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Post by cr1976 on Aug 10, 2020 17:57:29 GMT -2
I say do what makes you happy! If that means sticking Terreri on a non-goalie (but quite large) jersey, go for it.
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Post by mfitz804 on Aug 10, 2020 18:10:12 GMT -2
I say do what makes you happy! If that means sticking Terreri on a non-goalie (but quite large) jersey, go for it. I'm kind of thinking that myself. Besides, which is worse, doing it on a 58 player's jersey, or doing it on an actual ProPlayer goalie cut? The Marty people would have an absolute meltdown. I should add (and as we have discussed), I don't like pre-edge goalie cuts, so the only way I am going to have a Terreri is to have it on a larger pre-Edge player's jersey anyway. |
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Post by cr1976 on Aug 10, 2020 18:30:06 GMT -2
I say do what makes you happy! If that means sticking Terreri on a non-goalie (but quite large) jersey, go for it. I'm kind of thinking that myself. Besides, which is worse, doing it on a 58 player's jersey, or doing it on an actual ProPlayer goalie cut? The Marty people would have an absolute meltdown. I should add (and as we have discussed), I don't like pre-edge goalie cuts, so the only way I am going to have a Terreri is to have it on a larger pre-Edge player's jersey anyway. For a while (say 5-7 years ago), I was getting into the vintage arcade game scene a bit...I'm an electrical engineering technician who owns a business with my father (he's pretty much out of the scene now, has been for a while), and I loved arcade games as a kid (grew up in the 80s, in the Golden Age of arcade gaming), so I started getting into the hobby. Bought a Space Invaders Deluxe from 1979 (still got it, and with some help from me, still works 100%), and bought a couple of more modern ones that play several accurate emulations of 70s and 80s era classics. Suffice it to say that in the "Arcade Preservation" scene, there's a lot of cranky nerds who love telling everyone what they should do with their machines...basically, even if it's a game that wasn't terribly popular and wasn't much fun to play, no no no, you don't DARE modify it, you have to keep it as is, or you're some kind of heretic! I got roasted by that crowd because a guy who had come across a beat up (but functional) Eagle cabinet made the mistake of asking if he should convert it to a multi-game unit...I made the mistake of saying "Do what makes you happy, it's YOUR cabinet." They all lost their sh*t over that, to which I said, "Fine, if you're all that upset about it, make him an offer he can't refuse, and save it yourselves!" None of them did. And that same crowd once got all bent out of shape when an arcade restoration artist destroyed a bunch of old cabinets that he deemed not worth fixing up anymore...what was funny was that individual said "I posted THREE TIMES that I had multiple cabinets that I was willing to give away for FREE...all you had to do was show up and take as many as you wanted. Where were you all?!" So my point here is screw anyone who would have a meltdown over YOUR property, or judge your choices in customization. You're entitled to do what allows you to get the most use and enjoyment out of it. |
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Post by mfitz804 on Aug 10, 2020 18:47:28 GMT -2
Definitely agree.
Being as I am, though, I know there is a possibility that I get annoyed, or decide to scale back in collecting, and it winds up on the sale block. I know a Terreri ProPlayer will be harder to sell than say, a Stevens or Niedermayer.
Ultimately, though, on this one, I improbably going with my gut and sticking with #31. I have started a little goalie collection in recent years, all Edge and Adidas, and wouldn't mind adding a Terreri to that. Though I first became a Devils fan in 1986, it wasn't until a few years later that I became very hardcore in following the team (my parents finally getting cable TV was a huge part of that). And at that time, it was Chris Terreri in goal for the bulk of the season.
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Post by cr1976 on Aug 10, 2020 19:34:17 GMT -2
Terreri really was a fun early Devils story...Burke was clearly the fair-haired goalie due to his big run in 1988, but once Terreri permanently joined the team, he stubbornly kept outplaying Burke until the Devils had no choice but to make him their #1 goalie...even though Burke was given chance after chance to put it all together, at Terreri’s expense (who never bitched about it). I also enjoyed the fact that he played well in 1993-94, and came up big in the Devils’ second round series against the Bruins that year. He was a nice “building block”, transitional player. Glad he was still here for the 1995 Cup win (and 2000, even though he was not good in his second stint as a Devil).
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Post by jsh139 on Aug 10, 2020 21:55:24 GMT -2
I used to have a dedicated 25” Mortal Kombat machine. Not quite vintage, but it was a blast to play. I bought an MKII board for it and also a Killer Instinct board (with the PITA harddrive). Replaced the console with a KI 6-button and just swapped boards the hard way whenever I wanted to change up the game. Ended up selling it about 10 years ago because the monitor was getting dim and the picture was shrinking a little and I had a feeling it was gonna need a cap kit or something else. And I didn’t have the knowledge or motivation to get it fixed. Now I have an Arcade1Up MK/MKII/UMK3 machine and while it’s not quite the same thing, it’s pretty close.  How’s that for off topic? Lol. |
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Post by kidpresentable on Aug 10, 2020 22:51:20 GMT -2
Holy shit! That takes me back to 1992 and being at the arcade in the Freehold Raceway mall. We'd never seen anything like it. You mean you can rip a guys heart out of his chest or uppercut his head off?? I think Ultimate MK3 was my favorite in the series. I wasted a ton of time and money on that console and then even more time on the SNES. The good old days when video games were unique, fun to play over and over but still beatable with a little time and effort.
