Scheduled chat!

DragonmasterDan · 07/13/2005, 02:01 PM

As discussed in the instant messenging thread, we should schedule a chat for people on this board (or any other Turbo/PCE fans out there) since it seems like AIM is the most popular venue of choice when and what time works for everyone? We'll just start a conference and invite everyone who wants in to chat.

Keranu · 07/13/2005, 02:04 PM

Any time for me, I guess.

Ninja Spirit · 07/13/2005, 04:29 PM

Word up!

it'd be cool if PCEFX had its own chat room like Neo Geo.com does.

PCEngineFX · 07/13/2005, 07:08 PM

This is something that I'm looking into. Would have been nice when I streamed the Ys VII music last week on Pcenginefx Radio.....

TR0N · 07/13/2005, 07:53 PM

What Aim does every body here use?

Yahoo?MSN?AOL?

TR0N · 07/13/2005, 07:53 PM

Quote from: Ninja SpiritWord up!

it'd be cool if PCEFX had its own chat room like Neo Geo.com does.

Like php or irc

DragonmasterDan · 07/13/2005, 09:11 PM

Quote from: TronWhat Aim does every body here use?

Yahoo?MSN?AOL?

I use the three main messengers so I'm cool with whatever we wind up picking. Yahoo is the most fun for big chats since it allows voice ect but that's just my opinion

lord_cack · 07/14/2005, 01:45 AM

Well, I saw that the "ethnicity" thread has been locked. This is really a thing that a "chat" service would be great for. I mean the same people come here all the time and we all see the names: stevek666, D-lite, nodtveitd, ect it would be nice to get to know our fellow gamers a little better and in a more interactive setting. This community is fairly tight nit, I mean just go over to the Magic Engine forums and guess what, your gonna find many of the same names over there as you do here.

So setting up a chat service would be great. But, if that isn't possible maybe just "general" or "Off Topic" thread would be possible. Some place where the community can go and just talk about BS, one of these would probably be good outside of the chat service anyway.

esteban · 07/14/2005, 03:39 AM

Yahoo IM = belial_dancing
msn = stevek69

I vote for Yahoo, myself.

Keranu · 07/14/2005, 04:53 AM

What about IRC?

Ninja Spirit · 07/14/2005, 10:50 AM

As a matter of fact, I just noticed this forum's missing a general off topic forum. Speaking of that, regarding my ethncity thread, lemme give yall the 411 on that. the original concept of it was that I was just curious to see for myself if there were particularly other black Turbo/PCE gamers other than I, since most guys of my race I know only play Halo and NBA Street and dont like old school and Japanese gaming. but the first response gave me a guilty conscience and I turned it into an unrelated thread.

But I guess the lack of a off topic forum works well in PCEFX's favor. Most gaming boards I'm on that have Off Topic forums have been targets of spammers, attention whores, or a majority of the members flame newbies that make threads introducing themselves just to look cool. Ppl like them have you thinking twice about making a simple innocent thread because you don't know what kind of nonsense can derail it within 5-10 posts. Hell sometimes they even f around with the mods and administrators making insulting thread titles directed at them, and then they become household names (Except digital press, they have Zero tolerance against that kind of crap.)

esteban · 07/14/2005, 01:21 PM

Quote from: Ninja SpiritAs a matter of fact, I just noticed this forum's missing a general off topic forum. Speaking of that, regarding my ethncity thread, lemme give yall the 411 on that. the original concept of it was that I was just curious to see for myself if there were particularly other black Turbo/PCE gamers other than I, since most guys of my race I know only play Halo and NBA Street and dont like old school and Japanese gaming. but the first response gave me a guilty conscience and I turned it into an unrelated thread.

But I guess the lack of a off topic forum works well in PCEFX's favor. Most gaming boards I'm on that have Off Topic forums have been targets of spammers, attention whores, or a majority of the members flame newbies that make threads introducing themselves just to look cool. Ppl like them have you thinking twice about making a simple innocent thread because you don't know what kind of nonsense can derail it within 5-10 posts. Hell sometimes they even f around with the mods and administrators making insulting thread titles directed at them, and then they become household names (Except digital press, they have Zero tolerance against that kind of crap.)

Hey, no problem. Although I wasn't able to join the thread before it was locked, I've always been curious about the folks who frequent this and other forums (speaking of which, my dad is an immigrant from the Ukraine... my mom was born here, but her parents are from Switzerland, Ireland, England, etc.). Anyway, I think you're right, it's not necessarilly a bad thing that PCEFX doesn't have an off-topic board... we'll just have to find an alternative venue. Although it would be interesting if aaron tested out an off-topic area

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Sociological tangent: I've never seen any statistics or research, but it would be interesting to see what the demographics of old-skool / retro gamers. I suspect that it would be 90%+ white, middle-class, males... thought the ages would be spread out (from the folks who grew up with pinball machines to the folks who grew up with NES / 16-bit, depending on how you defined "retrogaming").

I suspect this retro-gaming demographic will continue to diversify over time (i.e. as the PS1 generation ages), although I think the venerable NES had a pretty wide demographic (since it was such a successful console for so long).

Gaming is an expensive hobby: the Atari 2600 (and early computer / gaming hardware, in general) were much more of a "luxury" item back in the day. So, usually, it was the privileged folks with $$$ who could afford gaming (not only to pay for the hardware and software, but to have the "free time" required to play games). Sure, there were always a bunch of gamers with little money, but you can't be a mainstream success by selling to them alone. So, if Apple and Atari were "mainstream" successes, who were the people in this "mainstream" in the early 80's? I think it was much less diverse (in terms of economic class, as well as ethnicity) than the years that followed.
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PCEngineFX · 07/14/2005, 09:43 PM

The pcengine-fx.com forums wasn't really missing a general off-topic chat - there just wasn't any need for one till now. Now that the forums are more busy, it might not be a bad idea since there seems to be more of a community forming here.... I think we can try it and see where it goes.

Keranu · 07/14/2005, 09:50 PM

I would personally love to see and off-subject topic and I would especially love to read follow-ups to Ninja Spirit's ethnicity thread.

DragonmasterDan · 07/14/2005, 11:10 PM

So have we settled on AIM or Yahoo! as the venue for the scheduled chat? Also what time are most people on here free?

TurboHuC6280 · 07/15/2005, 02:06 PM

Quote from: PcenginefxThe pcengine-fx.com forums wasn't really missing a general off-topic chat - there just wasn't any need for one till now. Now that the forums are more busy, it might not be a bad idea since there seems to be more of a community forming here.... I think we can try it and see where it goes.

I've noticed that in the last few months, the forums have gone to a few posts per day to *dozens* of posts per day. There must be a surge of new PCE gamers.

I only joined a few months ago, but I've always been a lurker on the boards. But there have never been so many posts. I guess that's a good thing.

twor2005 · 07/15/2005, 07:48 PM

The Turbo is coming back

Let's reform TTi

Seriously.

NeoFreak · 07/19/2005, 03:29 PM

AIM: NeoFreak330