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    Sega Genesis and Saturn Lighters, Or Why Sonic No Longer Runs 5Ks

    Happy 20th Birthday, Sega Genesis

    This Looks Healthy

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    Image of thechansen thechansen
    10/26/09

    In reply to Sega Genesis and Saturn Lighters, Or Why Sonic No Longer Runs 5Ks
    Nice Matt&Kim reference hipster. #segalighters
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat
    10/26/09

    In reply to Sega Genesis and Saturn Lighters, Or Why Sonic No Longer Runs 5Ks
    Holy crap, these are awesome. If they weren't so much, I would add them to my Zippo collection in a heartbeat. #segalighters
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    10/26/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_Marryin'Couples: They'd need a Turbografx16 before I would do that. #segalighters
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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    08/15/09

    In reply to Happy 20th Birthday, Sega Genesis
    Nice one, Wilson!
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    Image of Identity (reclamation) Identity (reclamation)
    08/14/09

    In reply to Happy 20th Birthday, Sega Genesis
    I still miss my Genesis. My brothers and I fought over it so my Mom and Dad sold it... And yeah, I was a late adopter also. I think we got ours in '95.
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    Image of OrbitalGun OrbitalGun
    08/14/09

    In reply to Happy 20th Birthday, Sega Genesis
    God do I ever miss Mutant League Football.
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    Image of CaseyG CaseyG
    08/14/09

    In reply to Happy 20th Birthday, Sega Genesis
    When I joined Sega in 1990, the Genesis was just getting its legs. We were still making Master System titles, and Game Gear prototypes were just starting to enter testing. We had one Genesis that had been kitbashed to include a "CPU Pause", so we could take high-quality screenshots of games that otherwise altered the screen when paused.

    When I joined, 400 hours of testing was about all a game could expect. By the end, the test process had ballooned to include pause testing, reset button testing, and myriad other random tests that resulted from obscure and unique bugs in single titles. A given build could get upwards of 120 test hours. Most titles had ten to fifty builds, putting total test time into the 2,000 to 6,000 hour range.

    Testers were paid $10-15 per hour (I was on the low end of that range, because I was and remain a piss-poor negotiator), and worked 60-90 hours per week during crunch times. In 1993, a one megabyte title's testing cost was estimated near $75,000.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    08/14/09

    In reply to Happy 20th Birthday, Sega Genesis
    i hated the hollow, empty feeling of a genesis controller. i was a nintendo kid growing up and never found love for the genesis. but hey, happy birthday. i am glad you didn't die.
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    Image of Identity (reclamation) Identity (reclamation)
    08/14/09

    @Nick: I love Nick: Wow, that sounds quite hateful. I'm sorry. And I thought we could be friends.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    08/14/09

    @My Secret Identity: it was supposed to be a warm sentiment. i AM glad they didn't die.
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    08/14/09

    @Nick: I love Nick: But I'm a overly sensitive prick, so everything anyone says has to be taken the wrong way by me. My apologies. :)

    Now we can be friends!
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    Image of Grinning Kestrel Grinning Kestrel
    08/14/09

    @My Secret Identity: And because of that comment, now WE can be friends!
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    Image of deliciousburglar deliciousburglar
    08/14/09

    In reply to Happy 20th Birthday, Sega Genesis
    i bought a genesis on ebay to relive my childhood.

    i was no longer expert in the games i played but while playing them, i remembered why i was once expert.

    because if you died, you had to do everything over again, and over and over...
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    Image of Nick Nick
    08/14/09

    @deliciousburglar: "pause" was the closest we had to "save" back then. heck, i would even pause and switch the inputs so my dad could watch tv and then change it back when he was done. can't waste all that hard work just for the news.
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    Image of Scotland Scotland
    08/14/09

    In reply to Happy 20th Birthday, Sega Genesis
    The best games for the "Genesis" (Mega Drive) were/are

    Sonic, Bomberman, (*mumble / cough* Disney's Aladdin), Micro Machines, Super Smash T.V, the Mickey Mouse games + any suggestions.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    08/14/09

    @Scotland: You forgot Mortal Kombat 3.
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    Image of Scotland Scotland
    08/14/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: The best games for the "Genesis" (Mega Drive) were/are

    Sonic, Bomberman, (*mumble / cough* Disney's Aladdin), Micro Machines, Super Smash T.V, the Mickey Mouse games, Mortal Kombat 3 + all games mentioned on this website - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sega_Mega_Drive_games
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    Image of Saboth Saboth
    08/14/09

