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Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

It was the summer of '93, several weeks before school was to start back up. I had an old Technics turntable and a cassette boombox in my bedroom, so I had a decent music collection at that point, but I had been bugging my dad about a CD player for probably a couple of years by then. It seemed like all of my buddies had them, and would trade CDs with one another, and no one wanted to trade tapes with me (and certainly not one of my 45 singles which I was still buying from Coconuts Music in the early 90s). I don't know what it was, but something must have lit a fire under my old man's tuchus at that time, because I recall him getting the family together on a Saturday morning and loading us all into the station wagon for a trip to Service Merchandise. He purchased a very nice Pioneer 6-disc changer (which he still uses to this day), and told me and my sister that we could each pick out one CD from the music section. My little sister chose the Beauty and the Beast Soundtrack, and I chose Siamese Dream from the "new releases" rack. I had recently been enjoying the video for "Today" on MTV which they had labeled a "buzz cut."

Incidentally, several years earlier, the first cassette tape that I remember going to the store and buying with my own money was MC Hammer - Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'em.

Saw this last night,  and it sucks. John had been fighting cancer for years, and was finally over that, and had been playing some shows around Nashville the past few years, but then this damn coronavirus came along and got him. Ugh, sucks. He's such a unique songwriter, I've enjoyed his music for years. If you haven't listened to his latest album from 2018, 'Tree of Forgiveness,' I highly recommend it.

NPR wrote up a detailed overview of his life in their obituary:

https://www.npr.org/2020/04/07/750894794/john-prine-obituary

Try a 2 player beat em up game with her. Something like Streets of Rage, Final Fight, Ninja Turtles, etc. Those games are easy to pick up and play, and generally don't require total concentration and hand-eye coordination to have fun with. Plus, having 2 players on screen together means that you could assist her if she's having trouble with an enemy.

Regarding Sega Swirl:

"The game is an oddball in the Dreamcast's library as it was not released commercially. Instead, it was bundled with copies of the Official Dreamcast Magazine in the UK and US, with the Web Browser 2.0 software, with Sega Smash Pack Volume 1, and for a period, with new Dreamcast consoles (as part of the Web Browser 2.0 software included with them)."

https://segaretro.org/Sega_Swirl

Obviously this isn't the be all end all, and there could very well have been some sort of limited physical release at some point or perhaps in a different region, but Segaretro is the most complete online database that I know of when it comes to cataloguing Sega's releases.

While it wasn't the hardcore technical analysis that they've done in a number of videos, I think they still conveyed the shortcomings of the mini system well. And the simplicity and lack of video and audio settings in these mini consoles don't exactly lend themselves to that type of analysis anyhow. But yeah, "disappointed" is a good word to describe the way they talked about the lag and shimmer brought on by the console.

But I didn't see anything in the video that suggested that they were going easy on M2 because they're chummy with them. Beyond the shortcomings in the PC Engine they mentioned, they also brought up issues in M2's Genesis Mini. And Coury went so far as to call Lords of Thunder unplayable due to the lag. 

Basically, what I'm getting at is that there are many youtube channels where it's clear that that the hosts are "on the take" so to speak, where they're essentially giving a haphazard review that glosses over a product's shortcomings. But in no way is that the case in this video, nor any of My Life in Gaming's review videos that I've seen.

Ha! Don't meet too many Frank Henenlotter fans. You're all right, Reed/Brock.

As far as the VinSyn slips for Raw Force and Christmas Evil, yeah, they offered them as surprises in two of their past few special sales. They do two big sales every year, the Thanksgiving sale and the Memorial Day sale. Great deals and always a few cool surprises. Got lucky to get those. This past year they had slips for Jack Frost, but I swear, they were gone within minutes of the site going live, and I missed out. They announced that the BMX themed 80s rental favorite Rad will be coming out on 4K for the Mem Sale this year, along with some unannounced surprises. Looking forward to it.

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Lightning fast shipping, and easy to deal with. Would fap again!

I've really been enjoying reading through this thread today, so I figured I'd play too. While vidyagamez are obviosuly a favorite hobby of mine, I also dabble just as much in some other areas. You gotta keep it fresh, otherwise you're liable blow your wad.

I'm pretty heavy into records and hifi in general, and cast a wide net as far as music goes, but I'd say I'm particularly partial to 50s/60s jazz and 70s/80s punk. Here are a few of my favorites I thought to pull out off hand, perhaps you'll recognize a few.

I've been collecting movies pretty much since I could walk. Started on BetaMax and have graduated to 4k UHD. Here's a sampling of my collection. It's nothing too crazy compared to a lot of guys, but I'd say I have somewhere in the neighborhood of 1000 flicks or so. I still pick up the occasional VHS tape as well and have a S-VHS deck. You'd be amazed by how many movies never made it past VHS onto a disc format.

I dabble in comics a bit. There are actually a number of new titles that I read fairly regularly, but I'm also into some silver and bronze stuff and pick them up on occasion. Here are a handful of my favorite titles.

