[Intellevision dungeons and dragons]

I don’t think so, they only ship to USA/Canada. Why not get an Evercade VS and the 2 available Intellivision carts?

https://evercade.co.uk/vs/
 

https://evercade.co.uk/cartridges/intellivision-collection-1/
https://evercade.co.uk/cartridges/intellivision-collection-2/

 

[It's probably easier to convince a brick wall to try out Atari's games than most modern gamer's]

5 hours ago, GoldLeader said:

Brick wall,  my friend!" I schmoozed...

"Whaddya want?"  Said this (oddly) talking brick wall.

 

"Whoa!  You can Talk!"

"Ummm I mean,  I was hoping to convince you to play some video games!"

 

"Yup!   OK"  He said and asked about Space Invaders...He looked right at my avatar,  and well,  This brick wall wanted to play arcade Space Invaders!

Just don’t suggest Breakout. Walls tend to think it is culturally insensitive.

[Intellevision dungeons and dragons]

The Intellivision games don’t come on any Atari branded flashback system. There does exist Custom FirmWare (CFW) that allows additional emulators to be installed on the devices.

You can then find the Atari Nexus collection on Archive.Org (the thread below has a link to a minimal Nexus archive with just the emulators). I think the lack of buttons on the Atari Flashbacks make them a worse option for emulating Intellivision, the Legends Flashbacks with 6-buttons are better.

there was a dedicated Intellivision Flashback with appropriate controllers and keypad overlays.They come up for sale periodically on ShopGoodwill.com for $20-$40 every month or so.

 

[If Atari should make a new Adventure, what would you like it to be like?]

I wouldn’t be opposed to a 2p/4p cooperative Adventure where you an a team of squares needs to work together to solve puzzles.

 

Something along the line of Pico Park (although this is 2D side scroller), Legend of Zelda: 4-Swords. Perhaps each square protagonist has a different special power and they need to work together to unlock doors in castles. 

[If Atari should make a new Adventure, what would you like it to be like?]

@Giles N, why have the protagonist in Thomas Was Alone be a box? Why have Danny Wallace narrate the game? (Or if a sequel is made narrate it)

 

You don't need to use a square for Adventure Reloaded, nor do you need to have the dragons look like ducks, nor have different color castles with keys to unlock them. At some point though, it won’t be instantly recognizable as an Adventure game. And once it no longer recognizable as Adventure, why call it that?

[SEASON 15 ~ Starts January 11, 2024 ~ Suggestions]

Game	Season	Last Played
Lady Bug Pressure Cooker Killer Satellites Escape from the Mastermind Suicide Mission Sky Diver Air Sea Battle Stampede Lucky chase Elevators Amiss Amoeba Jump Miner 2049er Thunderground HERO Crazy Climber Lost Luggage Tapper Revenge Beefsteak Tomatoes Stay Frosty 2 Sheep it Up Burgertime Ms Pacman Official Frogger (Starpath) Rabbit Transit Cosmic Mutants from Outer Space Crystal Castles Defender Gyruss Joust Flash Gordon	14 14 14 13	1/22/2023
Seaquest	13	1/15/2023
Conquest of Mars	13	1/8/2023
Mr. Yo-Yo	13	1/8/2023
Boom!	13	1/8/2023
Star Castle Arcade	13	1/8/2023
Street Racer	13	12/18/2022
Demons to Diamonds	13	12/18/2022
Night Driver	13	12/11/2022
Encounter at L5	13	12/11/2022
Entombed	13	12/4/2022
M.A.D.	13	12/4/2022
Name This Game	13	12/4/2022
Fishing Derby	13	11/20/2022
Sky Jinxs	13	11/20/2022
Barnstorming	13	11/20/2022
Freeway	13	11/20/2022
Room of Doom	13	11/6/2022
Alien	13	11/6/2022
Gremlins	13	11/6/2022
Raft Rider	13	10/23/2022
ET	13	10/16/2022
Crazy Balloon	13	10/9/2022
Venture Reloaded	13	10/9/2022
Pengo	13	10/9/2022
Dodge 'Em	13	9/25/2022
Beamrider	13	9/25/2022
Combat	13	9/18/2022
Battlezone	13	9/18/2022
Mr. Do!	13	9/11/2022
Midnight Magic	13	9/11/2022
Off the Wall	13	9/11/2022
Carnival	13	8/28/2022
Q*Bert	13	8/28/2022
Vanguard	13	8/21/2022
Smurfs: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle	12	4/24/2022
Reactor	12	4/17/2022
Guardian	12	4/10/2022
Super Breakout	12	4/3/2022
Aardvark	12	3/27/2022
Stratovox	12	3/27/2022
Raptor	12	3/27/2022
Megamania	12	3/6/2022
Fast Food	12	2/27/2022
Yars Revenge	12	2/20/2022
Skiing	12	2/13/2022
Slalom (Winter Games)	12	2/13/2022
Assembloids	12	2/6/2022
Frostbite	12	1/30/2022
Wizard of Wor	12	1/23/2022
Missile Command	12	1/16/2022
Klax	12	1/9/2022
Xenophobe	12	1/9/2022
Fatal Run	12	1/9/2022
Gravitar	12	12/19/2021
Road Runner	12	12/12/2021
RealSports Boxing	12	12/12/2021
Asteroids	12	12/5/2021
Galaxian	12	12/5/2021
Popeye	12	11/21/2021
Space Invaders	12	11/14/2021

