Rocker67

I will have to get this. I remember playing the 64 version and my friend and me nearly came out of our seats the first time an alien jumped up and started banging on the window.

Same on both of those other ones. With all these homebrew arcade ports coming out for both the 2600 and the 7800, my pocket book is feeling a little more empty. I loved Gorf in the arcade, but I never did play the CBS version until later. My home version I always played was on my Vic-20. It was a pretty good port, but it was still missing the Galaxian stage. From everything I have seen there never was a port with all 5 stages, probably because of licensing.

I just saw something that got me excited. Looks like Champ Games is doing a complete port of GORF for the 2600. They will be showing it off in their livestream this Friday. Is there anything these guys cannot create on the 2600. I have always loved the arcade game and it will be neat to be able to play all the levels and also to have speech in the game. I love how the homebrew community is continuing to breath new life into a system that is now over 40 years old.

I can understand the issues here being mentioned. That is why I have so many back up systems. I also have an old Stelladapter I got off of AtariAge years ago that let me use original Joysticks and Paddles on the computer. If all my 2600s blew out tomorrow, I would not sell off my collection as I can emulate the games on the computer. I do not try to emulate a game unless it is freeware or I own an actual copy of the game. I am so thankful for the people who have created emulators for the computers so even if all the hardware does not exist anymore we can still play the games we love. Also, I am on the third time building my collection. At first I was okay with selling everything, but then later I start missing the games. It has taken a few sell offs for me to learn my lesson and not sell anything.

The lights are for me to carry into the garage portion of the room. When we converted the garage, there was only one light fixture so we decided not to add a light into the other part.

The one you could not see is Mountain King.

I will agree about it being a bad port to the 2600. Wafers instead of dots, vitamins instead of prizes, and the background choice. But the way I rank whether the game is a bad port is gameplay. Does Pac-Man play like the arcade? For the most part yes. Could it have been better? Yes, as Ms. Pac-Man proved a year later. But all in all, at the time, for the 2600, I considered this a good game and played it a lot because it was what we had at the time. I look at this game and feel, like you said above, that this was a sign of the impending doom of Atari. Some of the decisions that were made at Atari at this time were very questionable. Rushing games out before they are finished, only black backgrounds for space games because people would be confused with a black background on Pac-Man, and the holding back of the 7800 and using the 2600 sound chip in it to save money. What could have been if decisions had been made with consumer in mind instead of the bottom dollar savings.

Here is my game room tour. I have over 250 cib 2600 games, a nice little collection of 7800 games, and a nice collection of home brews with titles that interested me. I am not a completionist and do not want to own every game. I only get games that I want to play. I only have 42 games that are not in box, and I have manuals for a lot of them, but they are so expensive now that I hope to catch box only deals somewhere. I also have ps3 games and Nintendo games not pictured, but only a few and that is the part of the room still under construction.

I did the same thing in a way. I did preorder three of the games on AtariAge, Zoo Keeper, Avalanche, and Venture Reloaded. Although they will not ship till January, I still consider them a Christmas gift. So I got what I wanted also.

I was thinking about trying this soon. When I was watching Ferg's Extra Life Marathon and he was having video conversion issues, everything was almost black and white and when he played Pac-Man, it seemed to be easier on the eyes.

Thanks a lot for the trouble........ Too bad I had already voted so I do not have that problem now. Actually, I have never played the arcade version of Reactor, or even seen it. In fact, I never knew it was an actual arcade conversion till years later. I just loved playing it and always enjoyed playing it for hours.

Everyone seems to hate on Donkey Kong, but I think one game that is worse is Donkey Kong Jr. You cannot even straddle two vines as you climb.

I would have had trouble voting here if Reactor or Venture had been on the list as they were some of my favorite games to play. I did have to vote for Berzerk as I loved playing this one the most out of the list shown.

I voted for Combat. Target Fun/Air Sea Battle is fun and it probably does have the edge as you can play it by yourself, but back in the day, I have so many memories of my dad and me playing the tanks and just having a blast and laughing at all the stuff we did to each other. That is one thing mostly lost today is the Couch Co-op aspect of gaming.

Congrats to SuperTrooper

It was weird how that happened. If it had been one of the others, we might not have noticed right away. You probably had never seen excitement turn into disappointment so quickly in a child before as we went between both games and noticed they were exactly the same.

