RickR

This reminds me that I have "The Amazing Adventures of Pac-Man" on vinyl on display in my office.  Time to fire that one up.

Honestly, I don't think I've listened to McCartney 2 all the way through.  Not my cup of tea. 

Our record player has a USB connector, so you could theoretically record digital copies of records.  I have never tried that though. 

Now THESE ones I think are awesome:

Try "Miner 2049er" next.  If you've never played it, I think you'll love it.  The 2600 version is surprisingly good.  

Ooof!  That's hard.  To shut down something he's worked so hard to build up.  Ah, but it's time.  The body does not lie.  Blessings to him on a well-earned retirement.  May the good Lord bless him with a long, relaxing, and rewarding retirement. 

It's good that your pops is out of the hospital.  I hope he takes his time for a full recovery.  Pamper him a little!
 

And @HDN your Metroid reference reminds me of Son #2 who shed some tears playing one of the Gears of War games on Xbox360. His favorite character died, and he cried a little. I think he was like around 13 at the time.

Well I'm sure you've had good reason to cry.  Absolutely necessary and healthy IMO.
 
Cry for reasons tragic and frivolous.  In the end, it does help.  A reminder of our humanity.  
 
 

I sometimes think about how I'd react when the time comes and my parents pass away. Sometimes I think I'd be stoic about it, and sometimes I think I'd cry a river. A day or two after I admitted my dad to the hospital a week ago, I was on my elliptical in the garage to put in my (almost) daily exercise, and I suddenly started to pray and cried out in tears thinking about him for a couple of minutes. He's back home now and my parents have been staying with us the last few days.
Tears in anger? You're a full blooded Italian all right 😆 Remind me never to piss you off 🤣 Probably the time I was most angry and reacted physically was when I struck out playing slow-pitch softball, and I punched the trunk of my Volvo 264 and left some knuckle indentations. I was 19 at the time and had been in an aircast after more than a month in a hard cast for a nearly broken right ankle (volleyball), and I hadn't touched a bat for a couple of months.
Nowadays, I respond emotionally to music, movies, books -- the arts in general. I surprise myself as I never did so when I was younger. I tell my wife that I'm just still growing and maturing as a person 😇

That's right.  You should see the one I made.  Frankenstein-esque.  But totally safe.  

Those power supplies are known to go bad and take the C64 with it.  This one tests out fine.  But it makes sense to either buy a modern power adapter or buy a Ray Carlson sacrificial diode wire.  
On my breadbin, I built my own power adapter AND use the diode thing.  
 
 

Those power supplies are known to go bad and take the C64 with it.  This one tests out fine.  But it makes sense to either buy a modern power adapter or buy a Ray Carlson sacrificial diode wire.  
On my breadbin, I built my own power adapter AND use the diode thing.  
 
 

You guys have inspired me to embrace loose carts and Atari 8- bit cartridges in particular.

I tells ya who needs revenge...the label on my cartridge.  Something rubbed it the wrong way!
Here's my high score for today.
 
 

Here's a view.  That's probably 2/3 of my 8-bit cart collection. 
 

That will be a fun video!
I've labeled a lot of mine using a simple old DYMO label maker.  It helps a lot and is total reversible.  It's a very inexpensive machine and it does a nice job. 
And WOAH!  You have "Halftime Battlin' Bands"!  I posted a story about that one a little while ago in the forums! 
 

I tells ya who needs revenge...the label on my cartridge.  Something rubbed it the wrong way!
Here's my high score for today.
 
 

Here's a view.  That's probably 2/3 of my 8-bit cart collection. 
 

Here's a view.  That's probably 2/3 of my 8-bit cart collection. 
 

That will be a fun video!
I've labeled a lot of mine using a simple old DYMO label maker.  It helps a lot and is total reversible.  It's a very inexpensive machine and it does a nice job. 
And WOAH!  You have "Halftime Battlin' Bands"!  I posted a story about that one a little while ago in the forums! 
 

That will be a fun video!
I've labeled a lot of mine using a simple old DYMO label maker.  It helps a lot and is total reversible.  It's a very inexpensive machine and it does a nice job. 
And WOAH!  You have "Halftime Battlin' Bands"!  I posted a story about that one a little while ago in the forums! 
 

You are right about my DSi; no working R or L triggers. However, this is a DS Lite that I’m using here. This one has a broken touch screen (super unresponsive no matter how many times it is calibrated) and apparently R trigger as well.
Thankfully, now that my DSi is hacked, I can remap the trigger buttons for GBA games to face buttons that work. Metroid Fusion won’t work on there, and the thing doesn’t have a GBA slot like the DS Lite does. Minor trade offs for the amazing hacked goodness my DSi now has in abundance.

I got one too about a week ago...but it has yet to arrive.  Exciting! 
 

See?  It's easier with a backlight
 

I do not have that one, but I do have "Zero Mission" 

That's one of the main reasons to work, my friend.  Enjoy with no regrets. 
 

That's one of the main reasons to work, my friend.  Enjoy with no regrets.