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I served in the Console War. AMA
« on: September 23, 2020, 05:18:14 PM »
I was at the Battle of Gamefaqs. The enemy barraged us with scratched discs and nearly finished us off with their dreaded Red Rings of Death. It's a miracle I'm still here today.

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Re: I served in the Console War. AMA
« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2020, 06:21:50 PM »
What was it like in the trenches when the Megatons rained down?
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Re: I served in the Console War. AMA
« Reply #2 on: September 24, 2020, 02:31:43 AM »
The Cell Processor managed to protect me and the rest of my team from the Megatons but when we stepped out we saw the carnage that they caused. It was a horrific sight that I have desperately tried to suppress from my memory We may have survived but there were others who weren't so fortunate. Sometimes I wish I had not survived so I did not have to live with these memories.

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« Reply #3 on: September 26, 2020, 03:25:40 PM »
Bah.  You youngins with your fancy new-age wars.  Back in my day, I was conscriped as a child in the original great war under Commander George Plimpton.  We fought the scourge of the Atari Force.  Once we started gaining ground, the enemy used General Warshaw to run a scortched earth gambit, destroying the landscape for years to come.
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Re: I served in the Console War. AMA
« Reply #4 on: September 29, 2020, 02:30:59 PM »
Bah.  You youngins with your fancy new-age wars.  Back in my day, I was conscriped as a child in the original great war under Commander George Plimpton.  We fought the scourge of the Atari Force.  Once we started gaining ground, the enemy used General Warshaw to run a scortched earth gambit, destroying the landscape for years to come.

Were you part of the 2600 Battalion or the 5200 Battalion? (I actually served in both)

I remember the Intellevision Services trying to become a major player in the battle, but that was a short lived effort on their part. I'm not sure many of you would've even heard of them....

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« Reply #5 on: September 29, 2020, 03:47:01 PM »
My only fighting was in the Software Scuffles against the in-game camera.  :(
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Re: I served in the Console War. AMA
« Reply #6 on: September 29, 2020, 04:50:41 PM »
I believe there are still members of the Intellivision Corp that never received word that the war had ended and are still out there planning guerilla operations

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Re: I served in the Console War. AMA
« Reply #7 on: September 30, 2020, 04:44:18 PM »
We Intellivision Loyalists are just biding our time.  INTV will rise again.

brb, gonna go hang an Intellivision flag from my pickup truck.
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Re: I served in the Console War. AMA
« Reply #8 on: October 08, 2020, 01:09:29 AM »
My understanding is that the Intellivision Services's elite corps went into hiding to prepare Project Amico. If you see any unfamiliar controllers that look like something that would control a furnace thermostat, look out!

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Re: I served in the Console War. AMA
« Reply #9 on: October 13, 2020, 03:27:01 AM »
I remember the VR wars of the 90s. The Virtual Boy started so fresh-faced in the fall of 1995, only to be cut down in the spring. :( They will always be remembered in the poem "The Charge of the Red LED Brigade". :(