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Of course, I assumed from the wording in the press release that they would be porting it themselves rather than giving it to DE/Backbone. Some companies just love taking credit.

The PSN versions were licensed and ported by SOE. Digital Eclipse didn't do the PS3 versions. Since Warner and Sony are so close, they probably worked something out. http://www.soepress.com/product.asp?s=29

Actually, Midway went under and its IP assets were bought by Warner Bros. I'm guessing that Warner Bros. doesn't have an agreement in place with Microsoft and Digital Eclipse to sell the Midway XBLA classics at this point. Basically the same situation as Double Dragon way back when. The only time M$ cuts XBLA titles without warning is due to licensing issues.

I used to have a Genesis with a language switch and widened cartridge port. There was even a local game rental shop that stocked some import games. Also, there are quite a few games that had differences when played in JP mode (different title screens, Miles/Kilometers Per Hour on driving games, etc.) That's why I mentioned Devil Crash MD, that was one of my favorites and the watered down domestic release looked silly by comparison.

I had the 4 at a time sub with GameFly for a long time until I left my job. I have to say I didn't mind the turnaround, given that I had such a big discount on the games I chose to keep (which was practically all of them). The game discs in general had little to no wear & tear on them and the ones that did, I got a better copy by reporting & returning them. I would say if you're worried about turnaround on the games, get a 2-4 game subscription and stagger your returns so you always have a game out ready to play.

Different platforms have variations on what they trust as a Certificate Authority and how they parse the certificate. I know one of my browsers (I forget which) had problems parsing a certificate with a wildcard in the hostname (ex: *.domain.com) and whined like crazy until I told it to trust it. When things like this happen to known good sites, I just double-check the cert info then whitelist it.

I'm pretty upset with this thing now. I saw the scores on the Yars' Revenge leaderboard and I figured I could get my name on it easily. My TG record is 364,463 Points on Game 2, Difficulty B .. highest leaderboard score as of this writing is 170K. So I use the Token bonus play feature to use 5 of the provided 20 tokens to buy a game session and use the interface to set up the same game variation. I get about 130K into it and BAM get kicked out of the play session with 4 or 5 lives remaining. I check the leaderboard and I'm nowhere on it, even though the lowest score listed is 94K. Check the friends' leaderboard, no score listed. It didn't even record my game progress one iota.

This would've been much better if they had "blank" arcade machines you could stick your XBLA games into. As it is, I'm not going to spend $3 I don't have on Asteroids or Tempest when I already have them in other forms. There just isn't enough new stuff for it to be compelling to me. Aslo, note that the $3 is to add it to your collection for use in "your" arcade.. it costs $5 to play it anywhere, including friends' arcades. What really disturbs me is they offer 1-3 "medals" for each of the games, but don't tell you what the medal requirements are.

The uncensored Devil Crash MD (released heavily modified as Dragon's Fury here)

I grabbed the Game Room and two game packs. Started decorating the room then noticed there weren't any games.. 240@ for each game and I only have 100@ in my account.. guess I won't be playing in there much.

Got the CD sleeves and other tray yesterday. Just waiting for my spine to feel good enough to get some work done.

Search for 'Loupe' at Amazon You could probably find one at Target, probably in the jewelry or health & beauty dept.

No need to repeat yourself.. Besides, I thought I was onto something there.

Digital Versatile Disc Identity Disc Hard Disk Zip Disk SyQuest Disk Basically: Round/Roundish = Disc, Square/Squarish = Disk

Sounds like a plan. Now I just have to get the glacier to get that far. heheh

Pointy tweezers and a jeweler's loupe.

From the ColecoVision FAQ at GameFAQs: I have an Adam myself, but am too afraid of the EMP qualities of the power supply to power it up. That, and lack of space to put it.

I know many of the dual-mode GB games were marketed as GameBoy Color games, and it made perfect sense at the time to sell for the new & improved system. To me, they're GameBoy games w/ color enhancement, and I list them as such on my site. For example: Uno. The clear Color-only carts are listed as GBC games, since that's the system they were made for.

I did find that site myself.. the link is for a MODEM driver that it only sends to people registered and logged in.

I came across this old VisionTek AGP video card when trying to cobble together a temporary computer for my mom to check her email and surf the web on. It seems that being AGP, it'd likely be better than the plain PCI video card that was in it, but I can't seem to find the right driver for it. Also, I can't seem to find ANY specs on it other than it goes into AGP, it's NVidia-based, and has a VGA port. Here's what I know so far: - Labelled: VisionTek NV993.0 (circa 1999) - VisionTek says that it is from "the old VisionTek company. That Visiontek company went out of business about 7 years ago" - Everywhere I've looked for information can agree on one thing: it's an AGP video card, no other information about it listed (chipset, RAM size, etc.) There are some places that still sell these as hard to find or refurbished stock, but still have the same lack of information regarding the specs and no digital copy of the manual can be found by digging through Google.

I think just about any game with powerups or health pickups would qualify if you stretch your imagination far enough.. - Gauntlet: All the food is laced with amphetamines, which is why your health goes down when you're just standing still.. it's counting down to withdrawal. Alternately, all the food is laced with small quantities of the antidote to the poison you accidentally drank on the way in. - Diablo: Health in red liquid form, could be anything in those beakers. Not to mention the blue mana potions. Special mentions.. - NES Strider: All the health pickups were capsule shaped. Not much imagination needed for what was inside. - Star Trek DS9 Dominion Wars: All of the Jem'Hadar warriors were addicted to Ketracel White. - Minority Report: If you've seen the movie, you know why. I think an additional set of special mentions would be the games that came about BECAUSE of some substance abuse. How else would you explain the likes of: - Flipnic Ultimate Pinball: Play it for 10 minutes and try to convince me they weren't on something. - Katamari Damacy series: even MORE mushrooms and LSD-esque visuals - Pikmin - Scooby Doo: Ever notice that Shaggy always had "the munchies"? - Super Mario Bros. series: Mushrooms and special flowers

You can specify major cross-streets by using the following form: Street A and Street B, City, State {Zipcode optional} That's how I placed my pin, since first it was downtown, then it was all the way across town on T-bird at the wrong crossroad.

I wouldn't be so sure... http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/155832-the-official-colecovision-2-thread/

If you get bored or get done with those books, here's a timeline to help you out.. http://www.randomhouse.com/delrey/starwars/art/starwarstimeline.pdf I was working from an older copy, so there's new things like Death Star, Allegiance, and Boba Fett: A Practical Man listed now.

If you mainly like the original trilogy characters, I'd suggest: - The Courtship of Princess Leia - the Thrawn trilogy (Heir To The Empire / Dark Force Rising / The Last Command) - the Jedi Academy trilogy (Jedi Search / Dark Apprentice / Champions Of The Force) - the Corellian trilogy (Ambush At Corellia / Assault At Selonia / Showdown At Centerpoint) That'll get you ready for the New Jedi Order series. If you like the bounty hunters, I'd suggest: - Shadows Of The Empire - Tales Of The Bounty Hunters - the Bounty Hunter Wars trilogy (The Mandalorian Armor / Slave Ship / Hard Merchandise) The following books tie together the prequel era and original trilogy/post-OT eras: - Outbound Flight - Dark Lord: The Rise Of Darth Vader - Tatooine Ghost - the Black Fleet Crisis trilogy (Before The Storm / Shield Of Lies / Tyrant's Test) - Survivor's Quest - the Dark Nest trilogy (The Joiner King / The Unseen Queen / The Swarm War) That should keep you busy for a while.