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  1. Need Advice

    in Off Topic

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    On 2/16/2024 at 1:25 PM, Atari 5200 Guy said:

    I've tried local marketplace posts on Facebook but I'm getting all kinds of offers with people wanting to pay with services I've never heard of except for BitCoin and I know those are not worth anything.

    Fun fact: Had you accepted Bitcoin and held onto it, it would be worth 25% more today than when you made this post.

  4. Squad Challenge - Beef Drop (Atari 7800)

    in High Score Squad

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    Beef Drop
    Atari 7800
    Controller: JOYSTICK / KEYBOARD / PLAYER'S CHOICE
    Difficulty Level: NORMAL
    Play on: Real Hardware / Dedicated Console / MAME / Emulation OK! ✔
    Squad Challenge ends 11:59 pm PST March 31, 2024
    Nominated by @TrekMD

     

     

    Objective

    Play for the highest possible score using the difficulty settings defined in the challenge. Post a photo or YouTube video of your score in this thread. Scores must be achieved between March 1st through March 31st, 2024. Screen captures are not allowed as they are more easily manipulated for falsified scores. Multiple submissions are permitted. The player with the highest score at the end of the competition is the victor!

     

    Eligibility

    Anyone can join in. All players are welcome!

     

    Play Rules

    Games may be played on real hardware, Flashback / Mini console, FPGA or emulation, using any controller or keyboard, following all rules and game settings defined in the challenge. Choosing between real hardware or emulation, and choosing which controller to play on is part of formulating your strategy. Enhancements, rewinds, save states and hacked versions of this game are not allowed.

     

    Difficulty Level

    NORMAL. We will be playing Midnight Magic on NORMAL Skill Level.

     

    Fair Play

    Your integrity is everything. Players should play fairly, be honest, and have fun! Falsified scores will result in your immediate removal from the site. It goes without saying that we will not allow cheats, hacks, cartridge frying, enhancements, rewinds, deceitful photo manipulation, subterfuge, or any other unfair advantage. Everybody hates a cheater.

     

    More

    To review detailed rules on how to play, please visit the High Score Squad page here: 

     

     

    Message

    Welcome to our 156th Squad Challenge! This month we'll be playing Beef Drop, nominated by TrekMD for the 7800. Beef Drop is a classic homebrew by developer Ken Siders and released nearly 20 years ago. Beef Drop is a terrific translation of Burgertime and plays well on the 7800. ROM and Instructions will have to be sourced online. Enjoy!

     

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  5. Squad Challenge - Midnight Magic (Atari 2600)

    in High Score Squad

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    :pole_position_blimp_big: Congratulations Mayor Greenween!

     

    Congratulations to @greenween on another definitive victory in High Score Squad Challenge! "The Mayor" @greenween takes the top spot in our Final Standings for Midnight Magic on Atari 2600 with an outstanding score of 412,185 points. Well done, Greenween! Our runner up winner for the Midnight Magic Squad Challenge is @Atari 5200 Guy who takes 2nd Place with an astounding 336,895 points! @Smell Dawg takes the 3rd spot on the board with an impressive score of 319,095 points. @Marco1019 takes 4th with 209,250, @RickR takes a hard-fought 5th with 190,380 points, and @TrekMD rounds things out in 6th Place with a solid 155,590 points.

    As always I'd like to encourage @greenween to  post his high score on the Scoreboard, and let's make sure this Challenge continues on! Congratulations once again to Greenween on his big win.

    👉 Be sure to join @Sabertooth in Club VCS for this month's VCS Recharged Squad Challenge, BERZERK: RECHARGED on the Atari VCS!

    :berzerk: Our next High Score Squad Challenge will be for Beef Drop on Atari 7800. Be there!

     

     

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  6. Club Evercade - Let's All Play - Feb 2024 - IREM Arcade 1

    in Evercade Squad Challenges

    Posted

    48 minutes ago, RickR said:

    THANK YOU to all that participated in this first "Lets all play" event.  I had a lot of fun with the Irem games and I hope you did too. 

    I'm going to have to shelve this series temporarily due to personal issues that need my time and focus.  But if anyone else would like to choose a next game and start the ball rolling, I'm willing to help with the initial post and such. 

    We will eventually get back to this.  In the meantime, don't forget to share any of your retro adventures on the Evercade in our club.

     

     

    THANK YOU for hosting this cool Evercade event @RickR 🙌

  10. Uh, if it rains a lot in your area, an $80K Tesla "Cybertruck" might not be right for you.

    in Off Topic

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    P.S. - I would think Atari Jaguar and Cybermorph fans would love the Cybertruck name. It was the first thing I thought of when I first saw the Cybertruck a few years ago. Not the DeLorean, not the Lotus, I thought of Cybermorph - and Skylar included as a KITT-like talking annoyance in the car.

     

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    I was also impressed that Tesla didn't continue trying to spell out "S-E-X-Y" in their model line. i.e. Model S, Model 3, Model X, Model Y - that's an intentional choice, and Model 3 was originally intended to be "Model E", however Ford owns that trademark and defended it.

