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The cart went immediately into the Retron 5 and she played it quite a bit last night

Has anyone else played the board game? I don't have any of the expansions yet, but the stock BSG game is a hell of a lot of fun. It's a long session and the rules take some learning, but once everyone "gets" it the game is an absolute blast. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/37111/battlestar-galactica

Got the Junk Box today, here's what I grabbed: The TMNT stuff and Transformers figure is for my nephew, he loves that stuff! My daughter wanted the Goomba and the Mario candy cube thing, it actually has some Mario stickers inside of it too. Shark! Shark! is for me, I've been looking for a copy for a while, and the Challenger Famicom game just looked cool after watching some Youtube vids of the gameplay. Finally the Pokemon Ash Gray was claimed by my wife, she was super geeked when she saw it :-) The box is fully (and I mean fully) loaded, and will be on its way to AtariBrian on Monday!

So I finally got a score worthy of posting: Full disclosure - I used Stella on my Windows laptop, and this was my weapon of choice: I remapped the Y button to the Up direction so I would actually have a jump button, and this game became MUCH more playable, almost enjoyable. I might try to beat my score further. This was only my second attempt with Stella and my gamepad, so I'm sure I could do better with more tries.

I really enjoy the CV version as well. I am glad I have a 2600 controller adapter for it though, as the controller would be my one big gripe against the game. I think my favorite home console version is the NES version, but I really enjoy the CV and INTV versions almost as much.

So I hear these are worth a bit: 2.99 at a local Disc Traders

I second this, the second level sucks and I hate the fact you don't have a jump button. I came in at 100 below Dauber at 6100; no pics yet because I honestly feel like I can get a better score if I can grit my teeth and play enough. I'll probably play a few more rounds to see how high I can get, but give me 2600 DK any day of the week over this game. At least that game has a jump button!

I got four of the eight, all of which my daughter promptly took and placed in her room I'm probably going to go there for lunch today and see if I can snag others. I think the Big Mac is perfect just the way it is; I tried both the Mac Jr and the Grand Mac and I felt like Goldilocks.

Considering its 100 bucks cheaper than just the console from Gamestop, it seems good to me. Glad someone pointed out the external storage option too; I have the 32GB model, but I needed additional storage, so I got a 32GB thumbdrive on the cheap and its working great. A lot of people ripped on this console or passed it up, but it was worth every penny we spent on it. Definitely got our money's worth. I would say the same thing about the Switch as well, its been great so far.

My wife has that same one; has not been used since she got her 3DS though. I just wish the screens were a bit brighter on it, otherwise still works perfectly.

My wife wants to know... she says Atari gets a day every month, why not Colecovision? I was thinking the 8th since it was released in August? I'm having trouble finding an actual release date.

Just wondering if there's any other fans of this game on the forum? I initially got it on the iPad, but I picked it up on sale on GOG for Windows the other day, and I've really been enjoying it on my laptop. I feel like having hotkeys on the keyboard and being able to select multiple crew at once with the mouse really enhance the experience over what the iPad offers. This game though... if you're into space sim games or Rogue-likes at all, get this game, you won't regret it! http://subsetgames.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTL:_Faster_Than_Light

We got one a couple weeks after launch, I've enjoyed Blaster Master Zero. I ended up beating Breath of the Wild on the Wii U instead of the Switch because we weren't initially planning on getting one. Snipperclips is great too. 1-2 Switch is ok in short bursts, and Super Bomberman was a bit of a disappointment so far, although I haven't tried it with the recent patch. My daughter has played Zelda on it in the car quite a bit on some 2-2.5 hr trips, and we've had no issues with battery life. I think I'm really going to play more once Mario Kart arrives this week. I'm really looking forward to having a good battle mode again, unlike the crap battle mode they gave us in Mario Kart 8 on the Wii U.

I am interested, I'm located in Michigan.

Yeah planning on opening it and playing it, I'm not a sealed collector (although I do have a sealed Gravitar and Joust for the 2600, gifts from a friend).

Character guys, it has character

I found this while Googling; looks like they're not being made anymore, but the schematic is available for use by anyone? http://www.grandideastudio.com/redemption-controller-adapter/ Willie (Arcade USA) did a video on an adapter he picked up from someone on eBay a couple of years ago, but I don't see them available on eBay anymore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU6h6jWcMFw

I'll keep my eyes open for one, but when I have seen them they are usually big bucks. I wonder how difficult it would be to build a 2600 joystick adapter?

Just scored this on eBay; good deal? http://www.ebay.com/itm/Brand-New-Sealed-Atari-Game-Qix-Atari-5200-1982-/172642107632?hash=item28324580f0:g:KuwAAOSwx6pYrdxq Edit: Apparently they put another one up (see new link); I paid 5.40 for one earlier with free shipping as well. I didn't really care about the condition of the box.

I have really enjoyed Pole Position for the 5200; it works well with the analog stick. Some others that haven't been mentioned that I've really enjoyed so far: Gyruss Jungle Hunt Star Trek: SOS

RickR is awesome; see this post for proof: http://forums.atari.io/index.php/topic/568-show-off-your-successful-trades/page-19?do=findComment&comment=31768 Thanks again Rick!

So part of this was a trade, part of it was cash, and part of it was just plain ol generosity from none other than RickR! I just have to thank him again for sending me, for the cost of shipping alone, a functioning Atari 5200 with a copy of Pac Man! We did a trade for the two controllers (also generous as eBay has shown me they go for quite a bit!), and I have been thoroughly enjoying this system! Once you get used to the controllers its pretty fun, although admittedly some games are easier to control than others. I just thought I would post my entire collection in a pic, but for details on how I scored the other carts see http://forums.atari.io/index.php/topic/2999-so-i-bought-a-bunch-of-5200-games/

I have a PSP with a 64GB Memory Stick/microSD converter card... and that's my collection