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Andrew76 · 01-01-2015 4:19pm

Myrddin wrote: »

Yeah none of mine disappeared overnight, it now says I've 50 stars expiring at the end of Jan. Yesterday it said 1500 were expiring at the end of Dec '14 :rolleyes: I'll hold off & see if anything worthwhile comes up on it. A Snes Wii Upad would be nice Ninty!

Aye, something you can't get handy in a shop or whatever. Got one of those €5 activation codes from the premium site too, have €9.62 on the eshop now but not sure what to get. €7.99 seems too steep for SMW or Super Metroid (as brilliant as they are), especially when you already have the originals I guess. Maybe add funds and get Shovel Knight.

o1s1n wrote: »

So you mean you didn't spend it all on ringtones and mobile phone wallpapers?

Seriously, I can't believe they're offering them on the store. The concept is hideously out of date.

I was thinking the same when I saw them - folk still care about their ringtone?? What was that awful ringtone craze a good few years back - crazy frog or something? :rolleyes:

The Last Bandit · 01-01-2015 4:51pm

Modern gaming sucks.. Picked up Destiny last week and the poxy servers have been down more often than up since..

Tomo.Murphy · 01-01-2015 5:03pm

I've been thinking about picking up Destiny for the PS3 for a while, but with network and server maintenance/outages it can be pretty off-putting. Plus I have a decent sized backlog to clear. I'm only getting around to GTA V now because my PS3 wouldn't install the update. Plus I picked up Far Cry The Wild Expedition for €20 a while ago and haven't even opened it yet. Not counting the Wii U games I got for Christmas. Why do we do it to ourselves? Ha.

CiDeRmAn · 01-01-2015 5:05pm

So, you've yet to sample the joy of bullet sponge bosses once again?
The game is incredibly old fashioned, as if the FPS has regressed to some 8 years ago or more.
It looks great but it simply plays out in a very unsophisticated way.
Reminds me of Serious Sam, particularly when you are locked into an area and fighting wave after wave of enemies.

DinoRex · 01-01-2015 8:35pm

I got pretty hooked on Destiny. Have managed to get my character all the way up to level 31.

Retr0gamer · 01-01-2015 8:39pm

I bowed out at the final grind from 20-30. Just didn't have the time to put into it and by that stage I was completely sick of the lack of content. I still enjoyed my time up until that point which was a good 20 hours. Light point farming just isn't as rewarding as the grind in other games.

johnny_ultimate · 02-01-2015 1:00am

I got Destiny for free and still felt ripped off, if only because I realised that Bungie were effectively wasting my time, and demanding I waste more of it if I wanted to play the 'good stuff', which was a single mission.

Went back to playing Titanfall instead.

richymcdermott · 02-01-2015 5:04pm

either i got **** at games or mario world and super mario bros 3 is hard as ****

Tomo.Murphy · 02-01-2015 5:49pm

I don't know, my mother beat Mario Bros 3 last year and she's over 50.

I haven't played Mario World in a long time, so I can't answer for that, but I had little trouble finishing The Lost Levels.

Mario Bros 3 did give me a little trouble at times though.

CathalDublin · 02-01-2015 7:46pm

richymcdermott wrote: »

either i got **** at games or mario world and super mario bros 3 is hard as ****

You playing on Original hardware? playing at 60htz is a bit quicker than we remember alright.
Love SMB3, still play it every now and then, up until the last couple of levels on world 8 it's all pretty easy

Chris_Heilong · 02-01-2015 7:53pm

some levels can be a bit hard as in you will loose 2 or 3 lives but over all its achievable to finish every level or you can go the warp whistle route like most people.

richymcdermott · 02-01-2015 10:28pm

i cant get past the last level in the world with lava in super mario world

eddhorse · 02-01-2015 11:04pm

richymcdermott wrote: »

i cant get past the last level in the world with lava in super mario world

Chocolate Island ?

Spoiler map below:

Retr0gamer · 03-01-2015 12:28am

richymcdermott wrote: »

i cant get past the last level in the world with lava in super mario world

Ah another noob that has yet to get 96 exits in SMW :P

Myrddin · 03-01-2015 11:22am

Richy closed his account? There goes all hope for a phoenixing of the Sega forum

Nerdkiller1991 · 03-01-2015 12:20pm

Myrddin wrote: »

Richy closed his account? There goes all hope for a phoenixing of the Sega forum

WHAAAA!?

