It's a Pixel THING weekly game Reviews

Post by **MrFlibble** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 7:18 am

Thanks for another great review!

Is it me, or do the ships shown here have a similar shape to Pyro GX from Descent?

tienkhoanguyen · Post by **tienkhoanguyen** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 7:32 am

Cheezits and Rice!hehe

Don't quote me on this however I think I might have met him and his wife.

It was twenty or thirty years ago around the time of a bodybuilding show.

He was visiting and invited and we ended up chatting.

I was only 19 years old at the time and won my first bodybuilding show.

Anyways you think I'm joking however I played the Christian song at show.

In any case, it might be a different guy.

However if it is the same guy he has a wife.

So don't think he is a bad guy or anything.

That is his strength.

tienkhoanguyen · Post by **tienkhoanguyen** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 7:35 am

Cheezits and Rice!hehe

Just look at his artwork in a positive light.

It might be his wife your looking at?

PixelTHING · Post by **PixelTHING** » Sun Jul 26, 2015 5:27 am

I’ve just discovered the 1992 MegaDrive/Genesis port of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the action game, and I was positively impressed by this upgrade from the 1989 original home computer versions that I’ve played so much back then!
So, are you ready for some platforming action?...

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade [1992, MegaDrive/Genesis] Review - It's a Pixel THING - Ep.#59

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh1sxJdbbyc

<img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/Vi05Z ... 77-h606-no" width="300px">

tienkhoanguyen · Post by **tienkhoanguyen** » Sun Jul 26, 2015 6:36 am

Cheezits and Rice!hehe

Wow. I was just looking on eBay and saw a couple beauty. There are some 33 MHz IBM machines out there.

Anyways, thank you for another life saving review. Goes to show more work.

hehe

PixelTHING · Post by **PixelTHING** » Tue Aug 04, 2015 9:16 am

While cleaning and reorganizing things on my renewed room, I was hugely struck by nostalgia when I was going through my collection. So many memories flashed right away through my mind, and I just sat and played some of my personal favorite video games on the systems that I have plugged in and ready to play.
Enjoy!

A few Favorite Games on a few Different Systems - It's a Pixel THING - Ep.#60

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4UQMx-RMPY

<img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/DslNp ... 80-h720-no" width="300px">

tienkhoanguyen · Post by **tienkhoanguyen** » Tue Aug 04, 2015 8:16 pm

Cheezits and Rice!hehe

Suite or is that sweet hehe

Great review.

Like Quadko said enjoy checking out your place.

Awesome setups.

PixelTHING · Post by **PixelTHING** » Tue Aug 11, 2015 12:24 pm

Thanks

Cheers!

PixelTHING · Post by **PixelTHING** » Fri Aug 14, 2015 4:51 am

This game was released in October of 1986. Two months earlier, in August, Metroid was made available in Japan for the Famicom Disk System. In September, and also for the Famicom Disk System, Akumajou Dracula – aka Castlevania – was, as well, released in Japan. So, unknowingly, The Sacred Armor of Antiriad gave birth to the metroidvania subgenre.
Let's take a look!

Antiriad, the very first Metroidvania [1986, C64 / CPC / ZX Spectrum] - It's a Pixel THING - Ep.#61

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nCdK5kxuY4

<img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-_r3g ... lthing.jpg" width="300px">

tienkhoanguyen · Post by **tienkhoanguyen** » Fri Aug 14, 2015 5:16 am

Cheezits and Rice!hehe

Just letting you know I watched it.

So you still have at least 1 person being an audience hehe

PixelTHING · Post by **PixelTHING** » Fri Aug 14, 2015 9:25 am

He he he!!

Glad to know! And I really appreciate that you continue to be there!

Thanks!

tienkhoanguyen · Post by **tienkhoanguyen** » Sat Aug 22, 2015 3:56 am

Cheezits and Rice!hehe

Glad you are here too dude hehe

Makes me feel like I'm not the only one posting hehe

Thanks for all the cool videos especially the hot ones hehe

PixelTHING · Post by **PixelTHING** » Mon Aug 24, 2015 3:41 am

33 years ago there was this little thing that, in Europe, revolutionized the home computer business! People were accustomed to black and white graphics and the ZX Spectrum came to the rescue with its rainbow motif!
Let’s take a quick look at its origins and point out my 26 favorite games on the system from this early model to the later ones!

