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Nice! I have a couple of those Star Wars plug n plays, never have seen a Yoda one? Seen the Millennium Falcon, Hans Blaster, Gen Grievous, Vader, and R2 ones. 

Thanks to a BOGO promotion for Mother's Day, got these for $20 total!

Thanks to a BOGO promotion for Mother's Day, got these for $20 total!

108,900 to start. It's been a minute...

222,200
A little better. Time to go to work.

 

Not good but it's a start.

I didn't want all three C64 carts, so I got the one that was my favorite. Glad I found it locally, new for $20

Holy Evercade!!   https://evercade.co.uk/alpha/
 

I didn't want all three C64 carts, so I got the one that was my favorite. Glad I found it locally, new for $20

Cash Cow DX
ATARI VCS
Controller: MODERN CONTROLLER / CLASSIC CONTROLLER / PLAYER'S CHOICE
Difficulty Level: Easy
Play on: Real Hardware ✔
Squad Challenge ends 11:59 pm PST May 31, 2024
 
 
Objective
Play for the highest possible score using the difficulty settings defined in the challenge. Post a photo or YouTube video of your score in this thread. Scores must be achieved between May 1 through May 31, 2024. Screen captures are not allowed as they are more easily manipulated for falsified scores. Multiple submissions are permitted. The player with the highest score at the end of the competition is the victor!
 
Eligibility
This is a Club VCS Exclusive Challenge. All Club VCS players are welcome!
 
Play Rules
This is a VCS exclusive challenge.  Play on a VCS! Choosing which controller to play on is part of formulating your strategy. Enhancements, rewinds and hacked versions of this game are not allowed.
 
Difficulty Level
We are playing Cash Cow DX for the Atari VCS! To make this challenge as accessible as possible, we're playing on EASY.  Start from the start and get as much "mooney" as you can before game over!
 
Fair Play
Your integrity is everything. Players should play fairly, be honest, and have fun! Falsified scores will result in your immediate removal from the site. It goes without saying that we will not allow cheats, hacks, cartridge frying, enhancements, rewinds, deceitful photo manipulation, subterfuge, or any other unfair advantage. Everybody hates a cheater.
 
More
To review detailed rules on how to play, please visit the High Score Squad page here: 
 
 
Message
It's all about the mooney!
Welcome to our 27th Club VCS Recharged Squad Challenge!!! For this challenge, we're playing a recently released game called Cash Cow DX!   Cash Cow DX is from one of our favorite VCS devs, pixel games SARL-S, maker of Donut Dodo, Sir Lovelot and Sigi - A Fart for Melusina.  Like Donut Dodo before it, Cash Cow DX is a love letter to 80s arcade quarter munchers that many of us grew up with!
From the dev:
Holy cow, it's all about the moooney! Embark on an udderly jolly adventure to rescue Cash Cow's riches from the grasp of those sneaky Pig Pockets and reclaim what's rightfully hers! Get ready for a blast from the past with an 80s inspired arcade experience released 40 years late...
Features:
5 multi-screen levels, bonus stages and secrets player speed selection: normal or turbo arcade, speedrun and marathon modes delightful chiptunes by Vincent Verger aka Tuï illustration and official merch by Pete Ellison B/W and color TV compatible (unplug antenna first) cross-platform, worldwide leaderboards Play on EASY and collect as much MOONEY as possible for a high score!
 
Club VCS Recharged Squad Contest
This game is the fifth title in our fifth Club VCS contest giveaway! This time we're going a full 12 rounds with the winner announced in January 2025!  Prize details are linked here.
 
1)  All challenge participants will receive one (1) entry for each challenge in which they submit a valid score!
2) The top scorer of each challenge will receive two (2) additional entries - for a total of three (3) entries in a single challenge!
3) On Twitch or Youtube?  Stream or record and post your ClubVCS high score attempt for one (1) additional entry in each round.  You must post a public link to the video in the Challenge.
This contest is open to everybody, including Atari I/O Moderators, with a U.S. or Canada  mailing address. It's really easy, all you have to do is participate be a Club VCS member and participate in our Recharged Squad Challenges.
 

 

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.

I played this last night. It is a good game. It seems to be a much better two player game. I also think the addition of bezels would make it nearly perfect. 
 

Release Date: April 26, 2024
Retail: $5.99
Developer: Bob Decrescenzo
Publisher: Atari Age
Synopsis:
...It seems as though you've been here before - but this time, it's much worse! The Asteroids are faster, the enemy ships are much more skilled marksmen than your first time through this galaxy...and what's this odd hexagon-shaped craft I keep hearing about? Asteroids plunge at you! Trapped in a gigantic cloud of asteroids, your struggling spaceship hurls towards its doom. You'll have to pulverize all the asteroids with your photon cannon to save your ship and your life!
Rubble from an exploding asteroid bounces off your ship's hull. A glowing blur flashes across your viewing screen. So that's where the rubble came from! The asteroid was blasted by an Alien Robot Saucer! Alien Robot Saucers are also trapped in the asteroid cloud. And they fire at you! You know that the metal in your ship's hull will register on their target finders before the asteroids do. The saucers could be a worse danger than the asteroids! More rubble strikes your ship. Its hull rings like a bell. If you don't get busy, that could be your death knell!
Robert DeCrescenzo brings another classic Atari arcade game to the Atari 7800: Asteroids Deluxe! If you're a fan of the original arcade game Asteroids or its sequel, Asteroids Deluxe, you'll want to grab your joystick and start blasting! Asteroids Deluxe brings new graphics and gameplay elements into play, such as the Killer Satellite that when shot breaks into smaller pieces that take direct aim for your ship! There are also two new game variations: Competition Asteroids where you compete against another player for points (and your shots destroy the other player!), and Team Asteroids where you and another player share reserve ships and don't need to worry about friendly fire. Asteroids Deluxe for the 7800 is an extensively modified version of the original Atari 7800 game Asteroids.

All together this time

Here is mine.  I've just gotten started with Evercade, but I feel like I have a lot of great cartridges already.  I purchased someone else's collection a few months ago and have added a few since then.  Slowly but surely, I'm going to keep on adding to what I've got here. 
 

OK, here is what I have...

It's not an Evercade item per se, but it is part of my Evercade setup 😂 I decided last week as I thought about where to use the VS-R that I wanted to use my workstation for playing in addition to working. I have a very nice 27" Dell monitor that I use with the company MacBook Pro via DisplayPort.
The monitor also supports HDMI, so I got an HDMI switch along with an HDMI audio extractor to feed audio to my external powered desktop speakers. I tested the setup with my EXP and the mini HDMI output on it. Everything looked great. The sound was great, too, except that it was extremely loud, and I had no way to control the volume.
And that's where this little volume attenuator comes in. It sits between the speakers and the HDMI audio extractor. It had good reviews and is very small. The knob has a bit of weight to it, and it turns very smoothly. I thought about getting something a little fancier in a metal case, but those are much more expensive, and most importantly, much bigger. I don't have much desktop real estate. This thing is about the size of a box of matches, maybe a little smaller.
I switched my MacBook Pro to HDMI output to keep things simpler. I then found out that when the MacBook Pro is connected via HDMI, the volume control on the keyboard does not work, so this little volume pot works there as well.
Now I'm ready to play games via HDMI at my workstation! 
 

All together this time