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fat flatulent git

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16 hours ago, Ninja Doctor said:

Jesus wept. 
 

I am equally jealous and sympathetic. How much of that have you actually managed to play through?

 

For the PSP and DS years, I was mostly a portable user, so those collections have had plenty of play, although some of the Japanese games have just had a quick look.

 

Main piles of shame are Switch and Dreamcast, although the DC is more excusable as that was mostly bought as a job lot on here a couple of years ago.

 

There's also a large Vita collection, boxed up as I've fallen out of love with the Vita since getting the Switch.

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MattyP

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Here is my current setup. Really proud I have managed to go very minimalist. 

 

Just have a PS4 Pro and a Wii with some Nintendo trinkets... and run everything through my 28" BENQ 4K screen. Seems to work well. My PC is off to one side too.

 

Loving having less and using everything more. Have another Wii hooked up downstairs in the under stairs cupboard out of the way for family Wii Fit and Wii Sports time... All modded with all games on solid state. Its working really well. Just need another HDMI adapter for the second Wii I bought last week... :)

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7 hours ago, new666uk said:

I didn't know signed videogame merch was a thing. Are there any 'names' big enough to carry kudos especially when dev teams are so large?

 

The poster is signed by Neil Druckmann and Bruce Straley along with Ashley Johnson.

 

I've got a smaller, different design poster signed by the three from an MCM Comic-Con back in 2013 that still needs to go up.

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17 hours ago, new666uk said:

I didn't know signed videogame merch was a thing. Are there any 'names' big enough to carry kudos especially when dev teams are so large?

In 1998, one of the bigger magazines (I want to say C&VG) ran a competition to promote Michael Owen World League of Soccer where the runner up prizes were footballs signed by the development team. As I added my signature to the balls, I couldn't help thinking that no fucker cares who made the game... 

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On 04/09/2021 at 07:46, ScouserInExile said:

In 1998, one of the bigger magazines (I want to say C&VG) ran a competition to promote Michael Owen World League of Soccer where the runner up prizes were footballs signed by the development team. As I added my signature to the balls, I couldn't help thinking that no fucker cares who made the game... 

No offence was intended @ScouserInExile. It just felt like device teams are so big now, it's like having a movie poster signed by the third assistance director. 

 

@teddymeow displaying utter ignorance but I've no idea who those folks are. Not like Joffa Smith or Jeff Minter from the bedroom coder era.

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Just now, new666uk said:

 

@teddymeow displaying utter ignorance but I've no idea who those folks are. Not like Joffa Smith or Jeff Minter from the bedroom coder era.

 

Game Director and Creative Director in Straley and Druckmann. They also worked on the Uncharted games so for me, as a big Naughty Dog fan, they're kind of "celebrities"

 

Ashley Johnson is the actress who plays Elliie.

 

 

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6 hours ago, new666uk said:

No offence was intended @ScouserInExile. It just felt like device teams are so big now, it's like having a movie poster signed by the third assistance director. 

 

@teddymeow displaying utter ignorance but I've no idea who those folks are. Not like Joffa Smith or Jeff Minter from the bedroom coder era.

I worked in the games industry for more than a decade and have been fairly obsessed with gaming for forty years or so. I would struggle to tell you who made any of the games I've played. I've played the first four Gran Turismo games for thousands of hours and I know the producer is Ken someone. Beyond that, I've worked with a couple of people who have mentioned working on 8 and 16 bit stuff I liked and I once met a guy who worked at Neversoft on the Tony Hawk games. When I said that must be pretty cool, he did the usual games industry thing of "nah its boring, the company is shit to work for" that everyone did. Oh, and I met Archer McLean once, I know the games he made. 

 

I actually find it slightly odd when there are "the new game from..." threads in Discussion, because (beyond budget and the like) what difference does it make who creates the game. Having a hit, or many hits, is no guarantee of ongoing quality. The only time I did anything like that was in the 16 bit era, when I automatically associated Psygnosis with quality. Then I started working for them and they went downhill from there. 

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Tomdominer

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On 16/08/2020 at 17:06, Colonel Panic said:

I had to postpone setting this up after doing my back in. The joys of being in my 40s! Until yesterday the Aero City was dumped in the middle of the floor. Next up is sorting some proper shelving for my CRT and consoles! I'm thinking Ikea Ivars and some painting!

 

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Love that candy cab! (If that's what they are called). Can I ask how you managed to get one? I've had this dream of a 2 player 6 button aero city cab with a mister set-up inside for a while now...

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12 minutes ago, Tomdominer said:

 

Love that candy cab! (If that's what they are called). Can I ask how you managed to get one? I've had this dream of a 2 player 6 button aero city cab with a mister set-up inside for a while now...

 

I got it via a guy in the Netherlands who ships containers of them from Japan. His website is RKLok.com although he's out of action due to illness at the moment.

 

Mine has a Mister + MisterCade in it at the moment, which has literally saved me thousands on arcade boards.

 

If you're in the UK, then UKVac is a site with a trading forum where you might get a cabinet in good nick from a genuine collector, but they're expensive at the moment unfortunately.

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There’s a guy on Arcade Otaku been offering close to €2K for an Aero for a while with little being offered close to home. They seem to all be with very content owners these days and there’ll be very few leaving Japanese arcades these days. RKlok had a big batch of them about 5 years ago from an arcade that had closed down in the early 2000’s and was due to be pulled down but they’ve all disappeared across the world.

 

If you wanted a different Sega cab, like an Astro, New Astro or Blast City they’re far more common and cheaper, but also a little bigger since they have 29” monitors. They’re also much easier to get spare parts for.

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15 hours ago, phillv85 said:

There’s a guy on Arcade Otaku been offering close to €2K for an Aero for a while with little being offered close to home. They seem to all be with very content owners these days and there’ll be very few leaving Japanese arcades these days. RKlok had a big batch of them about 5 years ago from an arcade that had closed down in the early 2000’s and was due to be pulled down but they’ve all disappeared across the world.

 

If you wanted a different Sega cab, like an Astro, New Astro or Blast City they’re far more common and cheaper, but also a little bigger since they have 29” monitors. They’re also much easier to get spare parts for.

 

That's interesting. I think I already discussed with the colonel that I maybe start an arcade cabinet cab thread, because information like this is useful. I think, if I did it, it would have to go in the garage, so size isn't really a big issue.

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Do it man, I’d certainly read it. I would very much like an arcade cab myself and will soon have a man cave (garage) in which to house it. Difficult to know what’s the best avenue for me to take though - I’m not much of a fiddler or fixer so I’m worried that an original arcade cab might be too much for me maintain. Plus they’re expensive. A good emulation box connected to a CRT and arcade stick might be a better option. I met a local guy recently that has a Taito Egret 2 with rotating monitor and a bunch of original arcade boards at home - looking forward to popping round one day to try that out which may influence my decision making!

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3 hours ago, Tomdominer said:

 

That's interesting. I think I already discussed with the colonel that I maybe start an arcade cabinet cab thread, because information like this is useful. I think, if I did it, it would have to go in the garage, so size isn't really a big issue.


By all means start one, I’ll happily contribute to it. I’ve had arcade cabinets for a decade now and have tinkered with them no end so can answer quite a lot on them.

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