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 Send to email | The Consoles of Our Ancestors [Lists] in Lists Atari Fairchild channel f Nostalgia |  By Owen Good
el 21-Jun-2008 |  Back when I was your age, we played games that sucked and were no fun and we liked it, because it built character, and building character was fun (it was an early form of achievement farming). In fact, we used a slide projector to create finger-shadow combatants for Mortal Kombat, and it was a hoot when granddad had to roll the dice correctly in the correct order to get a fatality.
So that's a big brown blip on the bullshit radar, isn't it. Yeah, thought so. Instead for you, GamesRadar has a comprehensive timeline of all of the video game consoles of the 1970s and I was surprised to learn just how many there were besides the 2600 and the Pong console. Oh, some family friends had the Fairchild (above), that made visiting their home like going to a foreign country where the toilets flushed backward. Except for the Odyssey (actually, we only saw the Odyssey II) I don't think anything other than the Atari retailed in my hometown. Then again, we didn't get a McDonald's until 1980. We had to have our birthday parties at a typewriter repair shop. And we liked it! Consoles of the 70s [GamesRadar]
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| The Consoles of Our Ancestors [Lists] | | Back when I was your age, we played games that sucked and were no fun and we liked it, because it built character, and building character was fun (it was an early form of achievement farming). In fact, we used a slide projector to create finger-shadow combatants for Mortal Kombat, and it was a hoot whe [..] Read complete article | | Published 21-Jun-2008 by Owen Good in Lists Atari Fairchild channel f Nostalgia
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| "Consoles Are A Problem" Says Oddworld Dev [Lorne Lanning] | | Oddworld Inhabitants Lorne Lanning thinks that Consoles are a big problem for games developers. "Personally, I think the consoles are a problem," he told GamesDeveloper.bizGameDaily, "Years ago I was excited about consoles, but anything that [..] Read complete article | | Published 05-Sep-2008 by Stuart Houghton in Lorne Lanning Consoles Development News Oddworld Inhabitants PC
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| David Klinghoffer: Self-hating Jew, or Hitler sympathizer? | | On Saturday night, we celebrated the first night of Passover. It's a day on which Jews have, since time immemorial, celebrated out freedom, and greater freedom to come. The seder is a profound and moving ceremony, and its form connects us through the generations, back to the ancestors who laid the groundwork for modern Jewish religion and culture.
It is especially disturbing, then t [..] Read complete article | | Published 21-Apr-2008 by Thoughts in Creationism
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| Consoles, Who Needs 'em? [Rant] | | Apparently not John Welch, CEO of casual games company PlayFirst. He says that the console per se is a "niche platform" and that they're just too expensive to make. His argument: I think the biggest proof point in the death of consoles in my thesis is the Wii. The most succe [..] Read complete article | | Published 30-Sep-2008 by Brian Ashcraft in Rant Casual Gaming Google Nintendo PS3 Wii Xbox 360
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| Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Curious Consoles [Crime] | | Not sure exactly how this alleged scam works/worked. Yewchoo Ng, 27, of Boulder, is accused of ripping off a bunch of retailers for more than $180,000 by buying new 360s and PS3s, prying off their serials and slapping them on old consoles, returning them for the cash and t [..] Read complete article | | Published 28-Sep-2008 by Owen Good in Crime atari 7800 Colecovision Playstashun 4 Playstation 3 Xbox 360
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| Brits Arrested Over Counterfeit Wiis [Wii] | | Two men have been arrested in Northern Ireland after police found a bunch of counterfeit Wii consoles in the back of their car. Not Viis, or any other kind of trademark-dodging contraption, but "fake Nintendo Wii consoles". The pair wer [..] Read complete article | | Published 23-Oct-2008 by Luke Plunkett in Wii Britain Crime News Nintendo northern ireland
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| Swiingers [Sex] | | Ah, yes. Swingers. Those interested in using game consoles to host orgies, listen up! Online swinger site Kasidie offers up some tips on how game consoles can be liven up an evening of sex with multiple partners. From the site:
Even the names of [..] Read complete article | | Published 29-May-2008 by Brian Ashcraft in CultureOdditiesPS3SexWiiXbox 360
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| Sony pulls PlayStation 3 software update | | Version 2.40 messing with gamers’ consoles
Sony has been forced to withdraw the much anticipated version 2.4 PS3 firmware just a few hours after the update became available, because the new code has apparently been playing havoc with gamers’ consoles.
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