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Last year I bought an original 8 bit Nintendo system with Super Mario and Tetris ... two games I grew up playing for hours and hours. I hadn't played them in years and I thought I should buy one just to have on hand because they'll probably disappear and become unavailable in the next decade or two (assuming I'll live that long ... lol)
I bring it out once in a while just to play it and get frustrated as I try to remember where, when and how to run and jump through level 8
My OG NES is quite possibly my most played out of all my retro consoles. It's currently loaded with Duck Tales, for meme purposes.
Mine also has an emerald green power light (because I can), the lockout chip is clipped, and I modified the cartridge connector so you don't have to press the carts down to play them anymore (because that blows people's minds).
My eight year old self back in the 80s would have seen you as a god among men. I would have been happy to just watch you play on that console.
Here is the current spread. Not everything I have, just what's hooked up at the moment. Never mind the crap lighting in here.
The machine in question.
Wow ... what a setup ... it's something I've dreamed of building myself but I have far too many other projects on the go and my own collections I have to maintain ... my other passion is motorcycles and I have five of them on the go and need constant maintenance, parts, service and repairs ... not to mention a bunch of other work I have to do to make a living and work on my own house and garage.
I envy you and wish I could just sit down to have a break with an NES, switch to an Xbox, then a Sega Genesis and on and on ... I love all those old units as they remind me of being a kid and being around all my old friends and younger times. I'm taking out my NES tonight just to make myself feel better .. lol
Thanks for the images ... I'm actually very happy for you .. nice one!
lol .... that's amazing ... I store all my old bikes in a cramped little shed and garage with not enough room ... I sometimes wonder why I have all these bikes but I love them. I'm sure you feel the same about your stable.
Love that KLR 650 ... a friend of mine has one and is really enjoying it. Neat to have that scooter mixed in with those offroads. What's the Suzuki? Beautiful Yamaha at the start. What are the two cruisers at the end? Nice Yamaha dualsport too! Wow what a collection! I really like the variety and types of bikes you keep. You must really love riding.
Mine are:
- 1998 BMW K1200RS
- 2001 BMW R1100R
- 1978 Honda Goldwing
- 1976 Honda CB750
- 2002 Kawasaki Vulcan
Here is my main ride - 1998 BMW K1200RS - a beast of a machine but I seldom get her going fast because she is 26 years old and although I have faith in her, I don't have enough faith to test to see how well the parts will hold out. When everything is tuned, she cruises without effort at 120 km/h and I've brought her up to over 240 a few times but scared myself so badly that I won't do that often. The bike is rock solid at speed, it feels like the faster it goes, the more stable it becomes, its amazing .... but she's showing her age and I have to take everything apart to service her again in the spring.
Damn, you've got some fine tastes!
The little Suzuki is an RV200 Vanvan. It has a rear tire on the front and an ATV tire on the rear... actually the same tire sizes as the TW200 and similar displacement and power (a widowmaking ~13 HP) but it's lower, less dorky looking, and fuel injected rather than carbed.
A while back a friend of mine offered me custodianship of a CB750 Four from the late '70's, but I declined owing to already having a small mountain of bikes and I was not relishing the thought of owning something with four inline carbs. I un-mothballed the thing for him after it had not run since 1997 so he could sell it, and taking it apart once was enough for me. I got the bastard starting on the first kick, though. I don't know where it went after he wound up selling it to a local dealership.
At the moment I have:
- Yamaha FZ6R
- The KLR650
- Honda Shadow A.C.E. 750
- Suzuki RV200 Vanvan
- Honda CH50 Metropolitan (the scooter)
- Orion/Nicot RXB250L
- Bashan/Raven BSR250 "Enforcer" (actually 229cc, but who's counting)
The Sportster on the end of that lineup is my neighbor's, he stores it in my garage over the winter.
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I know I can emulate, but there are times when I wish I still had my old Playstation. I left mine behind when I had to make a sudden break from an ex of mine about 20ish years ago. Somehow I ended up with a controller and the mouse, but I have no idea how they got separated from the system itself and ended up in my possession.
Hold up, the playstation had a mouse?
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A surveillance camera?!
A HIND-D?
Gdamn, had a recent talk about it...my sister remembers! It's so good when you do have someone to play it with as a child...
Does PS3 count?
Only if you want to make me feel old
These all recently reached the point of having released closer to the PS3 launch than to today:
Rainbow Six Siege, Just Cause 3, Star Wars: Battlefront (2015 version), Rise of the Tomb Raider, Black Ops III, Assassin's Creed Syndicate, Broforce, Yoshi's Wooly World, Uncharted Nathan Drake Collection, Concrete Jungle, Soma, Super Mario Maker, Tearaway (PS4 version), MGSV Phantom Pain, Armello, Goat Simulator (PS4 version).
Just to cherrypick a few.
GTA V released even longer ago than that.
So...go play them? yikes ...
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this post was submitted on 28 Dec 2024
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