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Hey, I have this catalog! M Network is a really mixed bag in my opinion. They made some really good games on the 2600 (Frogs 'n' Flies, Bump 'n' Jump, Burgertime), but also some terrible games I never want to play again (Like all of the sports games, Space Battle, and Astroblast). I know Astroblast and Astrosmash have their fans, but there is just no appeal to me because you can let the asteroids fall without consequence. Sure, your points drop, but that's really not that big of a deal as the game shows you your peak score as well.
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Mom told me to fold the laundry. There was a shirt on the floor that I didn't see. She yelled at me for doing a bad job and having no goals in life or any skills. As punishment, I can't have my 7800 back for the day after all. :(
I shouldn't have gotten my hopes up.
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10 minutes ago, RickR said:
Happy Atari day! Since it falls on a Saturday this month, there's plenty of time for games. I plan on some Chip's Challenge later.
@HDN , I hope you get your 7800 back soon.
I talked to my mom about Atari Day and asked if I could have it back just for today. After trying to convince her for a while, she said I have to practice guitar for 4 hours in order do get it back for the day. Sigh. I did have other plans; my local video store's last day is today and they're selling their games for a dollar each. I am going to camp out and wait until they open at noon.
Yes. I got a guitar. My dad got it because it was the only way for my mom to stop yelling at me and get my stuff back. As soon as I have my stuff back permanently I'm never touching this God-forsaken thing again. My fingertips have never felt such pain.
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6 hours ago, Atari 5200 Guy said:
How much do they want for an Omega Race and do they have Tunnel Runner?
Tunnel Runner was $20 and I didn't see it there, but I wasn't really looking. There's another shelf in the glass case of 2600 games that I didn't take a picture of.
I think Omega Race loose is $5 as it doesn't have that other button thing.
I can call them and ask for you if you want.
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Happy Atari day everyone.
Here's some depressing Atari Day news: I have had my Atari 7800 taken away for an equal amount of time that I have had it available to be played.
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1 minute ago, socrates63 said:
Wow, this store is amazing. Like Rick, stores in the Seattle area have maybe 1/10 of the console gen 1, 2, 3 stuff shown in this store. I may have to given them a call to check prices on some 7800 games and see if they'll ship. I spied Moto Psycho.
I don't think they would ship to the Seattle area. I don't think. But yeah, I can ask them.
Also, Young, read the Fairchild Channel F post again. I edited it because I had an idea that might help you with your Motorpsycho problem.
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This is for you, @Willie!. I found two boxed Channel F games for you. Couldn't find any loose and I'm pretty sure there was a third one last time, but here they are. Videocart 12, Baseball, and Videocart 4, Spitfire. #4 is from when it was still called the VES. Behind them you can see the boxed Intellivision games. NBA Basketball, Space Armada, and a whole lotta Las Vegas Poker and Blackjack. Take note, @socrates63. I didn't see SNAFU, but I wasn't really looking. I've said this before, but very often their boxed games are the same price as their loose ones as far as the 2nd generation is concerned. Also on this shelf (but not shown) are the boxed 2600 games, boxed 5200 games, boxed Colecovision games, boxed Odyssey 2 games, and boxed 7800 games. There are varying amounts of each. I saw a lot of boxed Intellivison games (probably kept from the trash for overlay storage by their original owners), but only one boxed 5200 game. Today I did see 2600 Ms. Pac-Man and Frogger sealed. I am not sure if it is the original seal, but since many of the other games don't have it they may be NIB. They are typically a little bit more than their loose and CIB counterparts.
@RickR I forgot to mention something when I quoted you originally, so I am going to mention it here so not to reach my maximum post limit again:
"WOW! That store has a huge selection of great games. I will tell you that most stores here have about 1/10 the 2600 stuff as that. No 5200 or 7800 games. And definitely ZERO TI-99 or VIC-20.
And all those boxed consoles! If I ever make it to my work's mothership location, I'm bringing an extra suitcase to buy some of that good junk."
