Keep Calm And Discuss Retro Generally!

o1s1n · 20-01-2013 10:08PM

There are a few variations on each.

The cheapest grenades and the ones you buy on sites up the north are just a fuse and a container in the shape of a grenade full of peas. It's surprisingly affective! Scary when one lands beside you. Illegal down here though as they're fireworks.

Then there are more technical ones that are filled with gas and have loads of little holes that fire bbs out of them.

There are even claymores and tripmines which you fill with hundreds of bbs.

Some shotguns only fire one bb, others fire a spread of three or so. You can even get ones which you load say three bbs into a shell, insert the shell in like you would a real shotty and then the shell will eject when you pump it after firing.

Obviously cant really play a game with one of them in a woodland, but cool all the same!

Steve X2 · 20-01-2013 10:12PM

They have CO2/green gas grenades and they are completely legal here.
Most people put talc powder and BB's in them.

http://www.mainirishairsoft.com/scripts/prodList.asp?idCategory=87

Jack burton · 20-01-2013 11:18PM

o1s1n wrote: »

I collect Starcom. I had originally just wanted to replace the ones I had when I was a kid (and sold off) - got a little carried away though!

Oh wow starcom is awesome!

I want to start getting the GI Joes Action force I had when i was younger. I anyone every builds a time machine is will only be used to go back in time and tell ourselves not to see or break any of our ****!

Dr Bob · 20-01-2013 11:38PM

Jack burton wrote: »

Oh wow starcom is awesome!

I want to start getting the GI Joes Action force I had when i was younger. I anyone every builds a time machine is will only be used to go back in time and tell ourselves not to see or break any of our ****!

Totally , I'd a load of Action force stuff, had a feckin RoboSkull (basically Palitoy used the leftover TIE fighter parts and stuck them inside a Blood Red Skull ship) which I'd love to have on the wall of nerd toys , but sadly was "thrown out" years back.Never seen one on ebay either.That and the little brothers Manta Force kit(although thats too damn big for the shelves!)

CiDeRmAn · 21-01-2013 01:00AM

Christ on a bike, for me it was Lego and Meccano, Matchbox cars and then... Pong!

Atavan-Halen · 21-01-2013 02:24AM

I've been playing pokemon all day instead of doing college work. I'm only taking a food break from pokemon now! Whoops!

Nerdkiller1991 · 21-01-2013 04:44AM

atavan-halen wrote: »

I've been playing pokemon all day instead of doing college work. I'm only taking a food break from pokemon now! Whoops!

GASP! Does this mean that Ata is no longer dependent on booze...and naughty thoughts regarding Sera?

CiDeRmAn · 21-01-2013 08:25AM

Nerdkiller1991 wrote: »

GASP! Does this mean that Ata is no longer dependent on booze...and naughty thoughts regarding Sera?

It is common knowledge that Atavan loves Pokemon more than anything, even drink.
Otherwise he'd be in the wrong forum.
A drunk, non retro gamer us just called a drunk and tend to have usernames like G1nsponge, WetmeselfAgain or rhuikvbv (because they were too p1ssed to type!)

Atavan-Halen · 21-01-2013 10:01AM

I've decided there's too much snow for me to drive as to do so would be dangerous in a rear wheel drive vehicle so I'm not leaving the house.

Now where did I put that ds......

CiDeRmAn · 21-01-2013 10:30AM

I had times yesterday when I was at a loose end, so I played some 3DS, and a some OoT 3D at that, now in the Fire Temple, I have never gotten this far before, something else sparkly would always distract me!
Now, I'm at home and have simply too much choice.... more of those damn 1st world dilemas!
Still, it was pretty gratifying to see the kids playing 2 player Puzzle Bobble on the cab over the weekend, and mix it up with some Nintendoland gaming as well.

Jack burton · 21-01-2013 10:33AM

College really is the time to find you niche in terms of what things you like most to do instead of work.

o1s1n · 21-01-2013 11:09AM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I had times yesterday when I was at a loose end, so I played some 3DS, and a some OoT 3D at that, now in the Fire Temple, I have never gotten this far before, something else sparkly would always distract me!
Now, I'm at home and have simply too much choice.... more of those damn 1st world dilemas!

Argh, stick with the one game! Finish OOT and then move on!

It's the only way of dealing with having too much choice.

If you want some variety, then play arcade games or other pick up and play things on the side...but no long games!

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Still, it was pretty gratifying to see the kids playing 2 player Puzzle Bobble on the cab over the weekend, and mix it up with some Nintendoland gaming as well.

Awh, I can imagine alright. If there's one way of melting the missus in relation to the cab it's to get her to see how much the kids enjoy using it.

o1s1n · 21-01-2013 11:22AM

Jack burton wrote: »

Oh wow starcom is awesome!

I want to start getting the GI Joes Action force I had when i was younger. I anyone every builds a time machine is will only be used to go back in time and tell ourselves not to see or break any of our ****!

Starcom was one of the greatest toy lines of the 80s. It did okay, but not nearly as well as it should have. I reckon it's because it did the whole space thing a little bit too realistically.

They really should have pushed the no batteries needed line more. I'd say parents would have been all over that.

All the moving parts are mechanically driven...lots of mine still work.

The magnets on their feet and on the ships though, that was just inspired. I used to love walking them up the fridge

Because of the realistic factor, they got a bit of a cult status among collectors and now some go for silly money.

