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My last run for the night, and it was a good one. Once you get into a groove, I don't feel like the game gets any harder after a certain point. It just becomes a matter of focus. Once in a few waves, the bottom row peons goes a little crazy and increase in speed and zigzag, but they go back to their usual selves in the subsequent waves.
- RickR, Justin and Sabertooth
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Sorry to hear your home life is hitting some rough patches, Harry. I've seen some co-workers have a difficult time during the pandemic, and one is going through a divorce right now. Hang in there, buddy. We're here for you.
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My strategy has been to maximize the points per wave, so trying only to shoot ships in motion and trying to pick off the escorts first before getting the white ship for those that fly in the 3-ship formation.
I'm consistently getting 50k tonight so tonight might be my chance to break 60k. But I only have time for a couple more runs. 🤞
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Playing leap frog 🙂
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I broke the seal on Fatal Run -- I just had to find out whether I got the NTSC version or not. Turns out it's the NTSC copy! I'm very happy about that.
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Ms. Pac-Man
Atari 7800
Difficulty: Cherries
High Score: 54,450
September 12, 2020- Justin, HDN and nosweargamer
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This thread has been very... ahem... valuable reading 🙂 It is a topic I've recently considered when I saw posts from other gamers talking about the increase in price of this game or that. I happened to have a few of those games, and they're gathering dust (like nearly all my games).
As a general rule of character/personality, I don't sell stuff I have, but considering the fact that 99% of my games have sat unplayed as I keep playing the same games, should I take advantage of the market and sell some games? 🤔 Since entering the retro gaming community five years ago, I've primarily bought games for all generations of Playstation and Xbox consoles and have decent games library for 3DS, GameCube, and Vita. As I've reconnected deeply with Atari 2600, 5200, and 7800 in recent months and how good it feels to play these games, it's giving me reason think about reshaping my games library.
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11 hours ago, 1Littlebeast said:
Hello everyone Glad to be apart of Atari.io Huge retro and current gen nerd 😃. What's Everyone favorite Arcade to play? Mines gotta be Tapper whenever i go to the Barcades i make it a mission to play it.
Welcome to the I/O @1Littlebeast! Every time I see a mention of Ohio, I can't but play the theme song from WKRP in Cincinnati in my head 🎶🎶🎵 🙂
I wish there was a barcade near by but unfortunately not. My favorite arcade games that I can't pass by are Asteroids, Galaga, Robotron, Defender. If I see one of those, I have to play.
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37 minutes ago, Atari 5200 Guy said:
I like CIB as well and I have bought new old stock games before but not to sit on a shelf and collect dust...I get them to play them, period.
Yep, me too. I buy games to play them first and foremost, and that's why I don't like buying sealed games because they usually come at a higher price.
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Mail call -- got a couple 7800 heavy hitters, not the heaviest but still uncommon 🙂 I'm about 17 short of the complete NTSC official 7800 releases, and they're all the expensive variety. Seeing @nosweargamer's 7800 games ranking video re-ignited a small fire. My wallet hates you, too, @HDN for nudging NSG to release the video. I've always been about CIB games but decided that if I can find affordable loose carts, I'd be happy with that since the remaining games are usually $100-$200 for CIB copies.
Commando is from a local game store couple of hours away, and Fatal Run is from ebay. I hate buying sealed games but the price was good (fingers crossed that it's NTSC).
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4 hours ago, CrossBow said:
If you are okay burning your own, the Volgarr image actually was released publicly for that purpose. I bought all of my JoshProd games from PixelHeart so far an wasn't aware of a US Distro for them so thanks for that! Too bad they are sold out of Gunlord as I would recommend that game in a heart beat! I picked up Gunlord, Fast Stryker, and Lost Hope as a bundle when NGDEV was clearing them out about 2 or 3 years ago.
Thanks for the recommendations!
I'll need to look into a setup to burn discs. I haven't done it for years and with my current main computer (iMac), I don't have an optical drive although that could be remedied easily enough with an external drive.
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Finally broke 50k! It turned out to be a little more difficult than I thought it'd be.
I have to admit that I've grown to like Galaxian a lot. I had always ignored it in favor of Galaga both at the arcade and at home and never liked the weak sounding single volley at a time Galaxian gun. The 2600 version of Galaxian has proved to be a very fun game and has become one of my favorite 2600 games.
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3 hours ago, CrossBow said:
What kind of game is Ganryu? I don't think I've heard of that one although I only recently found out about JoshProd releases about a year ago when I picked up Finding Teddy, Volgar and some other games.
It's a side-scrolling platformer NeoGeo arcade game. I looked up a couple of reviews and it looked fun. I bought it in NYC when I was out there for work. This store carries several JoshProd releases.
http://videogamesnewyork.com/ganryu-sega-dreamcast/
Volgar is one I want to pick up.
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1 hour ago, CrossBow said:
Which DC game is that between Lodoss War and Ghost Blade?
I own only 2 Japanese games in my DC collection. Rez and the JPN release of Space Channel 5 because the cover on their released version is the best!
That would be this one.
I haven't played SC5 yet (I have it on PS2) but I love the art. I recently picked up the 25th(?) anniversary soundtrack CD.
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6 hours ago, HDN said:
@MaliciousCarp I am subbed to your channel now. I have a question for you: where do you source your parts? They must be a bit pricy given the niche nature of arcade controller building.
Harry, look up the seller retrogameboyz on ebay. He now sells 3-D printed cases used for my 7800 controllers. He told me that he buys parts on Amazon.
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32 minutes ago, nosweargamer said:
Thrashin' on Videocassette.
I've never seen it, but I'm guessing it's pretty rad...
It's supposed to be pretty rad -- looks like Tony Hawk and other boarders are in it. I haven't watched it, but I remember the seeing the cover of the box back in the 80s, very iconic poster. I didn't know that Josh Brolin was in it.
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1 minute ago, HDN said:
I can crush Keystone Kapers until the level with double bouncing balls, where I almost always promptly lose all my lives. Crackpots takes a bit to get used to.
I'm 20 points away from Bucket Brigade. I must have tried well over 100 times. Kaboom is hard. I don't know how people do it. That's one perk of school online: near unlimited Atari access.
Only 20 points short? Wow.
Yes, Kaboom is hard. It just becomes automatic reaction at some point -- no thinking but just reacting instantly to the falling buckets.
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16 hours ago, HDN said:
Keystone Kapers Billy Club, please! 40,950 points. I'm on a roll... Sadly no puns like @RickR had.
Four more Activision games that I have to go: Ice Hockey, Private Eye, Chopper Command, and Kaboom!
Yowza! Great job, Harry.
I tried yesterday both Crackpots and Keystone Kapers. I fell well short of the mark. These are pretty tough games!
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To commemorate the 21st anniversary of the Dreamcast release, here's my modest collection. Sadly, I haven't gotten around to hooking it up although I've owned it for a year.
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9s are wild!
Out of curiosity, I bought a Dreamcast a year ago and bought a second (the black one) earlier this year. You hear so much about the DC and the many classic games for it, and when you see the passion of the DC fanbase that borders on religion, I was piqued. I have a small number of DC games (and around 15 burned discs that came with the console I bought last year).
I have yet to hook up the console although I recently bought a VGA box and s-video cable. Until the day I hook it up, the grey DC is serving as a bookend, and the black one is sitting pretty with other pretty things.
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If you could have any arcade game ported to the 2600, what would it be?
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🤔 have to think about this one... I’m having a hard time coming up with an arcade game that I enjoyed which hasn’t been done yet. Early to mid-80s was when I daily hung out at the neighborhood arcade, and the main stays of those days have been ported.