davidcalgary29

Yes, I don't believe that it's particularly rare -- especially as I believe that this was the only game card sold for the system by Atari -- but Portfolio collecting really isn't a thing in North America. I'd check on eBay.de or .fr first; these cards tend to pop up for sale every few months or so.

2023 PRGE dates are October 13-15!

On the new Netflix series "Midnight Club", Amesh states in group therapy that he "started playing video games on an Atari 7800"...and it wasn't even the punchline for a joke! That's the first reference to a 7800 that I've ever seen on "television".

Just be lucky that you didn't get one of my "Rainbow Brite" mini-arcades. I still have three of them left from Coleco's dumpster-fire sale closeout spectacular from a few years ago. You might want to contact the K-Retro people about that LED project. No instructions?

I haven't been following anything lately. What happened here?

You're telling me! I finally broke down and bought one when they went on sale a few weeks ago...and had to use AmForward to ship it to Canada. That service is fairly reasonable, and very professional, but it still forced me to take a couple of extra steps that didn't have to happen.

Thank you so much, Armscar Coder!!! I love it all, and especially "Samba de Amigo". Now I finally have a use for my maracas!! I'm wearing that shirt right now, too. Not pictured: the lovely chocolate, which was immediately seized & eaten by the ravenous horde in the house...

I don't have an Atari Canada price list from that period, but the few times that I saw new Jag games for sale in 1994-95 (I was not a Jaguar owner at the time), they were listed at $59.99. I think that they had a general pricing continuum with their existing systems: Lynx games were almost always $39.99 or $44.99 at the time. The last time I bought Jag games new at a game store in Calgary, though, was in 2002. I bought a bunch of them, even though I already had the titles, as they were being sold for $10 each.

I'd love to see this at PRGE. Given the fact that they shafted the Lynx for its 30th, though, I won't hold my breath.

Any possibility of a short video? I'm interested, but will wait until the holidays are over.

I thought of that, as I actually have two (authentic) cartridges of the game, but it's too...squashed looking -- the play area looks like it only takes up 1/2 of the available screen. I think that the graphics could also have been nicer.

And Mr. Do!'s Castle, since we do not have a nice port on any Atari system. At the very least, we deserve a 7800 port of Pepper II or Painter.

Well, this is the right title for the original hardware -- McWill is certainly not required to play (and enjoy). I can't wait for Wyvern Tales Gaiden! I've been waiting years for a followup title.

I paused on that several times; I think that they just broke the case. I mean, they were still using the equipment at that point to mix their tracks, right? Right?

I know, right? They really must not want our money.

Phantasie III

We do have EotB, though, in a finished form with game save.

Isn't that the truth! I hate the fact that my first order (today) is also likely going to be my last.

I had the same reaction to the protos of Storm Over Doria (both of them) and Vindicators. Both of them would have made excellent Lynx titles if they had been finished.

I like what you did there.:)

Well, at least they're not trying to sell Gen Z on Hyperdrome and Gordo 106.

The Archimedes was an incredible platform; the failure of that -- and not the semi-success of the Lynx -- really constitutes a tragedy. I didn't even hear about it until about 2000 or so.

I'd be curious to be find out if cost was a major factor for American consumers after 1991, when Atari reduced the price of the base unit to $99. I remember that the Lynx initially sold for $250 CAD, which was pretty expensive, and more expensive than the GB, but I wasn't going to play B&W games on a handheld. But cost wasn't nearly as much an issue for me as was the lack of available games -- you had to wait forever for games, and then had to settle for Power Factor instead of Lemmings, because none of the stores had it.

There are about five stinkers (I'm staring at you, Hyperdrome) in the commercial Lynx library. The rest are either excellent, damn good, or above average for their time. I don't think any other Atari library, except perhaps the A8 Atari library, that has a better great-to-crap ratio. All of the Lynx's launch titles really are excellent, but it wouldn't have mattered if Atari had secured the rights to Tetris: it still would have undersold the GB version, because Atari just didn't have Nintendo's commercial cachet in the '90s, and nothing could overcome that. Take a look at Klax, which got a release on all competing handhelds: the Lynx version is clearly superior to all other platforms (and even on most consoles), but it had relatively poor sales. The gaming press knew that, the mainstream magazines knew that -- heck, even I knew that before I bought the game! -- but it didn't really matter to parents, who were buying the systems, and for whom "Nintendo", and not "Atari", was the name in their heads. And Atari itself road the wave of popularity from 1977-1983, and continued to have a best-selling system long after it had been superseded by far more powerful systems in the marketplace. It just got the tail end of this phenomenon by the time the Lynx was released.