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  2. Atari I/O Secret Santa 2017!

    in Atari I/O Events & Contests

    Posted

    I’m in! Here is my wishlist:

     

    Atari 2600

     

    Cosmic Commuter

    Hero

    Montezuma's Revenge

    Mr. Do

    Pengo

    Robot Attack

    Sub Scan

    Private Eye

    Beamrider

    Double Dragon

    River Raid II

    Rampage

    HERO

    Juno First

    Ladybug

    Toyshop Trouble

    Star Wars The Arcade Game

    Star Castle Arcade

     

    Atari 7800

    Donkey Kong

    Seagull 78 Controller Adapter

     

    Atari 5200

    The Dreadnaught Factor

     

    Intellivision

    Armor Battle CIB w overlays

    Dracula

    Tron Solar Sailer CIB w overlays

    Truckin w/ overlays

     

    Colecovision

    Tutankham

    Star Wars the Arcade Game

  10. 10 of my favorite Atari 2600 Games - Name yours!

    in Atari 2600

    Posted

    Wow...this is just too hard to come up with 10. I'll mention 10 but they're in no particular order:

     

    - Jr. Pac-Man -- IMHO, the best officially-sanctioned arcade port on the 2600!

    - Yars' Revenge -- because, come on!

    - Lady Bug -- awesome homebrew. Seriously, play this and then play the arcade version - you'll barely be able to tell the difference.

    - Pitfall! -- an instant classic. I do NOT like Pitfall 2, though.

    - River Raid -- another instant classic.

    - Demon Attack -- one of two games in which I was able to find a kill screen back in the '80s! (The other: The Activision Decathlon)

    - Space Invaders -- of the versions I've played (2600, 5200, 7800 homebrew, arcade) -- this is easily my favorite.

    - Communist Mutants From Space -- a semi-hidden gem in the library! So much fun.

    - Space Rocks -- another amazing homebrew. It takes the things that can make the official 2600 Asteroids boring and makes 'em...uhh...unboring? I guess???

    - Video Pinball -- I even like this better than Midnight Magic -- but wow..so much fun and strategy in this one. It's a very frequent go-to when I want to play some 2600 stuff.

    Just curious if you have a CV with that version of Ladybug? If so, how does the 2600 version stack up to that one?

     

    I’m with you on Video Pinball > Midnight Magic too.

     

    What don’t you like about Pitfall II?

  11. 10 of my favorite Atari 2600 Games - Name yours!

    in Atari 2600

    Posted

    I might have to drop Moon Patrol from my top 10; I just got a copy for my 5200 and it’s awesome!

     

    Current list:

     

    1. Adventure

    2. Pitfall II

    3. HERO

    4. Moon Patrol

    5. Q-Bert

    6. Missile Command

    7. Kaboom

    8. Tunnel Runner

    9. Tutenkham

    10. Haunted House

     

    Kid list

    1. Berserk

    2. Pitfall

    3. River Raid

    4. Asteroids

    5. Vanguard

    6. Ms Pac Man

    7. Moon Patrol

    8. Star Trek: SOS

    9. Video Pinball

    10. Miniature Golf

  12. SNES Classic who got one? Thoughts?

    in Nintendo

    Posted

    I paid the scalpers on eBay... turns out my wife REALLY wanted one, and I didn’t realize it on release day. We were in the middle of moving, and I didn’t have time to go hop in line somewhere early in the morning. We certainly didn’t need it or fit into the target market, I think she just liked the mini look, and the SNES is her favorite system.

     

    Overall it seems about the same as the NES Classic, the game selection is good, etc. Controllers aren’t quite the real thing, but close, and better than most of the clone controllers you can get these days. I still feel like control in SMW isn’t as tight as it is on the real SNES; you get a little bit more drift when changing direction.

     

    I LOVE the save states feature, especially on games like DKC, where the save points are a million freaking levels apart. Really makes playing those games more enjoyable.

     

    I’m going to get a travel case for it too. I think one strong point for these systems is if we want to take them with us to visit relatives or on vacation. They are so much more portable than dragging real hardware around, but close enough to having real hardware that you don’t notice the difference. I also like the limited game selection. I think a Pi setup is superior, but you can really get overwhelmed with game selection. This gives you a nice limited greatest hits catalog that’s easy to pick a game from and play.

  16. Retro HD Help

    in Classic Gaming General

    Posted

    One nice thing about the Retron 5 is you can play ROMS on it. It’s a bit involved because you have to patch the ROMS as IPS files, but a nice bonus that might make it worth it. It also supports wireless controllers from 8bitdo, not sure if that’s something of interest?

     

    If you’re really just looking for NES though might be worth the extra coin to go with a Retro USB AVS?

     

    http://www.retrousb.com/product_info.php?cPath=36&products_id=78&osCsid=c33eaf88789db4469698bfa25479d136

  20. Wiishop Closure Announced

    in Nintendo

    Posted

    And companies wonder why people still cling to physical media... I don't expect these services to be around forever, but on the other hand they need to maintain a way for people to download content that they already paid for, or provide a way to backup/restore that content if the console fails, etc.

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    Atari I/O Retro Junk Box 10 - It's all about the junk

    in Atari I/O Events & Contests

    Posted

    Received the box yesterday; here are the items I picked:

     

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    I'm very excited to finally have a copy of Miner 2049er for CV! My in-laws have a copy that I play at their place occasionally, but it will be a nice add to my collection.

     

    I also now have no excuse to not beat Ninja Gaiden II or the original Final Fantasy...

     

    Box will be on its way to TrekMD this afternoon!

  22. Using a composite switchbox for RF systems

    in Classic Gaming General

    Posted

    Thanks for sharing Rick! I'm going to be facing this dilemma myself as I'm going to have my 7800 and Intellivision both connected to my CRT in my downstairs living room soon, and it would be nice to have them both connected and usable.

     

    Luckily our CV is modded for composite so I won't face that scenario with it.

     

    Slightly off topic but somewhat relevant: What do you guys do about power transformers for all the systems? Do you just have them plugged into a power strip, then switch the strip on/off when done using? I want to have everything plugged in so I don't have to plug/unplug systems all the time, but I don't want them all receiving constant power as I want to save wear and tear on the transformers.

  25. Squad Challenge - Pac-Man (Atari 2600)

    in High Score Squad

    Posted

    YEA!! Broke 8,000!! ... and then some. Drug out JR for this one because that static image on woody was bothering me.

     

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    Sorry, guys. I've never played this game this much before but the higher my score gets the more I want to keep playing. After this I may just have to add a new copy of this game to my collection ;)

    More power to you man, I am happy with you hogging all the fun on this challenge :-)

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