Arcade and Retro General Chat in Karkariko Village Tavern: Live Ocarina Music

Atavan-Halen · 22-12-2014 2:10am

Anyone fancy a trip to Leeds in Feb?

http://www.retrocollect.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=8073

CiDeRmAn · 22-12-2014 7:17am

Damn, 10,001 posts and I'm still away!
Perhaps it can wait til tomorrow to start anew....

Nerdkiller1991 · 22-12-2014 7:19am

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Damn, 10,001 posts and I'm still away!
Perhaps it can wait til tomorrow to start anew....

NOOOOO! KEEP IT ALIVE!

Myrddin · 22-12-2014 9:37am

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Damn, 10,001 posts and I'm still away!
Perhaps it can wait til tomorrow to start anew....

#9956 from my end dude...

A brief 'so what is it?' exchange should finish it off...

Andrew76 · 22-12-2014 9:42am

Myrddin wrote: »

#9956 from my end dude...

A brief 'so what is it?' exchange should finish it off...

Or a nice countdown maybe.

#9957

CathalDublin · 22-12-2014 10:44am

o1s1n wrote: »

Might be a long shot but, any of you lads know your lightbulbs?

There's a really bright overhead light in my sitting room and the bulb just went. I just removed it and it's not like anything I've seen before. Anyone any ideas? Almost looks like a syringe!

The white end is broken from one side of that, make sure you remove from the fitting before trying to fit a new one, looks like a 118mm 300w R7 Tungsten Halogen floodlight Bulb, it usually says the wattage on the white cap too.
That thing must literally burn electricity, your meter must be like a fan:eek:

Myrddin · 22-12-2014 10:53am

Agreed, looks identical to one of those outdoor halogen lamps with one of the ceramic ends broken off. As cathal says, they're killers on the aul leccy

STG.Otaku · 22-12-2014 11:58am

Retr0gamer wrote: »

The card games are all a load of crap so not missing much there.

OI! No they are not!

Two excellent champions of card beefiness (and in my collection) are:

and

$(KGrHqZ,!mIFIm)m!pZ9BSQpHcTWiw~~60_35.JPG

See? Even this bloke agrees:

So nerr!!! Mr. Akiradiseasearmplophead! :mad:

o1s1n · 22-12-2014 12:59pm

CathalDublin wrote: »

The white end is broken from one side of that, make sure you remove from the fitting before trying to fit a new one, looks like a 118mm 300w R7 Tungsten Halogen floodlight Bulb, it usually says the wattage on the white cap too.
That thing must literally burn electricity, your meter must be like a fan:eek:

Myrddin wrote: »

Agreed, looks identical to one of those outdoor halogen lamps with one of the ceramic ends broken off. As cathal says, they're killers on the aul leccy

Cheers lads! Yeah it snapped when I was taking it out. It was set into the overhead light in the sitting room, but you can't really see what you're doing when you're removing it.

They seriously eat up that much juice? Eeek, didn't realize that. Was there when we moved into the house. Although that does make sense as the thing was insanely bright... might have to look into replacing it with something a bit more economical :eek:

Retr0gamer · 22-12-2014 1:06pm

300Watt? My new mega PC is only 400-450 Watts!

CathalDublin · 22-12-2014 1:06pm

I've 12 LEDs(5.4w ea) in our sitting room which come to a total of 64watts, I'd imaging that one light probably cost you about €15/month if it was on an average of 5-6hours/day, that type of bulb would usually be used in a shop or in a garden sensor spotlight.
You you probably make the cost of a new fitting back in the savings in electricity in the space of a couple months just replacing the whole fitting with something more economical.

CiDeRmAn · 23-12-2014 11:49am

So tired,
Back from a trip to Disneyland Paris and wrecked still.
Magical Kingdom?
More like Backache Kingdom!
A combination of lousy food and long queues interrupted by the occasional white knuckle ride.
But, the children enjoyed it, now the tears and threats of physical harm are forgotten amidst a fog of sugar.

