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Quote from: 21st Century Man on December 19, 2016, 01:47:37 AM
My favorite from them is Sex, I'm A......  It was quite controversial back in the day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpYNwFGaMik

I can imagine some people got their panties in a knot over something like that.

Quote from: momijithing~awoo on December 19, 2016, 01:45:59 AM
I know but she reminds me of the roxette chick and i can never remember her name

Me neither, I just call her the Roxette girl. I always thought they were a married couple with a band. I have their Greatest Hits, I only skip a couple of songs. 87% of it is A+. No autotune, no (c)rapping, no ebonics, no sampling, no horseshittery. It doesn't claim to be something it is not, therefore it is legit... Plus is stands the test of time. I put on Roxette pretty often and I don't care if it wakes the neighbors up.

Quote from: momijithing~awoo on December 19, 2016, 01:43:53 AM
I found rat tail girl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uejh-bHa4To

That's Aimee Mann. Magnolia soundtrack etc.... not Roxette.

Terri Nunn is still around.. if you look away from the Top Gun song, Berlin had some really good stuff outside of that.

Quote from: 21st Century Man on December 19, 2016, 01:26:39 AM
That song and their cover of Hazy Shade of Winter rock.

Yes, Hazy Shade was amazing. It was on the Less Than Zero soundtrack. Half of the soundtrack was horseshit, but the rest was great and it kicks off with one of the best ever tracks by The Bangles. In a Gadda Da Vida by Slayer was another notable song on there. It also had Public Enemy, LL Cool J, and the debut of Danzig predating their first album in 1988. All of the above were DefJam signed or Rick Rubin produced. This was 1987. Very interesting soundtrack though, except for the horseshit. I would like a vinyl copy, I think it had a gatefold. I have always had the compact disc and I still play songs from it often although it's compressed to my iPod or portable these days.

I forgot, Less Than Zero also contained one of Roy Orbison's final songs and the song was written by Glenn Danzig who just freshly dissolved Samhain. If you Youtube it, you might see Glenn/Rubin/Orbison in a slideshow if you choose the right file.

Quote from: 21st Century Man on December 19, 2016, 01:09:14 AM
My favorite Bangles song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04HSg0YZi9E

They did this on SNL, it was great.

Quote from: Dr. MD MD on December 17, 2016, 04:33:28 AM
Yeah Commander Tom was my era too though my dad kinda looked like Dave Thomas back then.

P.S. I think you're from Ontario, right? Did you ever see that show back in the 80s that they showed on some multicultural channel where it was the security guard taking over the station at night on the weekends?

Yes I am in Southern Ontario, but the show is not ringing a bell right now... But sounds like the station may have been channel 47 cable 4 (CFMT). I could be wrong and it's possible that it could have been CityTV as well. Both are defunct and have since been rebranded, since that happened their histories have become flexible and their archives have been yanked when they used to be very accessible. All pride has been flushed down the fucking shitter. FUCK YOU ROGERS!!!!

This org is sometimes handy, they have a contact form:
http://www.retrontario.com

If you browse their site or maybe their YouTube channel (an excellent channel) you may find some info about that show. Or send them an email and I bet they respond quick and can give you a title or point you to one of their video clips. I have found some amazing nostalgic and forgotten stuff from the Western NY and Golden Horseshoe markets thanks to them.

They compile old 70s and 80s TV stuff produced or broadcasted in the Buffalo-Toronto radius. They rip stuff from VHS and Beta tapes, everything from call signs, jingles, promos, PR clips for shows, whatever. Old commercials for Darien Lake, Fantasy Island, Crystal Beach, and Canada's Wonderland before the park became full of dindus. They have a ton of stuff from stations like WIVB, WGRZ, WNED, CityTV, CFMT, and WUTV before Fox entered. It's very impressive.

Quote from: Dr. MD MD on December 17, 2016, 04:01:54 AM
I wasn't announcing any of their deaths. The John Glenn posts just reminded me of this show. 

