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Classic Video Games / Re: Were Early PC Games Fun To Play( Back IN) the 1990's Or A Complete Pain?

« on: April 17, 2017, 02:19:35 am »

I also remember having a 1992 machitosh. I believe it had OS7, but I could be wrong. I played a lot of Chess Master 2000 on there. It also had backwards compatibility with Apple 2 software, on which I played the original Oregon Trail. I always had a hard time as a kid trying to figure out how to get it into that mode. I would just keep popping the diskette in and out until it booted the software. Retrospectively I'm not certain what I was doing wrong as that very machine works fine today.

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Video Game Auction Watch / Re: EBAY deals! presented by bad@chaos

« on: April 16, 2017, 08:51:41 pm »

Sonic Adventure 2, 10th Birthday
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sega-Dreamcast-SONIC-ADVENTURE-2-10th-Birthday-Pack-Japan-0413A12-/391755486278


I never heard of this 10th Anniversary item before. I thought it was kind of interesting. Bidding starts at 30 USD.

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Hardware and Tech / Re: A little Help Here ...

« on: April 16, 2017, 01:45:55 pm »

Damn. It looks like some Jawas got a hold of those.

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Classic Video Games / Re: Were Early PC Games Fun To Play( Back IN) the 1990's Or A Complete Pain?

« on: April 10, 2017, 01:11:58 pm »

Granted I was still fairly young in the 90s, but my experiences were pretty good for the most part. I remember a couple of times where I picked up a game and it simply wouldn't work because the game required a sound card to play. Today this isn't an issue at all, as pretty much all motherboards have some kind of sound chipset on-board. There was another instance where my computer just simply didn't meet the minimum requirements to play so it wouldn't launch. That kind of thing still happens today, but at the time when I was like... ten, I didn't understand what was going on fully so I was kind of bummed.

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General / Re: Has a game ever gotten an AO rating?

« on: April 09, 2017, 05:02:23 pm »

Big retailers and console platforms froun on AO because most aim to be family friendly. Most AO games are on PC because there's basically no real regulatory​ governance for that platform. It's kind of funny, because if you made game with that kind of content you might as well not get rated at all. You would only be waisting money.

Here's an example of an AO game on Steam:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/341940/
From what I heard, it's not absolute garbage.

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Classic Video Games / Re: How Many Play Atari 2600 Games In Any Way

« on: April 05, 2017, 10:27:03 am »

I like a lot of 2600 games. I'd probably play mine more often if I had a controller that worked more reliably.

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Hardware and Tech / Re: Is The N64 Expansion Chip worth it? lets have a conversation

« on: April 04, 2017, 09:55:31 pm »

In StarCraft 64 it allows you to play the Brood Wars levels (basically the 2nd half of the game). It also allows you to play 2 player split screen.

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Wii U Pro Controller Help!

« on: April 02, 2017, 07:10:01 pm »

Ahh crap. I'd tell you, but I threw my box out a few months ago.

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Classic Video Games / Re: What game console has the best name? Which do you think is the worst?

« on: April 01, 2017, 11:20:55 am »

I'm not really a Sega fan but I do like their system names. Dreamcast is probably my favorite.
There's plenty of bad or questionable names. Mega Duck, FM Towns Marty

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General / Re: If you won powerball, what would be the first game related item you would buy?

« on: March 31, 2017, 04:17:02 pm »

I would make a game

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Hardware and Tech / Re: An Overlooked Problem when it comes to CDs and DVD Games

« on: March 24, 2017, 01:35:21 pm »

I despise the term rot in the context of technology. Data rot, disk rot. Simply put; inorganic materials do not rot. Things can corrode, erode, demagnetize, burn-out, short-out, or otherwise break; but they do not rot.

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Classic Video Games / Re: What legacy do you think gaming will have by 2050?

« on: March 23, 2017, 01:09:02 pm »

If humans are still around in 2050, that is.

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Displaying Price?

« on: March 18, 2017, 10:12:08 pm »

It's currently a not possible to view otherwise. -Kind of a bummer.

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Site Feedback / Re: strategy guide option

« on: March 18, 2017, 04:44:17 pm »

There is already a Guide section.
https://vgcollect.com/browse/strategyguide

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Apple - Bandai Pippin

« on: March 16, 2017, 01:16:31 pm »

For now put the games under the Other category.

For the naming convention use:
Apple Bandai Pippin - game name

For example:
Apple Bandai Pippin - Super Marathon

I think the you can do the same thing with the accessories too. There used to be a generic "Accessories" category but I think it's been removed or changed.