My Top 26 ZX Spectrum Games - It's a Pixel THING - Ep.#62

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKqTqEyi7ec

<img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/NzxHo ... 80-h720-no" width="300px">

tienkhoanguyen · Post by **tienkhoanguyen** » Tue Aug 25, 2015 2:22 am

Cheezits and Rice!hehe

You're a hard worker.

30 something minutes of review is a lot of work.

I'm trying to figure out the time it takes to go through all those games he he

PixelTHING · Post by **PixelTHING** » Tue Aug 25, 2015 4:17 am

A lot!

But I really enjoy doing it

Cheers!

tienkhoanguyen · Post by **tienkhoanguyen** » Wed Aug 26, 2015 6:02 am

Cheezits and Rice!hehe

I really enjoy learning that others are super-talented.

I keep thinking my Borland Turbo Assembler 4.1 is something special.

Then I look at all these games and see 3D graphics that is a miracle!

I guess you have to start from nothing.

It's cool.

I don't want to take the attention away from anyone.

Great review by the way.

I really like the TRON 3D segment.

I can only do pixels right now with Borland Turbo Assembler 4.1.

So maybe I could get a dot out or two with God's blessings!!!!!!!!!!!! hehe

Blessings to God and his mother Mary and his son Jesus#!!

Then blessings to my real mom Huong Thi Vu.
She always tells me little by little you get better with practice.

Honours to my real dad Nguyen Binh Thuy.
I know he's kind of not satisfied with me being a programmer.
However Engineering is a hard degree to obtain.

Honours to my real mom Huong Thi Vu.
She is the nice one.
She always makes sure I treat people with love and kind attention and such.

Love to my real brother who is really my cousin Carl Anh Cuong Cao Vu.
He gives me what he could without spoiling me haha

Thanks to all the people and obviously to you for keeping me humble.

I really had to laugh at myself that I thought I was the King of Programming.

Quadko · Post by **Quadko** » Wed Aug 26, 2015 4:13 pm

Fantastic reviews! I'll have to add those games to my want-to-play list; many of them I'd not seen. (What, no Head over Heels?

) I picked up a ZX Spectrum last year (or the year before?) but I never got it working very well. I played around with emulation some, and then earlier this year picked up a DivMMC EnJOY! SD -> ZX Spectrum loader to give it another try. That's a cool toy!

But haven't really gotten to use it yet because I still can't get my PAL ZX Spectrum to display sufficiently well on any Monitor/TV I've got here in NTSC US-land. Off hand, you wouldn't have any hints or suggestions from your experience? I've got some things in progress (like attempting hdmi via scart from composite), but they are all somewhat sketchy in theory. (And yes, I've done the composite hack, just still a PAL composite problem on my NTSC TVs! Most hacks seem to be Europe based, imagine that!) I've got the original spectrum, so I know later models and options have better video out - but then you lose that "real ZX Spectrum" feel I was looking for!

And another related toy, I just picked up a MIST FPGA "reimplement 8bit computers" computer, and it has a ZX Spectrum option I was able to get a game running on last week. That's lots of fun and hooks up to modern hardware if you have the interest and resources. Still working to get Atari ST & Amiga working fully on it, have had partial success.

Lots of ZX Spectrum fun!

tienkhoanguyen · Post by **tienkhoanguyen** » Wed Aug 26, 2015 5:47 pm

Cheezits and Rice!hehe

Hey @Quadko, I've got a VGA to PAL/NTSC converter thingy. If you're interested let me know. No charge for you. Let's just say I'm paying a PAL back (get it hehe)

Once you let me know I have to go to higher-uppers and see if I can send it.

One way of course so your choice.

I was originally going to use it for my security cameras, but the 5V USB plug is missing which you could probably get from RadioShack.

Anyways for all the help you've given me over the years its your's, but you've got to let me know so I can ask for permission to release it.

Just for you Quadko my man. hehe

tienkhoanguyen · Post by **tienkhoanguyen** » Wed Aug 26, 2015 7:42 pm

Cheezits and Rice!hehe

Jesus!hehe

Well since my mom and I are on welfare it is really up to her.

I've tested it out and it's not working so far.

Not sure if I overloaded it by connecting it to a 12V source.

Supposed to be 5V, but might be better to trash it? hehe

Tried a more times than I'd like and it didn't work.

Quadko · Post by **Quadko** » Wed Aug 26, 2015 9:36 pm

No worries, thanks for the offer! I've seem some bad reviews of certain PAL>NTSC hardware, so have avoided some of them. Was looking for something like that suitable for games, and not just TV/movies. I've got one solution "in progress", as I said, and more to try after that.

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