MaximumRD

A "bucket list" item for me.  It's the Sears version of Atari Stunt Cycle.  And it works.  It's very dirty and it needs some repair.  But it's complete and works well. 
 
I will say that I found myself oddly smiling and giggling while playing this thing.  Took me back -- better than any time machine. 
 
I'm going to clean it up as well as I can and hold on to this mofo.
 
 

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I loved it as a kid too.  And it would be a few more years before I laid my hands on the 8-bit version (although the 8-bit version came out much earlier).  But I'm sorry to say...there are some games that just didn't age well for me personally.  Another game like that is "Raiders of the Lost Ark".  I thought it was a lot of fun when it came out and spent hours figuring it out.  But now....no thanks. 

I will say that Star Raiders on 8-bit is one of my all-time favorites, and this version is simply not anywhere near as good.  There's just so much more to the game that they stripped out.  The galactic map is pretty much pointless here.  So small, and your ship follows the aliens no matter what.  No steering during hyperwarp.  No speed control to hunt down the aliens.  No docking ship.  No aft view.  No overhead map.  Even aiming and shooting here just seem random and hard to control instead of smooth and intuitive. 
 
They tried.  They got the look down.  They probably kept as much as they could.  But 8-bit Star Raiders is a classic, a killer-app that sold computers, a game I still love to this day. 
 
I did buy this version back in '82, and was really excited then to have it.  The keypad was cool.  But even then, the game kind of didn't hit the mark for me.  I still have that copy.  But sadly threw away the boxes.  Dang it.
 
Compare it to Star Master or Star Voyager and let me know what you think. 

I feel like I hit the goodwill jackpot today. 
 
- Flashback 3
- Boxed Mattel Football 2 with instructions
- NES controller
- NES quickshot joystick
- Wii classic controller + nunchuk
- Atari joystick and paddles
 
 

Well, I gathered up a cart and a keypad.  I read the manual on-line (Krylons???  What happened to Zylons?  Are these spray painting graffiti aliens?).  I've put the difficulty switches on "A" so that I control the computer and shields from my keypad...I'm ready. 
 

 
You first hyperwarp to the alien sector.  Then both you and the aliens progress towards the starbase with no input needed.  Kill them all before they get to the starbase!  It's hard...there's no speed control.  Aliens just kind of show up at random.  Not really as smooth and easy to control as the 8-bit version.  Just blast away randomly I guess.
 
My first game, I wasn't able to save the starbase and ended up with the ranking of "Pilot 3". 
 

 
Is it a good game?  Sorry.  No.  StarMaster and Star Voyager are both better.  M-Network Space-Attack is better.  Phaser Patrol is a ton better.  It's cool that it came with the keypad controller and all.  But it's a pale comparison to 8-bit or 5200 Star Raiders.  A for effort, but ultimately, not a great game. 
 
What do you all think?
 
 

Well this is fun. Was not sure it counted but the dressers, stands and night table are all definitely not wood but particle board coated with a plastic faux woodgrain, I actually have a couple wooden dressers so took me a second to realize the difference. The tables / stand / dressers I guess I cannot claim they were made to appear wooden for no reason, clearly it was done to appear we had better furniture than one could actually afford  but I included them anyway as I don't think I had given much thought to how many things we had that still had this style. 
 
 
My particle board Bedroom dresser (wife's is actually wood) 
 

 
An old stand from my single days now stuck in corner of bedroom holding my "extras" 
 

 
Old Stereo system / TV stand (The sides would have been for record albums) now holds all the plush toys my 
wife has collected over the years.
 

 
One of two night tables. 
 

 
Of COURSE the obligatory Clock Radio (mines a GE lol) 
 

 
My two 2600 woody's 
 

 
Lastly, this is my vanilla 5200 VCS adaptor (I have a second that was modded for stand alone use) and I was board
and had a little woodgrain Mak Tak so....yeah.......
 

Of course it counts! Nicely done.

Well this is fun. Was not sure it counted but the dressers, stands and night table are all definitely not wood but particle board coated with a plastic faux woodgrain, I actually have a couple wooden dressers so took me a second to realize the difference. The tables / stand / dressers I guess I cannot claim they were made to appear wooden for no reason, clearly it was done to appear we had better furniture than one could actually afford  but I included them anyway as I don't think I had given much thought to how many things we had that still had this style. 
 
 
My particle board Bedroom dresser (wife's is actually wood) 
 

 
An old stand from my single days now stuck in corner of bedroom holding my "extras" 
 

 
Old Stereo system / TV stand (The sides would have been for record albums) now holds all the plush toys my 
wife has collected over the years.
 

 
One of two night tables. 
 

 
Of COURSE the obligatory Clock Radio (mines a GE lol) 
 

 
My two 2600 woody's 
 

 
Lastly, this is my vanilla 5200 VCS adaptor (I have a second that was modded for stand alone use) and I was board
and had a little woodgrain Mak Tak so....yeah.......
 

Thanks NSG for the great trades!  My first double-ender.

You are very welcome sir. Let us know what we can do to help you as a community. We love content creators here. Anyone and everyone doing their own thing to get Atari in front of people in a way that's fun and positive deserves as much support as we can muster.

Yesterday, software developer John Brooks released what is clearly a work of pure love: the first update to an operating system for the Apple II computer family since 1993. ProDOS 2.4, released on the 30th anniversary of the introduction of the Apple II GS, brings the enhanced operating system to even older Apple II systems, including the original Apple ][ and ][+.
 
Which is pretty remarkable, considering the Apple ][ and ][+ don't even support lower-case characters.
 
You can test-drive ProDOS 2.4 in a Web-based emulator set up by computer historian Jason Scott on the Internet Archive. The release includes Bitsy Bye, a menu-driven program launcher that allows for navigation through files on multiple floppy (or hacked USB) drives. Bitsy Bye is an example of highly efficient code: it runs in less than 1 kilobyte of RAM. There's also a boot utility that is under 400 bytes—taking up a single block of storage on a disk.
 
 
 
From Ars Technica:
After 23 years, the Apple II gets another OS update
On 30th anniversary of Apple II GS, devoted developer releases ProDOS 2.4.
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/09/after-23-years-the-apple-ii-gets-another-os-update/

Blah blah blah headphone jack

Yea even the postal worker was shocked

That's strange, they weighed it and shipped it rather than doing the flat rate?   Saving 10 bucks is great.
 
Nice picks too

Here is what i took out

I LOVE balsa wood airplanes! Great video Willie!

GYCW is back with one of the most overlooked conversions of all time, the infamous Atari 2600 E.T. was actually ported to another system!

Nox currently available free on Origin
 
https://www.origin.com/en-us/store/free-games/on-the-house
 

Ah FAIR ENOUGH. That makes a lot more sense lol. 

Yeah, that's what happened. LJ07 originally posted about this in the Atari 2600 section, but I politely pointed out the fact that MaximumRD already beat him to it. I guess the two threads got merged afterwards.

I think the threads just got merged

I kinda want a ZedX Spectrum, honestly.