MaximumRD

I will also be 51 in 2019, so cheers to us old farts. 
 

Thanks guys! 🍻

Thanks so much! 🍻👍Somehow I have made it to 51 ! 😜

Happy Birfus Rob aka Maximum RD!

Happy birthday!

To my understanding, the Wii U no longer has online support including the virtual console.  Any prepurchased content, even by a previous owner, is no longer downloadable.  Nintendo turned off their servers for the DS/DSi/Wii/Wii U consoles at the end of last month.  However, I'm not sure about the Wii U (I've thought about one, too) but there are some software modifications that can be done to a Wii to get it back online.
I got lucky with my used Wii as it mysteriously came with two digital games...Tetris Party and Super Mario World (SNES).  I still have them and they still work, just no online support.  I was using Netflix on my Wii on a SDTV but even Netflix said it would no longer work once Nintendo pulled the plug.

Oh, I already have a Switch, lol. I bought it on sale from Toys R Us last year when it was going out of business. 
It was only 5% off, unfortunately, but hey, a discount is a discount.

I do not own either but at this point the SWITCH would seem the better option. 

Congrats Lee! I hope you have lots of fun with it!

Nice man! Enjoy! Now I'd personally mod it and put all the SNES ROMS on it but that's me lol. 

Cool! I really liked TurboGrafx-16, even when it was new. I agree Keith Courage wasn't a strong pack-in game. They should've launched with Bonk's Adventure, Blazing Lazers or something else. They're great systems to have now though.

Really going to miss The Captain 👨‍✈️

Let's see.  AMD architecture, Radeon GPU, and 4 GB of RAM?  That sounds like a basic gaming laptop setup.  Would be perfect for some Steam games and definitely MAME.  Amazing what you find in that recycle bin.  Just goes to show you that good things come to those that wait.

Considering the timing I suspect someone got a nice new powerful laptop for Xmas 😛 Ah well, fine by me, they literally sat it gently on top with the power supply right beside it. Guess they figured nobody could log in anyway but hey in the wrong hands....fortunately for them instead of bothering to access the hard drive by various methods to bypass the login password or hook up to an externally to look at the files, I just looked up how to access HP RECOVERY and after setting it to original stock install of WIn 8 since it is a valid license I was able to update free to Win 10. Not the fastest CPU but it is still better than the previous old HP laptop I found a few years back (I use that with Linux MINT). There are a lot of older retirees here as well so who knows? Maybe someone bought gramps a new laptop and he just placed the old one in the bin. I figure better I got it than someone else or having it actually end up at the recycle depot 😛 

PS - I'll try to respond to you later this evening

CONGRATULATIONS! I think this calls for a video, Rob! ☺️❄️

Same to you and yours Rick.

I might be interested in purchasing or trading for one of those Dreamcasts if you ever consider letting one go. I bought one the day they came out but let it go many years ago. It's one of the few systems I don't currently have. I was living those VMU Dreams in the late '90s.

Still have 3 Dreamcasts sitting in my closet as well as a modded Saturn and a ton of games, yes I enjoy many of them still but I cannot quite say it generated that same excitement for me personally.

Definitely the more I use and adjust I am digging it more and more.  

Thanks, Kid! Trying to make this a special place that you'll all enjoy.

WELCOME TO THE CLUB SIR! Here is your robe , pipe and slippers, take a seat by the fireplace and I shall return with your complimentary sifter of Brandy!