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Thanks so much!  Yeah Im having a good time making them and showing off the system to people who've never even heard of it.  I have about 30 games, so thats 30 episodes right there.  Then I plan on getting the games I don't have, plus peppering in the Lynx from time to time.  

Hi gang, 
New here but have been posting on Atari Age.  
Got a new show on youtube called The Jag Bar, its a show about the Atari Jaguar. 
Check it out, I post a new episode almost every week. 
Thanks 
BTB
 
This is the newest episode I posted today

Here's the other two in the lot I got.  Both are working now.  Just needed some TLC.  Mostly it was the power switches that went bad. Coleco Football and Milton Bradley Comp IV. 

 
And here's a shot of the whole handheld collection I've been building over many years.  These things are a lot of fun, and don't take up much space.

 
 

Some interesting things related to touch me. Many believe Atari stole Pong from Ralph Baer and that Ralph Bear stole Touch Me  from Atari and turned it into Simon, which became more successful than Touch Me.  So in a way, Atari made more money than Baer from his invention Pong while Baer made more money from Atari's invention of Touch Me.
 
Also, Brain Games for the 2600 is basically based off of Touch Me;

I had (and still have) Pocket Simon.........
 

Aw..here I was jumping in here, certain that someone was calling me to share a moment, but it turns out to be about a 70s handheld toy.
Story of my life.
 
But seriously cool, still.
yeah, I can bet the marketing team that came up with this name were high-fiving each other.
 
The Simon color-match craze was rather fun.
The memory game tested your concentration mettle in a way that was intriguing for everybody.
 
Did not have a SImon myself, had an 'Einstein', from Castle toys - a rectangular, white, four large buttoned apparatus that did its job well enough.
 
As for Touch Me, I'm sure Mr. Furley could have made good use of it.

LOOK what I found!  I got this in a bundle of broken handheld games.  It just needed some serious cleaning, and a new battery connector soldered in.  Now it works perfectly and looks great. 
 
What an uncomfortable name they chose though.  "Touch Me".  Things were quite a bit different in the 70's I guess.  I suppose you'd put on your polyester leisure suit, head on down to the Regal Beagle, and ask attractive people if they'd like to play "Touch Me".  Then whip this thing out of your breast pocket, and everyone gets a good laugh.  Yes, that's exactly how it was in the 70's I'm sure. 
 




 

Sweet deal.
Congrats on taking in an abandoned 7800 into your home!
 
The garage sales around here should be starting soon.
Here, people stick announcements to electric posts a month in advance because it's all duplexes and triplexes and sidewalks and alleys.
No space, no time to walk n' stop. With the phone-in-hand walk nowadays, hardly looking up.
 
In the town where I grew up for a while, there are now by-laws whereas you need a permit to make a garage sale and only on certain days, a few times per year.
On the upside, you can get in your car and drive around to find sales at every other house.
I digress.
 
Keep us updated on the gametime status of your haul, Row.
Curious about the 7800 experience.

The Mrs. and I had a busy morning!  I was at the end of my budget after a couple of hours.   Got this haul all for $37.

Man... The box even says "BRO" on it and everything.

Yeah, like Rick, I can go for any pinball if it's in physical proximity.
 
But as a nostalgia item, I would say the Kiss table, for one.
Played it on a daily basis at my local cheap eats spot on the way to and back from school, in those heady days of Kiss Army membership.
I was a big fan (obvs) and the awesomeness that was the greatest rock band alive coming alive on the bumper thumps and flipper saves and everything well...couldn't pass it up.
 
Also, another daily table was Black Knight, sole pinball at our corner bowling alley and teenage meeting haunt.
We were both good customers - dropping all our loose change in this and the couple of cabinets present - and bad  - we would stay there as long as humanly possible on a few dollars, figured out a way to shock the cabiinet coin slots into giving us free games by using carpet friction, would flick the Black Knight switch underneath until it gave us free games (peaked at 99, I think).
Yeah, I didn't discover either of those tricks, felt very bad at the buds doing this, but still exploited the heck out of that friction one.
Cuz (bad) science!
 
eh, I sidetracked a bit. Oh well. Lemme finish with Caveman, that blue hybrid pinball and VG.
Played only a few times on this one. It was out of town and me and my dad would stop by the big city mall were he'd go off and leave me at the arcade with a fistful of quarters.
This one just impressed with its easy switch to the maze VG bit and back to the table.
I liked the reward of playing that internal mini game from strategizing the pinball action.
 
I could go on...those early model/late 60s surf tables found in hotels and diners alongside the enigmatic Pong cabinets, in those pre-arcade days...any mechanical score display table, where the gear sounds were as cool as the bumpers bells...
 
Yeah, pinball talk
 
Bring it on

Warms the token-filled cockles of my arcader heart to see this.
 
Pac-Man changed the playfield from visual and sound design standpoint when it emerged onto the scene.
That simple, yet effective constant-nibbler avatar, those bright colors in a suave, loungey-chic dark blue maze, that waka...
 
Irrestible then and now.
 
Truly deserving of celebration.
I hope today's fans get to play a cabinet version to get that immersive arcade feel.
 
Nothing beats playing this with an actual mounted joystick.

Warms the token-filled cockles of my arcader heart to see this.
 
Pac-Man changed the playfield from visual and sound design standpoint when it emerged onto the scene.
That simple, yet effective constant-nibbler avatar, those bright colors in a suave, loungey-chic dark blue maze, that waka...
 
Irrestible then and now.
 
Truly deserving of celebration.
I hope today's fans get to play a cabinet version to get that immersive arcade feel.
 
Nothing beats playing this with an actual mounted joystick.

Happy National Pac-Man Day!!!! That is right it will soon be National Pac-Man Day! So pop in those quarters, eat M&M's and go beat up some ghosts or order a pizza with one slice missing. Whatever inspires you to Pac!!!!
 
https://www.pinterest.com/arenafoot/national-pac-man-day-april-3/
 

I'll tell you, there are times when a few bands go into heavy rotation in my ears (most of the bands already mentioned in this post), then are dropped to make way for the next thing.
 
I favor instrumental, mostly. Lotsa jazz and ambient electronic.
 - McCoy Tyner is a fave jazz pianist and truly a go-to source of music which will tune my soul, whenever needed.
 - Tangerine Dream, while not really ambient, have made tracks that not only get me going but also take me back to the 80s with those tunes with the thumping double-time bass line (and also the soundtrack to Risky Business).
 - And I would top it off with Jimi Hendrix, whose first three albums helped define the groove in my life, and the more recent sets (like Black Gold) which reveal his improv jams and offers lessons in letting go and cutting loose.
 
I would like to add Production Music sounds as something that offers tremendous retro appeal. You can find some on YouTube.
This background music to 60s-70s commercials and movies in complete album format from DeWolfe, Bruton, Rouge and other companies was a revelation to me.
I listen to this whenever I can.

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