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Here's something else from way back.  I had one of these!

Wait, where did you get that overlay?   I must have it! 

Purchased it as well. There’s a hidden version of Asteroids. On the 2600+, with the latest dumper and firmware, you can invoke the pause button upon startup, which triggers Asteroids. Can’t seem to get that to work with this emulator. “P” is mapped to Pause, but pressing it upon start up, just pauses the game entirely.

Back then, I think it's fair to say most just accepted the game they got.  Sure, it wasn't exactly the same as the arcade.  But the flavor was there.  Even the Intv version (which I love to poke fun at) is fine if that's all you had as a kid.  That slow Mario movement gave it an extra challenge in the timing.  It isn't quite Donkey Kong, but it is still fun. 
In retrospect, they hired who they could find.  With Garry Kitchen on the 2600 version, they got really lucky.  Frank Johnson (I looked it up) on Intellivision did fine as well.  When you realize that neither guy had the right documentation or knowledge, I think they deserve more credit than we give them.
 

A "small" handicap!  LOL

Correct. I've heard him answer this at PRGE.

Somebody needs to track down the Intellivision DK developer and ask though 🙂  I'm kidding of course.  That one is worse than the 2600 version IMO, but probably due to the limited time to develop. 
 
 

That's already been done:  Donkey Kong 2: Lost Levels

I think he's had to answer this question many, many, many times!  LOL  I've heard him at both FPF and PRGE talk about it. 

Garry’s talked about this topic before. It’s brought up in this interview (among others) at Free Play Florida. Jump to the 11:58 mark. 
 

And Garry was also asked this at a PRGE panel I attended in 2017 or 2019. I am really grateful for Garry, Dan, and David Crane. They regularly attend conventions and must get asked the same questions so many times, and yet, they respond with grace and kindness as if hearing it for the first time.

Garry’s talked about this topic before. It’s brought up in this interview (among others) at Free Play Florida. Jump to the 11:58 mark. 
 

2600 DK was just like 2600 Pac-Man for us BITD. Sure neither one looked that great, but we played each game, hour upon hour and had fun doing so. Honestly, these games have been made to look/sound worse (IMO) by the younger generations, whom obviously weren't around to play the games when they were initially released. 

This is so cool. Its not everyday that you get your very own Starship. 

The Haynes manuals are being shown on the Star Wars thread, so I figured I'd show the Star Trek Haynes manuals here...

Yes it is tired to hear from young people how bad Pac-Man and Donkey Kong for the 2600 VCS are. I loved them, when I was young. I didn't know any other versions, but even my father who was a Pac-Man champion played the 2600 VCS version. 😛
Not only are they fun for what they are, but both of them are the de-facto stock video game sound effects for like 30 years. 😄

2600 DK was just like 2600 Pac-Man for us BITD. Sure neither one looked that great, but we played each game, hour upon hour and had fun doing so. Honestly, these games have been made to look/sound worse (IMO) by the younger generations, whom obviously weren't around to play the games when they were initially released. 

2600 DK was just like 2600 Pac-Man for us BITD. Sure neither one looked that great, but we played each game, hour upon hour and had fun doing so. Honestly, these games have been made to look/sound worse (IMO) by the younger generations, whom obviously weren't around to play the games when they were initially released. 

This is a great get for genx and a great question to have answered for the community!  Very cool stuff! 
As far as the description he's 100% right about being able to talk with these people.  Since my channel started and has grown to a small fraction of genx, I've been able to speak with the developer of Ninja Golf (David Dentt), the developer of Rikki and Vikki (Tailchao aka Osman) and tons of other extremely talented people from the industry.  But Genx has even more of an opportunity as there are some I'd love to speak with but I don't get responses from due to the small size of my channel. 
I'm glad that there are other channels out there getting these interviews and this information from the developers mouths on record before they are lost forever.  That's part of the reason Atari Network supports GenXGrownUp and other Atari Channels fighting the good fight!

I watched last night.  Excellent!  Very enjoyable to watch and hopefully this puts the issue to rest. 
Personally, I liked 2600 DK a lot.  I remember buying it at Toys R Us and being so excited on the car ride home to play.  I know it had it's limitations, but it was a lot of fun and definitely captured some of that Donkey Kong magic in my eyes. 
 

I received a reply to my email and the manual is in the mail. 🙂

Mine arrived today and it did include the manual.  No poster, though...

I'm more of a Y-Wing pilot, so cool that it has Y-Wings, A-Wings, U-Wings, and maybe B-Wings too. 😄 I wish there was one for Astromech droids. I have an incomplete BB-8 and R4 Droid build in my garage that I was making good headway on before I survived my stroke. 😒

I have to look into these. I see there’s one for the X-Wing too.