socrates63

I’m not the biggest fan of 2049er. I’ll stick with Quick Edward for now.

Try "Miner 2049er" next.  If you've never played it, I think you'll love it.  The 2600 version is surprisingly good.  

Ooof!  That's hard.  To shut down something he's worked so hard to build up.  Ah, but it's time.  The body does not lie.  Blessings to him on a well-earned retirement.  May the good Lord bless him with a long, relaxing, and rewarding retirement. 

It's good that your pops is out of the hospital.  I hope he takes his time for a full recovery.  Pamper him a little!
 

And @HDN your Metroid reference reminds me of Son #2 who shed some tears playing one of the Gears of War games on Xbox360. His favorite character died, and he cried a little. I think he was like around 13 at the time.

Well I'm sure you've had good reason to cry.  Absolutely necessary and healthy IMO.
 
Cry for reasons tragic and frivolous.  In the end, it does help.  A reminder of our humanity.  
 
 

I sometimes think about how I'd react when the time comes and my parents pass away. Sometimes I think I'd be stoic about it, and sometimes I think I'd cry a river. A day or two after I admitted my dad to the hospital a week ago, I was on my elliptical in the garage to put in my (almost) daily exercise, and I suddenly started to pray and cried out in tears thinking about him for a couple of minutes. He's back home now and my parents have been staying with us the last few days.
Tears in anger? You're a full blooded Italian all right 😆 Remind me never to piss you off 🤣 Probably the time I was most angry and reacted physically was when I struck out playing slow-pitch softball, and I punched the trunk of my Volvo 264 and left some knuckle indentations. I was 19 at the time and had been in an aircast after more than a month in a hard cast for a nearly broken right ankle (volleyball), and I hadn't touched a bat for a couple of months.
Nowadays, I respond emotionally to music, movies, books -- the arts in general. I surprise myself as I never did so when I was younger. I tell my wife that I'm just still growing and maturing as a person 😇

That's right.  You should see the one I made.  Frankenstein-esque.  But totally safe.  

Interesting... good to know the audience of the two ad platforms are different.
Love that Commodore power supply design!

Those power supplies are known to go bad and take the C64 with it.  This one tests out fine.  But it makes sense to either buy a modern power adapter or buy a Ray Carlson sacrificial diode wire.  
On my breadbin, I built my own power adapter AND use the diode thing.  
 
 

My guess is at some point, they reduced the box sizes. I wouldn't be surprised if some games came out in large boxes that later got shrunk.

😁 I actually have 9 of the big oversized boxes. I thought all Atari games were in the oversize boxes but apparently not. I recently picked up from ebay Computer Chess thinking it was in the big box because it had the same box art design style, but it came in a small box, about the size of a 2600 game box.

@socrates63, Some of the Atari 8-bit game boxes are way too massive. Usually I like to have complete games, but for those big boxes, I'm ok without them.
 

It's available for the 3DS. I'll have to take a look in the e-shop.
I figure the 'gator doesn't like being caught and locked up. So that's where the revenge factor comes in 🙂 

You guys have inspired me to embrace loose carts and Atari 8- bit cartridges in particular.

You guys have inspired me to embrace loose carts and Atari 8- bit cartridges in particular.

I tells ya who needs revenge...the label on my cartridge.  Something rubbed it the wrong way!
Here's my high score for today.
 
 

Here's a view.  That's probably 2/3 of my 8-bit cart collection. 
 

That will be a fun video!
I've labeled a lot of mine using a simple old DYMO label maker.  It helps a lot and is total reversible.  It's a very inexpensive machine and it does a nice job. 
And WOAH!  You have "Halftime Battlin' Bands"!  I posted a story about that one a little while ago in the forums! 
 

You are right about my DSi; no working R or L triggers. However, this is a DS Lite that I’m using here. This one has a broken touch screen (super unresponsive no matter how many times it is calibrated) and apparently R trigger as well.
Thankfully, now that my DSi is hacked, I can remap the trigger buttons for GBA games to face buttons that work. Metroid Fusion won’t work on there, and the thing doesn’t have a GBA slot like the DS Lite does. Minor trade offs for the amazing hacked goodness my DSi now has in abundance.

Very nice, Harry. You worked hard for your money, so enjoy.

I will! You ever play? I imagine that you at least HAVE it, seeing as you've said you're a Game Boy collector as well. 
I think that many here at Atari.io would enjoy this game. Unlike the rest of the Metroid series, this game is more linear and skill-based.
One of these days, I'll need to get me Metroid: Zero Mission as well. That one is very good, a bit more like the rest of the games, and even has the original Metroid built-in! It's a remake of the first game. I saw it at the store a few months back (pre-pandemic) and didn't buy it. I didn't want to make the same mistake here.
Metroid games really hold their value and can be expensive today. They are generally some of the highest-regarded games on their respective systems. So far in the 2D series, I have Metroid on NES, Super Metroid on SNES, Samus Returns on 3DS, and now Fusion on GBA.
As for Game Boy Advance in general, I'm looking to get the rest of the Super Mario Advance series (I have 1 and 3 currently), Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga, Mario vs. DK, Link to the Past, the Kirby games, WarioWare, and a few others.

That's one of the main reasons to work, my friend.  Enjoy with no regrets. 
 

Hey Harry, we have the same GBA!  Cheers!

ROTG pinball is excellent. I only have it on the 3DS so far. For my GB pinball fix, I play Kirbys Pinball Land, made by the same people.