General Arcade and Retro Chat - Insert Coin -

Retr0gamer

New podcast up if people are interested:

http://arcadeandretro.com/arcade-and-retro-podcast-episode-23-misfit-mascots/

DinoRex

Submitted the podcast as an entry to the Irish Web Awards for the craic.

Myrddin

Folks if one of you want to create a thread for these in the Video Dome (as well as here & Gaming General) then your welcome to use it. It's for content creators etc, but these podcasts would be a welcome addition - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1377

johnny_ultimate

If anyone fancies a bit of dumpster diving, this is what the recycling skip outside the recently closed Smyths Bray looks like:

They're empty, but dig deeper and you never know!

the groutch

even the cases for the 3ds games have significant value

Linoud

Wonder if the cases still have the inserts tho?

eddhorse

Anyone got a Commodore 64GS?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64_Games_System

Attached is not mine, havent seen many before.

OwaynOTT

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

The Money Pit....

Tom Hanks and Shelly Long in a perfect storm of non-funnyness.

Shut your mouth! That and Mousehunt are two of my favourite house fixer upper gone wrong films.





Anyway, does anyone have a spare SNES powerpak and rgb cable going spare? I was recently given a snes with some games but the above were missing.

CiDeRmAn

Ah, Mousehunt is a bizarre and awesome nay excellent film.
Love that fecking movie.
So much physical and silent comedy, and they swear at the mouse.
Christopher Walken is class, as is Nathan Land and Lee Evans.
Now I want to watch it again!

Nerdkiller1991

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Ah, Mousehunt is a bizarre and awesome nay excellent film.
Love that fecking movie.
So much physical and silent comedy, and they swear at the mouse.
Christopher Walken is class, as is Nathan Land and Lee Evans.
Now I want to watch it again!

Almost makes up for Verbinski's other feature, The Lone Ranger.

























Almost.

OwaynOTT

Nerdkiller1991 wrote: »

Almost makes up for Verbinski's other feature, The Lone Ranger.

























Almost.

I enjoys it.

CiDeRmAn

I'm in the tiny minority that really enjoyed The Lone Ranger.
I thought it and John Carter were actually good, or at the very least a fun night out at the films.

TechnoFreek

Anyone hear of a movie called Turbo Kid?
80s kitsch and video game violence.
Looks like a winner to me!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFlZ6pVtnv0

Los Lobos

Lads and lassies, I'm trying to find an old crt that displays in ntsc, I thought one of those tv/dvd combos would work but so far have had no luck. The google machine is proving fruitless too.
Anyone any advice on an old tv with ntsc??

Retr0gamer

If it supports RGB then any machine that outputs RGB will worth fine.

Los Lobos

Retr0gamer wrote: »

If it supports RGB then any machine that outputs RGB will worth fine.

It's for the 5200 I picked up off alphaeagle

Retr0gamer

I know late Philips and Sony CRTs support NTSC. However they've all been Widescreens that I've seen support it if that is a problem.

Steve X2

My brother just sent me this pic. Apparently the new Fantastic 4 movie has them using a bunch on N64's to time travel or something :0/

I'm assuming its an "el dodge" copy of the movie.

DinoRex

Oh yeah.. I'd forgotten about that. Reed has a server array made up of N64s to run his matter teleportation device. This is when he's a kid and is set in 2005. I'd have to imagine a bunch of old PCs would be easier to come by and far more practical than some N64s.

TechnoFreek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVHO4DXuFyk

Nerdkiller1991

DinoRex wrote: »

Oh yeah.. I'd forgotten about that. Reed has a server array made up of N64s to run his matter teleportation device. This is when he's a kid and is set in 2005. I'd have to imagine a bunch of old PCs would be easier to come by and far more practical than some N64s.

And speaking of N64 and PC...

http://www.destructoid.com/turok-and-turok-2-are-being-re-released-for-pc-307957.phtml

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/dino-games-turok-and-turok-2-getting-pc-remasters-/1100-6430062/

Retr0gamer

There were PC ports of both those games so I'd say it's a pretty easy conversion. They get a bad rep but they are good fun, Turok 2 in particular since it got rid of the stupid jump puzzles that the developer admitted to adding in at the last minute to increase difficulty.

Corholio

I always liked the eeriness of Turok's levels, it wasn't the greatest game but it was fun. The isolation on some levels where you wouldn't see a raptor for a while and then one spots you was quite fun.

CiDeRmAn

Those jump sections were a pain, not because they were placed to be challenges but because its really hard to implement jumping in a game where you can't see your feet!
Only the Jumping Flash games had managed it, and even since its really only the Metroid Prime series that have got it right.

Myrddin

The Toy/Models/Collectibles forum proposal is moving along nicely, I think it already has enough votes to warrant Admin consideration. I'd say it'll be a while yet though, with the new site rollout on the horizon things in Forum Requests have had to take a back seat lately

Optimus Prime

Myrddin wrote: »

The Toy/Models/Collectibles forum proposal is moving along nicely, I think it already has enough votes to warrant Admin consideration. I'd say it'll be a while yet though, with the new site rollout on the horizon things in Forum Requests have had to take a back seat lately

I think we need 18 +1s and so far have fifteen. Hopefully we get enough votes for it to be considered anyways.

DinoRex

Have you seen the new shop that's upstairs in Games Stop on Henry street? I really want that Pac-man light up ghost they have in there.

o1s1n

Optimus Prime wrote: »

I think we need 18 +1s and so far have fifteen. Hopefully we get enough votes for it to be considered anyways.