Yes. Typically what I would do when I wanted a new 2600 game is play a few on my emulator and decide which one to pick up. Sometimes it would be too pricey and I wouldn't buy it, but never finding the game at all was never an issue, at least for Atari systems. Nintendo, on the other hand... heh. I have had to wait quite a while before I saw certain Nintendo games I was looking for. I don't mind the wait really, but with Atari stuff, especially 2600, it was always there.
There was one time where there wasn't a game I was looking for. When I got Tunnel Runner (you can't get on the list for games on Atari systems as they're all listed as miscellaneous in their system so I had to call in and check constantly for that one), I had a discount ready and I was looking for Sky Diver. I couldn't find it that day, but I did find Miniature Golf, which I did not expect to find. When I went back again today there were no less than eight copies of Sky Diver. Plus Sky Skipper.
I guess it just never really crossed my mind that other stores weren't like this.
I had an idea, though. It's a long shot and I would have to okay it with my parents first, but I was thinking perhaps there was a game someone couldn't find I could pick it up for them and mail it to them. For instance, I know Young has been looking for a few 7800 games recently at some of his local places. If say, I had seen one of those games at this Game Trade place and he wanted to buy it, we could work something out. It would work in reverse as well. Say The No Swear Gamer saw a copy of Tengen Tetris for NES while browsing his local game store that Rick had been on the lookout for (just an example), @nosweargamer could buy it for Rick and Rick could pay him back + shipping costs. We could essentially create a network of local game stores. We all live in different places with different games nearby that other members of the I/O might be on the lookout for. Just a thought.
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1 minute ago, RickR said:
WOW! That store has a huge selection of great games. I will tell you that most stores here have about 1/10 the 2600 stuff as that. No 5200 or 7800 games. And definitely ZERO TI-99 or VIC-20.
And all those boxed consoles! If I ever make it to my work's mothership location, I'm bringing an extra suitcase to buy some of that good junk.
Please do pay them a visit if you are ever in the area! They are in DePere, WI, so it is a bit of a drive from where I live but it is worth it. Plus, we head up to the Green Bay area almost every week for something. Great store run by very friendly people. I think the prices are fair. Maybe a little high in some cases but too low in others. The prices are balanced for the most part. I'm very fortunate to have it near me.
Here are a few other cool things I noticed today:
These two Sega Nomads, one boxed and one loose, but in this picture the glare is absolutely horrendous. There are a few Power Base Converters below, which I might pick up someday if I ever get a real Genesis. You can also see my hat I wear to hide my hideous homemade haircut and some disc-based games in the background. The CIB nomad is $400. That's why I think the Jag might be cheaper as it isn't in a case like the Nomad and...
Ta-da! The JVC X'Eye! I have never seen this thing in person before. Typically they will wrap home consoles up in little plastic and cardboard boxes, but this one is different. It's just sitting there. Must be a bit pricey. If you don't know what the X'Eye is, it's basically a Genesis and Sega CD combo. Like a Turbo Duo or a Twin Famicom.
They also have a sizable import section filled with Famicom, Super Famicom, and other Japanese games with the occasional PAL game mixed in. Didn't take a picture of the Famicorner.
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Thank you, @nosweargamer. I would have gotten it to had it been a little cheaper. I've caught the Dig Dug bug as of late. Neighbors have COVID-19, so my disease is very preferable to theirs.
I thought I might show all of you this right away in case you are interested. Here's the "console wall". It's about what it sounds like. They get a lot of the obscure systems sometimes as well as the occasional vintage computer. I've seen Coleco Geminis, Atari 7800s box or no box, top-loading NES's, all models of the Genesis, SNES model 2s, Sega CD's, and more. I thought some of you would be interested in the boxed Atari Jaguar system. I don't know how much it was, though since it wasn't in the glass case like some of the rarer systems were I'm guessing around the $200 range, maybe? That seems awfully low for a Jaguar system CIB.
