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Ha! That reminds me of the Johnny Carson skit, where he plays Pres. Reagan:

(to Reagan) Mr. President, Hu's on the phone.
Reagan: Well, now, Jim, I don't know. Who's on the phone?
Baker: That is correct.
Reagan: What's correct?
Baker: No, he's your Secretary of the Interior.
Reagan: Now Jim, let's just start all over here, very quietly. Just tell me,
Jim, who is on the phone?
Baker: Hu is on the phone.

a clenched ***** OMG!

Sega already beat them to the clentched sphincter http://www.retrojunk.com/commercial/show/10889/sega-saturn-commercial-the-theatre-of-the-eye

I don't give a fuck about your sorry-ass party. I got bitches to fuck. I get so much punany that my mattress is soaked with the juices of 24 women and counting. I get so much punany that i gotta make my bed everyday so my company doesn't see the white nanny-goo stains all over my bedsheet.

Your party will be just a bunch of zit-encrusted fat guys circle-jerking it to star wars and 6502 assembly language. Well, I tell you what, man -- you keep clack-clack-clackin' away at your keyboards while I'm tap-tap-tappin' those asses. And you know what? Some of them don't even like condoms. Yeah, that's right -- they tell me to take the condoms off before sex. I don't even have to cut a hole out the the tip. Oh and I just passed my latest round of STD tests so all the women I'm tappin' are clean. Dude, I tap, then I tap another the next day -- sometimes even two women a day.

So yeah, your party sucks if you're advertising it on Facebook. See, awesome dudes like me play in this space called real life, and get laid on the second or third date, but often the first as well. And women love me because I'm edgy as fuck. Not you, though. You're not edgy. You're probably beating your dick to the robot-chick from The Guardian Legend.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Easy task have little value while difficult tasks have much value.

Not always the case. It's possible for hard tasks to have very little value. This occurs when the task is hard for the sake of being hard or hard due to poor design or implementation.

Silver Surfer for the NES. One of the most difficult NES games ever made yet it is a piece of trash because it is almost impossible to win. The game isn't worth playing because the reward is not proportional to the difficulty level. Many parts of the game existed only to make the game difficult--not to advance the story or make for engaging game play.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvnRBywkUZ0/
http://www.retrojunk.com/details_articles/2161/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Surfer_(video_game)#Difficulty

The first solar powered aircraft took wing in the 1600's. As told in The Mysterious Cities of Gold!

If they had really been thinking, they would have made it like The Animal with retractable claws in the wheels. If only NASA engineers had watched Monster Trucks they would have known how to prepare for this eventuality.

Actually the retractable claws didn't work very well, but they looked awesome on the commercials. Sigh.

What does magenta look like?

Like this.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but there have always been crappy games. It's just that we forget the bad ones, remember the good ones, and move on. The past is never as rosy as you'd like to think it was ;) That's as true for cars, kids respecting elders and writing skills as it is with video games.

Too late...

http://www.retrojunk.com/img/art-images/rands.jpg

"Either that or we'll start seeing Wikipedia salesmen going door to door."

I have the perfect guy for you.

Call the Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen on them. http://www.retrojunk.com/details_commercial/670/

If they're smart they'll talk Grumman into a very low/nonexistent license fee since a game is also an advertisement for the company's designs.

Thing reminds me of Ark II
http://www.retrojunk.com/details_tvshows/644-ark-i i/

Growing up, I lived in North Central Indiana, and never got any cool shows. I was lucky enough to get a Chicago station (WGN) that aired G.I. Joe, M.A.S.K., and The Transformers. As well as The Bozo Show, but that's another story. I wanted desperately to be able to see Gamepro TV. It might have sucked, but I had no way of knowing. Sometimes I miss the olden days where we had to wait for magazines to find out what's new in gaming.

2 Videos Knight Rider....

A shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist.

Michael Knight, A young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent,
the helpless, the powerless, in a world of criminals who operate above the law.

Perhaps the people who play video games just need more friends(in real time or in real life.) I have to admit that after I saw the propaganda video from Nintendo I have more of a desire to get my hands on one. Remember the old Nintendo Commercials - they showed kids walking around as if they were in the game environments or sometimes they ran into an exploding Nintendo Entertainment System Kiosk http://www.retrojunk.com/details_commercial/50/ . I must agree with the idea that Nintendo is more for friends in the room while psx and xboxs might be more considered for the lone gamer who makes friends online (not that there is anything wrong with that.) However based on the friends factor alone I feel like we are missing the point. 1. Not everyone is rich enough to drop 400 bones on a gaming system. 2. Then you need to buy games at 50 bones a pop. 3. If I want to sit alone in my room for hours on end - its because I am already doing it with my computer. The computer with the mouse keyboard input options offer much more than a console with any type of "joystick". Think Arcade. Think Friends in the same room. Think the reason that games became popular in the first place - to have a good time with your friends (solitaire is one of the few exceptions I can think about for the moment.)

Go here. Download the commercial for Legend of Zelda. Tell me that that is what gamers acted like, even back in the eighties.

i have a vauge recollection of an old cartoon where the girl used knotted strings - as a written language.

Check it out here about a quarter of the page down.

Stompers were cool. I never souped them up, but I did take them apart and take the moter out. The contacts were the exact right distance to hit the contacts on a 9V battery!

They forgot the Battletoads Cartoon.

There goes another Canadian icon to the US...

You mean Commodore or Shatner?

And you can watch the VIC-20 ad with Shatner right here: http://www.retrojunk.com/media/163/

Ken Jennings was that annoying kid from the old Encyclopedia Britannica commercials.

My commendations on creating havoc. This pathetic discussion forum will now have four more years to gripe!

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Mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah ahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

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But this is the best part, this is when they... START RAPPING! Bwahahaha. "It's The Ledged Of Zelda and it's really rad. Those creatures from Gondorf are pretty bad." That is just a snippet from the rhyming prodigy's in this commercial. I don't really know what Nintendo was thinking when they thought up the idea for portraying their customers as hopeless dorks, but this is by far my favorite Nintendo commercial.