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It's boring and not a single screen from a game on the cover or a picture of the console. Who came up with that? Let's hope the book is 100x better than the cover. You know what they say about judging a book by its cover.

I hope they change the cover before the book comes out. It's a pretty boring looking cover....

I hope they change the cover before the book comes out. It's a pretty boring looking cover....

I hope they change the cover before the book comes out. It's a pretty boring looking cover....

I read throu the article twice. It's meant to be a positive story on Lynx but it sure feels like a hit piece to me. All these negative things in there and not much positive to say. I mean really, who hates on ElectroCop?

Great new article about Atari Lynx at Engadget:
 
http://www.engadget.com/2016/02/09/atari-lynx/

I have big hamburger hands and I found the Jaguar comfortable. The Lynx too! I had the 2nd model w the grips on the back. You could hold it for a long time and not get hand cramps. I like that idea of the Lynx being a Jaguar controller too.

I have big hamburger hands and I found the Jaguar comfortable. The Lynx too! I had the 2nd model w the grips on the back. You could hold it for a long time and not get hand cramps. I like that idea of the Lynx being a Jaguar controller too.

I have small hands and I never found the Jaguar controller much of an issue.  On the contrary I found them rather comfortable.  Took a bit to get use to but after about an hour I considered myself an expert
 
I also disagree with the statement made that the Jaguar was not a step forward.  The hardware itself was a step forward.  No other console at the time Jaguar hit the market was capable of doing 3D polygon graphics natively.  Remember that the Jaguar was set compete against the Genesis and Super NES.  Those systems, even at their best, couldn't do that without struggling a little.  It was an odd system I will admit when I first approached it but it grew on me quickly and I had to have it.  It was an investment I am proud to have made and a lot of great gaming memories are with that system.  Truthfully, I don't think we've seen Jag's full capabilities yet.  There's a lot that can still be done with it.

Goodwill find.  Never pass up Atari carts for 99 cents.

Willie's Ramblin's and Pickups for January 22nd 2016!
 

What treasures have I found this time?
 

Will give this a try, and also read your feedback on the episode   you also just gave us a score to go after  

Vectrex Radio! EP04: Bedlam! and Clean Sweep!
 

 
In this episode we talk about Bedlam and Clean Sweep. Mike Kennedy drops by to talk about his own Vectrex collection and a Vectrex Holy Grail that he recently found.

http://traffic.libsyn.com/colecovisionspodcast/vecradioep4.mp3

Between the 2600, 7800 and computers I never felt like the 5200 was really worth anything to me. Most of the games were pretty muddy looking, and between the archaic graphics of the 2600 and the cartoon-like graphics of the NES it was neither here nor there.
 
And who releases a new Atari system without a new Yars' Revenge? Dumb!

Between the 2600, 7800 and computers I never felt like the 5200 was really worth anything to me. Most of the games were pretty muddy looking, and between the archaic graphics of the 2600 and the cartoon-like graphics of the NES it was neither here nor there.
 
And who releases a new Atari system without a new Yars' Revenge? Dumb!

I owned a 5200. Actually, I ended up owning about 6 of them in total because some local couple that ran a flea market booth had a bunch of them and a ton of other Atari items for sale for dirt cheap. I only assumed something to be wrong with the units at $4 each but decided to get them anyways. Such huge beasties with not a single controller to be found for them locally and the ones that eventually did pop up years later simply did not work. Plus, the sellers always wanted $20-$25 for one controller because they were so rare and the same applied, something was always wrong with the controllers.
 
Meanwhile, I also picked up the almost as big as the 5200 trakball controller and played the living daylights out of Super Breakout. I loved the styling of the console and the games and continued to slowly collect games over the years until I finally made the mistake of landing a pair of actual, working controllers.
 
By this time, I had quite a large and well rounded Atari collection which consisted of multiple Atari 800 and XL computers, 7800, etc. and learned that the 5200 was basically a repackaged 800. The controllers destroyed any hope of keeping the system around as a real console for me when I could just play most of the games I had slowly collected on the 8-bit computers anyway. So it didn't make sense to keep this huge console around, let alone six, to play identical games with inferior controls. I ridded everything I had very shortly after and even to this day with little regret, with the exception of keeping a trakball and Super Breakout, best version I've played and it was a ton of fun!
 
If Atari had packaged the 5200 in the smaller size that of the Atari 2700 and included the well known joysticks with it, having the option to upgrade to analog controllers for specific games later, then the machine may have done well. Maybe not, I don't know.... but I do know I would have certainly kept one had that been the case.
 