[If Atari should make a new Adventure, what would you like it to be like?]

45 minutes ago, Giles N said:

Why should better graphics have mske for overtly complex gameplay?

 

You could take Tetris, and make every brick-thing shine and sparkle in 4D on a 8K TV, without changing the gameplay … at all.

At some point you change the essence of what the game is. It’s like with movie sequels, most the time they just release the same movie again with the same beats. (Ie The Force Awakens is just a rerelease of A New Hope, Jurassic Park 2, 3, World, …, Home Alone 2), other times the sequel is very different (Bill & Ted Bogus Journey, Aliens, Indiana Jones: ToD).  With games, if you change too much it won’t feel like the same genre (LoZ: Links Adventure,  SMB 2, GTA III).

 

Galahad: Adventure-like

Adventure II

While I don’t think the graphics have to be low-fi, some things would have to be in Adventure Reloaded for it to feel like a game sequel and things that couldn’t be in it.

 

If the interface becomes text descriptions and a text parser or a verb noun PnC adventure game it will be too much like Zork / Mystery House / Shadowgate / Kings Quest (noting Adventure is an action game). So all the puzzles will likely be of the pickup object X, bring it to Y screen to get past obstacle Z.

 

It will need to have 

• Square / Cube protagonist.
• Duck Dragons
• Castles with colored keys
• Minimal or limited inventory

With regard to the minimal inventory, perhaps a two-slot system that would allow using, dropping, combining a left/right item to solve puzzles.

 

 

[If Atari should make a new Adventure, what would you like it to be like?]

Pico-8 Adventure sequel

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=2247

 

[Season 14 ~ Minor League Tournament!]

Tapper  - 1 A/B

46,850 CapitanClassic 

52,025

[Antstream 1300]

@Flyindrew unfortunately this is due to the various online storefronts. If you buy a game on iOS, Apple gets their 30%. If you buy it from the Google play store, Google gets its 30%, from Microsoft then they get their 30%.

Unfortunate, but what can you do?

[Season 14 ~ Minor League Tournament!]

134,560 - CapitanClassic 

 

[A cautionary tale...]

19 hours ago, Biff Burgertime said:

Perhaps users had been reporting his posts as well, calling attention to the situation and making it seem such action would be the greater good.

Ideas are basically worthless. It is extremely difficult to release any finished game, as the last 20% encompasses 80% of the work.  

 

Idea guys imagine their game at the finish line, but don’t do any of the work to get it there. So they don’t realize that their amazing game is one of a billion, which cannot make it past the great many filters. (Maybe only 1% of games released are profitable, only 1% of demos get release candidates, only 1% of games go from proof of concept to demo, only 1% go from … )

[Season 14 ~ Minor League Tournament!]

