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SIDEWALK SALE TABLES
Here are links to threads where Members have set up for the Sidewalk Sale, listing multiple items For Sale / Trade. This post will be updated as more Members set up shop. Other participants have posted items For Sale / Trade all throughout this thread, so scroll down!
PARTICIPANTS WITH ITEMS LISTED FOR SALE / TRADE BELOW
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TIME TO SET UP SHOP!
We’re having our 1st Annual Atari I/O Summer Sidewalk Sale here in the forums! The event will take place with our SUMMER PIZZA FESTIVAL June 21-23, but it doesn’t hurt to set up early!
Think of this thread like the sidewalk on Main St. in your home town. This will be the epicenter of the Sidewalk Sale event! We can talk and trade, and if you already have your own For Sale / Trade threads listed in the Marketplace go ahead and share links to them here.
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BUY, SELL & TRADE!
This is a great time to tidy up and let go of dupes in your collection! Polish up those spares and trades, take photos and post them in the Marketplace! We’ll spread the word that NOW is a great time to check out the new items in the Marketplace. Even if you only have a few items, now is a great time to get them listed, make a trade, check out what others have up, and maybe make a new friend in the process.
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POST YOUR LINKS BELOW!
If you have any questions, just ask!
- Atari 5200 Guy, Marco1019, RickR and 1 other
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52 minutes ago, RickR said:
I posted some stuff for trade over in the trading post. Thanks!
Awesome! We will have a thread in the Marketplace specifically for the Sidewalk Sale aspect of the festival to do exactly what you just did, share links to everything you have for sale and chat about it. I should go ahead and get that set up since you guys are already getting things ready!
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1 hour ago, Willie! said:
Champ Games has made me one very happy Willie! by releasing a demo rom of Galaga for the Atari 2600! I cant wait for the physical release, its on my must buy list
That is just incredible. I'm blown away by this.
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1 hour ago, kamakazi20012 said:
Well, I don't have gear to capture or live feed anything in the 8-bit range...nor anything to capture HDMI output...but maybe I can get the wife to agree to a live feed of us playing Borderlands or Borderlands 2 with me on the 360 and her on the XBOX One. We found a loop hole in XBOX's Live service where one of us can have gold and play multiplayer on two different XBOX consoles. That might be possible. I just know while we are playing we might not be able to keep an eye on any live chat questions or anything. That might be doable if she is comfortable enough to do it.
Even just a video from your cell phone or a few pictures will do the trick 😉
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2 minutes ago, Atari Creep said:
WOW!!! Thats a lot to take in but looks wicked fun. Going to try to bang all of the above out!!!!!!
Pizza and games! That's that it's all about! GREAT to have you on board @Atari Creep!
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Questions? Don't hesitate to ask. I will be here to help in any way that I can. Hope all of you will join in our summer celebration!
- StormSurge and Sabertooth
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SUMMER PIZZA FESTIVAL!
🕹️ 🍺 🍕 A CELEBRATION OF PIZZA, GAMES & SUMMER 🍕 🍺 🕹️
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SIDEWALK SALE
Buy, Sell & Trade! This is a great time to tidy up and let go of dupes in your collection! Polish up those spares and trades, take photos and post them in the Marketplace! We’ll spread the word that NOW is a great time to check out the new items in the Marketplace. Even if you only have a few items, now is a great time to get them listed, make a trade, check out what others have up, and maybe make a new friend in the process.
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PIZZA PARTY
Sample your favorite local pizza and celebrate summer with pizza and games! Invite a friend over for pizza and games at home, or go out to your local pizzeria for a fun night! Share photos in the forums and lets hear about your favorite local pizza place! What's your regional flavor? Is it New York Style, Chicago Deep Dish, Genuine California Pizza? Let’s see that pizza place game room! If you’re eating at home, project Warlords up on the side of your house for an amazing game with friends. It’s a good time to invite new friends to join the Forums.
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LIVESTREAMS
Content creators! Livestream pizza & games night from home, or check in LIVE from your local pizzeria with your mobile device. We’ll be there for the action!
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3x HIGH SCORE SQUAD CHALLENGES
3 spectacular Squad Challenges running simultaneously thru the long weekend. Participate in as many of them as you want!
