Sean_1970 Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 2 hours ago, JetmanUK said: I didn't even know you had torpedos in this game. š¤·š»š¤¦š»š¤£ I was playing the rom in MAME a couple days ago and figured Iād have to read the manual for this. Started out running into the green things thinking they were pick-ups š 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shane857 Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 18 hours ago, sramirez2008 said: Make sure you have two controllers. The right controls Indy, the left controls your inventory.Ā Ā Game On! Yes. The manual is only useful for explaining the controls. Everything else is pretty vague. I understand how to play it now ,after watching someone doing a speed run on youtube.Ā š 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shane857 Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 19 hours ago, MysticSword said: Agreed! Well at least to me and of the games I currently have in my growing collection of Atari 2600 cartridges (now over 60 games), Defender II (Stargate) I'd say is the best scrolling-shooter 2600 game I have and after playing it more it's up in my top favs from my collection. With Pitfall I'd say still being my top fav 2600 game, though of course the games are a lot different of course, so it depends on what I'm in the mood to play at the time, and I still enjoy playing a variety of the other games in my collection too. Yeh, defender 2/stargate is definitely one of the best scrolling shooters on the 2600. Much better than defender. I actually like super cobra even thou it's pretty tough. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetmanUK Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 (edited) I bought Atari games from an actual shop today! š± I was after Mario Bros 7800 and was frustrated by the crazy online prices so I did a quick search and ended up on a Facebook market place listing. It was for a single collection of Atari 2600 and 7800 games. Zooming in I did notice that some carts had individual pricing on... One was Mario Bros 7800, for Ā£25. I asked, and yeah they were willing to sell individual games. Ā It turned out that it was a shop and not a private listing and they wanted to shift all their Atari stuff. I ended up getting 8 carts, only three were new to my collection. I got the five dupes as they were either different labels or better condition labels, and they guy said he'd do me a deal if I took a few.Ā Ā They were all priced up at a total of Ā£93, I paid Ā£75. Not bad. Ā The three games on the bottom row were new to my collection. Oh, for those interestested they had a lot of other carts, many desirable ones, but another guy was apparently heading there today, glad I got there just after the shop opened! Oh yeah, and they had a Vader console too. Ā Give me a shout if you would like their details to see if they have anything left that you would like. Edited January 28 by JetmanUK 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetmanUK Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 (edited) Double postĀ Ā Edited January 28 by JetmanUK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad_from_the_80s Posted January 28 Author Share Posted January 28 18 minutes ago, JetmanUK said: I bought Atari games from an actual shop today! š± I was after Mario Bros 7800 and was frustrated by the crazy online prices so I did a quick search and ended up on a Facebook market place listing. It was for a single collection of Atari 2600 and 7800 games. Zooming in I did notice that some carts had individual pricing on... One was Mario Bros 7800, for Ā£25. I asked, and yeah they were willing to sell individual games. Ā It turned out that it was a shop and not a private listing and they wanted to shift all their Atari stuff. I ended up getting 8 carts, only three were new to my collection. I got the five dupes as they were either different labels or better condition labels, and they guy said he'd do me a deal if I took a few.Ā Ā They were all priced up at a total of Ā£93, I paid Ā£75. Not bad. Ā The three games on the bottom row were new to my collection. Oh, for those interestested they had a lot of other carts, many desirable ones, but another guy was apparently heading there today, glad I got there just after the shop opened! Oh yeah, and they had a Vader console too. Ā Give me a shout if you would like their details to see if they have anything left that you would like. Mario Bros 7800 is always a nice find.Ā Pretty good port. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABA180 Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 19 hours ago, Intellivision Master said: Here are the 7 games I got recently.Ā It's a good collection.Ā Ā Ā Frogs and Flies is fun.Ā I like how the frogs jump off screen when the game is over and "The End" appears. Ā By the way, I like all the games in this lot.Ā Some more than others.