RickR

3 dungeons completed and I have the raft now.  I do not remember how many dungeons there are.  9?  I was hoping to get further along this holiday weekend, but I got busy with other things...

There are eight total.

Oh good!  Thanks for that info. 

I'm trying to do this the old fashioned way...with a map and no hints.  I remember a lot of stuff from back in the day, but it's been fun finding where everything is.  My only conceit is using an emulator that allows me to save wherever I want so I can stop when something in real life comes up.

Wishing a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our Moderator Supremo @MaximumRD‼️ I hope you have the best bday ever 🥳

Happy B-Day, MaximumRD! :O)

THANKS TO ALL FOR THE BIRTHDAY COMMENTS AND MESSAGES, I KEEP IT LOW KEY AND APPRECIATE LITTLE THINGS IN LIFE A LOT THESE DAYS, CAN'T BELEIVE I AM NOW 54 ! THE TIME GOES SO FAST,  BUT KNOW THAT I APPEACIATE ALL THAT TOOK A MOMENT TO WISH ME A HAPPY BIRTHDAY ! 😎👍🍻Having port right now. Wine, a nice meal and cocoanut cream pie for dessert, just the two of us quiet at home, similar to Melissa's birthday on the 18th, we just kind of combine birthdays and valentines. Just keeping it simple.
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What would be cool is if O'Reilly actually stocked the replicas so you could complete your order. I remember this going around like 5 years ago and thinking you could actually order a replica and being disappointed when you couldn't. I'm sure they'd sell plenty.

I smell a business opportunity.  How hard would it be to create one with LED lights and a simple power connector?  We could call it a "Clux Fapacitor" to avoid litigation issues.  🙂  

Diamond Select makes them https://shop.diamondselecttoys.com/back-to-the-future-prop-replicas-unlimited-edition-flux-capacitor-replica 

Also, having been collecting Atari since 1993 I was used to hunting down and collecting NOS / MIB games still sealed. I usually got these at Kay-Bee Toys, Sears Outlet, @Video 61 or ordering from Atari directly. Lynx games came from Toys R Us and Babbage's. I treated games the same way I did baseball cards, I'd always try to buy TWO of everything, if not three. One new one to open, one new one to put away and keep sealed. If I bought a third, that would always be to put away sealed to save for a potential trade someday in the future. I'm still that way. I DO open brand new Atari games if it's the first in my collection and I'm going to be playing it for the rest of my life. Once I have duplicates, I ENJOY having them sit on the shelf. I love pulling them out and looking at them, looking at the box, looking through catalogs, appreciating the artwork and feeling the original retail experience that we used to feel buying these games. And of course I put a few away for future giveaways. This works for me and this is the approach that brings me happiness. Whatever makes you HAPPY is what I recommend, other people's ideas of what you should be doing don't really matter as long as you love what you're doing and enjoy your collection to the max.

Right on, brother. 

I got these sets for a song on ebay and let them sit in the garage for a week while I thought about it.  This little shelf is right above my main desk.  Now that I work from home, I look at it every day.  Seeing these little ships will bring happiness for sure. 

I have that same issue with Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars.  Some of them you just have to open.

You think so?  Let me consider that. 

@RickR Absolutely! Maybe even a multi-part blog entry 🙂

One of my favorite games ever! I usually play trough it at least one time a year. 

Absolutely better.  Good resolution and you get the full 2+ hour movie.  On the downside, there is no novelty "Rick Roll" movie on PSP (that I know of). 

Cool, you grabbed Michael T's bundle 👍 The price was great, and I was tempted because of some of the movies in the bundle, but I didn't want to go down the rabbit hole of UMD movie collecting. I already have my hands full with blu-ray, DVD etc.

PSP really was an entertainment powerhouse, but for whatever reason, Sony handhelds never remotely come near the success of Nintendo handhelds.

Yes.  I'm actually shocked no one else grabbed that bundle! 

I have a pretty nice PSP collection.  The PSP is a lot more advanced than the Nintendo DS.  Yet I still love the DS more.  Why?  Probably because the library is more accessible and large. 

I normally take the PSP with me on plane trips with a few movies to watch.  But this last time, since we hadn't flown in so long, I just minimized.  Our plane ended up having a pretty good selection on seatback screens, so I just watched a bunch of TV shows and was happy.  I started to watch that movie "The Joker", but it was so depressing, I turned it off. 

Hey, that looks much nicer.  I'm going to use it.  Thanks!

How'd you like the game, Rick?

I literally dusted off the PSP and DSi a few days ago. I had to buy a new battery for the PSP, but otherwise, everything works. I picked up a bunch of DS and PSP games recently. I don't know why, but Sony's recent announcement about the closure of the PS3 and Vita e-shops motivated me to reconnect with my old handhelds (which I rarely used to begin with).

The DSi belonged to my older son, but he never used it and was content with his DS Lite (which he keeps on his desk to this day).

It's fantastic.  It's as good as game #1 in the series (I think there are 3?)  But I haven't made it very far yet.

Beautiful 🤤

I miss the one I had.  Nice!

I used to have a TG-16, and I don't know what happened to it. Nice Everdrive. :O)

You auto be ashamed of that offer.

Wow, those are rare.

Wow, those are rare.

I love I Spy games!

