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My first Atari experience was in 83 I believe... my dad came home with a Vader model 2600 with Pac Man as the pack in cart. I don't remember playing it though, my first memories of playing the Atari were Q*Bert and Super Breakout.
 
Through the 80's and early 90's I played a ton of Atari. I had people at church giving me stacks of games when they found out I had a 2600 and still played it; they had moved on to the NES by then. We had a video game rental store next door to our house, and one of the guys there gave me a huge collection of games (about 50 or so) and a bunch of accessories, including Indy 500 with driving controllers, a Wico Command Control joystick, the kids touchpad, and Star Raiders CIB!
 
I finally (after much begging) convinced my parents to get me an NES in 1990, but I still played the Atari off and on through the 90's. Sadly my collection got lost after I moved out of my parents house; I managed to keep my NES and games, but I don't know what ever happened to the Atari stuff.
 
Fast forward to 2012, took my daughter to see Wreck it Ralph, and I realized she had no clue who most of these video game characters were. I decided to start retro gaming, and of course the first place I wanted to start was Atari. I got a Flashback 4 for 15 dollars off of eBay, but with no Activision titles I decided I needed a real console. I got a 7800 bundle with 50 games off eBay for about 60 bucks shipped, and now I've got over 200 2600 games, and 20 7800 games. I've also got a 5200 (thanks again RickR!) with 21 games, and I've enjoyed learning the quirks and charm of the 5200.

Atari my dad was into Super Breakout, Battlezone, and Combat. He had high score competitions with my grandfather (a career Army man and Vietnam vet) on Battlezone... I was too young to remember them but from what I was told they were pretty intense!
 
Later when we got the NES I borrowed Solar Jetman from a friend, and my dad instantly fell in love with it! It was so bad I could barely get time on the game (even though I was much better at it than he was :-P). We went out and got a copy a week after I gave it back to my friend, and we hardly ever bought NES games, I always just rented them, so that was a big deal. My dad LOVED Tetris, both on the NES and Game Boy, and also Choplifter II on the Game Boy.
 
On the PC he was big into Sid Meier’s Civilization, especially CivNet and Civ II. He’d play those games for hours! And of course MS Solitare games on the Entertainment Packs; he liked Tri Peaks the best I think.
 
My dad was quite the gamer for a long time, until his MS got too bad for him to play anymore. He passed away several years back from complications related to it, but if it weren’t for him I don’t know if I would have had as big of a passion for video games as I do today.

Venture
Atari 2600
Difficulty: Skill Level 1
High Score: 7,100
May 25, 2017

Crystal Castles
Atari 2600
Difficulty: Level 1, Difficulty B
High Score: 97,239
July 31, 2018

Yes, that’s the Centipede board game! Haven’t tried it yet, but I’ll report back after I do.

My wife and daughter made my birthday an Atari birthday this year!
 

 
Have to say the Retron 77 has been fun so far! I found the AtariAge community image for the SD Card, and its been working great. 

Balloon Fight
Nintendo Entertainment System
Difficulty: Game A
High Score: 643,750
August 5th, 2017

Getting better, 10,600. Figured out some tricks 
 

My first Atari experience was in 83 I believe... my dad came home with a Vader model 2600 with Pac Man as the pack in cart. I don't remember playing it though, my first memories of playing the Atari were Q*Bert and Super Breakout.
 
Through the 80's and early 90's I played a ton of Atari. I had people at church giving me stacks of games when they found out I had a 2600 and still played it; they had moved on to the NES by then. We had a video game rental store next door to our house, and one of the guys there gave me a huge collection of games (about 50 or so) and a bunch of accessories, including Indy 500 with driving controllers, a Wico Command Control joystick, the kids touchpad, and Star Raiders CIB!
 
I finally (after much begging) convinced my parents to get me an NES in 1990, but I still played the Atari off and on through the 90's. Sadly my collection got lost after I moved out of my parents house; I managed to keep my NES and games, but I don't know what ever happened to the Atari stuff.
 
