I'd sooner have a room with a girlfriend in, if it were all the same.
You obviously haven't been married before.
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Perhaps you didn't notice, but it's just an anagram. FIST SPORT FIRST POST
YHBT. YHL. HAND.
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I dunno about the ultimate...
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Lots of console stuff and home computer stuff. But it is awfully lacking in the coin-op department. But still, quite a collection!
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To be fair, Coin-Op games are pretty big. I can fit a LOT more console stuff into my space than I could Coin-Ops. (not my collection pictured, but I've got about the same amount of stuff...)
Re:I dunno about the ultimate...
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I glad those Zathras people started numbering themselves. They kept telling me their names but I still couldn't tell one from another.
Not after he gets his post-slashdot bandwidth bill he won't. Have shit-loads of money that is. A slashdotting can't help with the girlfriend.
-- Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face
Re:Summary
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Why is it that everybody assumes that women aren't attracted to smart, sensitive guys?
I'm smart and sensitive (not my words, mind you) and I never had trouble finding girlfriends and now I'm happily married.
Of course if you don't take care of your personal hygiene and can't talk about anything else than SCO, Microsoft and Linux you'll have trouble. But then again, you are not being smart and sensitive in the first place.
Actually even talking isn't (initially) that important. Women can talk endlessly about themselves and their friends, so all you have to do is to keep listening and ask something trivial once in a while to show that you're paying attention.
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Yes, but it is because he has no girlfriend that he has money.
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Anonymous Coward
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And doesn't have herpes like me.
A goddamn slut I slept with few months ago gave me herps.
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Anonymous Coward
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"I never had trouble finding girlfriends and now I'm happily married."
Riiiiight....
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Can we have "-1 Too much information?"
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and ask something trivial once in a while to show that you're paying attention
Like "are those tits of yours real?"
But seriously, In my experience: Alot of bright girls find brains very attractive. If you're smart enough, your brain can be enough to make you a sexual object, amazingly enough. And bright girls aren't always bookish and plain. Sometimes they're beautiful sex maniacs.
Sorry, we have to do it, if we don't make a snarky remark about someone's lack of girlfriend on every story, they take away our Slashdot license.
It is our duty to remind people that the only activity worth undertaking, your entire life, is having a girlfriend. Anyone who does anything else is wasting the too-much time that they have on their hands.
Never mind if WE have one or not. Not important.
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Who said anything about smart, sensitive guys?
This is about women not being attracted to obsessive-compulsive collectors of things that their mommies wouldn't buy for them when they were little boys. I mean that just screams, "Issues!" Even geeky girls can get creeped about by that.
Actually even talking isn't (initially) that important. Women can talk endlessly about themselves and their friends, so all you have to do is to keep listening and ask something trivial once in a while to show that you're paying attention.
The funny thing is, girls tend to be attracted to men they find 'mysterious', 'shy' or 'quiet' (see mysterious). All you have to do to be mysterious is strike up a conversation then let her do all the talking. If she likes you and she gets comfortable just let her yak all night while you throw in a 'uh huh' or 'really?' once in awhile. It's really easy to feign interest with someone who loves to hear their own voice.:)
I have had incredible success just repeated whatever they say back to them in the form of a question. Works like a goddamn charm because most women (and people for that matter) love to talk about themselves. For example:
Girl: And then, we like, went to Gina's house and got, like, really drunk.
You: You went to Gina's and got drunk?
Girl: Yeah! And then we were like, so drunk, and like, we went to the bar.
You: You went to the bar huh? How drunk were you?
Girl: We were like, blah blee blahbbyblah.
You: Blahbeblahble? Did you blahblahblah?
This can go on forever, just don't be too obvious about what you are doing. I guarantee if you can handle hearing her spout for this long that you will at least get a number. (Maybe not the right one, but maybe you had bad breath.)
Why is it that everybody assumes that women aren't attracted to smart, sensitive guys?
Women are attracted to smart, sensitive guys - they're called gay men.
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We own our own servers. No worries.
As for needing a girlfriend, I think you're probably right! I wonder if my wife would mind. Better still perhaps she'd join in? AND we'd play a few games after the wild monkey love.
