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I don't think so, most (all?) Of these are epyx titles and I thought the stuff on atari 50 was almost all in house atari stuff like scrapyard dog, and that no epyx titles were included for lynx in atari 50.

Looks like they will be sold per game rather than in a pack of five games or similar. Oh well, maybe some new people can get exposed to zarlor mercenary.

Very cool reminds me of slipstream on PC/steam. Great sense of speed.

Iwar and iron soldier are very smooth. Wouldn't be surprised if they are at least 30fps for the most part. Zero5 doesn't seem like a slouch on fps either.

Oh perfect, I'd prefer that.

Good info in here folks. I'm going to continue to do emulation for awhile, but I think my first choice for hardware would be an xegs since it was marketed as a console and Atari consoles have been the primary focus of my playing and owning up until now, and coming late in the 8 bit lifecycle I assume it has adequate memory to play much of the library. Sounds like floppy emulator is the way to go to be able to load much of the library, so a setup would be xegs and keyboard and joystick and floppy emulator... He he with all that plugged in its already deviating from the simple console like experience 😉 I'd heard of the great similarity between the 5200 and the 8 bit computers before. When I've played games that came out on both systems, it seems to me that the 8 bit version has much higher resolution, which often let's you see more stuff on the screen. A good case in point is megamania, way more stuff on the screen in the 8 bit version, although the framerate is noticeable slower accordingly... However that can help you play better sometimes too 😂. A shame the 5200 joystick is analogue, many of the games in the library seem designed for precise digital arcade stick like movements to play them well, so it seems like the console would have been better served with something like the 2600 or 7800 joystick anyway. Here's another newbie question. I was trying to play blue max via emulation and no matter what direction or button I pressed on the joystick the plane wouldn't pull up and I crash at the end of the initial runway... How do I take off?

Thanks, whoops didn't notice the existing newbie thread. It sounds like software emulation is going to be my simplest option by far. I was kinda hoping that I could get an xegs and a flash cart and play any of the 8 bit software via the cart regardless of whether it was originally on cart or disk and hopefully run the majority of games like a console with just the joystick, but it looks like I'll really need to get much more hardware than that to have a setup that can run many of the games.

I'm increasingly interested in the 8 bit game library. It's hundreds of games, which dwarfs the 5200 and 7800 libraries, and I've pretty well explored most of the libraries on those systems, as well as the 2600 over the last 30 years. I know the 8 bit systems have slightly different specs I think. If I got an xegs or a 600 or 800xl and a flashcart, would either of those run the majority of the library and provide a console like experience? An eBay listing I saw for a nib 600xl said not to use the original ac adapter due to a high likelihood that it has failed and will not regulate the voltage going into the system. I've heard about this sort of thing for commodore 64s, would I need an aftermarket power supply to run these systems? Do the majority of the games work with an atari joystick or do you really need a keyboard/mouse to play? Do carts boot right up on boot up, or would I need to learn some command line stuff to access the files on a cart and get games running, akin to playing games in msdos off of diskettes or cds?

Could always replace both with the blue. Then they'd match. And 10 years from now after you've sold it, the buyer will come to this forum to see if he has a special local 😉

Debatable if it's worth going back. At this point others have probably picked through it so interesting or high value stuff might be gone. Since it's so far away from you I could see the rationale to leave it... But you'll never know unless you go so if you have a free day tomorrow maybe you should make the drive 😉 if you get there and it's all gone, then treat yourself to a nice lunch in that area to make it feel like a nice outing.

Do you have a list of the doubles that you are selling? I'm not going for bulk, but my collection is 30 or 40 games so there are still some interesting looking common titles I'd like to get one of these days.

Wow really cool find. I wish I lived nearby so I could go take a look, wouldn't mind helping him find a new home for other 1980s video games/consoles that he might be getting rid of. Alas I live hundreds of miles away in the northeast. Thanks for sharing, the NIB atari 7800 is a crazy side of the road find, especially in 2022.

Wow that's about the find of the century. I would have picked up all the game stuff they had if I saw it and it was clear that it was available for anyone to take.

Yep it's with Warner these days since they acquired Midway. Arcade 1up has been able to license some of these 80s/90s atari arcade games so it's possible, just probably costs more than atari sa wants to spend and might be a little weird to include since it was from a different company with different owners and management and employees to the console and computer stuff that's being celebrated in the atari 50th package. But what the heck, atari sa isn't exactly the natural evolution or continuation of any atari company, so it's a little weird their doing the 50th anniversary thing in the first place (but I'll take it lol).

Stuff like paperboy, marble madness, klax, harddrivin etc were all made by the separate atari arcade company that remained with Warner when Jack Tramiel started atari corp (two atari companies with different owners existed simultaneously from about 1984 to 1995), so those mid 80s and 90s atari arcade games were never part of tramiels atari. This is relevant because the remnants of Tramiel's atari are what was transferred around and eventually wound up with Atari SA, who are doing the 50th anniversary collection, and Atari SA has never owned anything related to the separate atari arcade company. The atari arcade company was bought by Midway in the 90s and then ironically I think midway or it's assets and ips were sold back to Warner around 2009.

