Mindfield Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 Damn! Those look cool! Now I wish I lived up there -- I doubt they'd have the same promo here. Hell, I'd pay to have someone pick me up a complete set. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klove Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 I actually worked on these. I too wasn't very impressed with the fact that they wanted to use "Burgers" in Kaboom!, but.. "Hey! That's what they wanted." The trick to collecting these HARDCORE-wise, is that each of the handhelds will come in two (2) different color schemes. The Al's have my prototypes and should be doing a review shortly. Keep your eyes peeled, as there's also gonna' be a TV Commercial. For those of you REALLY HARDCORE about these, you should get into the BK Kids Club as they're gonna' be doing an Activision "themed" newsletter, that'll be sent out to all of it's members. I hope you all enjoy these little thingies. I think they'll do well. I know my daughter loves hers. She got to play with 'em about a month and half ago. -K Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisbid Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 I actually worked on these. I too wasn't very impressed with the fact that they wanted to use "Burgers" in Kaboom!, but.. "Hey! That's what they wanted." The trick to collecting these HARDCORE-wise, is that each of the handhelds will come in two (2) different color schemes. The Al's have my prototypes and should be doing a review shortly. Keep your eyes peeled, as there's also gonna' be a TV Commercial. For those of you REALLY HARDCORE about these, you should get into the BK Kids Club as they're gonna' be doing an Activision "themed" newsletter, that'll be sent out to all of it's members. I hope you all enjoy these little thingies. I think they'll do well. I know my daughter loves hers. She got to play with 'em about a month and half ago. -K if youre going to be hardcore, youll need to include emulated versions in your next Activision compilation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keilbaca Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 Woo! They got em here in japan too! I wouldn't think they'd make it over here on base, but they did! I got me tennis and kaboom, that's all they had right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 I wish "WhataBurger" had stuff like this, Its my favorite burger, and they have real onion rings. But I like the "Whopper" well enough to blow my diet for a week or two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Helmet Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 So, do you have to buy anything to get one, or can I just get the games? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeepnut24 Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 Don't have to buy anything to get one. I just stopped by and 1.60 later I was enjoying grand prix.... Great stuff. I can't wait to get barnstormming and kaboom. Should make great additions to my cubicle. Finally I can play atari at work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+-^CrossBow^- Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 My wife called about 6 BKs around town tonight and they all only just started putting out the Grand Prix one. So I went to one...and got a burger kids meal for each of my boys. Then they sold me two extra for only .99 cents each...2 of each color here... they said they change them out about every week or two..so the misses will have to make a stop at least once each week to check up and pick them up for me. These are basically the same as when Mickey Ds was doing the Sonic games..just with a retro theme that both the kids and adults and get into more. Pretty cool idea...and we still have more Activision titles available for doing this again at a later date ehh? Frostbite comes to mine...Freeway...Fishing Derby....even a scaled down version of Seaquest perhaps? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian R. Posted February 8, 2005 Author Share Posted February 8, 2005 My wife called about 6 BKs around town tonight and they all only just started putting out the Grand Prix one. So I went to one...and got a burger kids meal for each of my boys. Then they sold me two extra for only .99 cents each...2 of each color here... they said they change them out about every week or two..so the misses will have to make a stop at least once each week to check up and pick them up for me. These are basically the same as when Mickey Ds was doing the Sonic games..just with a retro theme that both the kids and adults and get into more. Pretty cool idea...and we still have more Activision titles available for doing this again at a later date ehh? Frostbite comes to mine...Freeway...Fishing Derby....even a scaled down version of Seaquest perhaps? From what I'm guessing, it looks like these games are limited to controls that are either up/down or left/right. So you can't have a fire button, nor can you have one that requires four-way movement. Freeway could work. Fishing Derby, maybe, but it wouldn't work as well without being able to wiggle the line back and forth. I don't see Frostbite or Seaquest working in this format. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moycon Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 Sking and sky jinx would probably be good candidates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerG Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 This coincides with the release of the new Burger King fish sandwich - the BK Big Fish! I think the King Fisher would have been a cooler name . