Please don't call it "e-games". Call them video games or electronic games. "E-games" makes it sound like marketing buzzword speak. You are not Spike Lee. Stop makin' up new words!
Reminds me of an SCTV skit from yesteryear. It was Jerry Todd(played by Rick Moranis) advertising 'audiogames'. He had this remote control that when you hit a button, laser blasts would sound for their space battle game.
Several years ago, I saw Roger Daltry in concert with some orchestra.
Guess who made a guest appearance?
Listening to "My Wife" LIVE ranks as #1. Totally rocks. The Kids are Alright live cut is #2, and I can't stand the watered down studio cut. Some Who songs were just meant to be performed live.
Go to http://www.drunkgamers.com. They have some funny quicktime movies of Halo(somewhere on the site). One of their favorite things to do is blow up a Warthog or two into the air with grenades, and then try to shoot it with a rocket launcher. Warthog skeet shooting!
Dude, I have a Robert Bently manual for my Triumph Spitfire. Mind you, it's a primitive car that's easy to fix, but...
The Bentley manual for it is about 99% "remove and refit" for parts on the car. There's some diagnostic stuff, but the Haynes manual(lists just about everything to do for it, rebuild engine, etc) compliments it.
I wouldn't call it 100% useful unless you are a gearhead.
You think that's funny? I discovered an all-Russian TV station(which doesn't get Interceptor, a crazy GTA like game show, DARN!) which makes sense since most of my apartment complex's tenants are Russian senior citizens.
I'm with you 100%. I'm a person always on the hunt for obsure early '80s music. Some examples are Martha and the Muffins(no hope of getting anything from them), Missing Persons(bought a greatest hits cd, but there's more I want), Toni Basil(she had more than just "mickey"), and so on.
I found out that the more obscure the music, the better chances it had of flying under AG's copyright radar. Or, just switch the artist name and song, and you'd find it.
Darn. I'm really sad to see it go. Whether it's tracks from the Blue Thunder soundtrack, Pointed Sticks' "The Real Thing"(some obscure Canadian band), I was in '80s music heaven with tunes that commercial radio stations woulnd't even touch.
Depending on your cable provider, you'll get all sorts of nutty cable channels, including hte "Windows 95 desktop" channel, the "insert the AMiga Kickstart disk" channel,and a classic chnanel from the '80s, the "Commodore 64 screen spitting out random numbers" channel, a personal favorite.
Anoyne remember those cheesy "childeren's stories" channels that were basically computer-rendered screens with text and graphics for various tales? I was addicted to it as a kid. I also remmeber the computer-screen AP news plus channel. Every 3 months or so,all the graphics came up scrambled, as if it were done in Logo and a wrong turn on the vectors were made. Hilarious to watch when you're 10.
It's sad that in the Twin cities, radio station formats change here as often as the weather.
I think I know just about every song on Mix104's('80s radio station) playlist, which all seems to fit on a 6-CD changer. It's been 15 minutes, can we hear "Heard it from a friend...." from REO Speedwagon AGAIN?
The saddest part was that the most diverse station, Rev105 which played just about anything(including the Golden Palominos, inspiring me to buy the CD) is nothing but a faded memory. It's now an alternative station, and about a year ago it was a disco/funk station with a super-limited playlist that's dwarfed by my winamp playlist.
Okay, I'm just venting about how bad twin cities radio is, but someone has to mention the Rev.
AG is great, but more and more "commercial' songs are getting flagged as being copyrighted, hence the X on them. Getting a bit frustrating, but there's always ways around it, usually by switching the artist name and song around.
I really wish I could find the MP3 to the Japanese-themed radio station from GTA2. No luck whatsoever on any sites or AG. "Rocki toki teryaki taste like saki!"
I really do hope for an MMORPG version of this. Imagine 20-30 of the main player characters running around in the city causing havok. You could have full-on gang wars, crazy races and several other challenges.
I heard that Vice city will be taking place in my favorite decade, the 1980s. We can only hope for Crocket and Tubbs references, several genres of 80s music on the radio, and be able to drive Toyota minivans around. I wonder if they'd have a Fiero-like car that starts on fire in the back? Would you be up against a gang of "punks", complete with thin sunglasses and mohawks? Will there be some special Knight Rider car that's cleverly hidden that has special weapons?
We can only dream for now.
Another thing I'd like to see is more mini-missions. How about drive a city bus around? The firetruck missions proved to me that driving around a firetruck in a busy city is a real PITA that isn't forgiving to the occasional running over people or smashing other cars.
