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TrekkiELO
Member Since 18 Feb 2005OFFLINE Last Active May 23 2012 7:11 PM
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In Topic: Pac-Man Connect-and-Play from BANDAI (coming in 2012)
Sun Mar 18, 2012 11:24 PM
Thanks Zwackery and onmode-ky for those links, good news and awesome looking unit from Namco/Bandai, although I don't like the idea of repeats with only one new advanced Pac-Man level!
In Topic: Pac-Man Connect-and-Play from BANDAI (coming in 2012)
Sun Mar 18, 2012 11:19 PM
toiletunes, on Sun Feb 19, 2012 9:10 AM, said:
Wish nintendo would do a Donkey Kong.
Indeed, this is what I've been saying for years now!
In Topic: Atari Flashback 3
Tue Nov 22, 2011 7:08 PM
Lentzquest, on Mon Nov 21, 2011 1:39 PM, said:
Just picked up a FB3 at a Dollar General in southern Ohio for $15. It's some kind of pre-black Friday sale going on from Nov 20-23. I'd have passed at it's normal price of $40, but I couldn't pass this up when I saw it checking out. Just fyi.
You must have got lucky or knew somebody there because their ad clearly shows a Jakks Pacific Atari Joystick for $15 from Sunday, November 20th-Wednesday, November 23rd, while the Atari Flashback 3 is $25 only on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 24th.
http://www2.dollarge...cular-HTML.aspx
In Topic: FB3...
Tue Nov 22, 2011 7:05 PM
Lentzquest, on Mon Nov 21, 2011 1:41 PM, said:
Just got one at Dollar General in southern Ohio for $15. Sign said from Nov 20-23, so must be a pre-black Friday thing.
You must have got lucky or knew somebody there because their ad shows a Jakks Pacific Atari Joystick for $15 from Sunday, November 20th-Wednesday, November 23rd, while the Atari Flashback 3 is $25 only on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 24th.
http://www2.dollarge...cular-HTML.aspx
In Topic: R.I.P Father of Breakout.
Sat Oct 15, 2011 11:01 AM
kool kitty89, on Sat Oct 15, 2011 2:47 AM, said:
TrekkiELO, on Fri Oct 14, 2011 9:13 PM, said:
Actually from 1985-1994 Commodore's Amiga blew away both the Apple Macintosh and IBM PC at a fraction of their costs!
Of course,technical superiority (be it system hardware or OS) is a separate issue from mass-market acceptance and software support. (well that and the PC did have certain technical superiorities over the competition -namely the flexible open-box expansion . . . similar to the Apple II's technical advantages -aside from the software support or market perception -and then low-cost optimized clone manufacturers with embedded chipsets appeared and PCs became increasingly more attractive in all aspects -Tandy 1000 obviously being the fist major example of that, also showing IBM's massive missed potential for what the PCJr could have been)
Commodore's Amiga 500/1000/2000 also had a pretty good mass-market acceptance or perception over an ST and then also IBM clones not only stateside but in Europe where they were still popularly supported well after their bankruptcy!