Ā The Tron Deadly Discs is another good one. Ā Ā Adventures of Tron is another M game that works, can confirm 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shane857 Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 1 hour ago, JetmanUK said: I bought Atari games from an actual shop today! š± I was after Mario Bros 7800 and was frustrated by the crazy online prices so I did a quick search and ended up on a Facebook market place listing. It was for a single collection of Atari 2600 and 7800 games. Zooming in I did notice that some carts had individual pricing on... One was Mario Bros 7800, for Ā£25. I asked, and yeah they were willing to sell individual games. Ā It turned out that it was a shop and not a private listing and they wanted to shift all their Atari stuff. I ended up getting 8 carts, only three were new to my collection. I got the five dupes as they were either different labels or better condition labels, and they guy said he'd do me a deal if I took a few.Ā Ā They were all priced up at a total of Ā£93, I paid Ā£75. Not bad. Ā The three games on the bottom row were new to my collection. Oh, for those interestested they had a lot of other carts, many desirable ones, but another guy was apparently heading there today, glad I got there just after the shop opened! Oh yeah, and they had a Vader console too. Ā Give me a shout if you would like their details to see if they have anything left that you would like. Pole position, mario bros 7800 and donkey kong, moon patrol and road runner. Great gamesĀ š 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeM_ Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 I'm now in that challenging place of my collection where most of the games left that look interesting to me are the more rare/expensive ones. Just bought Tapper, Front Line, Mr. Do!, and Time Pilot on eBay. Front Line and Mr. Do! weren't too bad of a price, but the other two pushed the budget some.Ā Ā About to install the latest BETA build on my 2600+ to see if my other Coleco games work now in prep for the new ones coming.Ā Ā This puts my retro games collection at: 138 2600 Games 17 7800 Games 22 5200 Games 29 ColecoVision Games 8 400/800 Games 1 Intellivision Game (Star Wars - thought I was ordering the Atari 800 version. Decided to keep it even though I don't have an Intellivision) Ā I'm curious where the rest of you on here are at.Ā Ā How many of you are completionists? How many are just trying to get their favorites from their youth? How many are just looking to have the best games and skip the rest?Ā 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+LS650 Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 3 hours ago, MikeM_ said: How many of you are completionists? How many are just trying to get their favorites from their youth? How many are just looking to have the best games and skip the rest?Ā I'm a gamer, not really a collector.Ā I've picked up about 15-16 loose 2600 carts of some favorites, on top of the roughly 60 old carts I had prior to the 2600+.Ā Many of these "new to me" carts are old favorites that I had as ROMs on my Harmony cart, but I've picked up for $5-10 recently.Ā Ā Ā A used game would have to be very, very good before I would spend more than $10 on it.Ā Newer releases such as homebrews or new Atari releases, I am willing to pay more for, but they need to be releases that really appeal to me. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeM_ Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 1 hour ago, LS650 said: I'm a gamer, not really a collector.Ā I've picked up about 15-16 loose 2600 carts of some favorites, on top of the roughly 60 old carts I had prior to the 2600+.Ā Many of these "new to me" carts are old favorites that I had as ROMs on my Harmony cart, but I've picked up for $5-10 recently.Ā Ā Ā A used game would have to be very, very good before I would spend more than $10 on it.Ā Newer releases such as homebrews or new Atari releases, I am willing to pay more for, but they need to be releases that really appeal to me. Itās funny. When it comes to NES and newer platforms, Iām all about digital copies. My RetroPie is loaded with a ton of games. Ā The Atari systems are the only ones where I prefer having physical media over digital downloads.Ā Ā The 2600+ made that even better (and more expensive ha ha) for me.Ā 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetmanUK Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 I'm more into playing the games, that said I guess I've inadvertently become a collector. I think out of fear that when these 40 year old games have died or all found a more permanent home, well then they are gone. So I've collected lots of lesser titles out of interest/curiosity, collector pieces really. Ā It's really out of character with the rest of my gaming as I'm a digital man. I guess that also makes it fun too. I've enjoyed somewhat of a return to physical media in the last year in general (messing around with most old formats, but especially Cassettes, MiniDisc, VHS, DVD) so this all fits.Ā 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean_1970 Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 1 hour ago, JetmanUK said: I'm more into playing the games, that said I guess I've inadvertently become a collector. I think out of fear that when these 40 year old games have died or all found a more permanent home, well then they are gone. So I've collected lots of lesser titles out of interest/curiosity, collector pieces really. Ā It's really out of character with the rest of my gaming as I'm a digital man. I guess that also makes it fun too. I've enjoyed somewhat of a return to physical media in the last year in general (messing around with most old formats, but especially Cassettes, MiniDisc, VHS, DVD) so this all fits.