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Post by PensJerseys on Aug 10, 2020 23:48:44 GMT -2
MK was my one and only arcade game. 1 and maybe 2. HOOKED. Like Kid I still remember the couple of places I played it at a bog community pool place in Nags Head, NC. Amazing.
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Post by guam64 on Aug 11, 2020 1:08:08 GMT -2
Street Fighter II > Mortal Kombat II
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Post by jsh139 on Aug 11, 2020 1:57:38 GMT -2
Street Fighter II > Mortal Kombat II Shoryuken! |
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Post by devilsguy on Aug 11, 2020 12:14:12 GMT -2
Favorite arcade games in no particular order:
X-Men
TMNT II
TMNT IV
The Simpsons
Terminator 2
Blood Bros.
MK II
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Post by cr1976 on Aug 11, 2020 13:51:22 GMT -2
The only arcade fighter that I actually played extensively in the arcade was Virtua Fighter 2.
As far as home conversions went, it was VF2 (Sega Saturn), Soul Calibur (Sega Dreamcast...it was mind-blowing for the time), SCII (Xbox), SCIV (Xbox360), and KI Gold (N64). I liked watching people play the MK games much more than I did playing it. Never got into any of the Tekkens or the Street Fighters.
And I admit it, I was never great at fighting games. I was better at some than others, but in general I would often panic button-mash against good players.
Being 50 years old, I still enjoy a good old-fashioned game of Pac-Man, Galaxian, Space Invaders, Dig Dug, etc. Doesn't mean that I don't enjoy current titles, but so few of them are jump in and out, and I don't have that kind of time to really delve into them.
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Post by mfitz804 on Aug 11, 2020 15:19:44 GMT -2
Pizza place on the corner of my block had Gauntlet.
“Red Elf needs food, badly!”
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Post by cr1976 on Aug 11, 2020 15:47:38 GMT -2
Pizza place on the corner of my block had Gauntlet. “Red Elf needs food, badly!” LMAO oh man there was a bowling alley that had that near me, in the 80s. One of my buds would put in $5 worth of quarters to play...I think 25 cents would buy you 600 health points or so (even if you didn't take combat damage, your total health would slowly count down...of course, food would increase your total). That one could be a lot of fun if you had 3-4 players going. My all-time favorite arcade game is probably Daytona USA (Sega, 1994)...I remember playing in Dave and Busters when eight cabs would be linked up. I have it for the Xbox 360 and the Sega Dreamcast...had the Saturn version too, way back in the day. I still play the 360 and DC versions to this day every so often...usually more in the winter. I played the absolute crap out of NHL 2k5 for the Xbox. So many full seasons and playoffs. The AI could be a little cheap sometimes (almost like the game would simply decide "The computer is winning no matter what you do"), but I still had a lot of fun with it. |
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Post by mfitz804 on Aug 11, 2020 17:55:23 GMT -2
Pizza place on the corner of my block had Gauntlet. “Red Elf needs food, badly!” LMAO oh man there was a bowling alley that had that near me, in the 80s. One of my buds would put in $5 worth of quarters to play...I think 25 cents would buy you 600 health points or so (even if you didn't take combat damage, your total health would slowly count down...of course, food would increase your total). That one could be a lot of fun if you had 3-4 players going. That pizza place was the best as a kid. Two slices and a soda, which they would refill for you endlessly, for $2. Most of the time the owner was manning the register. When he was, your tray would come with a stack of 4 quarters to play Gauntlet (there were a couple other games there also, Tapper was one, but we didn't mess with those). If you ran out of quarters and were standing there watching your friends play, you might hear the drawer pop open and you might get more quarters to join back in. Maybe it was because we were all from the block, and our parents all ordered food there all the time. But we would sit there for hours sometimes and all we'd pay was our $2. Other times we did have money and did feed the game, so I guess maybe it evened out. Also, the owner was a former roadie for multiple rock bands. Every once in a while, you'd go in and there would be guys from Twisted Sister, Skid Row, and two times, Gene Simmons from Kiss. Have you ever played Gauntlet with Gene Simmons? I have. Years later the pizza place was closed, and the owner wound up working for UPS and got the route that included our block. That's as Staten Island a story as you can get, everyone knows everyone from somewhere. |
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