Actually even talking isn't (initially) that important. Women can talk endlessly about themselves and their friends, so all you have to do is to keep listening and ask something trivial once in a while to show that you're paying attention.
Why was this modded as FUNNY, this should be INSIGHTFUL.
-- "The more you suffer, the more it shows you really care, right?" -Offspring
Hmm... if you had RTFA you may have caught this quote. "The rest of the storage area. My wife insists that this room is to be used for laundry" (empahasis on wife taken from the original article). It seems that the reason he has no girlfriend very little to do with his video game addiction and very much to do with his being married.
PK
-- Engineers arn't boring people, we just get excited about boring things.
Games
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We are on the brink of World War 3 and all you can do is talk about your "case mods" and "game rigs"? GET SOME PRIORITIES PEOPLE!!!
Re:Games
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I, for one, welcome our new game room overlords.
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We are on the brink of World War 3... GET SOME PRIORITIES PEOPLE!!!
That's something we have been on since 1945. So why bother?
.mn
Re:Games
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Cmon, what do you think the point of all these FPSs are? The army has even made it's own.
The youth of today are the cannon-fodder of tommorrow.
$ file/bin/chess/bin/chess symbolic link to global_thermonuclear_war
Joshua?
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First, I know this is OT. However, it's as OT as the rest of posts....
This reminds me about an interview Richard Feynman gave a long time ago. It was after he finished working at Los Alamos. He was depressed. Everywhere he went, he couldn't understand why people were building things anymore. He had just spent the last 4 years helping build the most destructive weapon known to man. He was sure the world was going to end any day now. Safe to say, he was wrong. We've had apocolyptic doomsayers for a long time. The world didn't end in 1944. It didn't end over Cuba. It hasn't ended over the middle-east. Look, I know there are priorities. However, your post could randomly apply to anything. Certianly death and war is more important than games, the California election, movies, sports, and most everything else.
My guess is that your depressed about something else. So for whatever it is worth, I stop worrying about the world along time ago. I've learned to hate all politicians equally, let vocal religious extremists argue among themselves, and I don't have a preference for the spelling of the word flavor/flavour.
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good god, slashdotted at 3 comments
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Yesh, people, at least use Ntcraft to see if a site is owned by a hosting company before directing a bazillion morning-shift IT guys to it!
Next time I think 'I have a video game problem' I'm going back to this site to fell better about myself.
Amazing collection, but...
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It seems a bit incomplete in the sense that it's lacking two of the four more modern consoles (at least, he only mentions a PlayStation 2 and a Dreamcast). There are definitely games worthy of collecting on both the XBox and the GameCube. Also, as a collector, has he ever actually played all of the games that he owns? I imagine that that would be pretty much a full time job, though if he can afford all of those gaming devices, he's probably independently wealthy.
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Insane in the Mameframe?
I get my lowbudget nostalgia through emu's these days. Good enough.
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Re:Amazing collection, but...
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"though if he can afford all of those gaming devices, he's probably independently wealthy."
No, just a college dropout who lives in his parents' basement.
Re:Amazing collection, but...
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I'm a DP'er... (Digital Presser?) Joe, the guy that owns that nice video game setup, is one of the guys behind the Classic Gaming Expo that was held in Las Vegas for the past few years. He's big into the scene and really knows his stuff. He's the editior in cheif of the Digital Press Collectors guide. The guide shows the rarity and dollar values they believe older games are worth. DP is/.'ed now so I can't provide a link to the guide. He does sell the guide at a few places besides the dp site. Ebay is one of them:)
It's a great community. Everyone is friendly and welcome people of all ages to the community.
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Who's the black private dick, who's a sex machine for all the chicks?
Re:Amazing collection, but...
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sig
Who's the black private dick, who's a sex machine for all the chicks?
Not this guy thats for sure
Re:Amazing collection, but...
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Also, as a collector, has he ever actually played all of the games that he owns?
I think that by definition, the answer is almost certainly no.
You might as well ask a coin collector "have you actually spent all of the coins you own?".
-- Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
Re:Amazing collection, but...
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im p00r.. cant afford that stuff...
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Re:Amazing collection, but...
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Err, that's a pretty lame comparison. Why would a coin collecter spend some rare penny on a piece of one cent candy?
