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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. 

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. 

💥hi guys, I posted 4 LOTS of Boxed 2600, 5200, 7800, 400/800/XL/XE, C64 games, $99 free ship to USA. MORE coming soon! Email me at video61@atarisales.com if interested, see listings for details. THANK YOU! 
 

I'm working on converting old family 8mm film movies to a distal format. It is slow going, but works well. 

The "broken" robo vac works once I replaced the battery. It's kind of impressive how much stuff it picks up. I wonder how it knows where the home base is?  I bet Rod Sterling would have written a killer Twilight Zone episode about these things. 

The "broken" robo vac works once I replaced the battery. It's kind of impressive how much stuff it picks up. I wonder how it knows where the home base is?  I bet Rod Sterling would have written a killer Twilight Zone episode about these things. 

The "broken" robo vac works once I replaced the battery. It's kind of impressive how much stuff it picks up. I wonder how it knows where the home base is?  I bet Rod Sterling would have written a killer Twilight Zone episode about these things. 

The "broken" robo vac works once I replaced the battery. It's kind of impressive how much stuff it picks up. I wonder how it knows where the home base is?  I bet Rod Sterling would have written a killer Twilight Zone episode about these things. 

I'm working on converting old family 8mm film movies to a distal format. It is slow going, but works well. 

I'm working on converting old family 8mm film movies to a distal format. It is slow going, but works well. 

I'm working on converting old family 8mm film movies to a distal format. It is slow going, but works well. 

I'm working on converting old family 8mm film movies to a distal format. It is slow going, but works well. 

😟Hope our WARLOCK will be found OK but not sounding good.
https://www.tmz.com/2023/01/18/actor-julian-sands-missing-hiker-california-mountain-baldy/
Julian Sands, a British actor best known for his roles in films like the 1985 drama “A Room With a View” and the 1989 horror entry “Warlock,” was reported missing at about 7:30 p.m. last Friday, Jan. 13. Sands had been hiking in the Baldy Bowl hiking area, approximately 50 miles northeast of Los Angeles.
According to a representative for the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, ground crews responded and began searching the area soon after the 65-year-old Sands was reported missing. However, parties had to be pulled Saturday evening, after roughly 24 hours of searching, due to avalanche risks and trail conditions.
Sands is known to be an enthusiastic mountaineer. “I love climbing mountains, I’ve spent a lot of time in the Alps over the years, a lot of time in the Andes, Alaska and the American ranges,” Sands told ThriveGlobal in 2020.

 

⚠️ Moving over some backend stuff. If we experience downtime for a day or so don't be alarmed. Looking at ways to upgrade what we have.

📰 After nearly 10 years, Pat & Ian's Completely Unnecessary Podcast coming to an end in current form: 
 

Back after a long break (and a whole lot of rainfall) and gearing for The Season 4 Premiere of Retro With Marco! Join me tonight at 9pm ET when you will see:
New retrogaming records, including a first for Road Rash Ultra Clay Fighter 3.0! A demo of Star Fox....for the Sega Genesis?? Here's the promo:
https://twitch.tv/retrowithmarco
See you then!

I just finished watching the first episode of The Sandman on Netflix, and my reaction is simply 😮 
I’ve heard of the greatness that is Neil Gaiman and his work The Sandman. However, the descriptions of it being some sort of horror was off putting as I’m not a fan of the horror genre.  As I looked at the thumbnail in Netflix though, it looked more like a dark fantasy in a dream setting more so than horror. Still even then, I’m not a big fan of dream settings, and I prefer something more tangibly grounded.
Nevertheless, something compelled me to give it a try tonight, and OMG this is amazing. The premise and the story are absolutely brilliant. The first episode moved at a rapid pace to set up the world and the characters. The characters and the scenes looked beautiful. It was simply a delight and I look forward to the remaining ten episodes.

ICYMI:

💬 Added a dedicated "Status Updates" page to the nav menu, it's like our own little Twitter.

The first Recharged Squad Challenge of the New Year is live now!  VCTR-SCTR from Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration!
 
 

🥳👯‍♀️ Ringing in the new year & thinking about how this week 40 years ago dept. stores were inundated w Atari returns

Well 2am here now and a nice evening, wife went to bed earlier, I am enjoying some bubbly with little sleep but enjoying the slight buzz so with that I will say, for whenever you see this, just, thanks again guys for being there, being friends, understanding my craziness and issues, I really appreciate you guys and just know you are definitely a part of making life bearable. I really mean it. Cheers and hope 2023 is at least a little kinder for us then 2022 and hell, the last couple years have been. I am not the smartest or best person but I try THANKS SO MUCH FOR BEING THERE ND PUTTING UP WITH ME.

OG Doom, how I have missed thee ❤️ 
I recently picked up Doom from the eShop because it was on sale, and I’ve been playing it the past couple of days. I have the various Doom releases on multi-gen Xbox and Playstation consoles, but it was this release for the Switch that got me to play the original Doom once more. I hadn’t touched it since I played it during my college days thirty years ago (with the lights on, of course).
Still fun as I remembered it. Still gets me once in a while with a jump scare 😂 It feels a little weird playing with the Hori split pad pro on the Switch. I think it’s the thumb sticks being so far apart. Maybe I should open the Pro controller still in the box. I heard recently that the Switch now supports keyboard and mouse? I probably won’t go that far to replicate the original controller experience, but it was just a passing thought.
Graphics look good with none of the slow downs like when I played on my Northgate 386/33 and later the Cassiopeia Pocket PC. Sound effects sound right, but the music? Maybe it’s just my memory or I’m confusing the music from later Doom games.
No matter — hail to the King, baby! Oops, wrong game, but this is The One that got us super stoked about graphic card upgrades and defined a whole new genre of games called FPS.