Sell me on a 5200

[bohoki]

I don't believe many (or any?) of these are available for the 7800, and these are all decent enough reasons to make me want a 5200:

 

Space Dungeon, Berserk, Wizard of Wor, Gyruss, Galaxian, Gorf, Moon Patrol, Qix, Miner 2049er, and Mr. Do's Castle.

 

Second reason - the Trak-Ball. Not only is it a great controller, it simply looks cool.

 

Third reason - you get cool points if you have a 5200, I would say. It's a pretty tight knit community. Of course part of that is due to the downsides of the 5200...like...

 

Reasons not to get involved with the 5200:

The controllers breaking issue, lack of backward compatibility, things of this nature.

 

But that being said, one day I'll be a 5200 owner, and proud of it. Probably wind up shelling out for those gold-contact controllers just to give them a go on Space Dungeon...

 

 

that is kind of funny being that space dungeon doesn't use any buttons(well ok it wants start)

 

there are a few games that actually start the game without needing the start button

 

mr do and robotron come to mind

 

what bothers me is that vanguard looks the best on the 5200 but they blew it by taking away diagonals, arcade diagonals ,2600 diagonals aok

 

then 5200 left right or up down another thing would have been awesome if they had it be a dual controller compatable like robotron and space dungeon

 

they really missed the boat on that game

 

then you have kangaroo where they could have used the second button for jump(sure up was the arcade jump but why do they keep that feature to be arcade accurate then take out diagonal movement in vanguard{which makes the 3rd time through the stripe zone nearly impossible})

 

another thing why leave the other button unused on any game digdug makes sense either button lauched the pump but why not have both buttons fire in galaxian and missile command and missile command we got 2 buttons why not have 2 missile bases to choose from, heck with the top row of the keypad why not have the 3 arcade bases like the arcade (to be more arcade faithful)

[Divya16]

I don't believe many (or any?) of these are available for the 7800, and these are all decent enough reasons to make me want a 5200:

 

Space Dungeon, Berserk, Wizard of Wor, Gyruss, Galaxian, Gorf, Moon Patrol, Qix, Miner 2049er, and Mr. Do's Castle.

 

There are others missing and some that exist on A7800 aren't implemented as well as A5200 like Donkey Kong.