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It was created by people who migrated over after NintendoAge was purchased and shut down.  There is a large group of regular posters over there and while the interest typically skews a bit more towards Nintendo and Japanese systems, the users have a lot in common.  There isn't near as much in the way of development and programming discussion though.

Swapping/trading is fun!  Much more fun than buying and selling IMO.  I once met an Atariage member while on a business trip.  I flew his c64 boxes up to him and came back with a stack of carts!

I've always heard that they basically sold all of 'em from the first wave.  Then there was a bit of a lull.

Good thing Space Invaders eventually came along or that could have been the end of the story.

All of that is probably true, but I actually found myself thinking that it seemed to bring the Double Dragon gameplay slightly forward while adding in an almost toxic preservation of the worst elements of 80s culture.  Turned it up to "Neon" with runaway sexist stereotypes and problems solved with violence.  I mean, it IS a videogame, so I wasn't expecting anything else, but it just sorta hit me across the face in a weird way, and I didn't want to play it anymore.

Still, I have it on my list to play later.  Maybe my timing was wrong or something.

In my area, DoorDash will go to the grocery store and deliver on their "normal" delivery timelines.

Excellent!

Tagging @Rick Dangerous as this status update may be hard to find.  Since you are downtown (ish) the 6th floor museum really is kind of a neat thing to visit.  We also have the George Bush presidential library if you are into that sorta thing.  Hope you enjoy your time in Dallas.

Ok, uptown.  Most of the stores are going to be in the burbs.  Your best bet for a quick hit at a barcade is Cidercade https://www.cidercade.com.  They offer a big selection of classic games and it is a professionally run place where you could take someone else who isn't into retro-games and they'd have a good time.  They have food trucks and sell . . . Cider.  It is their own brand of Cider.  It is good, but they don't really offer any other drinks, so be prepared.

Also kinda close by - I've never been, but the Two Bit Circus would be even more friendly to travelling co-workers who don't care about Donkey Kong, but it might leave you wanting more.  Dallas - Two Bit Circus

Farther away

The closest store could be FX Game Exchange in Plano Home | FX Games (fxvideogameexchange.com).  It is NOT close, and they've downsized since the pandemic, but if you go up there, you can also visit Madness Games and Comics which is fun to browse through for board games and comics.

On the way up to Plano, you could also stop by Free Play Richardson Free Play Richardson....  Absolutely worth it.

Even Farther

National Video Game Museum NVM - National Videogame Museum (nvmusa.org).  Your co-workers probably would dig this, but plan to spend multiple hours walking through the exhibits and playing in the arcade.  You can also JUST visit the arcade if you want.  They use the old quarter-per-play system.

@Rick Dangerous - if you can tell me about where you will be, I can probably give you some better advice.  DFW is pretty huge.

There's at least 6 different mom n pop shops (retrobution, FX, RGR) if that's your thing, and yes we have Game Over locations.  For arcades, Free Play Arcade is amazing.  They are dedicated to 100% original arcade hardware, and there are multiple locations.  Plus, we have Cidercade, Quarter lounge, NVGM and even others.  There's also all the places that have thrown arcade games in the mix next to axe throwing or whatever.  On top of that there's the modern arcade stuff like PinStack, Main Event, Dave and Busters.  Those at least have a few of the new Stern pinball tables these days . . . Two bit Circus, I can't even keep up.

Dallas is a retro-gaming paradise.  

I see, so of course the car is rebuilt, and the title reflects that.  You didn't do anything to the title to rebuild the document.  That's what messed me up.

Honest question, what is a "rebuilt title?"

I first heard this expression in the lyrics of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical - Evita.  "Don't Cry for me Argentina"

"Dressed to the nines . . . at sixes and sevens with you"

I agree with you that partitions don't really help with drive corruption.  I mean sometimes some sectors go bad, but it is usually all or nothing for a consumer.  I usually just manually copy important files to a different drive every so often, and I prefer that method to wholesale backup.  I think of a HW failure as a chance to re-install the OS anyway, but I'm a weirdo like that, and I have easy access to Windows images.

I do like to partition my drives so that if I want to reinstall the OS, I can have an untouched partition that just stays the same between installs, but that is less and less important as most files (at least for business) are also in the cloud.

Congrats.  I've never read it.  It is often regarded as the finest piece of anti-war literature ever written.  I think they must have been working on the recent Netflix movie before the war in Ukraine and Germany's new increased spending on defense, but I find that the release of the film is particularly well timed.

Impossible Mission is on there.  If you've never played it then give it a shot.  Who Dares Wins is a nice Commando clone, and if you update then you get Galencia which is a nice Galaga-like homebrew.  Someone will probably recommend the Epyx mult-event games.  Try the C64 version of World Games.  It has unique songs for each of the events that take advantage of the C64 specs nicely.

Well before too long (100? 200 years?), we will have destroyed most of their habitat anyway.  When that time comes the zoo will be the only place they can live.

@jd_1138 French = pomme frites (fried potatoes).  And the French typically credit Belgium for their origin

I can confirm you won't find "Greek Salad" on the menu in Greece.  Been there, ate that

Awesomely bad

We have gotten this BS in the USA for years now.  With our federal "prime" rate almost at 3.25%, the point of a savings account has been lost.  With years of this now (really since 2008), I'm afraid that it has likely punished less-complex investors quite hard.  All it took was the highest inflation rates in decades to get them to raise it by 0.5%.  At least that is what everyone expects to happen later this month, but it will still be about half what it was in '07.

LOL - I'm sure they've got their own porn sites by now.  THAT is an industry that Russia is capable of replacing.

We were so in phase
In our dance hall days

Installer packages for Windows have been overly complicated for years.  I have some stories . . .  I'm interested in the scenario you ran into.  Are you installing from the Xbox app?  Is this something classic?