DinoRex · 23-12-2014 11:58am

Looks like a bunch of arcade cabs being dumped on Parnell Street right now.

o1s1n · 23-12-2014 11:59am

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

So tired,
Back from a trip to Disneyland Paris and wrecked still.
Magical Kingdom?
More like Backache Kingdom!
A combination of lousy food and long queues interrupted by the occasional white knuckle ride.
But, the children enjoyed it, now the tears and threats of physical harm are forgotten amidst a fog of sugar.

When I was a young lad my well off relatives booked a 5 day trip to Disneyland Paris and were going to stay in the Disneyland Hotel right beside the park. (5 star Disney opulence!)

Turned out in the end that their youngest son was just too young for the trip, so they brought me instead :eek:

The park was kept open for us high rollers for two hours after all the proles had left :pac:.

There were zero lines. You could stroll up to any ride and just step on. We went on Thunder Mountain about 4 times in a row

o1s1n · 23-12-2014 12:00pm

DinoRex wrote: »

Looks like a bunch of arcade cabs being dumped on Parnell Street right now.

:eek:

Are they coming out of that arcade beside Cineworld?

DinoRex · 23-12-2014 12:03pm

o1s1n wrote: »

:eek:

Are they coming out of that arcade beside Cineworld?

Looks like it. Just saw it on twitter.

Tomo.Murphy · 23-12-2014 12:09pm

I was going to call them after Christmas to see if they were getting rid of any...

I guess they were!

o1s1n · 23-12-2014 12:12pm

:eek: - follow that skip!

I did have a peak in one of their storage rooms beside the back entrance to Cineworld and it was full of crap nobody would want. Penny pushing machines etc, things like that. Might just be that gear.

Someone around able to take a look?

Retr0gamer · 23-12-2014 12:15pm

Man I wish I was in Dublin, I could snap a Sega Rambo arcade machine for the house for Xmas. Sauron would love that.

Tomo.Murphy · 23-12-2014 12:19pm

Just mentioned it to my cousin. Might head in there in a little bit and see what they're getting rid of. Who knows, maybe there's something worth salvaging to turn into a MAME cab.

Thargor · 23-12-2014 12:35pm

Ah bollox agreed to do a favour for the boss and came into work for 3 hours this morning, Id have been in town and straight up there to grab anything suitable for a MAME conversion if I wasn't stuck in Bray now :mad:

I was even going to set aside a day in January to go around Dublin asking if any of the usual places were planning on dumping anything, I honestly cant believe this! Someone please post a pic showing it was all gambling machines and other crap...

CathalDublin · 23-12-2014 12:51pm

A load of pinballs

CiDeRmAn · 23-12-2014 12:58pm

A big one but anyone got a copy of Elite, for the C64, on floppy?
A mate just messaged to see if there might be one out there.

eddhorse · 24-12-2014 12:30am

Gradius And More Coming to PS4’s Arcade Archives

Hamster has confirmed a number of new Arcade Archives titles coming from Konami, which are set to release on PlayStation 4 in Japan. Both Scramble (1981) and Mr. Goemon (1986) will be releasing on December 25, while Gradius (1985) and A Jax (1987) will be releasing in January and February,
respectively. Gradius will include the overseas version of Nemesis (1990).

http://www.dualshockers.com/2014/12/23/gradius-and-more-coming-to-ps4s-arcade-archives/

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 24-12-2014 1:34pm

Nerdkiller1991 · 24-12-2014 5:58pm

Sera wrote: »

Needs more of that Pokemon Christmas episode.

Retr0gamer · 24-12-2014 7:42pm

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 24-12-2014 7:47pm

Nerdkiller1991 wrote: »

Needs more of that Pokemon Christmas episode.

Myrddin · 24-12-2014 7:53pm

That time of year again...

Myrddin · 24-12-2014 8:07pm

Two more that instantly bring me back to Xmas of old. Still remember embarking on Links quest in LttP for the first time on xmas day about 16 years ago. A truly amazing experience for a back then gamer who was tired of action platformers & only really knew that genre.

