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My game collection cleanup continues. Recently I reorganized my Atari 8-bit games. Turns out I have a lot of copies of "Left Cartridge"! 😉 I also have 3 games without labels. I'll be posting a video soon showing what they turned out to be.

Scored a Concerto cart for the 7800 last night! It's been hard to snag one of these things. Woot! 

I have a confession to make. I splurged a little bit today. I decided to get something to celebrate my job thing, and something caught my eye. Metroid Fusion.
I didn’t want to spend the $35 on it, but I decided that this was my money that I worked for and that I won’t make such impulse decisions in the future. I wasn’t sure when I would have seen this game again, and I know that I will get my money’s worth. I won’t be spending so much on a game in the future, and I will definitely make sure that I make up the money I spent and more before getting anything else.
If you recall, this was my answer to what I wanted most for Christmas back in @nosweargamer’s last giveaway.

You can’t call yourself a Game Boy fan unless you’ve mastered the art of lighting your screen in a dark room! 

A pretty nice bundle of games arrived today.  "Revenge of the Gator Pinball" is one I've never heard of, and it's really fun.  The label is terrible, so I made my own for the back.  In addition to these, there were several duplicates that will go into the next junk box.

The episode with Bandai America is live they sent the other questions off to Namco to try and get them approved to answer. We talked about the Digimon Franchise, and the Digimon Tamagotchi line. Episode 51: BanDai America Digimon | The Extreme Podcast | Spreaker Hopefully i can get Namco on down the line to answer some of the other questions. Enjoy

I have been thinking about that giveaway I planned to do, and though I considered doing many different things for it, I have finally decided that I will hold on to the games and wait for someone too need them for their collection and just give it to them.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, @cjherr!!! 🎉

Why, yes, I am spending my Sunday afternoon watching the 2020 Classic Tetris World Championship on Twitch!
 
https://twitch.tv/classictetris
 
Spoiler Alert: We will have a new champion this year as 2-Time Champion, Joseph Saelee, lost in the 1st round of the Finals in 5 games.
 
I will add that watching these young gamers take Tetris to new heights is truly fantastic!

Batman Returns Lynx Lounge review 
 

RIP Squiggy https://www.thewrap.com/david-lander-squiggy-laverne-shirley-dies/
 

Every year at about this time, I get super nostalgic for Metroid.

These Evercade Lynx collections are fantastic. Aside from the lack of a Comlynx port, the games play flawlessly and look great. The screen is big and bright and they included some real heavy hitters, including California Games, Checkered Flag, Blue Lightning and Chip's Challenge. At a fraction of the cost of a McWill modded Lynx and 25 carts this is great way to experience these games! 

Before and after pictures of my "gaming credenza".  I cleaned up a bit to make some room to add a Nintendo 64. 
With a full house due to the pandemic, this is all the space I have to work with for retro gaming. There are several systems in here:
Wii (with GameCube support) Retron 3 (NES, SNES, Genesis) PS2 Atari 2600jr N64

😢RIP Hugh Keays-Byrne 

Today, a knockoff Nintendo 64 everdrive arrived.  And it works!  Wahoo!

Since NSG's podcast no longer exists, this morning I went with plan B and wrote in to the 2600 Game by Game Podcast! I wrote in for the upcoming Christmas special. I hope Ferg reads my email, and I hope to send in more feedback in the future!

🦁 7800 Paddles Giveaway TONITE! Jaguar Squad Challenge TOMORROW!

RIP original DARTH VADER DAVID PROWSE 😢 https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/david-prowse-darth-vader-actor-1.5821101
 

He also played the bodyguard of the old man in A Clockwork Orange 😉

 

💥 Atari 7800 PADDLES GIVEAWAY ends soon! Enter now for our drawing on December 1st! 

For some reason, I still don’t have Super Breakout. Part of the reason is that I have OG Breakout on 2600 and Super doesn’t look like much of an improvement. I know many people like this game much better than the original, but is it even that much of an improvement? Would it be worth a pickup?

For Christmas a few years ago, my parents got me a VR headset for your phone. Unfortunately, until last month I didn’t have a phone that supported it. I found it in my closet and am now enjoying it with the YouTube app. I relived  the Simpsons sketch “Steamed Hams” from Chalmers’ point of view. I dove under the ocean and flew in a plane. I took a tour of Titanic. And now, I am binging Atari Archive, and it seems like I am watching it in a movie theater or planetarium or something. It’s great!

I know it's a kids game, but "I Spy Spooky Mansion" on Wii is really fun.  It's got that old-school haunted house vibe. 

Happy Thanksgiving - now fight some more food! Kung Food review!
 

Happy Thanksgiving and a very HAPPY ATARI Day to you all. Hope no matter what you're doing or not doing its filled with joy and ATARI!!!!