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    High-Def Digital Pinball Machine Doesn't Really "Get" Pinball

    Atari's Lunar Lander, Made Real

    Atari Wallet Is Awesome Until You Put it in Your Back Pocket

    The Videophone as Imagined In 1910 Still Had Dancing Webcam Girls

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    Image of brobot brobot
    11/07/09

    In reply to High-Def Digital Pinball Machine Doesn't Really "Get" Pinball
    wait wait wait... this thing has been around for a while now. so what's up with the rumor shot for a picture? (pixelated, blurry, inconclusive.... I could go on). I guess it adds to the excitement!

    what's a CHRISTMAS gram?! I want one!! #digitalpinball
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    11/06/09

    In reply to High-Def Digital Pinball Machine Doesn't Really "Get" Pinball
    And to be quite frank, $6k isn't much more than a brand new real pin. Only, that pin will have both the real flawed physics but only play one game...

    Unless you have Shrek or Family guy, as it's the same damn pinball machine rebranded... #digitalpinball
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    11/06/09

    In reply to High-Def Digital Pinball Machine Doesn't Really "Get" Pinball
    Pinball machines, especially classic ones, are harder and harder to find. SO I will occasionally bust out pinmame to play.

    But, I also have a full-size twilight-zone machine behind me.

    I can honestly say that I have considered building a pinmame cabinet out of a 32" or so display. #digitalpinball
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    Image of maven2k maven2k
    11/06/09

    In reply to High-Def Digital Pinball Machine Doesn't Really "Get" Pinball
    I LOVE pinball and probably always will. I've played digital pinball games just for the hell of it, but they just don't hold your attention or have the same feel as a "real" machine. Pretty much the same as a digital comic book (or the new ones with glossy paper for that matter). #digitalpinball
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    Image of SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!
    11/06/09

    In reply to High-Def Digital Pinball Machine Doesn't Really "Get" Pinball
    If you think about it, classic pinball is more HD than HD displays can be. #digitalpinball
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    Image of arj8138 arj8138
    11/06/09

    @SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!:

    Exactly what I thought.... #digitalpinball
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    Image of psychonaut2021:Secrets of the Pineal Gland psychonaut2021:Secrets of the Pineal Gland
    11/06/09

    In reply to High-Def Digital Pinball Machine Doesn't Really "Get" Pinball
    I used to own an actual coin fed pinball machine when I was a kid. It was my best friend for many years, until I saw the li'l bark scorpion come out of it once. After that, I was like "Well f**k that". Besides my father had it sold even before that happened.

    Bastard! #digitalpinball
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Atari's Lunar Lander, Made Real
    Is there is video, because it's so hard for me to search for one myself. #lunarlander
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    10/30/09

    @The Analrapist: Half Analyst Half Therapist: Sorry it took so long. #lunarlander
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    10/30/09

    @The Analrapist: Half Analyst Half Therapist: #lunarlander
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    Image of Gary_7vn Gary_7vn
    10/22/09

    In reply to Atari Wallet Is Awesome Until You Put it in Your Back Pocket
    Jeez I can hardly wait for the Pacman suitcase. This is so exciting! #atariwallet
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    09/21/09

    In reply to The Videophone as Imagined In 1910 Still Had Dancing Webcam Girls
    Mmmmm, show me your ankle you harlet!
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    09/21/09

    In reply to The Videophone as Imagined In 1910 Still Had Dancing Webcam Girls
    To me the firs picture looks like a guy surfing the internet looking at girly pictures.
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    09/20/09

    In reply to The Videophone as Imagined In 1910 Still Had Dancing Webcam Girls
    [www.terramedia.co.uk]

    March 1 First public videophone service is opened in Germany by non-Nazi Postminister Baron von Eltz-Rubenach at the start of the Leipzig Trade Fair. In Leipzig call booths are located at the fair ground and at the main post office in Augustplatz, in Berlin—160 km away—at Kolumbus Haus in Potsdamer Platz and at the corner of Hardenberg and Kantstrasse. The 180-line mechanical system uses equipment made by Fernseh at the Leipzig end and by the Post Office Laboratory in Berlin. It is available (to Aryans only) between 08:00 and 20:00 each day, a three-minute call on the service costing DM 3.50 (3s 6d=17½p). It continues after the fair closes on 7 March.
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    09/20/09

