Justin

Does OpenEmu work as well? I think it uses MAME as an emulator. Thanks, Justin.

@DegasElite You can emulate this game by any means necessary so long as you're playing the original ROM. 👍

Good. Then that is what I have been using. Thanks. :O)

Busy is the new normal for many!  Don't worry about the lot of us vagabonds.  We understand completely.

I've been unable to participate in the VCS challenges because my gaming room has been taken over by visiting adult children!  I would move the VCS downstairs, but that involves undoing all the wiring and just thinking about it makes me tired.  In any case, we should be back to empty-nest status later this week.

I'll try to have the new Squad Challenge up soon!

Everything's all set to go! Things get a little busy sometimes but I'll never forget or abandon you guys. It's been a rough year.

I won't be shopping Black Friday, but I have a lot of Christmas shopping done already. So, it isn't a big thing anyway. Besides, there are too many people at once on that day shopping anyway. Thanks.

@DegasElite It's just a reference to the image I posted which is supposed to look like something from the Sears Catalog in the early '80s. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving 😀

You too, Justin. Thanks. :O)

🤔 It would be nice to see "Atari" release Swordquest: Airworld as an "Atari XP" cartridge for the 2600, if that's at all feasible. 

The game is done in a style reminiscent of the 2600 but in modern code. It would be great to see a 2600 translation through XP.

Have you played Atari50 @Justin?  Digital Eclipse knocked it out of the park.  We have a thread going at ClubVCS.

I haven't played it yet but I sure plan to. It appeared to be done in modern code with "a 2600 flavor", if it were feasible to bring Swordquest Airworld to a playable Atari 2600 cartridge - keeping intact what makes this new Airworld so special - that would be amazing. Atari must be commended for what they've done here.

Wait, they don't still do that? 😅

TBS was still on "Turner Time" the last time I tuned in. LOL!

I remember when it was called WTBS and it was channel 17 in Atlanta. It was a local channel there, not unlike WGN in Chicago.

Yes I do. My family would tape movies off their channel and cut out the commercials. It was one of the most difficult channels to tape because of their commercials. They would play commercials without any warnings (fade in/fade out).

And Will Riker & Troi the Betazoid were clearly a reimagining of Will Decker & Ilia the Deltan

Data was Spock if Spock tried to be human instead of Vulcan.

I just read a fascinating set of books about Star Trek (The Fifty Year Mission / Marc Altman) with all kinds of juicy gossip and behind-the-scenes info.  Examples:  Bob Justman came up with and pushed for Patrick Stewart as Jean Luc Picard.  Gene Roddenberry HATED the idea but eventually gave in due to not finding his ideal.  He figured that Will Riker would take on that action/Kirk role, which is something you see a lot of in season 1. 

Anyway, I highly recommend those two books.  I checked them out at the library.

Very cool!

🤘🍻😎

@MaximumRD I'm glad you like what I did! Do you remember Rob, back when we were actively communicating on YouTube, tagging everyone in our videos and filming responses to Steve Benway, AtariLeaf, Mr. Intellivision etc.? This would've been around 2009-2010. I created a small website, it was like a little experiment called "The Daily Bomb" at getdevious.com/thebomb (it's long gone now) It was partially "The Onion / The Babylon Bee for Classic Gaming" with parody headlines etc, but the homepage had dropdown menus and hyperlinks to everything and everywhere interesting on line that had to do with classic gaming. There was even a page called "The Bomb Sixteen" with 16 of our favorite and most active Twitter feeds, all shown on one page. I really liked that "hub" idea, that someone could set us as their default home page whenever they open their browser and quickly link to everything interesting within the world of classic gaming. I'd like to incorporate more of that idea into Atari I/O moving forward. Maybe in some very big ways. I'm glad after all these years you're still out there creating content and that you're still you 😉🍻

Welcome to the 50s and have a great year!!!

Happy birthday! I hope it's a milestone year for you!

Thank you!! 🙂

I've had so much fun with Cybermorph!  Now that I have real hardware, it's been a blast.  That moment I figured out it's more of an exploration game is the moment I really appreciated how great the game is.  I'll try to give it one more run this afternoon after work.

And F-Zero is a blast!  I can already hear the theme music in my mind.  Looking forward to this.

It's so great to hear that @RickR! Contrary to the popular perception that's out there, the Jaguar has a few gems! Cybermorph is a misunderstood game in some ways. People like to compare both Cybermorph and Trevor McFur to Star Fox because of the polygon ships and the cat theming, but it's not a good comparison. Cybermorph was the first 3-D exploration game I ever experienced, and it just blew me away. My whole family enjoyed it. I saw it as 3-D Pac-Man with the yellow diamond shaped pods as the Pac-Man pellets. 

