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Mail call -- After looking for years, I finally found a copy of Rogue by Epyx (for a price I could accept). I loved the original char based game, and Rogue by Epyx is a great update of the original. Sword of Fargoal (for iOS) is the game that I found was closest to the spirit and game play of Rogue. I cringe whenever I see "rogue-like" to describe many modern games They don't look nor feel anything like Rogue.
Rogue and Empire by Interstel were the games that occupied most of my gaming time on the Atari ST. What are your favorites from that era?

The Galactica has arrived.

Couple items gifted to me from my lady!
 
 

The store will ship it. A couple pics from the airport. I love the mountains in the background.

Came upon this while on my layover in Salt Lake City. Holy cow, this box is huge. This is the first time I’m seeing it, other than online. 

Last updated 1-27-2024
 
All cartridges are tested before shipping.  Photos of cartridges available upon request.
 
ATARI
3-D Tic-Tac-Toe (missing end label)
Adventure (picture label - missing end label)
Air-Sea Battle
Air-Sea Battle (picture label)
Asteroids
Asteroids (no copyright onscreen)
Backgammon (picture label)
BASIC Programming (missing end label)
Basketball (yellow text)
Basketball (orange text)
 Basketball (1987 Atari Corp) ($2)
 Basketball (picture label)
Battlezone (screw hole exposed)
Berzerk
Blackjack
Bowling (red text)
Bowling (picture label)
Breakout
Breakout (picture label)
Canyon Bomber
Canyon Bomber (picture label)
Championship Soccer (missing end label)
Circus Atari
Circus Atari (picture label)
 Combat
 Combat (with box and manual) ($3)
 Combat (picture label)
 Crystal Castles (missing end label)
 Defender
 Demons to Diamonds
 Dodge 'Em
 Dodge 'Em (picture label)
 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (orig. label variation)
 Flag Capture (green text)
Flag Capture (orange text)
Flag Capture (red text)
Football (green text)
Football (picture label)
Galaxian
Galaxian (missing end label)
Golf
Golf (picture label)
Haunted House
Home Run
Home Run (picture label)
Human Cannonball (picture label)
Indy 500 (picture label)
Indy 500 (missing end label)
Indy 500 (spring dust cover) (1988 Atari Corp) ($3)
 Jungle Hunt
  Kangaroo (1988 Atari Corp) ($3)
 Maze Craze (picture label)
 Miniature Golf
 Missile Command (lower-case letters)
 Missile Command (lower-case end label only)
 Missile Command (upper-case letters)
 Missile Command (no "RF" Easter egg variant!) ($5)
 Ms. Pac-Man (missing end label)
 Ms. Pac-Man (1987 Atari Corp) ($2)
 Ms. Pac-Man (1988 Atari Corp) ($2)
 Night Driver
 Outlaw
 Outlaw (picture label)
 Pac-Man
 Pac-Man (dust spring cover) ($2)
 Phoenix
 Pole Position
 Raiders of the Lost Ark
 RealSports Baseball
 RealSports Baseball (1987 Atari Corp) ($2)
 RealSports Football
 RealSports Football (1987 Atari Corp) ($2)
 RealSports Soccer
 RealSports Tennis ($2)
 RealSports Volleyball
 Sky Diver (1986 Atari Corp) ($3)
 Space Invaders (text w/o Taito copyright)
 Space Invaders (text w Taito copyright)
 Space Invaders (picture label)
Space War (missing end label)
Space War (picture label)
Star Raiders
Street Racer (yellow text)
Super Breakout
 Super Breakout (1987 Atari Corp.) ($3)
 Superman (picture label)
 Surround
 SwordQuest EarthWorld
SwordQuest FireWorld
Vanguard
Video Checkers (missing end label)
Video Olympics
Video Olympics (picture label - green end label)
Video Olympics (picture label - yellow end label) Video Olympics (picture label - yellow end label)
 Video Pinball  (1987 Atari Corp) (screw hole exposed) ($2)
 Warlords
 Yars' Revenge


20th Century Fox
 M*A*S*H
Meltdown ($15)


ACTIVISION
Bloody Human Freeway ($15)
Boxing
  Dragster
 Enduro ($3)
Grand Prix
Ice Hockey
Megamania (with box) ($5)
Laser Blast
Stampede ($2)
Starmaster
Tennis


COLECO
Carnival
Donkey Kong
 
DATA AGE
 Airlock
 Bermuda Triangle ($3)
 Journey Escape
 
GAMES BY APOLLO
 Infiltrate (Apollo variant - missing top label)
 Spacechase personalized/monogrammed edition ($35)


IMAGIC
Atlantis (daylabel version)
Cosmic Ark
Demon Attack (text)


M NETWORK
Air Raiders (missing label)
Armor Ambush
 Astroblast
 Dark Cavern
Football
Lock 'N' Chase
 Space Attack
 Super Challenge Baseball
 Super Challenge Football


PARKER BROTHERS
Amidar ($2)
 Star Wars: Jedi Arena ($3)


SPARROW
Arkyology ($20)


TELE-GAMES
Asteroids (64 variations)
 Asteroids (64 variations)(no copyright onscreen)
 Asteroids (66 variations)
 Basketball
 Blackjack
 Breakaway IV (missing end label)
 Canyon Bomber (missing end label)
 Chase (missing end label)
 Circus (missing end label)
 Haunted House ($3)
 Missile Command
 Poker Plus (missing end label)
 Space Combat ($2)
Space Invaders
 Speedway II (missing end label)
 Tank Plus (missing end label)
 Target Fun (yellow text)


U.S. GAMES
Commando Raid ($3)
 Space Jockey
 Towering Inferno
 Word Zapper


XONOX
Artillery Duel/Chuck Norris Superkicks ($10)
  
  Price:
$1 each unless noted otherwise + S&H
$10 minimum order
 
PM me to order or with any questions

It was another great PRGE!  I have organized my pictures and will be posting a link to the album once I'm back home! TONS of pictures!

