[All-Time Best Two Player Games]

Video-Olympics. the basketball and Volleyball events in particular.

[Sorting your collection]

I got mine in a bag

The bag DOES have an atari logo on it though, I'm gonna have to work a bit at this retro-collector thing aren't I?

 

[ 10-28-2001: Message edited by: liveinabin ]

[Game God]

i gotta admit I usually suck at games (so I have basically hundreds of titles that just mock me), My average game of Defender is about half of the attract mode.

Mind, I'd happily take on anyone in the world at Ridge Racer 4, any track, any car

[bad systems]

hehe yeah, The NES wasn't exactly a reliable system was it? If you marketed a toaster like that, you'd get them all sent back, us gamers are a forgiving lot

[5200 emulation for mac]

Yeah, I could do with one of those for the mac, as a UK resident, we never recieved the 5200, so I'm unlikely to ever come across one in the wild.

[bad systems]

A system is only as good as its games, so...er...Jaguar. Sorry.

The 2600 still has valuable qualities today, but as soon as the Playstation and Saturn came along, well, you'd really have to be really in love with the Jag to get anything out of it.

[Ponging in the UK]

Ohhhh yeah! It's games like Keystone Kapers that really drive home how much better videogames were then - your parameters and tasks are clearly defined, and theres just an outstanding sense of fun hehe - opened a can of worms there I think

[Intellivision]

Just got myself an intellivision (which sits quite happily with my beloved 6-switch woody vcs), yeah - you've got a point about the controllers, but when I get used to em, I'm sure they'll be fine. And there aren't nearly enough Activision titles for it There is ONE thing though, where the intellivision wipes the floor with the VCS - the speech unit - oh my god, it's like seeing sinistar for the first time, all over again!!

[Your Favorite and Least]

oops. forgot the worst one!

well, where to start??

Operation Wolf or Commando.

They started a downhill trend.

Plus anything modern except for Crazy Taxi (which as far as I'm concerned is the logical progression of paperboy)

[Your Favorite and Least]

Hmm, it'd have to be one of Star Wars (stand-up version, that MDF box never spoke 'X-Wing' to me) for Chase HQ (god alone knows why - idea over execution I guess).

Mind, Buck Rogers and Disks of Tron have gotta get mention for the great arcade experience provided by the cabinet and controller.

And Space Invaders and Defender for sound!

Come to think of it, why hasn't anyone released a Star Wars controller for any console yet??

[Paperboy]

well, it was quite innovative.

But I think it gets pipped to the post by sweet licks, remember that?

Thats that Namco game where you beat the living crap out of little poppy up guys with a sand filled mallet. Now thats progress! Oh yeah, and that wierd machine in the arcades that you put a bill in and it gives you coins. I don't think I ever lost at that.

[is london blitz anything special?]

It wasn't a bundle of fun if you happened to be in London at the time

[hardest activision game to earn the patch]

I think all of them are pretty tough to earn the patches for nowadays

[Ponging in the UK]

makes sense, Atari didn't have the distribution backing of Warner until the 2600 did they? Anyway, at that time, all of us in Britain were still running about in the fog with our whips and tops.

Anyone else able to add anything?

I'd really like to know for sure.

[can console systems survive?]

I've got a Mac so it's consoles or nothing haha.

Anyway, if I'm going to spend a while playing a game I'd rather relax in front of the tv rather than be hunched up in front of a PC screen. I spend all day working in front of one, I sure as hell don't wanna be there all evening. It's like those people who sit there watching dvd movies on their monitors - wierd.

[Console names]

My favourite console name of all time has to be the Radofin Prinztronic.

what were they on? And while we're at it - how about the Super Cassette Vision - and you complain about Gamecube!

I could never get on with SNES either, sounds like a nasal condition - mind, at least it didn't lie about having a drive, let alone a mega-one.

[Ponging in the UK]

I'm desperate to get hold of an Atari Pong system but I live in the UK. I've never seen a PAL model on ebay and I wonder if anyone knows if it was ever released here?

[How did it happen?]

i didnt own an Atari 'till fairly recently, having spent the early 80s on my ZX Spectrum (I think they called it a Timex in the states - it's the computer rareware started on), having given up on gaming through the dull Megadrive Snes years (how many platform games can you buy???) i spotted one in a charity store. being unemployed at the time i rushed in with £5 ($8 ish) to reserve it. i didnt need to, the old dears in the store were selling this VCS six-switch woody, boxed (with bubble wrap, warranty card, manual and pacman) for £1.50!!! (thats about $2.30)

hahahahaaaaa! Not long after that I bagged my first Activision carts (Kaboom and Freeway) and my love affair with this awesome console was assured.

I'm still toying with an idea to wood-panel my PS1

[Label Variations]

yeah, I've found that the big blue space on the bottom of Playstation 2 discs is great for writing your Kaboom! scores.

Correction fluid works best

[Label Variations]

don't know if this is of interest (i'm new) but I read on Atariage, that there were just 3 white label activision Pal carts released, well, I have a 1983 frostbite and 84 HERO, both white label and both distributed by Salu (whoever the heck they are). rarey? Even if they are, I'd much rather have the standard carts, these are tacky!