Advertisement
Help Keep Boards Alive. Support us by going ad free today. See here: https://subscriptions.boards.ie/.
https://www.boards.ie/group/1878-subscribers-forum

Private Group for paid up members of Boards.ie. Join the club.
Hi all, please see this major site announcement: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058427594/boards-ie-2026

Keep Calm And Discuss Retro Generally!

1…5681011…332

Comments

  • #212
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    EnterNow wrote: »
    I've yet to embrace Battlestar Galactica, it's on my list & the fact it gets such positive comments is promising.
    Which Battlestar? The old or new?
    Never watched the old series but finally got around to the new a couple of months ago.
    Slow to really get going (took me ages to get through the 1st series) but then it just went all kinds of mental and epic :pac:


  • #213
    Optimus Prime
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 5,429 Mod ✭✭✭✭Optimus Prime


    EnterNow wrote: »
    But Red Dwarf isn't sci-fi really, its a comedy sit com at its heart.

    I've yet to embrace Battlestar Galactica, it's on my list & the fact it gets such positive comments is promising.

    Battlestar is brilliant, I loved it, one of the best scifi series ever. You should check that out. Red Dwarf is a product of the time, much like Bottom too. it was great years ago, but it hasnt aged well at all.


  • #214
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 31,123 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    *mandatory video post*

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njr3aFpTMyQ


    It really is a great show though. A few rough edges aside (frickin' epilogue) it's a smart, unusual and surprisingly dark TV show full of great characters. So say we all.


  • #215
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    That video is disturbingly accurate....


  • #216
    a5y
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 945 ✭✭✭a5y


    nuxxx wrote: »
    uhm...

    Anyone know a place to pickup a NTSC snes with decent shipping costs?

    I was looking for one for some time, and didn't come up with any obvious answers (and much as I want a SNES it hasn't been a priotity for me). I think getting one from Japan seemed like the best option - the slower mail options are reasonably affordable compared to the crazy prices you can expect to pay to get one from the US or Canada.


  • Advertisement
  • #217
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    The Great Chinholio wrote: »
    Which Battlestar? The old or new?
    Never watched the old series but finally got around to the new a couple of months ago.
    Slow to really get going (took me ages to get through the 1st series) but then it just went all kinds of mental and epic :pac:

    Em both of them, I've never seen either one. I'm coming to the end of my DS9 run now & well into season 7 so will be looking to start something different soon. I was thinking of doing a run through Sliders, but BSG is tempting me over...


  • #218
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    Some damn fine floor decorations
    http://freshome.com/2012/07/22/retro-graphic-floor-decals-add-secret-passages-to-your-room/


  • #219
    Jack burton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,798 ✭✭✭Jack burton


    Ok I need a hand for a project I'm working on. Can anyone think of some characters from cartoons etc who live in sewers.

    So far I have the Turtles and The Morlocks from xmen

    Can anyone think of anything else?


  • #220
    ghostchant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,750 ✭✭✭ghostchant


    The characters from Round the Bend any good to you?

    http://homepage.ntlworld.com/orgers/rtb/pics.htm

    Not a cartoon but you did throw an 'etc' in there :)


  • #221
    Jack burton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,798 ✭✭✭Jack burton


    Haha I remember that now, ah anything like that is good too


  • Advertisement
  • #222
    Optimus Prime
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 5,429 Mod ✭✭✭✭Optimus Prime


    Jack burton wrote: »
    Ok I need a hand for a project I'm working on. Can anyone think of some characters from cartoons etc who live in sewers.

    So far I have the Turtles and The Morlocks from xmen

    Can anyone think of anything else?

    Giant Crocodile Guy from Batman?


  • #223
    OwaynOTT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,659 ✭✭✭✭OwaynOTT


    The Rat King from turtles as well. Danger mouse lives in the sewers right?


  • #224
    James Howlett
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,599 ✭✭✭James Howlett


    Kit Walker from Phantom 2040, I don't think he lived in the sewers but he used them a far bit, as far as I can remember.

    Street Sharks.

    Biker Mice from Mars.

    To add to Keith's Killer Croc from Batman the Animated Series... the Rat King, although he was only in one episode and is kinda depressing.


  • #225
    DinoRex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭DinoRex


    The Rat King must have been in dozens of episodes.

    Don't forget the mutants in Futurama though.


  • #226
    James Howlett
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,599 ✭✭✭James Howlett


    DinoRex wrote: »
    The Rat King must have been in dozens of episodes.

    I got that wrong, I meant the Sewer King from Batman the Animated Series.


  • #227
    Andrew76
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 11,396 Mod ✭✭✭✭Andrew76


    Jack burton wrote: »
    Ok I need a hand for a project I'm working on. Can anyone think of some characters from cartoons etc who live in sewers.

    So far I have the Turtles and The Morlocks from xmen

    Can anyone think of anything else?

