Rambo: First Bork. Turns out John Rambo is no match for a bad CMOS checksum While Sylvester Stallone may or may not be done with the Rambo franchise after decades of portraying the eponymous character, its arcade incarnation endures, if a little borked. Spotted by a Register reader at the Wokingham Superbowl, a venue featuring bowling, laser quest and the mysteriously named "extra activities", things …
> And a mechanical hard drive with a miserable amount of RAM. (I realize this is an older game) I just find it ironic that an actual arcade game has such terrible gaming specs.
Looking at the Lindbergh Red specs, it had 1GB of ram and a GeForce 7600gs GPU with 512mb of ram.
The Xbox 360 came out at around the same time and had just 512mb of RAM, shared between the OS and GPU. Admittedly, the Xbox 360 had the benefits of custom hardware and a better GPU, but OTOH, Microsoft had much more engineering resources and major economies of scale.
To be honest, by 2005, arcade manufacturers had generally given up on cutting-edge technology; arcades were dying out and as per the Xbox 360, it was increasingly difficult to compete with home technology. Instead, they began to focus on "experiences" facilitated by physical gimmicks which couldn't be easily reproduced at home.
Which is why the few remaining arcades are now filled with variations on shooting and racing games, with the occasional pinball table stuffed into a corner and a couple of knackered DDR platforms blinking away forlornly...
Yeh the first film was good, but how about the first arcade game... anyone remember taking down that helicopter, how aggravating was that?!?!
P.S. that game with the helicopter might of been some game with "Wolf" in the title... I don't know anymore (i thought it was "Laser Wolf", but apparently not).
I watched the first film for the first time yesterday. I thought it highlighted a couple of moral issues very well indeed, and the action was entertaining no matter how implausible. Although it used the formula of having villains who were 100% evil. There are few films where the opposing sides are neither "good" nor "bad" but just have different views that are both perfectly understandable and defensible, which is almost always what any real-life situation is, even if politicians try to persuade us that "we" are good and "they" are evil.
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I'm unclear why it needs a battery.
That was for the date / clock traditionally
I t doesent need to know that.
surely they can overide the "battrery dead press F5" message and have it boot up?
If that machine did know the year it'd probly self destruct out of depression.
I'm unclear why it needs a battery.
That was for the date / clock traditionally
I t doesent need to know that.
But if the system is based off of standard "PC hardware", then the board probably had one just because they ALL would have by that point.
At least it would be new enough not to have an auto-destruct Varta barrel battery.
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