    In reply to The Videophone as Imagined In 1910 Still Had Dancing Webcam Girls
    The Germans had the first working videophones in 1936. You had to go to the post office to use it, as did the person you were calling but it worked!
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    Image of SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!
    09/20/09

    In reply to The Videophone as Imagined In 1910 Still Had Dancing Webcam Girls

    I just remembered the videophone from metropolis.
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    jeffk promoted this comment SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! was starred SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! was unstarred
    Image of jeffk jeffk
    09/20/09


    Chaplin's Modern Times has a sweet big screen video phone.
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    Image of jeffk jeffk
    09/20/09

    In reply to The Videophone as Imagined In 1910 Still Had Dancing Webcam Girls

    Whatever they filled the room with in 1927, it wasn't a computer.

    Here's what a room full of computers looked like in 1927. [en.wikipedia.org]
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    Image of TheMightyTexMex TheMightyTexMex
    09/20/09

    @jeffk: I wonder if they will play Crysis...
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    09/20/09

    @TheMightyTexMex: Normally I would call for the banhammer, but that was actually pretty funny

    +1
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    Image of TheMightyTexMex TheMightyTexMex
    09/20/09

    @jakebathman: I was afraid of getting banned for that, but i took the risk because i thought it would be funny.
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    Image of shantanu007 shantanu007
    09/20/09

    @TheMightyTexMex: WHy would they ban you for a comment like so?
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    Image of PlaneParts PlaneParts
    09/20/09

    @TheMightyTexMex: I'm sorry...I'm old. Could you please explain to me why; 1) you could get banhammered for that comment and 2) why it's funny. Thanks in advance.

    -Geezer
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    Image of spannu spannu
    09/20/09

    @PlaneParts: You could get banned for repeating a tired meme that was never good to begin with. Even if this guy slips by, please don't repeat his folly.
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    Image of rjp: This is my rebuttal rjp: This is my rebuttal
    09/20/09

    @spannu: I think exceptions should be made for the new twist on the tired meme. That and the fact that it was hilarious.
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    Image of Duckspwn:Loves Approving Reds Duckspwn:Loves Approving Reds
    09/20/09

    @shantanu007: Because it's a meme. Basically, people have said it so many times that it isn't funny at all, except for the odd occasion where someone uses it in a new context, such as TexMex did.
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    Image of Duckspwn:Loves Approving Reds Duckspwn:Loves Approving Reds
    09/20/09

    @PlaneParts: Crysis is a game that is notorious for being so graphics intensive that it can bring a gaming rig to its knees and make it beg for mercy. It's funny because he was saying those people were computers and he was asking somewhat dryly if they would be able to run crysis. And it's a banhammer worthy offense because "But can it play crysis?" is a meme, which means that it has been said in unfunny ways millions of times to the point where the mere presence of it sends most people into a murderous rage. However, this is a rare exception (imho).
    Cheers!

    Ps: You better read this, b/c that took a while to explain.
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    Edited by Duckspwn:Loves Approving Reds at 09/20/09 10:52 PM Duckspwn:Loves Approving Reds was starred Duckspwn:Loves Approving Reds was unstarred
    Image of roflwaffles is actually a Spesh Mareen roflwaffles is actually a Spesh Mareen
    09/21/09

    @Duckspwn:
    I read it, despite already knowing it.
    so there you go.
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    Image of Duckspwn:Loves Approving Reds Duckspwn:Loves Approving Reds
    09/21/09

    @roflwaffles is terribly unfunny: :) Yay! Appreciation.
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    Image of ShilpaPeleus ShilpaPeleus
    09/20/09

    In reply to The Videophone as Imagined In 1910 Still Had Dancing Webcam Girls
    If you look on the wall of the first photo it sais "a l'an 2000" which is french for "in year 2000" so i beleive that they where estimating that it would be possible in year 2000
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    09/21/09

    @ShilpaPeleus: I saw that and knew it was French but to me it meant Ethernet LAN 2000. Talk about prophetic.
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