Anyway with things like coins and stamps you can't really "use" them, but with autos and especially games you certainly can use them.
Owning a recently made toy(ie form the last 20 years) and then not playing with it is fairly retarded. Things from this time period simply aren't worth enough to worry about. I could see not wanting to risk really rare games that are worth hundreds of dollars, but most gaming equipment and software is easily replaceable and under $100 dollars on ebay.
I say play on.
-- If you wanna get rich, you know that payback is a bitch
Re:Amazing collection, but...
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If you read the quotes below the pictures, you will find he has both the XBox and a GameCube. He has all the current systems hooked up to his TV, but "though I have to admit... I'm "retro" and rarely find a new title worth playing, let alone collecting."
PK
-- Engineers arn't boring people, we just get excited about boring things.
Obligatory girlfriend remark
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I don't see a girlfriend in any of these photos... I wonder why.
Re:Obligatory girlfriend remark
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Amen to that. Not to mention the fact that this isn't even the first time this stale old 'joke' has been rolled out for this story. Redundant and unfunny.
-- ++ Say to Elrond "Hello.".
Elrond says "No.". Elrond gives you some lunch.
Re:Obligatory girlfriend remark
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It's because slashdot destoyed all hopes for him. He created that to attract the ladies all over the world, but now no ladies can see his impressive game room. How many more slashdottings until you people get the picture? You're destroying people's lives!
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Because the photos are of games, moron. Give it up with this "ha ha, you don't have a girlfriend" bullshit. It's not funny and it never was.
Very true, but this is slashdot after all. That's why I titled my post Obligatory girlfriend remark. Someone had to make it:)
Re:Obligatory girlfriend remark
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I for one welcome our new girlfriend overlords... err yeah
Re:Obligatory girlfriend remark
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Well I don't see a girlfriend picture on your site either... hmmmmm?
Re:Obligatory girlfriend remark
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From his blog:
I have had girlfriends in the past (and currently have one) but I've never been on a date.
Slashdot effect
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Anonymous Coward
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damn its slowed to a crawl, ill have to come back in a week or too:(
does someone have a mirror?
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This is one hell of a collection, but I can't help but wonder if he does anything to prevent bitrot or is preserving these games in some way. It's cool now, but in 20 years, he will be left with a lot of worthless plastic and silicon.
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Funny I don't see a picture of a girlfriend on your site either
I'm in the same boat as this guy (although my Vectrex needs some work on the display *grumble*), and I *am* doing something about bitrot.
I'm keeping copies of ROMs for every game I own on my PC, and back them up to whatever off-site media is available reasonably cheap. Started with tape, moved onto CD, and just finished with some DVD-R's of ROMs.
If I keep this up, my game collection will more than outlive me, although I've yet to see any bitrot on any game I own, and some of the original Atari VCS cartridges are 26 years old now.
-- Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
Say what? If you're talking console cartridges, then there's no "bit-rot", because those use factory mask-programmed ROMs, i.e. the data is etched into good ol' silicon. This is as good as it gets in terms of long-term reliability. Many arcade machines, OTOH, use EPROMs, which tend to "discharge" over the years. But real ROMs are built to last.
-- Did you know you can fertilize your lawn with used motor oil?
3DO, Vectrex, ColecoVision, Nintendo, Atari, Intellivision, Game Gear, Astrocade, PlayStation...
Fine, fine. Good collection.
TI-99?
OK buddy, you have a problem. I think this has gone too far. You need some help:)
Re:You have a problem
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Hey, you need that for Parsec alone.
Re:You have a problem
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The TI-99/4A actually had quite a bit of a following - there's a whole Yahoo group that is relatively active
here it is. There's also tons of other information on the web...
99er.net Some guy's TI web site
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This form is currently in alpha and suggestions for its improvement are always welcome.
A good start. One nit: "Neither of the three" would be better replaced with "None of the three."
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The Google cache doesn't hold the images. You still have to wait for those images to load. However, our friendly Google has helped us out again:
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North wall: light streams in above some 3DO games, perched in front of them are Coleco tabletop units. there's a Virtual Boy on the counter-top to the left. hanging next to the window are some Activision patches and just below that, one of the two Vectrex systems we commonly play with. North wall: the other Vectrex is just to the right, alongside the Adventurevision. behind that, a loose ColecoVision game collection. Loose Nintendo games are behind the Millipede mobile. East wall: on the shelves are the nicer boxed titles for Atari 2600 and 5200, just to the right are the Intellivision boxes. Below, a custom-made storage rack holds over 350 Atari 2600 games. East wall: here's the rest of that wall. Intellivision occupies the three top shelves to the right.
