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Great now we know who among us would have sex with a robot and who among us would not.

Well they're sure easier to turn on *drum roll*

Hm. Maybe we should start an Alto-Hime fanclub, dedicated to loving Alto ONLY when dressed up as a girl?

Pete

No screw you guys. Alto fought against his family's disturbing tendencies to become a badass pilot - like a man. Instead you want to support his past gender-confusion? Has Bridget taught you people nothing?!

First stop: Road Blasters, as a cheap Death Race knockoff.

Midway hasn't had the rights to Pac-Man or Space Invaders for years, though. Just as an observation.

They had a falling-out with Namco over Ms. Pac-Man. They appeased Namco by giving them the rights to Ms. Pac-Man.

And then they made Pac-Man Jr., and Namco severed ties with them(Pac-Man Jr. now exists in limbo, as Midway has no rights to the Pac-Man name, but Namco has no rights to the specific game in question)

I believe they had a similar, albeit less spectacular, falling-out with Taito over Space Invaders.

I know the rights have long since reverted back to Taito.

Further correction:

"... they did not purchase the company's two development studios which would indicate they've little interest in continuing on the company's game franchises" is in error.

Midway had FOUR development studios.

Warner did not buy Midway Studios - San Diego or Midway Studios - Newcastle.

But they DID purchase Midway Studios -Chicago as well as Surreal Studios. So they DID buy development studios, and ARE continuing game development.

Interestingly, this is probably VERY closely related to why Warner's doing an Asteroids movie.

To make a long story short... in buying Midway's assets, they've ALSO bought (back{again}) the rights to all the Atari arcade games.

To make a short story long, and go off on a TOTAL game nerd babblefest...

Rights to Asteroids(and many other Atari games) were split when Atari was divided into two separate entities.

There was a home company(Atari Corp.) that was sold off to the Tramiels(founders of Commdore) and an arcade company(Atari Games), which remained under the control of Warner for some time afterwards.

Both companies retained rights to all the arcade games created pre-split(if the rights to home games split in a similiar fashion, there's never been any evidence of it).

Midway eventually bought Atari Games(after Warner sold it to Namco, who sold it to the employees, who sold it to Time-Warner{hooray mergers}).

Midway later renamed it Midway Games West to avoid confusion after Hasbro bought Atari Corp. and resurrected THAT Atari brand.

(It was actually big news in the classic gaming community when Midway Games West was closed down back in '03, as it was one of the very few developers that still had any connection to the original era, and still had several employees from the beginnings of Atari, and thus the birth of the game industry. By beginnings, I mean from before Bushnell sold to Warner, before the VCS/2600... from almost the VERY beginning)

Midway, Atari(a subdivision of Hasbro Interactive), and Atari(a subdivision of Infogrames) have all exploited the license in the home market, so both companies from the initial split seem to have gotten full rights, and not rights limited to portions of the market(though Atari Games WAS banned from releasing home games under the Atari brand, hence the creation of Tengen back in the NES days).

Activision got in on the act as well, but they bought their licenses from the home division of Atari.

Who knew just saying Atari could get so complicated? You can mean one of a half-dozen companies with one word.

...

Or so circular.

Warner has just bought the rights to Atari's arcade library for the THIRD time.

Games originally developed UNDER THEIR BANNER.

I'm gonna need a flowchart.

My guess is it'll be about the asteroids being sentient and how man it curely invading space and breaking them down for minerals so they have to attack and some rich white d00d's the badguy and they save the rainforest and some polar bears. So yes Steven Segal stars in it. Though it would be cool if Will Saso playing Steven Segal was lead. That would be worth a DVD rental

Well it depends; if Japan made it, definitely the younger one.

I don't know about that. I originally thought Clone Wars was going to be crap until I saw it.

I don't like it much myself. Lucas has managed to kill my love of Star Wars. Needs more of that sexy-cool evil, not just the moral black-and-white evil.

Well, it's nine dollars to park... or free parking if you can find a street spot and don't mind the walk. But that's UCLA, not the con. Plus this year it's buy your own food. There are several restaurants just outside the rooms, so you can choose what you want to eat... no mandatory Costco pizza!

But...will there be cake?

Apparently a Macross Frontier movie advertisement.

(Sorry I don't have a single image; I happened across it by chance.)

HOLY ROLESWITCH BATMAN!

New Heavy Metal movie?

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/41330

God I miss your rockin' tits.

What's the best way to clean cartridge contacts on old games? I've heard isopropyl alcohol (though the percentage usually isn't specified) form some, but others have said not to use any alcohol and instead use Windex. I'm not sure why former would be worse than Windex, which if I remember correctly has water in it. I have even heard Brasso is good cleaner as well, but I'm not sure.

Does anybody have some good experience in this area?

Yeah that and a Q-tip was the poor-man's NES cleaning kit. I think you can also use hydrogen peroxide too if that's what you have lying around.

