you?
Thanks for the recommendation! Happy to learn that story arc continues.
Huh, I would have figured Wesley Crusher would feature in this. He was becoming pretty Time Lord-y by “Journey’s End”.
0 for i=1to520: r=rnd(1): printchr$(r+109.5);:
next i: c=r*16: poke53281,c: poke53280,c:
poke646,c*9: goto
Damn, and that’s for each tape. Total for both tapes including shipping adjusted for inflation:
$ calc '((39.95*2)+4.50)*(315/143)' | xargs printf "%.2f\n"
185.92
For the laserdisc release:
$ calc '(64.95+5.00)*(315/143)' | xargs printf "%.2f\n"
154.09
I imported this game when it first came out and it’s been one of my favorites. Very interesting to think about how the strengths of the Genesis vs. the PC Engine could be used. So far it looks like it’s aimed at graphical fidelity. The PCE had a wider color palette from which to select and could display more colors simultaneously, but I don’t think Rondo really pushed those capabilities. Konami did some really nice parallax routines in this game for the single background graphics layer on the PCE. Those effects are much more common on the Genesis with its multiple hardware layers. Curious as to how the “extra power” could be used if werton opts to explore that. The FM cover tune sounds great, looking forward to hearing more!
What blew me away in the video was the costume change. Was that in the original all this time? I know what I’m playing today!
Brave friend of mine went into Forest Conservation and Firefighting, got calf muscles big as cantaloupes!
Fun, spooky, action-oriented*, skeletons, bats: Temple of Apshai from 1983 on the Commodore 64. About two minutes fifteen seconds into the video you’ll see and hear its unique spooky atmosphere.
*for a role-playing game of this vintage, anyway.
With you one hundred percent – Devil’s Crush features one of the best and longest tunes on the Turbografx-16!
Not closely at all; blissfully ignorant here in the peanut gallery :) Just read up a bit:
CrowdStrike says users should boot the computer into Safe Mode or Windows Recovery Environment, navigate to the CrowdStrike directory, and delete the faulty file “C-00000291*.sys.”
I read “users” as “IT support”, and “the computer” as “every affected computer in your organization”. I don’t envy those poor folks in IT. Well I often do actually, but not today!
Agree with the other respondent; that Goodwill store is the best one I’ve ever been to! Hopefully you also got an A520 modulator with the computer, else you might be limited to the black-and-white composite video signal out the computer’s RCA jack. Tough/expensive to find a display compatible with the 15KHz RGB signal out the 23-pin connector.