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btbfilms76 has created the perfect Atari drink!
We made a nice page for it on the site: http://www.atari.io/atari-twist/
Be sure to share with friends!

 

Here's a more technical video:



(sorta working)

So a new episode is out, effective, oh...ten minutes ago.
 
http://fab4it.com/piefactory/audio/PFP_Episode044.mp3

Haha well that's close enough! I should've worded that better. It's cool to have another person into arcade games and celebrating "arcade life". That's where gaming culture started

Thanks for the kind words, DeLorean.
 
Full disclosure: not an arcade collector...at all. I'd rather just go to an arcade. (Where I live there's no paucity of them!) For many reasons, I don't think I'd ever want to have an arcade game. Don't have the room for one. And these things require semi-frequent repairs that I'm not really willing to do or have done myself; I'll just leave it to the experts.
 
I DO have a Q*Bert marquee though, and I found the perfect place to hang it; just gotta figure out *how*.

Welcome to the forums dauber it's great to have you here! I've listened to the Pie Factory podcast before and thought it was fantabulous. I'm excited that you'll be posting your podcast in here, that's awesome. I'm glad we have another arcade collector in here because that's something we're really into and want to do more with in the site. Having Pie Factory around will be an awesome addition to the family!
 
We have a dedicated Atari Arcade Games forum here: http://forums.atari.io/index.php/forum/16-atari-arcade-games/
 
and a general "Arcade Life" forum here: http://forums.atari.io/index.php/forum/28-arcade-life/
 
It's good to see you here dauber, I'm sure everybody will make you feel welcome

Hey, all...just some shameless self-promotion...
 
Inky from AtariAge and I co-host Pie Factory Podcast. It's an arcade game podcast. What we do, typically:
- We discuss, rate, and share our memories of playing two (2) arcade games.
- The two (2) arcade games have a common theme. The common theme could be something as simple as "games whose titles are compound words" (such as Zoo Keeper and Firefox) to the obscure as "games that Dauber first played at Hunk's Pancake House in Bradley, IL" (Frogger and Asteroids).
 
Occasionally we veer from the usual format, such as the three episodes we've done to talk about various home consoles (we've discussed the 2600, 7800, and Sega Genesis so far), or one episode that was nothing more than an interview with Brian Colin, designer behind Rampage, Arch Rivals, etc. (Seriously, he's a fascinating and hilarious guy...)
 
We've been doing the podcast since April of last year, and in the next few days we'll be releasing episode #44, in which we discuss Dig Dug and Pac-Mania.
 
You can hear the podcast via the usual channels -- iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher...possibly a few other providers I'm forgetting about. We have a Faceobook page, and our web page is at www.piefactorypodcast.com.
 
We welcome both audio and textual feedback, too!
 
Oh...yeah...and we won the Golden Poddie Award for podcast of the year for 2015.

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Big unboxing at 7800 Ave. this week. 

In the first episode of 7800 Ave. we celebrate Howard Scott Warshaw's Birthday by playing a few rounds of Yars' Revenge. 
On the show we'll play 7800 games and 2600 games because thats the beauty of the system - you can play both. Play some Atari today with your friends and family and watch out for that zorlon cannon.

You wanted it... You got it!  Early present for you all, now get out your trackballs and polish them up!  We got bugs to kill!
 

I think that's the most likely the case.

Thought maybe someone would have ripped the ROM. It went out of production right before I got my 7800. I've really been hoping to find that and Combat 1990.

If AA does not host the ROM likely the publisher simply never made one available so short of scoring a cart on Ebay for a crazy mark up you are probably out of luck. As it states on AA "Santa Simon was only available in cartridge form for a limited time in the AtariAge Store during our 2006 holiday sale." Sadly not all homebrew publisher choose to make just a ROM available. 

So...anybody have a ROM for Santa Simon??? AA doesn't carry one, and the guy who developed it never published one. Couldn't find it on any ROM sites I could find. I'd love to actually buy the game, but it's been out of print for ten years.

Stole my greeting. HAHAHA
 
Welcome. I am a huge fan of your hot dogs. I bought into a small Chicago Sandwich shop years ago. 
 