I know, I am just saying that I grew up with WKBW and they had produced some good stuff. Their most notable alumni are literally in the end stages of life. Apparently in 1992 they tried to revive Rocketship 7 via merging of Commander Tom which was recently cancelled after a couple of decades.

Quote from: Dr. MD MD on December 16, 2016, 11:14:42 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZU0SksrjmI

This show was before my time but I did grow up with Commander Tom watching WKBW channel 7 (ABC). It was also the home of a great anchorman named Irv Weinstein. Both of them retired in the late 1990s but they are still alive, although Irv is on the way out. Apparently Irv's son is or was a co-owner of Ameoba.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander_Tom_Show
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Jolls
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irv_Weinstein

How can this thread exist without the presence of funtwo?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF6cnLnEARo

The recent YouTube upgrade. My computer screen dims while watching videos now and 1 minute later it goes black as if the browser is completely idle.

Anyone know how to unfuck this shit? It is annoying. I am not changing my computer settings to work around this horseshit.

If I keep mouse pointer on the video screen sometimes that works, but that is annoying to have to do..... Plus if I fall asleep with it like that the thing screen never turns off, even if the video is long finished and the screen is idle for many hours.

This is bullshit.

When I see something in the upper right corner, I vision those 2 crotchety old guys up in the balcony on The Muppet Show. When I read the line in the upper right corner, I read it in the voice of a crotchety old muppet man up in the balcony.

"In the mid to late Sixties a certain group of individuals got their heads so far up their own asses [that] they shit all over themselves"
- Ian Astbury (ca. 1985)

"Etchota!"
- Silver Protocol Droid

"Fuck it! We'll do it live!"
- man with small penis and big fivehead

"Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! God dammit it all. FUCK!! FUCK!!"
- Alex Trebek

Quote from: Dr. MD MD on December 14, 2016, 03:17:14 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV27CUj51vU

he did a bangin' job singing these sitcom themes.

celebrate it..... make it special..... write a song about it..... make it a secret track..... track it #66.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8C4DZkc-wA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S2EpH5sFyk

was that ashley judd in the star trek video?

1995 Buick LeSabre Custom | $1,795
https://www.carsforsale.com/vehicle/details/25802888

Too bad it doesn't have leather seats/middle console. Except for that, the interior looks to be in really good shape.

PS: Bring cassette-line-in cable device. Control volume by fingering stuff on the steering wheel. Enjoy the power seats. Go pickup some GILFS in one of these.

I discovered Art Bell in a '95 Lesabre. It was similar to this one but with proper seats without stupid refurbished fuzzy fuzz shit.

"Beringiie mee deh woookiie,,!."

Quote from: Dr. MD MD on December 11, 2016, 04:22:35 AM
I'm probably a bit older than you but the 80s was more my arcade time. By the 90s most were already shut down around here though you could still find a few cabinets at your local bar usually. I remember playing a lot of Lethal Enforcers with a buddy of mine at one place. We actually got pretty good at it but I can't remember if we ever made it to the end though. Racing games have always been fun. I had a lot of fun with both Pole Position and Outrun over the years but the best was probably Daytona USA. It really gave you the feeling of being in Nascar. 

Did you ever play the Gyro version of After Burner?

i was born in 1975 and was about 5 when pacman came to north america. i was about 8 when donkey kong jr came out.

the 80s was definitely the arcade time, by 1992/93 they were becoming extremely rare. what i meant to say before is that by the 90s all of the arcades were either really corporate, or they were lounge based and usually with a ticket redemption / prize area. with the exception of the one in kentucky that i mentioned, which was a typical 80s arcade, by that point it was the only classic looking arcade that i knew of anywhere.

daytona was good, but that came way later. i played it at playdium in the early 2000s. i think it was 2 or 4 units linked up so ppl could race together.

