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On Friday Sarah Jane Avory released her latest game for the Commodore 64.
Here is my quick video review and some gameplay.
Listening to my video after posting it to Youtube- I realize that it sounds like a commercial... I promise that I am not associated with the game or author in any way - I was just really impressed by it and I have been playing a ton of it since Friday night 🙂 
Here is the link to buy it on itch.io:
https://sarahjaneavory.itch.io/zeta-wing
 

0063090 - what ever the score is who cares, just look at that McWill screen. 

I got Retroarch working on an Amazon Fire Tablet!
I managed to install the google play store (Don't ask me how, I seriously don't understand it... it involved downloading a bunch of questionable apk files and installing them in a magic order that made them work)
Once that was installed -- Retroarch worked immediately.  There are two Atari Lynx cores, I am not sure what the difference is, but it just seems to work! 
Now I just need to figure out this game 🙂 

What an interesting thread to read through. 
Back in 1998 I was 20 and had a lot of competing priorities. I decided that due to space issues lack of time I would sell off my collection on a relatively new website called eBay. I sold everything in a single lot including my all CIB collection, including a Jaguar, Jaguar CD, Saturn, PS1, 3DO, Lynx, 7800, Virtual Boy and 7800. 
I had so many now rare games, including likes of Panzer Dragoon Saga, House of the Dead and the Working Designs games on Saturn, Rayman and Atari Karts on the Jaguar, and Nestor's Funky Bowling on Virtual Boy. It went for about $1400 back then, so $2,200 in today's dollars. A screaming deal for the person who got it. 
At the time it was somewhat freeing to get rid of all of that "stuff." For a few years I worked, played music and lived very light.  I did have a Dreamcast and handful of games but it was nothing like it was. Around 2000 I got a CIB Jaguar for $25 with Iron Soldier, Tempest and Cybermorph. In 2002, I sold my car and moved across country with a trunk, a suitcase, a guitar and a bass. No games came with me. I left the bargain bin Jaguar and Dreamcast in storage with a few boxes at my mom's and, for awhile, didn't think of gaming much at all. I missed an entire generation at least.
Fast forward to 2010 when I went home for a week for a wedding. My Mom reminded me that I had these boxes under the basement stairs and asked that I go through them. I rediscovered my long forgotten Dreamcast and Jaguar, shipped them to California and began my slow and now much more expensive quest to rebuild my old Jaguar collection. I completed that in about four years.  That of course snowballed and here I am. LOL!
I don't regret selling that initial collection but there are some games I'll likely never have again because of it. Panzer Dragoon Saga is the biggie.  Still, selling it off was what I needed to do at the time. 
I've also fixed and given away a fair number of 2600s to friends, family and coworkers with kids. Usually a starter pack with a console and 10 or so loose commons like qbert, frogger, asteroids, etc. I love it when they send photos of their little ones playing a 4-switch woody. It's so cool to know that these kids, most born since 2013 or so, will remember Atari as their first console.  Losing my garage space and tools in the divorce kinda put a halt to that but someday I'll have a workbench again.  🙌
 

I had traded a AMD K6-2 500 MHz PC, loaded, to a computer store in exchange for Jaguar items they had in stock.  This was 1997 I believe and the store in question picked up a bunch of Jaguar stuff.  They seen my machine, went through it, said take whatever you want.  I walked away with a Jaguar, Jag CD, a dozen cart games and about three CD games.  Everything NIB.  I didn't care about the computer too much as it was from a trade for a car I owned that needed a new tranny so...I wheeled and dealed.  
This was a time when Jaguar stuff was a dime a dozen and not really worth much any more.  Machines might have been about $50, games between $10 - $20.  I had games then that are now hard to find or worth more than I would have ever expected or seen coming.  Tempest 2000, Highlander, I*War...all good games.  Sold it all when my grandmother needed money for meds.  I don't regret doing it for that reason but I do regret not hanging on to at least one or two of my favorite games for the machine.  Nope...I had to sell of the entire collection.  I still hope to find Tempest someday in the wild for a cheap price.  That game alone is a jaguar no brainer.

Yeah - I usually don't sell any games, but that was a while ago when money was a little more tight. Spending on fun stuff was not a priority and if I wanted new games I had to sell something off.  That one just happened to be worth the most at the time.  

My biggest regret is selling Dragonforce for the Sega Saturn.  I had a copy that I had bought when it was a new release and I sold it right when the price on it started to climb.
I thought that I wouldn't want to play it again because I had played through it so many times already.  At least I spent the money on more Saturn games, but I really want to play Dragonforce again!

Yeah - I usually don't sell any games, but that was a while ago when money was a little more tight. Spending on fun stuff was not a priority and if I wanted new games I had to sell something off.  That one just happened to be worth the most at the time.  

My biggest regret is selling Dragonforce for the Sega Saturn.  I had a copy that I had bought when it was a new release and I sold it right when the price on it started to climb.
I thought that I wouldn't want to play it again because I had played through it so many times already.  At least I spent the money on more Saturn games, but I really want to play Dragonforce again!