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 03-01-2015 1:01pm

Myrddin wrote: »

Richy closed his account? There goes all hope for a phoenixing of the Sega forum

He's taking a break ╮(╯▽╰)╭, he said he'll be back when Shenmue 3 gets announced pmsl

Corholio · 03-01-2015 4:32pm

Are Vectrex's worth that much these days? Spotted one in a local second hand electronic store for a hefty enough sum.

Tomo.Murphy · 03-01-2015 4:57pm

Just finished GTA V. I had more trouble finishing the last 2 missions than I had playing through the rest of the game. Is it just me or are the police the only group from the three in the last mission that you can outrun? I tried every thing with Franklin to get away without shooting, but every time I lost them they just appeared behind me again...

The Last Bandit · 03-01-2015 8:10pm

Started packing up my games rooms today

Baby bandit is on the way so room is to be converted to a silly nursery instead of a retro nirvana.
Most stuff getting boxed up and stuffed in the attic for the foreseeable future (Woodies have a decent 3 or 2 deal on storage bins which is great). Will probably sell some of it and have a fair bit of junk lying about too that'll get skipped.

Will be keeping a small retro section downstairs so I'll be able to setup one retro system at a time, which might mean I'll actually get more use out of them overall.

Atavan-Halen · 03-01-2015 8:16pm

I'm feeling left out here with all ye having babies! Congrats though!

Corholio · 03-01-2015 8:42pm

No babies here either!

Bandit, the most important question is.....when are you putting up all the stuff for sale for us to feast over? :pac:

Congrats though!

CathalDublin · 03-01-2015 9:32pm

I've just finished rearranging my arcade(only
spare room in our apartment) to make way for the cot arriving next week.
Baby room looks awesome with a pinball and huge wooden arcade in it!

CiDeRmAn · 03-01-2015 11:19pm

Babies means more retrogames!
At least it did for me.
She Who Must Be Obeyed is at work.
I'm on my day off at home.
Cidonalad is in his cot/seat/springy thingy asleep.....
It's gaming time!

Honestly, I got more gaming done in those days than since.
Of course, it explains a lot about how the boy is now more addicted to videogame goodness than I am.

Downwind · 04-01-2015 12:21am

CathalDublin wrote: »

I've just finished rearranging my arcade(only
spare room in our apartment) to make way for the cot arriving next week.
Baby room looks awesome with a pinball and huge wooden arcade in it!

Cool what more would I have wanted back in the day .
Different strokes kinda set the tone back then.

Myrddin · 04-01-2015 11:17am

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Of course, it explains a lot about how the boy is now more addicted to videogame goodness than I am.

Same. Socialisation in action

TechnoFreek · 04-01-2015 11:30am

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Babies means more retrogames!
At least it did for me.
She Who Must Be Obeyed is at work.
I'm on my day off at home.
Cidonalad is in his cot/seat/springy thingy asleep.....
It's gaming time!

Honestly, I got more gaming done in those days than since.
Of course, it explains a lot about how the boy is now more addicted to videogame goodness than I am.

Lucky you. I've had to take a gaming sabbatical.
My two lads, still young, sleep very little during the day and cry a lot. Reflux and other digestion issues.

Not a chance they would sit on their own! Frustrating at first until I accepted this is how it was going to be.

Apologies if I've scared any future gaming dads!

Atavan-Halen · 04-01-2015 11:55am

Watching storage wars in the background and they find a 2600 and a NES in one of the units. Guy claims it's a 001, the first model made and estimates them both at $2300.

Tomo.Murphy · 04-01-2015 12:02pm

Was that the guy with the man purse?

Atavan-Halen · 04-01-2015 12:05pm

Tomo.Murphy wrote: »

Was that the guy with the man purse?

No the big bald guy wearing dungarees. I was just watching like

Andrew76 · 04-01-2015 12:06pm

TechnoFreek wrote: »

Lucky you. I've had to take a gaming sabbatical.
My two lads, still young, sleep very little during the day and cry a lot. Reflux and other digestion issues.

Not a chance they would sit on their own! Frustrating at first until I accepted this is how it was going to be.

Apologies if I've scared any future gaming dads!

Same here, kids = even less gaming time from my experience. Still worth it though.

Atavan-Halen wrote: »

Watching storage wars in the background and they find a 2600 and a NES in one of the units. Guy claims it's a 001, the first model made and estimates them both at $2300.

