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The Mrs. and I had a busy morning!  I was at the end of my budget after a couple of hours.   Got this haul all for $37.

Episode 2 - Zaxxon!
 

 
http://traffic.libsyn.com/colecovisionspodcast/The_Atari_5200_Super_Podcast_Episode_2_Zaxxon.mp3

Agreed!

You all have stuff I want, I don't have many extras right now, I hope to have some trade games soon!

Wanted to post a picture of some Atari Games I have up for trade.   I'm seeking either an A/V modded 2600 or one that is in reliable condition, prefer sixer.  Crypts of Chaos for Atari 2600, and Tower of Doom for INTV.   But I'm a reasonable man if you have anything to offer talk to me!

That is so COOL! Not just the Intellivision, which is cool enough, but to see all of this unfold in the forums. I can't tell you guys how surreal it is to see this community take off like this. What a great bunch of people you are. 

My latest ! 
 
HOPE YOU LIKE IT, BE SURE TO SELECT HD.    Title : Unboxing more ATARI Goodness ! THANKS JUSTIN !      Description as posted on Youtube Published on Apr 21, 2015 Received this awesome box of Atari Goodness from friend Justin! Check out his channel HERE:  https://www.youtube.com/user/DeviousTelevision Check out the awesome Atari I/O Site and forums HERE: http://www.atari.io/   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXQ5r8mYTyU

I like that Justin sends new in the box Atari games. But that wooden Atari beer coaster is golden. Nice video!

My latest ! 
 
HOPE YOU LIKE IT, BE SURE TO SELECT HD.    Title : Unboxing more ATARI Goodness ! THANKS JUSTIN !      Description as posted on Youtube Published on Apr 21, 2015 Received this awesome box of Atari Goodness from friend Justin! Check out his channel HERE:  https://www.youtube.com/user/DeviousTelevision Check out the awesome Atari I/O Site and forums HERE: http://www.atari.io/   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXQ5r8mYTyU

That's awesome! Welcome to The No Swear Gamer: Your Spring Break Destination!
 
Here's my latest vids since last time including reviews of Reactor (2600), Kung Fu Master (7800), Title Match Pro Wrestling (2600 & 7800) & a unboxing featuring games for the 2600, Genesis and one special title.
 

 

 

 

 

Description:
Intellivision & Colecovision UNBOXINGS ! 
Finally received the Pre-Order I had made several months ago! Though tempted to cancel due to some details that later came to light I decided to just wait it out and today I received both of the latest Flashback units from AtGames. These were purchased online from ToyR'Us in the USA and shipped to me here in Canada via iParcels (who seem to have done a fine job overall) I give lots of narration and details so please watch and listen and see for yourselves exactly what you can expect should you decide to pick either of these up. These units were about $40 USD (corrected from my video commented) plus an additional $35 to have both units shipped to my address. I mention both pros and cons of these systems as well should you be interested in the cables/adapters to make the Intellivision Flashback controllers compatible with the original console Buy the Flashback Controller Adapter Here:[/size]
http://intellivisionaries.com/flashback/
 
*Contents may differ according to retail distributor. 
 

 
http://youtu.be/ARdkHjDJTVo

A cool new Classic Gaming related T-shirt! Thanks for watching!
http://youtu.be/4lDz0ClsFpw
A breakdown of the shirt design (characters) HERE: 

 

Latest vids! 
 
Thought I would join many who responded because WHY NOT? lol.    A response to Novabug's Friday Foursome video found here: https://youtu.be/NJFPOcpMXyc   All are welcome as always to comment and respond here BUT please if you are doing a video response please direct it towards Novabug's original video. Drop by, say HI and tell'em MaximumRD sent ya!  https://www.youtube.com/user/Novabug  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz_d0-EctMg
 
 
 
And my very latest just posted last night...............
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcBBRwBLaPo
 
Alternative Game Controls # 1- Sensor & Touch.    Looking at some aftermarket alternative controller options for popular Gaming Consoles. I will be showing a couple Turbo Touch 360 gamepads by TRIAX for the Sega Genesis / Megadrive as well as the Suncom Sensor for ColecoVision and lastly throwing in as a bonus (it is not really in the same category being more like a Intellivision DISC) I will look at the Quickshot NES QS-126 for the Nintendo NES.    Kevin Dean Twiner Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRU4LtQ60T5RcyT0WNt6Q9g google+: https://plus.google.com/116351497197962037806 Facebook https://www.facebook.com/kevindean.twiner   Suncom Sensor ColecoVision: http://megalextoria.blogspot.ca/2013/04/suncom-joy-sensor-for-colecovision.html Triax 360 Turbo Touch  http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Turbo_Touch_360 http://www.cheating-game.net/cheat-code/-of-the-triax-turbo-touch-360 http://gaming.wikia.com/wiki/Turbo_Touch_360 Quickshot NES QS-126 http://www.rfgeneration.com/PHP/gethwinfo.php?ID=U-027-H-00500-A http://www.justgovintage.com/product_info.php?cPath=22_37_39_73&products_id=4064&osCsid=cordije77essupptfshbjpiqa6

Latest vids! 
 