And here is their 2600 selection. Many games without endlabels today. Lots were reduced price because of that. I had to ask them what a few text label Sears Tele-Games cartridges were today. Most are $5, some are $2, some are $10. Decent prices, and sometimes free games if I get my discount like I had today. A few 5200 games there as well. Feel free to browse, but please do mind the glare. They are right by the door and I had to do it at this angle in order to fit them all in.
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I thought I would post this on my "What game should I get" topic but ultimately decided that it deserved its own topic here in Prick Check.
Game Trade is the name of my local game store I won't shut up about. It's great there. Some people were interested in their 7800 lineup, so I went there to pick up my free game and take some pictures. Ultimately, I decided to buy Crystal Castles, though they did have a marked down copy of DK Junior as well which really tempted me. I decided on CC because Junior has a much better version on the 7800 I would rather get. It's a Tramiel Cheap-O copy. This will be my last game before the Christmas season, though I might trade the Tug of War album code with @RickR for another 2600 game later on.
So, here are the cheaper 7800 games. These go for $10, though there are a few for $5. Those include PPII, Karateka, Hat Trick, Touchdown, and Choplifter to name a few. Apparently, it is rare to find a lot of 7800 titles like this. Below them are some cool Odyssey 2, Intellivision, Colecovision, VIC 20, and I believe TI-99 or some other Texas Instruments computer games. I love this store. I wish I could buy it all!
Here are some of the pricier 7800 titles hidden inside of this glass cabinet. These are $15 and up. Some interesting 7800 titles I saw were Mario Brothers, Donkey Kong Junior, Motorpsycho, Ace of Aces, Alien Brigade, Ghostbusters, Rampage, Mean 18, and Dark Chambers. Some other goodies include 2600 Miner 2049'er Volume II, Pitfall II, Montezuma's Revenge, and I believe Crazy Climber. Please excuse the glare. I didn't look hard at these before I took the photos as I was in a bit of a rush.
Please, zoom in and look around! I took some other pictures as well, though the combined file size is too much for one post alone! I thought some of you would like to see what this place has to offer. I will try to post some more pictures of some of the interesting things I saw on this final voyage.
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The polls are in! And it seems that we have a tie!
In third place, with a quarter of the total votes, we have Hat Trick on Atari 7800!
Tied for first are the error copy of Crystal Castles and Missile Command!
I am most likely going up to the video game store today. I made a deal with my dad that he'd drive me there if I did all of the chores by 5:00. That wouldn't be too difficult, but I have to mow both ours and the neighbors' lawns. Not hard, just time-consuming. I think I can get it done if I start immediately after school ends at 3:30. Mow the lawn first as that takes the longest and then do the rest of the work. I have my camera charged up with new batteries and ready to go to take pictures of some of the things you are all interested in. I will have to explain why I'm going around taking pictures of the unpopular games... I/O promotion!
Let's see, I have to take photographs of the 7800 and Channel F games. Might take a few others along the way, like their console wall. I will post them here in this thread when I get home.
So it seems that most people want either Crystal Castles and Missile Command. I might buy one or the other or neither. Really this poll was just an experiment and a fun little thing to do, not a real opinion changer. I will look through the 7800 game library as well and see if there are any other $5 games to get, and I will also look through the GBA library perhaps. And I will have to check what is on clearance. Oh, so many choices! I'm at a point where I don't own a lot of the commons for some of the systems I have, so $5 can get me a pretty decent game yet.
But I will share what I get here. I don't know how long it will be before I get my stuff back. My mom has not been to kind recently to any of us. She wants to sell my collection and buy me "better things" like musical instruments and crap. She really doesn't like that I'm the way I am and I'm not a musical or athletic guy like she wants me to be. There's no reasoning with her. So thanks for being reasonable people I can talk to. Life at home is very tough at the moment.
It seems like my mom's desperately trying to change my personality. It's a little late for that.
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6 minutes ago, RickR said:
Video Olympics is a good one! Trust me...we said "Pffft!" in 1977 too. Atari owned the name "Pong". What were they thinking??? "Pong Plus" would have been a better name.