yes that version of afterburner is the only one that was worthy, i think it used to cost 75 cents. 50 was a lot but 75 was bullshit. i played a stand up version once and the metal stick had a bad ground or something and i kept getting zapped. between paying a nut and getting electrocuted, i wouldn't play much in the way of fighter jet games until ace combat came along many years later. the 3 PS2 and 2 PSP versions of ace combat were awesome, but the limited controls of the PSP make those 2 games hard to multitask/control jet but the portable versions were still extremely fun and pleasant to look at. i played a demo of another one on XB360 once and it was great even if it was just a dicktease. i would consider buying a modern game system just to play newer ace combat games.

similar to after burner deluxe. this would make me puke, there is no way i could sit in this thing and not convulse. stuff begins at 4:10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meYx9RuCAQY#t=250

to clarify:

- bolting metal ashtrays to the front of an arcade cabinet is terrible
- smoking anywhere near a beautiful arcade machine is awful
- exposing artwork or circuitry to 2nd hand smoke/tar or potential burn marks on lamenated surfaces is very silly
- smoking indoors was always extremely dumb
- smoking period is not cool

when i lived in lexington ky until 2001 there was a large arcade near my house. that was the last time i saw one like that. i think it was the kentucky arcade. i can't find it online so i guess it's long gone. it was a traditional selection with about 80 or so games from 80s to 2000s. they also had modern games like gauntlet legends, and hydro thunder, and both were networked. there was this one snow bros machine that i dumped a few hundred into over the years and just as i was about to move to canada there is a for sale sign of $450 on the cabinet. i always regretted not grabbing it for that price. it had original side decals and the marquee up top was in great shape.

there is one called playdium about 20km west of me in the suburb mississauga, it was a 3-5 location franchise spread out across canada and was launched by SEGA sometime in the 90s. they eventually sold it off, probably around the time they exited console production. i don't remember, i don't think i lived in canada at the time. but in the end i think the one in mississauga is the only one that survived. it's more integrated stuff like inline networked racing, surfing/skiiing games, shooting sims or turret/gunship battle where you sit in a pod or something... all on very large screens, and all games require paripherals (light gun, cockpit and instruments, racing seat/panel, etc..). apparently they have mario kart arcade now. i haven't gone in years but they are fully licensed and you can booze it up. you charge up a card with either unlimited or x amount of credits and you tap or swipe the card when you walk up on a machine. it's probably similar to what jillian's used to be. the last time i was there their games were aging but it was still fun to smoke some dope and drink beer and go surfing or flying or racing against 6 ppl in formula one cockpits.

in the 80s arcade air was often blue. many cabinets had ashtrays bolted to them. many had burn marks on the control panel. what a shame to think of these days. but i think me and my friends used to burn this super sprint game often. the smoke is sitting there for the whole race and all you can smell is ..... burning ..... super off-road was another good multiplayer (3) game with edgy suspense. same concept as supersprint. danny sullivan also had one called 'indy heat' and it was a very similar concept but nowhere near as popular as the other 2 games.

as a kid the arcade was the place to meet up with your friends. it was like "what do you want to do" then "i dunno" then "let's go to the arcade until we figure out what we wanna do". it was the best place to kill time and no drugs were ever consumed.

Quote from: /dev/null on December 10, 2016, 09:17:44 PM
I've played it before. I think the reason it wasn't popular was because the first level was extremely difficult to get past. You lost your quarter in a hurry.  Kind of like a poker machine being wound too tight. I did play it once or twice before I decided to get more enjoyment from the other cabs that were there.

i spent a good hour or two searching for that rom this weekend... no luck. i can't tell if it's a scroller or what but the wobby road is unique. i don't think i have ever played it. it kind of reminds me of pitstop or pitstop II but a view more like spy hunter or river raid. It looks really weird, i can't think of another racing game that has that kind of thing going on.

another game that was a quarter eater was the black night pinball game. very steep so ball was very fast.

the US mint had to put several million extra quarters into circulation in the heyday of arcades because they were being dropped into machines. i think i heard that in the king of kong documentary.

Quote from: Dr. MD MD on December 10, 2016, 09:20:31 PM
Now that I know that I can't have it I really, really want it! 

