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Depends... If it's translucent, then yeah, probably Synapse. But if it's opaque, then it's likely Fisher-Price (IIRC -- that's the name coming to mind, though I'm not positive it's correct).

So, you actually got to play it, but didn't even think to ask what it was called? Do you at least understand why people are having a hard time believing you?

I think it was that Chad was going to make the CC totally Supercharger compatible, and was looking to license the code from the copyright holders; but, in the end he decided to write his own routines anyway. So, IIRC, it wasn't really a "problem", just that it might have added cost if he had licensed it. But if someone knows better, correct me.

@chris_lynx1989: You say you can't give out the guy's name who got the game, so just tell us the name of this alleged game. ---- Dug this out of my files; thought people might get a kick out of it:

I think basically just that they didn't want to get in any trouble from Namco, which is why they redid it into Pesco.

...who probably got it from Best Electronics. What's your point?

Have you heard about the supposed "J" image in ET? Maybe it's time to look for that again now that we know stuff is messed up? Or did Thomas thoroughly debunk that? I can't remember for sure.

I'm pretty sure GLCB is still owned by the guy who found it, but I've had little success in contacting him. Actually, I believe it's a pun of "levee" on Jim Levy, the CEO of Activision...

Heh... See my note in the Terminology thread...

See I don't know about that. If they're roms then they were mass produced (small rom runs would be outrageously expensive). If they were mass produced then they're not prototypes, but final versions. Why would anyone make roms for a WIP game? More than likely they're a first run of a game and EPROM boards were used because the regular boards weren't available. Got an example? You might talk to JerryG... He used to refer to something like this... "Test burn" might be the phrase he used... Said that they'd do an inital ROM run, and if it tested okay, they'd be the first chips used. But sometimes that was the only run done. And sometimes the games weren't officially released, even though ROMs existed. But then again, I might be getting a lot of that info wrong. I think he used to refer to Dukes Of Hazzard that way, but that might be wrong too...

Kevtris sure did have a Coleco Multicart, but I don't think he ever sold any -- I think it was just for himself. It had a nice menu system too.

The odd thing is that yeah, he's noticeably reading off a prompter, but I don't think that's why he isn't looking into the camera -- I believe the director told him to do that most of the time and/or they used shots from a side camera primarily instead of the one he was looking into. One shot switches briefly to the view where he is looking into the camera between shots of him not, but it's one take. I find this style extremely annoying, as it makes the host seem like they're purposefully shunning the viewer. This needs to be done for fiction, but not for this sort of thing. I couldn't decide either if Seanbaby was a bit "stagefrightened" (which I wouldn't have expected from his stuff that I've read or the photos I've seen), or if the director reined him in a bit. He came off very stiff and not very interesting most of the time, and so the bits where he was seemed kind of fake and tacked on.

Karri, I'm with you, that guy was either skylarking, or bullshitting. It read like a hoax up all the way up and down from day one. If I were a betting man, I'd bet the farm that there's absolutely no such thing as Evergreen for Lynx.

I think it's a Biglist problem. I tried to download Eckhard's Cubis and it had the same size. Eckhard removed Cubis from public distribution for fear of The Tetris Company coming down on him for it. TTC has made some indication that they're going after Tetris clones, but I'm not sure how much they actually have. As far as Edtris goes, I think it's just that Ed made the game as a cart and wants it to stay that way. I think he basically just doesn't want to lose control of his intellectual property.

I gotta say that I was a big Tac-Scan fan way back too... Very smooth gameplay, and the squadron thing made it reasonably compelling.

1) Yup, $2 for a system & 20 carts is a no-brainer 2) But as to Balloon Fight he's got something wrong or is lying But it only costs $2 to find out, so go for it!

BTW, I got the instructions safe and sound. Thanks!

I'll posit that regardless of whether you find NE146's avatar offensive or not, it (and that ass pic -- can't remember who has it) might be something you wouldn't want seen if you browse the forums at work, which I often do, and hence, I think Channel 2's idea isn't a bad one, even though I'm not personally offended by the avatars I've seen here.

I should probably point out that the Un-Roller Controller is not a trakball, but rather a trakball shaped joystick -- i.e. it's a sphere that moves in the 8 directions a joystick would, but doesn't actually roll at all. Also, besides Wico, there is at least one more third-party trakball, but it might not have been intended for the 2600 -- it has a 9-pin plug like 2600 controllers do, but other systems (such as Atari computers and Commodore computers) used the same 9-pin plug too, so it might actually be for one of those. I don't know about the internals. Hmm, it strikes me that besides the one I was thinking of above -- either a "no-name" brand, or a very obscure third-party company (I only got to look at it briefly, but could find no manufacturer info on it) -- I think that also TG Products (or TC or something like that) made one for Atari computers.

Dang, that just occurred to me too! It occurs to me that the light cycle bit from Tron, possibly after they break out and the tanks are chasing them, might work well too, but now we're back to copyright issues.

Interesting ethical question (and don't take this as an attack mind, but I'm going to ask you rather than a hypothetical person): Does "anyone" include you? [i.e. the ethical question is you're loaned these games with a condition that you don't give them to anyone, but will you keep a copy for yourself?] No, because the copyright belongs to Jamie, not Midway, IIRC.

Cool tech... Hope you're not feeling the pressure to produce already though. Had a couple more thoughts... A movie of some modern game, like perhaps Halo, but that might inspire the wrath of others (and I was thinking of something frenetic and bright like Crazy Taxi as a possibility too). An old Pong ad? If that's the game that started the industry, it would be cool to see an homage coming out of the VCS. A clip of the South Park kids playing their Okama Gamesphere. Can you loop the audio & video or does it only play on reset? I had this weird image of one member's avatar -- a dancing Asian gal -- playing over and over with some techno or pop music playing. :-)

Dang it, you beat me to the idea... The only downside is that the flight at Kitty Hawk is in black & white, not color. As for the audio, I pictured maybe a recitation of Magee's "High Flight", or the condensed version: "Oh I Have Slipped The Surly Bonds of Earth... Put Out My Hand And Touched the Face of God" --- Or, in a totally different vein, I think it would be fun to use a clip from one of the old Intellivision commercials, with George Plimpton talking about how much better Intellivision is than Atari. :-)

I think CafePress can do ornaments? So anybody could set up a store there, though you'd risk Infogrames coming after you.

The Sprint games are still awesome...