West wall: various things tucked into this corner, blocking my way into the drawers (pics below). North wall: when you open the closet behind the hanging marquees, this is what you see. Game Gear, Arcadia, Vectrex, Game.com, books, and miscellaneous peripherals are kept in here. Note the "gun rack" on the door. East wall: under the counter-top is this opening where more stuff is packed in. Facing out are more NES games and a small cache of import Atari 2600 carts. Pull this back... East wall:...and you see my video game boardgame collection , some portable gaming stuff and more miscellaneous items that didn't have a home.
North Wall: pull open the top left drawer and find some of my Astrocade games and the older PlayStation stuff. North Wall: the top drawer second from the left has some boxed SNES games. East Wall: the top drawer on the left side has my Fairchild Channel F carts, and some of the better Commodore 64, VIC-20, and Atari 8-bit carts. Also my loose Vectrex carts here. East Wall: the top drawer on the right side has most of my import Atari 2600 cartridges, and my Lynx stuff.
North Wall: the middle drawer on the left side has Odyssey and Videopac stuff. North Wall: the middle drawer, second from the left has Atari 5200 stuff. East Wall: the bottom drawer on the left side has mostly boxed Atari 2600 games. East Wall: the bottom drawer on the right side has miscellaneous ColecoVision stuff, and a few Intellivision items.
North Wall: the bottom drawer on the left side has boxed Atari 2600 import stuff, some controllers and other miscellaneous homeless items. North Wall: the bottom drawer, second from the left has mostly 3DO goodies. South Wall: packed in under the staircase are a PC-FX, Video Brain and some oddball peripherals. Also my Sega 32X and Atari 7800 games. under the Pac-man pillow is an Odyssey frisbee and a CD storage cabinet with PlayStation games. South/West corner: still under the staircase, two CD storage units with PlayStation games. Behind that, two shelving units with boxed NES games. Between the shelving units, most of the Sega Master System boxed games. Sega Saturn games are stacked up to the right.
South Wall: just in front of the steps are some of the Dreamcast, PlayStation, and CD-i games. West Wall: much of the Genesis collection can be seen here, the monitor is running whatever console we're in the mood for (Dreamcast at the moment). Between the shelves of Genesis games are some of the PC Engine imports and Neo-Geo cartridges. West Wall: the rest of the Genesis collection is here. The monitor is dedicated to a MAME-dedicated PC with a HotRod SE arcade quality joystick. Behind the table is a complete TurboGrafx-16 HuCard collection and a portion of a complete Sega CD collection. North/East corner: just a further-back peek at this side for perspective.
On the other side of the wall is the storage area, where the DP publications are kept, as well as trade items. Some of the collection is kept in this room, mainly the hardware. The rest of the storage area. The upstairs room has our only coin-op machine, which runs Punch-Out!.Super Punch-Out!, and Arm Wrestling. Piles of stuff that I have no idea what to do with litter the corners. The back corner of the upstairs room, mostly
HA
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HA HA.
Re:That was taken down rather quickly
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Your fugly you won't get a girlfriend either
Fantastic Page Layout
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This Slashdot storry is brilliant. Yes, the summary is shite but for the sheer amount of whitespace at the top of the page filling up my browser window it's a winner.
Re:Forget the "game collection"
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In http://nfg.2y.net/temp/roompics/f.jpg, you've got what appears to be a mostly-empty shell of an HP desktop. What's in it, and how much do you want for it?
I really like that collection.. The beach towels are cool, I remember when I was a little kid I had those.. Which I had kept them up instead of using them till they were faded and tattered.. I do still have a lot of old nintendo/mario oriented figurines and stuff I bet you'd like though =P One day I'll have to gather my collection of games/consoles/etc and make the 'storage room' look nice =P
If you'd asked two weeks ago I'd have said "Nothing but the PSU + HP mobo" and given it to you cheap. Now however, after about ten days of hell trying unsuccessfully to cure an XP networking issue that worked for a year and suddenly hated me, I'm using the HP case as a router.
