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You get to play Super Mario Bros back in the arcade at all?

Never was in a local arcade....

My first time playing Super Mario Bros was on the SNES. It was the "Super Mario All-Stars." It would be a ton of years later with the Advent of the abundant availability of clone consoles before I actually acquired the original games. At that point I started getting into 8bit gaming.

Nope, but I wish I did. It looks awesome!

It was a very limited edition of the 360.The Simpsons Movie Xbox 360 is a rare and highly sought-after collector's item. Only 100 were produced, making it one of the rarest limited-edition Xbox 360 consoles. It was designed to promote The Simpsons Movie in 2007 and was given away as a prize at various competitions and events.

one is up for sale on ebay right now with a $9000.00 price tag.

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If I had to settle with one it would be the Simpsons............

LOL I was expecting something about someone. Interesting..............I will have to look into this but I would rather have a hard copy than just digital. And I just ordered Neo Geo Arcade collection 3.....maaaaan.......this hit me at the wrong time.

XBOX 360...there was just something about that console and the games that it had. And there were some shmups on there that I love to play, Espgaluda II and Deathsmiles. And the RPGs, like Blue Dragon, Fable series, and there were some action games that I found fun. But it is a bit fuzzy. I would have to pull that out and go through those games one day. But there are some warm fuzzy feelings when I think about the 360. There was just something about the game library that was missing in the following XBOX consoles.

even got into the Kinect thing........infinity.........skylanders.........Mass Effect............

I would have been there but I was preoccupied. Surely I will be free this coming Tuesday...

If you didn't get the headache the first time around, you can with the second??   

hApPy BiRtHdAy!!

when grocery shopping it seems that anything that we purchase and get into as a regular at our table, the store stops carrying it. Being lactose intolerant, avoiding things that deal with cholesterol issues, watching the sugar thing, whew the golden years are tricky, limits the things that you can choose from to eat. Getting the things we need, I usually end up going to three to four different stores. My groceries are the biggest monthly bill that we have.

And when it comes to gaming, unless it is heavily marked down, I am totally retro gaming from this time forward. I will not even consider gaming generations that follow. Price of admission is beyond me.

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Used my LINUX laptop and was able to get in to Discord.

@BLUEVOODU been so long, I didn't mean to stare like that.

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BOOM!

It is possible that you are remembering all the hype that was around this game at that time.

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I keep seeing info that Microsoft is ending the XBOX console. I never liked a gaming market with a limited amount of choices for gaming. Competition is good. The 80's and 90's is a good example of the way I like it, everybody putting out handhelds, everybody putting out consoles. The market stayed shaken up.

Microsoft a software only company? Could be.....

What time zone are we looking at? I am central time.

@BLUEVOODU I really think my problem is the chrome OS and Discord. Not sure, but I do know that I cannot use the chrome OS to log into my credit card site. I will need to use my Linux laptop next time I try Discord.

How did I miss this?      This is a collection that I would love to have...

I can still locate it but it will be pricey.......$40 to $60 range......it will happen....I promise

I have played that first Mario game maybe once or twice and it wasn't at an arcade. I had a family before I got into my first Mario game which was Super Mario World. That was the good ole days when they gave a pack-in. My first game console was the Sega Genesis. The Commodore 64 don't count.

I have a slightly different experience at the arcades than, I think, everybody on this forum. 

I remember pinball machines lined up. There was the pitch the ball into the basket, pitch the ball into the hole sort of stuff.

And I remember the driving game. It seems that it was sort-of like pole position. The screen was lit up by a light bulb in the back. You had a steering wheel to control your car, which you could see the shadow of the stick that the car was attached to. You had a pedal for the speed. You simply had the movement of left to right. Cars would pass by in a definite pattern. When you hit a car, there was this violent heavy bump, intense vibration, you could feel in the steering wheel. Something actually hit something inside that stand-up. Enough to make it feel like you actually hit something. It was all mechanical. On screen you could see the projection of ground, road, and other cars moving that gave you a "feel" that you were going forward.

I remember the time it got a video game, it was pong. You could not play it by yourself, you needed someone like a friend or some stranger that was there in the arcade.

Pinball dominated before the era of the video game cabinets. I saw the change. By the time that video game cabinets became the dominating force, I had a job and was living in my apartment, still single. Shmups was first before the fighters in my local arcade.

@BLUEVOODU with gritted teeth and sweat running down my face............Jubei.....Samurai Shodown 2.

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I have not encountered an issue between the two phone ecosystems. I am part of an Senior Adult Sunday School class. I keep everybody in a community chat through my iPhone messages. iphones show up in that as blue, android shows up as green. I have no trouble with sending and receiving. And my iPhone messages connects seamlessly with my Mac mini. Twenty seems to be the limit of phone numbers that can connect with a mass texting on messages.

