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Captain_Pollution
Title: Hugh
Joined: Sep 23 2007
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Shit... good call, what the fuck?
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 <Drew_Linky> Well, I've eaten vegetables all of once in my life.
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Ba'al
Title: Zerg Zergling
Joined: Mar 02 2008
Location: Uranus
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Probably a mislabeled soda can, it's like finding a trading card with a blank back where the logo usually is.
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jackfrost
Title: Cold Hearted Bastard
Joined: Feb 21 2009
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Thats dnL. It was out about 6 or 7 years ago. They don't make it anymore though.
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[img]http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w204/akajackfrost/megaman.jpg[/img] |
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Ba'al
Title: Zerg Zergling
Joined: Mar 02 2008
Location: Uranus
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Holy crap, just holy crap that's awesome.
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Captain_Pollution
Title: Hugh
Joined: Sep 23 2007
Posts: 1591
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That's... awesome
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<Drew_Linky> Well, I've eaten vegetables all of once in my life.
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Andrew Man
Title: Is a Funklord
Joined: Jan 30 2007
Location: Annandale, VA
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Thats dnL. It was out about 6 or 7 years ago. They don't make it anymore though.
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I remember those obnoxiously annoying commercials.
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My Muzaks! CHECK IT OUT!!!
http://www.facebook.com/hellodharmaband
3DS is very good, and Wii U!
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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Wasn't there a leprechaun in the commercials?
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SevereFlame
Title: Superpowered President
Joined: Dec 07 2008
Location: White House In The Sky
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No, Syd. I remember. There was this thing with a computer monitor not working, and then it spurted dnL after being hit. DUH.
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jackfrost
Title: Cold Hearted Bastard
Joined: Feb 21 2009
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[img]http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w204/akajackfrost/megaman.jpg[/img] |
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Syd Lexia
Site Admin
Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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Ha! I'm not on crack after all.
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DarknessDeku
Title: Deku Scrub
Joined: Dec 08 2007
Location: The Forest
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What was DNL like?
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DarknessDeku is already assimilated by the bots.
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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It was the polar opposite of 7-UP.
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Tyop
Title: Grammar Nazi
Joined: May 04 2008
Location: Sauerkrautland
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Highly entertaining article as always. 
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Rycona
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Title: The Maestro
Joined: Nov 01 2005
Location: Away from Emerald Weapon
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| Great article Syd, but I disagree with how you said G&W was "damn near unplayable in Melee". One of my good friends who I still play melee with regularly is incredibly sick with him... |
Here's the thing. Is it possible to be good with Game & Watch in Melee? Absolutely. But he's still a bottom tier character, and if you're up against someone who knows how to use Sheik, Fox, Falco, or Marth, you're going to get fucking wrecked. |
Tiers are bullshit, although I shred it with Fox and Marth. |
Fuck all this. I have conquered and destroyed (and won) many tournaments at LAN parties with G&W.
He's decent in Brawl, but eh. His Jump + A parachute attack was replaced by that awful fishbowl bullshit and his Up + B Parachute is a joke. His Down + A (Sewer Cover) was super nerfed and I think his Straight Side + A (The Movie Take Thingy) was a bit nerfed too. Pretty much all of my favorite moves were boiled away, leaving behind a dark, sticky residue that I would question even feeding to my kids if I had any sense of decency.
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Syd Lexia
Site Admin
Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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In the current Brawl tiers, he's considered the fifth best character. Meta Knight is #1.
In the current Melee tiers, G&W, Mewtwo, and Pichu are the bottom three.
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Hacker
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Joined: Sep 13 2008
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I'm just gonna ask
why didnt you review marios cement factory? It is part of the game and watch series
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Tyop
Title: Grammar Nazi
Joined: May 04 2008
Location: Sauerkrautland
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Read the article:
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| Today we are going to be looking at the Wide Screen series, a collection of ten Game & Watch games released between June 1981 and April 1982. |
Mario's Cement Factory was part of the New Wide Screen series and released in 1983.
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
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Yes, Tyop is correct, I reviewed the first Wide Screen series. In all, there were 60 GW games released between 1980 and 1991, 59 if you don't count the special yellow version of Super Mario Bros as a separate game. Most collectors consider there to be 60.
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Pandajuice
Title: The Power of Grayskull
Joined: Oct 30 2008
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As much as I'd like to see Syd vomit up 25 year old cookies, wouldn't opening them kind of be a travesty to the collection you have there jackfrost? I mean, there are only so many unopened bags of those cookies left in the world (probably less than 20) and if it were me, I'd be guarding them with my life.
My dad still has unopened boxes of C-3POs cereal and Nintento Cereal System in his collection closet and if that house was ever on fire, those would be one of the first things I grab on my way out.
Anyway, great article Syd and thank you for not making it about Watchmen.
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
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Syd, how many do you own?
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
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Two. Octopus and Popeye. I also have a Nintendo Game Watch (not the same thing) of SMB. The battery in it hasn't been replaced in years though, so it's probably corroded. My Baby Furby died after only two years of leaving dead batteries in it, and this has been like 15 years, maybe more.
A good condition G&W in working order is hard to come by, and sells for a 100+ dollars. If you have a box in good condition, it's more like 300. Rarer G&Ws like Egg and the yellow Super Mario are worth more.
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Ba'al
Title: Zerg Zergling
Joined: Mar 02 2008
Location: Uranus
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I'm curious Syd, where'd you get the screenshots for the games that aren't Turtle Bridge?
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
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I enjoyed the article very much. Therefore some social bookmarking and announcing was deemed necessary.
Links:
StumbleUpon
Reddit
Digg
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Cattivo
Joined: Apr 14 2006
Location: Lake Michigan
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| This makes me want to go find some old Topps cards still in the wrapper to see if he wants to eat some 1987 gum. |
Man, those were stale even in 87.
I remember finding some in the mid 90s and trying them even then, and it was like shards of glass.
I think I might have had some of the later G&W games in the mid 80s, or at least one of my cousins did or something. By the time I was regularly playing Nintendo & SMB, I started disregarding them.
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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| I'm curious Syd, where'd you get the screenshots for the games that aren't Turtle Bridge? |
I'm surprised it took this long for someone to ask. Believe it or not, there are actually a lot of LCD emulators out there of various quality. Most of them are single game emulators that use a scan of the handheld and then emulate the game over it. Most of them do not have working alarm features and fudge the clock emulation by reading your computer's internal clock. Some of then look great, others not so much. That's why I was forced to use Gallery 4 for Turtle Bridge; all the emulators of it look like ass. The redrawn Snoopy Tennis sprites are a little rough too, but I really had other option.
The best LCD emulator out there one is called Handheld Quake. It is a multigame emulator that emulates Egg, Chef, Mickey Mouse, Octopus, and some Russian knock-offs. It actually started off primarily as an emulator of the knock-offs. It is great. Sound is perfect, you can set the clock and alarm, the screen scans look great, and the redrawn sprites are perfect.
The Popeye screenshot is an actual screenshot of the game.
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