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Van B
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Posted: 6th Jun 2009 19:07
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Is it Conrad Hart from Fade To Black?

- no flies on me!


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Grog Grueslayer
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Posted: 6th Jun 2009 19:57
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Quote: "Rick Dangerous? Punch cards? What the hell? "


Hahaha my Dads favorite saying is:

I have socks older than you.

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Grandma
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Posted: 6th Jun 2009 22:41
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Quote: "Is it Conrad Hart from Fade To Black?"

It just might be. Darnit, I want to play it again, but my PS2 is kaput, the PS1 is sold, and the DOS version of the game has painful un-atmospheric music. I'll just ask seeing as I'm in the right forum- What do we do when the PS2 reads discs so bad that few ever get the chance to load before giving up? If it's even fixable.

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Scraggle
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Posted: 7th Jun 2009 00:57
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I remember my parents taking me on holiday to Spain in the 70's and in a cafe there I saw a Space Invaders arcade cabinet. It was the most amazing thing I had ever seen. Why was there nothing like this in England I thought?!

When we got home two weeks later, Space Invaders was everywhere!

I refused to play it for a long time because I saw some people playing it and counting the number of bullets fired before shooting the UFO and thought it was way too complicated to have to count your bullets! I didn't realise at the time that it was only to get the 300 point bonus.



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JoelJ
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Posted: 7th Jun 2009 06:33 Edited at: 7th Jun 2009 06:34
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whomever gets this one gets a penguin



Your mother has been erased by a mod because it's larger than 600x120

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Jeku
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Posted: 7th Jun 2009 08:55
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I used to play this game on my Atari 2600 when I was a kid. It was so boring, but the only game I had before we got Donkey Kong:



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TheComet
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Posted: 7th Jun 2009 13:38
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Why on earth would I want a penguin?


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Strelok
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Posted: 7th Jun 2009 13:42
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Quote: "Why on earth would I want a penguin?"

They can poop free ice cream for you.

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Raybrite2
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I only remember Howdy Doody, Clairabell the clown, and Princess SummerFall WinterSpring on our 7 inch bvlack and white tv.
Never heard of computers until I retired from the military.
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zzz
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Posted: 7th Jun 2009 21:09
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What's the name of this guy, and who was he trying to save? Don't cheat!

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Travis Gatlin
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Posted: 8th Jun 2009 01:55 Edited at: 8th Jun 2009 01:57
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ahh i remember the PS1 lol the crappiest game system ever besides the colecovision grrr im gonna kill the colecovision
-----colecovision! and the creator of the system -----creator

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Travis Gatlin
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Posted: 8th Jun 2009 02:03 Edited at: 8th Jun 2009 02:12
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also joelj i know what that image is indiana jones swinging from a vine! and one more thing raybrite computers were made by the military in WW2 by 2 brittish mathmatitians(spelling?)which we were allies with brittain! haha i prove you wrong!

the modern government tries to make time,into money that is why clock are not free! in theory time is actually money!
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Grog Grueslayer
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Posted: 8th Jun 2009 03:03 Edited at: 8th Jun 2009 03:09
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Quote: "whomever gets this one gets a penguin"


Jungle Hunt!

Quote: "crappiest game system ever besides the colecovision grrr im gonna kill the colecovision"


What? The Colecovision was the only system that had graphics that looked exactly like the arcade. I loved mine.

http://www.tripoint.org/games/literature/catalogs/coleco/cv.html

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JoelJ
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Posted: 8th Jun 2009 10:27
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@Grog Grueslayer:

THANK YOU! I was starting to get worried that no one here knew it.
You have your choice of a penguin, take ONE:

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Grog Grueslayer
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Posted: 8th Jun 2009 22:08
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Cool thanks.

> take fat penguin
The fat penguin waddles away from your grasp.

> give fat penguin the fish
The fat penguin starts to gobble up the fish.

> take fat penguin
Distracted by the fish the fat penguin is easily taken.

> Woohoo
I don't understand "woohoo".

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Inspire
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Posted: 11th Jun 2009 04:56
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I am this old.

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Darth Kiwi
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Posted: 11th Jun 2009 13:19 Edited at: 11th Jun 2009 13:21
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Anyone remember this game?



That was a cruel game. You died at *every* conceivable opportunity. Fall in the moat? Eaten by crocodiles. Push rock to reveal hole in ground? Oops, you were standing on the wrong side of the rock and you were crushed to death. Fall in a lake? Quick, press the "swim" button or you'll drown! Ah, fun times...

Quote: "What do we do when the PS2 reads discs so bad that few ever get the chance to load before giving up? If it's even fixable."

I had a similar problem with mine and it got taken to the repair shop. Apparently the apparatus that reads the disk (some kind of laser, presumably like a CD) gets out of alignment after a while and needs to be re-aligned. It worked fine after that for a few months then happened again - I think mine is just getting old. Of course, yours might be a different problem.

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Van B
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Posted: 11th Jun 2009 13:45
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The old fat PS2 has problems with the lens after a while - you could look on eBay for a replacement, go to all the hell that is replacing it, but then if your PS2 is old enough to have carbon build-up or misalignment or whatever - then I'd suggest trying to buy another PS2 instead. Maybe one of the new, thin ones that probably have a more robust drive in them.


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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 11th Jun 2009 13:50 Edited at: 11th Jun 2009 13:50
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I remember my PS1 having a CD drive problem... the spindle came out of the middle.

Ah, the good old days of blackback discs.

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Grandma
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Posted: 11th Jun 2009 14:46
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So the lazer might be out of alignment? I'll crack the thing open and take a look at it before spending money on a new one. Yes, it's a very old 'fat' PS2. If I break the thing, well I kinda wanted a new shiny slim version anyway.

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Grog Grueslayer
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Posted: 11th Jun 2009 19:12 Edited at: 11th Jun 2009 19:12
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My PS2 was once knocked off the TV by my cat and it messed it up so badly it wouldn't work anymore. When I called to get it fixed Sony said it would cost me 80 bucks. I let it sit there broke for a month and started getting invitations in the mail to join Sonys Gamer Advisory Panel. On a letter that said "This is the last request." I decided to join since they've asked several times and at that point seemed desperate for me to join. When I got enough money to fix the PS2 I called them again to find out where to ship the PS2. I asked how much it would cost and they said "Free". Apparently being in the Gamer Advisory Panel is a GOOD thing. My grandson just yesterday knocked that same PS2 off the TV... but it still worked... whew.

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"Your greatest teacher is your harshest critic"-'Butterfingers'
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Darth Kiwi
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Posted: 12th Jun 2009 01:19
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@ Matuka - ha, primitive graphics! Nobody uses the Real World anymore

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Anyone know what I mean by: "load dit-dit"?



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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 14th Jun 2009 03:01 Edited at: 14th Jun 2009 03:02
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No. Though my father still has his Dragon32, it doesn't work. Corroded.

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