I didn't go with HEX, I just started with numbers and had more than 9 images. Going to 11, 12 etc would have messed up the list, so I went to letters. If I'd had more than 16 I'd be using G, H, etc. =)
As a married reader who has no problem getting a little tail every now and again (most likely unlike this guy) -- I propose he offer timeshares to us. I mean at best sex can last 20-25 minutes...But a good game of Donkey Kong can go on for hours. I mean how does that compare?
As a married reader who has no problem getting a little tail every now and again (most likely unlike this guy) -- I propose he offer timeshares to us. I mean at best sex can last 20-25 minutes...But a good game of Donkey Kong can go on for hours. I mean how does that compare?
So what are you suggesting? Swapping time with your wife for a game of Donkey Kong?
Has SCO finally gone too far?
Nope, but Alabama got the bomb (joke). In reality, they did give the dead the right to vote (figure out what lobby that was?), and there is their religious fundamentalist cheif justice.
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One of my friends collects video games and old computers, he has just over 100 now.
Off the top of my head: Amiga 500 Amiga 600 Amiga CDTV Amiga 1200 Amiga CD32 Amstrad CPC464 Amstrad GX4000 Atari 2600 Atari 4800 Atari Falcon Atari Lynx Atari STE Apple Mac Classic BBC Model B BBC Master System Coleco Vision Commodore 64 Commodore 128 Commodore Vic20 Neo Geo Neo Geo Pocket Nintento Famicom Nintendo NES (PAL) Nintendo NES (NTSC) Nintendo Super Famicom Nintendo SNES (NTSC) Nintendo SNES (PAL) Nintendo N64 Nintendo Gameboy Nintendo Gameboy Color Nintendo Gameboy Advance Nintendo Gameboy Advance SP Nintendo Virtual Boy Nintendo Gamecube PC Engine Panasonic 3D0 Panasonic 3D0 (Goldstar Version) Philips CDi Sega Master System Sega Game Gear Sega Mega Drive Sega Genesis Sega Mega CD Sega 32x Sega Saturn Sega Dreamcast Sinclair ZX80 Sinclair ZX81 Sinclair Spectrum Sinclair Spectrum 48K Sinclair Spectrum 48K+ Sinclair Spectrum 128+2 Sony PSX Sony Playstation Sony Playstation 2 Tiger Game.com
This is only arond 75% of what he has, the rest is too obscure for my memory. He also has some really rare stuff like a SNES CD Rom drive that Nintendo succeeded in having banned, the power glove and other fun things.
No Collection of computer games is complete without XCOM 1
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Re:SUBBUTEO TABLE SOCCER!!
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And where's the bigass table for playing D&D and boardgames?
Screw the D&D...you need a huge table for SUBBUTEO TABLE SOCCER!!! PLEASE tell me there are some slashdotters that played it back in the day, or even today!
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I would call this excessive, but...
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How bizarre, I just came home with my game collection (well, just the boxes anyway) from my mother's basement... As always you can always find someone who's bigger, better and faster than you on the internet.
Question...
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But seriously, In my experience: Alot of bright girls find brains very attractive. If you're smart enough, your brain can be enough to make you a sexual object, amazingly enough. And bright girls aren't always bookish and plain. Sometimes they're beautiful sex maniacs.
Did you buy yours from the guy on the corner in front of the liquor store or did you grow it? Or if you grew it, did you use a liquified bird's manure solution or chemical fertilizer? I'm not having any success with natural light and chemical, so I'm thinking of doing the basment thing with the bird manure and 24hour fluorescant, and on a solar-powered UPS power grid so nobody suspects anything from my electricity bill.
Hi all,
that's my room in the main link, but my addiction is well-shared, if you happened to check out all the others (many of whom are way bigger than me... isn't that *something*... envy?).
The girlfriend idea is a good one. I've been thinking about that for several years now. I don't know if my wife of 12 years will have a problem with it, but maybe she'll be up for a threesome, sounds like good clean fun. Thanks for the suggestions!
The bandwidth sucks but at least we own our own servers. Never been slashdotted before but I welcome future links now that I'm prepared for it.
