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  5. ATARI I/O SUMMER PIZZA FESTIVAL!

    in Atari I/O Events & Contests

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    Guys, let's get the party started! We have 3 spectacular Squad Challenges running simultaneously thru the long weekend. Participate in as many of them as you want! To celebrate Summer we're playing some of the pillar games on our favorite game systems, all weekend long! It's okay if you don't set a new world record, we're just having fun together and sharing scores. "Pizzas, and greasy joysticks, pitcher of root beer and high scores, that’s what it’s all about" -BTB

     

     

    SPACE INVADERS

     

     

    TETRIS

     

     

    SONIC THE HEDGEHOG (SINGLE LIFE RUN!)

     

  6. Squad Challenge - Sonic The Hedgehog (Sega Genesis)

    in High Score Squad

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    Sonic The Hedgehog
    Sega Genesis
    Controller: CONTROLLER / KEYBOARD / PLAYER'S CHOICE
    Difficulty Level: Default
    SINGLE LIFE: Achieve high score using only one life to win challenge
    Play on: Real Hardware / Dedicated Console / MAME / Emulation OK! ✔
    Squad Challenge ends 11:59 pm PST June 23rd, 2019

     

     

    OBJECTIVE: Play for the highest possible score using the difficulty settings defined in the challenge. Post a photo or video of your score in this thread. Scores must be achieved between June 21st through June 23rd, 2019. Screen captures are not allowed as they are 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 or emulation, using any controller or keyboard, following rules and game settings as delineated in the Squad Challenge. Enhancements, rewinds and hacked versions of this game are not allowed.

     

    DIFFICULTY LEVEL: Default. Press the START Button to begin the game at the first Level.

     

    SINGLE LIFE RUN: You are only allowed ONE LIFE to achieve your high score in this Squad Challenge.

     

    FAIR PLAY: 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 no use of cheats, hacks, cartridge frying, enhancements, rewinds, Photoshop, subterfuge, or any other unfair advantage is allowed. Everybody hates a cheater.

     

    MORE: To review detailed rules on how to play, please visit the High Score Squad page here: https://forums.atari.io/topic/1219-high-score-squad-how-to-play/

     

     

    MESSAGE: Welcome to our 1st Annual Atari I/O Summer Pizza Party! 🍕🍺🕹️ To celebrate Summer we're playing some of the pillar games on our favorite game systems, all weekend long! It's okay if you don't set a new world record, we're just having fun together and sharing scores. You can pick and choose which Squad Challenges to participate in this weekend, you can partake in one and leave the rest, or participate in all of them! This is a SINGLE LIFE RUN Challenge, and you are only allowed ONE LIFE to achieve your high score in this Squad Challenge. ROM and Instruction Manual are provided below. Good luck to everyone playing!

     

    NOTE: Our regularly scheduled High Score Squad Challenge schedule will resume on July 1st with a game for Super Nintendo. :nintendo_snes:  Be there!

     

     

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  7. Squad Challenge - Tetris (NES)

    in High Score Squad

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    Tetris
    Nintendo Entertainment System
    Controller: CONTROLLER / KEYBOARD / PLAYER'S CHOICE
    Difficulty Level: A-TYPE Game, Level 0
    Play on: Real Hardware / Dedicated Console / MAME / Emulation OK! ✔
    Squad Challenge ends 11:59 pm PST June 23rd, 2019

     

     

    OBJECTIVE: Play for the highest possible score using the difficulty settings defined in the challenge. Post a photo or video of your score in this thread. Scores must be achieved between June 21st through June 23rd, 2019. Screen captures are not allowed as they are 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 or emulation, using any controller or keyboard, following rules and game settings as delineated in the Squad Challenge. Enhancements, rewinds and hacked versions of this game are not allowed.

     

    DIFFICULTY LEVEL: A-TYPE Game, Level 0. This starts you at the beginning and provides a test of endurance where you must try to get a high score by completing as many lines as possible. We are playing the Officially Licensed Tetris published by Nintendo, not the Tengen version.

     

    FAIR PLAY: 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 no use of cheats, hacks, cartridge frying, enhancements, rewinds, Photoshop, subterfuge, or any other unfair advantage is allowed. Everybody hates a cheater.

