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The SFGE and Vintage Computing Festival Southeast are happening in less than two weeks! https://gameatl.com/ https://gameatl.com/vintage-computing-festival-southeast/ I've never been to either one, but will just so happen to be in Atlanta visiting family for the next couple weeks so I'll drop by. Anyone ever been to one of these and have impressions or tips to share? h/t https://ataripodcast.com

Got a new CRT off of Kleinanzeigen (basically Germany's Craigslist) that plays better with light guns So I also started filling out my Light Gun collection! Paging Sgt. Powell! I could scare off intruders with this Judge Dredd beast...

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Q: Is there an image that is literally the 80s times 1,000,000? A:

446,975 first warm-up fight against Robot Ron. That's how my phone autocorrected it, and that's how I'm going to pronounce it from now on: Robot Ron!

this is true with a lot of games, wouldn't be impossible that Pole Position suffers from bad initialization algos (gotta keep that high score) i've also compared taking big skids to lots of little adjustments trying to minimize speed loss, helped a little i've managed to shave about 2.5 seconds off my qualifying lap when I get it perfect (no braking on hairpin, little/no skidding on other curves) but I have no idea what kind of voodoo I'm going to have to learn to get to @zylon's level -- less than 54 seconds!! i'm obviously playing the game wrong

New score: 56,850 Qualifying: 58"60

This little dude showed up this weekened; I ordered it last year some time and it took forever, but so far it's quite a treat! the pocket really makes gba games shine

62"36 43,050 I was never very good at this game, but man it's well made classic racer

FYI, we're doing Namco Speedway on this one, looks like you're set to Malibu Grand Prix?

206,992 this is a great game! I feel like the 5200 Centipede graphics are better, but the gameplay and added features here are just stellar

I also hate the little round "castle keep" look the newer pieces have, or worse: the paper card with the plastic stand wtf why mess with perfection?

A few random pickups this week: Proper '77 model Stratego 🙂 the modern version all suck

87,090 got a little angry and went back to it; it's definitely growing on me 🙂

37,210 this game is an interesting port. I like the graphics upgrade, but otherwise is a pretty lazy upgrade from the 2600 version it’s good fun, but I am terrible at this version and prefer the VCS a little