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  1. My dad bought the children a Coleco Adam in 1984 or so.  I remember the noise of the impact printer resonating through the house.  It took 1 minute a page to print.  It also had a tape drive and the Colecovision could plug in and expand the graphics capability.

     

    Pretty much a paper weight.

    I remember seeing those as a kid in a store called Caldor in NJ. My buddy had a C64 but I could never figure out how that cassette tape drive worked. At least I think it used a cassette. I only saw his computer once during our friendship. Otherwise we played Atari 2600.

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  2. Always had consoles as a kid and never had a computer until i was 22  years old in 1995.

     

    Apple Performa 6200CD

     

    75 MHz PowerPC 603 processor, 8 MB of RAM, a 1.0 GB hard drive and a 4X CD-ROM drive in a compact desktop case. This model also shipped with a 15" Apple color monitor and an external 14.4k modem.

     

    I think it cost about $1200 back then at Sears. Oh the memories. Then moved to PC in about 1998 I believe.

     

    Having a computer also meant finally getting on that thing called "the internet"..lol. Bored one day I wondered if there was any naughty things on the internet to see. Typed in free xxx pics and it was downhill from there lol. The days of waiting for interlaced JPEG photos to load from top to bottom and 30 second videos taking 10 minutes to download and a resolution of 320x240 or whatever it was.

  3. Cleaning out a closet I came across one of my old CD cases. So many demo discs from my PC Gamer sub back in the day. So weird to see demos that actually fit on a CD rom lol

     

    For some reason I also thought of a couple top down shooters I downloaded I think back in 2000-2001 that were so cool for that time. They used the modern tech then for a 3D look to game play. They were Star Monkey and Ultra Assault. Re-installed them and brought back memories playing them about 15 years later.

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  4. I don't know about babies, but to me, this track is less "hush now baby, go to sleep" than it is "OMIGOD OMIGOD BABY! RUNNNN!!! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!! THEY'RE COMING FOR YOUUUUU!!!!"  Well, maybe that's just the first 10 seconds, but it's still a bit hyper for a baby song if you ask me.  Maybe if there were more than one baby in the crib they could slam dance until they tire themselves out.

    lol, yes you're right. But those Ecco tunes are perfect.

  5. I have seven Everdrives, and though most of them have some disadvantages/flaws, they're great and I highly recommend them. I also have a flash cartridge for my 2600, a Rhea for my Sega Saturn, and a PSIO for my Playstation. Feel free to send me a message if you have any questions.

    Great, a Rhea...another thing to looks up now and want lol.

     

    I have a release day Saturn..do I still need to open up or is it known what a release day US saturn would use?

     

    and what a horrible word...Rhea...reminds me of something else...

  6. I own a couple and plan on picking up a few more eventually.  They're not perfect - or cheap - but the pros more than outweigh any cons.

     

    I know most Everdrive owners probably use them to avoid having to buy original carts but I've found I use mine more like a retro rental store.  I actually spend more on retro games now as it helps me focus on titles I want to add to my collection.

    what do you find not perfect about them? I assume they run the roms better than an emulator?

  7. Holy crap I want some of them now! I have old consoles that I wanted to use again but then though about the cost of buying all the darn carts...so I stuck to emulation. On youtube searching something about Sega I saw a video about something called a Mega Everdrive. I want this lol. I'd love to find a 19" CRT TV just to use for retro gaming. I could always pull out my old 22" 4:3 LCD monitor though too in the mean while.

     

    Anyone else use these? Are they indeed as awesome as they seem?

  8. My first MP3 player was a Creative Zen Nano Plus 1GB I paid approx. $50 (Fl. 100) for it.

    I still use it for Christmas every year. I hook it up to the speakers.

     

    I like the rectangular watch face of the Gear S better as well but since I got the Gear S2 for free I'm not complaining.

    i just can't part with old devices/consoles along with their boxes. Have my launch day Genesis, Saturn and Dreamcast boxes up in my attic. 

     

    Yeah, you can't beat free lol. Got my bro the S2 for xmas but after he saw my watch he said he'd rather have mine. Saved me $100 lol.

  9. I used a Walkman way after the Discman was released. I used the Walkman everywhere I went. I experienced the quality going up. I didn't see the point of a Discman. I found CD's too valuable to take along with me everywhere and didn't want them scratched up. Not to mention the fact that you needed an expensive Discman with some form of memory to prevent CD skipping in case of a bumpy ride and living in a village there were lots of bumpy roads.

