RickR

It arrived!

That's awesome @RickR ! Welcome officially to the club! Feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

I thought sniping was coming in at the last minute to put in a winning bid. How do you snipe an auction if you forgot to check in when it was ending, Rick? 🤔

There are automated tools that will bid at the last second. 

😮 totally forgot about those

That's crazy! So great to see new friendships like this happening in the forums!! 

That’s awesome, guys! Hope you guys had a ton of fun. 

We have a spot at the table for you too, @HDN, and also any other Atari.io members. 

I pre-ordered the physical release for the Nintendo Switch when it came out. I haven't had a chance to play it. What have you played on it?

Mostly, it's fun to read and watch all the history bits. 

The coin op games are a ton of fun.  There's some obscure stuff on there.  But the real prize is Tempest with the VCS spinner.  It's a lot of fun to play that way.

Yes, the PS2 can play PS1 games, I believe. And many models of the PS3 can play PS2 and PS1. Lots of people were upset at the lack of backwards compatibility on the PS4.

When you say "RF Switchbox", do you mean one of these?

Or one of these?

Because I might be able to help you out. I have an extra of the latter, and one of the former I can't use. Not sure if the screw-in one works as I have no way of testing it.

The latter, but I do have one of those.  I also have one with push buttons and 8 inputs.  But like I said, it's a wiring nightmare.  I think I may stick to my "no RF" policy in the gaming credenza. 

(The 7800 has been composite modded :) )

No RF policy? That's strange. Over here, RF is my best friend. None of my CRTs used composite until I found one at a rummage sale that had it. I still haven't found a use for that thing yet.

Here's what the RF wiring setup is over in the gameroom:

FLATSCREEN                                                                     CRT

                                         \CABLE SPLITTER/

                                                     |

                                                   NES

                                                     |

                                                   SNES

                                                      |

                           RF MODULATOR (COMPOSITE ADAPTER)

                                               /                               \

                                  ATARI 7800                      XBOX

In my room, it's like this:

CRT

   |

VCR/DVD COMBO

            |

RF MODULATOR

            |                                          \

ATARI 2600                         WII U

I love RF. The picture isn't great (at all), but I'm able to daisy-chain the things together. And, I can use a CRT, which is how most of these games were meant to be played. RF on a flatscreen looks like garbage. Convenience and not having to plug in and out all my systems is much better than picture quality in my opinion.

It's starting to come down pretty hard right now. We're getting the outer bands of it as it approaches shore, which shouldn't hit us until morning. This won't be a direct hit for us unless it moves lower but we'll still get hit with some of it. I think @TrekMD and everybody on that side should be okay 🙂 

Everything here is pretty good! Lots of wind and rain but nothing damaging.

Glad you guys made it ok. 🙂

What was the auction for? Just curious.

I don't much care for eBay auctions for that reason alone.

It was for a Colecovision Roller Controller.  A track-ball for CV.  

It happens.  As with most things, I try to find the bright side.  

Those look amazing! Akka Arrh is such a cool release, I'd love to see it on a 7800 cartridge released for the 2600+ 

You're welcome, Rick! I'm glad that you like them. Enjoy and thanks for participating!

Looks good.  Hope it works for you.

<knock on wood>...so far, it works GREAT.  I didn't even have to re-install windows.  It just booted right up, and here I am. 

👍

It's a fun one!

Nice. I never played this one. 

I haven't either.  But I have quickly learned that Datasoft must have been one of the better third party developers.  Truth be told it is probably because of them some of the 5200 games were even made.

I've been playing more Zorro, and it is an interesting game.  It kind of reminds me of "Bruce Lee" in visual style, but it's definitely not as good.  It's more of a puzzle solving game, which is fine.  But there are issues:

• The music repeats over and over and over.  It will get on your nerves. 
• Figuring out what to do is not very obvious.  I had to refer to on-line guides.  How the heck could any casual gamer back then figure any of this out? 
• Lots and lots of backtracking.  Take this object over there, but you also need this other object, and since you can only carry one at a time....go back and get it.

Absolutely better.  Good resolution and you get the full 2+ hour movie.  On the downside, there is no novelty "Rick Roll" movie on PSP (that I know of). 

Cool, you grabbed Michael T's bundle 👍 The price was great, and I was tempted because of some of the movies in the bundle, but I didn't want to go down the rabbit hole of UMD movie collecting. I already have my hands full with blu-ray, DVD etc.

PSP really was an entertainment powerhouse, but for whatever reason, Sony handhelds never remotely come near the success of Nintendo handhelds.

Yes.  I'm actually shocked no one else grabbed that bundle! 

I have a pretty nice PSP collection.  The PSP is a lot more advanced than the Nintendo DS.  Yet I still love the DS more.  Why?  Probably because the library is more accessible and large. 

I normally take the PSP with me on plane trips with a few movies to watch.  But this last time, since we hadn't flown in so long, I just minimized.  Our plane ended up having a pretty good selection on seatback screens, so I just watched a bunch of TV shows and was happy.  I started to watch that movie "The Joker", but it was so depressing, I turned it off. 

I got one too!

I'm tempted to say the N64 or NES EverDrive, but my old buddy is super duper proud of doing the case design on the 1200XL and despite a few flaws it's my favorite Atari 8-Bit Computer. If you're going to go that route though consider the Atari XE Game System. The cartridge is easily accessible, it has 64K of RAM, a nice detachable keyboard, it's everything the 5200 could've been. But it's okay to have an XE and get a 1200 XL too 🤓

I went with a wildcard:  Tempest for the 5200!  Only $15 after that coupon.

Thanks for the ideas, I do appreciate it. 

Thank @RickR! All the best to you and yours this Thanksgiving! 

You're welcome. I tried it. Reminds me of Devil's Crush.

Thanks

Both products are AWESOME.

Also a Coleco Gemini going on ebay now

Very nice! Much nicer condition then my own. 😎

That's heavy!

I love Christopher Lloyd.  Especially in Clue and that one movie with Hulk Hogan.  Suburban something.

Thanks @RickR! Nice to see you celebrating #AtariDay!!

Yeah, this is a great sale!  Thanks for sharing @RickR!

Indeed, this sale is quite impressive!

Happy Father's Day @RickR!! 🙌