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petition to officially rename "the video game crash of 1983” to "the couple of years where retail stores in the US only couldn't push home video games but everything else was the same in 1983”

RT @maplesbian@twitter.com

@comet_melting@twitter.com and even then Atari walked away from it mostly fine with arcade and computer divisions so honestly it's more like retail crash

🐦🔗: twitter.com/maplesbian/status/

sure there's nuance in that it's more than sales figures that make or break a game but sales figures are real numbers that you can't rewrite with your "top 10 games of the 90s!!" thinkpiece

if those lists were written in brazil winning eleven would be way above castlevania

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but anyway everybody talks about the video game crash like it was a real thing because most youtubers are from the USA and they're indeed rewriting history as pointed out in that thread everyone is having fun clowning on because "buhh banjo kazooie better than croc"

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for disclaimer purposes the above tweet is mostly sarcasm out of spite for unitedstatians

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the video game crash isn't real lol you just live in the wrong country

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reminder that the "video game crash of 1983” happened in ONE COUNTRY ONLY. the video game industry THRIVED outside the USA in the 80s.

RT @LaidbackStrat@twitter.com

"Banjo is remembered because it is better" if you bothered to read the thread, you'd understand that doesn't matter because most of the people revering Banjo right now haven't played the games. The first game is 23 years old.

🐦🔗: twitter.com/LaidbackStrat/stat

RT @LaidbackStrat@twitter.com

Essentially, we've allowed the childhoods of like 10 YouTubers to re-write history, and everyone else plays along with it because they're young and don't want to sound stupid.

And since it's been happening for so long, it gets repeated by people who weren't even alive back then.

🐦🔗: twitter.com/LaidbackStrat/stat

RT @indigotrance@twitter.com

I think this more goes to show just how North America-centric retro game discussion, analysis, and media is on the internet; when that doesn't reflect how the culture developed elsewhere in the world. twitter.com/laidbackstrat/stat

🐦🔗: twitter.com/indigotrance/statu

"sorry honey you're too white" - me to @LaserScheme@twitter.com right now

this flamin' hot cheetos tastes like a fucking lime meringue

RT @eddyderisio@twitter.com

Lembrando apenas que tentam meter esse louco falando que os atos do "Fora Collor" eram apoliticos, verde-e-amarelo, "do povo" e apartidario, mas ele era assim na real: twitter.com/UOLNoticias/status

🐦🔗: twitter.com/eddyderisio/status

looks like the transistor it was tapping into might be dead and the bodge was there to keep power going through the board? it's a BC337, i don't have any equivalents.. i found some BC548s in my parts box but they're rated for lower current than the 337

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so now i need to figure out why that bodge wire is there and how to fix the original issue without introducing hum

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so i think i found the issue.. there's a bodge wire i thought could be factory but on second inspection isn't, it's bypassing output of the bridge rectifier into the emitter of a transistor, i'm not sure why, but once i removed it the hum was gone... along with the FM circuitry

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there's no visible damage anywhere, no leaky or blown caps, no broken traces or cold solder joints. does anyone have any experience with audio amps of this vintage to give me a hand on where to start troubleshooting the hum? 2/2

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