• @[email protected]
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    429 days ago

    I don’t see a Power Glove. You’re only at maybe 10% total power without the Power Glove. It has THAT much power.

    • @[email protected]
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      139 days ago

      Its no coincidence that the 80s was the decade of greed and indulgence, and it was the same decade the power glove was released, but never replicated.

      • @rebelsimile
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        159 days ago

        had one as a kid, it was terrible even by kid standards. I used to pretend to be a cyborg cop with it and my gray light gun though.

  • @[email protected]
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    109 days ago

    Keep those eyes out for working CRTs in thrift stores and garage sales. Or, I guess, estate sales? Or idk, whatever it’s called when they give dead old people stuff away. It’s a dying breed.

    Point is, you need a curved screen and crazy strong scan lines. 4:3 ratio or bust.

  • yeehaw
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    99 days ago

    Shouldn’t your hands be all wrinkly or something?

  • Clay_pidgin
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    59 days ago

    Is there an extension cable involved!? Fabulous.

    • @[email protected]
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      119 days ago

      From THAT distance? I don’t see why there would be. The most inaccurate thing about the NES Classic was it’s rediculously short cable.

      The original was like "Hey, want enough cable to throw out your window, into your neighbors house, and they play from their bedroom? WE GOT YOU!!!

      I’m exaggerating quite a bit, but it helps paint the difference between 80s and 2010s.

      • @[email protected]
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        9 days ago

        You should check out an original Famicom, then. Not only are the controller cables only about two feet long, but they’re also permanently affixed to the console. Well, unless you’re willing to dismantle it, anyway.

        It seems Nintendo expected gamers to keep the console in front of them and connected to the TV via a cable running across the floor, rather than our now familiar methodology of keeping the console under or next to the TV and only bringing the controller(s) with you. The limited amount of space in Japanese households may have also had something to do with it.

        Anyway, if you’re a modern western gamer nowadays it’s annoying as hell. Big N made the right choice when they brought the system to the US in not only making the controller cables significantly longer, but also unpluggable.

      • Rhynoplaz
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        49 days ago

        Maybe not that long, but they were long enough. We didn’t have 70" HD screens back then, and if you sat further back than 3’ you couldn’t see shit!

        • atocci
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          29 days ago

          Definitely not long enough for me to sit on the couch and play in the living room. I had to get a bluetooth adapter for that.

  • @[email protected]
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    37 days ago

    Came here expecting to see a power glove. Am disappointed.

    I love the Power Glove… It’s so baaaaaad.