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Will these games have an option to be sold without a box? I am happy though these games are using Pokeyone instead of taking a sound chip out a Ballblazer cart.

The problem for Alien Brigade in NTSC form is easy. I got an Atari 7800 for Christmas in 1989. The fact is the stores by me did not have 1990 Atari 7800 game releases and I was surprised the 1990 Sears Christmas Catalog had those new 7800 releases. I remembered being excited the 7800 actually had new game releases, but I did not get those 1990 Atari 7800 releases for Christmas that year at all including Ikari Warriors. It took me last year to get 7800 version of Ikari Warriors and I got it from a used collectibles store with it being 20 percent off. Stores wanted to get a rid Atari 2600 and Atari 7800 games that year for more space for Tg-16 and Sega Genesis. Alien Brigade was one of the 1990 Atari 7800 game releases.

I don't know, but I would like play it at some point. I only played the Famicom and the Tg-16 version. I did not have a chance to play it in the arcade back in the day and I did not recall seeing that arcade cabinet. I also did not recall seeing that arcade game at the 2 Midwest Gaming Classics I went to aka last year and this year.

I own the Tg-16 version of Pac-land. It is a good game. The Tg-16 version has an ending. I beaten the game before.

I am Lynx owner since the 2000s. The Lynx has some nice games, but I being a realist here. I can speak about the Lynx compare to Game Boy. I was a grade school student in the United States when the Lynx and Game Boy came out in 1989. If you were in 5th grade like I was at the time, there was a size difference between the two systems along with battery life besides being more expensive. I knew students who owned Game boy when it first came out. I did not own Game Boy at all, and it took me GBC to own a handheld. I did not like Game Boy's Screen at all just like I didn't like Game Gear's Screen. The Lynx was too expensive at the time for anyone who was a grade school student in 1989 and trust me, my parents did not want to spend the $180.00 for a handheld in 1989. Back in 1989, Nintendo was looked at more kindly by people than Atari was. Atari was not considered cool in 1989 and I am saying that as an Atari 2600 Jr. owner back when when Game boy and the Lynx was released. Atari was not considered in at the school I attended compare to the Nes. The first thing is the Lynx had a small game library and not a lot of 3rd party titles. Game Gear even had more than 3rd party titles than the Lynx. What I do know is the Lynx was released in Japan, but there was big problem. Atari Inc. did not release the 5200 in Japan, and Atari Corp. did not release the 7800 in Japan. That means Japanese Consumers really did not know the Atari product at a time Nintendo built a huge following in Japan. What I can tell you is Tetris was the game that sold the Gameboy to people. The Lynx had great games like Blue Lightning, but they did not sell the system. The Lynx had arcade games, but there are multiple issues in this case. Ms. Pac-Man, Qix, Robotron 2084, and Joust were extremely long in the tooth despite being well known arcade games. Pac-Land was old when the game released for the lynx, and to top it off, Pac-Land in the arcades was not exactly as popular as Ms. Pac-man and Pac-man. The Lynx had a lot of ports from Atari Games Corporation, but how many of those games were popular as arcade games. The Lynx got Double Dragon way too late in its lifetime. The Lynx got Ninja Gaiden and Rygar, but they were based on the Arcade versions, not the NES version. The fact is Ninja Gaiden and Rygar were not well known arcade games compare to the Nes games with the same names despite the Nes versions being very different. Where I grew up in the United States, it was not easy to find stores with an Atari Lynx. Atari was bad with marketing for the Lynx. I did find the Lynx at stores early as 1989/1990 though, but was not interested at the time for the reasons I already mentioned.

No special order. It is just favorites of mine.

Out of the Non Homebrews I own to say: Ballblazer Centipede Food Fight Dig Dug Commando Ikari Warriors Ninja Golf Xevious Galaga Joust Mario Bros

Gamestop has laid off people now including some of the staff of Gameinformer. https://kotaku.com/gamestop-lays-off-over-100-people-including-nearly-hal-1837418024

You shouldn't be making that comment. You comment is not done in good taste at all. DracIsBack is a longtime poster that is in bad health. I first communicated with him on Atariage back in the 2000s. The longtime posters knew Drac enjoys the 7800 and him may not be able to see the 7800 XM is shame. Drac is one of the members that pre-ordered this project that is in bad heath or died.

I wish this wasn't on facebook. I do not have facebook account or a twitter account. If this is a replacement for the YM2151, I'm not surprised. Based on the problems Curt has with it, that chip should've been gone a while already. I really question how many people would program sound using that sound chip. If this is a replacement of the pokey sound chip, I'll be very disappointed. The reason is I don't want to see any more Ballblazer cartridges having their sound chip taken out due to homebrew authors using the sound chip for better sound for games like Arkanoid.

This is not Grovy bee and I am guessing not Gorf. Mark Ball aka Grovybee has post on plenty of boards on Atariage, but VladR can't be him. VladR's account was created in 2008 and I remember Grovybee being on the 7800 message board that year. Atariage does have forum policy that members can't have 2 accounts unless it something very rare and that rules out Gorf. As far as Grovy bee goes, his impact on Atariage is still being felt despite him not post since last year. He's been working with Curt Vendel trying to get the 7800 XM finally completed.

This is something I am really considering. The fact the TG-16 Mini is able to play Pc Engines and TG-16. From a game selection standpoint, it is not a bad line up. I am not big on Snatcher not being translated although you can play it on the Mini. The only catch is the price and stuff being sold separately. Having a ac adapter being sold separately is something I am not big on. The pc engine games is impressive to me. I would be after Super Darius, 2 Supergrafx games including version of Ghoul's N Ghosts, both Gradius games, Salamander, Castlevania: Rondo of Blood, Bomberman 94, Bomberman Panic Bomber, Star Parodier, Ginga Fukei Densetsu Sapphire, and Ninja Gaiden from the Pc Engine game side of things.

