I love classic gamers

[monsterbaldy]

I want to say that reading all these posts almost brings a tear to my eye. I had a 5200 as a kid and NOONE else I knew had even heard of them in my elementary school. Seeing that so many other people had the love for this fine system is great. I finally got a 2-port with 40+ games off of ebay and two reconditioned controllers and I am in heaven. Now if I can just find a new bios chip to play mountain king I am in business.

 

Also, I need to recognize 5200 Joust as being AWESOME. You get a lot more air per flap than the arcade, and everything else is so dead on. You 5200 owners out there who don't own it need to get it stat!

 

-ben

[NE146]

You get a lot more air per flap than the arcade

 

Yep. I've said it before ( http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=29 ) and I'll say it again. It's the higher flight-to-flap ratio and the bouncy ceiling in 5200 Joust that makes me like it more than the arcade version

 

The only drawback to it is you never have more than one Pterry like you can in the original.

[Bruce Tomlin]

I've always thought the flap problem with the home versions was that while the screen dimensions were shrunk for the lower resolutions of home consoles, the gravity constant wasn't correspondingly scaled. So gravity was always stronger than it should have been.

[+Cafeman]

<== big 5200 Joust fan!

 

http://cafeman.www9.50megs.com/atari/5200joust.html

 

Welcome! And you are correct, there are many 5200 fans who,like yourself, had the supersystem back in the day and fondly recall playing its games for hours!

[PacMan]

I had it back in the days, and just recently got one of ebay and now I am playing it with my 13 yo daughter and we are just having a blast with it.

 

Instant fun.......

 

/P