Thought I would join many who responded because WHY NOT? lol.    A response to Novabug's Friday Foursome video found here: https://youtu.be/NJFPOcpMXyc   All are welcome as always to comment and respond here BUT please if you are doing a video response please direct it towards Novabug's original video. Drop by, say HI and tell'em MaximumRD sent ya!  https://www.youtube.com/user/Novabug  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz_d0-EctMg
 
 
 
And my very latest just posted last night...............
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcBBRwBLaPo
 
Alternative Game Controls # 1- Sensor & Touch.    Looking at some aftermarket alternative controller options for popular Gaming Consoles. I will be showing a couple Turbo Touch 360 gamepads by TRIAX for the Sega Genesis / Megadrive as well as the Suncom Sensor for ColecoVision and lastly throwing in as a bonus (it is not really in the same category being more like a Intellivision DISC) I will look at the Quickshot NES QS-126 for the Nintendo NES.    Kevin Dean Twiner Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRU4LtQ60T5RcyT0WNt6Q9g google+: https://plus.google.com/116351497197962037806 Facebook https://www.facebook.com/kevindean.twiner   Suncom Sensor ColecoVision: http://megalextoria.blogspot.ca/2013/04/suncom-joy-sensor-for-colecovision.html Triax 360 Turbo Touch  http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Turbo_Touch_360 http://www.cheating-game.net/cheat-code/-of-the-triax-turbo-touch-360 http://gaming.wikia.com/wiki/Turbo_Touch_360 Quickshot NES QS-126 http://www.rfgeneration.com/PHP/gethwinfo.php?ID=U-027-H-00500-A http://www.justgovintage.com/product_info.php?cPath=22_37_39_73&products_id=4064&osCsid=cordije77essupptfshbjpiqa6

Well thanks I appreciate that, yep it's just 100% me, what ya see is what you get (for better or worse lol) 

Well thanks I appreciate that, yep it's just 100% me, what ya see is what you get (for better or worse lol) 

and beer tasting! 

Great videos MaximumRD! Justin introduced me to your videos a while back and got me hooked. Honestly I wish you were able to make videos more often, whenever you post them here I save them for when I have time to enjoy them all the way through.. I make a meal of them! There's a lot of showboating on YouTube and people trying too hard to be something they aren't. Some are overwhelmingly critical or vulgar because they think they have to be.  By contrast your vids are well done and you come across as a really genuine guy who loves gaming.

Latest vids! 
 
Thought I would join many who responded because WHY NOT? lol.    A response to Novabug's Friday Foursome video found here: https://youtu.be/NJFPOcpMXyc   All are welcome as always to comment and respond here BUT please if you are doing a video response please direct it towards Novabug's original video. Drop by, say HI and tell'em MaximumRD sent ya!  https://www.youtube.com/user/Novabug  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz_d0-EctMg
 
 
 
And my very latest just posted last night...............
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcBBRwBLaPo
 
Alternative Game Controls # 1- Sensor & Touch.    Looking at some aftermarket alternative controller options for popular Gaming Consoles. I will be showing a couple Turbo Touch 360 gamepads by TRIAX for the Sega Genesis / Megadrive as well as the Suncom Sensor for ColecoVision and lastly throwing in as a bonus (it is not really in the same category being more like a Intellivision DISC) I will look at the Quickshot NES QS-126 for the Nintendo NES.    Kevin Dean Twiner Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRU4LtQ60T5RcyT0WNt6Q9g google+: https://plus.google.com/116351497197962037806 Facebook https://www.facebook.com/kevindean.twiner   Suncom Sensor ColecoVision: http://megalextoria.blogspot.ca/2013/04/suncom-joy-sensor-for-colecovision.html Triax 360 Turbo Touch  http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Turbo_Touch_360 http://www.cheating-game.net/cheat-code/-of-the-triax-turbo-touch-360 http://gaming.wikia.com/wiki/Turbo_Touch_360 Quickshot NES QS-126 http://www.rfgeneration.com/PHP/gethwinfo.php?ID=U-027-H-00500-A http://www.justgovintage.com/product_info.php?cPath=22_37_39_73&products_id=4064&osCsid=cordije77essupptfshbjpiqa6

Steve Bristow sadly passed away last week. It seems as though we've been losing genuine geniuses and pioneers of the video age far too often recently. My latest article at The Retroist commemorates Steve and in particular his accomplishments at AtariTel - Atari's advanced telephone division. I hope you'll check it out, and remember Steve as fondly as all of us do.
 
- Justin
 
 
Link to the article on The Retroist: http://www.retroist.com/2015/03/05/ataritel-telephones-and-the-legendary-steve-bristow/

Awesome NES gaming donations from Warumon ! 
 
