ClassicPlastic.net FRIDAY NIGHT CHATS

This Friday, as in less than 24 hours from now, and EVERY FRIDAY at 9PM PST join me for ClassicPlastic.net Friday Night Chats!

The offsite chatroom can be located via a link in the main index or directly by clicking here.  Every Friday at 9PM PST you can find me in the chatroom for 45 minutes or so.

This is an old school, simple Java based chatroom similar to what myself and many others were brought up on during the waning days of the BBS.  I can't promise a lot of people, nor the hustle and bustle of the chat rooms I ran 10+ years ago, but I can say that every Friday night you can have an open keyboard with me.

David's Video Game Insanity!! Expected Site Downtime

Some site features at David's Video Game Insanity!! may intermittently go down / come up throughout this week as I modify site features and move some things around.  Most of this should be completed within the next couple days at the very latest.  The goal here is to finish up the organization I began early last year.  While I cleaned up most of the site's files a long time ago, a few things remained in chaos and got so messy I quit dealing with them all together.  The biggest culprits in all this were the picture archives, which got so bad I simply quit adding new pictures.

Hopefully after this last bit of maintenance the site will finally enter that completely easy to update era that will bring with it more frequent content updates.

Son, Be A Deeennntiiist...

I'm really trying to get back into the swing of updating the site with content.  However, as I am well aware, things rarely go as planned.  Currently I'm fighting one hell of a toothache that has nearly incapacitated me over the past few days.  Well that's really not entirely true, I'm still able to get on with the daily grind but it has a tenancy of sacking me right when I get ready to do something outside of routine.  One of those things would be creating site content.

My commitment is still to DVGI and classicplastic.net - always has been.  However I may miss my RTM column(s) this time around due to not being able to finish them off due to the pain.  Even writing this isn't being accomplished under the best conditions.

What I can say is that I'm changing some of my collecting priorities and getting back into the TurboGrafx-16.  I regretted selling my TurboDuo the same week it left my hands, same goes for the last straight TG-16 lot that I had.  So I'm building it back up, enjoying the games, realizing how the prices have been on a steady increase and don't seem to be leveling off.  I've got a TG-16 system (AV modded it within the first hour of it showing up at my door), TurboTap, a second TurboPad on the way and some of my favorite games.  The big one being Final Lap Twin which regardless of what anyone may say about it, it's my favorite game on the system.

Also have Dungeon Explorer, Vigilante, Victory Run and a few other of the more common classics of the system.  The Legendary Axe, Bonk's Adventure and more are on the way.  I'm going for HuCARDs only right now although I did keep a few CD games when I got rid of everything else a couple years ago.  I'll probably end up region modding my system within the year since I also kept a couple PC Engine games (I think Bari Bari Densetsu is fun, I'm serious).  Right now though it's all about HuCARD games, trying to make sure the titles I get are game / case / booklet - I don't care to go for boxes.  For games that were box / plastic tray and didn't come in cases, then game / booklet is fine by me.

I'm going to keep my spending on it controlled, buy what I like when the price is right, and just really enjoy playing one of my all time favorite consoles (right there with the NES and Vectrex).

David's Video Game Insanity!! Version 6.0 Goes Live

This is an official announcement that David's Video Game Insanity Version 6.0 has been launched.  There aren't any big changes really, everything has to do with behind the scenes updates that do not effect normal browsing of the site.  Essentially the main difference is how each page is titled.  As DVGI is a site that is heavily dependent on its frames, I never intended any of the pages to be accessed away from the main index.  However, as we all know, that's not how search engines work.  Because of this nearly every page that was not part of the main index was titled "Get outta here!" - what CLU tells his Bit at the beginning of TRON after his Game Tank is disabled.  (I'm sure most browsing this site will get the reference)  Years ago I added a pair of links at the bottom of each page that acts as top index to each section.  The links provide access to the main DVGI index as well as access to the main ClassicPlastic.net index, along with some text pointing out that if the page was accessed through an external source, it is actually part of a much larger site.  Yet gaining access to the information at DVGI via a search engine, unless searching for specific terms, was still greatly hampered by the pages not having unique titles.  That's primarily what the new version addresses, every page has been given a proper title just in case they are accessed outside of the main index and their frames.  I hope it will continue to boost traffic and get the information here into the hands of the people who would like to read it.

The second change has to do with ALT and TITLE tags for mouse over text on images.  For years and years I used ALT to provide popup text when the mouse pointer is left over an image.  Of course this is an incorrect way to do things but as nearly every browser continued to support it, many of us never changed.  When a couple years ago most modern browsers finally cut away using ALT tags in that way, instead wanting the proper TITLE tag for the popup text.  I've gone through the entire site and changed all the tags on the pages where they actually matter.  I know there are still some ALT tags on the RTM archive pages but they serve no purpose so I'm not going to bother.

Jupiter Crystal Power... Maaaaaaaaaaaake UP!

After many, many, many... many, many years. My Sailor Moon site, Sailor Senshi Sanctuary, is back. It was a long time coming but it's finally back how it was when it disappeared over eight years ago. So now, just in time for its ten year anniversary, the site can be browsed just as it would have been back in 2001. A restoration rather than a remake, SSS sports a retro look and feel. Check it out!