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PLAY-IT-FORWARD
Randomly donate/give/send a classic game to someone who might enjoy it, or support your favorite Atari I/O Content Creator with a generous donation on Patreon or PayPal. The spirit of Play-It-Forward is to promote classic gaming while being generous to those who could use a little generosity. This will not be an opportunity for mooches and grifters to pester forum members for free games or insinuate as much.
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"Pizzas, and greasy joysticks, pitcher of root beer and high scores, that’s what it’s all about" - BTB
Friday, June 21st - Sunday, June 23rd
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What this guy did is incredible. 🤯 Hats off to him.
- StormSurge, Atari Creep, LSGreger and 4 others
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Hang-On
Sega Master System
Difficulty: Level 1
High Score: 1,699,040
June 5, 2019- StormSurge and nads
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Quick heads up for all you Androbot lovers out there:
History Channel is airing a new episode of American Pickers tonight. The episode will feature Nolan Bushnell's Androbot TOPO, as well as various other coin-operated arcade video game machines. If that's your thing you'll want to tune in and check it out. If you miss it I'm sure it will be airing in reruns every weekend from now until the dusk of the television age.
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Tim Lapetino, author of the great book The Art Of Atari, weighed in with a comment on our Instagram post:
- TrekMD and StormSurge
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Wow @RickR I'm impressed
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Blue Lightning
Atari Lynx
Controller: CONTROLLER / KEYBOARD / PLAYER'S CHOICE
Difficulty Level: Default - Start with 1st Mission / AAAA Code
Play on: Real Hardware / Dedicated Console / MAME / Emulation OK! ✔
Squad Challenge ends 11:59 pm PST June 14th, 2019OBJECTIVE: 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 1st through June 14th, 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 A button to play. Start with 1st Mission, accepting the AAAA code.
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 61st Squad Challenge! This will be our second Squad Challenge for the Atari Lynx and for one of the system's pillar titles: Blue Lightning! This is one of the top games for the Atari Lynx when it was new. ROM and Instruction Manual are provided below. Good luck to everyone playing!
NOTE: We have a really cool Summer Event coming up soon! PLUS an NES Squad Challenge. Be there!
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Congratulations ThatBuffGamer!
Congratulations @ThatBuffGamer on an awesome score! Shinobi was our 1st Sega Master System Squad Challenge, and our third "Single Life Run" challenge. Guys, these were incredible scores. Seriously, these scores just blew me away, and the amount of enthusiasm in this challenge was palpable. I hope everybody had a lot of fun with this one. ThatBuffGamer achieved the High Score for this Squad Challenge with a score of 291,800. @atarilbc took 2nd Place with 157,450 points, and @Control Issues scored 153,800 points to take 3rd. @RadioPoultry @Atari Creep @nosweargamer and @RickR all showed up with their best. Great game guys! Congrats to everyone who played! I'd like to encourage ThatBuffGamer to post his new high score on the Scoreboard, and maybe this Challenge can continue on!
Our next High Score Squad Challenge will be for the Atari Lynx! See you there!
SHINOBI
SINGLE LIFE RUN FINAL STANDINGS1 THAT BUFF GAMER 291,800
2 ATARILBC 157,450
3 CONTROL ISSUES 153,800
4 RADIO POULTRY 131,200
5 ATARI CREEP 119,400
6 NO SWEAR GAMER 97,450
7 RICKR 93,300
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18 hours ago, kamakazi20012 said:
Interestingly, even the 7800 monochrome labels come in variations. Some will be the silver labels, others will be the dull gray. I think I have one that might be a full-color label.
If you look at my first picture at the top of the page you'll see at least two variations. Centipede and Joust are black ink (1 color) printed on a metallic-looking label. These have a 1987 copyright. In my experience these have been the most common of the 7800 monochrome labels. Look at the Xevious label though. Xevious is black ink with silver ink used for the border (2 colors) printed on a white label. You can see in the artwork for Xevious that underneath it all is white. This has a 1986 copyright. Somehow they looked at that label and thought "You know what, we can eliminate one more color if we start with a metallic-looking label instead of a white label."
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15 hours ago, RickR said:
Have you ever seen those 2600 boxes that came in black & white? I think they came in 3 packs of games. Kind of crazy to see those.