     

    MORE: To review detailed rules on how to play, please visit the High Score Squad page here: https://forums.atari.io/topic/1219-high-score-squad-how-to-play/

     

    MESSAGE: Welcome to our 1st Annual Atari I/O Summer Pizza Party! 🍕🍺🕹️ To celebrate Summer we're playing some of the pillar games on our favorite game systems, all weekend long! It's okay if you don't set a new world record, we're just having fun together and sharing scores. You can pick and choose which Squad Challenges to participate in this weekend, you can partake in one and leave the rest, or participate in all of them! If you think Tetris seems familiar, you're not crazy! We played this game about half a year ago in High Score Squad. It's such a smash hit I thought it would be fun to revisit this game for the weekend! ROM and Instruction Manual are provided below. Good luck to everyone playing!

     

    NOTE: Our regularly scheduled High Score Squad Challenge schedule will resume on July 1st with a game for Super Nintendo. :nintendo_snes:  Be there!

     

     

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  8. Squad Challenge - Space Invaders (Atari 2600)

    in High Score Squad

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    Space Invaders
    Atari 2600
    Controller: CONTROLLER / KEYBOARD / PLAYER'S CHOICE
    Difficulty Level: Game 4, Difficulty B
    Play on: Real Hardware / Dedicated Console / MAME / Emulation OK! ✔
    Squad Challenge ends 11:59 pm PST June 23rd, 2019

     

     

    OBJECTIVE: Play for the highest possible score using the difficulty settings defined in the challenge. Post a photo or video of your score in this thread. Scores must be achieved between June 21st through June 23rd, 2019. Screen captures are not allowed as they are 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 or emulation, using any controller or keyboard, following rules and game settings as delineated in the Squad Challenge. Enhancements, rewinds and hacked versions of this game are not allowed.

     

    DIFFICULTY LEVEL: Game 4, Difficulty B. This game setting provides for a Smaller Cannon, Moving Shields and Zigzagging Laser Bombs.

     

    FAIR PLAY: 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 no use of cheats, hacks, cartridge frying, enhancements, rewinds, Photoshop, subterfuge, or any other unfair advantage is allowed. Everybody hates a cheater.

     

    MORE: To review detailed rules on how to play, please visit the High Score Squad page here: https://forums.atari.io/topic/1219-high-score-squad-how-to-play/

     

    MESSAGE: Welcome to our 1st Annual Atari I/O Summer Pizza Party! 🍕🍺🕹️ To celebrate Summer we're playing some of the pillar games on our favorite game systems, all weekend long! It's okay if you don't set a new world record, we're just having fun together and sharing scores. You can pick and choose which Squad Challenges to participate in this weekend, you can partake in one and leave the rest, or participate in all of them! ROM and Instruction Manual are provided below. Good luck to everyone playing!

     

    NOTE: Our regularly scheduled High Score Squad Challenge schedule will resume on July 1st with a game for Super Nintendo. :nintendo_snes:  Be there!

     

     

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  9. Atari I/O LIVE!

    in YouTube Community

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    ATARI I/O LIVE! BTB talks about his RETRO GAMER ORIGINS:

     

    Memories of being a Retro Gamer in 1991

    @btbfilms76 talks about his origins as a retro gamer, living through the video game crash and how he got his start doing YouTube. Do you guys know what it was like collecting Atari games in the early ‘90s? Trying to find those games that catapulted Atari to stratospheric success and being some of the only guys out there doing that at that time was a lot of fun.

    👉 This was our first test at doing a livestream. We talked for over an hour and realized afterwards that my audio didn’t record. BTB had some gems though so I edited them into this video. BTB's thoughts in this video were part of a larger conversation about History Channel's fantastic documentary "Game Changers" which accurately covered the rise and fall of Atari.

    Subscribe now for new retro gaming videos: http://bit.ly/atariiosubscribe

  10. Atari I/O LIVE!

    in YouTube Community

    Posted

    ASTRO WARRIOR Sega Master System Livestream:

     

    Memories of playing Astro Warrior for Sega Master System

    I share memories of playing Astro Warrior for Sega Master System while Gianna holds the camera. Astro Warrior is a shoot 'em up game that came on a "Combo Cartridge" with Hang-On (see above) as the pack-in game with the Sega Master System. Is Astro Warrior a worthy pack-in? Growing up, I really liked Astro Warrior but after a while I set it aside for Blazing Lazers, a similar game on TurboGrafx-16. Blazing Lazers is still one of my all-time favorite games for any system, but what about Astro Warrior? Is it still fun?