I was also a big Action Force Kid. When I was about 6 or 7, my parents bought me Rolling Thunder for Christmas. Was the coolest thing I'd ever seen!!!

If that wasn't enough, my grandparents then dropped over with this

Manta Force was the year after I think? I got the Black Barracuda along with one of these

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Looking back, I really was feckin spoiled rotten with toys! :eek:

Then there was the great garage sale of 95...I sold everything. For peanuts too.

21-01-2013 11:26AM

o1s1n wrote: »

I collect Starcom. I had originally just wanted to replace the ones I had when I was a kid (and sold off) - got a little carried away though!

I used to collect M.A.S.K. stuff. Had a massive collection of them until a few years ago when my mum decided to do a clear out of her attic and reduced it by about 60% in one fell swoop.

She doesn't get the whole "retro collectibles" thing. To her, if it's old it's junk. Unless it's something like the 17 artificial christmas trees or any number of old record players, radios, VHS recorders, etc she's got up there for "safe keeping". You can't throw that stuff out, because "you never know when someone might need it"

Steve SI wrote: »

They have CO2/green gas grenades and they are completely legal here.
Most people put talc powder and BB's in them....

I've used the cartridge based thunder B's from MIA a fair bit. Very handy for getting people out from behind cover or clearing rooms, just like in your favourite generic FPS game

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When they blow they have a nasty habit of obliterating the entire shell except for the bit that screws into the threads. That bit gets well and truly stuck in there and it's impossible to screw back out without the rest of the shell to grab on to, which means your "re-usable" grenade is knackered. I messed up a couple of them that way before i gave up spending money on them. Lots of fun in a game though. Very useful.

Retr0gamer · 21-01-2013 01:25PM

My brother got the mobile command centre as a kid as well for Christmas. I remember that christmas well because I never heard so many swears out of my dads mouth before as he tried to put that thing together.

Jack burton · 21-01-2013 01:29PM

Well I have to get some action force stuff now! Aswell as the street fighter crossover stuff they did aswell

One toy line I never had but I really want to get my hands on now is inhumanoids

Retr0gamer · 21-01-2013 01:31PM

One of those toys 'inspired' the design of the creatures in Project Firestart:

Jack burton · 21-01-2013 01:33PM

haha its Tendril!

Optimus Prime · 21-01-2013 01:58PM

I remember watching the Cartoon movie of that years ago! loved it, think a mate had one or two of the toys

DinoRex · 21-01-2013 02:01PM

It had both Megatron and Starscream on board as voice actors.

Jack burton · 21-01-2013 02:12PM

Yeah, I'm amazed it didnt catch on! It was really gruesome aswell for a cartoon back then...which it what everyone loved and wanted. Plus the figures were great and huge!

DinoRex · 21-01-2013 02:18PM

Did anyone else have any of the RoboForce toys?

21-01-2013 02:24PM

Off topic, but in relation to HMV vouchers, the UK administrator has just said (via the media) that HMV UK will be accepting vouchers again from tomorrow and honouring debts to charity groups for Christmas singles etc.

No word yet on Ireland. Fingers crossed we'll hear something similar soon.

MrVestek · 21-01-2013 02:26PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Off topic, but in relation to HMV vouchers, the UK administrator has just said (via the media) that HMV UK will be accepting vouchers again from tomorrow and honouring debts to charity groups for Christmas singles etc.

No word yet on Ireland. Fingers crossed we'll hear something similar soon.

I'd say the Irish stores will remain closed but you may be able to use the remaining credit on the vouchers up north.

Nerdkiller1991 · 21-01-2013 03:31PM

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-01-21-uk-chart-dmc-devil-may-cry-horns-its-way-to-top-spot

So...sort of a bomb? I mean, January tends to be a slow month and all.

Retr0gamer · 21-01-2013 03:48PM

My demo impressions were that it wasn't for me but it doesn't really deserve to bomb either. Ninja Theory seem to be sales poison.

deathrider · 21-01-2013 04:26PM

atavan-halen wrote: »

I've decided there's too much snow for me to drive as to do so would be dangerous in a rear wheel drive vehicle so I'm not leaving the house.

Now where did I put that ds......

Which Pokémon are you playing? I'm currently juggling LeafGreen and White 2, with a side of Diamond. It's leaving me with little or feck all time fore other games.

Atavan-Halen · 21-01-2013 05:03PM

The new devil may cry looks very flashy but I'll be waiting until its around the €20 mark or less to get it.

deathrider wrote: »

Which Pokémon are you playing? I'm currently juggling LeafGreen and White 2, with a side of Diamond. It's leaving me with little or feck all time fore other games.

Playing black 2 as I bought it on release but never actually played it since then. Got the Japanese version of white 2 when it came out and finished that so it's nice to now understand the story :P

Retr0gamer · 21-01-2013 05:47PM

@Enternow: You've been looking for a space sim. This is out on PC this Thursday:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS50TK_Eqxk

OwaynOTT · 21-01-2013 06:03PM

Jack burton wrote: »

I have a new goal, I've been buying some toys and stuff recently

I now wish I collect the entire visionaries toy line, only 12 figures and 3 vehicles. Nobody else here is really into collecting toys are they?

I had a couple of them when I was younger. I threw one into an oak tree in the park and it got stuck. I remember crying for ages about it, very stupid child I was. I also melted a Skeletor figure in the fire. He-Man defeated him and threw him in the fire, the bollix!

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