The Sears Tele-Games version was Pong Sports. Atari owned the name for the Tank arcade game, too, but made the home port Combat. Sears, again, called it by the proper name, Tank Plus. Sears often called it by the wrong name, so it's weird seeing them be right for once.
Ah, how could I forget?
Slot Racers on the Atari 2600
What you expect: A game about slot racing! You know, those cars on those tracks where you have to make sure they don't fly off by regulating the speed?
What you get: This piece of garbage game where two Harry Potter sorting hats drive around a city shooting hadukens at eachother.
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It is probably the RF switch. Try getting a coax adapter. I think AtariAge sells them for only a couple bucks. Otherwise you can put together a makeshift one with parts from your local hardware store, like I did.
Though my woody had very similar problems when I got it and none of my cartridges worked on it. I opened it up and it was super corroded. Someone spilled Coke or some other dark pop in there many years ago. There was a high-pitched sound on the black screen as well. I scrubbed away at the board with baking soda, alcohol and vinegar for a long time to get all the gunk off. It took a while, but it paid off and my woody works now. That's probably why my dad's cousin had that other Atari 2600, a vader model.
Could you Intellivison perhaps have some corrosion on it?
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Atari 2600 Video Olympics (Take note, @nosweargamer)
What you expect: Something like Activision Decathalon, Track & Field, Summer or Winter Games, something like that.
What you get: P o n g
I really love this game. Though when I first played it on Atari Anthology, that is what I was expecting. I didn't know they even had Pong on the 2600 at this point. I think most of the fifty "video games" are excellent. The title would have made more sense in 1977, I believe, than it does now.
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2 minutes ago, RickR said:
Or how about 2600 "Maze Craze" that boasts 256 variations but really just has a confusing mess of a grid in the manual? "Let's play variation 6-3-2!"
Really all of those old Atari 2600 games are false advertising. "112 Video Games", "8 Video Games", "16 Video Games"... They never said "variations", always "video games", implying that there are multiple separate games on the cartridge. In the early days, the 2600's main competitors all used multiple games on their game cartridges. The Odyssey 2 was doing it with games like Speedway! Spinout! Crypto-logic!, the Studio II was doing it with games like Gunfighter/Moonship Battle, the Astrocade was doing it with games like 280-Zzzap!/Dodgem, the Channel F was doing it with many of the early Videocart games, and so on. When Atari said "video games" instead of "variations", it implies that they put several games on each cart, when in reality they are all minor differences of the same concept. Breakout is a good example; all of the different "video games" are just different versions of the base games like Breakout, Breakthrough, and Timed Breakout. Some games are worse examples of this than others; like how Star Ship, Space Race, and Lunar Lander are all different enough to be considered different video games. Though in these examples like Star Ship the number of "video games" is still inflated from 3 to 17.
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I've got a few:
Pinball Challenge on Fairchild Channel F
This "pinball challenge" game is just your average Breakout clone.
Here's another pinball game-- Thunderball on Magnavox Odyssey 2
This pinball game is not based on the James Bond movie of the same name.
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It's weird that this XP laptop isn't much older than my main computer I use running Vista.
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18 minutes ago, Willie! said:
Yep, I love the ole F, did a fun podcast on it as well with my bud Scott from RetroGaming Roundup (one episode we talk with one of the members on the team with Jerry Lawson 🙂) . I have a lot of history with the Channel F, more than just playing it :).
Yes, I have heard about your Channel F podcast. Never listened to it though. It's cool that you got to speak with some of the team members.
Channel F is on my list of consoles to get. Since I've got machines capable of playing almost any non-Virtual Boy Nintendo game, I need to be on the lookout for some more obscure systems. My dad got really nostalgic a few months ago before the pandemic started, and put himself on the list for an Odyssey 2. The store hasn't gotten one in for three or four years. Good thing we are the only people on the list for that and won't have to wait a decade!