And then the toy collecting mania can commence :pac:

johnny_ultimate

The recent Gamestop shift to vast amounts of floor space devoted to 'pop culture' junk has raised fresh questions about a baffling societal mystery: who the hell is buying all these ****ty Pop! figurines?!

They're bland, lazily designed and very expensive for what they are, yet game stores, comic stores and even book stores seem to be devoting baffling amounts of space to them.

Retr0gamer

I don't get those pop figurines either, they look really cheap and well, ****ty as you say.

DinoRex

The funko things? Yeah... they're so bland and unimaginative. They've acquired an impressive range of licenses though.

I've never paid much attention to them, do rare ones exist and do they actually have any value on a collectors market?

Myrddin

Optimus Prime wrote: »

I think we need 18 +1s and so far have fifteen. Hopefully we get enough votes for it to be considered anyways.

Oops, 18 is required I thought it was 15

johnny_ultimate

DinoRex wrote: »

They've acquired an impressive range of licenses though.

That seems to be their primary business model - buy the rights to as many 'geek' (for lack of a better word) friendly franchises as possible and just blanket cover as much floorspace as they can to reach as many fans with disposable income as possible.

I've never paid much attention to them, do rare ones exist and do they actually have any value on a collectors market?

I'm sure there's probably a few rarities for conventions and the like, but for the most part they just seem to mass produced. Definitely don't get the sense they offer the 'thrill of the chase' some other collectible figures and the like do. I can sort of understand how Amiibo have taken off because they're so hard to find (still think they're nonsense of course ) but the shelves full of Funko figures doesn't suggest anywhere near the same rarity.

Steve X2

I got one of those figurine things for my GF as a joke, and to do the below
They are not great yolks, but I’ve spent money on worst tat(wouldnt be into collecting them though).

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I don't get those pop figurines either, they look really cheap and well, ****ty as you say.

Not a fan myself.
I think some characters it doesn't look bad like some Adventure Time style characters since they have the same shape eyes but I would say 90% of the time, they're ugly as ****.

Each to their own if course, lots of people seem to enjoy them and I haven't seen alternative figures for some characters.

CiDeRmAn

Steve X2 wrote: »

You know nothing Steve X2

CiDeRmAn

Resubscribed to Xbl this morning, principally to regain access to my cloud stored game save from Dark Souls, wound up finishing Crysis on the 360 as well.
I enjoyed the game, though it got quite choppy at times and there were sound issues too, here and there.
I presume the PC original is amazeballs better but I quite enjoyed it on console, though it took some years to go through in the end!
Now to play the unpopular 3rd game, got it from PSN+ a good while ago and never played it.

CiDeRmAn

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

The recent Gamestop shift to vast amounts of floor space devoted to 'pop culture' junk has raised fresh questions about a baffling societal mystery: who the hell is buying all these ****ty Pop! figurines?!

They're bland, lazily designed and very expensive for what they are, yet game stores, comic stores and even book stores seem to be devoting baffling amounts of space to them.

They've made a massive change to the Swords Pavilion branch, and its awful.
To paraphrase They Might Be Giants
"They fixed up the corner store like it was a nightclub..... Everyone is excited and confused..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEXqs_RGgqs

Star Lord

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

who the hell is buying all these ****ty Pop! figurines?!

I've got three of them...

Bobble head dancing baby Groot, Bobble head Star-Lord, and Jack Burton.

Myrddin

I presume expedited shipping from Japan = UPS = customs charges yeah?

Atavan-Halen

Myrddin wrote: »

I presume expedited shipping from Japan = UPS = customs charges yeah?

If it's EMS, I've found then it's more likely to be caught. But in saying that it's only really around Christmas time I've been charged. I think UPS will always charge customs but I'm not sure.

Jack burton

Just a reminder to everyone about the proposed toy collecting forum. Be great id we had some support from people around here to get it approved

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057479557

eddhorse

Jack burton wrote: »

Just a reminder to everyone about the proposed toy collecting forum. Be great id we had some support from people around here to get it approved

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057479557

Ah its jack burton talking about toys.

eddhorse

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Resubscribed to Xbl this morning, principally to regain access to my cloud stored game save from Dark Souls, wound up finishing Crysis on the 360 as well.
I enjoyed the game, though it got quite choppy at times and there were sound issues too, here and there.
I presume the PC original is amazeballs better but I quite enjoyed it on console, though it took some years to go through in the end!
Now to play the unpopular 3rd game, got it from PSN+ a good while ago and never played it.

I'd watch that stream, hook us up

CiDeRmAn

eddhorse wrote: »

I'd watch that stream, hook us up

Ah, sarcasm...
Very good...

Andrew76

Star Lord wrote: »

I've got three of them...

Bobble head dancing baby Groot, Bobble head Star-Lord, and Jack Burton.

There's a few in this household aswell; Superman and dancing Groot are mine, ninja Turtles for the kids. No interest in collecting them though.

Retr0gamer

Anyone see the ridiculous DLC for the new Gal Gun? 10,000 yen (yes the price is correct) gets you xray vision allowing you to see the girls naked. That DLC for me is just all kinds of wrong.

johnny_ultimate

Because up until this point Gal Gun was in no way, shape or form objectionable already

Retr0gamer

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Because up until this point Gal Gun was in no way, shape or form objectionable already

Well it was certainly objectionable but this takes going too far... too far :pac:

Nerdkiller1991

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Anyone see the ridiculous DLC for the new Gal Gun? 10,000 yen (yes the price is correct) gets you xray vision allowing you to see the girls naked. That DLC for me is just all kinds of wrong.

And Jeff Gerstmann continues not to comment on his thoughts on Megan's Law.