DegasElite

I can see why they were priced like that. Wasn't it only 250,000 Jaguars that were made? Plus, only 10,000 CD units were made for it, from my recollection. Very rare stuff. Absurd yes, but I can see it nonetheless.

I don't doubt that they all sold at all, Justin. People are desperate for a collector's item, even an Atari Jaguar or two. I hope that these folks had the money to pay it. Paying $1,600.00 a Jag is expensive for sure.

Actually, Yars' Revenge was a port of the arcade game Star Castle, which could not have been done on the A2600 in the 1980s. It was still great, but Star Castle was finished as a homebrew years later for the A2600. Star Castle A2600 is also great. I like the action and graphics, and the sound is spectacular, too.

It might have been impossible then in the 1980s, but with current technology I can see it now. Interesting stuff. :O)

Thanks, Gianna, for putting this up. I think that it looks pretty good. It sounds a lot like the A7800 version, which I own. Interesting port. :O)

Getting to your question: I was planning on being more active here. It is a friendly community of gamers. For sure. In fact, I have been much more active lately. Expect to see more of me. Yes. :O)

Thanks, Justin. Actually, I really would love to see if the knowledgeable people on programming from here can set up a forum post or blog on game design and programming games. I think that it would be a great asset to the people in the Atari.io Forums. It could cover stuff like BASIC, assembly code, and more advanced languages for any and all of our Atari computers and systems. It could turn this site into a mecca for people who want to learn this stuff. That's what I think. Thanks for letting me share. :O)

Thanks. I can see what I can do. :O)

Anyway, I will see what I can do for your cause. I might chip in. I will see what I can do. Thanks. :O)

I had a grandfather who passed away from Alzheimer's last year at the age of 88. It's tough. I did see him before he died. He was in good spirits and was in his right mind at the time. He even recognized me. But, sadly, it progressed, but he died peacefully. In his sleep. Thanks for letting me share. :O)

Sorry to hear about your dad, AC. That is very young. Bummer…

Oh, it does? I must have forgot about that. Yeah, that is confusing because they are so close. My bad. XD

True. The A5200 version of Pac-Man was better than the A2600 version. I just wish that they had enough memory for the intermissions. The intermissions are entertaining in the arcade version. That would have been nice. Actually, the A5200 and A8 versions are almost identical due to the fact that the A5200 is modeled after the A8 computer in architecture. I guess that Nintendo even modeled the NES after the A5200. They apparently just reverse-engineered it. But, of course, the NES has better graphics than that. Newer system. You'd expect that. Anyway, despite all that, there were good games on the A5200, like Space Dungeon, Popeye, Missile Command, Super Breakout, to name a few. Of course, this is my opinion on these games. I like them on that platform. It could have been better with the controls, but it still shines with some of the games. But, getting back to Pac-Man, I liked it on both systems. Besides, I have heard of attempts to create a new and better controller for the A5200. I hope that it works well. :O)

Despite the fact that the original A2600 Pac-Man could have been better, I really enjoyed it as a kid in 1982 and further on in my childhood years. The highest score I achieved in this game was over 20,000 points. I knew a guy who was a friend of my dad's that got over 100,000 points in this version of the game. He said that the ghosts later turned into question marks and all that. It probably ran out of general memory and started glitching out. That happens sometimes when you get too far in a game with limited memory. I almost always beat out my friends and my dad in this version of Pac-Man. I could really fake out the ghosts. It was really fun. Ms. Pac-Man was much better than Pac-Man, for sure. I got good at that as well. I probably am out of practice now, but back then I was pretty good. Ah, the memories… Thanks for letting me share. :O)

Cool. I might try it then, since I have it downloaded. Thanks, Peter. :O)

Thanks, Gianna. It has really been a long time. :O)

Oh, I also forgot to mention I wanted Steel Talons. Thanks.

Games and accessories I want to acquire: Rampage Xenophobe Gordo 106 Warbirds NFL Football Tournament Cyberball Malibu Beach Bikini Volleyball (I believe that is the name of the game, but it is volleyball) Shadow of the Beast Switchblade II Basketbrawl Hockey Gauntlet: The Third Encounter Chip's Challenge Scrapyard Dog Zarlor Mercenary Gates of Zendocon Fat Bobby Bubble Trouble Dirty Larry: Renegade Cop Rampart Blockout An Atari Lynx I game system (I already have the Atari Lynx II) If possible, extra ComLynx cables (for multiplayer support) I have 32 games for my Atari Lynx II already, but this is a list of games that I would like to get. If I get another extra Lynx II, I might get it fitted with the McWill upgrade screen and VGA port (so it could be hooked up to a TV or monitor for full-screen gameplay), but I have not decided that yet. I also have heard about someone turning a Lynx into a console. It is on YouTube in three parts on the channel Retro Revolutions. It is pretty good. He used an A2600 shell and rebuilt the Lynx into a console. It works well, too! I would not go that far to do that, but a McWill sounds interesting. I am a bonafide purist when it comes to preserving my game collection, so I might not do that at all. We'll see. Thanks for letting me share. :O)

There is a woman who worked for Disney Animation for over 40 years. She is still alive and will be 110 in July, a supercentenarian. She is the world's oldest living animator and the oldest animator who has ever lived. She was born in 1910 in Maine. She remembers the old Alice comedies that Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks made, which were an experiment in live-action and animation together. She helped make them in the 1920s when she was a little girl, probably starring in them. Those cartoons themselves were made almost 100 years ago. She still animates, by the way, I believe. Amazing woman.

I was 12 when my great-grandmother passed on. I had another great-grandmother pass away at the age of 96. She went in 2003. She was born in 1906 in North Dakota. So, there is longevity in my family, at least with the women. I had a distant cousin of my grandfather's that lived to the age of 101. I never met her, though. I would love to meet a 100-year-old person. I could learn so much.

The A2600 was a definite deviation from the norm in the way we looked at television. It was like you had each game as like an interactive TV channel. Channel Three came alive, with graphics and gaming! Of course, the Fairchild Channel F was the first system to offer interchangeable game cartridges (I believe that was the first), but the A2600 was the system that caused the idea to take off. It was to be reckoned with, for sure, and put Atari in the true mainstream. Definitely a fun system to this very day, 43 years later. I was almost two years old when it came out. My family got their first Atari system in 1982. We spent hours playing Frogger, Outlaw, Night Driver, et cetera! It never stopped. It was and is fun at its finest.

That's cool. It makes a person feel good that they knew someone from that time period. Elderly people can teach so much to the younger set. It's the way of things.

Also, I am one of a few people in the 21st Century that knew someone born in the 1800s. I know of only one person that was. My great-grandmother. She was born in 1893. She passed away at the age of 94 in 1987. That makes me feel unique. Thanks for letting me share. :O)

Well, for starters, I have been hanging around here since about 2014, I believe. So, it has been a while. Almost 1,300 posts later, I am still here. I am an avid collector of Atari games, VHS tapes and DVDs, a Mac-head since 1993, an animation buff, and avid learner of anything. Glad to have been here for the last six years or so. Thanks for having me. 🙂

Hey, guys, My foster father told me a story once years before he passed away. He knew someone that knew Napoleon Bonaparte. No, really. He knew Napoleon Bonaparte. But, before you get your hopes up… This person with the unusual name was put into an orphanage as a baby. The people that worked there did not know what to name him. So, they named him (you guessed it) Napoleon Bonaparte. So, the person that knew him in a sense knew Napoleon Bonaparte. Obviously, the original Napoleon died over 200 years ago. Fun fact, huh?