Ā I abandoned physical media as soon as my computer was able to rip DVDs in a reasonable amount of time. My Wii U and PlayStation collections are all digital on hard drives (I have a backup disk for the Wii U in a fire safe). I still have boxes of DVDs that are collectible or donāt have digital downloads. My Evercade and 2600 carts are the exception, but thankfully donāt take up much space, but with the 2600 the notion that the carts will just stop working one day is certainly present in my mind. Hopefully Atari will produce more multi-carts that donāt just cover first-party releases to keep these games alive in a physical format š 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Karnov Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 I'm more of a gamer than a collector, and avoid digital download anything (games, movies, music) unless absolutely necessary. Physical all the way. Ā I would say I have almost all the 7800 games I want, but still a few 2600 games I'd quite likeĀ Ā I've not picked up any homebrew yet either (2600 or 7800) but I would be interested in that if it was on a physical cart 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetmanUK Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 (edited) 52 minutes ago, Sean_1970 said: I abandoned physical media as soon as my computer was able to rip DVDs in a reasonable amount of time. My Wii U and PlayStation collections are all digital on hard drives (I have a backup disk for the Wii U in a fire safe). I still have boxes of DVDs that are collectible or donāt have digital downloads. My Evercade and 2600 carts are the exception, but thankfully donāt take up much space, but with the 2600 the notion that the carts will just stop working one day is certainly present in my mind. Hopefully Atari will produce more multi-carts that donāt just cover first-party releases to keep these games alive in a physical format š Yeah I wonder how real the risk is. I'm assuming if they are stored well they will go on for our lifetime at least. Hopefully. This is why I'm happy to have some dupes, I won't bother selling them.Ā Edited January 29 by JetmanUK 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Intellivision Master Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 15 hours ago, MikeM_ said: I'm curious where the rest of you on here are at.Ā Ā How many of you are completionists? How many are just trying to get their favorites from their youth? How many are just looking to have the best games and skip the rest?Ā So far, I've collected a few carts.Ā Some loose and some boxed.Ā I am not a completionist.Ā I'm just trying to get certain ones.Ā There are still a lot that I want to buy including homebrews.Ā Ā 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Karnov Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 The postman has been 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetmanUK Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 13 minutes ago, Dr Karnov said: The postman has been Let us know what you think and if you can beat a score of 207. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Karnov Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 19 minutes ago, JetmanUK said: Let us know what you think and if you can beat a score of 207. Challenge accepted!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetmanUK Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 1 hour ago, Dr Karnov said: Challenge accepted!! That's not my score btw, I saw a guy get this on YouTube. When you play it you'll understand how good a score it is.Ā 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Intellivision Master Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 (edited) I pre-ordered the new re-release of Food Fight from Atari.Ā This'll be the first boxed original 7800 game for me.Ā Not counting the homebrews. Edited January 29 by Intellivision Master 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetmanUK Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 2 minutes ago, Intellivision Master said: I pre-ordered the new re-release of Food Fight from Atari.Ā This'll be the first boxed 7800 game for me. When it appears on Amazon I'm gonna order it too.Ā But next, Commando 7800 boxed.Ā 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeM_ Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 11 minutes ago, JetmanUK said: When it appears on Amazon I'm gonna order it too.Ā But next, Commando 7800 boxed.Ā Thatās a good one. Once I have better controllers, Iāll really dive into my copy.Ā Ā Someday I hope to be able to find a loose copy of Ikari Warriors 7800 for a price that isnāt ridiculous, as thatās the only 7800 game left on my want list. Ā 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad_from_the_80s Posted January 29 Author Share Posted January 29 New gear and games day!Ā The 7800 releases are all things I don't have, so I ordered all 3.Ā And the extension cables and a 7800 game pad. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Karnov Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 1 hour ago, JetmanUK said: That's not my score btw, I saw a guy get this on YouTube. When you play it you'll understand how good a score it is.Ā So far, my highest score..... Ā Ā Ā Ā Is....... Ā Ā Ā Ā Twenty eight 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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