Welcome bud.

M-O-O-N, that spells Welcome! 

Welcome to the forums
 
I love the Beatles too. Have a few albums on vinyl. Welcome!

Nice to meet you! I am also a music guy, I love the Beatles, the Beach Boys, and Food Fight. I play those instruments you mentioned, albeit horribly.
 
NJ pizza > Chicago pizza (though I do enjoy it, I used to walk all the way across the large mall in which I worked to go to the Chicago style pizza place). Jury's still out on hot dogs.
 
Welcome to the forums, co-host of the Pie Factory Podcast that you didn't mention. 

A BIG World Series welcome to the forums dauber! It's hard to top the way MaximumRD and Rowsdower70 just summarized the forums. This is a special community with a lot happening and a lot of warm, welcoming retro lovers. Music, movies, and everything else from retro life plays a big part in our culture here along with classic gaming. We love sharing podcasts and YouTube videos. Chatting and trading are big here. Most of all we like having a great time. I think you've come to the right place!

Well let me offer my official welcome to the forums.    I am a big fan of the Beatles, and I think Pet Sounds is in the top 10 albums of all time.

I'm the token Intellivision guy in the Atari sea, but they're nice to me anyway

Post, chat, trade, and have fun!

Welcome aboard dauber. We are small but growing and most important awesome retro community here. Have a look through our various threads and get to know us I am sure you will soon feel right at home. 

Wow, I realized that I've been a member for a few months now (but not very active) but haven't formally introduced myself.

You might recognize my handle from AtariAge. I looooooooooove my 7800 (I'm lucky enough to have one that plays *everything* that it theoretically should, including all the Activision carts and even the Supercharger) and in fact will soon be sharing something that hopefully you 7800 fans will enjoy. Started out with an Atari 2600 4-switcher on Christmas 1982 and have never given it up. I'm not into modern games; they bore me.

I'm a music guy. Amateur musician (guitar, bass, harmonica, bit of piano) and obsessed with the music of The Beatles and Brian Wilson.

Other stuff about me?? Uhh....

Age: 42
Locale: Chicago (and I mean *Chicago*, not a suburb!)
Occupation: web site developer (in fact, if you live in the US, there's a good chance you've actually run some of my code!)
Pets: a beagle
Marital status: very happily married for 17 years
Children: No, thank you.
Religion: Christian but I don't go to church as often as I "should" and I generally keep my religion to myself and don't get preachy -- what works for me works for me, what works for you works for you;
Politics: liberal but I don't associate with any political parties as I feel they're all equally crooked, just in different ways (I always do vote though)
Favorite Atari 2600 game (offically sanctioned): wow, too hard to choose...Jr. Pac-Man is up there (I've been a major Pac-Man fan since 1981), and I've been getting into Megamania and Communist Mutants From Space! lately...
Favorite Atari 2600 homebrew: tie between Ladybug and lately have been getting into Space Rocks
Favorite Atari 7800 game (officially sanctioned): Food Fight by a landslide!
Favorite Atari 7800 homebrew: wow...too hard to pick just one...I love Bob DeCrescenzo's Frenzy/Berzerk twofer and have kinda been getting hooked on K.C. Munchkin! lately
Atari 2600 Coleco conspiracy beliefs: shut up, there's no conspiracy there!
Favorite arcade game: again, too much to name, but I've really been getting into Pigskin lately (and have a TG world record on the "turbo" version of Jr. Pac-Man!)

Oh, and to answer the question that will probably be asked of everybody:

- My handle comes from the character played by Bill Faggerbakke on the TV show Coach, because when I was in college, people told me I looked just like "that guy from Coach" -- and I worked for the college's football team, which just further encouraged the association.   And I use Charley Chuck as my avatar because I kinda look like an obese version of him.
I...think that's about it for now...anyway, I've gotten some really great welcomes already, so thanks, everybody!

Hi, my name is Dan and I am a long time Atari and retro video game lover. Although I have collected for all the Atari home consoles, I'm focused on my first love, the 2600. I also love all things Nintendo, and a few other systems, including the Sega Saturn and the 3DO. Glad to be here!!