Looking forward to seeing you in Mute City tomorrow!

Woo!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESSE !!!! 🎂🥳🎈🤘

Happy birthday!  I hope you have a good one. 

Happy Birthday! 🎁

I think we'll do 8K Pac-Man next year for our next National Pac-Man Day, it will be a nice way to remember Nukey Shay and a heck of a lot of fun ☺️

Thank you!  I look forward to the next National Pac-Man day!

Sounds like a great idea, Justin!

The who and the what now?

I can come over after school with a few Atari carts that I'll hide in my backpack. 

That's the way we do it! Nintendo Switch is a fun way to be able to play 2-player 8-bit games online.

OK, but I want to buy a Jaguar before I buy a Switch!  But probably the Switch is cheaper and easier to find. 

Looks like a blockbuster lineup. 

Thanks Rick! Of course we will have other games in the mix as well 🙂

Wow...a Jag game!  Awesome lineup.

I knew before I clicked it it was the root beer theorem.

lol yes!

I shall have some root beer with lunch.

That's great news @BlackCatz40 I hope you do!

Nice! 

We've been watching a lot of movies lately.  The selection last night was the third X-Men movie.  It was kind of a stinker, but entertaining to watch.  There was one very funny scene that went by in a flash -- Colossus carrying a gigantic CRT TV under one arm very casually at Professor X's school. 

That little girl will remember and cherish that moment for the rest of her life, guaranteed.  Kids remember loved ones spending time with them doing anything.  I know I still do.

My wife and I have an "adopted" daughter who has kids which we have "adopted" as our grandchildren.  The oldest one at age 4 played Frogger on my 2600.  To this day she still remembers that and she's 11 now.  We now play Minecraft (her favorite) when they come to visit.  All of the grandkids visited us around the end of February and the five kids all played a video game of some sort.  The NES was out, the 7800 was hooked up, the 360 got some playtime, even the 5200 seen some game time.

Aww man...you're passing up spring break?  Lol.  Will have to get others involved in some high score battles.

@kamakazi20012 good idea! Maybe next week you and I can challenge other members to 2-Player Battles...

Any update on obliterating the virus warning?  Anything we can do to help?

👉 ALSO: I feel like if there had been a warehouse full of unsold 5200 games left over when Jack Tramiel got the company, the XEGS would've featured 5200 compatibility. 

That would have been cool I think, always liked the wacky look of the XEGS, never did end up with one but I have a pretty nice 5200 collection. 

@MaximumRD I basically see two different tracks of Atari technology (up until Lynx). On one side you had the 2600 with all its games and peripherals which begat the 7800. On the other track was the 400/800 computer which spawned the Atari 5200, and later the Atari XE. It would have been nice for the XE to be the all-in-one 7800 Computer Keyboard fully compatible with the library of Atari 8-Bit Computer games and accessories. Instead they gave us an entirely new system to compete for shelf space against the 2600 and 7800, not to mention NES and Sega.

Yes.  Yes you should. 

cool . Do it! 

Absolutely!!!

I spent countless hours in EDF on the SNES.  I'd be doing really good until the 5th level.  Sadly, using continues left you with an under powered ship making it virtually impossible to push through.  After a while, and many attempts and starting completely over, I'd rage quit and play F-Zero or work on Zelda.

The first Zelda, Metroid , and Dragon Warrior, ate up most of my weekend mornings. 

I spent one Saturday trying to make it all the way through Space Harrier on the Master System.  Made it level 7 or 8.  Another weekend I had a friend staying the weekend with me.  We worked on Double Dragon II together and actually finished it.  

In high school, a classmate overheard me talking about Castlevania II and being stuck, not knowing where to go next.  So they drew me up a map using lines with writing pointing to what was where and wrote down where I needed to go next.  I spent Saturday and Sunday on that one.  Beat Dracula only to learn the game had two endings and I got the bad one.

Lots of memories spending weekends working on completing games, mostly NES games.  

HAPPY THANKSGIVING JUSTIN AND ATARI.IO FAMILY !

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

Happy Thanksgiving, it's been a great one.

We helped!

We sure did!!

Hey YouTube, it's Weird Paul.

Congrats Greenween!

Congrats Man!!

Thanks guys!

Im guessing that means Season 2 will hit Netflix now

Yeah they put Season 2 on in preparation for Season 3. Great time to catch up!

I'm still lingering on the first season, the shame. Dig the series though, it's fun!

I added two policies to my Facebook for this reason. First, I set my profile and most of my posts to friends only. Secondly, NEVER add people I currently work with to friends.

I have to constantly remind myself that I'm on Facebook to share my bad jokes only.

Twitter is becoming diabolical and Orwellian.