  11. Uh, if it rains a lot in your area, an $80K Tesla "Cybertruck" might not be right for you.

    in Off Topic

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    DeLorean owner here, checking in. I have 25 years experience with Stainless Steel bodied car care. Let me tell you, it's a bundle of joy. Especially with people constantly wanting to touch your car. Improper care of the Stainless will cause problems. A few tips for Cybertruck owners:

    • "Rust spots" aren't actually rust. It's what builds on fingerprints, etc. I'm willing to bet that's what's happening with the Cybertrucks. I know zero about the Cybertruck as I'm not interested in it, but I'm willing to bet there's a no rust-thru warranty on the bodies. The DeLorean came with a 25-year warranty on the bodies, which were backed by the german company that supplied the stainless steel and long outlived DMC. Show me a DeLorean anywhere in the world with rust holes through it after 40+ years.
       
    • Bar Keepers Friend and Soft Scrub are your best friends for properly cleaning stainless.
       
    • Industrial Kitchen Cleaner spray, after a basic top-down wash with water and dry of the car, is my favorite and most reliable way to wash the car.
       
    • Weiman Stainless Steel Wipes are a nice way to finish off the car after you've washed it of any dirt.
       
    • Fingerprints are an issue after a while. Be prepared if you're in public and people touch the car. Stainless Steel Wipes are very helpful.
       
    • Gasoline rubs out anything. The instruction manual suggests that if you get tar on the body of your car, use a paper towel lightly dipped in gasoline to rub out the tar, then thoroughly rinse with water, dry and properly dispose of the towel.
       
    • Don't use Brillo Pads, use Scotch Brite Heavy Duty Scour Pads instead, and rub with the grain, not in circles. Brillo Pads will leave little shards of metal from the pad left between the grain in the Stainless. Those metal specs will rust, and give the appearance that the Stainless is rusting when it is not.
       
    • Wax is definitely not the answer for a Stainless Steel bodied car, at least in the case of the DeLorean. I have to think that 40 years later, Tesla made it a priority to create a Stainless Steel body that could be treated and washed like a regular car - put through a car wash, waxed, etc. I'm not so sure that's the case. I'm willing to bet Stainless is Stainless and that means finger prints and "rust" spots and Soft Scrub and Bar Keepers Friend, I would hope that Tesla prepared their owners for this and created a "bulletproof" truck that is at least as resistant to fingerprints as my refrigerator is.
       
    • I'm assuming Tesla offers a Stainless Steel car wash kit, with a grain pad, Stainless Steel cleaner and polish (see example below). That's probably the best bet for washing at home.

     

    I've been looking forward to standing back and watching the public react to naive Cybertruck owners. I've seen this story play out before. Obnoxious owners, combined with a press and others who don't understand / don't embrace something new and different, rev boys looking for attention, etc. And everyone in the parking lot thinking they know more about your car than you do and looking for something to point fault at, coming up to you and sharing their opinion and throwing the same disinformation at you day after day after day, and calmly offering a thoughtful response to them, as the ambassador to your car that you are. I bet electric car owners have very different yet strikingly similar stories. I knew going into this that Cybertruck owners would likely run into these common issues that arise from treating Stainless Steel like it's a painted car. We went through the same thing when we started seeing normies in falcon winged Tesla Model Xs driving around trying to show off with their doors up (awful idea and genuinely obnoxious) carelessly clipping the tips of their doors on the side of busses and garage doors, and twisting their car doors at the hinges mounted at the center of the roof. Yikes.

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  13. Amico News

    in Intellivision

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    2 hours ago, Atari 5200 Guy said:

    I soon realized how much of a bullshitter Tommy was becoming. He was always dancing around questions investors were asking. Never a direct answer about how soon the Amico was to be ready for release.

    I think @Video 61 would probably refer to that type of guy as "a Yo-Yo" or "a smooth talking sociopath" or something along those lines 😀

     

    2 hours ago, Atari 5200 Guy said:

    I do place some of the blame of it failing on the pandemic. With it shutting down damn near the whole world it would have made it difficult to obtain the parts required to make it. But that’s over now. 

    A properly managed company with serious leadership wouldn't have hemorrhaged money on offices during covid and allowed a burn rate like that. I think everybody would've understood a little delay due to parts shortages. Even if they had been 18 months behind, and then shipped the products they had promoted, most all would've been forgiven. That's not what happened though. They burned through a tremendous amount of seed capital while asking "mom and pops" to invest $100 at a time, which in my view is at best unprofessional, and borderline evil.

     

    2 hours ago, Atari 5200 Guy said:

    But I soon realized how much of a bullshitter Tommy was becoming.

