JasperAK

I just got my new Harmony Encore cart today, and I just played the Demo v2. I never would have imagined this game. I am looking forward to getting the cart proper.

This may just be what my 7yo, 5yo, and I have been waiting for. We love playing my Vader, but they are also used to Xbox 360 and mobile games. A system that the kids can play together, and can hook up to our real entertainment center, that's gold and badly lacking in the marketplace. Now my wife isn't too interested in playing with us, but she doesn't mind watching. Shoot, she used to watch her brother play the Intellivision. At one point I thought she used to play with her brother, so I bought her a Flashback Intellivision for Christmas. That's when I learned that she only ever watched him play. So I did what any husband would do. I played with her ding-dong brother for hours while she watched and talked smack to both of us. That was one of the best Christmas's we as an extended family had together. I also found the D&D games on there and they were fantastic, so if you found a way to get them on there (even without the branding), that'd be aces. I have to say if you can deliver all of this, this might just be a day one purchase for us. I think we're your target market. Sell it to me. UPDATE: Continued reading the thread; sorry for the derail. Back to your F*ing tacos kids.

Robot Tank: 36 Tanks; 4 days, 6 hours. Lost my final three tanks against the first tank in the next squadron.

I totally forgot Wizard of Wor was getting the awesome treatment as well. Looks like I'm getting both when they show up on the store.

Just waiting for it to show up here...

For fours that I purposely have: Alien, Moonsweeper, Defender 2, Robot Tank (CIB), and Sprintmaster.

I'm not much of a fan of the aesthetics, although I admit some of these original games are beautiful and some of the homebrews are amazing. It's the gameplay that I love. When I started collecting a little more than a year ago, Berserk was one of the first games I got. Within three weeks or so I had 25k points. Tonight, I slapped it in for about 5 minutes and got nearly 8k. I had a blast as the difficulty ramped up with every completed board. If I played for a couple of hours straight, I'd probably hit the 25k again. These Atari games you can pick up and play for a few minutes, lose, start right over; get into a rhythym and start racking up the score. Many 8-bit and some 16-bit are like that for me, but most of the Atari 2600 games are like that. I've not played too many games from other generations that are as pick-up-and-play. That's what I think of when I think Atari. So yes, Atari has a visual style that some programmers really nail, but its play style is why I've spent about $400 over the past year building a collection. Plus it uses joysticks (or paddles which my kids love--Warlords I'm looking at you). If they are not playing games where swipe with their index fingers, they are playing games with a much more tactile feel. When my kids and I play the NES, we use two advantages. Now don't get me wrong, they like playing LEGO and Skylander games on the 360, but its the Atari they continuously ask to play. Obligatory Rant: So screw Atari SA for f*cking up the Aretardbox. If they took what we already have and built on that, I would have bought it on release. I'm anxiously awaiting a modern day system to hook up to my HD TV that my kids and I (and maybe even mom) can play. I'm sure someone on this board is going to chime in and let me know something is coming in about a year. I wish my Atari 2600 had the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons game from Intellivison. Man I love that game.

I believe my daughter would be mighty appreciative if some of the fine programmers here would continue rectifying this situation.

According to this site, Beamrider, Picnic, and H.E.R.O. are the rarest games in my collection at a rarity of 5.

This was one of the first games I bought when I started my recollection about year ago. It never bothered me that you couldn't win; it was always about getting a better score than everyone else. I have such fond memories of this game and today the game play is still fun if short.

This needs to be on a cart.