    I did eventually own one for about a year after I bought a CD burner for the PC. As memory recalls that set me back $700 in the year 2000 O_o

    I didn't mind taking copies of the expensive CD's with me on the road. I retired the Discman a year later in favor of a MP3 Player. It was glorious to have a few hundred of my songs ripped from CD in 128kpbs on a 1GB MP3 Player. I started buying older used CD's to expand my collection fast. I especially bought a lot of greatest hits of the decade '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s.

    Smart watches are a new thing too now. I just a Samsung Gear S2 for free with the Samsung galaxy S7 Verizon offer.

    Pretty awesome, I feel it's like Knight Rider :Yahooo:

    Oh the early days of peripheral prices. I remember buying a Plextor CD burner for i think 200.00 in the early 2000's...and a 50pk spindle of CDR wasn't cheap. After getting tired of making MP3 discs for the MP3 disc player I finally bought a full fledged MP3 player. an iRiver H320...had a massive 20GB hard drive. I think I paid 250 for it from Best Buy in 2005. I still have it and it looks ancient today but it was a great player. Still works and its cool to see what music I had loaded on it still from years ago.

    I sport the Gear S...i like the bigger rectangular face better. I'm hoping they go back to a rectangular face for the Gear S3...watch doesn't have to be round.

  10. Interesting point you make here. What significant technology has come about in the last 10 years? Figure kids born after 2000, what are they going to experience on the tech front? The rise of touch screens replacing the far more useful, if not as stylish, buttons? :P

    I think a more fine point to make would be "home" VR, as VR tech isn't exactly new, even if it has reached a nice crossroads of affordable and refined.

    kids after 2000...yeah, i guess the smartphone like iPhone that changed everything. MP3 players we just getting big in the 2000's...i remeber being excited to get a CD player that played MP3 burned on disc. That was huge lol. Kids after 2000 don't know about the REALLY crappy graphics we had to deal with when we played Atari 2600 or Intellivision lol.

    Yeah, VR has been around but its only becoming more mainstream now with Oculus, GearVR and Vive

  11. i too mourn the loss of video stores.

    the last one closed down a couple years ago in town, and sadly it doesn't seem to be a market that will be revived anytime soon. Redbox sure doesn't cut it for finding obscure '80s slasher movies. i could always count on the local Family Video for that selection of off-the-wall flicks i'd never heard of.

    same here...the last video/dvd store in the whole area finally closed its doors a few months ago here. How they lasted this long I have no idea. Fond memories of Blockbuster visits too back in the day. Weird how there's stuff kids today will never experience like we did. Was cool to see the birth of the internet, mp3 "sharing", HDTV, CDs, smartphones. Kids today at least get to see the birth of VR along with us.

  12. There were three Unico movies, IIRC.

    My VHS collection is the stuff of legends. I used to have most of my eighties and nineties cartoons and commercials up on Livestream, but I took it all down when other channels started getting snuffed. Windows 7 hates my pre-DMCA capture card, and my new card gnaws nards at even displaying anything with SuperVision encoding. Maybe some day I'll build another XP system for ripping tapes.

    I still have all episodes of Miami Vice on VHS lol. I recorded them all when they USA Network started airing reruns in 1988. Paused during commercials. I did this all on the main TV so i made my family's life hell having to record everyday till I had them all lol. I fit about 7 eps per VHS tape. Kinda wish I kept the commercials thought...woudl be cool to see them. I have a thing for commercials, ads, gaming and all that from the 80s and 90s.

  13. For those of us perhaps on the younger side of the spectrum, what is that? Kinda reminds me of the Intellivision my grandparents had when I was a kid.

    you must be a youngster if you don't remember that! Back in the early 80's when I was around 7-10 years old that was the box from the cable company to change channels. You can see 3 rows of numbers. You moved the slider on the side to the row you wanted and pressed the button below to go to the channel you wanted. Back then, pay channels you didn't subscribe to were scrambled on the screen...you could hear it and kinda make out what's on the screen but it was a scrambly mess. But if you used some tin foil and a wire hanger you'd be able to get the picture unscrambled.

    Scrambled channels looked like this:

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