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On 10/18/2023 at 9:31 AM, 5-11under said:
If we knew in advance this was a thing, competition would have been more intense.
Sounds like a new tradition to me.
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Mario wuuuuut
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Still with me. I finished the orange ghost and started the last one, but it's been a stupid couple of weeks and I keep falling asleep early during the only quiet time I have - at night. I've got a different crochet project I have to put in front of this one for a birthday party next weekend, but I promise I'm hurrying as much as I can. The birthday present is almost done, I've just got to sew some teeth in a monster, and I'll finish the pink ghost and send the box along.
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21 hours ago, CharonPDX said:
*SIIIIGH*
I really want to go as usual, but I've been busy every weekend for the past 5 weekends. I just need a break. And I'm pretty sure my wife would kill me if I'm gone most of the day Fri/Sat for a 6th weekend in a row.You could always pop in for dinner one night. I did that when I went, even brought my sister and BIL with me. I got caught up hanging out with family that day and don't think I even went to PRGE.
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I got the box today. In all honesty I'll probably sit on it for a couple weeks. I'm not quite 3/4 done making my addition to it.
What I took:
- Power Lords ad
- Space dino Demon Attack cart
- Minstrel's Legend magnet
- Nice Frog Bog overlay to swap out with one I've abused
What's going in:
- Pitfall II cart for a console that is not Intellivision. Commodore? I don't remember because I can't play it.
- Triforce vinyl decal for somebody's car window
- A set of handmade reversible Pac Man ghosts. I need to make faces for the orange one and sew it together, and I haven't even started the pink one yet.
X-Ray is still in there. I'm tempted to take it, but I'm not sure what I could swap for it is comparable - I've got the source code disc from a DVD game Bill F. worked on called Spycraft. He was donating a bunch of archives and arcade cabs to the Strong Museum and didn't think they would want it, so I took it. Maaaaybe?
Anyway, I'll update once I finish the ghosts and get this big 'ol beast out the door. Kudos to whoever alphabetized the loose carts and overlays.
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The right answer is probably homebrews I'd never be able to replace, but the honest answer is sentiment, practicality, and spite. In that order.
- Diner. It's nowhere near my favorite game, but it's signed by Keith and he was tickled that I asked him to.
- LTO. It's loaded up, and realistically I wouldn't replace my collection if I lost it.
- NES Uninvited. It's such a dumb game but I wanted a nice copy so bad, and it took way too fricking long and too much effort to get it for an okay price. Or maybe I'd change my mind and drop it and say DEUCES as I watched it go up in flames, and grab my Switch instead.
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First, this is amazing and thoughtful. Second, your brother must be pretty special because I can't imagine putting this much work into a gift for mine.
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I have a ton of stuff that eludes me because it all got hella expensive and I can't just stumble on $6 games at thrift stores anymore.
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3 hours ago, wolfy62 said:
I hope it's cool and Intellivision related because your sending the box to me.🤞😃
And if I recall correctly, if you are in the Los Angeles area perhaps I could pick up the box from you and save you $50. or so in Shipping. Just let me know,I am in Simi Valley.👍
I don't about *cool*, but it was cute and didn't look overly difficult. But then I'm a seasoned pro at biting off more than I can chew when it comes to crafts, so maybe I'll just throw my Frankenstein's Monster duplicate in the box and randomly mail you a bunch of lil crochet toys 6 months down the road so I don't hold the box up till 2024. 🙃
Google says Simi Valley is about 50 miles. Not terrible, but also not terrible for me to mail a big box. We can figure it out.
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Haaaa, I haven't even started making my little craft thing. Guess I'd better get cracking!
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Or I guess I could just save you a click. Duh.
Side note: I had it backwards. Guitar Lessons are in the brochure, so Spanish must've been in the Google magazine.
2079690928_KeyboardComponentBrochure0280271980(2).pdf 947294827_KeyboardComponentBrochure0280271980(1).zip
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55 minutes ago, cmart604 said:
Did you say brochure? Do tell. Or better yet, send it via the fine folks at the USPS to my address for closer inspection. Thanks in advance.
I actually got it scanned a few years back. Somebody needs to necro bump that thread, it was a good one.
And it turned out to be a two or three of a kind, so oooops.
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It's never too early to call dibs on Frog Bog.