Channel F is a system I would like to get someday. Not something I am going to go out of my way for, but if I found one for a decent price I might pick it up. Do you have any childhood favorites you'd recommend? If I ever get one (probably not anytime soon) I would like to know some cool games for it.
While I'm at the game store getting my free game (hopefully tomorrow) I will take a look at their Channel F offerings for you @Willie!.
Poll is closing soon, guys! If you haven't voted, please do so soon!
RIP Jerry Lawson :(
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2 hours ago, socrates63 said:
Call it the @nosweargamer's Effect -- I watched a few of his videos on Intellivision games recently. I was very impressed by the IntelliVoice games. Last week, a lot of Intellivision games came up on AtariAge forum. The price was very good, so I grabbed it.
@nosweargamer has influenced a few purchases of mine, mainly his podcast did. His glowing review of One-on-One Basketball is one of the reasons why I chose it over Xevious. I can't wait until I get that one. I have never been a big Xevious guy until fairly recently. I was never a big sports guy, but I really like One-on-One. It's probably my favorite game I've played on the system so far. He also influenced Home Run to a degree. I watched his video on the game and thought it looked like fun. I played it on Atari Anthology with my dad and had a blast playing it. I wasn't going to get it on cartridge until I saw it for only two dollars. My dad bought that one "for himself".
Also, @socrates63, I didn't realize you had so many duplicates! Trade some of those in and get some new games! Like SNAFU. Did you get the system yet? I assume not as you didn't mention it.
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29 minutes ago, socrates63 said:
I'm in no rush to start playing Intellivision games as I want to play Super Metroid on the SNES. I'll probably grab a few more Intellivision games along the way if I find them cheap, and at some point, I'll get the console. I really want the IntelliVoice module though.
First off, great job on your Intellivision purchase! A few years ago I got an Intellivision Flashback for my birthday. I love that thing! I find the disc controllers rather comfortable. They work better if you rotate them like a steering wheel rather than using them like a d-pad. Some games only use four directions and there are sixteen on the disc, so if you rotate it you will be able to accurately cover all of them instead of accidentally not going in a certain direction and dying.
Good on you for doing the right thing and playing Super Metroid first.
I enjoy the Intellivision quite a bit from what I have played and I would like to get an Intellivision 1 someday. I don't want the model 2 as the buttons seem more painful on the controller and I would love to try out the system's port of Venture, which is one of the Coleco games that doesn't work on the model 2.
But each console has it's Super Metroids. Must-have games that you need to get as soon as possible. You know the 2600's Super Metroid--Tunnel Runner. Well, actually on the Intellivison I can think of two Super Metroids. Like the SNES's Holy Trinity of games, but this one is only a Holy Duology. You need SNAFU and Shark! Shark! as soon as possible!
SNAFU is like the Tron lightcycles or Surround on 2600, only its about 1000x better than both combined. The music is amazing and is constantly stuck in my head. The game goes for about five to six dollars.
Shark! Shark! is a game where you are a tiny fish and you have to eat the fish smaller than you. The more you eat, the bigger you get. The crab and shark can kill you regardless, however. It's a very fun game with two players. It goes for about $15.00, so it's a bit pricier. SNAFU is a better game in my opinion, plus it's cheaper, so get that one first.
But please, do play the actual Super Metroid first!
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48 minutes ago, MaliciousCarp said:
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.
Sometimes that's just the case. Money can be tight, especially for me as I don't have a job. Until recently I couldn't buy retro games with cash as I didn't know of a store closer than an hour away that would sell retro games. So I had to save up Christmas money and do chores and things to get my dad to use his credit card to redeem 10 or 20 bucks on the 3DS eShop. I would get two or three Virtual Console games, mostly Game Boy as they were cheaper and I didn't have any other way of playing Game Boy games at that point. Very rarely did I ever get full price games for modern systems. I bought Pokemon Moon at launch as I was very into Pokemon at the time. I got about $80 in GameStop gift cards in 2018 and purposely saved them for nearly a year just so I could get Luigi's Mansion 3 at launch. My parents were kind enough to buy my sister and I Untitled Goose Game at launch as well. There was a launch sale at the time so it was only $15. Geese are probably my favorite animals. My sister and I love that game.
