Powerball MADNESS!!!

Criterionradiohead · Dec 24, 2002

So what would you do with the money if you won the Powerball. Everyone says the house, cars, vacation, never work again... but I think Neo gamers are a different breed of money spenders. We like anything and everything minty fresh, and things that are only the best.

So what would you do?

I would blow $5 million in the first couple months and hire a development team to go to work on the most BADASS 2-D hardware ever made! If it worked I would pump as much money into it as necessary to make it mainstream. Mmmmmm 2-d goodness.

I would also throw the worlds largest Neo Geo party and pay for all you fine people here to attend.

Well that was a fun day dream. Back to work I guess. <img src="graemlins/crying.gif" border="0" alt="[Crying]" />

Criterinradiohead

Average Joe · Dec 24, 2002

Buy a nice sized house, a couple cars (one would be a Hummer), dedicate a whole room to various arcades & Neo related items.

Build my own store that specializes in arcade restoration and distribution.

Then give the rest to charity.

Solidus Snake · Dec 24, 2002

Open up a new gaming company called KNS and make 4-d games!!! My new system would be called an X-Playcube 7! And I will rule the earth!

Criterionradiohead · Dec 24, 2002

Originally posted by Solidus Snake:
Open up a new gaming company called KNS and make 4-d games!!! My new system would be called an X-Playcube 7! And I will rule the earth!<hr></blockquote>

I think you should call the system the X-Playcube 7 Advanced with mode 37 blast hyper graphics pixelation processing. Yeah <img src="graemlins/smirk.gif" border="0" alt="[Smirk]" />

Criterionradihead

MegaDrive20XX · Dec 24, 2002

I'd build a Civilian Special Forces (CSF) group with all the intelligence, skills, and communications gear equivalent to that of other agencys ran by the represenatative government to "watch over" them to make sure they're doing a good job, since WE are the government and all initially work for us. When the regular government drags their feet to help someone like the newspaper man that was killed awhile back, or other questionable activites began... the CSF would gather intelligence and activate our own agents for rescue missions outside the red tape of beauracratic Bullshit.

Other than that... (or on a more realistic note) I would finally get started the video game company I've had in mind for years and begin making games aimed at the 18 to Older demographic ONLY. I'd bring out the first true "AO" games that would combine the best elements of Shenmue, Max Payne, GTA, and Porn Flicks (should the player choose). That would be done for whatever the current next gen console was out there, while having several cadres of devoted programmers start up small companies manned and ran by tech savvy gamers and other talented ppl with the desire to then make games of older systems like the NEO:GEO or Dreamcast, Mega Drive etcetera.

Then I'd take a long Fooking vacation in Japan, hang out with some Yakuza, and pay the JSDF to let me go up in a FSX (their version of the F-16)
The rest would be for me to live off of and invest into other stuff

SSS · Dec 24, 2002

have them give me the money over a period of time, (like 8,000 a month I believe) Invest some of it, and take a LONG vacation from working.

toy_brain · Dec 24, 2002

Hmm, I think Id spend the money on getting my toilet fixed, buy a bigger telly and get the carpet cleaned (professionally).

Then I'd bail out a 3rd world country of my choice.

Kid Aphex · Dec 24, 2002

I would build a fortress in Monument Valley, just north of where I live. It would be full of games, sluts, and friends.

I'd call it Haven.

BlackSpy · Dec 24, 2002

I'd spend the money building a vast underground treasury in the heart of a mountain of granite and line the whole thing with lead and such and have stainless steel doors eight storys tall fifty feet thick. That way if I ever won it again I'd know I had somewhere safe to keep the loot.

Really though I'd spend the cash trying to build self replicating machines from the very basest components and send them to Mars or something and let them have the planet and build a weird robot ecosystem as they evolved over the aeons. That would so rule.

Kid Aphex · Dec 24, 2002

Originally posted by BlackSpy:


Really though I'd spend the cash trying to build self replicating machines from the very basest components and send them to Mars or something and let them have the planet and build a weird robot ecosystem as they evolved over the aeons. That would so rule.<hr></blockquote>

Until they can get off planet.

What was the name of that "device" that a scientist [all these names escape me] says is the "best way of exploring the universe"?

Its a self-replicating system of robots that spread out infinitely through the universe and lay dormant until signs of life are found?

Space Odyssey 2001 style....Sorry to go off topic.

BlackSpy · Dec 24, 2002

Originally posted by Kid Aphex:


Until they can get off planet.

What was the name of that "device" that a scientist [all these names escape me] says is the "best way of exploring the universe"?

Its a self-replicating system of robots that spread out infinitely through the universe and lay dormant until signs of life are found?

Space Odyssey 2001 style....Sorry to go off topic.<hr></blockquote>

Ah c'mon, we're bound to create our own nemeisis someday and I'd rather it was an overdeveloped robot with red eyes and flamethrowers instead of feet than some killer virus anyday.

NASA had a team called Self Replicating Systems, dunno who ran it or whether its still going. I believe they called their imaginary device a 'self replicating factory'. Fucking ace idea with the dullest name you could think of for it. Maybe there is a better name for the idea now.

BlackSpy · Dec 24, 2002

The guy who led the project was called Richard Laing. I may have a wee Google on him I think though as I'm at my parents now I'm broadbandless so I may put it off till I forget instead.

Kid Aphex · Dec 24, 2002

Originally posted by BlackSpy:
The guy who led the project was called Richard Laing. I may have a wee Google on him I think though as I'm at my parents now I'm broadbandless so I may put it off till I forget instead.<hr></blockquote>

THERE we go, thats what I was thinking of.
Have you seen 2001: A Space Odyssey? That's what the monolith's are.

Nick Goracke · Dec 24, 2002

Commision someone to make me a Cactaur Guitar. After seeing a special order add in Famitsu, like, a year ago, I haven't even been able to confirm it's existance. I'd kill a man for one. Winning the powerball would save me from life in prison AND net me the guitar.

BlackSpy · Dec 25, 2002

Originally posted by Kid Aphex:


THERE we go, thats what I was thinking of.
Have you seen 2001: A Space Odyssey? That's what the monolith's are. <hr></blockquote>

Do you think so? They seem to be a bit more than watchers to me. I think Laing thought it would take around 50 to 60 billion years for such a project to explore the galaxy and that was at best...

I always thought the monoliths stood for some sort of externalisation of man's drive for the unknown

Powerball MADNESS!!!

Criterionradiohead

The Fox,

Average Joe

Calmer than you are.

Solidus Snake

Genam's Azami Sharpener

Criterionradiohead

The Fox,

MegaDrive20XX

Guest

SSS

neo retired

toy_brain

Amano's Drinking Buddy

Kid Aphex

samus' love slave,

BlackSpy

Tsrgoihrea,

Kid Aphex

samus' love slave,

BlackSpy

Tsrgoihrea,

BlackSpy

Tsrgoihrea,

Kid Aphex

samus' love slave,

Nick Goracke

I'm still around!?,

BlackSpy

Tsrgoihrea,