I should stop by here more often. "News for nerds"... wow, sounds like HOME.
Game. ON. Everybody.
Some form of decent project setup. Not the old behind-screen projection TV's that were known to burn with video games, but a decent overhead. Than perhaps a modified KVM switch to swap between consoles (and a couple nice power bars to allow many of the consoles to be plugged in).
Throw in a nice gamers' couch, and he'd be set. Having a few thousand games isn't much good if all you have is a hard floor and 13" TV to play 'em with .
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I'd sooner have a room with a girlfriend in, if it were all the same.
Lots of console stuff and home computer stuff. But it is awfully lacking in the coin-op department. But still, quite a collection!
"I have shit-loads of money and no girlfriend"
We are on the brink of World War 3 and all you can do is talk about your "case mods" and "game rigs"? GET SOME PRIORITIES PEOPLE!!!
Yesh, people, at least use Ntcraft to see if a site is owned by a hosting company before directing a bazillion morning-shift IT guys to it!
Next time I think 'I have a video game problem' I'm going back to this site to fell better about myself.
It seems a bit incomplete in the sense that it's lacking two of the four more modern consoles (at least, he only mentions a PlayStation 2 and a Dreamcast). There are definitely games worthy of collecting on both the XBox and the GameCube. Also, as a collector, has he ever actually played all of the games that he owns? I imagine that that would be pretty much a full time job, though if he can afford all of those gaming devices, he's probably independently wealthy.
--- Bwah?
I don't see a girlfriend in any of these photos... I wonder why.
damn its slowed to a crawl, ill have to come back in a week or too :(
does someone have a mirror?
What? What's wrong with my face?
This is one hell of a collection, but I can't help but wonder if he does anything to prevent bitrot or is preserving these games in some way. It's cool now, but in 20 years, he will be left with a lot of worthless plastic and silicon.
3DO, Vectrex, ColecoVision, Nintendo, Atari, Intellivision, Game Gear, Astrocade, PlayStation...
:)
Fine, fine. Good collection.
TI-99?
OK buddy, you have a problem. I think this has gone too far. You need some help
Google has managed to salvage some of the site before it got slashdotted, so here is the Google cache.
Nero-burning ROM for Linux!
You can almost hear the web server quietly muttering "Game Over!"
Who needs a girlfriend anyway when you've got all those games?
I mean, lets do the math...
A girlfriend is useful for 10 minutes of the day, maybe 15 if you're in marathon mode.
A PS2 will give you entertainment from the time you wake up until the time you goto bed, and noone even gets tired!
I can't think of a good sig...
cached here.
North wall: light streams in above some 3DO games, perched in front of them are Coleco tabletop units. there's a Virtual Boy on the counter-top to the left. hanging next to the window are some Activision patches and just below that, one of the two Vectrex systems we commonly play with. North wall: the other Vectrex is just to the right, alongside the Adventurevision. behind that, a loose ColecoVision game collection. Loose Nintendo games are behind the Millipede mobile. East wall: on the shelves are the nicer boxed titles for Atari 2600 and 5200, just to the right are the Intellivision boxes. Below, a custom-made storage rack holds over 350 Atari 2600 games. East wall: here's the rest of that wall. Intellivision occupies the three top shelves to the right.
...and you see my video game boardgame collection , some portable gaming stuff and more miscellaneous items that didn't have a home.
West wall: various things tucked into this corner, blocking my way into the drawers (pics below). North wall: when you open the closet behind the hanging marquees, this is what you see. Game Gear, Arcadia, Vectrex, Game.com, books, and miscellaneous peripherals are kept in here. Note the "gun rack" on the door. East wall: under the counter-top is this opening where more stuff is packed in. Facing out are more NES games and a small cache of import Atari 2600 carts. Pull this back... East wall:
North Wall: pull open the top left drawer and find some of my Astrocade games and the older PlayStation stuff. North Wall: the top drawer second from the left has some boxed SNES games. East Wall: the top drawer on the left side has my Fairchild Channel F carts, and some of the better Commodore 64, VIC-20, and Atari 8-bit carts. Also my loose Vectrex carts here. East Wall: the top drawer on the right side has most of my import Atari 2600 cartridges, and my Lynx stuff.
