Atari Creep Posted October 25, 2014 Report Share Posted October 25, 2014 This post was recognized by Justin! "Shared your own YouTube video!" Atari Creep was awarded the badge 'Totally Tubular' and 50 points. Hey all! Got a contest funnung on my YouTube channel, The Atari Creep.The Atari Creep: Pickups & Giveaway part 2 Be sure you check out part one also. Lots of great items to show off.-Atari Creep Justin 1 Quote Don't just watch TV, PLAY IT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zontar Posted October 25, 2014 Report Share Posted October 25, 2014 Wow does this guy know how to set a great mood for Halloween gaming or what. Cool giveaway! Is it Warlords? Maybe, who knows. Welcome to the forums MaximumRD 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumple Foreskin Posted October 29, 2014 Report Share Posted October 29, 2014 im gonna win that contest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari Creep Posted March 31, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2015 WARNING, I CUS ALOTThe Atari Creep: Updated room tour!: Here is an older video I thought you would dig. I have never seen or heard of these before. Check it out.The Atari Creep: Attack of the Clones: Clone 2600 with 32 built in games Arenafoot, The Professor and AtariBrian 3 Quote Don't just watch TV, PLAY IT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arenafoot Posted April 1, 2015 Report Share Posted April 1, 2015 Notice the 32 built in games are all "Sports" related games.......... 8:30 mark - game is Casino 9:47 mark - game is Slot Machine 10:12 mark - game is Activision Sky Jinks Quote Brian Matherne - owner/curator of "The MOST comprehensive list of Atari VCS/2600 homebrews ever compiled." http://tiny.cc/Atari2600Homebrew author of "The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion" book series available on Amazon! www.amazon.com/author/brianmatherne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari Creep Posted February 29, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 29, 2016 ***strong language*** The Creeps pickups for Jan/Feb RickR, The Professor, Rowsdower70 and 2 others 5 Quote Don't just watch TV, PLAY IT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted February 29, 2016 Report Share Posted February 29, 2016 THANK YOU for the site shoutout Atari Creep! Enjoyed checking out your pickups. It's great to have you back in the community posting videos PS - Saw you're getting into Famicom games! You may enjoy the chat we have going on about getting started with collecting import games: http://forums.atari.io/index.php/topic/1706-import-question/ MaximumRD 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rowsdower70 Posted March 2, 2016 Report Share Posted March 2, 2016 Enjoyed this! Thanks! Quote "For you - Rowsdower from the 70 - have been appointed Omnivisioner of the Game Grid." ~ Atari Adventure Square Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari Creep Posted March 28, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2016 Hey folks. I don't normally do this but what the hell. I will be posting my videos more frequently in an effort to build a small fan base. So if you like what you see, please be so kind as to subscribe.Thanks,ChrisNSFW. BAD LANGUAGE Tech Tip from The Atari Creep: getting the best picture from your Atari VCS 2600 Also... My lady asked to play Super Mario Bros when I was testing out an NES controller the other day. What came out of her mouth next blew me away!!!!! Please check out my latest video if you get a chance. Thanks as always guys!!!!!!!! A first time for everything Retrogamer81081, The Professor and RickR 3 Quote Don't just watch TV, PLAY IT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari Creep Posted April 6, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2016 This video is long and may be boring at times but I encourage you to listen all the way through. You just might like what I have to say by the end. The Atari Creep's State of the Union Address AtariBrian, Justin and The Professor 3 Quote Don't just watch TV, PLAY IT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariBrian Posted April 6, 2016 Report Share Posted April 6, 2016 I'm fixing up a Gemini right now for a friend who's dad dug it out and she is super excited. It's cool that there are still basement finds out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted April 8, 2016 Report Share Posted April 8, 2016 It's like a sliding scale....sure it's hard to find Atari stuff anymore...but PS2 or Wii right now is all dirt cheap and really fun. In a few years, it will be some other system. MaximumRD 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari Creep Posted May 28, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 28, 2016 Is Pac-Man for the Atari VCS/2600 honestly a bad game or was it just a disappointment. In this instalment of Atari 101 I will explore that question. Pac-Man for the Atari VCS/2600 AtariBrian, MalakZero, Atari 5200 Guy and 3 others 6 Quote Don't just watch TV, PLAY IT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MalakZero Posted May 28, 2016 Report Share Posted May 28, 2016 When I first booted up this game, I said the same things I said to E.T. and Shaq-Fu: "I've played worse.....WAY worse." Atari 5200 Guy and Lost Dragon 2 Quote "Mmmrrrrrrhhhh.....game.....gooooood....." