Esc Posted February 18, 2004 Share Posted February 18, 2004 They are doing a show on the Atari 2600 on TechTV. The show is called X-Play and is playing throughout the week Its on tonight 11PM EST Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted February 18, 2004 Share Posted February 18, 2004 If I only had digital cable or a dish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjk7382 Posted February 18, 2004 Share Posted February 18, 2004 I am watching it right now and they just went over Midway's Arcade Treasures, and next they are doing the intlelivision. When are they going over the 2600? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esc Posted February 18, 2004 Author Share Posted February 18, 2004 they already did...I guess you can watch the repeat at 2AM or tomorrow (Wednesday) at 4PM I believe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubersaurus Posted February 18, 2004 Share Posted February 18, 2004 That was pretty cool. Too bad they didn't mention the homebrews on the gba anthology, but then, I don't think that's a major selling point for the masses. Plus Morgan looked hot in that getup. Also funny-Adam Sessler looked like Nitro band member Jim Gilette Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esc Posted February 18, 2004 Author Share Posted February 18, 2004 Here's the schedule for those who missed it http://cgi.techtv.com/tvschedule?timeZone=...ce=1&show_id=92 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raindog Posted February 18, 2004 Share Posted February 18, 2004 heh, I still have a Tech Live show on my PVR from January 2003 with a brief profile of some Atari homebrew figure as one of the segments. Haven't ever gotten around to capturing it to the computer I may also have G4TV's Icons, the Atari episode, except I think I actually made a vcd or something of that one and deleted it from the PVR. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE146 Posted February 18, 2004 Share Posted February 18, 2004 I USED to have Techtv.. but then I moved and by that time stupid Comcast changed their "packages" where the same package price range that I usually get now does not have TechTV included If I want it it'll be another 30 bucks or so + a whole bunch of channels I don't need or want. Forget it. THANK GOD for Usenet.. It'll be uploaded in the next couple of days I'm sure. If not, there's always torrents. *crosses fingers* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HermChase Posted February 18, 2004 Share Posted February 18, 2004 I also have Comcast, and at one point had TechTV...My favourite station...watched it all the time... Then, they dropped it and added the "Inspirational Channel" and the "Outdoor Life Network" in its place. Who is inspired to go outdoors anymore!? I'd rather stay inside with my technology... ----- Chase Hermsen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxman Posted February 18, 2004 Share Posted February 18, 2004 Thanks for the info. I just set the VCR up to record it for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaineMaxwell Posted February 18, 2004 Share Posted February 18, 2004 Definitly taping this today! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted February 18, 2004 Share Posted February 18, 2004 I'll have to TiVo this, thanks for the heads up. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.FoodMonster Posted February 18, 2004 Share Posted February 18, 2004 I saw it last night, it was ok. I have Comcast and get this channel, so I'm happy =D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocko Posted February 18, 2004 Share Posted February 18, 2004 Whats usenet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oesii Posted February 18, 2004 Share Posted February 18, 2004 Whats usenet? What's Google? http://www.google.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaineMaxwell Posted February 18, 2004 Share Posted February 18, 2004 Great show, love the old Atari and Intellivision commericals! What games were they showing for AA and the Atari PC Collection? I could make out most of them but not all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted February 19, 2004 Share Posted February 19, 2004 I saw this a few minutes ago, was pretty amusing. I almost fast-forwarded through the first Intellivision commercial they played, since it was right before a normal commercial break. They played two different Intellivision commercials and an Activision Ice Hockey commercial. They reviewed three different products, the GBA Anthology, the Midway Arcade Treasures and Intellivision Lives. At least two different homebrews were shown during the Anthology segment, Vault Assault (which is the game they used to intro the segment!) and Oystron. They also covered Bloody Human Freeway and seemed quite amused by it. They gave the Anthology 4 out of 5 stars. When talking about the Midway collection, they didn't mention that most of the arcade games were actually from Williams, which is a shame, as well as many old Atari coin-ops (Toobin', Gauntlet, Roadblasters, and so forth). Yes, I know Midway bought Atari Games at some point. This they gave 3 out of 5 stars. Intellivision Lives they were less impressed with, most notably because the games were more difficult to enjoy without the Intellivision controller, and only gave it 2 out of 5 stars. Oh yeah, they also talked about the Jakk's Pacific controllers, the one that has the five arcade games and then the Atari 2600 one. They didn't really review those, per se, but just talked about them briefly. Was a fun episode--all the 80s references are making me feel quite old. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.FoodMonster Posted February 19, 2004 Share Posted February 19, 2004 Al, you missed one. They also did the PC 80 Atari games collection. I think they gave it a 3-5, but I dont remember their reasoning and the such. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Harlock Posted February 19, 2004 Share Posted February 19, 2004 Does anyone have recorded it and is willing to put a BitTorrent tracker up for it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mendon Posted February 19, 2004 Share Posted February 19, 2004 GRRRRR... I missed the show due to work & family commitments. Hopefully it will rerun again soon. I looked at some of the pictures from it HERE and wonder where they got those game boxes; man, those are in GREAT shape!! Mendon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jess Ragan Posted February 19, 2004 Share Posted February 19, 2004 Al, you missed one. They also did the PC 80 Atari games collection. I think they gave it a 3-5, but I dont remember their reasoning and the such. They claimed that it didn't have joystick support, which I personally find hard to believe. What kind of commercial computer game doesn't have joystick support these days? Anyway, I liked that episode of X-Play... it was very authentic, but some of the pokes at the third wall weren't very subtle. Then again, subtlety was never really X-Play's strong point... JR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geosteve Posted February 19, 2004 Share Posted February 19, 2004 that episode was great, worth keeping a VCR copy. It will rerun this weekend, heres the XPLAY website on that... http://www.techtv.com/xplay/features/story...3616931,00.html also, if you didn't know already... that great episode of Futurama about the 'what is life were a video game' episode is scheduled for tonight on cartoon network (according to yahoo tv site) [/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubersaurus Posted February 20, 2004 Share Posted February 20, 2004 Al, you missed one. They also did the PC 80 Atari games collection. I think they gave it a 3-5, but I dont remember their reasoning and the such. They claimed that it didn't have joystick support, which I personally find hard to believe. What kind of commercial computer game doesn't have joystick support these days? Anyway, I liked that episode of X-Play... it was very authentic, but some of the pokes at the third wall weren't very subtle. Then again, subtlety was never really X-Play's strong point... JR I think they were complaining more about the fact you can't really use an authentic atari stick more then anything. Since I don't have that PC collection I couldn't tell you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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