    I first played Astro Warrior at my friend’s house, he had a Sega Master System and seeing the games made me want to get one. Nobody else wanted to play Hang-On (I played it last week in the post above this one, it turned out to be an awesome game!) but Astro Warrior was a different story. During the summer we’d spend the entire afternoon playing Astro Warrior. We didn’t love it as much as Shinobi, but it was an impressive game for 1986 and was the first “Blazing Lazers-style” shoot-em-up game that I remember playing.

    My friend eventually gave me the game, and the Astro Warrior I play in the livestream is the same cartridge I grew up playing at my friend’s house. Pretty cool! It was a Hang-On/Astro Warrior cartridge that came in a Hang-On/Safari Hunt case, which I tried to “customize” with a pen and stickers when I was a kid. Do I regret marking up a retro game? No! You’ll get to see why in the video!

    💥 BIG TIP OFF — Start new levels with drones: Whenever you finish off a level and the name of the next level is on the screen, hit 1 and 2 alternately about 25-30 times. If you are fast and don't double hit one of the buttons, you'll get 2 purple firing drones to begin the next stage with.

    From the back of the box: "Hang-On / Astro Warrior: Twice the action. Twice the risk. One incredible combination. Astro Warrior pits you against the enemy's fleet of superpowers spaceships. And ultimately, the invincible Master Ship. In this treacherous black universe you can only count on yourself. To shoot fast. To shoot straight. If you do — you get more power. More weapons. To beat the villains. To beat the odds. If you don't — the odds beat you.

  12. Squad Challenge - Blue Lightning (Atari Lynx)

    in High Score Squad

    Posted

    2 hours ago, atarilbc said:

    Wish I would have gotten back to it but I was on a road trip.  Fun challenge!  Congrats NSG! 

     

    2 hours ago, RickR said:

    Same deal here.  Too busy for my own gaming-good.

    GOOD JOB NSG, and everyone else too.  I'm going to keep my eye out for this cartridge on the Lynx -- it was a really fun game. 

    I'm glad you guys loved this game! @kamakazi20012 is going to keep this going in the Scoreboard and I'll jump in too :atari_lynx:

  13. Justin's SIDEWALK SALE stuff for 2019

    in Trading Post

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    Nothing that interesting to offer this year but I do have some loose games for PS1 and Xbox that are in very nice condition. I have Return Fire for PlayStation and Steel Battalion for Xbox, which are kind of interesting and could be spicy in a future trade. Everything listed here is original from within the family and has been well cared for over the years. They are loose as unfortunately they were separated from their original clamshells during a move, but have spent their life in the protective CD sleeves you see in the pictures.

    No set prices, hoping for a cool trade or to save up enough money to get some software and lighting for Atari I/O's YouTube channel! I visited pricecharting.com today to get a grasp on what these games are worth in loose condition. I’d like to do a nice trade but am willing to sell everything in a bundle.

    The DVDs are mostly all “DISC 2” with Special Features or Bonus Features. I don’t place much of a value on these and am willing to let the complete DVD bundle go in a small trade. I’m looking to find a nice home for these.

    $150 takes it all, shipped. Or a cool trade 😀 Money will go toward the site and equipment for Atari I/O’s presence on YouTube. Trades I’m sure will be used in various ways over the years on the site and on our YouTube channel. Thanks for checking out my table!

     

    HERE'S MY WANT LIST:

    ANY new in the box Atari game of any kind, for any Atari system

    Atari 2600 VCS in good cosmetic condition (for photography purposes)

     

    ANY GAMES FOR:

    • NES
    • SNES
    • N64
    • Sega Master System
    • Sega Genesis

    *no sports titles please

     

    CONSOLES:

    • Sega Master System console (original)
    • Sega Genesis console (original)
    • Sega Game Gear (original)
    • N64 Console
    • GameCube console
    • Original Atari / Sears Tele-Games PONG console

     

    Thanks guys! 😉

     

    ITEMS FOR SALE / TRADE

     

    PlayStation

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    Xbox

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    DVD Loose Discs

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    THANK YOU FOR BROWSING 😀

  16. Squad Challenge - Blue Lightning (Atari Lynx)

    in High Score Squad

    Posted

    :pole_position_blimp_big: Congratulations nosweargamer!