I saw this game sitting on the shelf at the local retro game store yesterday, and I thought of you, Rick 😁

I'm still playing and still enjoying it.  It's more than just "mindless".  Some of the puzzles are kind of clever. 

The only special feature is that it plays the Pac Man theme as the alarm.  No game built in.  Still, it looks sharp, and it's special because son #2 got it for me. 

I had no idea this existed. 

It fits nicely.  The Pac-Man theme can be played by pushing the upper right button.  It's best described as "irritating".  I can use that to annoy others.  A+

That is so cool! What a great gift! 

I see the ads all of the time. I'm surprised you can't play a simple version of the game on there.

Regardless, very cool!!

It's starting to come down pretty hard right now. We're getting the outer bands of it as it approaches shore, which shouldn't hit us until morning. This won't be a direct hit for us unless it moves lower but we'll still get hit with some of it. I think @TrekMD and everybody on that side should be okay 🙂 

Everything here is pretty good! Lots of wind and rain but nothing damaging.

Glad you guys made it ok. 🙂

Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃🍽🍁 

Dinner is ready!

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😮 it is Burgess Meredith. I thought he looked very familiar. Yes, he's an awesome actor.

I need to restart my TZ watching. I started watching them last year after Phil ran podcasts about Twilight Zone episodes.

Yep.  I think he's in a total of 3 different TZ episodes, and Shatner is in 2. 

Whoops...4!  He's in 4 episodes. 

I recommend Ice Climber! 

Or Frostbite!

I shoveled our driveway last night so we could get the car out.  And today, my wife and I shoveled an elderly neighbor's sidewalk/driveway.  My noodle arms are so tired, I may not play video games for a week.

GO BLUE!

Interesting piece of tech there. Never heard of it either.

Never seen this one before. 16K with a built-in tape drive! Neat stuff.

Nice get, Rick!

I never knew Avalon Hill made 2600 games until a few months ago. So many companies made games for the 2600 that I never heard of. It’s pretty amazing what was happening with the 2600 while I had my nose deep in Atari 8-bit. 

That's true.  The sad part is how a lot of companies put out some really great games right before or after the crash but got overlooked by all the crap that had saturated the market. 

Cool grab Rick! I've never played this one before. 

I thought sniping was coming in at the last minute to put in a winning bid. How do you snipe an auction if you forgot to check in when it was ending, Rick? 🤔

There are automated tools that will bid at the last second. 

😮 totally forgot about those

I did some research. That's an early example of a kart racing game loosely based on the album of the same name. 

George's game was called "Here Comes the Fun".  But there was legal trouble -- supposedly he stole it from Eric Clapton. 

There was a prototype leaked a couple years ago for "Pete Best Western", a hotel management simulator on the Magnavox Odyssey 2. It even used The Voice to make snarky remarks about being kicked out of the band before they got big.

Nice score @RickR!  I'll have to try this one out on Harmony!

I agree that so many games were released once the flood gates of 3rd party publishers opened. Lots of undiscovered games yet to be played. Thanks for sharing!

Interesting game mechanics and quite a challenge to avoid fire top and bottom! I also like the enemy sprites. Not bad at all! 

That's what I thought too!  It's really hard to focus on top and bottom, but I feel like with some time and effort, I could get a lot better at it.  Isn't that the mark of a great game?

Mmmmm, Brandy. Cheers.

Happy Birthday Rick! It's crazy how time flies. I hope you had a wonderful birthday! Yours is very close to mine, mine was on the 20th. Best wishes for your big year!

Well happy birthday to you too! 

I was the cage guy lol. It was actually called the cage too. Sometimes the "security cage". I have some pictures from back then, I should probably find them and post them in the forums.

YASS! You should.

Well, I admit that it will be sad to see TRU go and it was sad to hear the passing of TRU's original founder. However, there appears to be some light on the horizon.

It seems that with TRU going away the original founder of KB Toys is going to start again. So we may be losing TRU but might be gaining back KB Toys. Our country keeps getting worse and worse for the stores that have been around for a very long time.

K-Mart is pretty much gone, Sears is not too far...

Heh heh. Reminds me of my family's first experience with AVGN. Back when my brother and I were first being introduced to the Internet as pre-teens, my brother looked up Spider-Man on YouTube, and was watching a bunch of random videos that popped up from the search. Eventually, he ended up clicking on the AVGN Spider-Man theme song parody, and Mom walked into the room right as it began to play. She was very upset about it, because there were some words in it that my brother and I had never...

(continued) heard before. That's how learned how to be careful what we did online.

Years later, when I was in high school, I discovered AVGN (I didn't know at the time that it was where that song came from), and got a lot of laughs from watching his videos. Then one day, I watched his Spider-Man review, and that song came on at the end, and I was like, "Holy cow! This is that song!" That was a pretty funny moment.

Great story atarifan95! Love it.

Awesome job Rick!

Sweet! What do you think of the mod? I did that for StormSurge.

I think it's awesome. Works great, looks great, sounds great.

How awful. Poor little thing.

Honest this ruined my night.

Oh man, I apologize. 

There's a youtube channel called "Hoovie's Garage".  It's a guy that buys cars and talks about them and fixes them, etc.  Anyhoo, he bought a Ferrari, and it ended up completely burning to the ground due to a badly placed hose clamp!  Very sad, but he took it well.  Hoovie also has a DeLorean that took a ton of time and money to get fixed.