Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Son Of General Retro Discussion

1…209210212214215…334

Comments

  • #6332
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    o1s1n wrote: »
    Hah, no way! It was called 'Riders' (being a horse shop and all). The guy who owned it also drove around in his car (kind of like an ice cream van for videogames!). If you rented a game on the Friday you didn't have to give it back till monday. Was great.

    They had a system where games had different coloured paper dots stuck on the boxes. You could only trade your game for another game with the same colour. Plus £5 of course.

    Not a bad system, I guess they sorted the coloured dot system by release date.
    I remember that van too! We had a similar guy in a car for a while down here. Pretty much an identical system


  • #6333
    Steve X2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,914 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    OwaynOTT wrote: »
    Anyone else having trouble with paying on eBay last two days? I get getting an error with payment is processing. Funds are there in my card so I dunno.

    If like me you pay using your credit card via paypal without actually having a paypal account they will cut you off after a certain amount(pretty high I think).
    It's to suck you into opening an account and I just use another card or request a new number from my cred card company.

    I'll never open a paypal account again, they completely destroyed my ebay and paypal account a little over a year ago and ruined my reputation as a seller(over 2000 positive feedback until the dark days). They froze my account multiple times to check there was no funny business as I had large sums moving through it and eventually froze it one last time when I had built up a large amount from sales. 11 months later they unfroze it and released the funds, which were very small after all the complaint's for refunds from buyers were automatically paid from it.


    I've since opened a new ebay account(just a buyer account this time) and that wasn't easy either as they tracked my down as a previous account and closed it.

    .


  • #6334
    Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,021 ✭✭✭Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy


    OwaynOTT wrote: »
    Anyone else having trouble with paying on eBay last two days? I get getting an error with payment is processing. Funds are there in my card so I dunno.
    bought some stuff last night and went through grand :confused:


  • #6335
    OwaynOTT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,636 ✭✭✭✭OwaynOTT


    Sounds like something similiar is happening. As I'm going to start getting bad feedback in the next couple of days if it's not rectified. I've had about 3-4 grand go through it in the last two years, I don't think that's a massively large amount.


  • #6336
    OwaynOTT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,636 ✭✭✭✭OwaynOTT


    Sera wrote: »
    bought some stuff last night and went through grand :confused:

    Well that rules out PayPal discriminating against people in the Limerick area. :pac:


  • Advertisement
  • #6337
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 53,527 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Finally get my post count upon the neogeoforums so I can send PMs ad the thing I want is sold. Load of me arse.


  • #6338
    Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,021 ✭✭✭Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy


    OwaynOTT wrote: »
    Well that rules out PayPal discriminating against people in the Limerick area. :pac:
    I swear that's exactly why I posted!!! :P


  • #6339
    Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,021 ✭✭✭Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqBO9RbSwcQ


    _____________________________________________________________________

    421114_3511465666841_1277863976_3541967_1024492188_n.jpg


  • #6340
    Sparks43
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭Sparks43


    For anyone who fancies a bet at Cheltenham today there is a horse in the 2:05 called............


    Baldadash :D

    150/1 as well:eek:


  • #6341
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Steve SI wrote: »
    I'll never open a paypal account again, they completely destroyed my ebay and paypal account a little over a year ago and ruined my reputation as a seller(over 2000 positive feedback until the dark days). They froze my account multiple times to check there was no funny business as I had large sums moving through it and eventually froze it one last time when I had built up a large amount from sales. 11 months later they unfroze it and released the funds, which were very small after all the complaint's for refunds from buyers were automatically paid from it.

    Awe Steve we know, that money was just resting in your account :D


  • Advertisement
  • #6342
    Pyongyang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    EnterNow wrote: »
    Awe Steve we know, that money was just resting in your account :D

    SteveSI aka Nick Leeson. :D

    NickLeeson_468x337.jpg


  • #6343
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Pyongyang wrote: »
    SteveSI aka Nick Leeson. :D

    NickLeeson_468x337.jpg

    nick-leeson.jpg


  • #6344
    Steve X2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,914 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    What's all this Nick Leeson stuff then? :eek:

    The funds were just resting in my account while I organised that trip to Lourdes for the kiddies :D

    .


