nosweargamer

Great to see new episodes coming!

Ep 26 covering F-14 Tomcat and Super Skateboardin' is now up on YouTube and should be showing up in iTunes soon.
 

 
The next episode will cover Mat Mania Challenge and Planet Smashers

After a long delay, the next episode is finally out:
 

 
The next episode will cover Sentinel and Ninja Golf!

AtariBrian filled a gap in my collection with Alpha Beam... and also provided a nice upgrade to my copy of Solaris!  Games on complete opposite ends of the spectrum in terms of complexity...

Mail call! My ebay find for today is a empire strikes back box and insert only that i got for $3 shipped.
 
Now all i need to do is throw in my loose copy

Here's a bunch of info I put together on the Colecovision Flashback when it first came out.
Sadly sales were not strong enough for a followup system.
However it is Christmastime and you can still find the original in stores, sometimes on clearance.
 
Current Amazon Price as of this posting: Under $30
 
What's in the Box?
-1 Console (Very light, cheap feeling with two buttons. Resembles a shrunken ColecoVision. There is no Cartridge Slot or SD slot)
-2 Removable Controllers (Not compatible with the original system. Controller is slightly smaller than the original, but has a larger keypad. I don't think you can use old overlays on it. The knob has limited movement.)
-1 AC Adapter (resembles a cell phone charger with a small light to indicate power. It plugs in the side near the buttons)
-4 Pairs of Overlays for Dambusters, Poker/Black Jack, War Room & Fortune Builder. (There is suppose to be a Sam's Club version that has more)
-1 B & W Manual with a short paragraph for each game.
 
You can see everything in this Unboxing video I did:

I played DOOM on the Dynovisor tonight. No time to write it up now but I wanted to share my wife's observation. Now, my wife doesn't share my enthusiasm for gaming or retro life but she generally tolerates it. Upon walking in the living room she announced, "I can't believe this. This is the most ridiculous thing you've ever brought into the house. No one can know about this." So, in my overall analysis of the Dynovisor, I'll have to take into account spousal reaction. I haven't decided whether it will count as a positive or negative.

GO SPORTS TEAM!
Thanks to Ballblazer

500 Subscribers - today is a great day to catch up on some Jag Bar.  Here is one of my favorite episodes.  Never thought I'd have sketches of Dirk sitting in front of my face, this was a cool behind the scenes look into an arcade classic and a great Jag CD game.
 

Delivery from No Swear Manor's new location:


Thanks, NSG!

Here's the last one before Easter.
I plan to post more at later dates.
 
Yars' Revenge

Missile Command

Looks like they were calling them "Easter Eggs" pretty much right from the beginning.

Check this out...it's from the very first issue of Electronic Games magazine in 1981.  It's a mention of the Adventure Easter egg, an an acknowledgement that there may be future ones!
 
Imagine a kid version of RickR thumbing through this brand new video games magazine at a KMart back in 1981.  I had and loved Adventure for the VCS...I see this little blurb...and immediately insist to my Dad that I NEED this magazine.  Well he bought it for me!
 
Thanks for the memories.  It took me a while to learn how to find this Easter Egg (I think the tip I needed was in a paperback video games guide book).
 
 
eastereggs-EG magazine Winter 81.pdf

After playing the game Chris, I can totally see where you are coming from.
 
Here's my next Easter Egg and it's a classic:
Adventure

Episode 119 featuring Dragonfire and Fathom is now available. Thank you for listening.
 
http://traffic.libsyn.com/2600gamebygamepodcast/119_-_Dragonfire_and_Fathom_by_Imagic.mp3

Yeah I did and I will post a walkthrough video of it later.
However I must admit, I uses a guide for the star locations.
I just didn't have the patience to play levels over and over just to find the stars, especially since you would have to restart the game a lot to do so.
That game must of took a long time for kids to figure out and beat in the 80's!

I used Scott Stilphen's map to beat Fathom back in '02, and I bring this up because, when I had my own channel and did a complete Easter-egg series, my comments on the game were either exactly or very close to: "I started out really enjoying Fathom, but by the time I beat it, I thought, 'Yay! I never have to play this game again!'"
 
It's not as if I "don't like" it...the concept, graphics, smoothness, adventure-game layout, "game world" hugeness, etc. are all great. And I always applaud originality; it's a biggie for me. I admire Fulop for the creative risk-taking alone.
 
But smoothness, precise graphical interaction, etc. are all typically superb on the 2600, so those aren't out of the ordinary. The thing is, those qualities make a lot of games feel good to play. Not this one. "Painstaking" is the word I would use.
 
First off, it has a time limit (a personal bugbear) and calls for too much precision. The half-Jousty controls should have been made entirely Jousty. These elements boost the difficulty to the level of Unnecessarily High, along the lines of something like the eight-bit dog Manic Miner: Don't screw up a single thing, or you're done!
 
If you accidentally leave the sky screen where you've revealed a trident piece, it's gone. You can make it come back, but by that point, you've used up all of the "good clouds" and now lose time for every "bad cloud" you touch. Perhaps a boundary to keep your bird from being bounced through the damn border would have made it more fun. (Say that three times fast.)
 
Still, I wish this level of giddy originality and fantastical invention weren't lost to time.
 
(These aren't show comments, Ferg -- I never see the point of writing in just to share negative opinions. The exception was, of course, Swordquest: FireWorld.)

here's my Easter Egg............. 

1980s Bang & Olufsen products that inspired Atari's Industrial Design Group and contributed to the look of the Video System X
 

 

I've not made a new video in sometime but it occurred to me I should share some of my older videos in which I checked out some ARCADES ! We do not have much locally so when I had a chance in my travels over the years I took the opportunity. Hope you enjoy. 
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd9896I9qfk&index=3&list=PL5JnLOJAHULkrydH-gvs52y663kiNMXAV
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J45vp5bHzao&index=1&list=PL5JnLOJAHULkrydH-gvs52y663kiNMXAV
 
https://youtu.be/-jYOIc3zqL4?list=PL5JnLOJAHULkrydH-gvs52y663kiNMXAV

It's hard to fathom. BOOM!

Holy cow, you beat Fathom? My hat is off to you sir. Wow.

Fathom

E.T. (Some really neat ones here)