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River City Ransom available on Wii Virtual Console

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2008-04-21 19:00:00 by Doug Aamoth in CrunchGear
...Ransom , hit the Wii Virtual Console this morning. So long, five dollars! Have a safe trip Youll recall that brothers Ryan and Alex must fight their way across River City to save Ryans ladyfriend Cyndi from the evil cross-town rival, Slick. Good stuff. Along the way, you can buy power-ups like (remember these?) Acro Circus, Stone Hands, and...
 
Tags: river city, river city ransom, wii virtual console, phantasy star series, genesis game, evil cross-town rival, favorite nintendo games, phantasy star iii, game
 
 
 
 
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Kid Arranges Own Kidnapping to Buy Wii With Ransom [Wii Drama]

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2008-08-01 23:30:48 by Matt Hickey in Gizmodo
...ransom of about $1,400 USD and were caught trying to withdraw it from an ATM. We're assuming Yang would have had enough from his cut of the would-be payoff that he could get his own Wii without his parents' help. How he'd explain why the first thing he wanted to do after being rescued was a trip to Best Buy we don't know. [ Destructoid
 
Tags: wii, yang, kid named yang, couple shifty individuals, would-be payoff, honestly sounds, ransom, chong movie, news story
 
 
 
 
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How to Build Your Own Sea-Based Country for Fun and Profit [Exclusive]

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2008-05-27 10:50:00 by Adam Frucci in Gizmodo
...ransom, but that's just not what you see out in the world. Residensea, the first condo cruise ship, has units that start at $5M, so they have a very wealthy population, and they've had no problems. Ransom is dangerous - it's hard to hide from satellites on the ocean, so you can't easily kidnap someone, so basically you're stuck in a hostage...
 
Tags: people, rich people, draw people, sea, regular people, day-to-day benefits, exact day-to-day benefits, basic rules, society
 
 
 
 
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HP suggests $400 repair in lieu of shipping out a floppy

2008-07-30 13:15:35 by Joel Johnson in Boing Boing Gadgets
 
...ransom to get back the use of my own PC. I know there are virus writers who create encryption viruses that do this sort of thing to your harddrive data and force you to pay them ransom to unlock it again - I'm just really surprised that HP is apparently so hard-up for cash that they'd do this to their customers. And who knows how many...
 
Tags: drive, proper drive, cd-r drive, cd-r disk, disk, cddvd drive, floppy disk drive, select diskwrite disk, blank cd-r disk
 
 
 
 
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Wii-deprivation drives man to kidnap himself

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2008-08-01 22:34:00 by Nilay Patel in Engadget
...ransom after they refused to buy him a "Nintendo computer" was probably a little too infatuated with Ninty's white box. The man -- who we're hoping is more of a "boy" -- apparently hired two men to kidnap him, and was arrested after he withdrew his own ransom from an ATM. Genius. Quick tip, kids: real tennis, bowling, golf, and boxing are...
 
Tags: wii, wii fanboy, wii sports, quick tip, ransom, apparently hired, nintendo computer, jail time, white box
 
 
 
 
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iTunes Shut Down Threat Probably as Dangerous as Large Hadron Collider [Apple]

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2008-10-02 10:44:00 by Jesus Diaz in Gizmodo
...ransom by threatening to shut down its iTunes music download site": Not only there's no ransom because Apple's protected material keeps working even while the store is not but, quite simple, it's just not going to happen. [ BBC News and Daily Mail
 
Tags: apple, copyright royalty board, board, royalty, itunes, hadron collider, bbc, bbc news, significantly increase
 
 
 
 
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iTunes Shutdown Threat Probably as Dangerous as Large Hadron Collider [Apple]

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2008-10-02 10:44:00 by Jesus Diaz in Gizmodo
...ransom by threatening to shut down its iTunes music download site": Not only there's no ransom because Apple's protected material keeps working even while the store is not but, quite simple, it's just not going to happen. [ BBC News and Daily Mail
 
Tags: apple, copyright royalty board, board, royalty, itunes, hadron collider, bbc, bbc news, significantly increase
 
 
 
 
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Build your own "witness camera;" Felix's fishnapping days are numbered

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2008-02-08 10:30:00 by Paul Miller in Engadget
...ransom for unreasonable quantities of catnip -- would try to disable, but we suppose the whole point of DIY is that you can hide the setup in whatever you please Via MAKE Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
 
Tags: witness camera, diy, household, household criminals, regular alarm detector, diy project, pir movement sensor, felix, unreasonable quantities
 
 
 
 
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Build your own witness camera; Felixs fishnapping days are numbered

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2008-02-08 16:02:35 by admin in Cool Gadgets and Gizmos
...ransom for unreasonable quantities of catnip would try to disable, but we suppose the whole point of DIY is that you can hide the setup in whatever you please Via MAKE Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments More: continued here
 
Tags: regular alarm detector, pir movement sensor, household criminals, household, deal worry, atmega32 processor, real criminals, cheap-as-free components, project involves