RickR

Picked up Fast Food, Barnstorming and Tac Scan today.

CHEERS! 🍻

Picked these up out in the wild all for $12. They all work on the OG system, they also work on the Retron 77 and the 2600+

It's 10:07 pm, as midnight approaches THIS is the face of man about to turn 56! Muh birthday 🤷‍♂️😝More than ever I am happy and appreciate the little things, a good meal, a nice drink, indulging in hobbies and appreciating friends and family.

😎 At my age for my birthday I asked only for a nice craft beer to go with a nice dinner. Had steak and mushrooms for dinner and got 3 cool beers😆 don’t drink much these days but it’s a nice surprise on my birthday and a treat. And for a snack one damn hot Pepperoni stick!

😎 Dwayne Wayne was an underrated nerd: 

From the maker of the excellent Donut Dodo comes Cash Cow  DX!  I highly recommend checking out the demo on Steam available now as a part of Steam Next Fest.  I didn't wrap up work until 9 (budget season) and as soon as I logged off, I downloaded this and played for 45 minutes straight.  With a game over every 3 minutes or so, that's 15 games! I did eventually make it to level 1-2. LOL
Anyway, if you like Donut Dodo, check it out !

 

🏴‍☠️ BIG reminder that each account is allotted 10MB of space for uploads, attachments, pics etc. so use your space wisely. Deleting large attachments when you’re done with them is a good way to clean up room.

PSA:  Modern Atari titles Breakout: Recharged, Yars: Recharged, and Atari Mania are currently available for Amazon Prime Gaming members for Windows through Epic Games Store absolutely free!  Kombinera and Gravitar: Recharged will be out later this month.  If you're curious about these titles and a Prime Member, this is a great way to check them out.

We had to get out before the rain, so we headed to the local botanical garden. I like the otherworldly cactus section.

While I halted mentioning celebrity passings some time ago I would be remiss to NOT mention the passing of this legend! Carl Weathers, Rocky and Predator actor, dies aged 76. Stallone will take this HARD. So long ACTION JACKSON! 
 

More games leaving my collection -- tonight, these are going to the same two ladies who bought a bunch of my PS1 and PS2 games. I had no intentions of selling Xbox 360 games, but I know these ladies will give them a good home, so I decided to let them go. I love Xbox 360 and PS3 games. From a graphics perspective, I think it's perfect and the games have aged very well for the most part. I still play Halo Reach.
I did pull one game that was on their list -- Blue Dragon. I had to keep it as a keepsake. I bought it from the company store when I worked at Microsoft. The do not sell sticker on the game box has my employee number on it.
I really need to stop dragging my feet and just take my stuff to Pink Gorilla.

Recieved Planet Patrol today. Works great with the Wico Command Stick

Got this for $30 works great 

I like this version of the 7800 controller over the stock Proline or Painline controller. 

Happy to find this super clean red label version of Defender 2.
 

Played a couple of rounds of pool with my wife in the clubhouse and didn't do too well but to be fair it's been about 15 years 🤷🏻‍♂️I managed a couple of nice shots though. Checked my messages to see she snuck a couple of pics of me, I was concentrating too hard to notice 😝
  

Ice to see you!
Our driveway is like an ice rink, but needs a Zamboni 

Why is Road Runner for the 2600 so freakin' hard?!  It's killing my wrist!

Ice to see you!
Our driveway is like an ice rink, but needs a Zamboni 

Ice to see you!
Our driveway is like an ice rink, but needs a Zamboni 

Ice to see you!
Our driveway is like an ice rink, but needs a Zamboni 

It was cool to see French Youtuber Manu Atari (GemTos) share out the ClubVCS Fanzine!
 

🕯 There’s nothing nicer than working on the backend of Atari I/O by candlelight on a cold winter’s night.

Long day today, but, got my contest prize today from @Ballistik and it's a fun one! 🥳