RickR

UNREAL!!! Incredible and generous giveaway from @Sabertooth 🎉

I'm glad that they arrived safely @RickR!  Please enjoy & see you on the leaderboards!

love Disney!

You are too kind, thank you.  My collection is nice, but it is just stuff.  I was just thinking that when this ordeal is over, I should probably get rid of a lot of this stuff so I don't feel so anchored or attached.  I have two backup drives with all our pictures and taxes and files.  They are packed and ready by the door. 

Thanks very much.  I'm a "spiritual lot" too, so I believe it helps.  THANKS!

Guys, a good update.  Things are turning positive today.   The wind has died down, and the temperature is lower.  They are now saying the fires won't spread any further.  We'll have plenty of smoke still, but that's OK by me. 

THANKS for the well wishes.  It does help!

Great news, Rick! I believe it helps, too. I'm glad that it's starting to die down. Any updates so far or is it still going OK?

I also found this very fascinating timeline:

https://mcurrent.name/atarihistory/syzygy.html

The Los Gatos HQ opened in May of 1973

That is a great resource! Michael is a friend of the forums, and yes that is one of the best researched timelines I've seen 👍

Hey, I opened in May of 1973 too! 🎉

How awful. Poor little thing.

Honest this ruined my night.

Oh man, I apologize. 

There's a youtube channel called "Hoovie's Garage".  It's a guy that buys cars and talks about them and fixes them, etc.  Anyhoo, he bought a Ferrari, and it ended up completely burning to the ground due to a badly placed hose clamp!  Very sad, but he took it well.  Hoovie also has a DeLorean that took a ton of time and money to get fixed.

Looks comfortable.

Looks can be deceiving. 

I can't wait to fall into high-def pits. 

Hi-def Pits sounds like a great band name!

Run run run.  Fall down.  Try to get out of the hole...fall down.  Repeat.

Although if one was to be made maybe they would avoid the issues that the original had.  It really wasn't a bad effort considering the time given.

I would have been finishing up kindergarten. Being that it happened on a Sunday I was most likely spending time with my grandma.

I was 8 years old and remember seeing on tv at my babysitter's house.

Wow!  I need to go where you went.  I can't see with or without my glasses lol

I know, right?  It is pretty amazing.  I'm told they remove the cateract and replace your lens with a "permanent contact". 

I still wear glasses too.  But I don't have cateracts.  Yet.  My eyesight isn't terrible.  I can see without glasses.  But I have one eye near, one far-sighted.  They always joke "you'd make an excellent fighter pilot".  One eye on gauges, one out the canopy. 

I try to look at things close up and I have to remove my glasses. To look at things far away I have to put them back on. 

Beautiful 🤤

I miss the one I had.  Nice!

I used to have a TG-16, and I don't know what happened to it. Nice Everdrive. :O)

I learned this courtesy of Ferg (of 2600 Game by Game Podcast fame)

Wishing a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our Moderator Supremo @MaximumRD‼️ I hope you have the best bday ever 🥳

Happy B-Day, MaximumRD! :O)

THANKS TO ALL FOR THE BIRTHDAY COMMENTS AND MESSAGES, I KEEP IT LOW KEY AND APPRECIATE LITTLE THINGS IN LIFE A LOT THESE DAYS, CAN'T BELEIVE I AM NOW 54 ! THE TIME GOES SO FAST,  BUT KNOW THAT I APPEACIATE ALL THAT TOOK A MOMENT TO WISH ME A HAPPY BIRTHDAY ! 😎👍🍻Having port right now. Wine, a nice meal and cocoanut cream pie for dessert, just the two of us quiet at home, similar to Melissa's birthday on the 18th, we just kind of combine birthdays and valentines. Just keeping it simple.
Write to Jake Dufton
 

Life just likes to play us, mock us... oh well 🙂 

http://act.alz.org/goto/ataricreep

I can't speak to the reason why it might be fetching a high price but to me, it's very clear that it doesn't work and you're selling it for parts only.

Hopefully it goes higher!!

I would put "For parts" at the beginning of the ad instead of the end. People might be buying it to replace the screen if everything else works. The screen is kind of garbage anyway. Modding GB's for better, backlit screens is pretty common. Plastic case seems fine enough. Plus, the price doesn't seem too high yet if that's their goal.

Thank you guys. 

I cannot edit the listing once it has bids.  But the theory that someone will buy it to install a new screen makes good sense. 

It's just weird to me how some items get a lot of attention for no apparent reason.

I think you'll love it! I'm a southern boy and they do a pretty good job of what southern food is.

You might need a nap after you leave though.

Yeah

Hide your children! It feeds this week!

RIP

I MIGHT need to trade you out of one of them if I can't find the one I thought I had!

All three are tested and work! If you need one, let me know.

It says he hasn't logged in for 8 days. That's not like him. He did have a gameplay video yesterday, but he might've uploaded it a week ago and set it to publish yesterday. I hope he's just on vacation or something.

I didn't realize he was MIA. I sent him a PM last night but haven't heard from him.

He's a good guy. I hope all is well with him.

Sure would like to say I try to keep my giving to taking ratio in the right place, no matter what my situation.

I give. I think.

You guys have the right idea. Trying to give is half the battle.