@BLUEVOODU mine is still hooked and ready. Haven't played it much this year. This is one gaming system that is full of fighting games and that is the main reason anyone would want one. The big issue with a Neo Geo arcade game, walk away from it for a while then come back to play. You easily forget that you had to work your way up to winning those fights. You get plummeted with your tail handed to you in a ziplock baggy.

As with any of these old CD based gaming systems, if it fails, I will dump the games on eBay. At least with the older cart base gaming systems there are those cheap Chinese clone systems to lean on. But with something like the Evercade there is hope. It might cost me an arm and a leg before it is over with but there is a good decent load of Neo Geo games coming to that console.

This is not a fair question.

Believe it or not my most played game has been Bust-A-Move arcade edition. 

Honorable mentions would go to, Last Blade 2, Fatal Fury Special, and Samurai Shodown 2. I would not be able to decide between those three, tied. 

Bear with me, I am going somewhere with this,
I am mostly retro in my contribution to this forum. Occasionally I look at some oddball console which is usually retro focused. That is where the gaming industry has ran off and left me. I just can't handle the cost of admission or drum up any interest for each modern generation. That and my interests are mainly the old stuff. I am presently working on a few projects, game reviews. I want to focus on the homebrew and independent game publishers that are producing games for these old consoles.

With that being said. That would be the section I would haunt mostly. I do jump in here and there in other sections when I feel inclined to pitch in my 1 cent worth.

We have been rather busy on here recently, more so, than we have been in years. But it is great! Not sure what has prompted the interest. This place seems to get a lot of traffic. I have noticed some heavy traffic in some of my posts. Here lately I have seen interest in the Evercade posts. A question that comes to mind is how do we determine what is retro? Just a random thought.

We are a very small community. Forums don't seem to attract this modern young generation of gamers. And I am sure that any traffic we get are from people on their phones. I'm old school, in that I use my laptop.

SO...... what I am hearing from you is that you feel a need to reconfigure, reorganize, re-categorize, the small amount of posting from this community. I would suggest something simple based on what posts that we are making at the present. But at the same time you will need to cover all the basics, (consoles, etc.) Hmmmmm........
One problem that will be hard to work around is that even though we are a small community we seem to have broad interests, gaming is the common thread. Oh yeah right we are a gaming forum.(face palm) I guess what you are aiming at is you want the cream to be on the top with the other stuff down at.......hmmm, maybe the retro section organized by gaming generations? That would mean SNES, Genesis, TurboGrafic 16, Gameboy, game gear, etc, would be of the same generation? Not sure how that would work, or one section 8bit, then 16bit, 32bit consoles? But that would cause controversy when it comes to the Atari Jaguar.

Dividing it into smaller chunks might be good when looking for a particular console.

@BLUEVOODU i looked this up on Amazon and did not recognize the shmups. So instead I went for the Toaplan Arcade collections for the Evercade console. There are four volumes. I know most of the games on them. Familiar territory won me over. But I do have this on my bucket list.

Not sure I remember the blue light. Was that the Playstation logo on the home button? This was that one console that snuck in past my retro gaming radar. Knowing what it was at the time I grabbed it up in a pawn shop, mint condition, for something like $80. I knew they did not know what they had. (You contain your excitement until you get in the car.)
The Vita pulled me into it's world. I was getting email, web surfing, YouTube, gaming, sending text to friends, getting trophies, even online gaming for the first time with Ragnarok Odyssey. I used as a link to my PS3 for remote play. Carried it with me on business trips and used skype to keep in touch with my family. A couple of those trips were overseas in Prague. You could even set it up as a phone, which I never did. Had a fellow worker that set it up as a phone. Looked very weird when he used it. There was this PS network app where people would use their PS camera to just connect and communicate their world live. I found that very interesting when it was people in another country. It was like people inviting you into their home. I used the camera occasionally, but the color was terrible, not the best to install on a console like this. I can't remember all of the apps I had on here because when the support stopped they started snatching the app off with updates. Netflix was one of them. Played my first Persona game on this console and finished it. I don't do that with very many games.

This console caused me to dislike SONY. Here they had great hardware in a portable and it was like they did not know what to do with it. The PSP had great support. That was a time in gaming history that I think back on as being fun. I have been pulling this out recently.

Oh yeah you were asking about the blue light. I am sure I knew about it back then but somehow I do not remember it.

What are your thoughts on Nintendo's New Patients in how they are going to effect the gaming industry?

I feel that it might impact the independent developers and stifle their creativity in certain ways. I think this has sent shock waves through the whole industry. I also feel that Nintendo has lost their way, not the same company that they used to be.

Did we ever do this? I got caught up in some stuff and was busy.

I finally figured out and am hooked into Discord......

Whelp! I am no longer on Discord......I have no idea...
I do know that Chromebook has a lot of trouble with some sites... but I never had something like this

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totally unreal how this site keeps crashing. And it is odd just how many visits it gets. And I have enjoyed how busy we got recently.