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This 2CD set features 31 tracks from some of the greatest artist ever such as Roy Orbison, The Yardbirds, Barry White, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Johnny Cash, The Platters, The Bee Gees, & Percy Sledge to name a few. |
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Soul to Soul (Cd Compilation, 32 Tracks) |
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tom browne - funkin for jamaica / commodores - i'm easy / surface - only you can make me happy (so happy) / five star - system addict / beat base - say i'm your number one / glen goldsmith - i won't cry / bobby womack - so many sides of you / sai - human / odyssey - going back to my roots etc. |
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Metra Axxess ASWC Universal Steering Wheel Control Interface (Black) List Price: $75.69 Sale Price: Too low to display |
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Universal Steering Wheel Control Interface |
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Pegasus Odyssey |
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Red Line 60103 SI-1 Fuel System Cleaner - 15 oz. List Price: $9.95 Sale Price: $9.95 |
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Red Line Oil 60103 Si-1 Fuel Inj Cleaner -15oz |
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Robot Odyssey I: Problem Solving Game/Commodore 64 List Price: $49.95 |
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As you are looking over the stars through your fighter's windshield, your fuel gauge reads low. You begin to accelerate and speed through space, looking for some sign of help. All of a sudden, your eyes spot blinking lights off in the distance. You rush toward it and, as your fuel gauge reads less than 20 gallons, you rush into the docking bay. A loud "DA-DA" is heard; you fly out with a full supply of fuel and ammo.
Now, you notice that your time is running out. Your adventure is about to end and you need more time. You begin to fly through space with your new load of fuel, looking for an entrance into the fourth dimension. Up ahead there is a strange, number-sign (#) shaped thing. You head toward it and, as you go through the centre, you hear rewarding music, and a journey begins backward through time. Twisting tunnels lie ahead and, while you travel through them, time flows backwards. The ship exits the tunnel with plenty of time left to destroy enemies, and continue your travels, firing off into space, nearly crashing into enemy ships and their fragments. This is the world of EPOCH. The objective is as simple as most: destroy as many enemy ships as possible, for as many points as you can get. There is the usual limited amount of ammunition, and fuel, both of which can be replenished by a docking with a base. But EPOCH has an added feature: a time limit.
If time runs out, your adventure is over; just as if you had run out of fuel or ammunition. Time is restored just as easily as either of the other two, but by entering the fourth dimension. A little more difficult than docking with a base, for you must proceed through a tunnel in space once you have entered. The game is played with a joystick (it can be played with paddles but is much more difficult). You see space as if you were looking through a windshield, as stars and various ships (about 15 kinds) pass by your fighter.
The only way to score points is by destroying ships, but, as you play, you will find that more of your time is spent attempting to extend your odyssey. The top of the hi-res screen is reserved for your control panel which tells you several things: fuel, time, ammunition, speed, and score. The graphics in the game are truly excellent-as good as any I have seen. The stars pass by you in speeds inversely proportional to their distance from you and, as your ship turns, they scroll across the screen smoothly and naturally.
The enemy ships can be spotted well in the distance and, as they near you, the enlargement is perfect. With a ship far in the distance, it may zoom across the screen at the slightest turn. But, when they get closer (they may come inches away) you can spend ten seconds just travelling across the ship, if you stop your forward movement. There really is that much detail put into them. The sound effects in EPOCH are also very well done. There are four major sounds: the introduction, the destruction of an enemy, the docking with your mother ship, and the entrance to the fourth dimension. Each of these is different, and each has its own "space" effect.
I person- ally enjoy entering the fourth dimension for the sound alone, and then work my way through the tunnel of space. EPOCH is one game that is very difficult to tire of, until one has completely mastered it. This takes quite a while and, once done, there are always new ways to approach the galaxy. You can try many daring things. I enjoy coming right into my opponent's face, stopping, and then blowing him up.
You can also try to go through the small docking bays at high speeds, and many other things that will insure your enjoyment and excitement with the game. If you are the type that likes simple games, like Space invaders, pinball, etc., you will probably have a bit of trouble adjusting to EPOCH, which at times can be a very high speed game. Most computer garners, especially space and shoot-em-up lovers, will enjoy this game. It is planned out in detail, and well programmed.
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A lookback at the video games industry and how far it has come
It's hard to imagine what people did with their hands and minds during the time prior to home computers, Nintendo game consoles and other forms of electronic entertainment. Human hands seem completely contoured to fit control pads and computer mice -- or could it be the other way around?
Both the PC and video game industries have dramatically modified home entertainment. Now, these two industries are quickly becoming the same thing.
Have you heard about the Magnavox Odyssey? Announced in 1972, it was actually the very first widely-released game console. However it was a few more years before a bouncing-ball game named Pong made the planet to fall madly in love with video gaming and launched Atari to the top of the home game marketplace.
In the late 70's, home PCs debuted, and soon, primitive PCs similar to the Commodore 64 and also the Tandy color PC started contesting with games consoles for the time and money of tech-savvy purchasers. While some houses had both a PC and a game console, that was rare. Money-conscious customers were forced to make a choice between the versatility of a home computer and the improved controllers and graphics of consoles.
Eventually, companies such as RCA, Intellivision as well as Nintendo went into the video gaming market whereas Apple, IBM and an array of clones went into desktop computing. Speed and graphics quality improved on Nintendo game systems and PCs over the years, and up-to-the-minute games would briefly put one system before another until one more new advance altered the industry all over again.
Home computers reached notoriety after windows 95, when the vast majority of homes posessed at least one PC, and they have shown no signs of decline. Games consoles have never reached this type of expansion, however they continue to gain in popularity despite temporary blips within the market.
Whilst games consoles were for many years conditional upon their control pads and computers contingent on mice or the occasional touch pads and trackballs, the twenty first century launch of the Nintendo Wii advanced gaming consoles in the direction of an eventual controller-less experience. Gaming console makers have also built in wireless internet connections and the ability to surf the internet to their consoles, eliminating the need for a personal computer in households where PCs are not needed for business uses.
As well as Nintendo games that detect movement and don't require controllers, the near future also holds further integration between TV, gaming, the web and home computers.
Soon, one inexpensive device wired into a high-tech, wall-mounted monitor will be offering users a total entertainment experience. In reality some TVs coming on the market in the next few years will offer almost every gaming alternative users can imagine -- and they are prepared for ones that don't even exist in the minds of their designers yet.
But don't worry. Retro will consistently be in, too. Pong is still available for most gaming formats -- and still selling like it's 1975.
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What Is The Best Video Game Console Of All Time?????
Odyssey/Atari 2600/Intellivision/Colecovision/Atari 7800/NES/Turbografix/Genesis/Coleco Gemini/Neo Geo/Super NES/Commodore 64 GS/Atari Jaguar/Sega CD/Sega 32X/Saturn/Play Station/Nintendo 64/Neo Geo CD/Dreamcast/XBOX/Game Cube/Playstation 2/XBOX 360/Playstation 3/Nintendo Wii ???????????
You have to give props to NES as that was proably what got the most people started on gaming. As great as teh Playstation and PS 2 are didn't most who were kids when the NES came really get started on the NES. They then when out and bought the PS and PS2 which made them so big. Hell if Nintendo hadn't blown it Sony wanted to make the PS as an accessory system to the SNES.
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