Cousin Mike
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*****Strong Language*****Do you have a half hour to kill and feel the need to listen to a filthy mouth kat from Boston talk about his life in gaming? Then this is the video for you!!
Happy New Year everyone, here's to a fantastic 2017!!!!
hey man it was great to watch youre video, i found it very informative and entertaining. you make really good points in youre videos, you seem like a good guy and really sincere about youre love for retro games. you did a very good thing for Justin and the site
thanks man for youre comment on my keyboard post earlyer, that was cool, hope you have a blessed day or night, talk to you soon.
- Doctor Octagon, Yo-Yo, Lost Dragon and 2 others
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Xbox 360 250 GB Hard Drive pre-loaded w/ 48 Xbox 360 Games For Trade
I'm looking to trade my 250 GB Xbox 360 Hard drive. It comes pre-loaded with the following 48 Xbox 360 games:
Aliens: Colonial Marines
Burn Out Paradise
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
Crackdown
Dead Island: Riptide
Dead Rising 2: Case Zero
Destiny
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Dirt 3
Dirt: Showdown
The Original Doom Remastered
Dungeon Seige 3
Farcry 3: Blood Dragon
Forza Horizon
Forza Horizon 2: Fast and Furious
Gears of War 2
Grand Theft Auto 5
Grid 2
Injustice
Joy Ride Turbo
Metro: Last Light
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zero
Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition
Mirror’s Edge
Mini Golf Adventures
Monkey Island SE
MX vs. ATV Reflex
Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
Operation Flashpoint
Outland
Perfect Dark Xbox 360 Edition
Rainbow 6: Vegas 2
Real Steel
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
Sacred 3
Sacred: Citadel
Saints Row 4
Tails From The Borderlands
Tekken Tag Tournament 2
Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
TRON: Evolution
Xbox 360 Voice Changer
Wipeout: Create and Crash
World of Tanks
Worms: Revolution
Xcom: Enemy Unknown
Xenominer
Looking to trade for items on Cousin Mike’s Want List, particularly an Electronic Keyboard (any brand) which is what I really want most. I'm posting pictures of the Xbox 360 hard drive and games below for you to see. Check out my Want List or PM me for details.
Thanks for looking!
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Cousin Mike’s Want List
Electronic Keyboard (Any brand)
Whatever electronic keyboard you think would be a fair trade for the games I have available. The electronic keyboard is what I want most on my list even though it’s not a video game. Preferably with Weighted Keys, 100 Voices 100 Beats 100 Pre-Loaded Songs
USB Video Game Controller
To play emulated games on my computer. Needs to be Windows 7 compatible.
PlayStation 1 System & Games
Miscellaneous games, doesn’t have to be any specific games, just some games to play
PlayStation 2 System & Games
Miscellaneous games, doesn’t have to be any specific games, just some games to play
Here is a link to my Cousin Mike's Trading Post page with stuff I have up for trade. Right now I have a Xbox 360 250 GB Hard Drive pre-loaded w/ 48 Xbox 360 Games For Trade for the Electronic Keyboard which is what I want most on my list right now. Check out my items for trade or PM me for details.
Thanks for looking!
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Double Dragon 2
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Difficulty: 1P Mode
High Score: 383,700
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Blazing Lazers
TurboGrafx-16
Difficulty: Default
High Score: 237,860
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Not trying to give a "SOB" story but I've never been blessed with kids of my own. As much as I would have liked to have them so I can share the things, including video games, that I enjoyed when I was a kid I pretty much accepted the fact that it was not meant for me to have them for whatever reason. But...my wife and I have had friends with kids. One of them asked if the controller in the floor was an Atari controller. The controller in question was the iconic 2600 joystick. And then to have this 7 year old having a blast with the same machine I grew up and had a blast with ... yea, it made me wish I a kid of my own even more.
I was shocked to hear her say those things because it is something I would not have expected. I mean, kids today have tablets and phones they can play games on simply by touching a screen, game consoles that have graphic abilities far beyond what I would have imagined when I was anticipating the next Atari game release. This now 34 (?) year old machine, older than her by far (Luke...I am your father!), primitive compared to more modern game consoles, tablets, and cellphones, just captured and held a 7 year old in an entertainment world that she didn't want to put down. The only reason she put it down was because they had to go home.
It's possible they may be back again today...the kids I mean. I'm curious to see if she will want to play the Atari again. So...I may have sequel on my hands. I showed her all the games I have and she kept eyeing the Atari games. I'm curious how she would take to the 7800? Then again I don't want to be the cause of her hands being deformed later on. Maybe we'll stick with the 2600 and 5200 systems. Maybe some Atari 800XL games, too.
i remember my first atari 2600 system, the first game that i played was Enduro. (i think that is how it is spelled) Man!!! i played that game for hours and each time that i played it, i fell in love with it more and more. we accept the reality that we are brought into as kids, if its the xbox 360 or the xbox one we start out on, then we accept that and it seems normal to us at that age, but if it is the 2600 and that is all of video games that we know, we accept that as being the coolist thing out there. its all about the perspective that we have as kids.
you see, back then, when i was about ten years old, i knew that the 2600 brought me into a different world and that i was free to move about that other world as i wished, and that the decisions i made there affected the outcome of what happened in that world. In a lot of ways I had more control in the video game world than i had in the real world.
Its the same for kids today as it was back then, whether its moving a giant robot around on xbox 360 or moving pac-man around on the 2600, the result is still the same: having full control in a brand new world, that is why she loved playing the 5200 so much. Those games are still as fascinating to these kids as they were to us, just as long as they are the first examples of video games they see.
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Welcome Cousin Mike!
