RickR

Are you selling printed copies @Sabertooth? I'm happy to pay printing and shipping costs.

The Atari Gamestation has several 5200 games on it, and more can be added via SD card: https://www.myarcadegaming.com/products/atari-gamestation-pro

AtariAge sells plenty of 5200 games. Look on their store, or even on ebay: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_dkr=1&iconV2Request=true&_blrs=recall_filtering&_ssn=atariage&_oac=1&_nkw=5200

I noticed the same over on AtariAge for the 2600 ROM version. Search there if anyone wants to try the spooky (or normal) version on the 2600 before buying the VCS version. I haven't had time to try it myself yet. I *DID* download and play the free Haunted House on VCS last night though.

Sorry, everyone, I didn't have time to do much more than post pictures last night. Here are some observations: Pac-Man. You all have good eyes. It is indeed an XL size and to my eyes, it looks like the size of a real cabinet. That being said, the box is not heavy at all. Probably because no CRT. Still, I would not hesitate to buy this. It looks great. Pinball. I played this one a lot because it's really well done and fun. Just like the ATGames pinball machines, I felt like it was real after a few minutes of playing. The illusion is good. Haptic and audio feedback are great. Atari MyArcade. They had a lot of them. I was very tempted.

Word is getting out!

Some good deals at Costco this year

That is what they cost back then, and it is most likely 1982 or 83. You've found one of the reasons for the big crash...imagine spending $30 in 1982 money on a really bad game like "Skeet Shoot" or "Realsports Baseball", or even something not terrible but very disappointing like Pac Man or E.T (or even Defender). You or your parents probably decided to spend that kind of money elsewhere. Or move on to a computer.

They are waiting for the light bulb to go off. 💡

WARDS! Cool sticker on a really nice box.

Maybe go to Office Depot or some other store that has a lot of mice out on display that you can touch and feel to pick just the right one.

The shapes are very different. M705 on the left, M650 on the right.

My wife has the M705 (a gift from one of the children). I think that one is ok. The ergonomic shape isn't my favorite, and it's a bit too heavy with the four batteries. I agree that the side buttons get pushed on accident. The sides are indented, but it's slippery rubber. It's a nice mouse, but takes some getting used to.

I'm using the Logitech M650. I like it very much for these reasons: The sides are severely indented and have rubber grips. That makes it easy to hold and move, and the side buttons are very out of the way. It is bluetooth, saving me a USB port on my tiny PC. It is very inexpensive. I actually own two of them. One on my desktop, one for a laptop.

"Why is that TrekMD guy so awesome?" LOL. Will the 2600+ be sold at Costco?

Welcome to atari.io. 40 years of service is pretty good! I'd say you got your moneys worth. Let us know what you have going with that breadboard. Some kind of disk interface?

https://www.userbenchmark.com/

I got a new desktop about a month ago. It's a tiny Intel NUC. Takes up a lot less space and it's super quiet. Here are the userbenchmark results: UserBenchmarks: Game 86%, Desk 104%, Work 93% CPU: Intel Core i7-12700H - 97.2% GPU: Intel Arc A730M Graphics - 82.7% SSD: Kingston SFYRS500G 500GB - 293.7% SSD: WD Blue SN570 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB - 204.8% RAM: Kingston KF3200C20S4/8G 2x8GB - 101.5% MBD: Intel NUC12SNKi73 I'm running Windows 11, and have had zero issues. I've been very happy with this upgrade. I did lose the super fast video card, but the built-in Intel 730 setup seems to work fine for all the games I play. Much less power consumed and noise produced as well.

You guys are on it. PlusCart is the one with Wifi, and that is my favorite for the 2600. It works so well, has the high-score thing as mentioned, and also....this is big....somebody else keeps it all up to date. I don't have to worry about updating an SD card. And the interface is really nice too.

The 8-bit UnoCart is very simple and works well for most of the games I like to play. My favorite feature is a "search" function, which makes it easy to find an image in a giant collection. For those few games that don't work, I switch back to the USB cable thing (SIO2PC? I can't remember the name) that allows a laptop to emulate the Atari disk drives. I've looked into FujiNet. While I'm very impressed with all it can do, I prefer simple and easy.

Atari DOS 2.5 Back in the day, I got a RAM upgrade and was able to create a RAMDisk. I tried SpartaDOS at that point, but I think I ended up with a hacked version of DOS 2.5 that supported the RAMDisk. For me, it was all about keeping compatibility with all my existing disks. Nowadays, I don't really concern myself much with it. I use a UnoCart and just work with ATR and other image files.

On the 7800 compatibility, will it do POKEY sound on those games that have a POKEY chip?

I'm going to say this as gently as I can, but the news of Portland's demise are grossly exaggerated. Yes, there is crime and homelessness here as in most west coast cities. But things are improving every day. Be smart, don't stay out past 1am, and you'll be fine. One of my children drives a 2013 Kia Forte and it has never been touched. I'll give you an example. On our cruise, older people were bitterly complaining of how San Francisco had been spoiled by crime or whatever. We went, we walked, and it was absolutely 100% as beautiful and vibrant as ever. Don't live in fear. Get a club for the car if that makes you feel better. Life is for living.

No worries. Rare <> valuable. Most pong consoles have very little value. Atari Pongs, and Coleco Telstar (the triangle one) are essentially the only ones that have real monetary value.