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Separate from that though, I think I have a brochure around here that teases Spanish for the KC, and years ago I was Googling something or other and found scans of an old magazine that mentioned guitar lessons for KC.
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On 4/25/2023 at 2:50 AM, Walter Ives said:
Interesting tidbit. It appears that back in the day Baum's programmers were under the delusion that it was they who were the source of new game concepts. "About 70 per cent of a programmer's time will be spent actually sitting at a computer terminal, programming a game. The rest of the time is occupied by thinking up and talking about new games. … In his 18 months at Mattel, [Baum has] accumulated more than 1000 video-game ideas, but feels he can never have enough." Howard Poiskin, "Behind the Scenes with the Blue Sky Rangers," TV Guide, June 19, 1982, pp. 39-44.
In Keith Robinson's version of events, marketing's only roles with respect to actual games were to come up with names for the cartridges and to throw away money on lame licenses that the group had to figure out how to accommodate. Robinson just loved regaling listeners with stories of Baum describing the latter role as being a real pain in the a**. Times have changed: Baum couldn't get away with making such comments today.
WJI
It's been ages since I've seen them, but a couple boxes of those game idea forms programmers had to fill out survived. If I remember correctly Tower of Doom's form is in there. Not with that name, of course, but Connie started with the form. I'm glad that game made it past the programmer idea phase, at least.
There was another that I thought looked so cool and the lady clearly put a ton of thought into it with several colored illustrations and a fancy presentation folder, and Keith proceeded to tell me every single reason it would never work as a game. Womp womp.
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7 hours ago, tanuki said:
You're not the only ones with fun ideas for the title. For example, we've named one of the two game modes "Crazy Mommy". In reference to the fact that you can play with real objects and that the lady of the house will be angry ^^
I mean as long as you don't have people's kids scrounging through the medicine cabinet, under the sink, or a knife block it's probably fine. Children are going to act like feral raccoons no matter what, don't need a board game to drive us crazy when we're probably already there. 🤷♀️
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Still hasn't made it to me, but somebody let me know if it's coming. I want to make something stupid for it and I need to get my act together.
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Snakes. They're fast and take two shots to kill. They're basically dragons with an axe.
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13 hours ago, wolfy62 said:
The good news is, by the Time I get it and send to you it will be December.
Merry Christmas 🎅🎄!!!
Probably. I think I'm the one who sends to you, and I work the exact hours the post office is open. You're gonna have to wait till I have a day off work till I can mail it. 🫠
Assuming *I* get it before Christmas.
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I'm pretty sure I'm friends with the guy you bought it from. Small world! I guess to be fair, there can't be *that* many release party copies out there, let alone available for sale. But yeah, I texted him yesterday to see if he still had his photos from when he put it up for sale and he sent me this:
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Oh I love this game.
1. Keith Robinson
2. Stephen Roney
3. David Akers
4. Dave Warhol
5. Bill Fisher
6. Ray Kaestner
7. Mark Kennedy
8. Dale Lynn
9. Michael Breen
This was probably signed at the release party in Manhattan Beach, CA at The Comic Bug around 12 (?) years ago. I have mostly the same set of signatures on my own copy.
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On 1/24/2023 at 3:11 PM, abeckett said:
I have seen and heard a lot about PRGE and as an Australian I feel I am missing out.
Should I make plans to have a quick trip for a few days to experience it myself - would there be a good place to stay near the event? Is there a place people typically stay?
Anthony
When I went in 2018 there was a Best Western within walking distance and they let me park there for $5. The lot was almost suspiciously empty though, even with the cheap parking. It's either gross or nobody staying there rented a car.
The Intellivision guys all seem to stay at Eastlund. (I did not, but I invited myself to dinner every night.)
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This is the part where I creep in and ask if there's any chance of a ROM release for home arcades later. I'm still fussing with the controls for Intellivision (that black pile is a pair of Flashback controllers and adapters I'm waiting on more cords for), but if I could just throw that in the arcade ROM folder and play...
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I've got a sealed Mission X you can just have. It's not perfect, but it's not bad. The white back is a bit off white with age, and there's a dent on the top rear corner and some sticker gunk where somebody tried to peel off the price tag. If you want it though, PM me your address and I'll drop it in the mail next time I scrounge up a box.
You collect shrinkwrapped variants?
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