3DO, PS1 & Atari Will
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🎮 Real hardware. Obscure systems. Bad takes. 📼 Last of the 3DO Fanboys. “A misunderstood genius of poor purchasing decisions.”
Cambridge, England
Joined November 2018
I collect ‘70s, ‘80s & ‘90s consoles. I’m terrible at games, good at hoarding, and apparently allergic to modern hardware. I have more money than sense (£3.87), and I mostly potter about in retro gaming with no real talent or plan.
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I assure you that 'stuff' on the keys in the second picture is Cream Peroxide. 🫤
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Fancy Retro Influences do "Trash to Treasure", therefore I'm promoting my own budget version, which is "Trash to likely Landfill". Exhibit A. (wish me luck)
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Jaws! Released in 1983 on the Dragon 32/64. I'm not entirely convinced this was an official movie tie-in.😂 The graphics are surprisingly good, all things considered though.
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I very much remember loving this game in the early 1990s, despite 2 stone-cold facts. 1. It was bloody expensive. I want to say £1 per go. 2. It was bloody hard. Hard Drivin' by Atari Games.
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Any fans of the ol' GameCube? I have a soft spot for this machine; this is my launch day box, and it has a lot of games that really appeal to me.
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Japanese SHMUPS are the best... Guwange, Atlus, 1999... 😍😍
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I thought I would play some Arcade games today, starting with Starblade. I remember seeing this in the arcades, back in the early '90s, and it blew my mind. I really liked this game.😍😍
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Sinclair QL is a weird machine. It's not compatible with the Speccy; it has an 8-bit 68008 CPU (yes, 8-bit), networking built in, and two (count 'em) not hugely popular Microdrives. Looks good though
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Ah, the ol' hand-operated planar navigation peripheral by Atari - STM1. Cleaned it, greased it, and replaced the switches, and it's as adequate as the day it came from the factory. 🤣😍👍
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My slightly scruffy, slightly pathetic, heavily curated to match my childhood favourite, Atari 2600 collection of games. 🤣😍
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Tunnel Runner is one of three CBS games for the Atari 2600 with an additional 256 bytes of RAM in each cartridge, a feature promoted by CBS as "RAM Plus."
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Tunnel Runner is a 3D maze game, developed for the Atari 2600 in 1983.
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A slightly better shot of the Arabic Keyboard, which, to those of us who aren't familiar with Arabic Keyboards, looks pretty cool. I got this machine from Egypt, by the way.
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So this is a special MSX2 machine. It's Sakhr AX-370, which is basically a Sanyo PHC-70FD MSX2, modified by a Kuwaiti company, for the Arabic market. The output shown here is an RF signal, too. Which I've decided is now a thing. 🤣😍👍
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Learning a lot about RF modulators lately. The Magnavox Odyssey² had a superb one, Sinclair’s were rubbish, and Atari sat somewhere in between. Modern tuners expose it — old CRTs were far more forgiving, and the manufacturers knew it.
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That keyboard looks way better in the photos than it does in real life. 🤣
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It's boring, I know. But my STe has a new PSU, new RAM, a DMA fix under the FDD and a case refresh. One thing about the ST is that it's very much the Charlie Sheen of computers: It has a lot of screws, many of which do seem unnecessary. 🤣👍😍
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