Doctor Octagon

Me too. He's the most credible retrogamer of the big YouTube personalities in my opinion. He's also not crapping on everything for attention 

Classic Game Room - Atari Jaguar console review

This is really cool Tempest 2000 arcade cabinet conversion done by Jeff Mathews at Classic Arcade Restorations, for Eric Clayberg. Eric posts:
 
 
You can see more photos here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+EricClayberg/posts/24S4MoGoCns

I really like K.C. Munchkin and I think it's the best of the "Pac-Man clones" if you can call it that. I agree with what RickR said that it's "a nice twist on Pac-Man" because there's enough different about it to make it a different game, even though its still a maze game with a ball gobbling dots.
 
Two memories stand out to me about K.C. Munchkin:
 
1. I remember thinking K.C. Munchkin was the reason I wanted to get an Odyssey. It's the only reason I can remember. Guess that qualifies as a killer app.
 
2. I remember playing K.C. Munchkin at J.C. Pennys and thinking the next version of Pac-Man would have to use some of these ideas of a changing maze, pellets that open and close things and so on.
 
I've never played the 7800 version of K.C. Munchkin but PacManPlus does awesome work with everything. I can't think of anything he's made that's been a disappointment. K.C. Munchkin is on my list to pick up, It looks like a faithful port with some nice improvements and looks better than the Odyssey version in all the right ways. My gripe isn't with the game at all, it's that I wish more were being done with 7800 that could best the NES rather than the Odyssey. NES-quality games are needed on the 7800, but that's a different topic all together.

I really like K.C. Munchkin and I think it's the best of the "Pac-Man clones" if you can call it that. I agree with what RickR said that it's "a nice twist on Pac-Man" because there's enough different about it to make it a different game, even though its still a maze game with a ball gobbling dots.
 
Two memories stand out to me about K.C. Munchkin:
 
1. I remember thinking K.C. Munchkin was the reason I wanted to get an Odyssey. It's the only reason I can remember. Guess that qualifies as a killer app.
 
2. I remember playing K.C. Munchkin at J.C. Pennys and thinking the next version of Pac-Man would have to use some of these ideas of a changing maze, pellets that open and close things and so on.
 
I've never played the 7800 version of K.C. Munchkin but PacManPlus does awesome work with everything. I can't think of anything he's made that's been a disappointment. K.C. Munchkin is on my list to pick up, It looks like a faithful port with some nice improvements and looks better than the Odyssey version in all the right ways. My gripe isn't with the game at all, it's that I wish more were being done with 7800 that could best the NES rather than the Odyssey. NES-quality games are needed on the 7800, but that's a different topic all together.

I get bottles of Eastern Carolina bbq sauce mailed to me a couple times a year also. The Pik N Pig in Carthage NC is my favorite place ever. I eat there everyday whenever I visit. Check them out on FB if you happen to be planning a trip to NC for some reason!

Born and raised in the south and this is what we ate every year, add cornbread.  The juice from the black eyed peas mixed with the cornbread is perfect! The food is what I miss most from NC.

I'm originally from the south so I know all about the break from chicken when you can get it.  I do miss the Waffle Houses I use to visit now and then.   
 
As a tradition, my wife and I have always grabbed a couple of the sub sandwiches from Wal-Mart along with some Lil' Smokies and some chips.  I never would have done this but a friend of mine in Arkansas made miniature skewers using toothpicks loaded with smokies that had been slow cooked in bar-b-que sauce, coupled with chunks of pineapple from a can.  Surprisingly...it's really good!  I spent time with them before I moved.
 
This year we got the usual stuff but we upped the ante.  We are going to make our own nachos with store-bought ingredients and I am adding seasoned ground beef to top them off.  
 
That ham looks really good!  So does the greens.  
 
 
 
If you ever travel to Branson, Missouri and pass through, or can find the time to travel south a bit farther, check out some of the restaurants in Harrison, Arkansas.  You will need this...
 
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurants-g60749-Harrison_Arkansas.html
 
T's BBQ is really good and I don't know if it is still there or not but there use to be a place called Big Daddy's across from the Edward's grocery store.  Really BIG hamburgers!  I had to cut mine in half just to try to bite it.

I don't have any New Years food traditions, but I want to eat all of that. Whenever we go down south we like to go to the independent restaurants and cafeterias that make food like this, the food is sooooooooooo good. 

We make a dish called "Hoppin' John", which has ham, bacon, and black eyed peas covered. Need to add some greens it sounds like.

Some of you may or may not know that in the South, there are three items one should eat every New Years Day.  Greens (Cabbage, Collard, Mustard, or Turnip greens will do),  Black-Eyed Peas, and ham (pork in any form will do).    I think many cultures have similar traditions, but I'm only privy to the inner workings of what I grew up with.

