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SageTech
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Posted: 20th Mar 2005 10:06
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g4 tech tv...ah yes i watched that today, i was so mad icons wasn't on!

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Matt Rock
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About a year ago around this time I was living in Florida (near sage, actually, in Casselberry) with a girl, and she would freak out whenever I watched G4 because it wasn't "sharing." Then she'd watch Lifetime shows and order me to pipe down whenever I'd mention how unfair that was. And I only lived there for a month... she had a tendancy to throw things. Oh well, that's what I get for dating a crazy %$#&@... Scary thing is, this relates to SNES! One day I told her how the PS2 was backwards-compatible, and what that meant. The next morning, she came to me with an SNES cart and asked me if I could "plug it in." It's remarkable how ignorant people can be

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SageTech
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Posted: 20th Mar 2005 22:39
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my sis always watches the lifetime network. It's always the movie with the evil man.

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BearCDPOLD
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Posted: 21st Mar 2005 02:42 Edited at: 21st Mar 2005 02:46
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I watched G4 once, and found the show topics to be entertaining, but all the hosts, except the guys on Electric Playground, were the most annoying people on the planet. Couldn't stand watching them any longer.

[EDIT]Sorry bout repeating what you said Mr. Pointless, missed your post for one reason or another.

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SageTech
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Posted: 21st Mar 2005 02:51
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ya but diane mazoto (most likely i spelled the incorrectly) is hot!

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Cian Rice
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Posted: 21st Mar 2005 03:15 Edited at: 21st Mar 2005 03:16
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@ Sage Tech: No she's not.

I'm boycotting G4 tehy removed the Tech TV part and added crap hosts, for instance they removed Cory Rouse and replaced him with some stupid girl who knows nothing about video games and lacks the word - humour. God I hate Kirsten Holt . Soon we'll see Eminem hosting shows on G4, and Jay-Z hosting the Screen Savers (Or whatever the new name is) G4 sucks.

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Matt Rock
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Posted: 21st Mar 2005 19:39
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Grr! Screensavers! What happened to the two guys they had hosting it before! You know, the guys who had TALENT? They've got these two kids on there now, possibly younger than me (or at least my age, 25, definitely not older) who couldn't annoy me any more. Whenever that show is on I watch them for five minutes, then I'm captivated knowing that a fart joke is coming up soon. They remind of the frat guys who also took CS in college (for the less initiated that's Computer Science). I can picture them crushing budweiser cans on their foreheads after every episode. But then, that's why they invented the remote control

Diane Mizota IS hot. My current girlfriend is Asian, most of my ex-girlfriends were asian... Diane Mizota is asian... are we sensing a trend here?

I agree with Anime about one thing though, absolutely: G4 is going to be the next MTV. Remember when MTV showed music videos? And now all they show is crappy reality shows and videos only when they can have 100 whiney high school girls screaming in the background? G4 is headed that direction... a hybrid station for every form of pop culture, from games to music to platform shoes. And most of the hosts now don't know that there were gaming systems out there prior to the first Playstation.

Whatever happened to Cat? Is she still on that help show? Is that help show even still around?

- more idiotic ramblings by Matt Rock, who REALLY should be in bed

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Mr Pointless
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Posted: 22nd Mar 2005 03:46
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Don't worry about it Bear.

Being a Brit and, as a result, not knowing the answer to this question... WHAT THE F**K IS G4?
(Grabs pointy Dunce hat.)

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G4 is a television station we have here in the States that's dedicated to gaming and the industry therein. It used to be pretty nifty until they merged with Tech TV, a station dedicated to, well, technology. Now it's two networks with two similar yet distinctively unique programming structures airing on one station. The result? Crap. There's no better word or phrase for it Perhaps "bullocks," as a brit friend of mine so often declares whenever she stubs her toe or gets upset about anything.

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Dazzag
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Posted: 22nd Mar 2005 03:56
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Bullocks? You mean like those large cow things?

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For a start, that "u" should be an "o".

That station sounds a tiny tiny bit like [.tv] over here before it closed. Only useful thing I learned from that channel was how to make an icon in Paint.