'In the background' - you're fooling nobody man! :pac:

Myrddin · 04-01-2015 12:12pm

Andrew76 wrote: »

Same here, kids = even less gaming time from my experience. Still worth it though

That's only for a certain period, wait for it dude. If games click with them then you'll have games coming out of your ears for the next decade

Tomo.Murphy · 04-01-2015 12:27pm

Atavan-Halen wrote: »

No the big bald guy wearing dungarees. I was just watching like

How do they manage to do that twice in the same show? The one I saw was hilarious. The look on the guys face when he was told it was worth around $50 in working order was priceless.

Andrew76 · 04-01-2015 12:33pm

Myrddin wrote: »

That's only for a certain period, wait for it dude. If games click with them then you'll have games coming out of your ears for the next decade

Hopefully! We did get some more gaming time over the Christmas break - Lego City on the Wii-U is excellent, so much content crammed into that game.

Myrddin · 04-01-2015 12:36pm

Andrew76 wrote: »

Lego City on the Wii-U is excellent, so much content crammed into that game.

Very cool isn't it

Retr0gamer · 04-01-2015 2:44pm

With the combination of boozing and relatives visiting Christmas has been a total disaster for gaming for me. Would be better off back in work, I got far more gaming done!

CiDeRmAn · 04-01-2015 4:28pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

With the combination of boozing and relatives visiting Christmas has been a total disaster for gaming for me. Would be better off back in work, I got far more gaming done!

Damn you Jebus for having your fake birthday at the same time Retr0 wants to play games.
Couldn't you, the Christian churches, not have predicted Retr0's coming and made allowances in the calendar for his gaming needs??
Honestly, bloody religion

Mr.Saturn · 04-01-2015 5:49pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

With the combination of boozing and relatives visiting Christmas has been a total disaster for gaming for me. Would be better off back in work, I got far more gaming done!

I'd be similar. I 100%-ed 3 or 4 long-ish games during essay/exam season, but since the holliers began, my game-time is drawn down to Binding of Isaac runs.

o1s1n · 05-01-2015 10:51pm

Just went to lash on a film on netflix.

'Popular on Netflix' - Birth of a Nation

errrr... should we all be racist now? What's the official line the church has taken on this?

Retr0gamer · 05-01-2015 11:06pm

o1s1n wrote: »

Just went to lash on a film on netflix.

'Popular on Netflix' - Birth of a Nation

errrr... should we all be racist now? What's the official line the church has taken on this?

It's a very hard movie to find so the fact that it's on Netflix is a big deal. Also it might be a disgusting piece of racist filth but it pretty much changed cinema forever with many of the techniques pioneered still being used today.

As a piece of cinema history well you kind of have to watch it.

o1s1n · 05-01-2015 11:19pm

I've no objections to it being on netflix, I know how important of a film it is. It's just a bit bizarre to see it in the 'popular' category.

johnny_ultimate · 05-01-2015 11:36pm

This notice was on the back of a silent film BluRay I got a few months back:

Ah, good old early twentieth century racism.

Andrew76 · 05-01-2015 11:39pm

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

This notice was on the back of a silent film BluRay I got a few months back:

Ah, good old early twentieth century racism.

Didn't know you were holidaying in Australia JU? :P

johnny_ultimate · 06-01-2015 8:55pm

Andrew76 wrote: »

Didn't know you were holidaying in Australia JU? :P

Was actually showing up fine on mobile, only when I saw it on desktop was it all wrong way 'round

The Last Bandit · 06-01-2015 10:03pm

Found these two beauties while packing up some stuff

If you don't know what they are then you're either too young or honest !!

Tomo.Murphy · 06-01-2015 10:46pm

I think I fall under both of those categories, ha. What are they?

The Last Bandit · 06-01-2015 11:11pm

"Swap Magic" were boot discs for the Playstation 2, basically you booted the console using them and then swapped in a backup disc - you had to swap the disc without pressing the eject button though so all kinds of hacks and modded cases were available to do this.

"HD Loader" was a Playstation 2 application that let you install games onto a harddrive. This is a fairly rare DVD copy of it, Sony quickly sued the crap out of anyone selling it.

CathalDublin · 06-01-2015 11:24pm

Haha, remember the cases they use to sell for the PS2?
I remember walking around Jonesborough market and every second person was walking out with a PS2 with flappy lid, funny thing is mod chips were well out at the time, I think it was just far more expensive to have one installed if you wern't very handy with a soldering iron

The Last Bandit · 07-01-2015 12:02am

Ya the Messiah chip was the first main one I think and definitely not a simple mod to install !!

Retr0gamer · 07-01-2015 1:15am

You needed to be able to microsolder to install a PS2 modchip, it required someone very skilled and wasn't an easy job.

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