Yeah - I usually don't sell any games, but that was a while ago when money was a little more tight. Spending on fun stuff was not a priority and if I wanted new games I had to sell something off.  That one just happened to be worth the most at the time.  

My biggest regret is selling Dragonforce for the Sega Saturn.  I had a copy that I had bought when it was a new release and I sold it right when the price on it started to climb.
I thought that I wouldn't want to play it again because I had played through it so many times already.  At least I spent the money on more Saturn games, but I really want to play Dragonforce again!

It doesn't count for this challenge, but the Windows version of Chip's Challenge is free right now on Steam
https://www.polygon.com/2020/9/22/21451025/chips-challenge-free-steam-windows-pc?fbclid=IwAR0nzDihWjhSyTqdKDmnFg6yGmaOf5jNWGk9jupxRMaIHeBlq9cIHsh0AmM
 

I got the Lynx out of storage. That's a start, right?

Here is my first Entry:
(I Played until I got stuck... I didn't get the "looks like you are having trouble" screen, but I didn't see myself finishing this level in that one sitting)
39,440

This time I actually did get the "Looks like you are having trouble" screen.
Playing on my laptop improved my score a lot (The touch screen controls were giving me a lot of problems on the Kindle)
106,410

If I give this one another go before the end - I am already dreading the castle moat and the conveyer belt levels!

This time I actually did get the "Looks like you are having trouble" screen.
Playing on my laptop improved my score a lot (The touch screen controls were giving me a lot of problems on the Kindle)
106,410

If I give this one another go before the end - I am already dreading the castle moat and the conveyer belt levels!

Here is my first Entry:
(I Played until I got stuck... I didn't get the "looks like you are having trouble" screen, but I didn't see myself finishing this level in that one sitting)
39,440

New on our Instagram today!
 
 

Here is my first Entry:
(I Played until I got stuck... I didn't get the "looks like you are having trouble" screen, but I didn't see myself finishing this level in that one sitting)
39,440

I'd say that's a pretty good game store right there.  In all my years of collecting, I haven't come across a store that has a stack of 7800 games like that for fair prices.  

Thanks for everyone's kind words here. Seven of you have voted at the time of writing this, and I think that will help my case here. I have also been trying to focus more on other things, like art and video-making. I have been doing pretty good in school, and I have before the games were taken away, so that isn't an issue. Thanks for being so supportive. Thankfully, I still have my computer, old as it is!
Unfortunately, things haven't gotten much better around here. Still a lot of fighting and arguing. Not just about video games, but other things I won't get into here. Right now, I'm trying to get my DSi back so I can use Flipnote Studio to animate a segment of my upcoming Space Invad-- er, I mean, Mystery Review pilot. 
Again, thank you all for the nice words and good advice. And thanks for being an online oasis. I like to talk, well, a lot. My friends all have social media apps like Snapchat, Instagram, and Tik Tok. My parents don't let me get those, but it's not like I want them. I just like to talk to people, and it has been a bit lonely since quarantine started. After a few months, it starts to get to you. I'm glad I came over here to talk to others about my true passion: retro video games. Thanks for being there.
I mentioned before in a recent status update that I was porting a few of my games to disc. I couldn't put pictures there and I didn't want to make another post and run down my daily posting limit, so I decided on posting the pictures here. I'm not quite done yet, but I think it is coming along nicely. I hope to port more of my old games over to executables on disc someday. It's a fun project. This beaut, HDN Run Duology + The Criminy Maker, contains three games and is making its way over to @RickR's house when I'm done with it.

The back of the Jewel case even parodies the manual for the excellent Tunnel Runner!

The two HDN Run games I made in 2018 and 2019 respectively. The Criminy Maker was also a 2019 game, and it is a level creator spinoff of my Criminy Chronicles series that was quite popular in my small school. The games aren't great and don't have very high production values, but 8th grade me tried his darndest at making a few fun games. I think they are fun for the most part, and I like porting them to disc as it gives them a bit more appeal and value.
I haven't really tried making a game since 8th grade as I don't technically know any real script-coding language. I used a graphical-style coding language for those games I made. 

@HDN The Harmony cart?  Here you go:  https://erstwhile-technologies.square.site/
I recommend the Encore cart.  It has the ability to play larger games. 

Please do ol' Harry a favor. Play Tunnel Runner. Please. It takes a bit to get used to but it's truly fantastic. I love this game so much. 

Ok folks here is that "kill screen". And my unofficial first score. I assure you I played from the start and got a little bit into the game because I do not think this works on the earlier levels. Don't quote me. 
19555 emulating because of the screen on my Lynx is hard to capture. 
This is unlisted. Just for you rad kats.
 
 

I got Retroarch working on an Amazon Fire Tablet!
I managed to install the google play store (Don't ask me how, I seriously don't understand it... it involved downloading a bunch of questionable apk files and installing them in a magic order that made them work)
Once that was installed -- Retroarch worked immediately.  There are two Atari Lynx cores, I am not sure what the difference is, but it just seems to work! 
Now I just need to figure out this game 🙂