Is it okay that I pronounce your name with a Balki Bartokomous accent?
yes, you can do that if you like, as long as i can hit you with a pillow when you do!!!
- The Professor, Justin, RickR and 1 other
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i would like to thank all of you guys and girls for saying the things that you said it means alot and makes me feel very welcome on the site, looking forward to talking to all of you in the next few days, Marry Christmas every one.
- RickR, Justin, Lost Dragon and 3 others
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thats an awesome story. see, this is what retro games are all about!
- Keatah, Justin, Atari 5200 Guy and 2 others
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Thank you guys for the very warm welcome! After those responses I am sure I will feel right at home here. Have a wonderful night everybody and I will be back to post more tomorrow.
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welcome to the forums teddy!
- jmjustin6, Justin and Lost Dragon
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Hello everybody,
I'm new in the forums and wanted to introduce myself to everybody here! My name is Mike, I'm 41 years old and I live in Wilmington, North Carolina. I'm originally from Red Bank, New Jersey and have lived a lot of places like Florida, South Carolina, New Mexico, Texas and New York City. A lot of people like to call me Cousin Mike, or "Space Invader." I've been visiting this site and reading the forums for a while now but just recently signed up. When I come to the forums I enjoy watching YouTube videos from BTBfilms76, nosweargsmer and others.
I'm a hard core video game player and I love video games of ALL kinds. I'm really into emulating retro games. I had a modded Sony PSP with emulators, and now I play retro games on my smart phone modded with emulators that play classic systems. On the first of January I'm getting a new Emerson Android tablet to play retro games with emulation.
I also play a lot of modern gaming, especially Xbox 360. Some of my favorite Xbox games are Forza Horizon, Dirt 3, and Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit. If you'd like to play with me, my Xbox Live handle is "space invadar". I love getting on Xbox at night and playing with my friends. Their names on there are "JMK" and "FormerWeaponX".
Lately I love to play retro video games. They don't have all the violence and download time, and emulation is free. My first video game system was the Atari 2600 Jr. My dad brought it home for me one day, along with Space Invaders, Asteroids, Ms. Pac-Man, Enduro, and the original Pitfall. I got other video game systems later on, and now I like to collect and play Atari 2600, Atari 7800, NES, SNES, N64, Genesis, TurboGrafx-16, and Game Boy Advanced. Those are my key game systems, and on average I have over 200 games per system.
One cool thing you may not know about me is that Justin is my good friend, and I was there to see the site being built. I've always been really into video games, and about 5 years ago I started hanging out a lot at Lost Ark Video Games. They have arcade games, pinball, used games and T shirts. One day I walked over to watch this big guy trying to set the world record on Out Run. It turned out it was Justin, and we got to talking about video games and became friends. Then it seemed like every time I'd go to the Lost Ark I'd see Justin playing arcade games or pinball.
The more I hung out at the Lost Ark the better friends I got to be with Justin. I gotta say he became like a brother to me when I needed one most. When I was down on my luck he helped me with getting a new job and when I was in a car accident he drove me to and from my new job to make sure I didn't lose it. He became like a brother to me and is the big reason I joined the forums. He's been saying for a long time what a great bunch of people there are here and that I should come hang out and make friends. Today I decided I was ready to come find out for myself.
Sometimes Justin and I would hang out on Saturdays whenever he was in town. We'd go get sub sandwiches or meet up at the arcade and he'd order pizza like Spicoli for us to eat while we'd hang out playing games. I remember sometimes at the arcade he'd ask me to help him pick out games for prizes and he showed me a big set of buttons for people in the website.
Sometimes on Saturdays I'd go over to Justin's house and we'd play games for Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Lynx, Jaguar, Turbo Duo, Nintendo NES and Super Famicom. Some of my favorite Atari 7800 games Justin and I would play are Pole Position II, Dig Dug, Centipede, Xevious, and Food Fight. Some of my favorite NES games we'd play are Super Mario Bros., Zelda, and The Adventures of LOLO. My all-time favorite video games are the Ninja Gaiden series on the NES.
I also was there on the "maiden voyage" to see the site being made. I remember when it was just bare bones. One day I was at the arcade and Justin was telling me about this Atari video game website he wanted to make. He said he was designing it to be really nice and was really excited about it. He got me excited about it too. Every time I'd go over to his house I got to see the different stages of the website being born. The first time I saw it it was mostly a blank white page. It had the black bar at the top with the title and a little blurb of text. I remember the 4th time I saw it was the day he got all the fonts to work. That was a big day. I remember he showed me the page about Atari Jaguar and it had all the fonts nice and big with changing pictures at the top, and it really looked great. The site came alive for me that day and I could really see what he was making. I thought it was really cool. And just when I thought he was all finished he said there's another month to go to build the forums. When it finally launched I thought it looked beautiful, it's really nice and as good as it could possibly look.
Now, after 2 years, I'm finally ready to be a part of this wonderful community! I didn't join right away because I wasn't that good at typing, but I've gotten a lot better. Now I'm also starting to make YouTube videos which I can share here too. I'm excited to finally come home to a great community of wonderful people that loves playing video games as much as I do. I'd like to consider ALL of you my friends, and if you're ever in the area or on Xbox live I'd love to meet up with you for some good gaming! Here's to all the good times ahead!
Sincerely,
Mike
a.k.a. Space Invader
Unexpected Surprise
in Atari 5200
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that is so true, think of it this way, when i first played pit fall on the 2600, i was hooked on the game, because it was so much fun to play, if at the time there were big top dollar game systems out there just like there are now, but i had never seen one of those games being played, i still would have loved the game pit fall and after i saw the new games systems out there and saw some of the games that they have now, i would still have a place in my heart for pit fall just the same.