North Wall: the middle drawer on the left side has Odyssey and Videopac stuff. North Wall: the middle drawer, second from the left has Atari 5200 stuff. East Wall: the bottom drawer on the left side has mostly boxed Atari 2600 games. East Wall: the bottom drawer on the right side has miscellaneous ColecoVision stuff, and a few Intellivision items.
North Wall: the bottom drawer on the left side has boxed Atari 2600 import stuff, some controllers and other miscellaneous homeless items. North Wall: the bottom drawer, second from the left has mostly 3DO goodies. South Wall: packed in under the staircase are a PC-FX, Video Brain and some oddball peripherals. Also my Sega 32X and Atari 7800 games. under the Pac-man pillow is an Odyssey frisbee and a CD storage cabinet with PlayStation games. South/West corner: still under the staircase, two CD storage units with PlayStation games. Behind that, two shelving units with boxed NES games. Between the shelving units, most of the Sega Master System boxed games. Sega Saturn games are stacked up to the right.
South Wall: just in front of the steps are some of the Dreamcast, PlayStation, and CD-i games. West Wall: much of the Genesis collection can be seen here, the monitor is running whatever console we're in the mood for (Dreamcast at the moment). Between the shelves of Genesis games are some of the PC Engine imports and Neo-Geo cartridges. West Wall: the rest of the Genesis collection is here. The monitor is dedicated to a MAME-dedicated PC with a HotRod SE arcade quality joystick. Behind the table is a complete TurboGrafx-16 HuCard collection and a portion of a complete Sega CD collection. North/East corner: just a further-back peek at this side for perspective.
On the other side of the wall is the storage area, where the DP publications are kept, as well as trade items. Some of the collection is kept in this room, mainly the hardware. The rest of the storage area. The upstairs room has our only coin-op machine, which runs Punch-Out!.Super Punch-Out!, and Arm Wrestling. Piles of stuff that I have no idea what to do with litter the corners. The back corner of the upstairs room, mostly
HA HA.
Your fugly you won't get a girlfriend either
This Slashdot storry is brilliant. Yes, the summary is shite but for the sheer amount of whitespace at the top of the page filling up my browser window it's a winner.
.... WHAT?
http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=59&alloc_id=1381&site_i d=1&request_id=3992175&op=click&page=%2farticle%2e pl
This is what they really want to see
I can't see the collection in question (And I'll wager no one else can at the moment either) so here's mine, if anyone cares.
It's big, I'm serious.
It's a serious illness - I love hardware. I love playing with it, tinkering with it, hacking it up and putting what I learn online:
GameSX.com
NFG games
the owner of that room has some serious fire insurance
it's half a lifetimes collection.
still most of that stuff would fit on 1 DVD-r (+r) ram what ever
The one thing he's missing is a switch so he can hook up more than 2 consoles at a time. Or maybe a TV with more inputs.
Support the First Amendment. Read at -1
I do not envy people over material things. Then again I'm not a hardcore gamer.
"ehkz writes "Here is the ultimate game collection that any hard core gamer would envy." Check out the other collections too. "
So, Debbie does * are games too?
I don't think my joystick could handle it.
As a married reader who has no problem getting a little tail every now and again (most likely unlike this guy) -- I propose he offer timeshares to us. I mean at best sex can last 20-25 minutes...But a good game of Donkey Kong can go on for hours. I mean how does that compare?
(+1 Funny) only if I laugh out loud.
'You are in a twisty maze of passageways, all alike'
If there's no pinball, it's not a real game room. And where's the bigass table for playing D&D and boardgames?
Someone should really teach this guy what an emulator is.
Jeez, did I miss something important?
Has SCO finally gone too far?
One of my friends collects video games and old computers, he has just over 100 now.