    What about the Fraggles? Of Fraggle Rock fame. Ok, technically not the sewers as they lived in caves under a lighthouse, but they were cool! As were the Doozers. :cool:


  • #228
    Jack burton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,798 ✭✭✭Jack burton


    Great stuff lads thanks


  • #229
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,811 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Andrew76 wrote: »
    What about the Fraggles? Of Fraggle Rock fame. Ok, technically not the sewers as they lived in caves under a lighthouse, but they were cool! As were the Doozers. :cool:

    In Ireland we got the US version as well, where the tunnel to the Fraggles was through a hole in the wall of Doc's repair shop, strangely he had a Sprocket dog as well, maybe they were clones.....


  • #230
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 54,134 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    The greatest film ever now in iOS format:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYJU3qybniE


  • #231
    Steve X2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,920 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    Non gaming retro question here.
    Was anyone else at or near the air show win Bray yesterday?
    If so do you know if it was just Irish planes at it? I took a few snaps from the beach near the show and every plane seems to have the Irish flag on them so I was just wondering was it an all Irish affair or did they have a few international planes at it.


  • Advertisement
  • #232
    Andrew76
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 11,396 Mod ✭✭✭✭Andrew76


    Steve SI wrote: »
    Non gaming retro question here.
    Was anyone else at or near the air show win Bray yesterday?
    If so do you know if it was just Irish planes at it? I took a few snaps from the beach near the show and every plane seems to have the Irish flag on them so I was just wondering was it an all Irish affair or did they have a few international planes at it.

    Do we need to be worried about you and your non-retro habits? The other day you were telling us how easy it is to import guns and ammo and now you're taking pics of planes and asking about non-Irish ones? :pac:


  • #233
    Steve X2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,920 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    Andrew76 wrote: »
    Do we need to be worried about you and your non-retro habits? The other day you were telling us how easy it is to import guns and ammo and now you're taking pics of planes and asking about non-Irish ones? :pac:

    Haha, no you're ok.
    No terrorist urges from me. I just wanted to get a few pics of some cool planes and we don't really have that many here in Ireland. So I was a little disappointed with the show.
    Got a few ok pics anyway but really wanted some pics of Russian and US hardware and dreaming of seeing a Spitfire in flight again.

    Pics are about 3MB each.
    http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/2826/dsc2107tonemapped.jpg
    http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/8938/dsc2113tonemapped.jpg
    http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/1734/dsc2118tonemappedb.jpg
    http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/2213/dsc2140tonemapped.jpg
    http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/4079/dsc2178tonemapped.jpg
    http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/5016/dsc2179tonemapped.jpg


  • #234
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 54,134 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    I need this game:

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


  • #235
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Steve SI wrote: »
    and dreaming of seeing a Spitfire in flight again.

    You've seen one in action before? Lucky sod, where??


  • #236
    Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,021 ✭✭✭Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    I need this game:

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

    Bippidy Bopity Boooo!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP8PPEH-IKA


  • #237
    Steve X2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,920 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    EnterNow wrote: »
    You've seen one in action before? Lucky sod, where??

    About 7 or 8 years ago over in the UK.

    Hopefully in the next 2 years I'll actually be up in one over in the US with a chance to take the controls for a while, for a price. There's a company that does it in the UK and the US and I managed to get up in a couple of Biplanes last year with them. They only have the Spitfire over in the US as its privately owned and there are legal things involved to go up in one in the UK.

    I'll send you on the links if you like?


  • #238
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 37,353 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Just back from a weeks holiday with zero internet. Zero! What did I miss?!!


  • #239
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,811 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Steve SI wrote: »
    About 7 or 8 years ago over in the UK.

    Hopefully in the next 2 years I'll actually be up in one over in the US with a chance to take the controls for a while, for a price. There's a company that does it in the UK and the US and I managed to get up in a couple of Biplanes last year with them. They only have the Spitfire over in the US as its privately owned and there are legal things involved to go up in one in the UK.

    I'll send you on the links if you like?

    I was in Duxford, by accident, in 2001 and saw Spitfires, Me109, some big ass bomber as well, brilliant stuff and the noise they made was fantastic.
    Made you realise how "personal" dogfights were in the Battle of Britain, none of this fire the AAM from a couple of miles out and shag off home!


  • #240
    Jack burton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,798 ✭✭✭Jack burton


    o1s1n wrote: »
    Just back from a weeks holiday with zero internet. Zero! What did I miss?!!

    BATMAN!


  • Advertisement
  • #241
    a5y
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 945 ✭✭✭a5y


    o1s1n wrote: »
    Just back from a weeks holiday with zero internet. Zero! What did I miss?!!
    Jack burton wrote: »
    BATMAN!

    Saw it today.

    I think I'll keep my opinions on The Dark Knight to myself.


This discussion has been closed.
Advertisement