pocketmego

No, I won't lie. I stopped playing Atari in 1984 and moved into Commodore and stayed with my 64 for all the years of its run until 1992/3 and then I got into the 16 bit machines. SPECIFICALLY, the Sega Genesis. But, a recent Retro Gaming bug hit me and I realized how unhappy I've really been with the post Playstation generation of games. Instead of getting an Xbox 360 and got a new Desktop instead. This Iused to find sites like this and get HEAVY into retrogaming and most notably Atari, so I've only been back with it a short time. -Ray

We all have some great ideas on HOW to make this happen and that it CAN happen. So, how do we find a Homebrewer to help make this a reality? Is there anyone currently even considering the project? -Ray

I go to a Fleamarket near my job and right here on Atariage. -Ray

I figured you guys would want to see this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sqfP5c864c and "Cathy, your doing awful in school, as a reward your father and I are getting you an Adam. We spend some money on it, so we are hoping you will be using it well into college. It was either this or one of those new Macintoshes, but we know this is the computer that is really going to stick around" -Ray

WHAT!!!!???? And we let you post here! GET OUT! That's being a kid man. -Ray

Agreed! It is extremely first class. It's very polished and professional looking. GREAT JOB! -Ray

Demon Attack has some spooky sounds and that weird and creepy regeneration thing the demons do. -Ray

Originally I voted for Xenophobe, but I gotta mention that GORF is really winning me over in big way lately. -Ray

Any of these I HIGHLY RECOMEND... Hunchy 2 Wolfenstein VCS A-VCS-TEC Challenge Star Fire Go get 'em champ. -Ray

I'm another one that doesn't eat while gaming. If nothing else the lack of a pause button on the VCS makes it difficult. -Ray

Man, this thread took off in a weird direction. I remember the old ads that stated the more games a system has the better it is. That ahd to bethe logic. The VCS had the most games, so they decided that an adaptor added to an INTY and a CV were the way to do. HOWEVER, that doesn't explain the Gemini and what CV was trying to accomplish there. Wasn't that just making your own competition? -Ray

add me to the Tron list... -Ray

Admittedly, However, in the original poll C64 was winning by a mile. -Ray

I assumed it might be possible. The mini-games in the Arcade machine are not all that advanced. I could understand the difficulty in doing it back in the day, but in our new era of Homebrews and multicarts, anything is possible. -Ray

can someone please explain to me what the marketing strategy was supposed to be behind making adapters for all the popular systems of the original home gaming era to play Atari 2600 games? I mean I really don't understand why they would do such a thing. Hell Coleco went ahead and built an entire 2600 for themselves. If you have what is supposed to be the definitive system (as both Mattel and Coleco both boasted to high Heaven that they had) why port the games of an inferior system to your unit? Intellivision went that extra step furhter and made its better games INTO 2600 carts. I guess George Plimpton got sick of playing Star Strike and wanted him some of that Star raiders action. We know what they DID accomplish. They accomplished putting a glut in the market that nearly WIPED out the home gaming industry for good. But, what did they WANT to accomplish? -Ray

I voted for Astro Blaster as well, though I only did so because it was the best one on the list for me. I agree that many original Sega games were severely lacking. I would love Astroblaster and Threshhold and play them ona regular basis, but for that over-heat CRAP. I can't stand idiotic game features like that, it just stops the game. It wrecks the entire flow of the gameplay. It is like putting in an artificial difficulty instead of making a game that increases in difficulty properly. -Ray

Fonz AND Death Race? How did they get a camera into Heaven? And Tank. This was a pretty fun little movie starring that little boy in the picture that we would come to know as Michael J. Fox. He was a video game junkie that invented the ultimate game for him and his friends to play (not a video game). But, there were a few scenes (unless my memory fails me) of him playing some of the greats of the earliest of video game eras. -Ray

LOL Ya gotta love Atari Physics. -Ray

Of the two tron games that were released on the 2600, deadly Discs is my personal favorite. Although, from what I understand there are many who enjoy Adventures of tron, although I am not necessarily one of those people. The Intellivision of all things got more versions of Tron than any other system. probably due to the cozy relationship that Disney and mattel have always enjoyed. However, what we never really got was a an arcade tron game that was up to snuff. In fact I had a mini-LCD arcade game when I was a kid that was closer to the arcade machines than what was available on most systems. So in this new era, with up to 16k of memory and more available to Homrewers for 2600 game prodcution, how hard would a proper Arcade Tron be? Is there any possibility that this game could even be made? -Ray

Officially 1986-91. They had test markets for about a month in 1984 before Jack came in and then killed it (along with XEGS and 2600) at the begnning of Jan 1992. So it lasted only a year or so less than the NEs did and accomplished so much less. That is kind of sad, really. -Ray

I actually didn't like playing Vanguard very much at first. I just cannot cotton to games that shoot for me. Then I discovered that you take over the firing of the ship's weapons in difficulty B. Now I love it. I can manuver or fire as I see fit and it makes the game much more enjoyable to me. How about you? How did the arcade version of this game play, did it fire for you with you controlling the directions of the blasts or did you fire yourself? -Ray

I say you should make these and sell them. It's great work. -Ray

I should know that. I own a Heavy Sixer. Geez. I always get the molding mixed up. -Ray

Exactly how long was the 7800 on the market? My best guess is 1986-1990, but I don't remember it beyond that first year or so of intro ads along with the Fun is Back 2600 ad. -Ray

Dude a Heavy Sixer made in Russia...WOW...how much? -Ray