barrels

1 minute ago, LeatherRebel5150 said:

I never was really all that concerned with the overlays. At least with 5200 they're almost all useless. I know it's usually taboo, but if I ever decided to get them there is a guy on Atariage that makes reproduction sets of them.

Yeah, I should also clarify that the need for overlays is a personal (OCD) one and not for a feeling completeness or presumption of added monetary value.

Could you link or PM me his info? That sounds like something I should probably bite the bullet on.

When the official announcement hits (and @trj22487 how did you stumble onto this?), I really hope that they at least have the decency to put nintendoage.com into read-only mode until it's shut down. Nothing moving forward (and since a day or so ago) is going to make it over. So it's a black hole.

Just now, trj22487 said:

Definitely could and should have gone so much differently. I personally haven't experienced anything this bad since Tom Anderson selling MySpace.

He was my only friend for way too long. 

Just now, LeatherRebel5150 said:

Both the Intellivision and Colecovision. They are always on the back burner but always focused on other systems first. One of these days I'll get around to them.

Both are a pain in the ass, lol. Along with A5200, I feel like I spend more time tracking down games with overlays than anything else. I'm not even a box/manual guy but overlays seem essential.

5 minutes ago, acromite53 said:

Yeah. Good luck to everyone who said they'd stay on NA/go collect. Enjoy trying to navigate through that. VGS is for the community. Not serving a company.

I hope we can all bury the hatchet and welcome Paul, Kevin, and drag00n with open arms 

10 minutes ago, Hogie said:

Wow! I can't believe they didn't find a way to still use the NintendoAge domain. From what I can see, they just lost all the SEO that made NintendoAge valuable from a business perspective.

That struck me as strange too, unless it will serve as the canonical name? Haven’t looked at the SANs on the ssl cert though

EDIT: nope, just the gocollect wildcard.

3 minutes ago, Tulpa said:

edit: old threads archived here:

https://connect.gocollect.com/categories/archived-nintendoage-posts

If I simply click on 'Discussions', all of the threads are there. 

On 10/28/2019 at 6:25 PM, G-type said:

My boy Billy gets around I see!

 

Billy looks sleepy. I guess you two had a wild night, eh?

Hype! Excitement!

Just now, ThePhleo said:

Deleting anything off NA is pointless.

They have a backup of the database and can run a virtual NA on any computer they want. The only thing you’re deleting is your ability to ever view those messages...should they port over to the “new and improved” website.

That's something I considered. Even further, who's to say that the cutover to the new site will be the latest data? They haven't disclosed any details about putting the current site into read-only mode or wholly taking it down for a proper migration. For all we know the DNS cutover will happen and it'll have content that's old.

@skinnygrinny that's awesome to hear

11 hours ago, JamesRobot said:

Thanks! It's gonna be me.  The rest of you should just give up now.

Site Reliability Engineer (or DevOps, Systems Engineer,orSystems Administrator. Call it whatever you want, these titles are both meaningless and over-intentioned)

Computer shit. Big computers.

2 minutes ago, The Strangest said:

My local game stores have said they noticed an uptick in Atari collecting too. I’m usually the one who peruses the “pre-NES” stuff the most, but I’ve been told more than once that they’ve seen a lot more people coming in for that stuff lately.

A local game store, who you really have to work at to get a deal from, had probably 200 Atari 2600 games. All junk commons in garbage shape, and unless you were ready to haggle, he'd tell you they were $5/each. Ridiculous. About a year ago, evidently someone came in and bought ALL of them. There were at least 20 copies of Combat in that lot.

I have no idea if it was an overly ambitious reseller or what, but I can tell you that he definitely overpaid for that lot even if he worked out a deal. Hope it worked out for him. Even at $1/game he would have been overpaying for what was there.

Said game store is finally rebuilding their stock and I've been finding a lot of solid 2600 and 5200 titles. Here's to hoping Atari collecting stabilizes once again and doesn't get wild like newer consoles.

New super Mario Bros wii. Yep.

7 hours ago, mbd39 said:

 

I'm digging the beard. You kind of look like a skinnier Randy Quaid.

spot-on in so many ways, lol

14 minutes ago, guillavoie said:

Man, you recreated your icons in your sig! Effin neat!

yeah that's awesome. Totally stealing that idea

2 minutes ago, PapaStu said:

Welp, just went over only to see that NA is now throwing up a 503 error. It appears that she's gone folks.

This isn't the first time I've seen 503's in the past few weeks. I wouldn't call it yet. You're seeing a Cold Fusion 503, which means the server is actually producing it.

Here's one I got from @skinnygrinny himself... my swamp-swimming MM2:

I have more in my collection, though I think these two are the worst. 

5 hours ago, SuperJimtendo said:

enter @Murray with tooth chipper clip

It's been 5 hours. What a slacker.

Haven't I see this somewhere before...?

Congrats (again)

5 minutes ago, mbd39 said:

They look so damn punchable in that picture you posted that I almost want to lower my rating.

 

So are Billy Jo and Pat Contri related, or do they just buy their eyeliner at the same place?

Missing Maryland yet?

2/10. And I’m being generous. Billy and company bend over backwards to fit the times and it shows in the output.

wake me up when this shitty band ends.

21 minutes ago, Prime2099 said:

I haven't seen anything from Bronty or Bunny so I am assuming they are either staying out of it, or sticking with NA.

Bronty is here, @Bronty, so you can sleep soundly