Off the top of my head:
Amiga 500
Amiga 600
Amiga CDTV
Amiga 1200
Amiga CD32
Amstrad CPC464
Amstrad GX4000
Atari 2600
Atari 4800
Atari Falcon
Atari Lynx
Atari STE
Apple Mac Classic
BBC Model B
BBC Master System
Coleco Vision
Commodore 64
Commodore 128
Commodore Vic20
Neo Geo
Neo Geo Pocket
Nintento Famicom
Nintendo NES (PAL)
Nintendo NES (NTSC)
Nintendo Super Famicom
Nintendo SNES (NTSC)
Nintendo SNES (PAL)
Nintendo N64
Nintendo Gameboy
Nintendo Gameboy Color
Nintendo Gameboy Advance
Nintendo Gameboy Advance SP
Nintendo Virtual Boy
Nintendo Gamecube
PC Engine
Panasonic 3D0
Panasonic 3D0 (Goldstar Version)
Philips CDi
Sega Master System
Sega Game Gear
Sega Mega Drive
Sega Genesis
Sega Mega CD
Sega 32x
Sega Saturn
Sega Dreamcast
Sinclair ZX80
Sinclair ZX81
Sinclair Spectrum
Sinclair Spectrum 48K
Sinclair Spectrum 48K+
Sinclair Spectrum 128+2
Sony PSX
Sony Playstation
Sony Playstation 2
Tiger Game.com
This is only arond 75% of what he has, the rest is too obscure for my memory. He also has some really rare stuff like a SNES CD Rom drive that Nintendo succeeded in having banned, the power glove and other fun things.
He is mad
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I'm still trying to figure out what people mean by 'social skills' here.
And where's the bigass table for playing D&D and boardgames?
Screw the D&D...you need a huge table for SUBBUTEO TABLE SOCCER!!! PLEASE tell me there are some slashdotters that played it back in the day, or even today!
"...but remember, in my class, I am the JUDGE, JURY, and JAILER!!"-Mr. Buzzcut from Beavis and Butthead
Chalupa
...since I collect first edition science fiction hardbacks, I really don't have any standing to cast aspersions on someone else's collecting madness...
Lawrence Person (lawrencepersonh@gmailh.com (remove all "h"s to mail)
http://www.lawrenceperson.com/
Also this guy seriously lacks an Amiga...Lords of the Rising Sun, Uridium 2, Paradroid 90...
How bizarre, I just came home with my game collection (well, just the boxes anyway) from my mother's basement... As always you can always find someone who's bigger, better and faster than you on the internet.
But seriously, In my experience: Alot of bright girls find brains very attractive. If you're smart enough, your brain can be enough to make you a sexual object, amazingly enough. And bright girls aren't always bookish and plain. Sometimes they're beautiful sex maniacs.
Did you buy yours from the guy on the corner in front of the liquor store or did you grow it? Or if you grew it, did you use a liquified bird's manure solution or chemical fertilizer? I'm not having any success with natural light and chemical, so I'm thinking of doing the basment thing with the bird manure and 24hour fluorescant, and on a solar-powered UPS power grid so nobody suspects anything from my electricity bill.
http://web.archive.org/web/20020203061232/http:/ /www.digitpress.com/roomdoom/roomdoom.htm
Maybe he just forgot, but I didn't see any mention of a gameboy in that room. Oh well, his loss.
Where does he find room for the boxes of condoms?
Oh, wait, right, sorry... never mind me.
"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."- Friedrich Nietzsche
Ah yes....but does he have Lucky Wander Boy?
MMmmmm...2nd level...mmmmm...empty......mmm...sanity unraveling.....
Hi all, that's my room in the main link, but my addiction is well-shared, if you happened to check out all the others (many of whom are way bigger than me... isn't that *something*... envy?). The girlfriend idea is a good one. I've been thinking about that for several years now. I don't know if my wife of 12 years will have a problem with it, but maybe she'll be up for a threesome, sounds like good clean fun. Thanks for the suggestions! The bandwidth sucks but at least we own our own servers. Never been slashdotted before but I welcome future links now that I'm prepared for it. I should stop by here more often. "News for nerds"... wow, sounds like HOME. Game. ON. Everybody.
Beware: Bouncy Bouncy Gamers Abound.
Digital Press
Some form of decent project setup. Not the old behind-screen projection TV's that were known to burn with video games, but a decent overhead. Than perhaps a modified KVM switch to swap between consoles (and a couple nice power bars to allow many of the consoles to be plugged in).
Throw in a nice gamers' couch, and he'd be set. Having a few thousand games isn't much good if all you have is a hard floor and 13" TV to play 'em with .