Most of my "beatable" games have been beaten several times. I typically try to get the most enjoyment possible out of them. I try to get every penny's worth by re-beating them over and over again. In something like Super Mario 64 where you can 100% complete it, I will try to go for that on one of my subsequent playthroughs. In something like Luigi's Mansion there are like 12 endings and I will try to get each one. In the 3DS remake it will save all of your endgame mansion portraits in the gallery. I also 100% Luigi's Mansion 3 when it came out as well. I lost my original copy of Super Mario 64 DS and when I bought it again I made sure to collect all 150 Power Stars. I looked that game up on pricecharting.com and saw that I paid more than double the going rate at the time when I bought it used from GameStop. I am permanently boycotting them now and strictly shopping at my new favorite store.
What about games that can't be beaten? How do I get my money's worth out of those? Take Atari 2600 games for instance. Very few of those can be beaten. Most of the games are high-score attack games and arcade conversions. So what I do is I keep a high score record in this little notebook. Whenever I get a new score for a game, I highlight the old one and write down a new one. I have several pages of scores and I feel that has kept my interest in those games for longer. It's harder to get bored when I have a goal to beat. Another way to get more for your money is multiplayer. You can have hours of enjoyment added if you play with friends and/or family. Plus, it can be more fun in a lot of cases. Multiplayer Warlords from what I've heard is a blast, though two-player Super Mario Odyssey is WAYYYY worse than playing just by yourself.
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16 minutes ago, MaliciousCarp said:
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!
That's sad. I always assume I'm going to want to replay the game again. I must have beaten Luigi's Mansion 30 times by now. It's not a very long game. Though I won't ever sell it. That game right now goes for about $40 according to pricecharting.com. I could use that money right now to buy several other games that I want, like Ballblazer for 7800, Missile Command and Bowling for 2600, and Wave Race 64. I even have the 3DS remake so I could still play it in one form or another.
Though I'm not going to do that. I'd much rather wait a few months until I can afford to buy those games than get them now and say goodbye to Luigi's Mansion.
Another good example is Super Metroid. I've been replaying that game recently to help out others who might want to pick it up for the first time. It can be rather confusing to newcomers used to simple Atari games. Super Metroid is one of the pricier SNES games, going for about $50 at the moment. That's almost enough for a Nintendo Switch game. I could emulate Super Metroid, and I do have it on my 3DS's virtual console, but it's much cooler to say "I have this game" than "I have the ROM for this game on my 3DS".
The rarest game I own was one my dad's friend had and gave to him when he was done with it. Conker's Bad Fur day typically hangs out around the $80 range. I don't much care for the game, though I haven't really invested time into it. I think it's funny, but the game play isn't great. For Conker I could buy about 16 Atari 2600 games that I would probably enjoy more. Maybe I could even get a new system if I found one for cheap. I've always wanted an Odyssey 2. But what if someday I feel like playing it again? For most of my life, I hated Super Mario Sunshine with a passion. This June, I sat down and played more Sunshine than I ever had and had a blast. I never got around to beating the game, so I will have to continue on someday. What if Conker's Bad Fur Day is like Mario Sunshine for me?
You know what I mean?
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Just wanted to update you all on how this pilot is going. It's a Space Invaders review in which I mostly focus on the Atari 2600 version. I have filmed lots of the non-review parts so far but I can't work on the animated parts or the video game footage until I can get my 2600 or 7800 back. I would also like to review the arcade version briefly, but my mom also took the XBOX. Heh. I can't believe I actually want to play that thing for once.
