VectorGamer

I remember the first time I heard about it was the late 90s at some get together my wife and I went to. There was some friend of a friend that was all excited and telling me about MAME and ROMs. At the time I had no interest in video gaming whatsoever but I thought it would be cool to play Galaga. So probably that night I went searching for an emulator pretty sure it was MAMEUI32 and then after trial and error figured out how all this stuff is supposed to work. It didn't get me back into retrogaming though to be honest as from the early to mid 2000s I was more into computers and networking and I was spending time with kids and what not. It wasn't until December of 2008 when I saw the movie Chasing Ghosts by chance one night on Showtime that I found out that retrogaming was a thing. Then in the summer of 2009 I built my first MAME cabinet. I didn't want to sodomize that cabinet with a trackball so I built another MAME cabinet out of a gutted Centipede to play trackball games. Then I built a Pole Position II cabinet. And I had yet another MAME cabinet plus I added dedicated games like Monaco GP, Mr. Do!, Missile Command, Cosmic Alien and a few others. I sold all that stuff by last summer and populated my small game room with pinball machines instead. I bought a Raspberry Pi and now I play MAME and other emulated consoles with RetroPie while I sit my fat ass in the recliner with a Xbox 360 controller off the big screen. Much more pleasant gaming experience than standing at an arcade cabinet. And as a result has renewed my interest in video gaming as I've been spending a lot of time the last 4 years playing pinball.

I'm not charging extra for it

Yeah that one

Just put mine up for auction if anyone is interested https://www.ebay.com/itm/174145691969

If memory serves there were two different versions of the multicart for different versions of Atari Lynx. Something about the cart not fitting in the other Lynx. How do I identify which multicart I have? I looked at the cart and I didn't see anything on there indicating a version number. I sold my Atari Lynx so I want to put this up for auction.

Bump. My auctions are back for 2020. See post #1 for this week's auctions.

Years ago when I was still collecting cartridges I would go to the nearest gaming expo and the marketplace was dominated by Nintendo. Atari was hard to find and what was available wasn't all that great.

Topic was started a couple of years after the King of Kong was released and we saw a renewed interest in golden age arcade and console gaming. I think the interest has peaked, we are already on the decline and only the hardest of core will remain while picking up a few newbies here and there. AtariAge membership is at 51,800+ but I suspect more than half of those accounts are inactive. I'll loosely define inactive as in hasn't logged in in over a year. Haven't bought a cartridge in years. I suspect most loose Atari black label carts still go between 50 cents and a dollar.

I can see it

Atari 2600

Omega Race on the C64 is really really good

It rocks. Grade:

If you pay $200 for a flash cart that's still less than $2 per game which is a bargain.

OK guess I'll flesh out my original response... Atari 2600: I wanted the console in the first place for Space Invaders so I'll go with that game ColecoVision: my brother bought the CV while he was living in my mom's basement. We used to play the piss out of that console every day I got home from school. And Mouse Trap was probably the game I loved the most. Although we also spent a shitload of time playing DK, DK Jr., Smurf and Carnival. Arcade: gotta go with Galaga since I could just ride my bike to the convenience store with friends and play all the time NES: Super Mario

I was just kidding around. I think they sell for $120 new so I'll start the auction at $59.99. Follow my auction thread here on AA. I list my items on Saturday then update the thread the following Monday. I'm taking a break for the holidays cuz the post office is a pain in the ass this time of year.

I'm going to start the auction at 50% of what they go for. So that's what $275?

I will have mine up for auction after the new year if anyone is looking to get one.

What is Rick and Morty?

OP never heard of Star Castle.

Felt good cuz I'm tired of the same guy having GC on all the machines.

2600 version sucks ass. WTF is the stick supposed to be? This.

I never saw one in the wild either. I only played it for the first time a few months ago in MAME.