The Gamer's Quarter

ApM · Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 7:54 pm Post subject:

Seattle is fucking awesome.

ApM · Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 6:02 pm Post subject:

I just bought a SpaceOrb 360 at a thrift store for $6. Basically, it's a joystick where, instead of a stick or a d-pad, it has a little ball that you can push around and twist with all six degrees of freedom. It's basically the consumer-grade videogame version of the SpaceTec SpaceBall, which was a high-priced VR / CAD toy that eventually became this stuff. Supposedly it came with the shareware versions of Duke Nukem 3D and Descent II, but the box was missing the CD. The joystick itself had clearly never been removed from the box, though, as it was still twist-tied in there.

I kind of vaguely want to play Descent on it, because man, there is a game that was made to be played with a 6-DOF controller, but really what I want it for is to fuck around in early-90s flat-shaded VR shit which doesn't even support it anyway. Maybe there's some 3D modeling software that supports it? It just shows up in Windows as a joystick with a shitload of axes.

Slonie · . Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 141

Descent with the spaceball will probably be awesome. Descent is already awesome to begin with, so...
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Slonie · . Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 141

As for neat stuff I have that people here might find neat:

Outfoxies JAMMA PCB.
Ore no Ryouri for PSX, the most genius game of cookery ever. Please, somebody needs to port it to Wii. (and not Cooking Mama either)
Racing Lagoon for PSX (Just because)

And an impenetrable copy of Policenauts that somebody on #3do gave me for the cost of shipping.
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aderack · . Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco

I found a real-actual Cocoron cartridge in a random bin in LA.

That's one of my more interesting moments.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Yeah, I was there and checked all the other fami carts. I couldn't believe we found that.
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ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

I know Daggerfall isn't really rare, but at the time it was released it might as well have been a million dollars ( although everything might as well be when you're young and poor), so getting a copy in from SilentMatt has meant a new gem in the collection.
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Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 8:14 pm Post subject:

I saw a Vectrex in a store the other day, in a glass cabinet next to a stack of NES games. I'd really like to make that the treasure of my collection but I don't have the $250 to blow on it. Other than the brand new boxed copies of Strife and Noone Can Stop... Mr. Domino I got nothing.

You've all got better junk than I have.
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

$250 for a vectrex? In australia? man you can find them cheaper than that on ebay and in cash converters.

i have the vectrex multicart 2.0 Smile

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dmauro · . Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 303 Location: Brooklyn

The limited Mushihimesama (the one with the loli figurine) and the soundtrack (with the other figurine). I got the first at Super Potato for about $40 after asking if they had a copy (it was not on display), and the other I bought on sale online for cheap.

Shoot the Bullet and Phantasmagoria of the Flower View picked up for something like $10 each at random A/V stores.

A Hori Real Arcade Pro 2 modded with Seimitsu stick (bubble ball top) and Sanwa buttons.

The pre-order stuff that came with Portrait of Ruin still sealed because I never got around to selling it on eBay for more than I paid for the game.