Now there's just Game Network, which unfortunatley

a) Is usually in Italian when I see what's on
b) Doesn't seem to fit the schedule on Sky's search & scan banner and
c) Dedicates hours to late night phone-in "services"

Only decent games TV over here is When Games Attack on Bravo, IMO. Dominik Diamond is actually funnier than when he was on GamesMaster.

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I thought there were a couple of other channels (mainly useless) dedicated to games amongst the hundreds thrown at us by Sky?

Used to like .tv though. Their games reviews wern't too bad, and the hopeless tutorials (how to use Excel for *complete* morons) were always amusing when it was obvious that the presenter hadn't even got an NVQ (not very qualified ) in the subject he was teaching. "Hmmm... doesn't seem to be working now for some reason, perhaps a virus... (like yeah right....)"... queue ads and some time for the not so charming but geeky person (who knows what he is doing but is paid a tenth as much) to move the mouse actually into the window where the application is running before getting the presenter to press the right button..... argle.... but entertaining in a motorway pile up kind of way (sheer horror but can't look away).

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I like how this thread was started by someone who was born after the SNES was released

Despite that, F-Zero is the greatest SNES game of all time.


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Posted: 22nd Mar 2005 05:28
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yes, but it was my first console

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Posted: 22nd Mar 2005 05:33
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right, so by "back in the days" you mean.. 2001?

JK, you're right, SNES pwned all the ages.


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Wow, that young? Yeesh... I remember how cool I felt being the first kid on my block to get an Atari 7600 (or was it 7800? Or 7200? 7?00, that's what really counts ) Back then I had an IBM PC Jr. with 128 KB of RAM! And we had big black floppy plastic disks! There were no CD-ROM's! And there were no hard drives! We had to save our games right to the disk! And video cards? HA! Internet? HA! We called it the ARPANET! And there were no fancy schmancy chat rooms, no way, we had to post to bulletin boards, and it took 2 hours to send your message and three hours to get a reply! And we had to WALK to school, with no shoes, uphill BOTH WAYS in the SNOW! Oh, when vinyl was cool and not "retro." Them's was da days

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Dude, I had a Grandstand console. It basically was the usual pong type effort with football and tennis variants. But the best thing was it had a light gun... shoot the moving squares!!! (both big and small depending on setting). But the best thing is the gun was like totally black and looked like something out of SWAT!!!!! Tops when I was a kid.

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Here's some useless game history trivia to bore people with:

Until the XBox was released, the console with the most memory was actually released in the late 80's (it may have been early 90's, I'm not entirely sure on that point) called the Colorvision CD. Release only in America it was priced at over $600, this was mainly because it had a whopping 48mb of ram, and in those days, ram was expensive. Unsurprisingly it didn't sell very well and never got released worldwide. It was the first ever console to use a CD player, but a single speed player took ages to fill 48mb and loading times were disgusting.

Sega nearly charged over £100 for Virtua Racing on the Mega Drive because the development of the SVP chip in the cartridge that made the game possible was so expensive for them.

The first game to use 'light-gun' technology (that I am aware of) was the arcade game Lethal Enforcers by Konami, one of the earliest games to almost be banned by governments!

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I found a screenshot!!!! Couldn't find the gun, but this is the console. Deffo. Could swear it was Granstand though... Check out the angle button BTW, how messed up is that? Basically one was easy angles when it bounced, the other was more acute and difficult.



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Aha. This looks like the gun, but the console looked like above. Top gun.

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who remembers level codes? such as:

4jfdhd545224jfd

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Matt Rock
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was it up down up down up left right A B start? Or how did that go? The old Konami code for the oldschool nes?

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Sonic the Hedgehog - level select code: Up, down, left, right, a + start.

Mortal Kombat - Mega Drive Blood code: Up, down, left, left, A, right, down. While text is appearing.

Thought I'd just add another pointless post.

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ah yes, fond memories of no saving.

O yeah, Join the sagetech forums!

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Quote: "Sega nearly charged over £100 for Virtua Racing"


That's nowt compared to the asking prices of Neo-Geo games!
£300 for a new title, apparently!

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