Justin
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28 minutes ago, socrates63 said:
Amazing! You're what I aspire to be, but aspiration is the keyword as I'll never get there. Maybe I should change my username to Sisyphus.
My wife came into my office the other day and just shook her head. Translating her Korean, she asked, "Do you just need to be surrounded by messiness? Does that give you some sort of comfort?" She had helped me clean up and get organized two weeks ago.
I shrugged 🤷♂️ and then she walked out 🙂
lol thank you @socrates63
and it's easy to change your username if you'd like to. Let me know if I can be helpful.
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2 hours ago, The Mighty Omega said:
Wow, I’ve never won anything better than a few bucks on scratch off lotto tickets before! Thank you!
CONGRATULATIONS on your big win @The Mighty Omega‼️👍 And a big thanks again to @nosweargamer for hosting his contest here and bringing so many great new people to Atari I/O 🙌
16 minutes ago, socrates63 said:Congratulations, Omega! 🍻👏
As HDN mentioned, the consolation prize ain't bad -- got introduced to The I/O 👍
YES! It's great to have you here @socrates63
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14 minutes ago, CrossBow said:
need to straighten up a few things and do a little dusting, but sometime soon I need to do another video tour of the ITC game room.
Look forward to seeing this @CrossBow 👍
9 minutes ago, socrates63 said:Hahaha sorry for reviving old threads and stuff 🙂
It's perfectly find to do that here! As long as you have something interesting to add to the conversation.
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I just saw a video tonight where James Wolfe was discussing the Famicom and how the Japanese would sit close to the TV with the video game system pulled out on the floor closer to them, so many controllers were hardwired and quite short in length. Then he said that "remember this was the 80s and even Atari had short controller cables". That never once occurred to me.
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What do you think is the best video game system of all time? Based on any and all criteria. Choose only one.
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1 minute ago, nosweargamer said:
OH most definitely!! That's the perfect suggestion @nosweargamer and this was a really impressive looking game when it was out!
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Hats off to you sir!
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1 hour ago, RickR said:
YEAH MAN! Welcome to an exclusive club! My advice is to start with California Games, as that was the pack-in game originally. You're gonna have some fun!
25 minutes ago, atarilbc said:Woohoo! You're in for a lot of great games! The Lynx is a just an amazing handheld for the time and the ratio of good games is quite high. Congrats!
ABSOLUTELY!! I second all of this
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On 8/15/2020 at 4:25 PM, JosephTubeHD said:
i dont have the funds just for collectables
46 minutes ago, SuperTrooper said:Collectables, most retro game shops still sell 2600 games for a buck or two. I know of a few teens getting into them just because they are so cheap.
@JosephTubeHD I'm willing to bet there's a friendly Atari I/O Member who would be happy to lend or donate a spare 2600 and common games to someone with a genuine interest in playing. People are generous once they get to know you.
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That's more or less what I've wanted the forums to be, between the scheduled events, contests, marketplace, and "show off your game room" threads. Especially events like the Summer Pizza Festival. That's the future.
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51 minutes ago, HDN said:
I know this thread is old but I just wanted to say this.
It's totally cool to bump old topics at Atari I/O!
As long as you have something to add to the convo! I've never understood the problem with bumping an old topic. "Atari" is an old topic. It's okay to have threads that go on for years. I'd rather have one "2600 Pac-Man" thread or "ET" or "Virtual Boy in Luigi's Mansion" than start over and over again every other year. If you have something interesting to add to a conversation, everyone here is always welcome to speak up and share your thoughts. If the thread needs to die I'll shut it down, which has never happened.
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16 minutes ago, atarilbc said:
30,380. Playing on a UAV modded 7800.
I tried the "scanlines" setting on my Retrotink 2x-pro. I like the look of it.
Agreed! I've always thought the 7800 looks best with scanlines, hands down. Games look nice and crips, the way they were designed to be experienced.
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On 7/23/2020 at 10:20 AM, StormSurge said:
Space Shuttle
An under appreciated gem. I first received Space Shuttle for Christmas one year to play on my Atari 7800. Turns out its one of the few games that won't work on the 7800. It sat unplayed in my collection for years before I could get around to truly enjoying it. So much imagination went into that.
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On 8/15/2020 at 10:12 AM, atarilbc said:
The stellar arcade ports is one reason to own a 7800. The other are the amazing homebrews. I probably play more homebrews on that console that any other.
So glad we live in an era when we can say that. It doesn't feel like all that long ago when we couldn't, when there were no 7800 home-brews except for Senso DX by Heaven / TQA. @PacManPlus lives in my town, I need to buy the man a drink.
On 8/15/2020 at 12:56 PM, nosweargamer said:If you do get one, I highly recommend that you get the Edladdin Seagull 78 adapter. It allows you to use any Sega Genesis controller with 2 button 7800 games.
Terrific advice @nosweargamer. The original Sega Genesis pad feels pretty solid on the 7800.
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1 hour ago, Atari Creep said:
As poop as I am at this game you know I am in. Too fun not too.
I'm glad you're joining in on this @Atari Creep!! Even if you're not a regular Jackie Stewart it's great to have you racing with us! 🏎️
44 minutes ago, atarilbc said:35 minutes ago, Atari Creep said:To start. 29220 started in 4th
Using OpenEmu and USB controller this round
32 minutes ago, RickR said:31560. I qualified in 4th and made it to lap 2. This game is TOUGH!
Hey @btbfilms76, enter me to win!OFF TO A GREAT START!!
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1 hour ago, btbfilms76 said:
Have you? Have you played Atari today?
Great commercial. It's so great because it's true. Back from the days when video games were "rec room" items marketed to the entire family. We should see more of this.
