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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. 

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. 

Welcome to the Zone....or something.......it's cool here! 

Welcome to the Zone....or something.......it's cool here! 

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. 

Welcome to the Zone....or something.......it's cool here! 

Welcome to the Zone....or something.......it's cool here! 

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. 

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

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.

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!

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. 

Welcome to the Zone....or something.......it's cool here! 

Thought I'd make a new post since this is different from the PRGE edition.
 
I've got a custom Game Panic 2 for the Sega Genesis available to order.
 
https://www.etsy.com/listing/496262397/game-panic-2-for-the-sega-genesis
 
Basically, if you request (on Etsy) I can put a picture and message of your choice into the game!  I personally sign the manual and, maybe..  there's a secret mini toy inside!
 
$40 bucks shipped within US.  International shipping may require additional costs.
 

 

6 years ago I did a video which was a tribute to Jim Henson / Kermit the Frog. Not sure I shared with you guys before but for a laugh here is that video. I was considering doing a brand new Kermit Song Impression soon, maybe for Christmas. 
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIIZc34vfv8

6 years ago I did a video which was a tribute to Jim Henson / Kermit the Frog. Not sure I shared with you guys before but for a laugh here is that video. I was considering doing a brand new Kermit Song Impression soon, maybe for Christmas. 
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIIZc34vfv8

HAHAHA THIS IS GREATTTT!!

6 years ago I did a video which was a tribute to Jim Henson / Kermit the Frog. Not sure I shared with you guys before but for a laugh here is that video. I was considering doing a brand new Kermit Song Impression soon, maybe for Christmas. 
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIIZc34vfv8

Same here

Hiya pal..many thanks for your generous comments on the magazine, i can't speak for the content magazine throw away on people in order to fill their pages, this magazine is more of a labour of love for the writer Steve and a pet project for me and has turned out brilliantly , I must say. This is Volume one of the archives of his site "AtariCrypt" to which I converted it to a digital Magazine format, we both decided to make it completely free for the supporters of the Atari ST scene and Atari in general, some great guys up there on the facebook pages covering the Atari ST platform.
 
As regards to future volumes, that's entirely up to Steve, I produced the first one for him but will not be producing any after that, as I've come to my final entry of producing Atari ST content, like with the St Gamer magazine it was a bucket list thing for me and had not idea I'd be doing the third one..lol..but Steve made it easy, having the written word as it was, I simply had to do graphics around it. Something that made the process much easier than doing the ST gamer magazines. So no. I won't be involved after this one.
 
I have to say though the response we've been given so far has been incredible, both on Facebook and Twitter is simply staggering. every time I come back I had a tonne of notifications etc..so I'm happy I've done my job well again here. 
 
just to mention ignore all the suggestions Google drive comes up with, simply download it, you'll see the download icon animation in the top corner of your phone to tell you , you are downloading it. I suggest a pdf reader like Acrobat etc. to view properly or a laptop of some kind..also to mention everything within the magazine has been hyper linked, so you simply click on the articles you wish to read and it will bring you directly to them etc..
 
have a good oner pal.

Greeting Atarians, my great Colleague Steve Gregory a.k.a. Ataricrypt has joined forces with me to bring you the Atari ST Scene a very special gift this 2016 xmas .
 
I present to you "AtariCrypt Collection Volume One"

 
In this "FREE" digital magazine with will find over 70 pages of amazing content personally selected from the AtariCrypt Archive by Steve himself, where I come in as the Suit Taylor to dress it up.

 
The Magazine covers some of the best Atari ST games as well as some great interviews thrown in for your enjoyment, and with AtariCrypt and Greyfox massive fans of the Atari ST Demoscene,
well we just had to include an entire section dedicated to the Demoscene of the present, so please do check that out too.
 

 
You may direct view the press release and download link here:
https://ataricrypt.blogspot.com/2016/12/ataricrypt-magazine.html
 

 
So I hope you all will enjoy the labour of our love and that your nostalgic juices and love for the Atari ST will go wild this Xmas.
 
Merry Xmas everyone
 
the ST Army of Two
 
Steve Gregory (Ataricrypt) & Darren Doyle (Greyfox™)

I visited a relative in Chicago years ago when I was around 19 or so, being a huge John Hughes fan I had to seek out the "Breakfast Club" school and found out it was actually located in a suburb called Schiller Park , IL , ( "Shermer" was a fictional suburb created various Hugh's movies ) It seemed abandoned or closed but being the adventures type in my youth I tried the doors and was surprised to find one open, I thought if I could just get some pictures of the locations like the library, detention room etc . I entered and walked around inside to looking for the famous library etc, the building was pretty much empty, there were not even typical school lockers against the walls. Instead I finally found a room with several rows of lockers all stacked together when a custodian (guard) caught me and told me the "Library" was just a set built in the Gymnasium then removed after filming, he told me to leave, I had the impression it was not unusual for people to enter uninvited. The school had closed years prior due to lack of attendance and was used only for filming etc. This is me in the image many years ago, sadly I only had a crap 110 film camera
 

 
 
Come to think of it this was also my first trip outside of Canada and would remain the case for many years until I met my wife. As first trip's go that was a pretty good one!

This is a great video of the shooting location.

So in the interest of sharing a music memory as it relates to retro gaming, I had a friend named Jen growing up. Her family always seemed to have the oddball systems. For example her brother was the only person I know of that had a Vectrex. One day I walked into her place and on the bar was a small TV and a game system called The TurboGrafx 16! Of course I was all over it. I had not heard of it nor would I have known about it until I was in my adult years should they have not had one.
 
They had 2 games, Keith Courage and Alien Crush. I tried out Keith for a little bit but then moved onto Alien!!!! WOW was I locked on like a fly to a pile of  ! I played it for hours and hours. You need to picture a kid about 5' 8" on a good day, a trench coat, hair on only his chin (much like today) with a cassette walkman! At that time the only tapes I carried with me were Alice Coopers greatest hits and Styx, The Grand Illusion. More times than not Styx was in my walkman.
 
Its a common statement that a few seconds of music can instantly take you back to a time and place within your own personal experiences. Even smells seem to come back. True is with video games, for me anyway. Anytime I see Alien Crush Styx plays in my head and when I hear Styx that very game comes to mind. MANY hours I would play that game, put on my head phones and the tape would just repeat over and over until the playing was done.
 
Specifically Ms. America comes to mind. After the synth intro plays, that guitar riff kicks in hard core and that was more times than not the moment I shot that ball onto the play field and that was it, Chris was gone!  Only the game and the music existed, no matter how hard any of them tried to get my attention. Come to think of it, I bet I missed out on a lot of....... Well "time" with my friend Jen!!!!! 
 

I love Vacuum fluorescent display! From clock radios and early watches and calculators to of course a variety of early handheld and portable video games it certainly stands out! I found it interesting how they manged to make playable and fun games within the limitations of the VFD technology. My understanding though is the tech was more difficult and costly to produce which is why it was later replaced with LCD. They were certainly interesting for their time though and the bright and vibrant color is what really attracted me.