    One thing I've noticed is how Tommy Tallarico became the "mascot" for the New Intellivision, while Wade Rosen has become the "mascot" for the New Atari. They've become lightning rods for discussion, in very different ways. Leadership is important, but we should also see beyond the heads and look at the competency of the entire teams as a whole, that make these products happen. The Intellvision team ended up being different from what was initially announced, and perceived by the public. We often think of "Nolan" or "Jack" and others as figureheads, almost like they are Mario and Sonic and Bonk. Decisions and contributions run deep and included more key players than just the big names we like to bring up. I think even with Tommy as the perceived figurehead for the Amico, he's not the only person working on it, and things could've gone much differently had there been a more competent team behind the scenes. 

  18. Atari Celebrity Game Show

    in Off Topic

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    45 minutes ago, Marco1019 said:

    I subscribe to Peacock and I can honestly say that I have NEVER SEEN THIS TRAILER anywhere on that app.

     

    39 minutes ago, RickR said:

    Same.  First time I've ever heard of this. 

     

    I remember seeing it advertised like crazy on Pluto during Thanksgiving through Christmas a year or two ago. I remember thinking "How do they make Frogger a game show" and then I saw the commercial and realized it was like Wipeout or Takeshi's Castle / Most Extreme Elimination Challenge.

  23. Squad Challenge - Berzerk Enhanced Edition (Atari 2600)

    in High Score Squad

    Posted

    :pole_position_blimp_big: Congratulations RickR and Marco1019!

     

    Congratulations to @RickR on another RUNAWAY victory with Berzerk Enhanced Ediiton, and his THIRD win in a row! - and also CONGRATULATIONS to @Marco1019 on a definitive win with the original Berzerk for Atari 2600! "The Don" RickR takes the top spot in our Final Standings for Berzerk Enhanced Edition with an outstanding score of 32,300 points. Well done, Rick! Our runner up winner for Berzerk Enhanced Edition is @Smell Dawg who takes 2nd Place with an impressive score of 5,950 points. @TrekMD @Justin and @Sabertooth also joined in our Berzerk Enhanced Squad Challenge.

    Twitch King @Marco1019 takes the top spot in our Final Standings for the original Atari 2600 version of Berzerk with an astounding score of 111,810 points! INCREDIBLE! Our runner up winner for Original Berzerk is "The Mayor" @greenween with a hard-fought 30,160 points. @RickR @Atari 5200 Guy and @Justin also took part in our Berzerk Original Squad Challenge.

    Best Attempt Award goes to @Atari 5200 Guy who tried his best to participate in our Berzerk Enhanced Challenge, despite being sent a bum cart and going through a very difficult month. It means a lot that you’re still with us and that you tried to join in. You have lots of friends here who care about you.

    As always I'd like to encourage @RickR and @Marco1019 to  post their high scores on the Scoreboard, and let's make sure this Challenge continues on! Congratulations once again to Rick for his BIG WIN.

    👉 Be sure to join @Sabertooth in Club VCS for this month's VCS Recharged Squad Challenge, CAVERNS OF MARS: RECHARGED on the Atari VCS!

    👉 @RickR is hosting a Club Evercade Let's Play this month for IREM Arcade #1!

    :berzerk: Our next High Score Squad Challenge will be for Midnight Magic on Atari 2600. Be there!

     

     

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  24. Squad Challenge - Midnight Magic (Atari 2600)

    in High Score Squad

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    Midnight Magic
    Atari 2600
    Controller: JOYSTICK / KEYBOARD / PLAYER'S CHOICE
    Difficulty Level: DIFFICULTY A
    Play on: Real Hardware / Dedicated Console / MAME / Emulation OK! ✔
    Squad Challenge ends 11:59 pm PST February 29, 2024
    Nominated by @Atari 5200 Guy @TrekMD and @Justin 

     

     

    Objective

    Play for the highest possible score using the difficulty settings defined in the challenge. Post a photo or YouTube video of your score in this thread. Scores must be achieved between February 1st through February 29th, 2024. Screen captures are not allowed as they are more easily manipulated for falsified scores. Multiple submissions are permitted. The player with the highest score at the end of the competition is the victor!

     

    Eligibility

    Anyone can join in. All players are welcome!

     

    Play Rules

    Games may be played on real hardware, Flashback / Mini console, FPGA or emulation, using any controller or keyboard, following all rules and game settings defined in the challenge. Choosing between real hardware or emulation, and choosing which controller to play on is part of formulating your strategy. Enhancements, rewinds, save states and hacked versions of this game are not allowed.

     

    Difficulty Level

    DIFFICULTY A. We will be playing Midnight Magic on DIFFICULTY A Expert Mode.

     

    Fair Play

    Your integrity is everything. Players should play fairly, be honest, and have fun! Falsified scores will result in your immediate removal from the site. It goes without saying that we will not allow cheats, hacks, cartridge frying, enhancements, rewinds, deceitful photo manipulation, subterfuge, or any other unfair advantage. Everybody hates a cheater.

     

    More

    To review detailed rules on how to play, please visit the High Score Squad page here: 

     

     

    Message

    Welcome to our 155th Squad Challenge! 2024 is off to a great start, and we're continuing with what's widely regarded as the best Pinball game for the Atari 2600, Midnight Magic! PDF Instructions are included below. Enjoy!

     

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    Midnight Magic.pdf

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