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  1. JB0
    I recall being just very confused. ... It was pretty as heck, though.
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    I'm American, I had to ask the internet what a Beeb is. That said, it looks like Acorn made a real computer instead of an overglorified doorstop.
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    And the hype train rolls on! Keanu Reeves is... Kamen Rider Akira!
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    Wait, seriously? That's amazing!
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    My way also has the advantage of acknowledging that MP3 Soundwave is a toy first, music player second. And that at that price he should bring quality to both sides. ... For user interface purposes, I'd also replace the cassette non-window with an OLED panel. Not necessarily a particularly huge one, just enough to be useful. Throw his Decepticon symbol up when not actively operating the player. Basically a Sansa Clip series, just with a CF interface instead of SD. For a non-electronics company, I do admit that the CF interface is a large obstacle. Takara was basically dependent on someone else's design already doing what they wanted. But getting a decent MP3 player with a display in there should've been doable, and it's appalling that they didn't. On a personal aesthetics note, I'd make his crotch buttons mirror the original Soundwave button layout. Silver plastic instead of chromed, because the silver won't wear off. Adds some visual interest to the design, as well as tickling my nostalgia bone. Always felt MP3 Soundwave was just too darn plain. And now I've spent entirely too much time speccing out my dream Soundwave toy that will never exist.
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    I will Sonic Boom your face if you don't take that back!
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    And here's what my dream Soundwave player would've done... I know this wasn't really workable for budgetary reasons(Takara doesn't make electronics, so they had to buy someone else's MP3 player), but I would've compromised functionality myself, not by using a crappy barely-functional chinese player chip, but by using larger and more expensive CompactFlash cards instead of the ubiquitous SD format(and definitely not the decidedly NON-ubiquitous MiniSD form factor).. The reason I'd do this is because CF cards are JUST big enough that he could come with non-functional "dummy" cards that both fit his chest cavity and actually transformed into the tape-bots. No crappy Frenzy&Rumble headphones here!
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    Oh cripes, it doesn't even do SDHC? What was Takara THINKING? They could've made an amazing product, instead they apparently grabbed the cheapest, junkiest MP3 player they could find out of China to implant in the poor guy. He cost way too much to be treated like a cheap novelty toy.
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    I think Christmas is when they're supposed to clarify if it's Macross Delta or Macross Triangle, or something sillier.
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    Seriously, MiniSD? The HELL? Best bet is get a MicroSD-MiniSD adapter. Best bet for THAT is to find a MicroSD card that comes with a full set of adapters. Because that's seriously the only place I've ever seen MiniSD in any form.
  11. JB0
    Sonic CD is the best Sonic, anyone who says otherwise is objectively wrong.
  12. JB0
    No one deserves to suffer with a Sinclair computer.
  13. JB0
    Gotta strip disk 7, man. Can't have just one with a slipcover!
  14. JB0
    In all honesty, I think half of why I loved Shockwave so much WAS the fact that he had two legs and joints where joints belonged. The other half, of course, was that he turned into a raygun with light and sound. But look on the bright side. If Prowl HAD had two separate legs, you'd've had shattered Prowls ANYWAYS. That's the lesson I took away from Tracks, anyways. I think I may actually be bitter about my Tracks experience.
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    I'm so sorry.
  16. JB0
    And since we've got the Commodore crowd in here... my first COMPUTER was a TI 99/4a. 16-bit power!
  17. JB0
    What, not a Studio II? A Channel F? An ODYSSEY? You're just another newb like all the rest of us.
  18. JB0
    Heck yeah! I loved that show!
  19. JB0
    Nice until the joysticks broke thirty minutes later. But seriously, that's a sexy piece of hardware.
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    Hawt. Mine was a Vectrex. Original GCE version.
  21. JB0
    Because it was AWESOME! ... When I was six. As with most of us, I had pretty poor taste as a kid.
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    Interested, but broke.
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    Damn rich kids! (At this point, getting some flavor of TurboGrafX is on my short list of things to do with my collection.)
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    Also that.
  25. JB0
    I still don't understand why it was called Gatchaman. I enjoyed the show for what it was, but was bugged that they put the Gatchaman name on something so clearly unrelated.
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