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  1. 🕹 Special thanks and congratulations to @RickR on hosting his first Club Evercade Let's All Play event! I'm sure we'll do this again in the future when the time is right. https://forums.atari.io/topic/9299-club-evercade-lets-all-play-feb-2024-irem-arcade-1/

    1. Justin

      Justin

      A special thank you also of course to @Sabertooth for continuing to host Recharged Squad Challenges in Club VCS every month. Club VCS has become something really special. Be sure to join in this month's VCS Recharged Squad Challenge for Berzerk: Recharged in Club VCS: 

       

  2. 😎 Dwayne Wayne was an underrated nerd: Dwayne-Wayne-1024x809.jpg

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    2. Justin

      Justin

      Yes Murray of course! Riptide was cool and I wish it had run longer. I don't want to tell you how old I was when Dwayne Wayne came on the scene, but school was on my mind and to me Dwayne Wayne was "a cool nerd" who embraced his nerdom, felt okay being smart, but at the same time wasn't depicted as a loner - he had friends, was fun to be around and also ended up with Whitley.

      Maybe we should do a Riptide rewatch in the forums if it's available for streaming or on YouTube.

    3. socrates63

      socrates63

      Would the Professor from Gilligan's Island qualify as a nerd? 🤔

    4. RickR

      RickR

      The professor from GI is definitely a nerd.  But he's an ADULT nerd. 

       

  3. 🏴‍☠️ BIG reminder that each account is allotted 10MB of space for uploads, attachments, pics etc. so use your space wisely. Deleting large attachments when you’re done with them is a good way to clean up room.

  4. 🕯 There’s nothing nicer than working on the backend of Atari I/O by candlelight on a cold winter’s night.

  5. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood has become my favorite Tarantino film. When I heard “Quentin Tarantino is doing a movie about the Manson Murders” I expected a rondo of blood. What we got was something really different.

    1. RickR

      RickR

      Yes!  It has been a while since I saw that one.  I went in blind, not even knowing it was Tarantino.  So yes, very different than what was expected. 

       

    2. Marco1019

      Marco1019

      I watched that movie & came away very impressed as it was a departure from his previous efforts. The IMDB notes are a good complement. I believe Sharon Tate's sister was consulted for the film.

    3. RickR

      RickR

      Here are some photos of the miniature work from Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. 

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  6. 💥 PRO-TIP - Here’s a good rule of thumb for posting in the YouTube Community forum: Context is key! If the main point of the topic is about sharing a classic gaming YouTube Channel, creator, or series, w/ the intent of sparking up a long term discussion about that channel - the topic belongs in the YouTube Community forum. 

    Conversely, if the main point of a new topic is about something else, like - "There's a new game out for ColecoVision" - and that post just so happens to contain a YouTube video of the gameplay etc. - that topic belongs in the ColecoVision forum. It’s more about “Coleco” than about “YouTube” and we’d put it in the Coleco forum where we would want it be seen by people interested in ColecoVision.

  7. Fun SEGA trivia: According to Yu Suzuki, if Sega president Hayao Nakayama saw that a game's graphics were completed, he would consider the game finished and try to release it. To get around this -- since it was impossible to just show nothing when Nakayama came by -- Yu rigged a switch under his desk to wipe Space Harrier's color RAM, using it for on-demand graphical sabotage. During one of the times he did this, the effect looked so impressive, Yu extracted the data and kept it in as the game's actual colors.

    1. RickR

      RickR

      Dang bosses. 

       

  8. I miss old Nick-at-Nite 🌛 and listening to it on late summer nights while I play SNES and Sega and Duo and Jag straight on till morning 

     

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    2. RobertLM78

      RobertLM78

      I'm gonna have to check out more of his stuff now 🙂

    3. Justin

      Justin

      @RobertLM78 Enjoy! If you like Cannon, you may want to check out Barnaby Jones. The two shows exist in the same "universe". The first episode of Barnaby Jones, "Requiem for a Son", featured a crossover with Cannon, with William Conrad guest-starring as detective Frank Cannon. There was another crossover between the two programs in the 1975 two-part episode "The Deadly Conspiracy". Worth checking out for a Cannon fan!

    4. RobertLM78

      RobertLM78

      I had a hunch that one would be good - I'm gonna check it out.  Thanks! 

  9. 🏙️ 2023 F-ZERO Christmas Challenge is LIVE NOW through December 31st!  

     

  10. 🕹 If you're not up on what's been happening in ClubVCS you're missing out: 

     

  11. 💥 Seeing a big uptick in activity in Swapmeet! THANK YOU to everyone buying, selling & trading here!

  12. 🕹️ Happy #AtariDay!

    1. RickR

      RickR

      Dang, they sneak up on us.  October, we hardly knew ye. 

       

    2. RickR

      RickR

      I'll make it a point to get a few more rounds of SMS "R-Type" in this afternoon.  For Atari Day!  Because playing classic games is GOOD for the soul. 

       

    3. MaximumRD
  13. 🖖 In my head canon Tom Paris and Nicholas Locarno are one and the same.

    1. DegasElite

      DegasElite

      Well, they were played by the same person. Maybe, there is a connection.