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1 hour ago, Atari Creep said:
Buying games. PayPal ready so long as you do not want a kings ransom for the games.
WHOAAA WELCOME TO THE CLUBBB @Atari Creep‼️ There's nothing like Lynx. Those bright colorful pixelated graphics, those chip tunes, they take you away to a world all its own
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1 hour ago, Atari Creep said:
Thanks man. I have a few play lists if ya want to check them out. Before that, be sure to poke around here. This is such a great site and community.
Thanks Creep
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3 minutes ago, btbfilms76 said:
Kicking myself gang...
I was looking through my files yesterday and I found this video I forgot to add to my breakout episode. So lame.
So hear it is, let’s get this song stuck in our heads.
That's a shame! Are you able to go back and edit it in? I love seeing the commercials and little historical bits worked into your show. Thanks for sharing BTB.
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Rich Koz! There's our man!
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The lack of the fruit drop really ruins it for me, although I think this is marginally better than the Donkey Kong 2600 port. "Good enough for 1983" isn't good enough for a pillar game like Donkey Kong. I don't know for certain the truth about the "conspiracy theories" with Coleco releasing a sub-par game to highlight the 2600 weaknesses in comparison with ColecoVision, but Atari should've released a better version for the 2600 version once they attained the license later on in the 80s. The Atari 2600 was never made to do a game like Donkey Kong Jr. but solid games like Moon Patrol, Solaris, and Mario Bros especially show that you could work around the 2600's limitations. Nintendo never accepted "good enough" for their pillar titles on NES, and Atari should've held everything to high standards too, especially after Tramiel snatched up the rights to many of these third party games after the crash.
Not a horrible game, but a mediocre port without the fruit drop. Two and a half stars.
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Welcome to the forums @MaliciousCarp‼️☺️ I'm thrilled that you decided to come spend some time in the forums after hearing about Atari I/O for so long! BIG thanks to @Atari Creep for getting the word out and letting you know about High Score Squad 🙌 and also to @nosweargamer @dauber @Willie! and others for being a wonderful part of our community and inviting others to do the same. We have a small community of wonderful people here who are kind and welcoming, centered around the interests that bring us all together.
2 hours ago, MaliciousCarp said:I like having an excuse to dig out some of my old favorite games and give them a whirl and I really love how accessible the rules are - with Emulators and being allowed and no specific rules about controllers.
That's what High Score Squad is all about! It's like a wine tasting party or a book of the month club, the entire idea is for us to have an excuse to pull out some of these great games and play them with friends in the forums the same way we would play them growing up with friends on a Saturday afternoon. I like to choose games for High Score Squad that are a nice mix of well-known classics, and more overlooked forgotten favorites. It's nice to go between sampling some under appreciated classics and giving them another look, and playing beloved well-worn classics but finding new ways to play and seeing them in another light, possibly by trying them on insane difficulty settings that even after 30-40 years maybe we've never tried before, like how we play our Ultimate Yars' Challenge for our annual Howard Scott Warshaw Day event.
We have a few other Atari I/O Members who are very active in the forums from the Twin Cities too, who also love classic monster movies and are Svengoolie Chicken Throwers! Hopefully they'll see this and chime in below. Lance's Lab comes to us from "high atop the escarpments of the Twin Cities".
It's great to have you join us and I hope you enjoy your times in the Atari I/O Forums, it's a nice community with some great people. We meet up in the chatroom Wednesday nights and have other events throughout the year. I think you'll fit right in. If there's anything you need just let me know. WELCOME!!
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I had a tie like that when I worked at a movie theater in high school. They allowed us to choose which ties we wanted to wear with our uniforms, and we were able to replace them / get new ones every six months as they would often get a little worn and stained with popcorn earl etc. I had two ties, the first was a Spock tie, possibly that very same one, and my second was a Darth Vader tie.
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Not quite an actual lighthouse, but a tall cylindrical building towards the shore of an Island. @StormSurge has posted about this before:
https://fishersisland.net/fishers-islands-round-house-stands-out-even-in-the-land-of-unusual-houses/
and it's easy to change your username if you'd like to. Let me know if I can be helpful.
Do you think Donkey Kong Jr. on the 2600 is a terrible game or a decent port?
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AGREED!! I've never bought into this "conspiracy theory" but I've never seen any proof of anything either way. It could simply have been that Coleco's management were making similar financial decisions as those that Atari made on 2600 Pac-Man. MBAs deciding to save a few cents by forcing Donkey Kong into a 4K game instead of 8K or more. 2600 Donkey Kong was programmed by Garry Kitchen who is possibly more known as an Activision alumnus, in his interview he cites 2600 Pac-Man as what he was trying to avoid.
It just felt empty to me without the fruit to drop on the heads of enemies. And by then I had ColecoVision and later Atari 7800 options available to me. Yet I still prefer 2600 Asteroids to any other versions. Just my personal experience.
Agreed on both points. I think the new DK for Intellivision is pretty neat though. As for Coleco's 2600 games, I wasn't impressed by them generally, but I didn't think it was intentional. Again, Atari was guilty of the same decision making that brought about some sour games.
That would be great! Would really love a nice looking DK3 on 7800.
It would be nice to see this.
You can reach over to the vines next to you, just like in the other versions of the game. That aspect of the 2600 release is a plus in my book.
I agree it's impressive for being 4K. But the game shouldn't have been 4K. Somewhere someone decided to try to do Donkey Kong with only 4K and that was probably the decision that most impacted how the game turned out.
I would have liked to see Jack Tramiel's Atari offer an improved version of Atari 2600 Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr. during the 2600 Red Label era. They should've created a 16K version of Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr. on par with 2600 Solaris and released it to great fanfare.
There it is right there 👆