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Awesome Golf is a great one, I used to hook up at lunch with a co-worker who also had it. Hockey is excellent as well. Both are also fun solo.

Yes, please please bring back the Colecos! They were awesome and looked fantastic. Tomy also had a righteous handheld version of TRON. All of these can sometimes be had on Ebay...for a price.

Here are some games that should run ok on a 1.1 + Radeon 9000 and are probably readily available on Ebay: FPS - Alice is a very dark one that I found surprisingly fun. Tron 2.0 should also work, though perhaps at low detail levels. RPG games - Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights. That last one is cool because you can make your own adventures...and people have. Download them now!! Strategy - does anyone play Starcraft anymore? Sims 1, by the way, runs about 98% ok on my XP system. The cats sometimes become invisible but that's about it. (Shouldn't that phenomenon be in Alice instead?)

Do you have a synth and ability to record MIDI? It might be cool to hear.952026[/snapback] Sure. I sequenced the MIDI directly on my comp since my piano playing ain't perfect. http://www.geocities.com/pwongsas/blagger.mid

You know it's weird, I seem to remember playing that song (I had the single on 45) over and over again, to the point of annoying my mother...and in retrospect I don't think I even liked the song. Or Pac-Man for that matter! I think I just saw myself as a video game junkie and decided I'd better fill the part as fully as I could. So in short, yes, I was crazy about the music. But not because I necessarily liked it. And I never got the full album with all the Frogger songs and the like.

Man, I haven't been to a Chuck-e-cheese in years. I'd always go for Skee-ball and try to win tickets to get those silly little prizes (like spider rings that won't even fit my pinky now). Do they still have that dag-burn "Pizza Time Theatre"? Never liked those oversized puppets, esp. when they sang "happy birthday happy birthday, Happy birthday to you." I know they can't sing everyone's name out loud, but why go the mass market route and empty everyone's birthday of all personal touch? I always did like their pizza though. It had a unique flavor that I did not find at any other pizza joint. Extra greasy, perhaps.

I can personally vouch for B&C and Best Electronics - they're where I bought 90% of my Lynx stuff, and I was very satisfied with both. Almost all the remainder is from Videogame Liquidators (vglq.com) and United Game (unitedgame.com) but they don't really carry Lynx stuff anymore. Good vendors though. I've never ordered Lynx from 4Jays but I've been to their store. Man, it is a retrogamer's dream come true. Bushels and bushels of 2600 carts, tons of NES, SNES, C64, handhelds, you name it. Kind of out there in the boonies but worth the drive.

I wish it were. But the one I'm looking for is the original "Alligata Blagger". It's a bizarre 2-D one-screen platformer, sort of like Donky Kong on LSD. I have yet to find a copy online that has the music, which only plays at the title screen. Thanx for tryin' though. Ohh and I just thought of another winner - Skate or Die on the C64. Man, that is some serious metal. Simply AWESOME.

Actually the 2600 was my favorite because it changed Defender from a massively complicated monster that gave me about ten seconds for my quarter, to an enjoyable game. At least for me. I know some people love Defender and it got super high ratings at the time and all that. But I didn't like it because the controls were so difficult to master. Of course, I also voted for the Intellivision as the suckiest classic system for the same reason. Simplicity is my bag...much like Winny the Poo. Speaking of poo, nice pic Remo.

Yeppers a toughie. I voted for Intellivision. NOT because it was a horrible system. It was a very intelligent one. It's just that it was TOO intelligent for my 8 or 9-year-old brain to handle. All the Sea battle/Armor battle games just had waaay too many buttons. And Space Armada was too fast for my taste. It was a perfect challenge for a teenager, but for the younger crowd just about any other system would have been a more pleasant choice.

Soundtrack to the original C64 Blagger by Antony Crowther. It is a permanent part of my piano-playing repertoire. Unfortunately, the version with the music is very rare and I have not yet found such a disk image online.

Yikes! I am alone in my pref. for the Lynx! Well for me it is a matter of the memories it brings back. The 2600 only brings back mems of my nerdy days in grade school. The Lynx reminds me of my college days when it was OK to be nerdy.

Just looked it up on the gamelist and it is Gordo 106. Lol, it is hard to remember the number! Because it doesn't mean anything! And the game is lousy!! All things considered, I'm gonna have to pick a title that people have wildly varying opinions about: Batman Returns. It has terrific graphics and sound. But as a game I feel it is very, very poorly designed. You get one life and first time players invariably lose it on the exploding store behind the mailbox. Even knowing about it, it took me many frustrating tries to get past it. Cheap shot. Another major annoyance, one that probably won't appeal to gaming 'purists': the so-called 'cheat' code takes about a million keypad hits to execute. More often than not, I'd miss one somewhere and have to start all over. And even when I got it, it didn't help because the jumping is so @#$% difficult.

