Well, we know that the programmers of Pac-Man are not starving due to piracy. They have an unlimited supply of Inky, Blinky, Clyde, Sue, power dots, and smaller dots to engorge themselves on. However, I can't say that this is a very healthy diet.
I recently purchased Sinistar Unleashed, fondly remembering the old "Sinistar" arcade game.
I was greatly disappointed: while this new one had "modern 3-d graphics", it was something that looked like a descendant of "Star Raiders" but was much harder to play than "Star Raiders", with clunky controller action, and a murky,muddy display where just about everything looked the same (a bunch of shades of black).
At least they could make a minimal effort at translation, so the American video game sentences turn into Japanese sentences which are as clunky as as "Take off every ZIG" and "all your base are belong to us".
(AP) "In addition to the payment, Microsoft is expected to get exclusive usage rights to several Borg cube prototypes currently being constructed by Army personnel"
Thanks for all the "insightful" responses. I did not know that real audiogames existed, and after my friend proposed the idea, I thought about it for a time and figured that audio "action-arcade" games were not possible.
This reminds me of a friend years ago who came up to me and said "I've got a great idea. We know about video games. How about audio games? We should invent those".
I've not heard from him since, but I am pretty safe to assume he is not a multi-billion dollar audiogame magnate at this time: no-one is.
This would be a great place of employment for all those robot soccer players that will be out of work in America due to yet another instance of the American appetite for soccer coming in well below expectations.
When it comes to the legal department, Marvel is more Rupert Murdoch than Matt Murdock.
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I could just see it, a few hours after the Apple store closes, the dumpster divers show up and root through the trash.
Thanks to their hard work, you can buy an iBox, no two the same. Today they are offering a special on an iMac hybrid that has a modern flat-screen stuck on the front of an old bulbous blue first-gen iMac that has an orange mouse.
Tomorrow, they expect to have a "PowerBox" PowerBook made from notebook guts obtained during a particularly successful dumpster-dive installed into the toilet-seat discarged by the plumbing place next door. The local wildlife was restless that night: this machine has a live mouse.
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I didn't know Potter was that good with this stuff. Afterall, Snape nearly flunks him out of Potions every term.
Well, we know that the programmers of Pac-Man are not starving due to piracy. They have an unlimited supply of Inky, Blinky, Clyde, Sue, power dots, and smaller dots to engorge themselves on. However, I can't say that this is a very healthy diet.
"Nintendo takes some old SNES game and places it on the GBA and sells a truckload."
Now, that's an idea. Nintendo gets the rights to a boatload of old arcade roms, and makes them available for the Gameboy.
At least someone would be selling them, making them available.
I recently purchased Sinistar Unleashed, fondly remembering the old "Sinistar" arcade game.
I was greatly disappointed: while this new one had "modern 3-d graphics", it was something that looked like a descendant of "Star Raiders" but was much harder to play than "Star Raiders", with clunky controller action, and a murky,muddy display where just about everything looked the same (a bunch of shades of black).
Why don't these ROM companies have a site that lets you download them for 99 cents each; an Apple Music Store sort of thing?
Somewhere near Sudbury....
"Hey Doug, watch me shake up this Molson's 12 pack, like, real good and hard, eh?"
"Eh, Bob, let's open them all at once"
WHOOSHHHH!!!!
Yours are better than mine!
How about "yo d00d. I'm Moses_287 because Moses_1 through _286 were already taken"
10. Hey buddy, stop whining that you can't come back! Resurrection only happens in the Hindu RPG.
9. Wow! I just found the flying-nun habit! Now I can fly over the mountains.
8. That does it, I refuse to play this anymore; it does not fit with Baptist doctrine.
7. "That wasn't Lot's wife. That was MY wife!"
6. Quick, tell me. Is a gander a goose, or another species? I've got to fill this ark right away
5. Way k00l, if you can walk on it, water is no obstacle anymore.
4. Who turned everyone in this domain into pillars of salt?
3. Ark of the Covanent does 56 points of damage
2. Who died and elected you Pope?
1. I didn't kill you; I just sent you to Heaven
At least they could make a minimal effort at translation, so the American video game sentences turn into Japanese sentences which are as clunky as as "Take off every ZIG" and "all your base are belong to us".
(AP) "In addition to the payment, Microsoft is expected to get exclusive usage rights to several Borg cube prototypes currently being constructed by Army personnel"
They could change the name of this game to "Unix". Or even Linux. No one ever sues over anything called Linux or Unix, do they?
"Howard Scott Warshaw of Yar's Revenge (and E.T.!) fame"
Yar's Revenge is well regarded by those who remember it, but didn't E.T. help destroy Atari, business-wise?
Is inviting this guy like inviting Ken Lay to your energy conference?
The last message heard from the Beagle:
"My old nemesis! What are you doing this far out? Curse you, Red Baron!!!! What are you doin-- YIPE YIPE [static}"
Remember the "Foxtrot" cartoon, where the mother mis-heard her son's reference to open source as being "Open Sores".
Thanks for all the "insightful" responses. I did not know that real audiogames existed, and after my friend proposed the idea, I thought about it for a time and figured that audio "action-arcade" games were not possible.
This reminds me of a friend years ago who came up to me and said "I've got a great idea. We know about video games. How about audio games? We should invent those".
I've not heard from him since, but I am pretty safe to assume he is not a multi-billion dollar audiogame magnate at this time: no-one is.
Is this something like a video hyperlink?
Watch Seinfeld, move that little mouse-knob now on your TV remote, click on the box of Junior Mints, and see a full Junior Mints commercial?
What about DRM (better called DRD = Digital Rights Denial) in these devices?
Is it going to come to the point where you don't have digital rights on devices promoted as being "media oriented"?
This would be great for furnishing the game room of the one-millionth scale model of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater
Will the automated umpire handle the queue of players on a FIFO (first in, first "Out!") basis?
This would be a great place of employment for all those robot soccer players that will be out of work in America due to yet another instance of the American appetite for soccer coming in well below expectations.
"Bender like Beckham" indeed.
Does this mean you get ejected from a game for uploading a virus into the Ump's hard disk, or yanking his power cord?
Dictionary definition of flay:
"To strip off the skin or outer covering of."
This site's been skinned for sure.
When it comes to the legal department, Marvel is more Rupert Murdoch than Matt Murdock.
I could just see it, a few hours after the Apple store closes, the dumpster divers show up and root through the trash.
Thanks to their hard work, you can buy an iBox, no two the same. Today they are offering a special on an iMac hybrid that has a modern flat-screen stuck on the front of an old bulbous blue first-gen iMac that has an orange mouse.
Tomorrow, they expect to have a "PowerBox" PowerBook made from notebook guts obtained during a particularly successful dumpster-dive installed into the toilet-seat discarged by the plumbing place next door. The local wildlife was restless that night: this machine has a live mouse.