Hasbro Made-to-Order Figures

Gothneo said:
My mom wouldn't let me have a console so all I ever played were old arcade games on MAME. 🤪
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When I was around 10ish, my mom got really mad about something (to this day I forget what prompted it) and banned me from having *any* more toys. It was really weird for, I don't know, a few months maybe? It's hard to gauge time at that age. Eventually she allowed a couple of exceptions to finish out the Dinobots, then rescinded it altogether as by this point I was getting my own allowance and soon after took on little odd jobs so she figured it was my money, I can do what I want with it. But reading your post did just bring it all flooding back and get me wondering for the first time in decades what the fuck provoked it in the first place..!
 
I hope some day they make toys based on the games from my first console.

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The RCA Studio II had 5 built in games. These were:
  • Addition - Yes, one game was just math problems
  • Bowling
  • Doodle - draw straight lines!
  • Freeway
  • Patterns - draw a few things and let the computer replicate it into patterns!
All in glorious black and white.
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Both X-Men Legends games and Ultimate Alliance 1 and 2. Absolutely incredible games. I was enormously disappointed buying Ultimate Alliance 3 a year or two ago - not even close to the amazingness I remember from the originals.
 
Speaking of X-Men Legends I & II, to this day one of the inside silly quotes my wife and I share is "Form up on me!"
Y'know, when we're out shopping or at a social gathering or whatever and one of us takes the lead. It never gets old.

And then there's Wolverine's Revenge, and the ever-hilarious "Wakey wakey" ...best said in a gravelly Logan voice. Good times.
 
My brother and I played the ever-loving hell out of UA3 when it came out. We must have put 100+ hours into it. It was a blast, though extremely challenging in some instances. We had a Ghost Rider and Psylocke combo that just absolutely wrecked shop. I will say the game gets way too in the weeds with the whole ISO-8 crystal shit or whatever it is, making us spend far too much time with managing upgrades and inventory instead of just whooping ass. We played a lot of X-Men Legends and Ultimate Alliance as well, still did up until pretty recently too.

It's funny, we game together a lot but we don't ever really get too hung up on nostalgia for older games because we never stopped playing those older games. We still play everything from NES to Switch 2. It's kind of like with my toy collecting, I've always collected toys so I don't get too nostalgic for older toys I used to have because it's like my newer versions are so much better, and I still have nearly every figure I've ever acquired since the early 2000s. Not really much chance for nostalgia if your collecting or gaming or reading or watching journey is still one unbroken path.
 
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