As cool as the system was or had hoped to be, I doubt I would ever go out of my way to own one again unless I just so happen to run across a cheap unit with trakball and super breakout. I was always fond of the Atari logo, copyright year and name of the game on bootup though.

I love the 2600 Game by Game Podcast, keep up the good work!

1. My first exposure was in a catalog. I saw it and thought it was cool. Then my friend's family had one. His dad did something with video production but I'm not sure if that's why they had the Amiga or not.
 
2. I was attracted to the Amiga because of its graphics and price. I had never seen graphics like that on a computer before. Most all computers were IBM PCs at the time. They had green monochrome screens and most of them were running DOS and had DOS prompts. Not really for gaming. We had Apple II computers in school which were really awesome, but the graphics were about the same as Atari. Macintosh had just come out around that time. I liked the Mac but it had nothing on Amiga and it was so overblown. It had a black and white screen and it was not really made for playing games. Plus it was so expensive. Amiga felt like the first true 16-Bit game system. Probably because thats what it was meant to be when it was being developed for Atari. It would have been their new game system by 1986, ahead of PC Engine, Genesis, everything.....
 
3. I used my Amiga computer to PLAY GAMES!! My favorite Amiga games at the time were Lemmings, R-Type, Cannon Fodder, Out Run, Golden Axe, and The Secret of Monkey Island

1. My first exposure was in a catalog. I saw it and thought it was cool. Then my friend's family had one. His dad did something with video production but I'm not sure if that's why they had the Amiga or not.
 
2. I was attracted to the Amiga because of its graphics and price. I had never seen graphics like that on a computer before. Most all computers were IBM PCs at the time. They had green monochrome screens and most of them were running DOS and had DOS prompts. Not really for gaming. We had Apple II computers in school which were really awesome, but the graphics were about the same as Atari. Macintosh had just come out around that time. I liked the Mac but it had nothing on Amiga and it was so overblown. It had a black and white screen and it was not really made for playing games. Plus it was so expensive. Amiga felt like the first true 16-Bit game system. Probably because thats what it was meant to be when it was being developed for Atari. It would have been their new game system by 1986, ahead of PC Engine, Genesis, everything.....
 
3. I used my Amiga computer to PLAY GAMES!! My favorite Amiga games at the time were Lemmings, R-Type, Cannon Fodder, Out Run, Golden Axe, and The Secret of Monkey Island

1. My first exposure was in a catalog. I saw it and thought it was cool. Then my friend's family had one. His dad did something with video production but I'm not sure if that's why they had the Amiga or not.
 
2. I was attracted to the Amiga because of its graphics and price. I had never seen graphics like that on a computer before. Most all computers were IBM PCs at the time. They had green monochrome screens and most of them were running DOS and had DOS prompts. Not really for gaming. We had Apple II computers in school which were really awesome, but the graphics were about the same as Atari. Macintosh had just come out around that time. I liked the Mac but it had nothing on Amiga and it was so overblown. It had a black and white screen and it was not really made for playing games. Plus it was so expensive. Amiga felt like the first true 16-Bit game system. Probably because thats what it was meant to be when it was being developed for Atari. It would have been their new game system by 1986, ahead of PC Engine, Genesis, everything.....
 
3. I used my Amiga computer to PLAY GAMES!! My favorite Amiga games at the time were Lemmings, R-Type, Cannon Fodder, Out Run, Golden Axe, and The Secret of Monkey Island

1. My first exposure was in a catalog. I saw it and thought it was cool. Then my friend's family had one. His dad did something with video production but I'm not sure if that's why they had the Amiga or not.
 
2. I was attracted to the Amiga because of its graphics and price. I had never seen graphics like that on a computer before. Most all computers were IBM PCs at the time. They had green monochrome screens and most of them were running DOS and had DOS prompts. Not really for gaming. We had Apple II computers in school which were really awesome, but the graphics were about the same as Atari. Macintosh had just come out around that time. I liked the Mac but it had nothing on Amiga and it was so overblown. It had a black and white screen and it was not really made for playing games. Plus it was so expensive. Amiga felt like the first true 16-Bit game system. Probably because thats what it was meant to be when it was being developed for Atari. It would have been their new game system by 1986, ahead of PC Engine, Genesis, everything.....
 
3. I used my Amiga computer to PLAY GAMES!! My favorite Amiga games at the time were Lemmings, R-Type, Cannon Fodder, Out Run, Golden Axe, and The Secret of Monkey Island

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