RickR

Merry Christmas, everyone. 

Here is my retro-gaming loot for this year.  Good stuff! 

It is awesome. 50 tables included. 

Bloody Wolf. 

I had never played this one before. It's ok. Not great, not terrible.  Seems a bit repetitive. 

Batari now has HOKEY chips available for people who purchased a Concerto cart in the past.  Check your e-mails for a link to his Erstwhile Technologies site. 

I hope everyone finds peace for at least one day. 

We absolutely need Star Wars to figure out how to have sassy lil' Leia join up with Baby Yoda.

Little and big brothers!

I've decided to sell the 800.  I thought I'd better take a picture of them together before I do that.  I'm going to try selling it locally to prevent damage in shipping. 

I FINALLY finished Phoenix Wright: Justice For All.  Phew!  That was a long game. 

Our local library has a "for sale" section where all books/cd's/DVD's are 50 cents and magazines are free.  Today, they had a big stack of Nintendo Power from 2010/11/12, so I grabbed three at random. 

I think I screwed up my composite mod

 

The "Atari Shelf".  I've been fiddling around a lot with the 7800 and Concerto cart lately. 

New glasses!

The main reason I post this here is this:  If you wear progressive lenses like me...get a second pair of "computer" glasses if you can.  Mine are from Costco, and that second pair was $100 extra.  They have a much larger "normal"/middle area and it makes it a lot easier to see computer screens without tilting your neck all day.  That has made work easier.  But it's also PERFECT for video games!  I can see the periphery a lot better.  Highly recommended for old fart gamers like me. 

Another Christmas surprise!  I got a really nice lot of Colecovision loot from the Colecovision Lunatics Facebook group.  Magnets, stickers, etc.  It's a good group to follow if you love Coleco stuff.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/ColecovisionLunatics/

I've got a few end-labels to create. 

Time to practice my legal skills. 

I'm not sure if we have any other basketball fans here...but NBA2K21 is FREE today on the Epic Games app.  Featuring Blazer great Damian Lillard on the cover. 

A couple of new blog posts today.

A new RickR Blog entry:
 

My latest acquisition is Video Pinball (boxed) for the Atari 2600.  (Sorry about the flash washout).  I don't know why it took me so long to buy this one, as it seems to be very common.  In any case, the box is in good shape and didn't need any refurbishing. 

I'm experimenting with cheap usb gamepads on the c64 Mini. The work great and are a huge improvement over the stock stick. 

Boxes brought down from the attic....

Love and support for Texas (and other storm-affected places).  Here's a report from David "The 8-bit Guy" from his home in the Dallas area.