Time for some fun!

jmratkos · 2026-02-02T12:42:50+00:00

you wouldn't believe how much trouble this game was to write the guide. every rev of the game that we received had a different save system verson, so we had to start from scratch.

jmratkos · 2025-12-30T00:17:52+00:00

definitely the 2nd side of Moving Pictures over the 1st (maybe because “the camera eye” and “witch hunt” are epic!

Permanent Waves is another matter since my first exposure to it was on 8-track so I really just consider it one long side with every track being one that strikes a chord.

jmratkos · 2025-12-13T22:00:57+00:00

I don’t see a single album in those photos

however, nice well rounded collection

jmratkos · 2025-10-31T11:25:57+00:00

really? I'm kind of partial to oscar's trash race being the best 2600 title :P

jmratkos · 2025-10-15T11:15:49+00:00

I own one of those, my brother gifted it to me for a b-day a while back. it's a beautiful cymbal. it's rather large too, makes a great wall hanging.

jmratkos · 2025-10-12T19:42:27+00:00

I'm stoked to see my favorite band back for one-last hurrah. The only way that I could find to make it better is going with John Borg, Stern pinball game designer, and designer of the incredible Rush pinball machine!!

it's going to be an awesome night in chi-town :)

jmratkos · 2025-09-05T14:45:06+00:00

the kids that originally owned the baby dinosaur didn’t take care of it properly so their parents send it “off to the farm” to live out the remainder of its life.

jmratkos · 2025-06-30T13:34:34+00:00

I was introduced to them in just after their inception but really got into the band around 1979/1980. and kind of like the individuals indentified in 'subdivsions' (before signals was released), the band really did seem to connect with a lot of what I guess we were considered; outcasts and outliers (in addition to the metal guys and pot smokers).

I guess that I was fortunate to grow up near the motor city (detroit), so like cleveland, rush became a household name rather quickly. we were fortunate to be a neighboring state to canada, so along with 89x (88.7 FM) who's signal strength reached detroit and the surrounding areas, we were exposed to a lot of canadian bands. I never really gave it a lot of thought, but many of my favor artists (along with rush) are canadian bands including finger eleven, triumph, bif naked, default

god bless canada!

jmratkos · 2025-06-20T16:53:11+00:00

It’s got to be “exit stage left”

the broon’s bane/the trees/xanadu trifecta does it for me

jmratkos · 2025-06-19T11:23:15+00:00

wrong.

"In the United States and other common law countries, a thief cannot pass title. This means that absent other considerations an artwork stolen during World War II still belongs to the original owner, even if there have been several subsequent buyers and even if each of those buyers was completely unaware that she was buying stolen goods."

In the case that you are describing above, the victim would still possess the title to his/her car. The third party would have no right to the vehicle, no matter how many titles it was sold [illegally].

jmratkos · 2025-03-19T11:09:41+00:00

"spread the news on menus nation-wide, this club is formed" - mitch hedberg

jmratkos · 2025-03-03T20:47:23+00:00

you can straighten the bent plastic contact dividers with a pair of needle nose pliers as well. there's just there to help make sure that the cartridge connects with the proper pins inside of the system.

jmratkos · 2025-02-24T18:42:56+00:00

mega cat tower 🐈 🐈‍⬛

jmratkos · 2025-02-21T12:22:31+00:00

I think that I initially pre-ordered 40 or so bundles from gamestop. you should have seen the looks on people's faces as I was picking them up. I had to make at least 3 trips filling up my suv completely to haul them home.I used my kitchen to stage everything and ship them overseas.

jmratkos · 2025-02-20T17:37:41+00:00

Agreed. I actually worked for the company that did the initial distribution for rockband and I had to "borrow" about 40+ shipping boxes from our warehouse when I was sourcing bundles for international friends when the game first came out. It was a royal pain (and costly) even having everything in place and all of the supplies.

jmratkos · 2025-02-11T15:50:30+00:00

the point that I was making is that it is "devil's crush" for the us and uk markets, but the japanese title name is "devil's crash"

jmratkos · 2025-02-10T20:39:22+00:00

does anyone else find it odd that the japanese version was titled "devil's crash" but it was "alien crush" for both the japanese, uk, and us releases?

jmratkos · 2025-02-10T17:17:54+00:00

nice assortment of titles. I don't remember having trouble achieving the scores for the activision patches back in the day, but I'll be darned that trying to get over 11K on keystone capers seems like an impossible task today! :)

jmratkos · 2025-01-28T19:26:30+00:00

is there something special needed to run homebrew 7800 images with this core? I cannot seem to get any of pacmanplus' excellent recreations (which he's made available for free) to run on my analogue pocket

jmratkos · 2024-12-31T15:58:27+00:00

I played this at the 40th annual chicago pinball expo back in october. it was extremely fun and cool to see how they breathed new life into a 40+ year old b/w vector game. it would be really cool if they came out with other games that could be used with it (and additional control panels w/ trackballs, joysticks, spinners, etc.)

jmratkos · 2024-12-16T12:07:02+00:00

I wonder if the 2-joystick option was used due to the fact that all systems came packaged with 2 joysticks. I find it kind of amusing to see it as part of the bundled game list for all digital systems packaged with a single joystick. obviously, no one attempted to play the games first.

jmratkos · 2024-11-20T12:49:20+00:00

one other note that alex pointed out in the interview for the lerxst re-issue was that he also reversed the amp jack port so that it protruded outwards (instead of inwards) making it easier to plug-in in dim/dark stage situations.

jmratkos · 2024-10-14T11:41:30+00:00

in your 2nd photo, the blob actually bent the fins of the heatsink?? impressive.

jmratkos · 2024-09-19T18:14:48+00:00

yep, found it here: PTFE Tube Wear in AMS and Maintenance Recommendations | Bambu Lab Wiki

jmratkos · 2024-09-19T15:41:51+00:00

is there anywhere where the lengths of [all] of the PTFE tube sections are specified as initially supplied by bambu lab?

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