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Ballistik got a reaction from Sabertooth in Club VCS Creator Space March 26

TODAY on #ThatAtariShow: #SumoShellBombfunk (aka @SSBFgames) r my special guests! They r the devs 4 #CosmicPanic on @TheAtari_VCS & on @Steam! It's the 1st #partygame for the #VCS! Double episode! 3/25 @ 10a MST! #Gaming #Atari Only on #BCB! @Atari #Gaming

Ballistik got a reaction from Sabertooth in Club VCS Creator Space March 26

ATARI NEWSLINE. BREAKING NEWS. // On this episode of #AtariNewsline, there are 2 GREAT #Atari #HomebrewGames out today for the #AtariVCS! Both by #BobDecrescenzo! (aka #PacManPlus!) These are: #SpaceDuel7800 & #CrystalQuest7800! I show you some #gameplay! Plus: March #AtariVCS #Update is out! What's in it? Do you know? 🙂 Plus: Exciting news about #Llamasoft The #JeffMinter Story on #BCB!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiT3x3y4kaM

Ballistik got a reaction from RickR in Club VCS Creator Space March 23

ATARI NEWSLINE. BREAKING NEWS. // On this episode of #AtariNewsline, I detail my local #Atari #UserGroup's GTG on #BaudDay, which was held all day on 3.12.24! On this day, you connect to an #AtariBBS using your 8 bit #Atari computer, or iOS/PC using #Muffinterm or #Syncterm. I detail our day & show a cool video of us connecting in real time! AND: I announce the WINNER of the February 2024 Free #Atari2600 #Game #Contest! Also: Enter here for March! Contest begins: 3.18.24 and ends: 4.15.24! Enter now!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwB0FOr3jUc

Ballistik reacted to Mockduck in Club VCS Creator Space March 18

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Ballistik reacted to Funkmaster V in Club VCS Creator Space March 14

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Ballistik reacted to Funkmaster V in Club VCS Creator Space March 10

The Atari Network Podcast 3/8/2024- THE MISSING HASBRO INTERACTIVE/ ATARI YEARS INTERVIEW!
When people talk Atari and it's history, they often skip or glaze over a period of time around the turn of the millennium where Hasbro Interactive planned on using Atari as a cornerstone of the new .com boom. Enter one man who helped keep Atari alive for it's new masters: Jayson Hill. Tonight's podcast will feature clips from our interview with him, the possible discovery of a new 7800 prototype: Road Riot AWD, Qwomp 2 thoughts, and much more!
Come join the live chat! 7:30PM EST

Ballistik got a reaction from TrekMD in "Atari Stories" Podcast (Episode #5 Feat. Atari.IO member stories) March 6

BCB here! Welcome to a NEW #AtariStories #Podcast! Only on #Spotify! This time (on episode #5), I read some #Atari memories from @atariio members! Including: 1st #AtariFalcon & #AtariST #Computer, More #Atari2600 on #Christmas, my personal #Atari7800 story & more! #Atari #gaming Click: https://tinyurl.com/yckhdt4m (Credit given to Atari.IO members where stories were read or used in Podcast.) Subscribe to this NEW Atari podcast! I appreciate your support & would love to feature more of your Atari stories! Feel free to send me an audio or text story (for me to read on the podcast) to: ataristories@outlook.com or ballistikcoffeeboy@outlook.com! Enjoy! And a HUGE thank you for your stories & contributions here! What a great site!

Ballistik reacted to Starbuck66 in Your Atari "firsts" memories and experiences... March 6

My first Atari experience was in 83 I believe... my dad came home with a Vader model 2600 with Pac Man as the pack in cart. I don't remember playing it though, my first memories of playing the Atari were Q*Bert and Super Breakout.

Through the 80's and early 90's I played a ton of Atari. I had people at church giving me stacks of games when they found out I had a 2600 and still played it; they had moved on to the NES by then. We had a video game rental store next door to our house, and one of the guys there gave me a huge collection of games (about 50 or so) and a bunch of accessories, including Indy 500 with driving controllers, a Wico Command Control joystick, the kids touchpad, and Star Raiders CIB!

I finally (after much begging) convinced my parents to get me an NES in 1990, but I still played the Atari off and on through the 90's. Sadly my collection got lost after I moved out of my parents house; I managed to keep my NES and games, but I don't know what ever happened to the Atari stuff.

Fast forward to 2012, took my daughter to see Wreck it Ralph, and I realized she had no clue who most of these video game characters were. I decided to start retro gaming, and of course the first place I wanted to start was Atari. I got a Flashback 4 for 15 dollars off of eBay, but with no Activision titles I decided I needed a real console. I got a 7800 bundle with 50 games off eBay for about 60 bucks shipped, and now I've got over 200 2600 games, and 20 7800 games. I've also got a 5200 (thanks again RickR!) with 21 games, and I've enjoyed learning the quirks and charm of the 5200.

