Toby Newman

Tbe box reads:

CD Quality Sound
Awesome Running Speed
360 degree game movement
Power supply

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deKay

Toby Newman <google@asktoby.com> wrote:
> Tbe box reads:
>
> CD Quality Sound
> Awesome Running Speed
> 360 degree game movement
> Power supply

a playstation?

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gunthergloop

On 21/12/2011 19:08, deKay wrote:
> Toby Newman<google@asktoby.com> wrote:
>> Tbe box reads:
>>
>> CD Quality Sound
>> Awesome Running Speed
>> 360 degree game movement
>> Power supply
>
> a playstation?
>

A holodeck

Kendrick Kerwin Chua

In article <4ef23067$0$29698$c3e8da3$40cb80c2@news.astraweb.c om>,
gunthergloop <news1@keviSPAMNOnforde.com> wrote:
>On 21/12/2011 19:08, deKay wrote:
>> Toby Newman<google@asktoby.com> wrote:
>>> Tbe box reads:
>>>
>>> CD Quality Sound
>>> Awesome Running Speed
>>> 360 degree game movement
>>> Power supply
>>
>> a playstation?
>
>A holodeck

Out of curiosity, for what games? I found that N64 units multiply for some
reason. I started off with one and somehow I ended up with four.

-KKC, who may come home with a fifth with the funky Pokemon branding.
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Kendrick Kerwin Chua

In article <slrnjf4ctv.km3.google@asktoby.eternal-september.org>,
Toby Newman <google@asktoby.com> wrote:
>On 2011-12-21, Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:
>>
>> Out of curiosity, for what games? I found that N64 units multiply for some
>> reason. I started off with one and somehow I ended up with four.
>
>My good wife got it for me as a surprise!

I like how the word 'wife' in your mind requires you to use an adjectival
modifier, as if you have to distinguish among multiple wives

>I've actually never owned one. I played some of the Super Mario game
>on the Wii and have dabbled in Goldeneye in a PC emulator, and had one
>go on Diddy Kong Racing at a friends, and that's it.

The bulk of the good first-party games are available on the VC, but in
your place I'd grab copies of Hybrid Heaven and Resident Evil 2. The
former is an adventure/fighting hybrid (ha!) that's unlike anything else
I've played, but that might not click with some. The other is just
interesting to have just to see how Nintendo got around the lack of CD
storage for it.

-KKC, who is almost done with his work week from hell.
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Kendrick Kerwin Chua

In article <z8FIq.98$oq5.75@newsfe14.ams2>,
Russell Marks <russell.marks@spam^H^H^H^Hntlworld.com> wrote:
>Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:
>> Toby Newman <google@asktoby.com> wrote:
>[...]
>> The bulk of the good first-party games are available on the VC, but in
>> your place I'd grab copies of Hybrid Heaven and Resident Evil 2. The
>
>I'd say Blast Corps and Excitebike 64. RE2 is impressive but I don't
>know if I'd bother now given the Dreamcast version, GC version, PS1
>version on US PSN, etc.

I keep forgetting that people like to play games, whereas I amass games in
a gigantic library (a paixniditeque, as it were) for purposes of archival
and academic comparison.

>The main problem with an actual N64 is that the graphics were always
>quite blurry, and a modern TV will probably make matters even worse. TBH
>you only want to play the games on the actual system if you have to. It
>may be best to pretend emulators don't exist for a while. :-)

There's always the option of overclocking the N64, which is one of those
things men do to prove their manliness.

I've never liked the upscaling functions of modern LCD and plasma TVs,
because pixel fidelity is so important for the classic game systems I
love. But I haven't seen what that would do for N64 output, and I imagine
it might turn out to be a net gain rather than a nostalgia-destroying
tweak.

-KKC, who took fifteen minutes researching Greek word roots for this post.
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jochta

On 22/12/2011 12:12, Russell Marks wrote:
> Kendrick Kerwin Chua<kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:
>
>> Toby Newman<google@asktoby.com> wrote:
> [...]
>> The bulk of the good first-party games are available on the VC, but in
>> your place I'd grab copies of Hybrid Heaven and Resident Evil 2. The
>
> I'd say Blast Corps and Excitebike 64. RE2 is impressive but I don't
> know if I'd bother now given the Dreamcast version, GC version, PS1
> version on US PSN, etc.
>
> The main problem with an actual N64 is that the graphics were always
> quite blurry, and a modern TV will probably make matters even worse. TBH
> you only want to play the games on the actual system if you have to. It
> may be best to pretend emulators don't exist for a while. :-)
>
> -Rus.

The N64 is the most blurtastic console ever and the controller is shit.
Some good games available for it though, most of which are on the VC.

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Toby Newman

On 2011-12-22, Russell Marks <russell.marks@spam^H^H^H^Hntlworld.com> wrote:
> Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:
>
>> Toby Newman <google@asktoby.com> wrote:
> [...]
>> The bulk of the good first-party games are available on the VC, but in
>> your place I'd grab copies of Hybrid Heaven and Resident Evil 2. The
>
> I'd say Blast Corps and Excitebike 64. RE2 is impressive but I don't
> know if I'd bother now given the Dreamcast version, GC version, PS1
> version on US PSN, etc.
>
> The main problem with an actual N64 is that the graphics were always
> quite blurry, and a modern TV will probably make matters even worse. TBH
> you only want to play the games on the actual system if you have to. It
> may be best to pretend emulators don't exist for a while. :-)

I've just opened up the box and found one first party controller (with
lots of controller thumb jam in the grooves) and one third party one.

The carts are all Fifa (n), Baseball (n) and the like.

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Toby Newman

On 2011-12-21, Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:
> In article <slrnjf4ctv.km3.google@asktoby.eternal-september.org>,
> Toby Newman <google@asktoby.com> wrote:
>>On 2011-12-21, Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:
>>>
>>> Out of curiosity, for what games? I found that N64 units multiply for some
>>> reason. I started off with one and somehow I ended up with four.
>>
>>My good wife got it for me as a surprise!
>
> I like how the word 'wife' in your mind requires you to use an adjectival
> modifier, as if you have to distinguish among multiple wives
>
>>I've actually never owned one. I played some of the Super Mario game
>>on the Wii and have dabbled in Goldeneye in a PC emulator, and had one
>>go on Diddy Kong Racing at a friends, and that's it.
>
> The bulk of the good first-party games are available on the VC, but in
> your place I'd grab copies of Hybrid Heaven and Resident Evil 2. The
> former is an adventure/fighting hybrid (ha!) that's unlike anything else
> I've played, but that might not click with some. The other is just
> interesting to have just to see how Nintendo got around the lack of CD
> storage for it.

I've had 2000 VC points stored for the last year. It would be a shame
to spend them now.

I don't have the guts to play Resi 2, even in blur-o-vision!

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