I also can't animate a segment near the end of the video yet. I was planning on making a scene near the end of the video in which I need to animate some Space Invaders. I use Flipnote Studio to animate. That's on the Nintendo DSi. It's very primitive as you can only use a few colors on the screen at once, though all I would need for this segment are black and white. It's very limited in its capabilities, but it gets the job done and I know how to use it. I have seen many talented people on YouTube make beautiful animations with this. My animation isn't going to be as fluid as those, but that's mostly because I'm sticking to the two-frame animation cycle seen in the 2600 and arcade versions. It will look okay when I am done. Problem is I can't animate without my DSi as my mom took that too. She's had my stuff for close to two weeks. It's going to be a while before I get them back I feel, and by extension the pilot episode isn't going to be out for a while. She hasn't budged when I have asked for them back and I have tried getting some other hobbies and things, but she doesn't feel like I have done anything. I think she wants me to be like those other kids who are into sports or play music and stuff. When I was littler she often compared me to her coworkers' kids who did stuff like that. I'm not the sportsy athletic type, though I do like being outside and taking hikes in the woods and stuff. And I can't tell the difference between a C or an E or a D#. All I hear in my head is "Doo do do do doo". It sometimes is hard to tell whether the notes are going up or down from the last if they are close enough. I'm trying to learn the ukulele a little bit so I can have my stuff back. It doesn't help that everyone else in my family is pretty musical.
On a positive note, I did get an audio file from my secret helper. I won't tell you who helped me with the video, but I will say that it is someone here on the I/O. I'm also pretty sure I'm getting help from one of my in-person friends. He's a retro gamer, but he is mostly a Sega fan. He's not on the I/O, though I have been trying to convince him to join! He would like to offer an outsider's perspective on Space Invaders.
I have also plan on filming a few scenes today where I'm not on camera. I have gotten this pretty horendous haircut and would like to wait for it to grow out before I do any more in-person shots. Except I think I will do the scene at the end. There's this joke at the end I'm planning on where I powered up to do something that I won't spoil here and now that I have this terrible haircut I think I will make a joke that the power up makes me look super weird. Unfortunately for the power up gag I will actually need my Atari 2600. I think I will just make this transitioning shot from normal me to a superpowered version of me pointed away from where the 2600 will be.
Today I also decided on what game I am going to cover in my first "real" episode, Karateka on Atari 7800. I might change my mind on that as time goes on however, but I am planning on it at the moment. I think I am going to do this process a little more scripted when I start doing the real show as there is no precise script for the vast majority of the review. Mostly the script consists of bullet points on a piece of notebook paper.
We're looking at a pretty long wait until the video comes out. Plus it is going to be a decently long video. We are looking at about 20 minutes here.
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16 minutes ago, RickR said:
It's nice to have that store that replaces them for you!
I should put together a tutorial on how to do it yourself for those that don't have that service locally. One tip I can offer is that once you get the old battery out (which can be the hardest part), I usually tape the new battery in (with electrical tape) so it's easy to change the next time.
When I got Wario Land 3 from them, the battery was dead. They tried putting it in the normal way but it was very stubborn. So they used electrical tape like you said. It's very obvious as WL3 is a Game Boy Color only game (not compatible with original GB hardware) and those games came in clear cartridge shells.
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This was a while ago, but I did trade with @RickR. During our Squad Challenge of this game, Rick was kind enough to trade me his duplicate copy of Galaxian, AKA better Galaga. Don't get me wrong, Galaga is a fun game, but I have always enjoyed Galaxian more. Galaxian is like Jaws, the original is awesome, the sequels aren't great. Sorry for upsetting you Galaga fans. I know I'm in the vast minority!
I wasn't very familiar with the 2600 version until the Squad Challenge, and I am very happy to have it in my collection. I didn't do well in the Squad Challenge but I had lots of fun. Unfortunately my Atari systems were taken shortly after and I still haven't gotten them back. I have included some other recent pickups for the 2600 from A-tar-i and Game Boy Advance. Only Galaxian is from Rick however; the rest are from good ol' Game Trade. There's also a guitar pick because I am being forced to play the guitar for my stuff back. Strangely, I'm kind of enjoying it, though my weak fingertips beg to differ. Rick was great to trade with and I hope we can trade again sometime soon after I get my stuff back (whenever that may be).