I'd like to know: what re-releases of classic games have you seen at the arcades? I can only remember seeing about three, and I gather from the Charles Cheese thread that there's at least one more. What else? Known by dogcorn: Galaga/Ms Pacman (plus regular Pacman as an easter egg) Namco Pacman/Digdug/a couple others I don't remember Capcom's "roulette wheel" collection with about 30 different games Donkey Kong/Jr/Mario Bros

HARD DRIVIN' The 411: Cruise around in a pseudo-3d polygonal view behind the dashboard. Watch out for cars, cows and loop-de-loops. Crash and your reward is an instant replay of what you did wrong. Dogcorn's take: As many have mentioned, this is a lousy game. It's too bad, because most of the elements for a solid coinop-to-home conversion - graphics, sounds, placement of obstacles - are there. And while the frame rate is molasses-slow, that's not what makes it bad. Steel Talons is similarly pokey yet very playable. So what's the problem? A big one: the controls are IMPOSSIBLE! There's a serious lag from the time you hit the control pad or release the button, to the time your car actually moves. By that time, you've been holding the pad down because you're not seeing any reaction, and that holding-down just sends your car off into some wacky direction you never intended (probably towards the cow). I have this game ONLY because it was part of my freshman dorm life and I am a sentimental syrup-head. For everyone else, don't bother. Grade: D-

Definitely Bard's Tale 2, a hack/slay RPG. Actually, what I really wanted to play was Wizardry I on my stepdad's Apple, but I wasn't exactly the most careful lad with electronics, so...nope. Then I got all excited about Wizardry coming to the C64 and when I got it...it sucked. They tried to fancy-schmancy it up, ruining a great game in the process. What a letdown. The games that first got me hooked to the C64 were Little Computer People (primitive version of the Sims) and Master Trivia (I played this so much at the computer store, the sales guy had to kick me out a few times).

Street Fighter, Zangief: I know it's not what he's really saying, but to me it sounds like..."YOGURT FIBER!"

Haha! I dread the day when game manufacturers put in a mild electric shock device to discourage would-be cheaters.... I don't remember how we did it, but back at the dorms we had an NBA Jam machine that had a coin slot loophole of some sort (not the freeplay code). We racked up tons of freebies until the dorm staff found out. Soon after that, NBA Jam was replaced by Bad Dudes.

I have mildly favorable feelings toward the N64, for sentimental reasons. My roommate used to have one and we'd spend hours playing Diddy Kong racing. One time I went to sleep, and my roomie and his friend were playing NBA Jam. When I got up at 8am they were still at it. LOL Unfortunately, I cannot vouch for the controllers. The analog joystick gets all crumbly reeeal fast, esp. if you have a game like Mario Party.

I remember this game as well! I just thought it was so neat that they had the guys' heads all pasted in and everything. I really hated the one where you're on a conveyer belt and have to jump over the hurdles...my timing is awful. BTW the Starcade score-to-beat on this game is 1,614 in 30 seconds - just had to throw that in there. Piece of cake if you can get through the microphone level with the swinging gates. The actual contestant had no clue what to do and scored only 60 points!

Can't speak for all the anniv. machines but the one by my place allows the Ms. Pac-man to move at turbo speed. That could be the difference. By the way, I tried the trick to play regular Pac-Man and it worked! The movie attendant sure got a kick out of it.

Why, the Lynx version, of course. http://www.atariage.com/catalog_page.html?...2&currentPage=3 Just kidding, this never came out.

Sorry, forgot to post the link of...Sonic on the Lynx??? (see bottom of page) http://www.atariage.com/catalog_page.html?...2&currentPage=3

Offhand I'd say the "scrap of paper" version is rarer, from my small sample of experience. Between my friend and me we've had at least 3 copies of CF over the years and all have come with the poster, not the paper scrap.

I remember that tip, on a show where the STB was even higher than 6,500 IIRC. I tried a LOT of experiments on my "Dragon's Lair machine" (read: PC with 20th anniversary CD) and dying on low-scoring screens NEVER made the difference between beating the score and missing it. (Although my avg score was indeed higher.) I think the problem is that you only have 30 sec so it doesn't matter what you do. With 60 seconds, that's probably a great tip and I would love to see a repeat of the all-DL special where the contestants try to use that to their advantage.