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Holy crap. That's a hell of a shout out! THANK YOU CREEP!! Great "year in review" I'll post more thoughts after my New Years Eve celebrations are over but wanted to post as soon as I saw this. I really enjoy your "fireside chats" like this. Thanks for all the love man. We're so lucky to have you in the community. Best wishes to you for an awesome 2017!

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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!!!! 
 

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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!!!!
Little fireside read of Twas the Night Before Creep's-Mas

Great video!  I use my 32x for the brains of a gutted arcade cabinet.  Three 32x games I use in the cab on rotation - Space Harrier, After Burner 32x, and Star Wars Arcade.  

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Lets talk about the 32X by the almighty SEGA!!!!!!! Here we talk about the goofy choices Sega was making at the time and decide if it was all worth it or not!!!!
 

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Come take a trip with the Creep!!!!
I meet up with a member of the atari.io forums, play some great games, and pick up something that to me is EPIC!!!!
Thanks as always for watching!!!!
 
 

A little something silly I put together. Not gaming related but thought I would share!
 

New Episode of 7800 AVENUE is live! Armando & Carlos from Pixel Vault Games join me in the lounge this week to kick off our "Nintendo on Atari" block of shows and play Donkey Kong on Atari 7800 Check it out:
 
 

 
 
And check the sexy pics on the blog entry:
http://www.atari.io/donkey-kong-atari-7800-ave/

Any thoughts? Not sure if I am excited or not. 
 
https://media.netflix.com/en/only-on-netflix/122622

I know some here enjoy reading things like this so I hope you enjoy something that happened to me this evening.  
 
Well.  Had a nice surprise today.  Around 5:30pm CST I get a knock at my door.  There is a friend of ours on the other side when I opened the door holding a Nintendo 64.  He said he found it in a dumpster at his apartment complex and thought I would like to have it.  Naturally I can't turn down another console even if I already have the same model.  I bring it in with him in tow and plug it up.  No power.  I get the power supply to my wife's Grape N64 and...no power.
 

 
So I begin the task of cleaning it up and hoping that might solve something.  But, I don't have the "special" tool required to open these things up.  Curse you Nintendo for using those stupid security screws!!  After two hours of trying a few tricks I finally managed to get all the screws out and the top shell off.  Inside I find...BUGS!!!  Most of them are dead but a few are still kicking around.  I rush immediately to the shower and begin spraying everything down with Totally Awesome spray cleaner.  
 

 
Only after that do I begin to really remove all the other screws to remove the main board and all other parts.  After seeing all those bugs everything will have to be sprayed off in my book.  Those are my rules.  Yes...the main board too.
 

 

 
Bath time!  I'm not going to show one of the pics with the bugs in it.  Those things are just nasty and I can't stand roaches.  I don't mind any other bug usually but those things ... why did God create such a creature?  If there ever is an Armageddon those things would survive it! 
 
Whoops...guess I got sidetracked.  Most will probably say that water and electronics don't mix.  As long as it doesn't have any power going through it, is not in operation when it gets wet, and if it is allowed time to dry completely then any electronic circuit board can get wet.  Which I drenched everything and used the shower to spray off anything that was not suppose to be there and to help remove the chemical I used.  
 

 
I think the guys who designed this must have liked jigsaws puzzles.  I dried everything off, using a hair dryer to help dry off the main board and other electronics like the cart slot and other areas, then re-assembled everything.  At first there was no power again.  Using my wife's N64 as a guide I reworked the metal plates which I got the few for the memory expansion slot mixed up.  Once corrected I tried the system again.
 

 
And the results are actually impressive...
 

 
It works!  Another console saved from a landfill.  This is my trade and I love fixing these things.  I just wish I could make a living at it haha.  It does score me some consoles once in a great while so that's a plus for me.
 
I hope you enjoyed this rescue.  Now I just need to get a controller and something besides Dr. Mario 64...that's the only 64 game we have and that one is my wife's game.  Oh...and I forgot...which is why I'm editing this...those screws got replaced with regular Philips-head screws and the N64 ones got pitched.  I despise those things.

Nice to see this topic going!

I really want to like Swordquest but I find it hard to follow, even with the comic books. It's a cool idea that was probably too big for the 2600 to do very well.

I guess Ken & Barbie were really into Sega Master System too
 

How about a sega cdx hooked up to a portable tv?

How about Nintendo and Sony with the PlayStation SNES CD add on?

How about a sega cdx hooked up to a portable tv?

Well, I've got a long plane trip and vacation coming up fast!  I thought I'd share the games I'm taking.  Your comments please!  My wife will be attending a conference, so if i end up with nothing to do, I figure this will keep me happy. 
 
I'm taking a DS this time instead of my GBA-SP because it's got a headphone jack. 
 
I'm most looking forward to spending time with Yoshi's Island and Mario Party. 
 
 

I'm the dude that sent that Gemini, and man am I happy to know it got fixed up so nicely. 

I bought that one at a gaming show and didn't know it was kind of broken until I got home.  In any case, it's fixed and going to a good home AND has been re-united with proper controllers.  Win-win-win. 

5200 and 7800 boxed games:

 
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Defender on Intellivision looks great.

October 1991 Vlog Halloween - Weird Paul Petroskey

Stuff From My Subscribers #2 Video Haul Atari 2600 Jr - Weird Paul Petroskey

Every once in a great while I will search for vintage whatever and it amazes me at times what people post up and their asking prices.
 
I know an Apple IIc can fetch a sizable sum of money but $500? No way...
 
http://indianapolis.craigslist.org/sys/5819252704.html
 
Then you run across ones that actually seem like possibly a good deal:
 
Atari 5200 with games but no controllers for $75...
 
http://muncie.craigslist.org/vgm/5783209418.html
 
What are some that you've spotted recently?

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What could have been Atari's saving grace turned out to be a train wreck and at the end of the day, saved the video game industry!!!! Fascinating stuff. Thanks as always for watching and for all your support!
 

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The latest Creep video is not up and ready for your viewing pleasure!!! 7 min of blaa blaa blaa and then what I have picked up this past month.


 


Thanks as always for watching!!!