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homerwannabee Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 As soon as I found out from this thread that there were these games at burger king I went right out to buy them. I bought one purple and one gray and another gray to play with. This is definetly a good thing for the atari 2600. Now anyone that goes to a burger king will have a little bit more knowledge about a couple of old school atari 2600 games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian R. Posted February 8, 2005 Author Share Posted February 8, 2005 As soon as I found out from this thread that there were these games at burger king I went right out to buy them. I bought one purple and one gray and another gray to play with. This is definetly a good thing for the atari 2600. Now anyone that goes to a burger king will have a little bit more knowledge about a couple of old school atari 2600 games. You'd like to think that, but when I tried to tell the girl behind the counter a bit of the history of these games - basically that they were once big games on the Atari 2600 - she had no clue what I was talking about. So, sadly, the only people who will appreciate these are those who already know where they come from. I'm sure a lot of people getting them will make no connection between these games and Atari. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osbo Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 I'd like to see River Raid, left-right and fire button... too complicated, but one can dream too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZylonBane Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 Anyone else see some sort of irony in reproducing the limited bitmaps of the 2600 on an even more limited LCD panel? The one strength of these types of displays is that they can offer highly detailed images, so by reproducing the pixelated 2600 graphics on a display with low positional resolution, they're piling two weaknesses directly on top of each other. I think I'd actually have preferred it if they'd redrawn the 2600 sprites, but still kept them recognizable. I am of course going to collect all of these, but anyone without first-hand knowledge of the 2600 will be wondering why the hell everything is so blocky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhindle The Red Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 Sking and sky jinx would probably be good candidates. I want my Megamania! It had burgers in it from the start! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Helmet Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 My wife just called. She picked me up a Grand Prix! Can't wait to check it out this evening! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kencrisis Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 Seems like almost everyone just has Grand Prix. Any opinions on how enjoyable it (or any of the other games) is/are for adults? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liveinabin Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 I want Space Shuttle 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keilbaca Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 I played tennis and kaboom! through the package, kaboom can get quite challenging, but tennis is easy. I can't wait till they get the other two here, i'm gonna stop by today and see what they got Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris-in-NJ Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 I was in a Burger King earlier tonight, and, while asking if they had Kaboom, whipped out my minimally-Actiplaqued 2600 cartridge and said, "I want to compare it with the original." The teenagers behind the counter said things like, "wow! Where did you get that from?" and "How old is that?" Another gave me a thumbs-up sign and said, "yeah, Atari!" They only had Grand Prix, though. The kid offered to sell it to me, but I turned him down as I never cared for the original game all that much Oh, Mindfield, the BK website says these are available in Canada. Nice Wheel in Space Cyberman there, liveinabin Did you remember to switch to the sexual air supply? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keilbaca Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 W00t! Went to burger king today and they had the other two color schemes of both Tennis and Kaboom! 4 down, 4 to go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian R. Posted February 9, 2005 Author Share Posted February 9, 2005 Has anyone managed - or tried - to get one of these open, without destroying it in the process? I'm curious to see what kind of battery is in there, and if it can be replaced. I got the screws out, but the thing won't come apart, and I don't want to force it too much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keilbaca Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 Has anyone managed - or tried - to get one of these open, without destroying it in the process? I'm curious to see what kind of battery is in there, and if it can be replaced. I got the screws out, but the thing won't come apart, and I don't want to force it too much. No, I never tried, I play mine through the package... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian R. Posted February 9, 2005 Author Share Posted February 9, 2005 Has anyone managed - or tried - to get one of these open, without destroying it in the process? I'm curious to see what kind of battery is in there, and if it can be replaced. I got the screws out, but the thing won't come apart, and I don't want to force it too much. No, I never tried, I play mine through the package... OK, you're just... weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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