The Mega SD looks cool, but the price is a turn off. There is a market for it since I am a Sega CD owner. Disc systems that are very old does need to be replaces, but not at the price in question besides me wanting a Mega SG. I'm looking at getting Mega Sg because I want my 27 year old Sega Genesis to be replaced. I also am a Game Gear and a SMS owner and that means the cartridge adapters are must for the Mega Sg for me. In general, I want as many of my old systems to be replaced by core FPGA.

What I know is Albert let the Atariage community know back in 2002 about ResQSoft Productions selling Atari 7800 Reproductions of Klax and Sentinel. I think ResQSoft Productions no longer sells either game, but Good Deal Games does. I think Good Deal Games first sold Klax in 2009 or 2010. Good Deal Games have to be on their 2nd or 3rd run of Klax at least. I got my copy of Klax from Good Deal Games at the 2018 Midwest Gaming classic along with a copy of Plutos, and Sirius. The 7800 version of Klax is a good version of the game.

I Had a fun time there on Saturday. I did buy a boxed copy of Spaceman Splorf: Planet of Doom from Packrat games. I went to most of the areas at the Midwest Gaming Classic including Vendor Hall. Hopefully, I will be able to attend next year.

True, but Double Dragon as an arcade port for the 7800 was lacking. I think no one should expecting the game to be 100 percent like the arcade since the Nes and SMS weren't capable of it either, but the 7800 had room for improvement. This is a game that needed to be the same cartridge size as the SMS version and the NES version aka 256k despite it not going to a perfect port no matter what.. This is a gaming that had music on the wrong levels. The graphics could've been better at the time. The programmers in the past mentioned they had boulders as weapons against the Abobo in stage 3, but they took them out due not being allowed a bigger cartridge size. The programmers even developed the balcony's for the final stage, but it wasn't shown. Even if the boulders were there in stage 3, the game was going to miss weapons found in the arcade. The game also was missing some moves for the arcade also. The 7800 version didn't have enemies die by pits or landing in water like they did in the arcade version. The AI was different from the arcade version also. The Cartridge size problem with the 7800 was not a limit on the system, but it a was cost issue. There even a even a backswitch 512k with pokey support mention on Dan Borris's Atari 7800 Technical page, but it never was used by Tramiel due to cost. Activision themselves also didn't bother creating a bigger cartridge size. I know there is a hack for improved graphics and pokey sound added, the author of the hack didn't do anything with adding weapons and had no problems with AI.

Not Mentioned yet: Gauntlet Rastan Solomon's Key I know Solomon's Key was a Japan only release, but I have a reproduction of it.

My younger brother and I are continuing to give each other Video games as Christmas gifts for 26 years. He gave me a list and I gave him a list.

I know he spent time in the Jaguar forum before he was banned. I also know the Jaguar forum before he was banned was not exactly a nice forum when he was a member. I know he was on the Retro Video Gamer forum for a time after he was banned here, but I don't know the last time he was on that forum.

The 2600 version of Klax was released in Europe. The 7800 had prototypes of Klax, Rampart, and Pit Fighter. Klax was very complete. Rampart and Pit Fighter were very incomplete. Pit Fighter only had one screen. Rampart only had the title screen and a shooting stage. The shooting Stage in Rampart was very incomplete.

I own a copy of the old Non-VE Version for over 10 years. Back when Atariage store originally had the non Ve version, it was numbered. There is no difference between the two versions outside Pokey chip and the Old Non-VE version from Atariage being numbered.

The deal with Ixion is the game was supposed to be released in the Arcade, 2600, Atari 8 bit computer and the Vic-20. None of the versions of the game were released. The Atari 5200 version is a conversion after someone released the Atari 8 bit version online. The Atari 2600 version, Atari 8 bit computer version and the Vic-20 version were supposed to based on the arcade version. The Atari 8 bit computer version was very close to being published by U.S. Gold in 1985 after Sega Temporary pulled out of the US Market. U.S. Gold also was going to do this despite the Arcade version was canceled by Sega after Ixion failed at its test location.

What happened to N64 in Asia actually adds up. You are ignoring Japan was a huge RPG market. N64 didn't have a lot of RPGs. Dragon Question and Final Fantasy always been huge hits in Japan and N64 not having a game from either franchise did hurt them a lot at the time. CD media at the time cost less than Cartridges did besides CDS storing more memory than a Cartridge can. RPGS in nature in nature costs a lot in cartridge form due to battery backup and a CD can make a game bigger than Cartridge can at the time. N64 not being a disc based system really hurt Nintendo towards RPGS. N64 not being a disc based system was why Squaresoft went to Sony and Final Fantasy 7 became a huge hit. N64 had Konami as a third party, but yet didn't have suikoden series unlike the Saturn and playstation one. Capcom had Breath of Fire 3 for Playstation 1, but not on N64 due to N64 being a cartridge based system. Atlus had games for the N64, but didn't bring the Megami Tensei franchise to the N64, unlike the Playstation and saturn. That was caused by N64 being a cartridge based system. Enix released a couple games for N64, but no RPGS. That was by N64 being a cartridge system. Enix not doing any RPGS for the N64 was a huge problem. Namco released N64 games, but didn't releases a Tales series game on the N64. That is a big deal cause the original Tales series game Tales of Phantasia was on the Super Nintendo.

The Atari 7800 does not play Atari 8 bit computer games at all. The Atari 7800 and the Atari 8 bit computers use a 6502 processor, but their graphic capabilities are different and the 7800 actually has less built in ram than all different Atari 8 bit computers out there. The graphic capabilities are different due to the nature of the chips the 7800 used and Atari's 8 bit computer line used.