...and how long before you lose the damn thing? As electronics get exponentially smaller, we're shelling out more and more loads of $ for tiny little gadgets.
What happens if you get your pants stolen (I don't want to imagine the scenario where this would happen, but bear with me) when you're carrying your mp3, your cell phone, and your pda and who knows what else? Soon our laptops will be the size of credit cards (that unfold or something for the screen). We don't need house insurance anymore, we need pants insurance. You know what? I think I'll invest in pants insurance. Listen, you heard it here first.
Bleaugh. I'm getting sick of remakes, director's cuts, re-issues, re-sequalizations, re-this and-re-that and "x versus y" algorithms in movies that mask the simple fact that no new ideas are surfacing in Hollywood. I mean alien vs. predator makes for an okay comic book but seriously, could we please get some new ideas off the ground? How about a new monster franchiese, or science-fiction franchise, or even a new slasher movie cult icon.
Pretty soon we'll have a movie version of every damn superhero ever sketched up. We'll soon have a "freedy vs. jason vs. mike meyers" in all probablity. Hollywood will cough out a few more Dr. Seuss movie-versions before that horse is beaten to death.
Every movie that soaks up its production costs with revenue gets a sequel. I want something new. No more sequels. No more director's cut or cgi effects thrown in for good measure and then re-issued (like "Alien" and "ET".)
Is rehashes of old material the only safe bet anymore in Hollywood?
Wow. This is certainly nothing new. I have three of the damn things in the working (website coming eventually).
There are two schools: convert an old retro cabinet, or build one yourself. Building one yourself entails quite a bit more; for starters, better already have invested in thousands of dollars in carpentry equipment. Jigsaws are just the beginning, friends.
The other school can have you going in little time: get an old original cabinet cheaply somehwere (from a local arcade, or collector, check RGVAC usegroup). Or, if you're feeling weak and imptatient, spend 10 times more than you should and buy one on Ebay (my first mistake). Now, the *ethical* concerns of corrupting an old cabinet is one thing, but after cleaning out the 20-year old crap in there, you got yourself an empty cabinet.
MAME depends entirely on your processing power; it ignores your video card. Keep this in mind for the digital games like NBA Jam, Mortal Combat and recent SHMUPS.
Retrogaming / collecting is horeendously addictive and it's possibly the geekiest thing going today. Proceed with utmost caution. But at the same time, I can't believe how many friends come to my house and say "Wow! That thing is cool! Does it have . Then they proceed to play it all night. Never fails.
No, it's not realistic. It's a game, that is fun. Keep in mind that kids wouldn't be subjected to this part of our history much at all if it wasn't for these games, though. How else are you going to reach out and tap a kid on the shoulder and get him interested in WW2?
I don't know about anybody else, but involving games actually get me interested in the subject material. I remember Fallout got me interested in 50's counterculture. The same is true for "realistic" WW2 games. They tell a story, and might just get some kids interested in something they couldn't otherwise relate to. Putting yourself in the "shoes" of a soldier, regardless of how unrealistic, can still be a learning experience. The Army at least must've thought so, as $7 million of our tax dollars went to fund America's Army game.
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What happens if you get your pants stolen (I don't want to imagine the scenario where this would happen, but bear with me) when you're carrying your mp3, your cell phone, and your pda and who knows what else? Soon our laptops will be the size of credit cards (that unfold or something for the screen). We don't need house insurance anymore, we need pants insurance. You know what? I think I'll invest in pants insurance. Listen, you heard it here first.
Pretty soon we'll have a movie version of every damn superhero ever sketched up. We'll soon have a "freedy vs. jason vs. mike meyers" in all probablity. Hollywood will cough out a few more Dr. Seuss movie-versions before that horse is beaten to death.
Every movie that soaks up its production costs with revenue gets a sequel. I want something new. No more sequels. No more director's cut or cgi effects thrown in for good measure and then re-issued (like "Alien" and "ET".)
Is rehashes of old material the only safe bet anymore in Hollywood?
There are two schools: convert an old retro cabinet, or build one yourself. Building one yourself entails quite a bit more; for starters, better already have invested in thousands of dollars in carpentry equipment. Jigsaws are just the beginning, friends.
The other school can have you going in little time: get an old original cabinet cheaply somehwere (from a local arcade, or collector, check RGVAC usegroup). Or, if you're feeling weak and imptatient, spend 10 times more than you should and buy one on Ebay (my first mistake). Now, the *ethical* concerns of corrupting an old cabinet is one thing, but after cleaning out the 20-year old crap in there, you got yourself an empty cabinet.
My dream machine will involve the Classic Slikstik control panel , a 27" Wells Gardner arcade / monitor hybrid, and a 2ghz machine processor computer.
MAME depends entirely on your processing power; it ignores your video card. Keep this in mind for the digital games like NBA Jam, Mortal Combat and recent SHMUPS.
Retrogaming / collecting is horeendously addictive and it's possibly the geekiest thing going today. Proceed with utmost caution. But at the same time, I can't believe how many friends come to my house and say "Wow! That thing is cool! Does it have . Then they proceed to play it all night. Never fails.
No, it's not realistic. It's a game, that is fun. Keep in mind that kids wouldn't be subjected to this part of our history much at all if it wasn't for these games, though. How else are you going to reach out and tap a kid on the shoulder and get him interested in WW2? I don't know about anybody else, but involving games actually get me interested in the subject material. I remember Fallout got me interested in 50's counterculture. The same is true for "realistic" WW2 games. They tell a story, and might just get some kids interested in something they couldn't otherwise relate to. Putting yourself in the "shoes" of a soldier, regardless of how unrealistic, can still be a learning experience. The Army at least must've thought so, as $7 million of our tax dollars went to fund America's Army game.