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I can help you with emulation if you need it.  You might also look into one of the two SD-cart solutions for 7800.  Then you can have all the games on one cartridge.
 
 

I have a 7800 but only one game. You can guess which one. It isn't Joust.  Sounds like I will have to find a way to emulate.
 

No way! I don't think I dislike any game that crossed my path those days. Simply controlling something on TV was enough to excite me. The fact is, it may have been a weird and lesser conversion of the arcade, but it had everything that pac-man had pretty much. In the end, it's differences is what endears me to it to this day where more accurate version are forgotten. Plus, I LOVE the sounds in it!

Here is my entry. Not great, but still fun to get to. 

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I should check out hte NES game. I don't have it. I have the PS1 game however and should play that one more.
 

No way! I don't think I dislike any game that crossed my path those days. Simply controlling something on TV was enough to excite me. The fact is, it may have been a weird and lesser conversion of the arcade, but it had everything that pac-man had pretty much. In the end, it's differences is what endears me to it to this day where more accurate version are forgotten. Plus, I LOVE the sounds in it!

I didn't play it on day one, but I was excited when I finally did. I actually really enjoyed it and thought the sounds were cool. When I got my 7800, I was eager to get a copy. I didn't hear about it's bad reputation until after 2000! So I blame Y2K. I also blame Y2K for E.T. bad rep....

IMO, the main reason for the crash was piracy.  Anyone with a Commodore 64 and a modem could find any game for free via a BBS.  Why pay for an Atari cart when you could get a much better version of any game for free? 
 

I have said it a great many of time, I think folks were more disappointed in the port more than anything. They expected what they had at their local arcade, pizza shop and bowling alley. We all know it would not be arcade perfect, we (I was anyway) were used to that idea. People popped it fin their systems and saw something that only in spirit resembled the game as they knew it. It plays fine. If it were just another Pac clone, most would say its playable but meh. Disappointment somehow translated into "a bad game". 
 
I Love this port. Got it around when it came out, (maybe that Christmas) and played the hell out of it. To this day I love it no matter its flaws. Love it enough to use its sounds in my intro!

Despite the fact that the original A2600 Pac-Man could have been better, I really enjoyed it as a kid in 1982 and further on in my childhood years. The highest score I achieved in this game was over 20,000 points. I knew a guy who was a friend of my dad's that got over 100,000 points in this version of the game. He said that the ghosts later turned into question marks and all that. It probably ran out of general memory and started glitching out. That happens sometimes when you get too far in a game with limited memory. I almost always beat out my friends and my dad in this version of Pac-Man. I could really fake out the ghosts. It was really fun. Ms. Pac-Man was much better than Pac-Man, for sure. I got good at that as well. I probably am out of practice now, but back then I was pretty good. Ah, the memories…
Thanks for letting me share. :O)

I remember saving my money up to purchase this specific game back in the day.  When I finally did play it, I was a little disappointed, but was young enough that I still found enjoyment in the game and played it too death.  I would have liked for it to have been more arcade accurate but now I consider it a classic along with the games sounds.  If you want more arcade accuracy there have been several remakes and hacks including the Dintari Pacman and the Nukey Shay Pac-Man 8K which are both excellent...

Reading the comments in @Atari Creep 's latest video make me think a lot of us thought this game was awesome when we first played it. When did everybody decide it was bad enough to ruin the game industry?
 
 

I think my rarest is Bumper Bash - cart only.
 

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I have had a bunch of uncommon carts but the rarest I owned before having to sell my collection was Chase the Chuckwagon. It was a gift given to me by a friend that no longer played but had it from his childhood.  

I like these things, but I am not sure if I would like to play them in this form.

I should check out hte NES game. I don't have it. I have the PS1 game however and should play that one more.
 

I have more fun with Atari 2600 sports games than modern sports sim games like madden and whatnot.
 

I have more fun with Atari 2600 sports games than modern sports sim games like madden and whatnot.
 

Here is my entry. Not great, but still fun to get to. 

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I still want to wait to find this in a store. Picking this up in person would be much more exciting. 
 

I like these things, but I am not sure if I would like to play them in this form.

FYI, the NES port was also used for the Basic Fun Mini Arcade:
 

I should check out hte NES game. I don't have it. I have the PS1 game however and should play that one more.
 

Here is my entry. Not great, but still fun to get to. 

47775