Didn’t complete L15 (always forget that the standard go where your path is blocked rule doesn’t work on this level)

124,195 - CapitanClassic 

[Season 14 ~ Minor League Tournament!]

12,843 - CapitanClassic 

 

not going to get better than than. I’m done.

[Season 14 ~ Minor League Tournament!]

6274 - CapitanClassic 
 

[Season 14 ~ Minor League Tournament!]

 

5507 - CapitanClassic 

@Vocelli, BTW, you posted ClassicGamers score under my name.

[What do you think SNES needs to see more new indie/homebrew games?]

You said the bad orange man’s name.

[Do you prefer the recharged games or the original version's ?]

@GraffitiTavern, he won’t have one, because it doesn’t exist.

 

17 U.S. Code § 117 - Limitations on exclusive rights: Computer programs

Quote

(a)Making of Additional Copy or Adaptation by Owner of Copy.—Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106, it is not an infringement for the owner of a copy of a computer program to make or authorize the making of another copy or adaptation of that computer program provided:

(1)

that such a new copy or adaptation is created as an essential step in the utilization of the computer program in conjunction with a machine and that it is used in no other manner, or

(2)

that such new copy or adaptation is for archival purposes only and that all archival copies are destroyed in the event that continued possession of the computer program should cease to be rightful.

117(a)(1) qualifies you to make a copy to use with an emulator. 
 

for additional background you could read Krause v. Titleserv, Inc., or Aymes v. Bonelli.

[How much should I expect to pay?]

 

[Movie Cart]

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians is in the public domain.

 

[I never had an original GAMEBOY back in the day.]

The display just needs to reflow the contacts by heating up the lead solder.

 

[Season 14 ~ Final Standings and Awards]

Congratulations to ZilchSr.

 

Favorite:

Amoeba Jump - One of the best new homebrews to be released in last couple of years. Has that just-one-more-game vibe, and when you die it’s likely your fault and not the controls.

Lucky Chase - Used to play a lot of Lock’n Chase (M-Network), and this homebrew is a very good rendition of the game. 

 

Surprising:

Stay Frosty 2 - Didn’t play nearly enough games of this one. Need to put more time in so I can see all the boards.

Elevators Amiss - reminiscent of the Elevator Repairman game for the a800, this was a fun title that I was previously unaware of.
 

Worst:

Defender - I detest weeks where I have already rolled a score on title, but need to replicate it because there are so many good players (inevitable with the caliber of HSC players). This isn’t the worst of the bunch (Laser Blast is a worse slog I’m sure, but I haven’t ever attempted it), with only games that require not playing them the intended way to get a high score (Ie Cosmic Ark, where it is better to milk points continuously on the early L2-L4)

Lost Luggage - Losing a life feels very random. At least it doesn’t last long.

 

Thanks to @Vocelli for running the HSC. Looking forward to next season with Bonuses for players whose first derivative of rate of increase in high score posts is greater than one standard deviation of the average players score for the week.

[How long can Atari cartridges theoretically last?]

Do people really worry about PSX games becoming delaminated? I realize the labels can be scratched (the reverse side contains the readable surface), but as long as you don’t scratch up the labels and you don’t melt the discs I figure they would last 50-100 years.

[Which model of the Atari VCS/2600 do people usually prefer ?]

49 minutes ago, zzip said:

No Love for the "Sears Telegames Video Arcade?"

 

I have one and prefer the wood grain on it to the Atari branded ones.

[Which model of the Atari VCS/2600 do people usually prefer ?]

If things haven't changed much from 8 years ago, the forum preferences would be Heavy 6er (35%), Light 6er (20%), Vader (15%), 4 Switch Woodgrain / Sears Telegames / Jr.(~10% each)

 

I owned a Telegames 6 Switch, and a Vader, both won in a raffle. Still have them today, but only after cleaning out my parents old house, i had to rebuy 2 from ShopGoodwill (first one was defective), so i now own 4 models. I think I prefer the look of the 6-switcher, and I think I remember the buttons on the heavy were better. But, mostly I play my Atari Flashback X, so I guess I prefer it.