You said that in reference to Slashdot users. Perhaps you were meaning to say that in reference to Linux users? I find it hard to believe most Slashdotters, no matter how big of linux zealots they are, are using Mozilla or Opera. Many of us surf at work, and our only choice is IE.
Heh. I wonder if the PS1 at that price will now completely make people shy away from buying the Dreamcast at 50 bucks and buying a bunch of cheap games.
Of course, go to any given store and there's about 1000 cheap PS1 games and about 2-3 crappy DC games if you're lucky.
doesn't matter much to me though. I bought a PS2(something I never thought I'd do) 3 weeks ago just because I grew impatient with the PC release of Grand Theft Auto 3, and now I'm scouring Kmarts and such to look for PS1 games dirt cheap for my amusment, growing tired of playing Counterstrike on my PC.
I'd say it's a win-win situation for any cheapskate gamers who's only choice was the $50 dreamcast and its not-so-great game selection.
I don't get why this is newsworthy when "x games in a controller" have been out for a while, and the price cut with the PS2 and Xbox doesn't get a story. Yay!
Sounds like they just want to bring e-commerce into a theater, so you can buy more stuff during a movie.
Watching an alternate streaming movie if th ebig screen doesn't make it for you? Uh, why not just leave the theater? I'm sure that the main screen's going to be loud enough for you to distract you from watching an alternate streamed movie.
I predict this "cyber theater" will be a thing of the past in less than a year.
Just get a pair of those glasses that have mirrors on the outer sides of the lenses. Mind you, everything will be backwards, but you can see what's going on while pretending to look in the other direction.
As for monitor LED monitoring, big deal. They can find out if my monitor's on, in powersave mode, or off. Yeah, big security risk there.:)
I hope it's better than their sorry excuse for a TV card that never worked right. It was a few years old, but it was an add-on board to one of their video cards(VFW), and the framerate changed wildly, if it worked at all.
And if only the kind webmaster of goatse.cx would to this. that's the only website I know of that i wish would forbid hotlinking of images(like geocities, tripod, etc).
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It's funy you should mention that. I noticed a lot of the racing-themed games come out of the UK.
All 3 Carmageddons came from SCI.
Demolition racer: no exit came from Pitbull.
Grand Theft Auto came from DMA.
Please don't call it "e-games". Call them video games or electronic games. "E-games" makes it sound like marketing buzzword speak. You are not Spike Lee. Stop makin' up new words!
Reminds me of an SCTV skit from yesteryear. It was Jerry Todd(played by Rick Moranis) advertising 'audiogames'. He had this remote control that when you hit a button, laser blasts would sound for their space battle game.
There was no "Wesley" in Doctor Who. there was Adric though.
Several years ago, I saw Roger Daltry in concert with some orchestra.
Guess who made a guest appearance?
Listening to "My Wife" LIVE ranks as #1. Totally rocks. The Kids are Alright live cut is #2, and I can't stand the watered down studio cut. Some Who songs were just meant to be performed live.
Go to http://www.drunkgamers.com. They have some funny quicktime movies of Halo(somewhere on the site). One of their favorite things to do is blow up a Warthog or two into the air with grenades, and then try to shoot it with a rocket launcher. Warthog skeet shooting!
Dude, I have a Robert Bently manual for my Triumph Spitfire. Mind you, it's a primitive car that's easy to fix, but...
The Bentley manual for it is about 99% "remove and refit" for parts on the car. There's some diagnostic stuff, but the Haynes manual(lists just about everything to do for it, rebuild engine, etc) compliments it.
I wouldn't call it 100% useful unless you are a gearhead.
You think that's funny? I discovered an all-Russian TV station(which doesn't get Interceptor, a crazy GTA like game show, DARN!) which makes sense since most of my apartment complex's tenants are Russian senior citizens.
And did you try the new Mini Cooper? It's as slow as all hell!
Gives me 2nd thoughts about buying a real one..
I'm with you 100%. I'm a person always on the hunt for obsure early '80s music. Some examples are Martha and the Muffins(no hope of getting anything from them), Missing Persons(bought a greatest hits cd, but there's more I want), Toni Basil(she had more than just "mickey"), and so on.
I found out that the more obscure the music, the better chances it had of flying under AG's copyright radar. Or, just switch the artist name and song, and you'd find it.
Darn. I'm really sad to see it go. Whether it's tracks from the Blue Thunder soundtrack, Pointed Sticks' "The Real Thing"(some obscure Canadian band), I was in '80s music heaven with tunes that commercial radio stations woulnd't even touch.
Darn.
I have a feeling this will be a new innovation of communication, but the only thing anyone will ever say is......
A/S/L????
Maybe this is the C-SPAN for the military. 24/7 surveillance footage of Eruope!
