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Post here every time you get something new!

o1s1n

I saw this idea on another forum and thought to give it a go here. Title says it all. - Any time you buy some new arcade or retro goodies post about it here so we can all admire/drool in jealousy.... (And plan to raid your house :pac:)

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batari

Note to self - no more drunk posting. Anyway...

Look how sad my life is, I get Programmers to sign my Atari carts!! Part 2!!

First up:

Q*bert, loose cart and sealed copy, signed by Tom Sloper!! Fair enough he was good enough to oblige my nerdisms, but I'm being polite by saying he was an ass.

Next:

Winter/Summer/California Games, signed by Steve A. Baker!!! Now this guy is a gent, so so cool to talk with. Also filled me in on an Easter Egg in Cali Games, not even sure if it's known about. Apparently there are 'cig butts' in the Speed Skating game on Winter Games too??

Ok, best for last imo!!

Missile Command loose cart, Missile Command sealed cart, and two label variations of Cosmic Ark signed by Rob Fulop!! Sweet as!!

Part three coming soon.....:pac:

zero19

atavan-halen wrote: »

Picked up Kessen on the PS2 for a euro the other day along with Test Drive Unlimited 2 for €13. Loved the first one and really liking the 2nd one.

Loved Kessen, lost many hours to it!

Atavan-Halen

Picked up Kessen on the PS2 for a euro the other day along with Test Drive Unlimited 2 for €13. Loved the first one and really liking the 2nd one.

Warren3

Got some old copies of Mean Machine magazine in the post today. Love that mag!

Pyongyang

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Tomy assembly line workers, back in Japan...

FYP.

o1s1n

So what you are saying is Skynet built Tomy Toys?

Tomy is Skynet?! :eek:

CiDeRmAn

Don't think machines can be god-like.
Unless they are already taking the forms of angels/bulls and impregnating virgins, then I could be wrong.

Although my Vectrex is pretty god like!

Of course, if machines do attain sentience they will become godlike in short order and we will be their slaves!
Slaves or mushy puddles of organic goo as they do away with us all together,
a technological singularity of the more final kind

CiDeRmAn

o1s1n wrote: »

This was either put together by a machine or some godlike entity. I am assuming godlike entitites don't assemble toys for Tomy.

So in that case it was a machine. A godlike machine.

Here it is,
Tomy's Northern European Headquarters..

and their Southern European HQ as well..

Tomy assembly line workers, back in Japan...

James Howlett

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Working fine for me in windows 7. Can't capture in s-video for some reason (might be the modified N64 cable I'm using) but in composite its fine. Captured some Rakuga kids from the N64 just there.

Nice one, I'll go on the hunt for one so.

o1s1n

So I decided for some strange reason about an hour ago that I could fix that mechanical Tomy toy.

Opened it up and isolated the problem. It was coming from the little mech box. One of the gears was after coming away.

Decided to take the mechanism itself apart to fit it.

Took off the top cover of the mech -

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

'JESUS ****ING CHRIST!' I yelped.

There was a really high tension coil which is what makes the whole thing work. When I took the cover off it wound back up on itself making an ungodly sound. I'm lucky I didn't throw the whole thing in the air.

After the fright subsided I saw the horror - about 15 gears. From big sizes to absolutely tiny ones which are a few mm across.

Not only do you have to figure out where they all go and how they interact with each other, you also have to somehow wind that high tension coil around a few of them. The gears aren't screwed in either. Their pegs just sit in holes. So they don't get their true strength until you put the lid on.

So you can't put the lid on without assembling it. But you can't assemble it without putting the lid on. The mind boggles.

I somehow managed to wind it around three of them, while simultaniously holding them all in place with fingers and THEN closing the lid down. (There's no way in hell you could possibly do this while also balancing all those other gears in place.)

It kind of worked. In that the gears would turn the dial. But it didn't work in any capacity where you could actually play the game. That would require ALL the gears in place.

This was either put together by a machine or some godlike entity. I am assuming godlike entitites don't assemble toys for Tomy.

So in that case it was a machine. A godlike machine.

batari

Woah man, relax! I'm here strictly for the pervin! Sera doesn't hang round the somethin new section, does she??

<.<.

.>.>

or somethin like that :rolleyes:

o1s1n

batari wrote: »

Ah Christina Applegate, now we're talkin....quality bird back in the day

Quit stealin' all my birds!

batari

Ah Christina Applegate, now we're talkin....quality bird back in the day

johnny_ultimate

Now we know why Gordon Freeman is silent.

