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Bulbagarden Conversational Chat Thread Vol.5

Mythra said:
Volcarona (it won't happen, its neither cute nor Gen 1)
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I meant human characters
But they released a Volcarona plush recently
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I feel... I feel like I was better off not knowing about Mega Cat Project.... I hated oversimplified cutesy cats ever since I was a kid lol but that's just me. Personal taste, ignore this.

I think not all characters' designs are suitable for this - if they hypothetically did release a line of Pokémon figures I believe they wouldn't go for human characters? Pretty sure we would get Pikachu...
 
This discussion is making me miss my cassette tape collection. XD
 
EzloSpirit said:
I think my mom got rid of 95% of them when we moved out of our house when I was 17. :(
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Think of the silver lining. New artists have been releasing albums on cassette again. Now you can start an even better collection.

I found a retro radio at work with a CD and cassette player and the cassette player is busted. Very disappointing!
 
I have a few things I can use to listen to cassettes, I got some random portable cassette player from the early 2000s and I also have a stereo system setup that has a radio, two cassette decks, and a 3-disc CD player all in one unit.

And yet what I prefer to use to listen to my cassettes is this:
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My Sharp QT-242 stereo radio cassette recorder from 1988, I believe (don't 100% know the year this was from because there's no date on it and the only thing I've ever found online with a more definitive date than '1980s' was one eBay listing - that I conveniently can't find anymore - that said '1988', although it might've been 1987 but I'm 95% confident it was 1988)

And everything I've tested on it still works totally fine: the radio still works, cassette playback works, all the buttons to fast forward, rewind, stop, etc. work, both speakers work. Only things I haven't tested yet are the recording functionality (because I don't have any blank cassettes to use) and if it will still work on battery power (I do not have six C-cell batteries), although considering there's no corrosion on the contacts, I can't imagine why it wouldn't work.
 
The oldest piece of tech I have where I definitively know the date of is my Sanyo TV from May 1982.

Although I wouldn't be surprised if my 8-track player is older than that, that's probably late 1970s.

(I'm not counting my musket from the 1840s here lol)
 
The oldest tech I have is that radio I mentioned. A coworker called it a fossil, so I said its vintage.

I love it because I despise music streaming.
 
In terms of old tech in my household, my family used to have an Atari 2600 before giving it to a collector...

My brother has a lot of random sound equipment I'm sure is way up there in age too

Greninjaman said:
What is currently the oldest gaming console ever?
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In terms of home consoles I believe that would be the Magnavox Odyssey, released in 1972

Though, if we're talking about the first to use interchangeable cartridges, that would be the Fairchild Channel F in 1976
 
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