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Monthly Archives: September 2009

Street Fighter IV

Saturday, September 12, 2009

The nice part about Street Fighter IV is that if I want a human opponent, I can just go online and find a human opponent.  The not so great part is finding out that my Street Fighter game has degraded since I was putting quarters up on the lip of the screen at the Yellow [...]

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Nine, nine, ninety-nine to nine, nine, oh-nine

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

It’s been ten years since the midnight I liberated a chair from the Pentagon City food court and parked myself in front of the Electronics Boutique.
For the Sega Dreamcast.
A revolutionary console at the time, it had the unfortunate timing of being released within a year of the PlayStation 2’s North American release.  It really heralded [...]

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Old Tech

Thursday, September 3, 2009

I threw away some old Motorola Talkabouts today.  So old that they did not even have LCD screens to show you the channel ID and the security code.  Instead, you did some strange button combination that required fingers to be in different places on your hand.
That button combination is now lost in the sands of [...]

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