Master Phruby

Mine is going out today!

You've done what I've dreamed of having since seeing Flynn's arcade in the movie Tron. There are so few arcades in the country and its great to see a mega one being built. That is an extremely impressive collection. It will make a great museum. I hope your arcade does well and you can expand it to the west coast someday! :-)

Wait. You went from 20 games to 354 in six months? That reminds me of the days of living at home, having no responsibilites and spending all my money (and lot of my parents) on video games.

I always thought about opening a video game museum. I'd have every video game and system ever made and let museum patrions play any of it for free.

Wow! I like the posters and the plush pac-man. I love the wall color. My wife insists on having at least one red room in our house at all times. Are the systems on the shelves above the TV plugged in? If not how easy is it to pull them down and plug into the TV?

That is a thing of beauty! I love how you have carts in little bags like Star Wars figures. I've never seen an entire 7800 collection. Congrats!

I think it is a 42" Vizio. This was our old TV. We replaced it with a 50" LED. The office got the old TV. Playing Atari on a 42" screen is lots of fun! I have two Zune HDs 16gb. I love my Zunes and wish Microsoft would have continued the line or at least made a Windows Phone version (with the phone). I wrote an Asteroids clone for it called Zune Rocks. Someday, I'll finish the Windows Phone version. Next to the TIE interceptor is a EP3 Anakin Jedi Starfighter. No real theme there. I was just trying to cram in as much of my collection as I could. I just couldn't find a good place to put it. I'm not worried about moisture getting in. That wall & window are only three months old. When we remodeled the house, 95% of the outer walls were moved or rebuilt for the new additions. In this case, we needed to move the office room about three feet in order to extend the hallway to the new master bedroom at the back of the house.No water is getting in there. Here are some pictures of the other side. Mostly Star Wars stuff.

My wife had a stroke of genious finding those racks. They fit the carts perfectly. $3 at Big Lots can't complain.

It's a mess but a wonderful mess. There are great memories there.

That is pretty cool. I like all the enemies on screen. It feels very 16-bit. Will the player control the copter or the jeep or both at the same time? It would be cool if you could midplay switch between them. Add some Moon Patrol craters for the jeep to jump over.

Maybe he can make a 2600 version of Gyromite! Isn't that the only thing ROB was good for?

My wife and I recently remodeling our house with an extra 800sq ft. My daughter got a new larger room and I got my home office back again. The room is mostly filled with Star Wars toys but I do have my collection of consoles (minus the Odyssey 2 and SNES) setup on the TV. I'm able to play other stuff via emulation and a hdmi cable built into the wall. I've given my cartridges a place of honor in the room.

That collection makes me smile. Very nice!

Completely different Atari's though. Jack's Atari Corporation was birthed out of the destruction of Atari Inc. and a different set of needs. The market was different, the times were different, the needs were different.... Right that is why my feelings toward the ST are less than they should be. However my 8bit is still a wonderful thing to me.

would have required Hard Work! LOL! I read that thread. Good stuff.

Tell me you still do - your services may be required. Still do. That is what I do at my company. It does sound fun to write something again for the 8bits.

Dude, you took my list! I'll have to add Star Wars Droids Jaws Battlestar Galactica Scooby Doo Different Strokes V: The series The Goonies The Jeffersons

You won't need to wait much longer. ..Al Your such a tease Albert. This is going to very cool. Thanks for making more of these Albert!

I just finished reading this thread. What an amazing journey you have gone through. I'm really impressed with what you have accomplished here. I remember Diamond from my 8bit days and thought that was amazing at the time. You blew that away many years ago. Thank you for designing this.

I started out with an Atari 400 and then upgraded the keyboard and memory to 48k. It was basically my upgraded video game console. When I couldn't afford to buy new games, I learned to program via all of those type in articles from Analog and Antic magazines. I got an Indus GT to store stuff since the 410 program recorder never really stored stuff correctly. I bought a modem and learned about the fantastic world of BBSs. I found lots of pirated games there. That machine was the best! It finally died from a power surge and I bought a 130xe. This machine gave me lots of room to program and I learned Action! and Assembly. I then moved into the ST computers. I loved the new interface but ST Basic sucked. I went to GFA Basic and C to design desktop apps. I never really programmed it for games even though I did try STOS. It just wasn't the same. But I really liked designing desktop apps. I liked NeoDesk and the desktop publishing aspect. It was also cool to have a hard drive to store all my code. My main cheerleading thing with the ST was that I could do everything the Mac could do but cheaper. However the downside was the ST would have hardware failures more often. I must have bough ten floppy drives. I upgraded machines as more memory and more features came out or the machine died. It was just hard to find places to buy new software. No one sold Atari computers anymore. The only place around was Federated and their support sucked ass. At that point, I gave up at cheerleading for Atari and just bought a 486 to do school work. To this day, I don't cheerlead for companies anymore since Atari let me down. Recently, I've gotten back into playing A8 via a great ebay find of a XEGS. I'm looking at finding more cartridges for it. I also have the emulator up and running until I can find those old games again. Overall, I just think I just learned more from my A8 machines that I did from my STs. I'm just happier seeing those old games again. I think the ending of Atari and it being associated with the ST colors my feelings toward playing with them again. The 8bits were a happier time. Jack & Sam pretty much destroyed Atari for me and the ST with it.

That sounds good. I'm keeping it anyway. I just always wondered what a signed game would be worth. Granted Randy was never famous (I think he was more than famous, he was In-Famous) He was still a hell of a great teacher. Those were some of my favorite classes back in school. Thank you Randy for being a inspirational teacher!

Wow! He looks so old there. I guess its been almost twenty years since I took this compiler and eletronics classes. I remember he said they split the game into four pieces and each of them took a park. His piece was the part everyone hates - the pit. He said he liked the pole vault game in Decathlon so he tried to duplicate it in order to get out of the pit.

Back in school, one of my computer science professors was a co-author for the game Porkys. He even showed us the source code. It was his first attempt at a game for the 2600. I brought in a copy of the game for him to sign. His name is Randy Hyde. How much is a signed copy of a game worth?

Wow he wants $119 for it! He only paid $9.91 for it originally. Scalp much? Just kidding.