He googled the words 'peggy married with children naked' and stumbled onto a part of the internet nobody should ever, ever see. He hasn't spoken about it or anything else since.

DickyC

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I still fancy Peggy rotten,

seriously..??? but I do agree Tony Danza is one hell of a dick.

o1s1n

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Gods, but I loved Married With Children, and I still fancy Peggy rotten, much better than that prissy one in Who's The Boss, plus Tony Danza is a dick!

Peggy???

Did you happen to accidentally sit on the remote and change station whenever Christina Applegate came on screen?! :pac:

CiDeRmAn

Gods, but I loved Married With Children, and I still fancy Peggy rotten, much better than that prissy one in Who's The Boss, plus Tony Danza is a dick!

Retr0gamer

Here's my first video capture:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0p1tDwFGjo

Retr0gamer

James Howlett wrote: »

Can i ask you: what operating system does this say it will work on? I got one a while ago but it wouldn't work on windows 7 despite my best(ish) efforts.

Working fine for me in windows 7. Can't capture in s-video for some reason (might be the modified N64 cable I'm using) but in composite its fine. Captured some Rakuga kids from the N64 just there.

Dr Bob

Odd that , havent seen one of them in ages and then this shows up , and then yours
http://www.adverts.ie/other-consoles-games/tomytronic-3d-tomy-pocket-arcade/975120

o1s1n

Yep! That's the one. You get a sound similar to the one with Starcom toys. It instantly brings me back to the 80s

Might pop her open and see if it's an easy fix.

Dr Bob

o1s1n wrote: »

I found a wind up Pocket Arcade Tomy Safari Drive in my parents house. It's something similar to this (they don't seem to have a photo of Safari Drive on that site)

http://www.handheldempire.com/game.jsp?game=1939

Anyone know if it's worth fixing up? Or is it junk? Luas_Dublin, you know at all?

I'm not to up on the mechanical tomy games ,is this it here
http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Tomy/SafariDrive.htm?

o1s1n

I found a wind up Pocket Arcade Tomy Safari Drive in my parents house. It's something similar to this (they don't seem to have a photo of Safari Drive on that site)

http://www.handheldempire.com/game.jsp?game=1939

Anyone know if it's worth fixing up? Or is it junk? Luas_Dublin, you know at all?

Steve X2

Andrew76 wrote: »

That looks cool! Set you back much?

@ Comedy talk

Think it was around 30 sterling a little while back.

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Retr0gamer

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Freaks & Geeks remains the most accurate, affectionate portrayal of geekdom of them all. Cruelly cancelled

Fantastic show. What happened to you Judd Apartow!

Dr Bob

Mr.Saturn wrote: »

The first two series and a bit. The 'Wee Brain/Britain' arc in the 3rd season almost went ways to justify it being cancelled.

bizzarely I was just thinking about that today , yeah those 3/4 Mr F episodes were a blip in an otherwise fantastic show.
Oh and sorry for the thread derail!

Andrew76

Steve SI wrote: »

Very nice,
I ended up going with one of these for the my Hyperspin/Mame tinkering needs when it eventually ends up in my cab.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Handheld-Wireless-Windows-Keyboard-Control/dp/B003ZV3O86/ref=wl_it_dp_o_npd?ie=UTF8&coliid=I1LOQY4RKJYAKW&colid=2FBXTOA7QIE9E

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That looks cool! Set you back much?

@ Comedy talk

ghostchant

Mr.Saturn wrote: »

The first two series and a bit. The 'Wee Brain/Britain' arc in the 3rd season almost went ways to justify it being cancelled.

I think it became a bit stupid alright, but at they point they knew they were being cut, so kinda felt like they were taking the p*ss to some extent.

johnny_ultimate

Being honest, 'comic book geekdom' is the kind that gives us nerds a bad name. They tend to have spectacularly low standards. It's why I'm terrified of Comic Con and what it has become.

Freaks & Geeks remains the most accurate, affectionate portrayal of geekdom of them all. Cruelly cancelled

Retr0gamer

luas_dublin wrote: »

no not really funny , but its a nice touch
anyway to each their own

It's stuff like that that puts me off it. It's like it's trying to hard to be nerdy and ends up being condescending.