Great to see you again @TrekMD! Safe travels home.

Couldn’t agree more. Life is about relationship. I only wish that we all lived closer to one another, so we could get together and play “Atari”. It was great getting to know you and hope to see you soon.

Great to see you again @TrekMD! Safe travels home.

Great to see you again @TrekMD! Safe travels home.

Couldn’t agree more. Life is about relationship. I only wish that we all lived closer to one another, so we could get together and play “Atari”. It was great getting to know you and hope to see you soon.

It was another memorable PRGE. Every time I attend, I am reminded that while the games and consoles bring us together, it's the people that takes the hobby to another level. Or, is it just me? No one in my physical social circle share my hobbies--not even my kids--so when it comes to video games, I interact mostly with people online. Getting the opportunity to meet face to face is always a treat, and meeting new people even better.
I left the house at 4am to drive down to Portland to meet up with my brutha from anotha mutha @RickR. I bought his Amiga a few months back and finally got a chance to meet up. I got to see firsthand his garage man cave, and it's very cool--well organized and clean. He told me it was a mess, so I told him that I'll never show him my setup lest he judge me 😂 Hope you had a good flight and are now sipping wine and indulging in caviar dreams 🛳️

I then headed to PRGE and bolted to the Champ Games booth as soon as the doors opened. The booth became essentially a watering hole for the 2600 homebrew herd 😂 I ran into the ZPH power couple James and Tanya there. I met @sramirez2008, Nathan Strum, and Kbeez for the first time. Nathan does all the arts and graphics for John's games and Keebz composed the music for many of John's games. I didn't get a chance to get photos with Nathan, John, and Paul (John's bro) as they were very busy. One of the cool things was that they were burning cartridges right there on the spot--cartridges on demand, so to speak. Some of the games had sold out. It was good seeing John's older games get some love and attention by having a dedicated Champ Games booth.



I later headed to the massive Atari Age booth and got my first photo with Al. With the bigger booth, it was a much more relaxed browsing experience than last year. I even played a few demos (can't wait for the release of Drone Patrol and Cartesian Chaos). I forgot to check out the 2600+ but not a big deal as I have no interest in it.

Later, I got to hang out with ZPH, Champ Games crew, and Darryl Guenther. I only realized just before we parted ways after dinner that Darryl was the developer of 7800 Popeye that released last year. I heard Steve and Darryl talking about the game's development and testing and wondered how Darryl knew so much about the technical details of the game 😂 I had thought that he must have been just helping the game development with QA support much like Steve. Such a nice guy that Darryl. You, too, Steve 🙂 

I also managed to attend two talks -- one by Mr. Boomshakalaka himself Tim Kitzrow. He's in his mid-60s but you wouldn't know that from his twenty-something energy level. I also attended John and Garry Kitchen's homebrew talk (decided to watch later the recording of the Jaguar 30th anniversary panel).

My recent interview with book author Brian Matherne:
 

Nice to see you and @Arenafoot . 
 

Thank you, it was a pleasure interviewing him.  I just thought I would try something different rather than the same ol' reviews of his book.. 🙂

I have this saved to watch! 

Thanks! I was nervous! But it was fun!

Hi GRay Defender! I've pinned this thread to the top of our YouTube Community forum, if you continue to post episodes of your show here and keep the thread maintained we'll keep the thread posted up top and do our part to promote your show as best we can. Best wishes with your YouTube videos! 🕹️

Thought I might start posting new video content here to share with you guys...
 

For me my most prized and cherished item/game is "Escape From North Korea" for the TI-99/4A.  It was a concept I came up with (and received flack over it by a few killjoys on another site).  The game was made into reality by the late and great @Airshack.  I spent hours chatting with him on the phone talking about it, beta testing, I designed the label and made the booklet for it from his text.  I really miss that guy, he was open minded, accepting of everyone and had a great sense of humor.  Even though he was brilliant, he was down to earth and did not take himself seriously.  The world needs more guys like him.

I don't have much in the way of coolest items in my collection, at least regarding rarity or uniqueness. But I do have some.
First is the stuff I asked Howard Scott Warshaw to sign at Free Play Florida last year.
Also, I have this prototype, or possibly loaner cart, of Ningen Heike: Dead Fox (aka Code Name: Viper) for the Famicom. Haven't been able to track down too much info on it.

Some really cool stuff there, @CrossBow!  Here are a few more cool items I have...





 

Champ Games is the first booth I will visit. I’m currently in line waiting for the doors open. 

I was there, got the games and I came to hotel to drop off my loot. 🙂  Look me up, @socrates63. I'm easy to identify with my TrekMD polo shirt. 🙂  Heading back to the convention center shortly.