And this, instantly brought back by years when I hear this. Same again, played it for the first time on xmas morning many moons ago. It didn't have the initial impact that LttP had for me, but grew on me very quickly (it was a big change from 2d to 3d back then). LttP and this are prob my two favourite games of all time now.

Nerdkiller1991 · 25-12-2014 4:20pm

MERRY XMAS, EVERYONE!

DinoRex · 25-12-2014 5:12pm

I was given a Vita as a gift. But of course PSN is down today so it's pretty much just a useless brick as all the games that come with it are just download codes. Isn't the future wonderful?

Doge · 25-12-2014 5:23pm

DinoRex wrote: »

I was given a Vita as a gift. But of course PSN is down today so it's pretty much just a useless brick as all the games that come with it are just download codes. Isn't the future wonderful?

Merry sh1tmas!

Tomo.Murphy · 25-12-2014 5:29pm

What happened to it this time? DDoS again?

Nerdkiller1991 · 25-12-2014 5:39pm

Tomo.Murphy wrote: »

What happened to it this time? DDoS again?

I doubt it would be from some group of individuals, considering it's Christmas and there would be tons of brand new, fresh out of the box PS4's to hook up.

Tomo.Murphy · 25-12-2014 5:41pm

Yeah, thought that myself, but it's been down since early yesterday, hasn't it?

CiDeRmAn · 25-12-2014 5:53pm

Is North Korea targeting new Vita owners?
Should be only a handful of victims so

johnny_ultimate · 25-12-2014 6:40pm

There are reports of DDoS attacks - those LizardSquad idiots say they are anyway, Xbox Live is down too - but the sheer volume of the day that's in it doesn't help one way or the other.

As ever, remember the modern mantra: if at all possible, open up and update new technology before the day itself. It's the 'make sure there's batteries in the house!' of today, although less well known

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 25-12-2014 6:46pm

DinoRex wrote: »

I was given a Vita as a gift. But of course PSN is down today

I topped up my account a few days ago but too lazy to use the PS3, lucky I didn't bother trying to get anything today

Retr0gamer · 25-12-2014 6:48pm

It could just be volume of people setting up a new console that needs to be updated. Getting too many server requests is basically how a ddos attack works.

Doge · 25-12-2014 7:03pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

It could just be volume of people setting up a new console that needs to be updated. Getting too many server requests is basically how a ddos attack works.

This.

Calling it a DDOS is just the companies way of saying its out of their hands.

A classic excuse as used by the CAO site during leaving cert results.

johnny_ultimate · 25-12-2014 7:05pm

It's not the companies who are saying its a DDoS, though. Fairly confident Sony and MS keep them fairly low key when they do happen.

One way or the other, the increased festive traffic certainly isn't helping anyway.

Myrddin · 25-12-2014 7:07pm

Not sure about PSN, but XBL is a guaranteed disaster from Xmas day, to certainly early Jan. You honestly wouldn't know if this is a DDoS, or just business as usual for this time of year.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 26-12-2014 1:46am

I was watching old TOTPs with my parents 78/79 Christmas ones and saw a guy with 2 saxophones, I was roaring laughing I could only think of SteveSI (can we call it duomania?)
And now thinking of this meme http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/gee-bill-how-come-your-mom-lets-you-eat-two-wieners

Maybe I've had too much sugar (not alcohol because I'm the anti-Atavan and

)

Hope everyone's enjoyed their day, I know there's another thread but only saw it now and whatever.

the groutch · 26-12-2014 2:01am

Sera wrote: »

Maybe I've had too much sugar (not alcohol because I'm the anti-Atavan and
)

this the stuff?

Farmer%20Homer%27s%20Sugar-485x368.png

anyway

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 26-12-2014 2:26am

the groutch wrote: »

this the stuff?

anyway

Nerdkiller1991 · 26-12-2014 2:53am

I WILL BE THE LAST POSTER OF THIS THREAD! HA HA HAAAAA!

Sparks43 · 26-12-2014 7:43am

Bye bye Birdseye

LoGiE · 26-12-2014 9:49am

Last one out turn off the lights...

Arcade and Retro General Chat in Karkariko Village Tavern: Live Ocarina Music

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