[Caldor "Price Break!" Ad for Atari & ColecoVision - Friday, March 11, 1983]

Got both of my NES Zelda games and the Nelsonic watch at Caldor. We didn't have one in the Atari days.

[Hyperkin - Retron 77. HD Atari 2600?]

Looking at the back, I guess that means it is HDMI only? I don't have one so I'm not sure. Missing the physical switches will affect some games like Phil said. I guess it will work with a Harmony cart, that is good news. The price point is incredible. As long as they don't find a SNES inside later on, this should be a great thing for the community. Except for cart prices going up.

[Squad Challenge - Defender (Atari 2600)]

I've had a CIB for years that I've obviously not touched: opened a factory-sealed version for this occasion.

defenderbox.jpeg

 

Dude, hair dryer.

[Hyperkin - Retron 77. HD Atari 2600?]

I'll have to get an HDTV first. I guess they're catching on.

[Squad Challenge - Defender (Atari 2600)]

Did a little better. Don't forget, catch a humanoid and hold onto it, that way no other humanoids can be picked up. Also, screw you baiters. ????

[Squad Challenge - Defender (Atari 2600)]

I was better at Defender when I was young. I love when you get killed when an alien hits your exhaust. ????

[Howard Scott Warshaw's latest interview on NPR's All Things Considered - "Total Failure: The World's Worst Video Game"]

I'm guessing somewhere in here.

 

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/rec.games.video.classic/e.t.$20worst%7Csort:relevance

[Ballblaɀer's collection: 2600, 5200, Vectrex, and...]

I can't believe I haven't seen this thread until now. Awesome, awesome stuff Rob. Thank you for sharing.

[The No Swear Gamer Atari 2600 Reviews]

Ep 331: Spike's Peak

I loved this game, but it can be infuriating.

[So when is Coleco Day?]

Nope, it's the 24th. The Colecovision model number is 2400.

[SMS Sports Games - Are there any good ones?]

I love Reggie Jackson Baseball. Much better than great, in my opinion.

[Help Me Identify This Handheld]

This is ringing some faint bells for me, believe it or not. Despite my better judgment, I included the words "red tube" in a search, but only came up with the Pente game, which is decidedly not electronic. There were some other results that I won't go into here.

[The Atari 2600 Game by Game Podcast]

Ugh, I am so bad at this. I didn't realize this post was stickied, thanks to Justin (?) for doing that, I am honored!

 

Some recent highlights:

 

I talked with Mike Montana, son of Glib programmer Rich Montana, for the Glib episode. It was great talking with him, and I found out he works in the same town in which I grew up! Small world.

 

http://traffic.libsyn.com/2600gamebygamepodcast/134_-_Glib_by_Selchow_and_Righter.mp3

 

I also spoke with Joe Grand, who created the wonderful homebrew game SCSIside. He has done so many cool things that we talked about on the show. I had a great time talking with him as well.

 

http://traffic.libsyn.com/2600gamebygamepodcast/135_-_SCSIside__Ultra_SCSIside_by_Joe_Grand.mp3

 

I am currently running a contest to win an Atari 2600 Jr. with a bunch of games. If you'd like to enter, you can listen to this short episode to find out how.

 

http://traffic.libsyn.com/2600gamebygamepodcast/Contest_Win_an_Atari_2600_and_Games.mp3

 

Finally, I am taking a bit of a break from regular 2600 episodes. I am burnt out, and doing the podcast is more work than fun. I want to talk about other things to get me back to a good place with the 2600 stuff, so I have started what I'm calling Bonus Tracks, which will be sporadic episodes about random non-2600 stuff. I posted the first one today, which is about when I was a paperboy in the 80s.

 

http://traffic.libsyn.com/2600gamebygamepodcast/Bonus_Track_-_My_Year_as_a_Paperboy.mp3

 

Thank you for listening!

[It's about time I got here!]

Yay Bill! He also does a great Peanuts podcast, which you can find here: http://charliebrownpodcast.libsyn.com/

 

And he wrote a book! https://www.amazon.com/In-St-Nick-Time-ebook/dp/B0092902GW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1347218210&sr=8-2&keywords=in+the+st.+nick+of+time

 

Welcome Bill!

[Pitfall! International Edition]

If you have an ancient TV with a horizontal hold, you should be able to adjust it to play PAL games. My parents still had a TV like this when I started collecting in the 90s. I found a PAL game and brought it over there to test it out (I read about it on Usenet) and it worked.

[Hello from Pennsylvania]

Welcome, always nice to see younger people getting into the old stuff. I was in Erie once a long time ago, I think they may have had a classic game shop there at that time. Of course, this was before you were born, and now I feel ancient. 

[Happy Pi Day! What's Your Favorite Math Related Video Game?]

I do enjoy Math Gran Prix, although I think it's more strategy based than math based. Maybe for an adult, the math problems are easier now than perhaps they would have been when I was 12.

[Real Master System, Power Base Converter, or Master Gear?]

Original Master System.

 

BECAUSE SNAIL MAZE

[Adventure (Review, Easter Egg & More)]

I think people on this thread will be interested in this.  Atari Adventure was ported to C++ and I've modified it (blasphemy, I know) to be an internet-based, multiplayer game.  You can see the concept in this promo video.  

If anyone is interested, I desperately need some beta testers.

Sign me the hell up for this!

[RIP Bill Paxton]

I always enjoyed his work. He just did a great interview on the WTF podcast maybe two weeks ago.

 

Rest in Peace Bill Paxton.

[Infosheet: Atari / Sears game instruction manual variants]

Man, I love stuff like this. Thanks Rob! Is it okay to share this on my Facebook page?

["Weird Al" Yankovic's "Pac-Man" Finally Released!]

Too bad we'll probably never hear his parody of "Live and Let Die",   "Chicken Pot Pie".

 

Paul said no to that one because he's a vegetarian (or vegan). 

I was lucky enough to hear it when he opened for the Monkees in 1987.

[Atari 8-Bit XE Game System XEGS Review, Teardown, Repair and SIDE2 Compact Flash Hard Disk Upgrade!]

I have one with the keyboard, but I've never been able to get it to work. Maybe Willie can help me...  

["Weird Al" Yankovic's "Pac-Man" Finally Released!]

"just released"???????

I've had an MP3 of this song since 7/11/14, I downloaded it from Dr. Demento Basement tapes #4. I never knew it wasn't released (or just out there)!!

 

It's OK....not my fav Pac-Man song of course, but it's on my MP3 player.

 

Officially, it will be on the rarities disc of his career-spanning box set coming out soon. He posted a video of it on Vevo.

 

I think I got my copy from Napster.

[Original Price Tags on Old Gaming Stuff]

I like the KayBee stickers because you can tell the year they got to the store. I have one or two from 1985 I believe.