One other memory just happened last year. A coworker knew I collected Atari stuff and said he inherited a storage space. Inside he found an old Sears TeleGames Light Sixer System. It was just the console only, so he brought it to me and I took it home. After a major cleaning and I mean a major cleaning, replacing the video cable that was falling apart, and checking the board carefully, I plugged it in, put in Video Pinball and turned it on. I played Video Pinball for a while after that. I ended up buying it from him and it is now part of my collection. It just showed me how hardy these systems were back then. I would put my money on any newer system being in that condition and never working again. These older systems were built like tanks.

I know I have covered this with some feedback to Ferg on the 2600 Game By Game Podcast, but here are my memories. My first memories of Atari is the Super Pong console my parents had. My dad would bring it out and we would play it for a while, then he would disconnect it so it would not stay on by accident and cause burn in on the tv. Later on I went to a friends house and he showed us Space Invaders and I was hooked and had to have that game myself. On my birthday in 1981 I received the 2600. I think I finally pinpointed the date as I remember the games I received for that Christmas were 81 releases. I got Space Invaders, Air-Sea Battle, and of course Combat with the system. Then a few months later for Christmas I got Asteroids, Missile Command, and Video Pinball. The one thing I do remember was the frustration on waiting for a time to play as we only had one TV and my parents loved watching it, so I had to wait, sometimes days and maybe a few weeks, before I could play again. One funny story was how we found out that Atari and Sears Tele-Games were the same games but with different names. One day, my dad and me were playing Air-Sea Battle and he said hold on, I have a surprise for you. He came back in the room with Target Fun. We plugged it in and found out it was the exact game we were just playing just a different name. Luckily we were able to return games back then without question and was able to get something else. Think that was how I ended up with either Human Cannonball or Sky Diver from a different store after that being afraid the same thing would happen at Sears again.

Just 4? That is hard to pin down to just 4. My list will be real "old" school. Tomy's Digital Derby and Coleco's Electronic Quarterback-I know these are not video games, but these old handheld games started my appetite for Video Games. Monaco GP-One of the first arcade games I loved to play. Space Invaders for the 2600-Saw this at a friend's home and knew I needed to have that for my house. Leisure Suit Larry in The Land of the Lounge Lizards and Space Quest-Saw these adventure games and had to play them so I went out and purchased my first computer. a Tandy 1000 HX for the extra graphics at the time. It was one of the all in one computers that plugged into the TV. You had to run all games off of floppies because it did not have a hard drive. It is hard to pinpoint a type of genre I love because there are so many great games to play. But the list above is why I am know such a video game nerd to this day.

Love these. Although I had the Lynx Model 2, I love the look of the original. I now have three Lynx and a Retro Cart for it. I also have 3 Atari and 1 Sears 2600, and 2 7800. I never want to be without a system again. I need to see about getting on of my Lynx modded with a new screen.

Thank you all for the welcomes. Been alive now for 53 years and back in the day, I would never of have imaged a site where you can share you enjoyment and passion for a hobby you love.

I will have to check on the scoreboards. Add some more excitement to the games that way. It will be like the arcades and trying to top that leaderboard.

It was. I will never forget about it. My dad was so afraid of image burn in on the tv that he would unhook it after every use and put it back in the box. I asked a few years ago if they still had it, but they could not find it. Must have been a garage sale victim.

Hello everybody. I am new here, but not new to Atari. I grew up on Atari and wished the market had never collapsed or they might still be making consoles today. I started out when my dad bought a Super Pong unit, so that was my first console. Then on my birthday a few years later I got the 2600. Had many great memories playing with that system. I went away from Atari for a while when I discovered the Vic 20 and then the C64 so I missed out on the 7800 during that time. I also had given my 2600 to my brother and never saw it again. I later owned the Atari Lynx and played it for a while before I had to get rid of it for bills. Over the years, I have recollected my 2600 library two or three times, but now I finally have a great collection and have most of what I want, plus I got into the 7800 also. I have modded systems for both and thanks to the home brew scene, an even stronger love for these two systems. Thanks for having me on the forums and I look forward to all the shared loved for our system here. I look forward to getting to know everyone here.

I did go there. Zookeeper is the one that I have been eyeing in that batch.