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Wed, 29 Apr 2015 05:22:19
Foolz said:



That's a great list at GAF, but there's a few games in front of Witcher 2 & Xenoblade that I'd question.

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Wed, 29 Apr 2015 13:47:39
Foolz said:

No one is perfect, I mean them not me. Nyaa

Wow great list, I pretty much agree perfectly with the top ten minus witcher, the order of those I would change up a bit but still a near perfect list. Witcher would be around 15 or so for me.

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Wed, 29 Apr 2015 14:33:42
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Can we please get a cease and desist order on Witcher 2 arguments?

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Thu, 30 Apr 2015 02:00:36
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gamingeek said:

Can we please get a cease and desist order on Witcher 2 arguments?

If you stop posting Xenoblade pics in ggweekly. Nyaa

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Thu, 30 Apr 2015 08:41:20
edgecrusher said:

Up until around 2000/2001, I always used to have Boom boxes...not the one piece "carry it on my shoulder" type. The more modern ones with detachable speakers...like a mini stereo.

From the early 90's until around 97 I had a sweet Magnavox one...this thing cost me around $140 at circuit city back in the day and it could BLAST. I had people in my area who thought I had a big fancy stereo...I'd tell them its just a smallish boombox stereo and they'd be amazed. I lived in a nice small New England town, and you could hear Pantera blasting 2 streets away.

Fun fact...I didn't have a ton of money back then, so to get this radio I did something I regret to this day. I sold my mint Super Nintendo and like 20 games to my brother's friend for $200.

LOL...I just googled magnavox stereo system, and I actually found the exact one I had...this guy posted a great pic of it!

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This lasted me faithfully until the late 90's, at which point the CD player on it died on me. So my friend let me have his Sony Stereo system which, while it didn't go as loud as the magnavox, had nice clear sound itself and also had what was a revelation to me at the time...Red and White audio inputs! So for the first time, I was able to use a stereo system like this to plug my Playstation and N64 into and get actual QUALITY sound playing my games. Its funny to think of now, but at the time it blew me away what a difference it made having great sounding games. Sooooo much better than playing through TV speakers.

Can't find a pic of the Sony one, but it was similar to this:

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I had a very close experience to that on the top one.  I bought one for around $140 - $200 from a low end consumer store so I could run my TV and gaming systems through it (as well as play the big ass collection of CD's I had).  That old pice of shit was great, and I used it for about 20 years.  I still use the speakers as tweeters in my audio setup.

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Thu, 30 Apr 2015 08:45:04
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Check this bitch out:

I intend to hook up a 1980's computer to that TV and play the fuck out of it.

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Thu, 30 Apr 2015 09:03:16
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A TV radio?  LOL  Looks like something you ripped out of an old car.

I still have an old CRT tv with a wooden casing in the attic.  It was left by the previous owner of the house, I checked and it still works.  Once all the refurbishments in the house are done I intend to hook up all my old consoles to it.

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Thu, 30 Apr 2015 09:05:09

^Excellent.

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Thu, 30 Apr 2015 09:06:17
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A TV radio?  LOL  Looks like something you ripped out of an old car.

I still have an old CRT tv with a wooden casing in the attic.  It was left by the previous owner of the house, I checked and it still works.  Once all the refurbishments in the house are done I intend to hook up all my old consoles to it.

FM included, and a casette deck. Good thing I kept my Status Quo cassette.

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Thu, 30 Apr 2015 11:46:00
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I miss one thing about cassette tapes. Music was designed differently during the cassette era. Because you had two sides, each side of every album would have its own vibe and a definitive start & finish.

Once cds took over, albums started to get designed around either singles or just one giant never ending structure....& I think that's why most modern stuff can't hold up to the classics.

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