First, lets get the obvious out of the way.   Greens symbolize wealth.  The reason is obvious and several cultures actually share this belief.  One should always eat their greens on New Years Day if you want to be prosperous in the New Year.  Here's how it's served in my neck of the woods.  (cabbage pictured, flavored with plenty of bacon)



Next, we have the pork.  Above you have bacon flavoring your greens, so that might do for some folks.  For us, however, we grew up needing a main dish on New Years Day anyway, so there's usually a ham.   Why pork?  Pigs root forward when scrounging for food.   Eating pig symbolizes moving forward or progressing in the New Year, so the pork is for luck.   NEVER, and I mean NEVER eat chicken on New Years Day as chickens scratch backwards when scrounging up food.  Looking back=bad luck.  We don't want that now do we?   Trust me, if a Southerner can give up fried chicken any day, it is important.


Lastly, there's the black-eyed peas which there seems to be some confusion about on the internet.  Some folks seem to think the reason we have black-eyed peas is because they look like coins. What?  Never heard that, nor have I seen a coin that looks like a black-eyed pea.   Here's the scoop:
Black-eyed peas were brought from Africa by the slaves.  Like much of their food, it quickly became a staple in Southern cuisine.   During the Civil War, the Union Troops would confiscate and eat all of the crops from Southern farms.   Not knowin' no better (silly Yankees) they considered Black Eyed Peas livestock feed, so they left them alone.   As a result, many times that's all they had to eat.   So black-eyed peas are eaten for health in the New Year.  Some folks say you should eat one black-eyed pea for each day of the new year.   Sounds like a LOT of peas to me, so just a helping or two will do. 
(You'll notice again more bacon)

Some folks include cornbread on the list of must-haves for New Years day claiming it represents gold, but I've never heard that and as you can see we've already got wealth covered.   The reason this is eaten on New Years day is simple, it goes perfect with this meal.   

So there you have it folks.  Maybe you learned something about our traditions in the South, maybe you knew all this already.

What about you?  What are your traditions for New Years day if you have any?

Blazing Lazers
TurboGrafx-16
Difficulty: Default
High Score: 756,360
January 1, 2017

Blazing Lazers
TurboGrafx-16
Difficulty: Default
High Score: 566,450
January 1, 2017

Blazing Lazers
TurboGrafx-16
Difficulty: Default
High Score: 237,860
December 31, 2016

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.

Justin, Thank you for all your LOVE. Every word was 100% true and heart felt, I can never thank you and this community enough!!!!
 
WOW!!! Thank you so much Dragon!!! Means the world to me!

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

Thats cool!!!!

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!!!!
 
 

For those with a Harmony cart or simply using emulators to get their 2600 gaming on ROMHUNTERS archive is an excellent presorted and organized archives. Seems for the New Year he has just released v12 of his awesome collection. 
 
Follow this link to Atarimania to download the archive! 
 
http://www.atarimania.com/rom_collection_archive_atari_2600_roms.html
 
 
Here is the description from the site - Atari 2600 VCS ROM Collection
 
Dear guest,
 
Having been an avid Atari 2600 game player in the eighties, I was more than happy to discover that the games I used to play as a kid could be re-experienced on my PC by downloading the proper ROMs and playing them on an emulator. For me, it was like finding back little bits of childhood memories and the main reason to start "hunting" ROMs on the Internet.
 
But while collecting, I noticed that many ROM sets on the net contained bugged .bin files (the so called "bad dumps") and that many ROMs carried incomplete names that often lacked the correct game information.
 
In order to give these ROMs their proper names, I started studying the games they belonged to. That was the moment I entered the amazing world of the Atari 2600 and also the beginning of a new "hobby".
 
I found out that, although there were only a little more than 500 different games made for the Atari 2600, almost all of these games were re-released many times, in many forms, under many different names and by many different companies, creating an incredible range of more than 10,000 different cartridge releases (of which more than 8,000 are now archived in our database).
 
While working my way through fifteen years of VCS gaming history, discovering all kinds of strange and funny looking "pirates", never released prototype games, interesting background stories and fascinating label artwork, I gathered an enormous amount of information which I systematically tried to cram into these filenames.
 
Now, after almost ten years of collecting and researching, the result of all this work can be downloaded below. I'm very proud to present you my personal Atari 2600 ROM collection here on Atarimania and I truly hope you will enjoy it as much as I do.
 
Please don't let the long filenames scare you off. You'll get used to them and trust me: they form an excellent source of Atari 2600 game information, which can be very useful for any serious Atari game collector and fan.
 
In short: if you're looking for an ordinary Atari 2600 ROM set, look elsewhere. It can be found almost everywhere on the Internet without too many problems. If you're looking for the most genuine and best documented Atari 2600 ROM collection in the world, then look no further: this is the place to be.
 
Have fun.
 
Rom Hunter

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!