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It's gamings fault generally. All we ever get is: battle monsters - run - battle tougher monsters - run (10-40hrs later) - battle biggest monster - end credits. Until games get more creative (unlikely) then we're stuck in that loop.

Get a 1000. They're nice and solid and really easy to mod.

Aw, hey. Thank your wife from me I hope Albert doesn't mind me admitting this but he emailed me and said "We need a label for Sinistar 5200 today" so I had about 2 and a half hours to do it. Painted like a demented thing

I really hate the 'collectible' aspect of shooters. It's only served to keep a great deal of incredible games out of most people's reach. I'm all for downloads, however, this collection isn't tempting me. Seems a bit expensive for doujin games. I just want to be able to download DoDonPachi, ESPdaré and Radiant Silvergun.

Hallo all. I'm David Exton, part time label artist for AtariAge and, well, I'm having a clearout - small house - too much stuff! So, I've been lucky enough to have worked on several brilliant AA homebrew games and I've got a few low number limited copies of the games I worked on for my trouble. However, much as I love them, I'm going to be letting some go. SO, eBay sucks so, if it's not too tacky, I'll post them here. No idea what to price them at - make me an offer and I'll sell to the highest bidder on, shall we say, Sunday 13th June? Give's everyone interested a week. Any questions, bids, concerns - feel free to PM me. All games have been stored very nicely in a non smoking environment. Oh, payment by Paypal if that's OK. Postage wise, I'll just charge exactly what it costs to ship to whatever country you're in (I'm in UK although all these games are NTSC) but it'll be fairly low. I can give you a better quote if you need one. Cheers! (click thumbnails for bigger pics) Adventure II - Limited Edition #4 of 250 Mint, never played (no 5200s here!) limited copy of Adventure II - Atari 5200 NTSC. Complete with cart (obviously), magnets, key and all the bits I did: Manual, Map hint cards with envelope and related flyers/bits. Lovely package but I'm never going to be able to play it so here it is Holiday Qb - Limited 2004 Holiday Cart. #74 Yeah, the Holiday Cart labels are my fault! (sorry about the 2003 - but saucy!). Mint Atari 2600 NTSC cart with manual/AA Xmas card. UA Games - Pleiades, Cat Trax, Funky Fish My first boxes! All three mint with cart and manual. Atari 2600 NTSC Euchre - Special Edition #5/100 - Hozer release Mint NTSC Atari 2600 cart. As a Hozer release, nowhere near as professionally presented as an AA game but still quite nice. The wife posed for the label painting - and it was paint, don't use that stuff anymore! That's it for now. I should have one or two more to add once I've got them photographed - not least the Qb limited edition in the fancy wooden box! Watch this space, folks!

I don't really have a problem with buying new games. I hate the scummy trade in used stuff that's rife in games stores. In UK, it's tricky to find new games in some stores. When I'm interested in a game enough to buy it, I want the developers well rewarded. Period. This EA thing is a bit limiting to used game buyers but heck, it's better than Phantasy Star Online was - you couldn't even go online at any price with a used copy of that.

I liked the boring stuff. There's something about wandering around largely empty environments and spending time fiddling with inventory that just makes it more 'real'. Or maybe it just makes the action bits all the more epic.

I quite liked it, but it wasn't as good as the first (and not a patch on, say, Fallout 3). I'm most of the way through it again, a situation that I feel somewhat forced into as, through some obscure narrative, I didn't get a great end to my first ME2 game.

It's a decent game, Ridge 7 is better but that requires a different console. Sure, it's a lot like the PSP game in hi def with new tracks but, well, that's what you want isn't it? It's Ridge Racer and therefore unique and excellent.

Played the demo too. Never really an original Afterburner fan (much preferred Outrun) but this new version is amazing! I'll buy it when I've got time to play it.

I downloaded the stupid Zune player thing, which just got between me and my content. It was just a simple task of going into the file menu (my xbox, far right) and deleting it. Back to normal.

I've got quite a few. My favourites are probably Ridge Racer 4 and Panzer Dragoon Saga. I even bought the Mass Effect 2 soundtrack on iTunes a couple weeks back - that's a pretty mainstream store to be selling game soundtracks.

It's by a company called Nude Maker. How can it fail?

Huh. Turns out it's Futura light. Who knew?

Hi all. Just wondering if anyone knows what font is used in the 5200 manuals (the Atari games) in the main body text. I've got all the header fonts (which are available at this very site) but I can't seem to figure out this last one. cheers!

I've read all through this thread and there's one thing that stands out - NO ONE is actually running Linux on their PS3. I did consider it early on, mainly for emulator as a way to replace my modded XBox. But, after hearing that it didn't run particularly well or fast, I ditched the idea. I suspect many others did too. The only reason I bring this up is that I've never talked to anyone who actually used this function. And, given that it's been sitting there unused for 3 years, it's surplus to requirements anyway.

I guess that the big selling point to Game Room is a social one. It's like a retrogamer facebook or something. If I had Xbox Live gold, I think I'd be hurling money at this.

Absolutely. Day 1 purchase along with a second controller (there will be split screen multiplayer, right? There just HAS to be.)

The games are hellishly expensive, aren't they? Combat should not cost that much. Wah, I just want my Robotron! The Robotron on XBLA had stupid 'upgraded' graphics (ie. worse). I just want Robotron perfectly emulated, then my 360 will truly replace my original nodded xbox.

Nice enough idea, but I only want the one game - Robotron - and it's not available yet. Still, I was very impressed with the vector gfx emulation in Asteroids Deluxe. Very convincing.

Living, as I do, in a small house in England (where space is premium) there's no way this is going to work for me. In any case, I'd rather games advance in storytelling, AI and other forms of immersion than this wavy-arms control method that will feel just as fake as a controller.

Yay! More free DLC coming this Tuesday involving the Hammerhead - ME2's Mako/Landspeeder vehicle, along with 5 vehicle specific missions. Hope you can run over Zaeed's head with it.

It's sitting on the shelf staring at me, waiting for me to finish Mass Effect 2 for the second time, followed by Tales of Monkey Island and the forthcoming Sam and Max series 3. Great game, but I never find the time to play it - and it's way too frenetic for 'wind down' gaming. Soon I will tame it. Soon!

Used copies are always going to be pretty cheap as you don't get access to the Cerberus network (and all related DLC goodies) for free.

Also enjoying ME2 on my second play through (with the same character, same class, making broadly the same choices but hoping for a better ending). Great game, especially with a female Shepard. Jennifer Hale is the best voice actor out there.