Good question re epyx, though an epyx atari lynx collection cart came out for the evercade handheld system recently (actually the first time these games were every rereleased I think) so someone has been involved with licensing that epyx 90s stuff recently.

I like space ship shmups and I like the atari Jaguar, but Trevor mcfur is not a fave at all. There seems to be little thought put in to enemy placement and bullet patterns. I just feel like I'm playing a random demo put together with no particular concern for whether a player would find it to be fun. There's no good excuse here, good horizontal shooters like gradius and rtype already existed, so it's not like the developers couldn't check out that sort of competition and see if there were aspects that could make mcfur more fun. I think the explanation for why it's so dire is down to a description I read about kasumi ninja - internal dev team and money allocated to the project was too small, combined with too short deadline for development, results in the dev team accepting sub par results and prototype graphics originally meant to be further enhanced as "good enough".

Don't look now but the market for pre war cars has seen double digit growth in demand from millennial buyers as of very recently. One point made in the piece is that the affordability of these cars (since they haven't been in huge demand in recent years and the market softened) made them attractive to younger buyers who don't have the deep pockets as older buyers. https://www.hagerty.co.uk/articles/market-analysis/ageing-pre-war-cars-draw-a-younger-crowd/ I could see this for atari era stuff too.

Since I'm at the young end of the nostalgia collectors, feel free to leave me your atari collections in your will so I can become the ultimate king of atari for 5-10 years before it's my turn. Actually don't do that, it would be really depressing to get buried in atari games and hardware in my old age, and any meaning your respective collection had as an embodiment of your personal taste or personal history would just be lost in the shuffle.

By the way, I'm 36 and I figured I was probably at the tail end of people who might be considered 2600 nostalgia collectors due to playing 2600 extensively in childhood. My story is that we got 2 good sized atari 2600 collections circa 1992 at tag sales, and since my parents were too cheap to buy me the current game systems, 2600 is what I wound up playing extensively throughout my elementary school years until around 1996 when I managed to convince my parents to get me a PlayStation. Quite a jump in console generation 😂. Even after I had the PlayStation I still hooked up the atari and played it periodically until around 2001, when I stopped playing until around 2015 or so when I became interested again via nostalgia.

It's funny you mention we are at peak atari era hardware collecting now. Prior to the covid pandemic the conventional wisdom I saw espoused on other retrogaming and game collecting forums was that nostalgia collectors for atari had peaked years before when people who grew up with it were in their 30s, and collector prices for atari stuff had greatly softened across the board in 2018 compared to what people were paying for atari stuff circa 2010. Conventional wisdom at the time was that people go through a nostalgia phase in their 30s/40s but then grow out of the hobby, resulting in less demand and lower prices. Wisdom was that this was already happening for NES by 2018 and would soon happen to Snes/Genesis era. Naturally atari stuff, as well as virtually every other type of retro game item, has had a steep increase in resale value since 2018. Although how much is it due to video game resellers and speculators continuously reselling things to dry and get a profit, versus older nostalgia collectors who owned the item in childhood, or new young owners who want to play the games... I'd like to know the details on that 😂. For example, people buy dozens of atari jaguars and lynxes at ridiculous prices every month on eBay but I don't see any significant new influx of users posting content in atari age forums for those systems.

Was also reminded by this topic of a post on Reddit I saw recently where several people currently younger than thirty weighed in about getting into the 2600 for the first time as teens or adults. https://www.reddit.com/r/retrogaming/comments/w5ji57/did_anyone_here_get_into_atari_consoles_without/

Wow this 2600 demake is really impressive. I bet the current SR ip holder might give you his blessing to use the moniker. Basically my understanding is the current IP holder (guy behind street rod online) was a longtime fan of the series and acquired the IP in order to put the games out for freeware. He's more of an extremely enthusiastic fan of the series rather than the original developer of the game who might be curmudgeonly, or an IP troll who cares nothing about the game and just wants to exploit ips for money no matter what. Of course his website hasn't been updated since 2018 so he may be a different sort of person now, or hard to get ahold of... Here are some alternate names I've thought of off the top of my head in the event you want a name other than street rod: California Rod, Hot Rod Dreams, California Street Racin', Hot Rod Summer, Grudge Night

Now also can imagine seeing HOT-BOX and HOT-ROD

I read through the list of games that atari itself released for the 2600 and none of them looked like any of these. The only one that seemed to be a similar number of letters was Dig Dug, which wasn't even released in arcades in 1981, and in any rate had a very different style of box than this. There's also tic tac toe, but that would be quite an abbreviation on this box.