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariBrian Posted May 28, 2016 Report Share Posted May 28, 2016 I watched the video last night. I love pac-man on the 2600, I even love the sounds. Maybe it's mostly nostalgia. I also love E.T. not based on nostalgia, as a kid it was horrible to us, but that's because we didn't read the manual. Can't wait to see the pac clone video it will be a long one I would imagine. Atari 5200 Guy, MaximumRD, MalakZero and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted May 28, 2016 Report Share Posted May 28, 2016 I never really gave 2600 Pac-Man a fair shot until about a year ago. I picked it up for 25 cents and actually played it one night on the suggestion of The Professor. It's not very faithful to the arcade game, and graphically it's not very impressive, but if you give it a chance it's a lot of fun to play. I ended up playing for an hour a night for about a week while I listened to podcasts. Atari 5200 Guy, Lost Dragon, MalakZero and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted May 28, 2016 Report Share Posted May 28, 2016 Agree with all these sentiments. It's a fun game, it did get a lot of playtime from me when it was new. But the game was NOT Pac Man, and it ended up eroding confidence in the 2600 and Atari. At the time, you could see a superior version on the computers of the day, and even the lowly O2 had a better munching game. Atari was more interested in suing other companies than making great games, it seemed. Pac Man made me think twice before buying any other game from Atari. Was a VIC-20 version available instead? If yes, I'd probably just go with that -- that was my thinking after Pac Man. So yes, it was a good game...but ended up creating a lot of baggage for Atari IMO. MalakZero, Lost Dragon and Atari 5200 Guy 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted May 28, 2016 Report Share Posted May 28, 2016 And more from me (of course)....I always found it fascinating that the versions of Pac Man Atari created for other systems were all really, really good. TI-99/4A, VIC-20, Intellivision, C64, Atari 800, 5200....those were all great. Lost Dragon, Atari 5200 Guy and MalakZero 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted May 28, 2016 Report Share Posted May 28, 2016 (edited) PS - Kamakazi has a great blog post about this very topic. http://forums.atari.io/index.php/blog/8/entry-27-pac-man-atari-2600/ Edited May 29, 2016 by RickR Atari 5200 Guy, Justin, Atari Creep and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted May 29, 2016 Report Share Posted May 29, 2016 And a bit more from me....I just want to state that no matter what I say about Pac Man on 2600, I hope to goodness no one feels offended in any way. For example, AtariBrian loves the game, and I totally respect that. It's a fun topic to talk about, but it's just a game. Like all pieces of art, opinions may vary and it's totally acceptable. Retrogamer81081, Atari 5200 Guy, AtariBrian and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted May 29, 2016 Report Share Posted May 29, 2016 Here is the June 1982 review of Pac Man from Electronic Games magazine. I like to pull this out for those that think a bad opinion of the game only came much later. Pac Man Review - EG June 1982.pdf Lost Dragon, MalakZero, Arenafoot and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari 5200 Guy Posted May 31, 2016 Report Share Posted May 31, 2016 I personally don't think the 2600 Pac-Man is a total loss...it's just not Pac-Man to me. At least back then it wasn't but now I can accept it as the 2600's Pac-Man. As I've mentioned on my blog on this site I had the 5200 so I missed out on what was going on with the 2600. This was one game I didn't miss, however, because a neighbor down the road got it and invited me over to play it. I already had the 5200 Pac-Man and was use to it before I laid eyes on the 2600 Pac-Man. I have to admit I was disappointed and confused with what the 2600 received. I guess in the back of my mind I was thinking, "If Atari could pull off Pac-Man on the 5200 why couldn't they do something better than this?" Over 30 years later and this game is still being talked about as well as getting play time. SO that means that Atari's Pac-Man on the 2600 is not all that bad. Maybe they should have called it K.C. Munchkin! Lost Dragon and MalakZero 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari Creep Posted June 10, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2016 Hey guys. Here is my latest video. I talk about competing companies in the home console business creating products for each other using the Coleco Expansion Module as a focus. This topic fascinates me more than any other topic when it comes to gaming in the early 1980's. Hope you enjoy!!!! A quick chat about the Coleco Expansion Module 1 Lost Dragon, Yo-Yo, MalakZero and 4 others 7 Quote Don't just watch TV, PLAY IT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted June 10, 2016 Report Share Posted June 10, 2016 Coleco Gemini outdid Atari. Smaller size and much better RF quality. It must have completely enraged Atari management to have their hardware stolen like that. Lost Dragon, MalakZero and Atari Creep 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari Creep Posted June 11, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2016 I didn't know that it had a better RF quality. That's interesting. Quote Don't just watch TV, PLAY IT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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