No Michael Ironsides = no good V.

Yeah, I <3 my Harmony 720. Last remote I'll ever need for some time.

New 82" Mitsu DLP is sounding more and more entertaining to me. Even if it's wobulated single chip, it's still RPTV and I have desire for the 22" increased size over my SXRD (as much as I still love it).

At that size you might as well look into a front projection screen TV. Of course you're going to have to look into a few other factors, but looking into lumes and screen types beats figuring out how to move that hueg thing.

In preparation for our move to France, I've been looking into picking up a multisystem LCD that I can either take with, or pick up there and bring back.

Anyone use/have one of these, and are there any recommendations?

Ha Ha you're moving to France. Find Yoshi tell him to post more.

This is why I have hesitated about buying Casablanca..that, and I'm not interested in damn collectors set, I just want the figging movie.

CG for the most part seems to depend simply on how well the effects were done in the first place.

Look on projectorcentral.com . I know they're big on classic films and a number of their projector reviews go over how Casablanca looks on them.

So what? MS did the same thing for some of their games. As I see it Sony is finally showing a commitment to pushing the PS3 as a game console. Business as usual for the game companies.

I don't like it when it happens period. There are reasons why there's no Politics genre of games.

Looks like Sony's doing some massive douche-baggery for Europe's Ghostbuster 3 release

Not just seduced - she drugged her, stripped her, and threw her on the bed. And then Roy and Veffidas rescue her acting like it was some sort of comic antics.

I only later found out that it was a sort of reference to the Mylene Beat manga, set at the same time as Dynamite but with a much different plot and focus. The character and scene were both in that, but with much more buildup and serious handling. Still, that was a shocking diversion in the anime.

Yeah, a long time ago I posted a link to a scanlation group who was doing that. I got some grief from MWers about what was "supposed to happen" in it, but as expected the Internet has managed to pervert your all's good Christian morals enough to be ok with it.

It was kinda hard to follow it after he killed Malbolgia, but I had to stop reading after he pretty much won the apocolypse. I mean even that Bible-thing kinda died down after that. Spawn should have ended it's run long before #200

guess he was gunning for his 4000+ post in a year title... 11+/day x 365...

but what i want to know is what hard evidence did the mods find out??? was it something high tech like hacking into his new account and getting his personal info... or something stupid like sending a PM saying "shhh, i'm ryno..." ...

Usually a mod can see IP addresses so they can just compare later. Because I don't necessarily trust these guys I'm always hidden behind 7 proxies

Why was this thread unlocked?

Is the matter of his banning up for debate?

It's up for hilarity. He was a good guy at MWcon 2008, remember convincing him to post more, and now I see he destroys my post count and has been banned twice sense then. Maybe if my brain wasn't so fried I'd be able to at least get 1 post/dayoh yeah that daily GI Joe cartoon and I need to finish Chips Challenge and

Didn't want to start a new thread, but anyone checking out the new GI Joe: Resolute show on Adult Swim's website? They've been updating it daily.

Good things:

Body count (there is one)

Flint and Baroness VA are back

Decent animation

Bad things:

that guy who does ALL THE SAME VOICE in about everything dubbed is doing Duke

Dunno things:

story, eh it's GI Joe

Think Mark Hammil's doing C. Commander, not doing anything special with it.

Name the Anime that is amazing, a fantastic piece of art, but was not obtain succes becouse is undetected, rivaled with others Animes, shadowed by others Animes, marginalized for fans or whatever else thing.

I´ll start:

Sword of the Stranger, this is a Anime movie, not aimed to the mass or TV show, so is unknow.

But The film is a fantastic piece of art and was submitted as an entry for Best Animated Feature at the Oscars awards.

...how is that unknown? I got a special one-night showing awhile back, we had a thread about it. Probably why it qualifed for the Oscars.

is the game hard? i heard from a NON-gamer (my boss, the company's owner) that alot of good games aren't imported to the U.S. from Japan 'cause americans don't like hard games, they want something easy. gran turismo seems to be a good example, it's hard to find ppl who play gt compared to how many ppl play need for speed (before they tried to make a racing simulator). WoW is another good example. the game is super easy (but pvp is hard) (i've played rpg's since the 8bit days).

It's not that deep of a strategy. Scouts > all once you figure them out and invest in them. The game does throw alot of curve balls in to keep it fresh but it can be frustrating if you miss some details. Also when your guys miss or don't return fire quickly on the computer's turn. GT's a very popular game, I think your boss is taking old stories of why we didn't get the offical Super Mario Bros 2.

I thought that Endgame and Vengeance played well off each other. What obsession did to the villian then to the hero I found amusing. I try not to take Highlander too seriously.

The game it self was like a anime. So making a anime out of an "anime" was kind of strange but very welcome. I'll be watching this show, maybe only for the tanks though

Well now they're animating ALL of it, not just having the same background images and having them talk. So what's all in the DLC? You get to play as the Imperials?