Official Off Topic Discussion Thread #1

[islandguy11]

Hello; Nice try but I decline to be drawn in.

Lol not trying to do anything, just replying to your comment, which you made in reply to my comment -- thousands of people do it on MFK every day, can't I as well?

And unlike you I don't think you were trying to draw me into anything lol -- I was just making a logical point that your statement was quite irrelevant to the particular mini-discussion at hand (collectible video games).

 

[skjl47]

Lol not trying to do anything, just replying to your comment, which you made in reply to my comment -- thousands of people do it on MFK every day, can't I as well?

And unlike you I don't think you were trying to draw me into anything lol -- I was just making a logical point that your statement was quite irrelevant to the particular mini-discussion at hand (collectible video games).

Hello; Another nice try. Just not good enough. I did like the bit about a mini-discussion tho. Mini- discussion on the most popular open thread in the lounge was almost enough bait.

 

[Chicxulub]

Play nice guys, that doesn't read like an attempt to start a fight; simply a valid observation

 

[Ulu]

I think There's an old NES in the closet, but I never bought many games for that thing.

I have another console from 1995 almost nobody's heard of, sold by Memorex, that runs "Modular Windows" (based on Win 95 but released earlier) and allows games to be saved on a removable chip. The games and books are on special format CDs, some of which I could browse on PC. The format never took off because Microsoft can't do hardware promotion. IDK why.

I was never a console guy though. I built PCs and made custom maps and levels for popular games back to the mid 90's. I own over 200 PC games from 1992 to about 2012. I hacked the first commercial strip poker game in about 1 hour. I reversed all the filenames so the racy photos came out in reverse order. As you lost the game "she" got dressed.

I remember editing BIOS and the TurboEMS startup files to map the available memory to DOS, reordering the loading of drivers, so I could scrounge a few more bytes to make a game run.

I remember the first Zork with graphics. Before that it was all text, and you had to type commands like "look in the mailbox" or "pick up the dagger".

I made maps for Hexen, Blood, Duke Nukem 3D, Descent destination Saturn, Rise of the Triad, Serious Sam, and others I forget.

Favorite PC games were shooters like Duke Nukem & Serious Sam, and flying saucer flight sims like Terminal Velocity and Fury3. I had a lot of other stuff though, crazy mystery & detective games like Starship Titanic and Burn Cycle.

At some point I was working a lot of hours and I just quit playing. I can't remember the last time.

 

[islandguy11]

Hello; Another nice try. Just not good enough. I did like the bit about a mini-discussion tho. Mini- discussion on the most popular open thread in the lounge was almost enough bait.

Geez, really sad it's getting nigh impossible to have a measured, adult like conversation around here, esp in the Lounge. This is esp. true with people who have their little cliques...If you're not in that clique, or that clique happens to not like you, watch out...truth.

But oh well, I guess it's a reflection of society nowadays, esp. in the US, where the 2 main 'sides' hate each other so much they can't even sit down to really discuss, calmly exchange ideas and work things out.

And no baiting here, just exercising my right to reply to other comments, if you just want to shoot and run that's your prerogative buddy, have a nice day.

 

[islandguy11]

I think There's an old NES in the closet, but I never bought many games for that thing.

I have another console from 1995 almost nobody's heard of, sold by Memorex, that runs "Modular Windows" (based on Win 95 but released earlier) and allows games to be saved on a removable chip. The games and books are on special format CDs, some of which I could browse on PC. The format never took off because Microsoft can't do hardware promotion. IDK why.

I was never a console guy though. I built PCs and made custom maps and levels for popular games back to the mid 90's. I own over 200 PC games from 1992 to about 2012. I hacked the first commercial strip poker game in about 1 hour. I reversed all the filenames so the racy photos came out in reverse order. As you lost the game "she" got dressed.

I remember editing BIOS and the TurboEMS startup files to map the available memory to DOS, reordering the loading of drivers, so I could scrounge a few more bytes to make a game run.

I remember the first Zork with graphics. Before that it was all text, and you had to type commands like "look in the mailbox" or "pick up the dagger".

I made maps for Hexen, Blood, Duke Nukem 3D, Descent destination Saturn, Rise of the Triad, Serious Sam, and others I forget.

Favorite PC games were shooters like Duke Nukem & Serious Sam, and flying saucer flight sims like Terminal Velocity and Fury3. I had a lot of other stuff though, crazy mystery & detective games like Starship Titanic and Burn Cycle.

At some point I was working a lot of hours and I just quit playing. I can't remember the last time.

Wow some of those game names bring back memories....also due to time constraints I don't use my PlayStation that often nowadays but I still try to play a couple of times per month -- I think playing video games (in moderation) is quite beneficial: esp. as we grow older, they help to maintain good eye-hand-brain coordination, which helps keep your reflexes faster.

 

[Ogertron3000]

Yes, that's a quite obvious point -- it's called 'Supply and Demand' lol. Just as obviously I was referring to me and Steve, not everyone else -- or did the rest of y'all also have nice collections of Atari and NES that you should have held onto?

No old videos games but I had nearly all the original Star Wars figures. Apparently they are worth a bit now too. Sold them when I was 22 and moved out of home to a collectible shop, can't remember what I got for them but probably got value of 1 figure today for the entire collection.
My neighbour had heaps too but we tied them all to stakes in his garden and burned them in our "P.OW camp" when we were 15 and got a hiding from his dad!

 

[Fat Homer]

I’ve still got a lot of my old Sega Master System and Genesis cartridges from back in the day... atari stuff i sadly got rid of a long time ago...

 

[krichardson]

I still have my Sega Nomad.It is a hand held Genesis,for those who've never heard of it.It plays regular Genesis cartridges and I have a few of those too.

 

[Hendre]

I have one of these at home, was definitely before my time...