    2. Justin

      Justin

      @DegasElite It was initially supposed to be the same character, similar to how Major Kira was originally conceived as Ensign Ro Laren. In "The First Duty" Locarno was of course expelled from Starfleet Academy for the incident with Red Squadron, and similarly Tom Paris was serving time in the Federation Penal Settlement in New Zealand at the beginning of Voyager. You can find reasons for this given over the years, but it's pretty clear that they wanted to avoid having to credit and pay writers Ronald D. Moore and Naren Shankar - who had written "The First Duty" and created Tom Paris - for every episode of Voyager that Locarno/Paris appeared in. Jeri Taylor will say that Locarno was "irredeemable", yet another Red Squadron character Sito Jaxa was redeemable in the TNG episode "Lower Decks". In my view this has more to do with Hollywood baloney than with anything to do with canonical Star Trek 🖖

    3. DegasElite
  14. 😎 What's great about the geek spirit is that life never seems to stop us, and they never seem to kill our enthusiasm, our optimism and our hunger to experience the world. We keep our sense of humor, we protect our dignity, we talk to our friends about the experience and then we start again fresh the very next day. - Paul Feig

  15. 🔸R-TYPE for Sega Master System is now LIVE in High Score Squad through Oct 31st! 

     

  16. 🕹️ 30 Years ago today I knowingly, wantonly, became a classic gamer: 

     

    1. Neon Wraith

      Neon Wraith

      Well, I don't know the exact day, but I bet it has been about 20 some years for me.  I had always wanted a Lynx and started down the interwebz rabbit hole about it.  Then came Flea-Bay and many consoles and games to follow (mostly Atari).  

    2. Justin

      Justin

      @Neon Wraith Atari Lynx is hands down one of my favorite systems of all time, and an excellent starting point. The graphics are still good, it has a small but fantastic library of games, and it's provided me with 3 decades of enjoyment.

  17. 🤔 Anyone else find it funny that the President of Nintendo is named Bowser?

  18. 😵 Congratulations to @RickR on making his 10,000th Post!

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    2. Justin

      Justin

      I ran the numbers and @RickR has posted 12% of all total posts ever made on Atari I/O :nintendo_mario_1up:

    3. socrates63

      socrates63

      12%? 😮 

      Congratulations, Rick!

    4. MaximumRD
  19. 🖖 V’ger created the Borg. Inadvertently to fulfill its quest for its creator, who knows. That’s my personal canon.

    1. RickR

      RickR

      Maybe V'Ger created Nomad too.

    2. Justin

      Justin

      Ilia was assimilated in a sense, although she no longer "continued to function as a carbon unit" and was replaced entirely by a mechanical being. You can see the root of the idea. V'ger assimilated everything in its path.

    3. RickR

      RickR

      Yeah, but somewhere between Ilia and The Borg, their cable management got really bad.

       

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  20. 🤔 What other custom emojis should I create for Atari I/O?

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    2. Jinroh

      Jinroh

      Oh very nice. I looked, but did not see them before. 😅

    3. Justin

      Justin

      Yep they're there! The question is - what comes next? :wreck-it-ralph_anim:

    4. Jinroh

      Jinroh

      Well there is no Atari ST or A8, maybe we need a VCS too? 😜

  21. 🖖 "Will Wheaton's in it? For some reason I thought he was dead." -- Justin's Mom every time I bring up Star Trek the past few years

    1. Justin

      Justin

      Me: "Are you thinking of River Phoenix?"

      Mom: "No, not him."

      For context my mom is quite young, loved Star Trek: TOS, TNG, DS9, and should know better.

  22. 🎧 😜 It's Friday night and I'm jamming out to some Fergie:

     

    1. socrates63

      socrates63

      Definitely 80s style but I never heard of Kids Inc., so I looked it up. Wikipedia says that it aired on Disney Channel, so that explained it for me since I didn't have cable.

  23. 👼🕹️ Has anybody here ever introduced a modern toddler to Atari 2600?

    1. Justin

      Justin

      I'm thinking about the Sesame Street Kids Controller games for a 2 year old, but even Ms. Pac-Man or Asteroids could be fun. I'd like to hear a success story!

    2. RickR

      RickR

      Well, my kids were, but I don't think this counts as they are adults now.  90's kids. 

      They liked playing Atari with Dad.  And they had fun.  But to be completely honest, they got a lot more mileage out of the educational computer games of the time and then kids games on Gameboy.  More polish and better graphics made them a lot more interested.  I had a Dreamcast at the time, but they only liked the racing games (like Hydro Thunder).  Gamecube for them was their golden console.  Everything took off from there. 

    3. socrates63

      socrates63

      I wasn't playing 2600 games when my kids were little. They actually grew up watching me play Halo on the PC. I got both my sons Nintendo DS as their first console when all their friends had one.

      By the time I got back into Atari games, my kids were teens and very turned off by the blocky graphics and limited sound. Anything they deemed old was not cool in their eyes. They even asked me why I watch old movies when they saw me watching Indiana Jones or Star Wars.

  24. 🤔 What was the first video game you fell in love with as a child?

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    2. Jinroh

      Jinroh

      Not a kid, but my father was a competitive Pac-Man player at bars in the 80s. That was his game.

      A few years later in the mid-80s he and I loved Pole Position for the 2600 and at the Time Out arcade at the mall.

    3. Sabertooth

      Sabertooth

      While I was amazed by Combat and Space Invaders when I first played them on my uncle's 2600, my first love in gaming was Pac-Man followed closely by Q-bert. I had them for my Gemini and adored them. Megamania was a close third; mainly because the ship reminded me of the Enterprise.

    4. socrates63

      socrates63

      Great question… it’s difficult to answer but my first video game loves are all coin-ops: Star Castle, Defender, Robotron. TBH, the 2600 games I played as a kid didn’t grab me as much as the coin-op games.

  25. 🤔 Has anyone ever gotten around to 3-D Printing an Atari Panther shell?

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    2. Justin

      Justin

      3D renderings of the proposed design for the Atari Panther shell have been pretty popular over the past few years, I would be surprised if somebody hasn't "made a Panther" yet.

    3. Jinroh

      Jinroh

      My son wants to upgrade his FDM printer to a resin printer. A smokey black translucent Panther shell would be pretty sick. 

    4. Justin

      Justin

      It would be amazing if you guys could make that happen! @Jinroh

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