[Curt Vendel has passed away. :(]

I remember his appearance in BBS the Documentary

[Did home consoles kill the arcade?]

I was an arcade rat of the 70s and early 80s. For me it's when the ColecoVision came out that I said I would rather stay at home and play rather than go to the arcade.

[Rudy J. Ferretti (rjchamp3) Murder-Suicide]

 

Check out the video and the comments are interesting.

 

 

[Notes on The Atari Report YouTube channel]

Do you think you could just have one thread in the Gaming Publications and Web Sites forum where you can discuss your channel? Getting tired of seeing threads about your channel on a daily basis in different threads - it's getting spammy.

[Noob looking to play Robotron 2084]

On 6/1/2020 at 3:02 PM, coeyj said:

 

I wish there were a console/emulator(?) I could buy that I could connect via HDMI into a TV, and a dual joystick setup that I could plug into it. What's the easiest way to play Robotron 2084 with classic arcade joysticks? Thank you all in advance. Apologies again for my ignorance of any of this. I've tried doing some research on my own, but it's been more complicated than I expected.

 

Get a Canakit from Amazon

 

Get an Xbox 360 controller and receiver where you can use both thumbsticks for Robot Ron.

 

Install RetroPie.

 

Download MAME ROMs from Archive.org

 

Don't forget to give me thanks.

[Classic Gaming On Twitch?]

Five year old thread. I don't even watch Twitch anymore because it's no longer supported on Roku.

[CoolCV emulator for Mac OS X, Linux, Windows and Raspberry]

23 hours ago, VectorGamer said:

Has anyone gotten this to work on Raspberry Pi with an Xbox controller? Just looking for a ready made coolcv_mapping.txt file but I can't find one uploaded anywhere. Are there instructions anywhere on how to edit this file?

Never mind. Found it after a lot of digging.

[CoolCV emulator for Mac OS X, Linux, Windows and Raspberry]

Has anyone gotten this to work on Raspberry Pi with an Xbox controller? Just looking for a ready made coolcv_mapping.txt file but I can't find one uploaded anywhere. Are there instructions anywhere on how to edit this file?

[Berzerk / Frenzy for the NES...]

I will be downloading this tonight!

[Atari and COVID-19 - how are YOU keeping yourself occupied???]

Spent much of the past weekend watching concerts in my YouTube playlist.

 

Signed up for NFL Game Pass so I'm watching condensed games from the Eagles 2017 Super Bowl season.

 

Watched Charles Bronson's Death Wise V that I recorded a year ago. I liked how he fixed the bad guy's dandruff problem.

 

When I'm bored watching TV, I txt a friend of mine and we take turns picking a video game to play and then we txt each other our scores. We started doing that Friday night. So far we've played Frostbite and BurgerTime on the 2600 and Pooyan on the NES.

[Introducing someone to the 2600]

The very first game to play is Combat. You also need Warlords and Indy 500.

[Atari 2600 Arcade Conversions]

Stargate and Millipede

[Did your parents play video games with you as a kid?]

My dad was a pinball guy he never played video games.

[VectorGamer's Auctions 2019-20]

More auctions this week see post #1

[Phoenix and Early Animation]

18 minutes ago, Mr. Brow said:

Yes, but only using an emulator.  I have a special saved state -- in the level with the white-green small birds, the third time through the rounds.  It loads up just as ~10 of them are flying away, and even then I only get it about a quarter of the time.

 

What a strange quirk.  Is it known if this was an intentional game feature?

I wasn't aware of that in the latter stages. I've been doing it on the second board first time through.

[Retro Games That Help With Anxiety]

15 hours ago, Nintendo64 said:

Thanks for the input, I wish I could find a safe place to get that rom, as for I only know of sites that carry sega genesis roms and not Sega Master System games like Putt and Putter

Try this: https://archive.org/details/sega_sms_library

 

 

[Phoenix and Early Animation]

On 2/10/2020 at 1:15 AM, Mr. Brow said:

Any fans of the game here? 

My local bowling alley got this one in and I loved it. I was kind of surprised this was released for the 2600 though because at the time it seemed like I was the only one that played it at the bowling alley.

 

Have you ever successfully executed the three bird trick that gives you 200,000 points? I've done it several times but for me it's difficult to execute.

[The 1982 Boscov's Atari Championships - What do you know about it?]

11 hours ago, cvga said:

 I believe Boscov's is still around in the PA area.

Yes there is one down the street from me at the local mall. A lot of rumors of the mall being demolished though.

[VectorGamer's Auctions 2019-20]

Some odds and ends this week. See post #1.

[Retro Games That Help With Anxiety]

5 hours ago, Flojomojo said:

I would be careful of using games as an escape or as therapy -- falling into habituation and needing a "game fix" isn't super healthy.

 

 

4 hours ago, AtariLeaf said:

Flojomojo is correct though, games are a release, a help for anxiety and stress and not a cure. If severe enough, professional help may be required

With all due respect, if you don't suffer from anxiety then please don't opine. There is no cure for anxiety. I personally have found video games helpful as well as marijuana. Playing video games is more healthy than taking a drug with a shit load of side effects.

 

 

[VectorGamer's Auctions 2019-20]

Bump for auctions ending Saturday. I will have more stuff up Saturday afternoon but there's not much left (thank goodness).

[club area of forum, is it off the main forum area?]

The shit hit the fan when I created the "Female Celebrities You Find Attractive" club so they got rid of them all.

[Retro Games That Help With Anxiety]

Miniature Golf on the 2600 is another relaxing game. Got stoned the other night (I have a medical marijuana card) and was playing this - made me laugh at some of the courses. I had this game when I was a kid and my friends made fun of me for having it.

[Emulation Vs all those classic machine releases]

20 minutes ago, Class316 said:

Am I the only one that thinks like this? Thoughts? 

No.

 

For under $100 I have a Raspberry Pi loaded with over 10,000 games connected HDMI to my 50+ inch TV and a wireless Xbox controller so I can sit my fat ass in the recliner. While this setup doesn't allow me to play systems like Atari 5200, INTV and ColecoVision because of keypad input, a lot of those games are arcade translations anyway which I can play in MAME and those libraries pale in comparison to what I otherwise can play.

 

 

[VectorGamer's Auctions 2019-20]

Bump for another week of auctions. See post #1.