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here is my Atari 5200 Asteroids prototype for your enjoyment. Asteroids part number is CX5201 and was the first game atari planned to release for the 5200 but they put the kibosh on the game because it didn't play well with the new 5200 joysticks. this is an official original prototype that came out of atari and is not a reproduction game. this is what Asteroids would have been had atari put it out in 1982. look at the game and you will see its not a big improvement or very different from 2600 Asteroids. it's the same Asteroids as the Atari 400/800 game. would this have been enough to entice 2600 owners to jump ship to the 5200? enjoy, thanks, lance www.atarisales.com

the XEGS comes stock right out of the box with 64k. to make sure all of the ram is there in working condition, just run the memory test by holding down the option key, then turn on the computer, you will get the test screen options. pick the memory one. here is a video of it: lance www.atarisales.com

its pretty cool programming no doubt about it. peter is a wizard lance www.atarisales.com

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Tempest Elite is now available, price of the cartridge is $49.95. please, we are only taking e-mail orders at this time. our e-mail address is: video61@tcq.net if you need any further information, please feel free to e-mail us, and we will try to answer all of your questions to the best of our abilities. thanks, lance www.atarisales.com Tempest Elite Teaser: Tempest Elite End Credits (with a special THANK YOU to everyone who offered their support and suggestions at Atari I/O):

agreed. the game is not as smooth as defender on the 8-bit/5200, its a bit rugged and jerky. you are welcome. this problem goes back even further than the typical jack t. antics. it should have been. it was a natural for the 5200 joysticks. lance www.atarisales.com

here is my Atari 5200 Stargate prototype for your enjoyment. this is an official original prototype that came out of atari and is not a reproduction game. this is what Stargate would have been had atari put it out in 1984. enjoy, thanks, lance www.atarisales.com

cool info, thanks. but of course you always have cool info. both harry and i found that out i was able top copy the e-proms. i hope they will burn good new ones. yea but you got lots of cool ones to lance www.atarisales.com

hi, we might publish it. it depends on what i can do board wise. and you are welcome. lance www.atarisales.com

its a spinnaker cart for sure. as soon as i saw it, i said typical for them. they used a very poor glue material for their labels. that happens a lot. i still have some of their games in stock. thanks, lance www.atarisales.com

hi, as far as i know its complete. when i got them many many years ago, i used to play them. stuck them away sometime ago, but i have found myself involved heavily in the 5200 again, so i dug some of them out. as time permits, i will post more. lance www.atarisales.com

here is my 5200 super pacman prototype for your enjoyment. this is an original prototype out of atari and not a reproduction game. enjoy, thanks, lance www.atarisales.com

hi, yes it will. it will work on any stock 64k XL/XE atari 8-bit computer. thanks for your interest. lance www.atarisales.com

cool, thanks for the feedback, that is what we want to hear. lance www.atarisales.com

made it through 19 stages last night, it took me hours to play them. what a game. one stage i lost four balls in a row, its a hard one. lucky i had racked up some points, and got a few free ball power ups. i think my final score was 120,000 plus points. you get a free ball every 20,000 points. sometimes its a nail biter as you come close to the 20,000 point figure. thanks, lance www.atarisales.com

hi peter, i am glad you posted this. its a discussion that's long over due. all through out the atari XE, 7800, master system, NES era. all i ever heard out of my customers was, when will atari get super mario bros. or something like that. its was daily, sometimes many times daily. so much so, that i had to call atari again, which one time ended after a two hour lecture to me, on the evils of videogames, from one of the owners of atari. the europeans had so many awesome side scrolling adventure games. when i imported them, they were many times a hard sell, the names of the games were foreign to americans, it made them a hard sell. nothing in english sometimes made it very hard. although, some buyers would cave, and come back very excited. but as usual, atari never made any effort to promote other peoples games, let alone their own. however, they were looking at those games for sure, i know, i have a few carts they did from some of those games. i sent them games all of the time, so somebody or somebodies, were trying. we hope to make this game exciting, and what should have been done from 1986-1991. thanks, lance www.atarisales.com

thank you. yep, it should play on them all. great, it [plays perfect for those joysticks. i will be interested to hear if any mutiplayer games get played. so i really hope that option is taken advantage of. thanks. lance www.atarisales.com

thank you. lance www.atarisales.com

i can understand why i missed the gee bee one, it was the bee gees. i did like the first two bee gee eras, i grew up during the british invasion. the first era was in the mid to late 60's, there second era in the early to mid 1970s, saw then harden up their music a bit, like lonely days, i still love that song, but in the late 1970's, the disco era was gruesome. no hard rock lover would ever admit to listening to that garbage. and the disco era was marked in my opinion, by sclock and minimalism from just about anything associated with that gruesome era. so like many others like me, bee gee less weekends were fine with me. so if i saw them on a arcade machine, most likely i stayed away. but the other one i never saw either, they must have been rather hard to find, like many arcade machines that came and went with no staying power. but of course, unless its pacman, cool bit of info, thanks. lance www.atarisales.com

atari 8bit demon attack is nice

thats a cool idea justin i would put a quarter into space invaders for the red cross.

Surround 'Em is one of our latest games in progress. We are starting this discussion for all to view to see what we have done. We are not done with the Atari 8-Bit computer game yet, it has to be beta tested first. I think Surround 'Em would make a great 5200 game, and we are also in internal discussions if we are going to attempt to port the game over to the Atari 5200 and potentially to the Atari 7800 if there is a demand. Here is a video with an audio commentary describing one of Video 61's future game releases: "Surround 'Em!" Please feel free to watch it and comment on what you think. Thanks!

i have never seen either of those games, damn, must have missed out on them. shameless plugs are ok with me. yes we will have to take advantage of the 7800 hardware. the 5200 should be easier. i need to speak with my friend harry dodgson for tips on programming the 7800. thanks for the feedback, lance www.atarisales.com