My 7yo daughter and 5yo son like playing my Vader over the Xbox 360. She loves playing Haunted House. I've even seen her shake when the ghost appeared on the screen. I'm sure she'd shake at Resident Evil on the 360, but maybe after being bombarded with zombies, she'd become numb to them. But seriously, Haunted House on the Atari 2600, that ghost gets her every time. It is also a great system for competitive play. Wizard of Wor, Warlords, Combat, and Ice Hockey are our favorites, and I think it's because the games are relatively short. We can play three Spads v. one German Bomber and I can lose, but in two-and-a-half minutes we are playing again and I'm crushing her. She loves it. And she's pretty good at sh!t-talking too. It's hilarious to see her brother mimic her whenever I bite it. But the real fun is Ice Hockey. I can woop her butt in Ice Hockey, but three minutes later she comes right back for more. She's getting better and I'm almost done pulling my punches on diff-A, so one day I'm sure she will beat me at Ice Hockey. But not today. The one deficiency though are the cooperative games. Space Invaders, Wizard of Wor, and ... She turns Wizard of Wor into a competitive game by chasing me down to shoot me. One day she'll realize she can corner me with the monsters. I'd love to see Galaxian for 2pCoop. For two player fun, the 2600 is where it is at, the NES is a close second (I have two NES advantages), and the Xbox 360 a very distant third.

9 HD Gold. SD card for the win.

Holy crap! I've spent the past year trying to earn the Activision patches and today find out that there were rewards for the Imagic games as well. Looks like I'll be firing up some Star Voyager, Atlantis, and Demon Attack in the very near future. I'd love to see what what these decals look like, though its too bad that Moonsweeper came out too late for this Expert club. EDIT: Although I like playing both Cosmic Ark and Dragonfire, I don't think I'll ever get close to earning anything but a numb thumb. Kinda like Activision's Frostbite. Man I suck at that game.

I have to say you guys are awesome. I was trying to be cheeky and you all come up with solutions to my taco problem.

I have the 9 Gold HD, and I put a whole mess of hacked games and stuff on it. Shit, I hacked the colors in Ice Hockey and have Pittsburgh vs. about half-a-dozen different teams. The white, black, and yellow look awesome. I love my flashback but the stupid atgames fuckers still don't have paddles for it (at least last time I checked). With all the bullshit going on with them, I doubt I'll ever see them. So through all this, it sits in an ammo case (for traveling) while we play my beloved Vader. She loves using the carts though. One day I think I may get a Harmony cart to just play stuff like Subterranea and my hacked games on the Vader. Shoot, she loved making her own sprite for Space Invaders that looked like a guy with a gun. Cool as shit. But maybe it would be cool to play Atari on a 50" flat instead of a 24" CRT. Damn, I think I'm going to try and earn the patch for H.E.R.O.. Screw the 9th level.

My 7-year old daughter loves playing Atari with me. After we had tacos for dinner, she discovered she can kick my arse in Combat when I'm the Big Red Bomber and she the three Green Spads. She also loves Warlords and Ice Hockey and I was thinking of how to up our game. I am debating about getting Medieval Mayhem for her for Christmas, but with the AtariVCS coming out at the end of the year, my question is this: should I get that instead? Will it have paddle controllers? I'm afraid we won't be able to have tacos at family game night for awhile if I splurge and pick this thing up. What do y'all think?

What? No overnight Tacos? I was hoping for a Taco when I woke up this morning. Slackers.

If I understand you correctly, you need the actual palette changed. The last time I did anything like that was for a DOS demo program. I had all 256 colors shades of red so when run it looked like you were traveling down a tube. I used a program called DPAINT2 and could only save the file as .LBM. I'm not sure how I would do that today.

Thank You for these.

Following all of the links in this thread, I've learned more about tacos than this atari electric-type box thing.

I would have posted sooner but I got caught up in that 786 page thread about the VCS2. Then I went to Taco Bell. Cheers.

Necrotime!!!! Late to this party, but had to say my wife and I played Wizard of Wor quite a bit on holiday. Really surprised that it hadn't been mentioned before. She really didn't like that we could shoot each other, but it added that whole 2p-coop or 2p-vs thing.

I read through your tutorial and bookmarked it. If that site was a real book, I'm sure it will be dog-eared like a mo-fo when I start programming. Heck, I think it would help with flat out hacking. Thank You and everyone else here who is giving back and supporting the community.

Wow. Thank you SpiceWare. I had hoped it would be a quick little fix. I bet in the grand scheme of things it is. I have no idea what I'm getting into with programming for the VCS do I?