Asylum Seeker Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 Very simple question but why are there so many sealed games of Steel Talons, Chips Challenge, Xybots etc etc and nothing else? It puzzles me or were these the only titles that were mass produced? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian M Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 Atari probably set abnormally high production runs for these titles of which very few copies sold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bergbros2 Posted November 19, 2003 Share Posted November 19, 2003 Yep, that's right. Those are the commonest of commons. Absolutely huge production runs with little sold. Think E.T. for the 2600 but these games are much much better. There are other titles that were just as common. Look at the rarity list and you can spot them. The good thing is that the commons are usually good games. Except for Pit Fighter. Yuck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susuwatari Posted November 19, 2003 Share Posted November 19, 2003 Another good thing about these Lynx carts: after shipping you can get a bunch of new in box games for a few dollars each. Now if only Atari overdid with Chess game, I'd be set as far as stradegy games for Lynx. (got other like Rampart, Shanghai, etc) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidcalgary29 Posted November 19, 2003 Share Posted November 19, 2003 Another good thing about these Lynx carts: after shipping you can get a bunch of new in box games for a few dollars each. Now if only Atari overdid with Chess game, I'd be set as far as stradegy games for Lynx. (got other like Rampart, Shanghai, etc) Fidelity Ultimate Chess is a Telegames release, and their production runs, even in the commercial heydey of the Lynx, were always much more limited. The only Telegames Lynx game that seems to have a wide distribution is, somewhat unfortunately, Qix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xot Posted November 20, 2003 Share Posted November 20, 2003 Another good thing about these Lynx carts: after shipping you can get a bunch of new in box games for a few dollars each. Now if only Atari overdid with Chess game, I'd be set as far as stradegy games for Lynx. (got other like Rampart, Shanghai, etc) Fidelity Ultimate Chess is a Telegames release, and their production runs, even in the commercial heydey of the Lynx, were always much more limited. The only Telegames Lynx game that seems to have a wide distribution is, somewhat unfortunately, Qix. Yeah, why *is* Qix so bad on the Lynx, anyways? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JagChris Posted Sunday at 04:45 AM Share Posted Sunday at 04:45 AM On 11/19/2003 at 8:37 PM, Xot said: Yeah, why *is* Qix so bad on the Lynx, anyways? I'm not a Qix expert but my initial complaints is everything is plaid. I can't tell if its a slow or fast fill and the sparx are hard as hell to see. Ill take a peek at the instructions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JagChris Posted Sunday at 04:52 AM Share Posted Sunday at 04:52 AM Ok Qix on the Lynx it seems defaults no matter which button pressed to the slow speed then you have to switch buttons to get the fast speed. That's not good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted Sunday at 08:10 PM Share Posted Sunday at 08:10 PM I never had problems with Qix on the Lynx. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFG 9000 Posted Sunday at 11:02 PM Share Posted Sunday at 11:02 PM Lynx Qix is awesome. Maybe it's just because I grew up with it, but I don't see how anybody could complain about it. It's solidly programmed and pretty dang fun. I just wish the qix itself didn't spend so much time dancing around my character. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JagChris Posted Tuesday at 02:18 AM Share Posted Tuesday at 02:18 AM I find the color scheme not ideal or the button scheme. We need to do this for next season HSC. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted Tuesday at 02:39 AM Share Posted Tuesday at 02:39 AM 20 minutes ago, JagChris said: I find the color scheme not ideal or the button scheme. We need to do this for next season HSC. Maybe we'll have a wildcard vote. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFG 9000 Posted Tuesday at 09:54 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 09:54 PM 19 hours ago, JagChris said: We need to do this for next season HSC. Oh man. That would be great. I will MOP THE FLOOR with all of you! 🤣 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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