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Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
« Reply #15 on: February 07, 2012, 03:00:03 AM »

I love the older IBM keyboards. It's nice having all those function keys separated from the rest of the keys.



I liked the good solid "click" they had.
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« Reply #16 on: February 07, 2012, 01:25:35 PM »

I liked the good solid "click" they had.

Oh, HELLZ yeah. You KNOW when you typed a letter on those bitches. No going back to fill in my Ts that are consantly getting dropped on this keyboard.

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« Reply #17 on: February 07, 2012, 01:30:42 PM »

I liked the good solid "click" they had.

Oh, HELLZ yeah. You KNOW when you typed a letter on those bitches. No going back to fill in my Ts that are consantly getting dropped on this keyboard.



Yep, and they made good self defense weapons too. They weighed about 90 pounds. Solid steel.
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« Reply #18 on: February 07, 2012, 02:07:54 PM »

I just remember them getting crazy nasty dirty. And then when XKCD pulled the 'ol "raise your keyboard above your head and shake" trick. Nasty.
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Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
« Reply #19 on: February 07, 2012, 05:29:12 PM »

TOWER OF G.



IF THERE IS A TOWER OF G, THEN G MUST TOPPLE IT.

This is the 12 inch Final Wars G. He's a pimp. I kinda like my 12 inch 2k version with the purple spikes a tiny bit more but Final Wars G looks more classic. The six boxes up top I just got today. I have way more G flicks, but I haven't yet migrated to DVD on them because they are either too expensive (vs. Smog Monster is around 60 bux), imports with no translations, or haven't been released. (I'm looking at you, G-1985 and vs. Biollante!) Yes, I have a bunch of VHS G movies collecting dust.




And for the record, Big G is a liberty lover. You heard it here first.
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Re: Getting your geek on. Non-geeks not allowed.
« Reply #20 on: February 07, 2012, 05:41:29 PM »

Also, did you guys know that each pacman ghost behaves in its own unique way? Also, there is a secret spot in pacman where you can sit and nobody will get you.

http://home.comcast.net/~jpittman2/pacman/pacmandossier.html
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« Reply #21 on: February 09, 2012, 10:12:51 PM »

The only truly geekworthy thing I regularly return to is Tetris.  It never really gets old.  And even if I do "forget" about it, years later when I pick it back up, it's like an old friend.

I would like to own a real pinball machine.  Full-size, not some half-assed model you can get at Sharper Image.  Addams Family was probably my all-time fav.

Also, an old skool Battlezone machine would be dope.

Ever played 3D stereogram tetris? If you can handle it, give it a try. So much more fun than regular tetris.

Also, did you guys know that each pacman ghost behaves in its own unique way? Also, there is a secret spot in pacman where you can sit and nobody will get you.

No, never did 3D Tetris.  My mental image is sorta like Tetris-Jenga, in a tower.  Sounds cool, but I'd flunk out.  I know my limitations.

Yes, did know PacMan had a hiding spot. 

I remember attending the 1982 Worlds Fair in Knoxville, TN, about a year after Pacman came out.  PacMan Fever was fully in its craze.  I was 9yo.  They had a tent roughly the size of the Superdome full of PacMan machines, it was jam packed with throngs of PacManiacs, mylar balloons, plush toys, everything.  It was nuts.  The noise was deafening, it sounded like a PacMan casino. 

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« Reply #22 on: February 09, 2012, 10:15:06 PM »

No, never did 3D Tetris.  My mental image is sorta like Tetris-Jenga, in a tower.  Sounds cool, but I'd flunk out.  I know my limitations.

It was a bit of a bummer.

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« Reply #23 on: February 09, 2012, 10:16:32 PM »

One geek thing I enjoyed immensely was Tyco track racers, with the little pin in the bottom of the car that kept it on its track.  

One of my first enthusiast hobbies.  I had a bunch of those little cars.  Some were faster than others, the wheels were replacable with stickier performance wheels, and if I recall, you could get snap-in performance motors.  

You could build the snap-together tracks in all sorts of elaborate shapes.  

Those were neat.

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« Reply #24 on: February 09, 2012, 10:17:17 PM »

No, never did 3D Tetris.  My mental image is sorta like Tetris-Jenga, in a tower.  Sounds cool, but I'd flunk out.  I know my limitations.

It was a bit of a bummer.



Eww, no.  Ugly.

Do not want.

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« Reply #25 on: February 09, 2012, 10:48:51 PM »

Kinda reminds me of a generic version of this game I used to play at the arcade called Tempest.

I remember winning a T-shirt for 3rd place in a Tempest tournament at Stardust bowling alley out of like 40 something people.
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« Reply #26 on: February 09, 2012, 10:59:15 PM »

Tempest.

I remember the name, but don't recall ever playing it. 

I would assume I was hooked on something else of the same period. 

I recall watching people go insane playing Centipede with the trackball built right into the console.  I hated that game, but it was fun to watch baked.

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« Reply #27 on: February 09, 2012, 11:09:56 PM »

Does this conjure up anything? It was a knob that spun around and a fire button, thats it.

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« Reply #28 on: February 10, 2012, 12:19:59 AM »

OH SHIT YOU HIT A SHAWGEEK BUTTON

Jeff Minter did a remake called Tempest 2000 for the Atari Jaguar. Also, another dude did a remake of Tempest 2000 which you can get for free. Here's a vid -

Typhoon 2001

Minter took Tempest and added psychedelic colors and crazy explosions and all sorts of extra awesome.

Again, you can get it for free and it's one of my creative meditation games. I play it at least once a week for 20 to an hour.

I imagine playing it stoned would be fucking amazing.
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« Reply #29 on: February 10, 2012, 12:35:53 AM »

Cool.

Imma download that one. Sure beats the vector graphics of the orig. If I piled up every quarter I put in the Tempest game when I was a kid, I'd have enough to buy the damn machine.
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