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ArtGuy 84
Boot
Joined: 03 May 2010 Posts: 30 Location: Pennsylvania
I'm loving the vintage art on these cards. It really captures the essence of old 80's game cartridge/arcade advertisements. Here's hoping I get one in the mail in the next few days. Kind of clueless to the whole barcode thing happening on the backs of them. They almost resemble individual pixels that appear when older games glitch on and off in buggy areas.
Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 9:09 pm
darthdono74 @ hotmail.com
Guest
Anyone take note of the bio of each game on the back, they have a date when they were released:
Arc - No Date
Vice - 1982
Kraz - 1983
Will take more post cards to confirm if the dates in the bio means anything,
my guess would be the order in which you should read the code.
Any thoughts?
Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 9:24 pm
TLSBill
Boot
Joined: 30 Jun 2010 Posts: 66
Got a Kraz-Bot card, am in So-Cal, but did not get into Flynn's last year. Never make it to con.
Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 9:40 pm
VanGoghX
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Joined: 09 Mar 2010 Posts: 386 Location: SoCal
I wonder if they're sending out specific cards to specific regional areas... So far we're aware of 4 cards. Perhaps other states or other countries get different postcards. That way everyone has to get involved. Otherwise by the time people on the other side of the planet get theirs the code (whatever it may be) will have already been solved.
Guess we'll see!
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Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 10:02 pm
Spyder
Boot
Joined: 05 Oct 2009 Posts: 34
VanGoghX wrote:
I wonder if they're sending out specific cards to specific regional areas... So far we're aware of 4 cards. Perhaps other states or other countries get different postcards. That way everyone has to get involved. Otherwise by the time people on the other side of the planet get theirs the code (whatever it may be) will have already been solved.
Guess we'll see!
Idk cuz 3 people in my household signed up and we all got 3 diffrent cards.
Arc Wars
Astro Gunner
Kraz Bot
Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 10:07 pm
confusion
Decorated
Joined: 14 Mar 2010 Posts: 220
I'm in So Cal and I received the Kraz-Bot! postcard.
Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 10:17 pm
djchristensen
Unfettered
Joined: 29 Oct 2008 Posts: 453 Location: Goodyear, Arizona
I am here in AZ, so since you Cali folks are getting them, we should be getting them here tomorrow or Friday.
Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 10:22 pm
mach1monorail
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Joined: 17 Mar 2010 Posts: 450
alrighty so i did the tripod thing like Euchre said to...its a little fuzzy, but overall it lined up wayyyyy better. btw on the first pic, ignore the extra uv light coming in on the right side...theres no additional squares there
Click here for full size
Click here for full size
hope this helps a little
Reformatted to prevent forum stretching - E
Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 10:23 pm
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davecobb
Boot
Joined: 03 Apr 2010 Posts: 64 Location: Los Angeles, CA
CARDS I got "ArcWars" and "Kraz-Bot". Left my blacklight at work, tho, dammit.
Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 10:24 pm
mach1monorail
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Joined: 17 Mar 2010 Posts: 450
is it me or is it looking like theres only 4 or so cards that everyone's getting?
i wonder if they mailed different postcards to people farther away...that way this puzzle isnt all solved in one night
Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 10:40 pm
VanGoghX
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Joined: 09 Mar 2010 Posts: 386 Location: SoCal
mach1monorail wrote:
is it me or is it looking like theres only 4 or so cards that everyone's getting?
i wonder if they mailed different postcards to people farther away...that way this puzzle isnt all solved in one night
Already suggested that (see top of this page).
I think that might be the case.
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Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 10:46 pm
Rogi Ocnorb
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 01 Sep 2005 Posts: 4266 Location: Where the cheese is free.
blink wrote:
Got my postcard in the mail, but it's a Kraz-Bot one. Erf!
Thanks for putting up the source files, madopal - and keep up the great work!
Just been playing with the files and moving the layers around, seeing if anything comes up…
Did you check that the "pixels" were the same as the other Kraz-Bot card?
If they're in different places, we could be looking at this all wrong. Remember the UV variations on the FLYNN LIVES posters.
Also, we could be looking for a code where the pixels that aren't filled carry the message (Likely not ASCII binary, but maybe Braille or something else.).
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Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 10:51 pm
mach1monorail
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Joined: 17 Mar 2010 Posts: 450
sorry vangogh, didnt see that, im still ecstatic about this whole thing, so i mustve scrolled too fast down the page and missed your post
Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 10:54 pm
Agent Lex
Entrenched
Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 1188 Location: No longer London, still in England
VanGoghX wrote:
I wonder if they're sending out specific cards to specific regional areas... So far we're aware of 4 cards. Perhaps other states or other countries get different postcards. That way everyone has to get involved. Otherwise by the time people on the other side of the planet get theirs the code (whatever it may be) will have already been solved.
Guess we'll see!
If this is the case, then I hope someone else in the UK gets all of the Europe ones. I'm moving this weekend and haven't yet updated my address on the Flynn Lives site, so I doubt I'll ever see my postcard.
Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 11:01 pm
Lysithea
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Joined: 04 Feb 2004 Posts: 468 Location: Australia
Agent Lex wrote:
I'm moving this weekend and haven't yet updated my address on the Flynn Lives site, so I doubt I'll ever see my postcard.
Can't you set up a mail redirection ? With all the hassle of a move there might be other things you forgot to update.
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Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 11:14 pm
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