  • #6345
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Steve SI wrote: »
    What's all this Nick Leeson stuff then? :eek:

    The funds were just resting in my account while I organised that trip to Lourdes for the kiddies :D

    .


    Father_Ted_Crilly_2.jpg


  • #6346
    Atavan-Halen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,183 ✭✭✭✭Atavan-Halen


    Sparks43 wrote: »
    For anyone who fancies a bet at Cheltenham today there is a horse in the 2:05 called............


    Baldadash :D

    150/1 as well:eek:

    I should throw a couple of euro on that for sh*ts and giggles. I pass the bookies on the way to work!

    Now, how do I bet? Do I go in and say €2 on baldadash in the 2.05?


  • #6347
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 53,527 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Last time I saw one of those weird naming coincidences was a horse named Ballerbrig, or something like that, a few months ago.

    How did it get on in the race? Well let's just say that my home town of Balbriggan must have all backed it and it was one of the craziest nights out ever :)


  • #6348
    OwaynOTT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,636 ✭✭✭✭OwaynOTT


    Anything that is 16/1 gets a bet from me when I'm in one.
    Girlfriend works in one so I dont have to write out the bets luckily.

    Otherwise

    220384.jpg


  • #6349
    Sparks43
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭Sparks43


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Last time I saw one of those weird naming coincidences was a horse named Ballerbrig, or something like that, a few months ago.

    How did it get on in the race? Well let's just say that my home town of Balbriggan must have all backed it and it was one of the craziest nights out ever :)


    Ballabriggs is 12/1 for the Grand National m8 on the 13th of April


  • #6350
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Mastersystem 2 60Hz mod if anyone is interested. Massive difference in speed, the screen borders are hugely reduced also http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056577230


  • #6351
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    Do I want a Game Gear?


  • Advertisement
  • #6352
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,717 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    The Great Chinholio wrote: »
    Do I want a Game Gear?

    Can you solder?


  • #6353
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    o1s1n wrote: »
    Can you solder?
    I could. Its been a while (although I still have all the crap id need to do it)


  • #6354
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Was backing up some old mod log photos & came across this. Look at this cr@p like, did they really expect this to catch on

    ilet93.jpg


  • #6355
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 53,527 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Well cyberpunk was big in the 90's with the massive success of Johnny Mneumonic :P that looks like a cyberpunk fans wet dream.


  • #6356
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Well cyberpunk was big in the 90's with the massive success of Johnny Mneumonic :P that looks like a cyberpunk fans wet dream.

    Snatcher CD Ftw


  • #6357
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,721 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Pointless feat of endurance alert!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsUT82gIDsg


    Going to pale next to my endeavours to defeat Dark Souls using a guitar controller though.

    (an aside: any ever think that in Goldeneye just looks like two pencils glued together?)


  • #6358
    Jack burton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,798 ✭✭✭Jack burton


    Now this takes beating, asked an ebay seller, who has just opened up shop, how much for shipping a My Pet Monster


    "I ran it by the shipping calculator and it seems like it's way too expensive. Might be over 400 dollars. I'll let you know if I find out I can ship it for something reasonable."





    Just wow


  • #6359
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    Jack burton wrote: »
    Now this takes beating, asked an ebay seller, who has just opened up shop, how much for shipping a My Pet Monster


    "I ran it by the shipping calculator and it seems like it's way too expensive. Might be over 400 dollars. I'll let you know if I find out I can ship it for something reasonable."


    Just wow
    As in these?
    tumblr_kyz4r6Y3ZG1qb3mmfo1_500.jpg


  • #6360
    Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,021 ✭✭✭Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy


    Jack burton wrote: »
    "I ran it by the shipping calculator and it seems like it's way too expensive. Might be over 400 dollars. I'll let you know if I find out I can ship it for something reasonable."

    Just wow
    Not as bad as yours but I was buying a wig from the US and they said it was cost $70 to post :rolleyes: and the week before I bought some heavy cosplay stuff from there in a really heavy box for like $40


  • Advertisement
  • #6361
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,721 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Just finished Journey.

    It's good.

    ICO good (even if such a comparison fails to emphasise the uniqueness of Journey).

    Cannot imagine this being anything other than game of the year. Remarkable stuff.


This discussion has been closed.
Advertisement