Ballistik reacted to Karyyk in Your Atari "firsts" memories and experiences... March 6

I remember getting mine for Christmas in '86 (we got into gaming a bit late...my father was always worried we'd turn into cave dwellers if we ever started playing them). It was the "Fun is back for $50" 2600 Jr., along with Space Invaders (Battlezone and Chopper Command followed within a week, so I usually count those as my first games). For the life of me, I don't recall us having any pictures of it, although we still have an old reel-to-reel tape recording of the request, telling my family that I wanted a "BMX Bike and an Atari system." It was the 80's after all...

Ballistik reacted to MaximumRD in Your Atari "firsts" memories and experiences... March 6

I knew this topic reminded me of an earlier post I made and I found it! I will paste it below as well as a link to it

Posted 10 August 2015 - 02:24 AM

Yeah oddly, my first 2600 playing back in the day was on a friends console. Oh, I had many of my own loose cartridges but I spent more time looking at them in the little plastic storage case then actually playing them since I had to take them to my friends lol. The thing though, his mom was weird, very strict and on top of that like many adults back then believed having it running to long would end up wrecking the TV. But it was not only enough to simply turn off the system, no, you had to disconnect, wrap everything back up and store it back in the box, like I said, weird. So needless to say playing it usually took place after Gord's mom went to bed and of course we had to be quiet as well. But between my carts and his I still managed to play a lot despite the circumstances and it usually resulted in Gord falling asleep while I continued playing into the wee hours, some favorites were Cosmic Ark, of course Space Invaders and Breakout. It was not until some time later I got my own Vader model finally.

http://forums.atari.io/index.php/topic/12-my-atari-2600-wasnt-really-mine/?do=findComment&comment=5315

Ballistik reacted to greenween in Your Atari "firsts" memories and experiences... March 6

Dang though!!! The night my mom brought home the 2600, with Combat, Breakout, Space Invaders, and Night Driver!!!! That might be the greatest moment of my life!!

Ballistik reacted to greenween in Your Atari "firsts" memories and experiences... March 6

I'm going with my first 5200 moment also. 1984 as well. I loved my 2600, I spent the night at a friend's who had just got a 5200. Holy crap!! After playing Pac Man I spent every weekend at his house! I was 12 then, 30 years later I finally bought my own 5200 and have 25 cartridges for it, even bought some awesome end labels for them from a member of this forum! I don't care how great the graphics get, I will always go back to my Atari.

Ballistik reacted to Ballblaɀer in Your Atari "firsts" memories and experiences... March 6

The year was 1984, and I had just turned four years old a few weeks before Christmas. It turned out that Santa Claus not only brought a 5200 for me that year, he hooked it up to the console TV in our living room overnight! I later heard through the grapevine that Santa had bought the 5200 pretty close to Christmas, but didn't realize until he got it back to his workshop and opened it that the included pack-in game was Super Breakout and not Pac-Man.

OH NO.

Apparently I was a Pac-Man fiend even at that early age -- I think the neighborhood club where my parents often dated in the late 1970s had a Pac-Man cabinet, and they must have taken me there at times to play on it. I definitely recall playing arcade Pac-Man at a very young age, but couldn't tell you where or when. I certainly remember watching the Pac-Man cartoon on ABC when it aired in '82 - '83, and I *was* Pac-Man for Halloween one year, too. I'd love to find a photo of that -- I was this enormous, bulky, yellow, homemade cardboard monstrosity -- but so far no luck...

Anyway, at the 11th hour, Santa and his helper were scrambling around trying to find a store and/or elf that still had Pac-Man in stock. It came down to the wire, but long story short: I was a very happy kid on Christmas morning. I can't recall what other games were under the tree that first year -- I'll have to dig out the old family photos to take a look. For Christmases every year after that for the next 6-8 years, there would be at least a game or two under the tree. I'd guess that I played Joust, River Raid, and Star Raiders more than any of the others over the years, but 5200 Pac-Man was the start of it all for me. I never had another console in the house growing up, so video gaming at home was Atari 5200 or nothing until we saved up and bought our first computer (a Mac LC).

Ballistik reacted to Scott Stilphen in Kmart Atari receipt from 1981 March 6

Found this on Instagram. Sent this to a good friend of mine who had this memory to share:
"I paid 40 bucks for Asteroids, I'll never forget it. Went to 4 or 5 stores when it came out and they were all charging 45-50 bucks and already sold out. Ending up standing in a line in JC Penney's that went out of the store all the way out into the mail itself to get a copy, it seemed like they had hundreds of copies for sale. Same thing with Missile Command; that was also an expensive cart when it was new."