Fast forward to 2012, took my daughter to see Wreck it Ralph, and I realized she had no clue who most of these video game characters were. I decided to start retro gaming, and of course the first place I wanted to start was Atari. I got a Flashback 4 for 15 dollars off of eBay, but with no Activision titles I decided I needed a real console. I got a 7800 bundle with 50 games off eBay for about 60 bucks shipped, and now I've got over 200 2600 games, and 20 7800 games. I've also got a 5200 (thanks again RickR!) with 21 games, and I've enjoyed learning the quirks and charm of the 5200.

Episode 12 - Ys Book I and II is available!
http://traffic.libsyn.com/turbotasticpodcast/Episode_12_-_Ys_Book_I_and_II.mp3
Libsyn Page: http://turbotasticpodcast.libsyn.com/episode-12-ys-book-i-and-ii
Link to show notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AR8dP0zJ78-OrprTNaCjLe22t6Eq84fB1b3h84in740/edit?usp=sharing

I just wanted to let everyone know I finally have a website:
 
https://turbotasticpodcast.wixsite.com/tg16
 
Please check it out and let me know if there's anything you think I should add. Also hoping to start using the blog on there more for general updates on the show.

Thanks! I'll be sure to join your FB group as well!

Episode 8 - Alien Crush is now available!   http://traffic.libsyn.com/turbotasticpodcast/Episode_8_-_Alien_Crush.mp3   Libsyn page: http://turbotasticpodcast.libsyn.com/episode-8-alien-crush   Link to Show Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gHRp9GGNGLYcxTrBXRBVZXphdfBkqi6imYBk0vRvF5w/edit?usp=sharing  

Episode 9 - World Class Baseball is now available!
 
http://traffic.libsyn.com/turbotasticpodcast/Episode_9_-_World_Class_Baseball.mp3
 
Libsyn page: http://turbotasticpodcast.libsyn.com/episode-9-world-class-baseball
 
Show notes: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1P32uJSSZanYHIq_IBH6P1ZUh38rRkE8SrQzxpa-NH0E

Thanks, hope you enjoy!
 
I felt like it was a quick turnaround too, but yeah it was a month. I honestly wanted to get the episode out last week, but I could not find time to get the recording done. I think monthly will be the norm going forward unfortunately, but we'll see.

Episode 10 - Outrun is OUT! Now RUN and download it! (see what I did there?)
 
http://traffic.libsyn.com/turbotasticpodcast/Episode_10_Outrun.mp3
 
Libsyn Page: http://turbotasticpodcast.libsyn.com/episode-10-outrun
 
Link to show notes: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1nZTA1bdoB-DNDEttZ4AnNS4hVkikVNyYzOHIwIzYcwo

Episode 11 - China Warrior, is available!
 
http://traffic.libsyn.com/turbotasticpodcast/Episode_11_China_Warrior.mp3
 
Libsyn Page: http://turbotasticpodcast.libsyn.com/episode-11-china-warrior
 
Link to show notes: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1GA1bGoidVAvmHBd8f7hXpezEeMwDkuDflvvoc6hUkFE

Episode 12 - Ys Book I and II is available!
http://traffic.libsyn.com/turbotasticpodcast/Episode_12_-_Ys_Book_I_and_II.mp3
Libsyn Page: http://turbotasticpodcast.libsyn.com/episode-12-ys-book-i-and-ii
Link to show notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AR8dP0zJ78-OrprTNaCjLe22t6Eq84fB1b3h84in740/edit?usp=sharing

Just wondering if any other Switch owners bought this the day it was released? I haven't played it a ton yet, but I'm super stoked to finally, FINALLY have the entire DK arcade game playable on a home console!
 
https://e3.nintendo.com/games/Arcade%20Archives%20DONKEY%20KONG/

Ootake works a lot better than MESS.  Thumbs up for this suggestion.

Congrats Rick! Good call on ordering the Turbo Everdrive, it’s well worth the investment!

Ootake is my TG16/PCE emulator of choice: http://www.ouma.jp/ootake/
I’ll have to make some time to enter some scores in this contest, love this pinball series!

Turbo Everdrive has been ordered.

Secret Quest
Atari 2600
Difficulty: Default
High Score: 148,107
October 13th, 2018

Crystal Castles
Atari 2600
Difficulty: Level 1, Difficulty B
High Score: 97,239
July 31, 2018