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I have pasted the video description below so no need to view on youtube:
 
 
 
 
!!!!!!!!!!!!!! For those who don't appreciate the narration or my usual rabble !!!!!!!!!!
You may go DIRECT to the unboxing / reveal beginning around the 8 min 40 sec mark. 
 
 
Wow! I knew the package was coming and I knew it would have games but what is really cool is it arrived ON MY BIRTHDAY merely by fluke because it came all the way from Germany, was held up in Canadian customs and yet here it is right on my 47th Birthday ! So please share my fun and excitement (and YES I did it right this time without too much backlight washing out the images  ) 
 
 
Thanks once again to the generous, thoughtful and all around awesome Youtuber / Retro gamer / Musician and Classic Hardware restorer Michael - "Warumon Gaiden" aka Mr.PastGlory aka Michael. Check out his links below, drop by say HI and tell'em MaximumRD sent you! 
 
 
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/courantgris
Youtube 
https://www.youtube.com/user/MrPastGlory
(Check out these awesome examples of his work)
Atari VCS Synthcart duet & STacy [D3M3N714]

On Bandcamp for your musical consideration
http://graustrom.bandcamp.com/
Website:
http://warumon.bplaced.net/

Groundhog Day is here, and I can't think of a more appropriate way to observe that revered occasion than to take a look at one of the many games involving hogs on the Atari 2600: "Pigs in Space". By remarkable coincidence, I just happened to win a copy in the trivia contest two weeks ago. Since I do not have a way of capturing quality images from my television, I'll be taking them via emulation.  

 
"Pigs in Space" is based on the sci-fi parody sketch that was featured frequently on the Muppet Show. To summarize, three pigs voyage through the stars aboard the spaceship Swinetrek, boldly doing nothing of particular importance. The game itself is somewhat unusual in that it's effectively three very different games in one, and each game had a different programmer.   After switching on the console, the player is greeted with this screen:     To quote the announcer on the show.... "PIGS... IN... SPAAaace!". I would have been delighted if the Atari generated tones mimicking that introduction, but I guess it was not to be. A copyright of 1983 is given, two years after the show had aired its final episode. Like a number of later Atari games, you don't have to lean over and pull the reset switch to start, you can can just press the joystick button. Being lazy, I appreciate this. Setting the left difficulty switch to 'B' gives the player an extra life every 10,000 points, but I personally find this makes the game too easy, so I leave the switch on 'A'.    
On the next screen we are reminded once again that this is PIGS IN SPACE, and are presented with a set of three disembodied pig heads in profile from which to choose. Each represents a different member of the crew and a different mini-game. They may be played in any order, even the same game multiple times in a row, but each becomes more difficult the more it is played (until a maximum difficulty is achieved, that is).    
Selecting the left pig (Captain Link Hogthrob) starts our first game, "Chickenvaders". This game is the most derivative of the three, but nevertheless probably the most fun. It would be easy to say it's Space Invaders with chickens (a variation I can appreciate), but there are a few subtle differences.   According to the manual, which I found on AtariAge, the chickens are dropping eggs at Link, and Link is throwing link sausages at them. (Oh, "Link" Hogthrob, I get the joke now! Only took me, what, 25 years? Also, I'd rather not know why a pig is carrying sausages around.) All the projectiles look like lines. When struck by an egg, Link is transmogrified into a chicken and flaps away off the screen. When one of the chickens is hit, it is sent to the "bird dimension",  a less disturbing fate to be sure.     Leading the chicken armada is Gonzo (or at least his head) on a flying saucer. (Gonzo, in fact, had appeared as an antagonist in Pigs in Space a couple times. Known as "Dearth Nadir", he once commanded chicken storm troopers.) Pelting him with pork products provides points aplenty. Sorry.   Unlike Space Invaders, there are no shields to take cover from enemy fire, the enemy only fires one shot at you at a time, and only the horizontally nearest enemy fires at you. One detail I like is that, true to the show (with a few exceptions), you don't see the captain's legs. As the hostile hens come closer, he becomes more and more submerged, giving the player a little more room to work with, though eventually you'll lose a life if their approach is not stopped.    
Destroying... I mean, banishing all the chickens completes the level and sends you back to the menu. Each time this game is chosen, the chickens move faster (though Gonzo always seems to plod along at the same speed).   Chickenvaders has some of the best character graphics and animation I've seen on the 2600. Gonzo's spinning head (3 colors!) and the transformation into a chicken are particularly well done. It's reasonably fun to play, though Space Invaders is certainly better in that regard, with faster enemies that fire more unpredictably, and the presence of shields to complicate things.   But wait, there's more! Next up: The health concerns of Italian food.

Thanks guys! I'm hoping to record this weekend so hopfully the first episode will be out soon.

Correct !   I wasn't gonna say lol.