     

    Congratulations @nosweargamer on an awesome score! Blue Lightning was our 2nd Atari Lynx Squad Challenge. I was thrilled to see a good turnout for this games and all of you posted  scores to be proud of. I hope everybody had a lot of fun checking out what the Atari Lynx had to offer. @kamakazi20012 messaged me to say that he has a copy of Blue Lightning on its way to him as we speak from @Video 61, and would like to continue this challenge in the Scoreboard!  It's amazing to think that when Tetris was just making it onto Game Boy, Atari Lynx had this. Blue Lightning looks almost good enough to be a home console game. nosweargamer achieved the High Score for this Squad Challenge with a score of 170,800. @atarilbc took 2nd Place with 128,400 points, and @Atari Creep scored 106,300 points to take 3rd. @Control Issues and @RickR brought their best. Great game guys! Congrats to everyone who played! I'd like to encourage NSG to post his new high score on the Scoreboard, and this Challenge will continue on! 

    NOTE: Our normal High Score Squad Challenge will not be played this week, so that we may bring you THREE Squad Challenges running simultaneously for our Summer Pizza Festival starting this Friday!! We will be playing games for Atari 2600, Nintendo Entertainment System, and Sega Genesis. See you there!

     

     

    BLUE LIGHTNING FINAL STANDINGS

     

    1   NO SWEAR GAMER           170,800

    2   ATARILBC                           128,400

    3   ATARI CREEP                     106,300

    4   CONTROL ISSUES               84,600

    5   RICKR                                    54,200

     

     

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  18. The Creeps Play Things

    in Classic Toys

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    5 hours ago, Atari Creep said:

    They are so unique for the time, hell even for now. I plan to get a bunch of the space related figures and do a video in the future. There are a few that cost a bit more than I would like to pay. Look up the xRay Adventure People. THEY ARE WICKED RAD!!!!

    I'm also loving those new Star Wars re-releases, they're so cool! They even have the Kenner logo on them I'll have to get a few. Take them out of the packaging and pose them alongside my gaming stuff in my Instagram photos.

  21. Atari I/O LIVE!

    in YouTube Community

    Posted

    🌃  S Ξ G Λ  N I G H T S  🌘

    Memories of playing Hang-On for Sega Master System

    Hang-On is a motorcycle driving game that came on a “Combo Cartridge” as the pack-in game with the Sega Master System. Growing up, I never paid much attention to Hang-On. I first played it at my friend’s house, he had a Sega Master System and seeing the games made me want to get one. I asked about Hang-On, it looked a lot like Pole Position II or Out Run, which was the Sega game I most wanted to play. My friend grimaced and said Hang-On was a cruddy game and we should play Shinobi instead.

    He was right about Shinobi being an awesome game, and I wouldn’t realize it until this week but he was wrong about Hang-On. Yes, it’s a motorcycle racer that fits about halfway between Pole Position II and Out Run, with PPII’s lights and lack of music, and Out Run’s “Extended Play” with changing scenery every lap. Except Hang-On challenges you in new ways with special techniques and strategies. It’s not so much a racing game as a driving game, and it’s the motorcycle element that makes these special techniques possible.

    I’ve had this game for 30+ years and never connected with it. I was more drawn to the other racing games I mentioned. But Hang-On always reminds me of the beginning of summer, pulling out the Sega Master System, cracking open a cold Snapple and having some snacks while I dive into the SMS library. This weekend I gave Hang-On another try. Even this week I didn’t care much for the game at first. Until I got a feel for the unique skill and strategy woven into this 8-bit classic. Something clicked and I connected with this game. What a beast.

    💥 BIG TIP OFF — Your motorcycle shifts through 3 gears. The best moments to shift gears are at 100km/h and 200km/h.

    From the back of the box: “Hang-On / Safari Hunt: Motorcycle racing and jungle adventure - all on one Sega Combo Cartridge. Hang-On is the 3-D motorcycle race game that’s taken the arcades by storm. Race through grasslands, seasides, valleys, nighttime city scapes and, of course, motorcycle racecourses. The game is so fast it even gives you special techniques like Hang-on and Countersteering for taking the corners.”

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