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The Mattel Hyperscan

Written on January 4, 2009 at 12:34 am, by

There’s this “Video Game System” called the Mattel Hyperscan. It’s basically this video system that Mattel marketed as a toy, for young teenagers who were too old for Yugioh, but too young to be trusted with expensive video game systems of the day. It was a relatively low-spec system, and Mattel discontinued it about a Read more...

Facepalm Ep. 2 – Sega 32x

Written on December 15, 2008 at 1:21 am, by

The second episode of facepalm deals with Sega’s 32x add-on system. It kinda came out at a bad time, and failed pretty damn hard. The Saturn was already out in Japan. So nobody really wanted to waste their time with it. Some say that failures such as the 32x led to the impending demise of Read more...

Facepalm Ep 1: The Virtual Boy

Written on December 11, 2008 at 10:40 am, by

This is the first part of *facepalm*: a series of articles in which I discuss things that make you slap your forehead with your palm. Embarassing things. Failed things. Yeah they make you cringe to think about them, but I’m giving them a fair chance. An objective look at the things society scoffs at and Read more...

Using the Rock Band drums as a real Drum Machine

Written on March 12, 2008 at 11:59 am, by

Did you enjoy my video? Yes, I’m a little awkward, but it’s all intentional. So all you do is download the program and the driver (all the install stuff is listed elsewhere) and you can hook your Rock Band Drums up to your PC. It’s pretty cool, because you can also load separate samples into Read more...