Baseball cards are a longtime hobby of mine. I've never been really serious about it or anything, but I go to a handful of card shows a year, and have a fondness for 50s and 60s stars. 56 Topps is probably my favorite set.

And I suppose there are a few other collectibles I'm into here and there. If it involves spending my hard earned money on useless stuff, I'm probably into it. Hahahaha

For whatever reason, I recently decided to play some SimCity 2000 for the first time in possibly decades. I set it up in DosBox on my PC and it worked perfectly. I put so much time into this game on my family PC when I was around 12 or so, but honestly, I can't recall if I've played it since. Well, one thing's for sure. I'm rusty as heck at it.

It took me 3 or 4 tries before I finally made a city that actually made money annually. I basically just ruled like a bastard. Coal power plant, cut police, fire, hospital, education budgets to almost nothing, and added sales tax, income tax and parking fines. And after some lean early years, Holtsville blossomed into a bustling metropolis.

At that point, I upped the budgets and added public services to make the city nicer and encourage growth. Eventually, the Navy set up a base on my ocean front, and wouldn't you know it, within a couple years of that, a massive monster attacked my fair city and sent a good portion of it into chaos and wreckage. Mayor Holt kept a stiff upper lip in those tough times, however, and we rebuilt and are now stronger than ever. And the people gave their mayor a glowing 69% approval rating.

Such a fun game, a real escape and time sinker as well. I had a lot of fun with it yesterday afternoon. My daughters were fascinated by the game, and watched some of the action, so I named a stadium and museum after them. And their mother is naturally the warden of the penitentiary.

These are my recent movie pickups from the past couple weeks. Vinegar Syndrome is probably my favorite label.

I'd have to do a lot of thinking to come up with a top 10, but my absolute favorites are Operation C and Metroid II. Love those games.

46 minutes ago, Mega Tank said:

Toilet paper. As @Gloves mentioned now is a good time to invest in a bidet. Maybe toilet paper will be a thing of the past.

My money's on the 3 seashells becoming the next big thing.

I checked the "waybackmachine" under both nintendoage and vintage.nintendoage, and it's all been erased by gocollect and redirects there. I was hoping we'd still have access to the databases, but no such luck. Not sure if it could have been backed up anywhere else that they haven't yet nuked.

Regarding the Game Gear adaptor, I've been using the updated 1.1 model that they sent out for about a week now, and it works great. When I first tried it, I was getting nothing however, then it occurred to me that I hadn't updated the Mega SG firmware for the better part of a year. Since I did that, the GG adaptor has been flawless. And I've really been enjoying Star Wars and Shinobi, but Outrun Europa sucks. Just throwing that out there.

Solid 8/10 movie. I recommend the new 4k disc, excellent picture quality.

Incidentally, the Peter Cetera song "Glory of Love" was the wedding song of my wife and myself.

Speaking of RPGs, I was all in on the first Dragon Warrior as I have never actually sat down and played it for real. At this point, I have put in countless hours, but still feel as though I haven't leveled up enough to make a serious run at the final castle. I've collected all of the parts I needed, and traded them to an old man for a rainbow bridge which connects to the island the final castle is on.  But I noticed that as soon as I cross over there, the random battles kick my tuchus enough to wear I'm burning through health spells just to stay alive.

So I've cooled off on it for now. I want to say I'm level 15 right now, and I think to seriously have a chance to beat the game, my guy will need to be level 20.  And let me tell you, grinding is a major component of this game. I couldn't even tell you how many hours I've had to wander around certain areas to rack up experience points in fights, and to get to level 20, well, that's just daunting at this point. I'm not saying never, but I'm taking a break.

2 minutes ago, Quest4Nes said:

miss you in fantasy football. COME BACK!!

Ha! I hope that we 'll actually get a football season this year. I was all jacked up for F1 and March Madness to start, then this crap hit. No Masters either. Daddy likes his sports, it's been rough. 

Did you win FF last year?

On 3/31/2020 at 4:02 PM, Quest4Nes said:

Lowest i remember is 84 cents a gallon in high school . Filled a small truck up with 15 dollars.

Gas here now is about 1.60

I remember it hitting 79 cents in high school, this was about 97/98. But that was a weird drop for like a few weeks. Usually it was around a dollar in those days. Then I recall it being between $3 and $4 regularly throughout the early-mid aughts. But it had been under 2.50 here (West Michigan) for the past few years, since well before the corona outbreak. But now it's 1.69 I think, at least that was the latest I saw a few days ago. Crazy.

On 2/22/2020 at 6:01 PM, SuperJimtendo said:

This thread is wild. I had know idea you could just ask someone to make you a game genie code.

There's a thread devoted to it on Sega-16 for the Genesis that's been going for years. It seems crazy that you can do that to me too.

I made the sojourn here from NA, largely to keep following your SNES countdown. Very cool to see that you've got your own site up and going for it now. Let the good times roll. 

Greetings, fellas. I was a longtime member of the previous sites, even PlaystationCollecting before it became an "age" site, and I finally got around to checking out the new digs, and I like what I see. Figured it was time to make it official. Cool to see so many old faces hanging around here.