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Interesting. I don't have much experience with the Colecovision. As a kid, I thought the Donkey Kong port looked great, but from a technical standpoint the Z80 is a detriment IMO right from the jump. The TMS9928A graphics chip is pretty nice though, 16K of video RAM is good. The 5200 is more flexible, faster CPU, programmable graphics, with GTIA/ANTIC, but you have to be a more clever programmer to get the best out of it, like 5200 Mario Bros. using character sprites along with the Player Missile Graphics. Not an easy thing to do for a lot of coders, especially with a tight deadline. Colecovision has an easier hardware setup for just doing games quick, just throw characters and sprites around for the most part. Games that need to scroll though would be hugely annoying though on the Colecovision. No hardware scroll. The 5200 would be the easier machine there. Same problem as the MSX PCs which use the same graphics chip as Colecovision.

Ditto, it will give me something to listen to tomorrow.

I am glad I could try the Jaguar at the toy store. I found out about the Lynx in Boy's Life Magazíne. Maybe to some credit for Atari, Intellivision, Coleco, NeoGeo AES, Phillips CD-I, etc. aren't hated on as much, is because the general public mind, most has no idea about them, so they are not worth it. 😂 At least if you talk about the Atari machine. People understand the company you are talking about, even if the topic is not favorable to Atari. The rest maybe sent to the dust bin of history except for what die hard fans they still have. Similarly is when people crow about the Amiga over the ST like there is not even a contest, or do not know about the ST even existed. Another poor marketing on North America Atari. Amigas were given away as prizes often in Nickelodeon game shows. So you know people knew about those.

This topic is old, but I have played a good bit of Day of the Tentacle and Sam & Max: Hit the Road with ScummVM-Lite. I see there is a newer version than I have so I will have to try the updated version. Much thanks to @masteriesand his great HDD attachment so I could fit the 100s of megabytes of files in my Mega STE.

Great guide. 🙂 Happy to see @Video 61 and @peteym5 great version of Venture. 😄 Definitely will help newcomers get into the 7800.

Probably the Angry Video Gane Nerd, the Landfill documentary, etc. The non-Atarians associate Atari with the '83 video game slump and garbage. 🤮 The Lynx and the Jaguar were both far away more successful than the Virtual Boy, but better not speak bad about Nintendo. People say the Virtual Boy is not great, but no way near the hate that Atari hardware gets. Playing the devil's advocate. If we look at World War II History...pre-video game Nintendo was making fascist propaganda toys for the Imperialist regime, and Jack was barely surviving in a death camp. So...take this however you want. 😂

Glad to hear that. It will make getting a copy easier. 😁 Glad you like it too. It seems like a lot of fun. I am a big fan of Battletech so it always seemed attractive to me. I think it shows a good idea of the Jag's power too.

Oh wow I never noticed that I love to hear all your insider baseball @Video 61! Very cool to see the Secret Quest box too. 🙂 Very neat game. Felt more like the NES or Sega Master System, than a regular old 2600 game.🙂

Very cool that you were the first owner in your state to own a Jaguar. 🙂 I saw it in a toy store in 1993 at a Jaguar Kiosk. It was playing Cybermorph. I thought it looked amazing! That made me want a Jaguar, but, we had a Genesis, so that was a no go. Reading about the development of DOOM and Wolfenstein by John Carmack. I was happy to hear that he liked the hardware for the most part. Comparing Trevor McFur to Starfox is very dumb, the Jag could easily pull off Starfox. Just because both have animals in space doesn't mean they're comparable. A better comparison would be Iron Soldier and Mechwarrior 2. Iron Soldier came out 7 months before Mechwarrior 2 even. I need to get myself a copy of Iron Soldier. I would have been over the moon with Iron Soldier in 1994.

Some beautiful birds in that place. 🙂

I saw this earlier too. I did not get to listen yet, but sounds dumb and clickbaity way to say, "Atari Mismanagement & saturated market, led to downfall of a 64-bit black beauty". Her and her husband Top Hat Gaming man, make some decent things, but sometimes dumb and narcissistic like most "influencers". Hustle if you like attention, but I hate attention, so I don't understand the modern internet. 😛

This batch is all sold out. There will be one more small batch in a bit. So that'll be the last chance.

Nothing wrong with that. Glad you still have your hardware though if you get the itch to set it up. 🙂

Welcome to the party pal. 😎👍 2600 -> A8 -> ST is a good progression. Do you still have your hardware?

Glad for now you are out of the woods. 🙂 Agreed, a shame at everyone who lost everything. 😢

Yes really nice. I would wear one.

Mine too. 🙂

Welcome to the party pal. 😎👍

Me too, can't swing it. 😂

I could go for that. I have more than enough A8s, but a modern one that could play my 5200 carts too would be nice. Still, new 6502s being produced, so could even design one around that with FPGA for the rest. Though 100% they would probably just emulate. 😛 Now that we have a killer new Jag emulator too. They could roll out the Jag shells, and put a new Jag. Then maybe the Jag would get some more love in the general gaming public.

If my family got for me I would not complain. I can't swing it atm. But it's not a necessity for me either. I've got plenty of hardware. 😅 But I like the idea and appreciate the effort. It would be really cool if it sells well and leads to a 5200 that can use cartridges and has nice controllers. Also a new TOS powered PC like a Neo-Falcon or something. It would probably be running Hatari under the hood, but reusing the original shells with a good keyboard and HDMI would be nice. Hail Mary would be if they bought the Coldfire project or something and gave us some legit hardware.

Oh nice, Fatal Run works, so Carrot Kingdomᵀᴹ should work. They both use F4 Bankswitching. 😁