It could be one of those early rare hardwired games for which there is no ROM. 

it's really evasive. i checked all mame and non-mame arcade archives that i know of.

i love 70's and 80's arcade and pinball machines. my family had a videostore and repair shop in the 70s to 90s and there were always pinball machines and arcade cabinets. plus there were service calls all over the place and from the earliest age i often had access to unlimited pinball/arcade plays. when i was just learning to ride a bike i was standing on milk crates playing pacman. my favorite game from that era is FRENZY by stern. it was the sequel to berserk. it was excellent in the arcade and on the colecovision, so much better than berserk and robotron which were both also really good.

this is kind of odd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dZeM4qqOTo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4SWpTs3tHI

From Max's KC (1978).... Contains musical overdubs from 1994.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMD2-Lm72C4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSKxRtOsEgQ

Quote from: RCH“enforced hiatus”

they make it sound like prison rape.

Quote from: RCH"There are a LOT of moving parts still going on behind the scenes"

tubes, belts, servo systems..... i still remember when dixster discovered herbie hancock and told him to make videos with synchronized animatronics..... then max headroom called and wanted his hairpie back.

Quote from: RCH"By The Book â€" HOURS will seem like DAYS …."

so days will seem like months, and months will seem like years ( ? ) should we sleep in hyperbaric chambers like taylor and his shipmates from planet of the apes?

Quote from: RCH"We were supposed to be live  â€" and then this piece … and that piece had to be added"

credits, payment, money transfer..... roger that.

Quote from: RCH"Now, with the holidays looming"

what all-inclusive resort community will you and robin be staying at this seasonal time of year while most of your listeners work through the holidays to pay for their less than zero claymation christmas special?

Quote from: RCH"big organizations (networks …)"

big brother. the illuminated anuses. the men in black who own the teleprompter's refillable cartridges.

however:

no big media = no space pix.

no 3M = no projection.

it's in the data.

don't eat the data that feeds.

Quote from: RCH"it's enough info to really stir up some folks who still do NOT want this to happen"

the NBA is watching, monitoring and keeping tabs.

Quote from: RCH"and could delay things even further"

bin laden II <use as often as needed>

perpetual excuses:
easter bunny
loch ness
6 month system lockup

actions:
threat level elevated!!!
infinite standby mode!!!
total vigilance!!!

in the event of a real emergency, enter dildodrone code:

UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT B A START.

Quote from: RCH"I’m personally VERY frustrated at these continuing delays"

still using dial-up.

Quote from: RCH"plus, attend to the usual Enterprise Mission projects."

sounds like paradise.

Quote from: RCH"I have had to consider each public update re OSM very carefully"

. . . ((( nanoo nanoo ))) . . .

Quote from: RCH"we have been following an Arc of History"

celebrities... and a shortlist of the season's most popular headlines. powerful stuff; enlightenment confirmed.

Quote from: RCH"I mean, just look at the NEWS that has occurred while we’ve been dark"

TrWIOJFD fkdlsf 34989 0fjdksd + 834 jkfdHJKFJDKSo = 19.5

Quote from: RCH"you ain’t seen NOTHIN’ yet!!!)"

cooter, ol' boy you best lose that dang roscoe... he's hot on your six and lost sheep has gone broke down on the turnpike ahead with her pussy out and a case a moonshine uppit.

Quote from: RCHSO … pay attention … and enjoy.

'i tell you to enjoy [end your] life -- i wish i could, but it's too late.' - john o.

Quote from: RCH"We have a LOT to talk about!"

you have a lot to talk about. nobody else is allowed to talk.

Quote from: RCH"Third star on the left, straight on ’til morning …."

i would like to hear annie wilson bellow that one out over a set of humbuckers or vintage pump-organ.

Quote from: RCH"In the meantime, remember"

robin's vagina.

Quote from: RCH"RCH"

"come into the coast, we'll get together, have a few braapz..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4jnqSQkAiQ

thyme bombs replaced obsolete turtles.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLCF7vPanrY