[What is the strangest ...]

When I got my carts from my parents attic 10 years ago....my Airlock cart had a 1988 NBA finals sticker on the back...I have no idea what its from or how it got there

[Who has a high score notebook?]

I have an Excell spreadsheet with game title, game #, description, rating(scale of 1-10), #of times played, high score

 

I'm a tremendous geek

[2600 Games To Avoid According To The Video Game Critic]

Good lord.....thats quite a list. I'm going to go ahead and continue playing some of those. Pac Man was a poor effort in terms of mirroring the arcade version....but once you get over that it has great playbility. QuadRun was one I never played until I got my FB2 but is pretty enjoyable. Slot Racer?.....that might be the best of all teh flagship titles. Of course he is spot on with some. I say try em all and decide for yourself

[Any love for Journey Escape?]

Better than it gets credit for. Love the graphics....play it with the lights off on a 60 inch TV!....thats stellar. Although it was very easy to play for a long time....I remember playing it for HSC back in 05 or so and I could play for over an hour it seemed

[Holy cow]

You can tell I've gotten a bit re-obsessed with this game! I've never won in under a minute before, so this definitely upgrades the thread subject to "Holy Shit."

 

Incidentally, does anyone know how many possible starting configurations there are? I'm only aware of three; but I suppose it's not as significant as in, say, Adventure, since Lex and the bad guys all seem to move literally randomly after their brief, initial starting points.

 

57???????....Congrats.....wait.....did you fly the opposite way of the earth's rotation to lower your time?

[Frogger like shirt today..]

This is obviously a representation of the sad but true hypothetical meeting of the chicken from Freeeway and the Frogger frog....and the inevitible taunting that must occur when one is born without the ability to go sideways

[Adventure (2600)]

Hmmm, that gives me an idea...

 

Doctor Grant was right!.....Dinousaurs came from birds.....dragons came from ducks.....God creates dinosaurs, God destroys dinosaurs....God creates man....man creates duck dragons!

[Adventure (2600)]

I feel this way especially with the earlier games...My love for them is more based on nostalgia than gameplay which was mostly clunky in the first year or so of the system. I never had Adventure as a kid but I am sure to heap underserving praise on games like Video Pinball or Golf or Night Driver

[what are the best atari 2600 games?]

Demon Attack

Spider Fighter

Vangaurd

Atlantis

Berzerk

Venture

 

When I want to shoot stuff I play these....Or Resident Evil 4...but thats not 2600

[Sports teams on the 2600?]

Ok....this might be kind of a goofy topic but I was playing Activision Ice Hockey the other day....It made me remember when I was a kid I always sort of pretended it was the Rangers vs the North Stars because of the colors the players wore....and Basketball was always Lakers vs Celtics in my mind....Anybody got any others?(from the old days before EA Sports owned the universe)....also 4th and Inches for Commodore was Nebraska vs Penn State

[Games that feel good to play]

Donkey Kong

Donkey Kong Jr

Space Invaders

Berzerk

Venture

Phoenix

Missile Command

[flea market finds]

Love Jungle Hunt!....I need to get that one

[Ateroids]

They hollowed out the rocks and ship for the Flashback 2

[Games you could play forever]

For me there's three games that I like that will get some playtime when I spend some Atari time, and then there's those great games that cause me to make Atari time. Probably the three games I play the most are Adventure, Superman, and Demon Attack. They've been among my favorites since I got them as a kid. I'm sure it's been discussed before, but anyone else remember that paperback book with the (I think it was) green cover that explained how to get into the secret room in Adventure? I remember like it was yesterday finding the book at Toys R Us with my mother and begging her to buy it. Good times.

 

 

A classic! Along with his complementary book about coin-ops, of course. It was a bit short on contents, but I was so taken with his detailed diagramming methods, etc. that I made my own such "books" about many other games throughout elementary and middle school.

Did you keep your home made reference manuals?.....those would be interesting....theres quite an interesting Donkey Kong Schematic in "King of Kong"

[Todd Roger's 85 hour game?]

I actually sort of like Journey Escape....in a campy kind of way...and it has SOME playability....I've played it for an hour before....If I remember it stops getting harder after 5 or 6 times through (thats what she said)...but 85 hours?...I think Tony Soprano died on purpose to make that song stop

[Games you could play forever]

I always wondered why Breakout ends after 2 levels....what would have been the harm in throwing another set of bricks up there?

[Replacement cartridge labels?]

The Atariage store offers custom labels now, maybe they could do reproduction labels also?

Thats a really good idea...the big issue might be that people might try to sell the replacement label carts as mint originals...could be a collectors nightmare

[Games you could play forever]

While we are talking Pitfall...I always thought it would be cool if they scored it differently...how bout starting the clock at 0:00....and having the score be the amount of time used to collect all treasures.

 

And I always go left

[Atlantis II]

Don't the numbers in the score look different, too? (i.e. the 9s and 4s are filled in)

Yeah....the numbers are the easiest way to tell...and scoring is lower

[Games you could play forever]

Lets see Atari 2600 games that I could play for ever: 1) Yars Revenge, 2) Adventure, 3) Pitfall 4) Wizard of Wor, 5) Raiders of the lost Ark. I loved these games to death and could play them forever. One time I was playing Yars Revenge for like 5 hours straight then my dad came into the living room and yanked the plug out the wall and told me to get out of the house and go play some where else.

 

Interesting you brought up Pitfall...everything about Pitfall is stellar except for the time limit....although...if not for the time limit...I might still be playing that game I started back in '82...then I never would have thrown a football a quarter mile or met my soul mate

[Atari 2600 console tray?]

I have that!.....and yes...my lid has a crack over most of the top.....still serves its purpose though...and slies nicely into my basement entertainment center...I wish it held more games though

[Video/RF cable replacement?]

Yeah...all the new ones have a longer prong than the original ones back in the day...I noticed this when I was taking a cord out of a non working unit and installing it in a working unit....is the prong length causing the outer ring not to connectto the female end?....If so I wonder if you could lop off 1/8" off the prong....allowing it to go all the way in (John Wayne Bobbit thinks this is a bad idea)....don't know if this would work...but it's my first thought

[Games you could play forever]

I once played maze craze for about 3 hours non-stop, I bloody love mazes!

Maze Craze has an addictive quality to it....It would be interesting to see how long you could play without exiting the maze or being caught by that thing that is chasing you

[Games you could play forever]

Adventure and Haunted House are good ones....those types of games are great for goofing around with....just to see what little quirks you can discover...I just got Dark Chambers...that might end up being fun in that vein

[Is this a good starter set?]

For the really common games like Space Invaders and Combat, it's not really a rule of "you have to have it" more than "you will end up getting it without even trying".

Yeah....thats kinda what I meant....somehow I have 4 Combat carts

 

That's what happens when you buy carts in bulk or as part of system packages. You end up with WAY too many commons. I try to restrain myself as much as possible from doing deals like that unless I can actually use more than a few of the carts to fill holes. Collecting label variations helps, because then you can at least justify the purchase of your fifth Combat cart by saying "well, the label is different from the four I already have" but even that doesn't go down too well with "she who must be obeyed".

Actually I have never purchased a Combat....they just spontaniously appear every 10 years or so.....kind of like the census....or John Travolta