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I used it in our welding shop and all of the dust magnetized it. It only bothers me because I could have easily sold it today but oh well.

I never got any amazing deals. The price of cartridges has gone up considerably since after the years between 1995 and 2001, not including N64 games. The old systems have gone up as well. I did have a couple cool finds. The Genesis CDX was a micro Sega Genesis and Sega CD player in one. I picked this up for 30 bucks cad. I thew it away after so much use and abuse. I bought a Saturn in 1998 for 30 bucks with two controllers.

I'm 31 now,was 8 or so when my dad bought us the Adam computer with the Colecovision. I played Atari and Intellivision before this at friends and families. When Turbographx came out I got that as well as a NES. Then I started buying my own games at age 13.

When major components fail it does make me wonder about the quality, but if something like a power cord fails, which never has for me, I would find a spare I keep handy in one of my boxes of spare parts. It's a 4 dollar item depending how many feet long it is. If it comes from China it's probably under 3 feet.

I don't trust Dell products. Their parts are not interchangeable with other manufacturers and you can't overclock them. My dad owned a Dell with a socket 478 which is still running good today after I rebuilt it and cleaned it. Then he bought a Dell XPS with the micro box and the motherboard burned out on him after one month and the fan on the graphic card quit which resulted in a half-screwed card. The thing runs so hot that, after he gave it to me for Christmas I keep the side panel off. "it does make a great television recorder" I don't buy computers from stores anymore because they cost is too much and I sure don't recommend Dell to consumers. Big business's like Dell because when they break down, the technicians are there the next day to replace the defective part.

That's funny. This guy must have used a gameshark. If I used a gameshark I would have to use a code for unlimited energy tanks.

In our elementary school they gave out participation ribbons. Hey that made me feel good until I seen everyone else had one. I really performed poorly in athletics when I was young.

Between 1990 and 1991 Gamepro had a television show that came on early Saturday morning. It was hosted by J.D. Roth and Brennan Howard. They would review games with cool yet corny special effects with these guys jumping into games. My favorite part of the show was the "Cutting Edge". When NEO GEO first appeared on the market it was featured here as well as the Game Genie. They would have readers send in their questions via recording along with high scores. This show was funny when Brennan was co-hosting and it was sad to see this show disappear. At one time I had almost all of the shows on VHS but now I have downloaded what I can from Youtube. You can check it out for yourself. Youtube Gamepro Television

Mothers. Mom says to her son Jake, "Okay Jake because you have been such a good boy, I will buy you your favorite game". With much enthusiasm and careful studying behind the glass cabinets Jake proclaims, "I have found the game I want. After hailing a Wal Mart employee mom uses her credit card to make the purchase. Jake can hardly wait to get home so he can be the first one on his block to play this new game that he decides to get a head start and read the instructions on the ride home. If it were not for the hardcore gamers and the fans that pay retail prices for games, the market would shrink. As for Joysticks and gamepads versus the keyboard, there is a large selection of games I would rather use a keyboard and mouse. Obviously PC games like Sim City and First Person Shooters require the use of a keyboard and mouse but it is so much better to play Diablo with a keyboard and mouse. You need to program your number keys for selecting magics and items on the run or die unnecessarily. 4 bit and all the way up to first generation Playstation games can be played easily with a keyboard and with a little dexterity and practice you can perform Ryu's fireball as easily as if you had a control pad, although in that case I would still prefer a joystick or a game pad. Atari, NES, Genesis, Turbographx 16 were made for the keyboard in my opinion.

If it wasn't for tapes we would not have most of the movies that are on the shelves right now. Some of my favorite movies were only available in limited quantities on VHS. DVD's take up alot less space but shelling out between 5 and 25 dollars a second time is sick for me. The blu-ray costs too much for me right now. Especially when I can barely notice a difference in resolution. In fact I haven't purchased a movie in 6 years. I have a terabyte hard drive filled with movies and television series I have either recorded off a high-def satellite, downloaded from the internet or worse case scenario, rent from Blockbuster and later encoded to Nero digital.

As long as Sega is owned by Sammy, they will not be releasing another home system. The youtube video of that computer with the dual DVI monitor outputs means nothing.

You know that feeling of stress you get when your talking to someone you owe alot of money to? I get the same feeling when I play games like Resident Evil. I don't think that's healthy nor do I feel comfortable but I played through Illbleed on Dreamcast when it was released. It had a different kind of play system.