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PostPosted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 2:46 pm    Post subject: GAME.COM ACTIVE Reply with quote

I just found my old Game.Com portable gaming thingy from back in the day.

I'm amused at how much terrible these things are even though I have very pleasant memories of playing Defender in White Space and watching Wheel of Fortune crash for no apparent reason. I also have the Quiz Whiz "game", a beat-em-up based on Batman and Robin (the shitty movie where the costumes had nipples built into them), and I probably have more games hiding somewhere.

Gah, when I reread that last paragraph it makes the system sound like a disease unfairly wrought upon mankind, which I guess it was, but not really.

I should also have a Virtual Boy somewhere now that I think about it. I may have to find that soon...

Am I the only one whose childhood is pleasantly scarred by these machines?
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 3:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

are you posting from the game.com right now?
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 6:14 pm    Post subject: Re: GAME.COM ACTIVE Reply with quote

OtakupunkX wrote:
Am I the only one whose childhood is pleasantly scarred by these machines?


Definitely not! I owned and enjoyed both of them quite a bit. They were shit, but I loved the port of Robotron the the Game.com had, and Mario Clash is high up on my list of favorite games ever, as is Tennis for the VB.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 9:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Have you seen the other game.coms? Besides the mega-brick one, I mean.


The Game.com Pocket Pro used only 2 AAs and had only one cart slot. The shape was much smaller, and felt a lot like holding one of the old Tiger handheld games. The plastics were see-though and colored (like the iMacs used to be). It came out two years after the original Game.com.


The Game.com Pocket Pro Light was released a year later and had a side-light for darker rooms (like the GBA SP). It still used 4 AAs and had two cart slots. This came out roughly a year after the Game.com Pocket.


All three, for size comparisons. The Pocket really wasn't all that bad as far as game consoles-slash-PDAs went. Even as the cheaper alternative to the GBC and NGPC, it just never took off in America. On top of that, it was a fucking huge system. I've held construction boots that were smaller than it. I remember playing through Resident Evil 2 on it. Not much else.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 9:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

dessgeega wrote:
are you posting from the game.com right now?


I wish. That would be badass.

I actually played Robotron on the Game.Com today. It's very hard to shoot diagonally. I will be busting out with the Virtual Boy this weekend... I plan to hook it up to my surround sound system... there will be pictures...
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 9:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've got Fighter's Megamix for Game.com. It's not pretty.

-Wes
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 8:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had a friend who had a Game.Com.

Thank god for stupid friends.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 8:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

SuperWes wrote:
I've got Fighter's Megamix for Game.com. It's not pretty.


I've always wanted to play that. I've seen screens for Metal Gear Solid on Game.com, but that didn't get released.

I have the strange urge to find, then play through, every Game.Com game ever...
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 9:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I bought one of these off ebay with more than half the games, but the son of a bitch ran off with my money.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 10:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's $4 you'll never see again...
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 1:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I bought Resident Evil 2 because of this thread! It hasn't shown up yet, but the guy printed a packing slip this morning.

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PostPosted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 3:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

OtakupunkX wrote:
SuperWes wrote:
I've got Fighter's Megamix for Game.com. It's not pretty.


I've always wanted to play that. I've seen screens for Metal Gear Solid on Game.com, but that didn't get released.

Metal Gear Solid isn't the only promising game never released on the Game.com...
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