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What will probably end up being a buy is the Rogers NHL GameCenter Live subscription. I'm in the free period through the end of this year.

kitroplious wrote:What will probably end up being a buy is the Rogers NHL GameCenter Live subscription. I'm in the free period through the end of this year.

I'm looking into getting in on the free period too, but I'd have to use my dad's Rogers as the basis, and I don't want to risk any funny business (automatic renewal, pestering emails, etc.).

A working Commodore 64 computer system breadbox style case (better SID chip)
I also got with it.
1541 floppy drive which comes complete with an undocumented feature of it squeaking if I pat it just right.
1541 MK-II drive
A box of floppies many still having software intact.
plus some cartridges including an Epyx fast loader cart.
All for five bucks.

kitroplious wrote:What will probably end up being a buy is the Rogers NHL GameCenter Live subscription. I'm in the free period through the end of this year.

Extended it to the end of the season, as I went for a Share Everything plan this morning for my smartphone.

The latest thing I bought is Project Diva F2nd for the PS3.

Just over a Week ago I bought myself a PS Vita with a 16GB Memory card.
Paid with christmas money & a $40 EB Games gift card.

I got one of these today:



In fact I got this exact one, this being a picture of it along with the only game it came with. It's quite the colossus in size, easily dwarfing both the original Game Boy and the Mega Duck that I recently acquired. It's the bendy variant although the country of origin is unclear. I can't find any pictures of this exact variation with the red d-pad.

95% of it's games are apparently terrible, but I was intrigued by the one it came with: Chimera, as I'm a sucker for 3d isometric puzzlers and it's a port of a really obscure C64 game. Has anyone ever owned one of these? Is there anything else in its catalogue worth picking up?



Amusing hand-drawn screenshot.

A Beta Fu7ure wrote:I got one of these today:



In fact I got this exact one, this being a picture of it along with the only game it came with. It's quite the colossus in size, easily dwarfing both the original Game Boy and the Mega Duck that I recently acquired. It's the bendy variant although the country of origin is unclear. I can't find any pictures of this exact variation with the red d-pad.

Have fun with playing that port until you get to the game-killing bug like I did. And yes, that's the only game that's remotely good on the system. I'm probably one of the only people in the world that's played through most of the games on it (using an emulator on the Xbox of all things). Many of the games are literally unfinished, and there is at least one other I can think of that is unbeatable due to design errors. The Watara SuperVision is the lowest of the low in shovelware, unless you count Famiclones.

Rob

A Beta Fu7ure wrote:I got one of these today:



In fact I got this exact one, this being a picture of it along with the only game it came with. It's quite the colossus in size, easily dwarfing both the original Game Boy and the Mega Duck that I recently acquired. It's the bendy variant although the country of origin is unclear. I can't find any pictures of this exact variation with the red d-pad.

95% of it's games are apparently terrible, but I was intrigued by the one it came with: Chimera, as I'm a sucker for 3d isometric puzzlers and it's a port of a really obscure C64 game. Has anyone ever owned one of these? Is there anything else in its catalogue worth picking up?



Amusing hand-drawn screenshot.

I heard of these things.
Here's an amusing video review of this obscure game console.

Pluvius wrote:

A Beta Fu7ure wrote:I got one of these today:



In fact I got this exact one, this being a picture of it along with the only game it came with. It's quite the colossus in size, easily dwarfing both the original Game Boy and the Mega Duck that I recently acquired. It's the bendy variant although the country of origin is unclear. I can't find any pictures of this exact variation with the red d-pad.

Have fun with playing that port until you get to the game-killing bug like I did. And yes, that's the only game that's remotely good on the system.

I wouldn't mind some info on that if you can spare the details. Supervision info is hard to come by. The original Chimera for C64 also had a bug involving planting the explosives. If you weren't facing a certain direction you would die every time? Is this the same bug or something else?
It wouldn't surprise me if it was replicated since on the creator's blog he claims he can't even remember making this version (he's been trying to get a remake off the ground recently and not doing very well).

Pluvius wrote: I'm probably one of the only people in the world that's played through most of the games on it (using an emulator on the Xbox of all things). Many of the games are literally unfinished, and there is at least one other I can think of that is unbeatable due to design errors. The Watara SuperVision is the lowest of the low in shovelware, unless you count Famiclones.

Rob

Again, I'd like to read more details if you can recall them. I have carts of Crystball (bundled game) and Alien (poor man's R-Type clone) on the way.

As for the system itself. The actual visibility isn't as bad as is made out in that Ashens video, Kawaii. It could be that he has one with a dying screen. The biggest problem (lousy games aside) is, as he points out, the ghosting. Thankfully Chimera doesn't suffer from this as it is a slow moving game.

I was aware of the awful games library when I picked it up. It's more the design of the console as a conversation piece in my collection of handhelds that lured me in. The odd repositionable giant sized screen and little built in stand give it a quirky appeal to me. It's a lot more aesthetically appealing to me than another recent pickup of mine. This:



Still, I love them all like children...horrible mutant children with terrible games.