Justin

Fun SEGA trivia: According to Yu Suzuki, if Sega president Hayao Nakayama saw that a game's graphics were completed, he would consider the game finished and try to release it. To get around this -- since it was impossible to just show nothing when Nakayama came by -- Yu rigged a switch under his desk to wipe Space Harrier's color RAM, using it for on-demand graphical sabotage. During one of the times he did this, the effect looked so impressive, Yu extracted the data and kept it in as the game's actual colors.

WOOOOO! 
Spent almost 9 hours on the website today! It doesn't look like it, but here's what I updated-
 
Dungeon Stalker Video Review!
Novawolf Video Review!
I rank the Video 61 laminated Comic Strip/ Instructions
The Save Mary Art Gallery Updated!
The Definitive Cart Collector Guide Updated
Changed the name of our Podcast to "The Atari Network Podcast" 
Cleaned up the Articles Page
Planet Smashers- God Mode Code
Dragon Cache- Play as the Dragon of Thorns/ Level Warp
Dragon's Havoc- Stage Select Code
Venture- Start with 11 lives
Joust Easter Egg
Ninja Golf- Hidden Joystick Test
Bentley Bear's Crystal Quest- 1-2 Warp Location
Adventures of Olli Troll- Level Select/ Ending Select Code
 
www.atari7800forever.com

I miss old Nick-at-Nite 🌛 and listening to it on late summer nights while I play SNES and Sega and Duo and Jag straight on till morning 
 

hAPPY nEW yEARS!
Let's end the year on the good foot! How about a review of the brand new Novawolf game for the Atari 7800 over at Atari 7800 Forever!!! #atari #atari7800 #novawolf
 

In case you're wondering, I said "yes."

December has been a crazy month--so much going on both professionally and personally, and it's just been a blur. I've been doing the bare minimum when it comes to social media (which means mostly checking Facebook with very limited time in the I/O).
As far as the hobby is concerned, it's also been a busy month.
Traded away a bottle of wine for an Odyssey 2 in the box with a bunch of games. This is the same person that I traded my heavy sixer with for the Lego 2600 set. Bought a Vectrex light pen. Bought couple of short controller extensions cords to use with the Vectrex. Bought A8PicoCart multicart for the Atari 8bit. I don't need it as I have other means to store and load games, but bought it on a whim. Bought games for the Atari 8bit, 5200, and 2600. Got an empty Atari 1040ST box for free from a member of the local gaming group. I'm pretty sure I'm missing some other stuff, but as far as adding to the collection goes, it's been fruitful.
I hope 2024 will be slower going, and I can finally finish cleaning up and reorganizing my hobby spaces in the house. That's been put on hold the past two years because of my health issues (which should be a thing of the past now).
For 2024 and beyond, I am making a big shift. Instead of dabbling in most things, I intend to focus retro gaming heavily to all things Atari with a smattering of modern gaming on the Switch and Steam Deck. This year has taught me that my heart belongs to Atari and other platforms from the 80s and early 90s.
I will be selling off the PS1, 2, and 4 collection to a local gaming store in the next week or two, so that should help with reclaiming some shelf space. For now, I intend to keep my Xbox collection as well as the PS3 collection. While I will keep all my consoles and a few physical games, I will not be expanding my PlayStation and Xbox physical library.
It's been a very enjoyable six years exploring the popular retro gaming platforms, but as I contemplate life and the need the downsize in 5-7 years, I think the time is right to start that process. Hopefully, narrowing my focus will translate into more game time and lot less shopping.
Happy New Year!

Atari 7800 Forever Podcast Tonight! Special Guest Host- Crossbow! 7:30PM EST
Funkmaster V and Silverback bring in the new year with a huge ass food fight- culinary cookout Christmas edition podcast o funk. What did we get? What did YOU get? Was it the clap? Jon knows how to get rid of that. And allegedly, Crossbow from Ivory Tower will join us to class up the joint a bit. CHAT WITH US! It's fun!!! #atari #atarivcs #foodfight
 

PSA: If you haven't checked out the VCS holiday sale, do yourself a favor. 50% off of many titles, including Atari 50, the excellent Recharged series and many awesome indie games.

Just a PSA for TG16 owners: posting this from elsewhere but this is not the first I have heard of this lately. Take your chip games out of their plastic sleeves. The sleeves are starting to melt/rot, ruining the games they are supposed to protect. I recently got two sealed nos games for my brother, only to discover the carts were ruined due to the rotting sleeves. The same likely applies for Sega Card games for the SG-1000 & SMS.

Some will win, some will lose: Journey Escape.
 

Love playing Atari on the Evercade 

PSA: Great deal on a VCS speaker hat bundle. First 50 only.
https://twitter.com/atari/status/1739736694369161678?t=r-8eTDvtj667VeDs-_mJgQ&s=19

It's a Christmas Miracle! Funkmaster V reviews Food Fight- Culinary Combat for the Atari VCS. A multiplayer game that will Poly your bus! #atarivcs #foodfight #polybius  
 

"You don't prove a man a liar when you tear out his tongue, but you do prove you're afraid of what he has to say."

Nice dinner of shrimp and mushrooms.

Bought this lot for a great deal! All of the games worked first try out of the box! Most with instructions. Love the Atari Advantage insert poster! All these also worked on the 2600+, had a tough time figuring out baseball. 

New Atari 7800 Forever Podcast 12/15/2023 7:30PM EST

Funkmaster V and Silverback got their Atari games for Christmas and now they are gonna start bullying the kids in the neighborhood over it. Are you man enough to stop them? Tons of updates on updates to talk about and live chats!!! #atari #atari7800 #atarivcs
 
 

It's after midnight so technically FRIDAY! Who's still up? 🤔😁

Surprise!
 

Yum. Salmon with basil butter and mushrooms with spices and coconut milk.
 

Got my copy of Club VCS! That was not only fast shipping, but well packed too. 

Another video so soon after posting one yesterday? Must be a record lol. Found a couple of minor items in the Electronics Bin. Walking in the snow! Another walk and ramble, more snow the next day after my walking around in a T-shirt just yesterday. I didn't expect to find anything since I checked recently but a couple of small items caught my eye, join me on a snowy walk around the Condo! Filmed for fun on an old ANDROID 7 phone - Voga V!
 

PSA: It looks like the long rumored update to the VCS OS has finally hit!  It took me about 10 minutes to get through the update cycle.
No release notes yet, but there are some obvious changes to the font and brightness and volume control on exit & in the system menu.
 
 

A huge welcome to all of the new forum members! I know that many folks have come for the Print Edition of ClubVCS Issue 01, and that is AMAZING! (seriously, thanks!)
I also want to encourage you to explore and participate in the rest of the forum and ClubVCS!  We have a great community and a lot of cool stuff going on. So start a conversation, join in a high score challenge, or share your content!