I have seen those! It doesn't get more generic than that. They look like the little white boxes that the CX40 Joysticks came packaged in with the 2600. Let's also not forget the Jack Tramiel era monochrome 2600 boxes. I bought this at Kay-Bee in 1994. Imagine the impression this made on people looking at video games at the time:
- RickR and StormSurge
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11 hours ago, RickR said:
I think Sony DID release a hard drive for the PS2.
They sure did! I sold these at Toys R Us and the Sony rep briefed us on them at the time. This would've been about 2003 around the middle of the PS2's lifecycle, when Sony was developing the PS3 and realized how important a hard drive would be moving forward.
The bundle we sold was called the "HDD" (Hard Disk Drive) and included a 40GB hard drive and Final Fantasy XI Online. Here's what it looked like:
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I tried to order one but had trouble ordering. It would not let me complete my order when I went to pay. As soon as I saw Atari Creep's video and post in here tipping us off I went over and tried to order one. I thought they'd be sold out right away.
Can anyone confirm that they are actually Sold Out? The page disappeared for a few days and would redirect you, but I never saw it actually say "Sold Out". Usually in an online store like this, the product page will remain up and will say "Quantities limited" or "This item is currently Sold Out." I tried the link again today and found...
That link is ACTIVE as a pre-order for Dragon Quest Builders 2 for Nintendo Switch.
Interesting to note that it's 1.) the same manufacturer (Nintendo) 2.) the same link in the Dell store, 3.) the same pre-order product price of $59.99 and 4.) the same "Get it by" date in mid-July. Hmm 🤔 ...makes you wonder if there never was a Nintendo Wii shipment in the first place, and someone at Dell made a mistake when trying to enter the Dragon Quest Builders 2 pre-order.
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Black & White cartridge label collection for Atari 7800.
Imagine thinking you can compete against Nintendo Entertainment System with this? Monochrome cartridge labels were one more thing that contributed to Atari’s perception of being a “bargain bin” discount brand by the end of the ‘80s. Incredibly, this is from a company still revered 40 years later for its fantastic box and cartridge artwork. Absolutely mind blowing 🤯💥
- StormSurge and RickR
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On 5/15/2019 at 7:43 PM, RickR said:
Oh man, this is an OLD post
I still have this controller but I rarely use it. I have an NES gamepad that was modified to be used on a 7800, and that's what I use exclusively.
3 hours ago, BlackCatz40 said:Cool! How does the modified NES controller work?
Yeah I'd love to hear about your experiences with the modified controller @RickR
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I love Todd's Adventures in Slime World! I got it on clearance at Toys R Us in August 1994 for $3. Bought a ton of games on a whim and Slime World ended up being one of my most favorite! Nice, complete feeling game with some character. Never knew about this zit-popping game though!
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Another Atari console on the horizon for 1989. Just what everybody was asking for:
Just so we're clear for 1989:
- Atari 2600
- Atari 7800
- Atari Lynx
- Atari XEGS
- Atari XE Computers
- Atari ST Computers
- Atari Portfolio
- and now the Atari Mirai / Super XE
All taking space on store shelves at the same time. Atari should’ve focused their efforts on ONE game console to kill the NES. In my opinion Atari Corp. should have refined the Atari 7800 slightly with an improved "Atari 7800 Mk.II" before re-releasing the game system in 1986. Add more memory and a POKEY or Yamaha sound chip on board, and bundle in two of the 7800 D-Pad Controllers that were released in Europe. The Atari 7800 Keyboard should have been released with an ANTIC Chip, SIO and cartridge slots that would add reverse compatibility to the 7800 for the Atari 8-Bit Computers and Atari 5200. Release awesome games, advertise effectively, treat people right and pay vendors, problem solved.
- Sabertooth, Atari Creep, RickR and 1 other
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42 minutes ago, StormSurge said:
Delayed until Valentine's Day 2020.
You know what, I'm fine with this. If they're truly committed to getting Sonic right we can wait a little longer. A Jim Carrey Sonic movie is something that should've come out in 1994.
- Atari Creep and StormSurge
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ATARI I/O SUMMER PIZZA FESTIVAL!
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