Justin

And Will Riker & Troi the Betazoid were clearly a reimagining of Will Decker & Ilia the Deltan

Data was Spock if Spock tried to be human instead of Vulcan.

I just read a fascinating set of books about Star Trek (The Fifty Year Mission / Marc Altman) with all kinds of juicy gossip and behind-the-scenes info.  Examples:  Bob Justman came up with and pushed for Patrick Stewart as Jean Luc Picard.  Gene Roddenberry HATED the idea but eventually gave in due to not finding his ideal.  He figured that Will Riker would take on that action/Kirk role, which is something you see a lot of in season 1. 

Anyway, I highly recommend those two books.  I checked them out at the library.

Happy birthday! 생일 축하해요!

Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday! All the restaurant staff will now come out and sing you a non-copyrighted birthday song.

I think I get more rage at Atari games than I do modern games.  A lot of it has to do with the fact I've played these games before...I've played them for years...yet I still have trouble spots that I should know better by now.  Nope.  SPLAT!!  Game over.  That is what makes Atari so much fun to play and own.  It's also what will keep it going for many generations after us.

When Pac-Man on the Atari 8-bit computers came out, it was really something special.  A game that you could proudly show off to your friends. 

I think Colecovision Donkey Kong was also pretty special. 

And to think....I never even knew the 7800 EXISTED until the early 2000's!  What a shame. 

PS - I also think that "Raiders of the Lost Ark" is a far bigger stinker (but still had fun with it),  

IIRC, there was a guide for Raiders of the Lost Ark in one of the classic video game magazines. That made it MUCH easier to play and complete, which likely led to its popularity at the time.

Yes, very tragic, and shows that live can be short and we are not promised tomorrow.

👉 ALSO: I feel like if there had been a warehouse full of unsold 5200 games left over when Jack Tramiel got the company, the XEGS would've featured 5200 compatibility. 

That would have been cool I think, always liked the wacky look of the XEGS, never did end up with one but I have a pretty nice 5200 collection. 

@MaximumRD I basically see two different tracks of Atari technology (up until Lynx). On one side you had the 2600 with all its games and peripherals which begat the 7800. On the other track was the 400/800 computer which spawned the Atari 5200, and later the Atari XE. It would have been nice for the XE to be the all-in-one 7800 Computer Keyboard fully compatible with the library of Atari 8-Bit Computer games and accessories. Instead they gave us an entirely new system to compete for shelf space against the 2600 and 7800, not to mention NES and Sega.

I've had so much fun with Cybermorph!  Now that I have real hardware, it's been a blast.  That moment I figured out it's more of an exploration game is the moment I really appreciated how great the game is.  I'll try to give it one more run this afternoon after work.

And F-Zero is a blast!  I can already hear the theme music in my mind.  Looking forward to this.

It's so great to hear that @RickR! Contrary to the popular perception that's out there, the Jaguar has a few gems! Cybermorph is a misunderstood game in some ways. People like to compare both Cybermorph and Trevor McFur to Star Fox because of the polygon ships and the cat theming, but it's not a good comparison. Cybermorph was the first 3-D exploration game I ever experienced, and it just blew me away. My whole family enjoyed it. I saw it as 3-D Pac-Man with the yellow diamond shaped pods as the Pac-Man pellets. 

Looking forward to seeing you in Mute City tomorrow!

Woo!

The one on the left: Check out my new smartwatch!  It plays games, too!  LOL.  Only in a time when bigger was suppose to mean better.  To their defense, the bigger units seem to outlast modern electronics these days.

📲 @SabertoothRetro on Instagram too 

@Justin - thanks for spreading the word!

I hope all turns out ok for you with Dorian, Justin.  Looks pretty horrendous.  The storm is heading north now. 

 

Maybe V'Ger created Nomad too.

Ilia was assimilated in a sense, although she no longer "continued to function as a carbon unit" and was replaced entirely by a mechanical being. You can see the root of the idea. V'ger assimilated everything in its path.

Yeah, but somewhere between Ilia and The Borg, their cable management got really bad.

 

or be ⬛

I don’t think I’ll be able to play any more, sadly. It’s been pretty hectic here.

Hmmmm... I seem to remember you posting this in, like, August.

Hmmmmm

Indeed. Enjoying every minute of it, too. :O)

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