Depending on your cable provider, you'll get all sorts of nutty cable channels, including hte "Windows 95 desktop" channel, the "insert the AMiga Kickstart disk" channel,and a classic chnanel from the '80s, the "Commodore 64 screen spitting out random numbers" channel, a personal favorite.
Anoyne remember those cheesy "childeren's stories" channels that were basically computer-rendered screens with text and graphics for various tales? I was addicted to it as a kid. I also remmeber the computer-screen AP news plus channel. Every 3 months or so,all the graphics came up scrambled, as if it were done in Logo and a wrong turn on the vectors were made. Hilarious to watch when you're 10.
It's sad that in the Twin cities, radio station formats change here as often as the weather.
I think I know just about every song on Mix104's('80s radio station) playlist, which all seems to fit on a 6-CD changer. It's been 15 minutes, can we hear "Heard it from a friend...." from REO Speedwagon AGAIN?
The saddest part was that the most diverse station, Rev105 which played just about anything(including the Golden Palominos, inspiring me to buy the CD) is nothing but a faded memory. It's now an alternative station, and about a year ago it was a disco/funk station with a super-limited playlist that's dwarfed by my winamp playlist.
Okay, I'm just venting about how bad twin cities radio is, but someone has to mention the Rev.
AG is great, but more and more "commercial' songs are getting flagged as being copyrighted, hence the X on them. Getting a bit frustrating, but there's always ways around it, usually by switching the artist name and song around.
I really wish I could find the MP3 to the Japanese-themed radio station from GTA2. No luck whatsoever on any sites or AG. "Rocki toki teryaki taste like saki!"
I really do hope for an MMORPG version of this. Imagine 20-30 of the main player characters running around in the city causing havok. You could have full-on gang wars, crazy races and several other challenges.
I heard that Vice city will be taking place in my favorite decade, the 1980s. We can only hope for Crocket and Tubbs references, several genres of 80s music on the radio, and be able to drive Toyota minivans around. I wonder if they'd have a Fiero-like car that starts on fire in the back? Would you be up against a gang of "punks", complete with thin sunglasses and mohawks? Will there be some special Knight Rider car that's cleverly hidden that has special weapons?
We can only dream for now.
Another thing I'd like to see is more mini-missions. How about drive a city bus around? The firetruck missions proved to me that driving around a firetruck in a busy city is a real PITA that isn't forgiving to the occasional running over people or smashing other cars.
, and many of us don't use IE
You said that in reference to Slashdot users. Perhaps you were meaning to say that in reference to Linux users? I find it hard to believe most Slashdotters, no matter how big of linux zealots they are, are using Mozilla or Opera. Many of us surf at work, and our only choice is IE.
At 50 bucks!
50 bucks??
Heh. I wonder if the PS1 at that price will now completely make people shy away from buying the Dreamcast at 50 bucks and buying a bunch of cheap games.
Of course, go to any given store and there's about 1000 cheap PS1 games and about 2-3 crappy DC games if you're lucky.
doesn't matter much to me though. I bought a PS2(something I never thought I'd do) 3 weeks ago just because I grew impatient with the PC release of Grand Theft Auto 3, and now I'm scouring Kmarts and such to look for PS1 games dirt cheap for my amusment, growing tired of playing Counterstrike on my PC.
I'd say it's a win-win situation for any cheapskate gamers who's only choice was the $50 dreamcast and its not-so-great game selection.
I don't get why this is newsworthy when "x games in a controller" have been out for a while, and the price cut with the PS2 and Xbox doesn't get a story. Yay!
Sounds like they just want to bring e-commerce into a theater, so you can buy more stuff during a movie.
Watching an alternate streaming movie if th ebig screen doesn't make it for you? Uh, why not just leave the theater? I'm sure that the main screen's going to be loud enough for you to distract you from watching an alternate streamed movie.
I predict this "cyber theater" will be a thing of the past in less than a year.
Just get a pair of those glasses that have mirrors on the outer sides of the lenses. Mind you, everything will be backwards, but you can see what's going on while pretending to look in the other direction.
:)
As for monitor LED monitoring, big deal. They can find out if my monitor's on, in powersave mode, or off. Yeah, big security risk there.
I hope it's better than their sorry excuse for a TV card that never worked right. It was a few years old, but it was an add-on board to one of their video cards(VFW), and the framerate changed wildly, if it worked at all.
Death's head and crossed bones would only make people think pirates are storing their loot there, and would want them to go in there more.
And if only the kind webmaster of goatse.cx would to this. that's the only website I know of that i wish would forbid hotlinking of images(like geocities, tripod, etc).