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So you can get super nintendo games like Donkey Kong and Mario and probably Mega Man on an app for android (and most likely apple too). Definitely awesome

 

Are they even remotely playable on a phone?  If I'm playing those games, I want the old controller in my hand.

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Are they even remotely playable on a phone?  If I'm playing those games, I want the old controller in my hand.

You flip your phone sideways and it has the old buttons of the controller. Completely the same, though DK I hear is a little harder button wise

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You flip your phone sideways and it has the old buttons of the controller. Completely the same, though DK I hear is a little harder button wise

 

How about when you hit two buttons at the same time?  I'm trying to picture making Mario jump while he's sprinting but not being able to feel those buttons beneath your thumb.  It's the little things, the exact distance between those buttons is something that is so engraved in my mind.

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How about when you hit two buttons at the same time?  I'm trying to picture making Mario jump while he's sprinting but not being able to feel those buttons beneath your thumb.  It's the little things, the exact distance between those buttons is something that is so engraved in my mind.

That's the problem with DK as well, holding two buttons down. I haven't tried it yet, my buddy had it, but I'm gonna download it tonight and check it out. 

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That's the problem with DK as well, holding two buttons down. I haven't tried it yet, my buddy had it, but I'm gonna download it tonight and check it out. 

 

Do you ever actually use the second button in Donkey Kong?  I thought it only used a button for jumping.  Oh, and thanks to this discussion, I know have that game's music stuck in my head.

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Do you ever actually use the second button in Donkey Kong?  I thought it only used a button for jumping.  Oh, and thanks to this discussion, I know have that game's music stuck in my head.

IIRC you use the left pad to double-tap and sprint, but they don't have that option on the phone so they make you hold y down to sprint.

 

Oh and you're welcome  :D

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IIRC you use the left pad to double-tap and sprint, but they don't have that option on the phone so they make you hold y down to sprint.

 

Oh and you're welcome  :D

 

You can't be talking about the original Donkey Kong then.  That was as basic as it gets.  That and there was no Y button.

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You can't be talking about the original Donkey Kong then.  That was as basic as it gets.  That and there was no Y button.

This one? And yes, I purposefully chose the one of DK humping his rhino at a crocodile 

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Buffalo City Hall appears in Snoop Dogg's new video

 

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Our city hall is freaking awesome. At night driving north on the 190 it looks like something out of the Batman cartoon in the 90's:

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Looks like the Bat Signal should be coming out of that thing.

 

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Ahhh, you said SNES.  I only played a handful of those games in college on emulators (Mario World, Mario Kart, Zelda, and Super Metroid).  That's very different than the original Donkey Kong, jumping over barrels and fireballs.

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Our city hall is freaking awesome. At night driving north on the 190 it looks like something out of the Batman cartoon in the 90's:

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Looks like the Bat Signal should be coming out of that thing.

 

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Buffalo's City Hall is among the country's -- world's? -- most awesome. And part of its beauty is that most city halls are utilitarian affairs.

 

I watched this video a while back as part of helping my kid with her local civics homework. I love the line from the tour guide: Buffalo's City Hall "is like opening your mail with a guild dagger from Sweden." 

 

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For reference, this is my city hall (Fort Worth)

 

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Frankly, it's kind of embarrassing.  Ugh, what an ugly building.

 

Blech. Sorry.

 

Buffalo's City Hall is among the country's -- world's? -- most awesome. And part of its beauty is that most city halls are utilitarian affairs.

 

I watched this video a while back as part of helping my kid with her local civics homework. I love the line from the tour guide: Buffalo's City Hall "is like opening your mail with a guild dagger from Sweden." 

 

 

Haha, that was pretty great

 

 

Philly City Hall:

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Now THATs a city hall. Makes sense w/ Philly of course. Looked it up out of curiosity, it was built in the late 1800s, I would have assumed earlier. Pretty cool, though.

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Blech. Sorry.

 

Periodically an idea is floated to move Fort Worth City Hall a few blocks south into the neo-classical Post Office building.  The Post Office was nearly closed a few years ago, getting a last minute reprieve.  But I bet the USPS would sell it at a good price to the city to use as a new (old) City Hall.  This photo isn't flattering; the building is quite beautiful.  And rather massive.

 

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