    In reply to Happy 20th Birthday, Sega Genesis
    Gensis was da bomb back in the day. I remember getting mine for $200 used when it was impossible to find one. Ah, some of the best RPGs.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    08/14/09

    @Saboth: It sure was "da bomb". I remember when I got mine. It was so boss. All my friends thought it was the most radical thing.
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    Image of Saboth Saboth
    08/14/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus:
    That's pretty fly.
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    Image of Scotland Scotland
    08/14/09

    @Saboth: for a white guy?
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    My Secret Identity promoted this comment Scotland was starred Scotland was unstarred
    Image of Identity (reclamation) Identity (reclamation)
    08/14/09

    @Scotland: Promoted.
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    Image of zeroprime: #zeroprimeowns zeroprime: #zeroprimeowns
    08/14/09

    In reply to Happy 20th Birthday, Sega Genesis
    I'm going to have to go home and hook mine up. Maybe play a little Sonic and a round or two of NBA Jam. Get Charles Barkley to shove some chumps down and get me a few powerups from midcourt.
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    Image of cc82 cc82
    08/14/09

    @zeroprime: I agree with you:
    He's heating up!
    .
    .
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    He's on fire!
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    Image of Nick Nick
    08/14/09

    @cc82: +3 for the correct numbers of breaks between heating and ablaze.
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    Image of zeroprime: #zeroprimeowns zeroprime: #zeroprimeowns
    08/14/09

    @cc82: Boomshakalaka!
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    Image of frigg frigg
    07/06/09

    In reply to This Looks Healthy
    Chop off its head and you got yourself a tribble.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    07/06/09

    In reply to This Looks Healthy
    Will it catch mice? I had to catch one over the weekend (major emotional trauma and since I let it go outside, I am sure it will just come back). I am allergic to animal dander so this would be ideal if it hunted.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    07/06/09

    @Curves: You would welcome a hunting killbot in the house? You're a strong woman, dear Curves.
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    Image of aec007 aec007
    07/06/09

    @Curves: Nah... just get one of these:



    + Watch video
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    Image of Curves Curves
    07/06/09

    @aec007: That is a cool machine, and would totally keep those annoying kids off my lawn, but in the case of the mouse, I couldnt kill it, I had to catch the damn thing. Robokitty could have taken care of it for me, allowing me to go back to screaming, which in the natural order, is my job.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    07/06/09

    In reply to This Looks Healthy
    No robot, no matter how sophisticated man's devices ever become, will ever be able to sit there, on the edge of some high point in the room, with a sleepy judging gaze, surveying its realm and the bipedal pet(s) it adopted. There's no adequate replacement for a real cat. And you plebes can keep your cat eating/burning/milking jokes to yourselves, ya freaks!
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    07/06/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: I think Dita dozed off when you started talking?



    Could you repeat that middle part? The part about the sleeping...

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    07/06/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: My cats have the same response. That's why God invented radio-controlled flying toys.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    07/06/09

    In reply to This Looks Healthy


    Neither Maxie nor Dita approve of this. Further, neither feel in the least bit threatened.

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat
    07/06/09

    @OMG! Ponies!:

    I also, am not threatened.
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    Image of geiko geiko
    07/06/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Yeah, Sebastian disapproves also. Somehow I get the feeling that dogs are a lot more easy to emulate than cats. Cats have something to them that robots haven't yet achieved. But Sony has already come close for dogs with the Aibo.


    Yes, I know that sentence is all whacky.

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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    07/06/09

    @geiko: "Cats have something to them that robots haven't yet achieved"


    No one knows how to program Evil yet.

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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    07/06/09

    @geiko:



    Watson disagrees with your assessment.

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    Image of aja175 aja175
    07/06/09

    @OMG! Ponies!:



    General isn't impressed

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    Image of aja175 aja175
    07/06/09

    @aja175:

    lets try that again...


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    Image of aja175 aja175
    07/06/09

    @aja175:


    oh forget it.

    [twitpic.com]

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    Image of orphic1 orphic1
    07/06/09

    @aja175:

    "General isn't impressed"


    It was so good I has to help post it!

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat
    07/06/09

    @orphic1: named his desktop ThunderPrincess.: I have the same collar for my idiot cat, minus the bell. All my cats have a "charm" on their collars.
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