RickR

While waiting for wife in surgery...

Soon. 

While waiting for wife in surgery...

While waiting for wife in surgery...

I will be on hiatus until the fall. I will return on a date to be determined.

just posted my first BIG BLOG: How alternative "Budget" packaging helped keep Atari developers in business:
 

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Three more days left to go! I’m scheduled to be discharged this Wednesday. My rehab will continue into the coming weeks, and I will be traveling from home. Come tomorrow, I will have been in the hospital for two weeks. While I love the constant care and ease of rehab logistics, I’m looking forward to returning home and enjoying the comforts of home.
And I bought a bunch of stuff while being hospitalized, and it’ll be like early Christmas when I get home 😂 My wife didn’t sound too thrilled with the number of boxes stacked in my office at home.

I'm hearing this @RickR guy has a reputation of being "a really nice fellow". 

Congrats to @socrates63 on his 2nd big Squad Challenge win in a row! Incredible. GET WELL SOON! 
 

Life is good! I’m still in the hospital for rehab, but I’m receiving care and support from friends, church, and family. I have a great job and awesome co-workers and managers. Today is an off day, so no therapy sessions (my quads were beat up bad yesterday from the intensive sessions).
I’m just feeling happy and giddy chilling, watching videos, surfing the forums… what more could I ask for? 🙂 
My wife has been visiting daily, and yesterday, she chided(?) me. Here’s a photo of me taken two days before I had my ER visit that led to surgery. I was still under lots of pain. I had to ask my son to drive me around town that day. We went to church to attend the youth group fundraiser for lunch and then headed to a retro computing society meeting in hopes of meeting Joe Decuir and then followed that up with a visit to this nice man to get the 5200 controllers for free.
How can you smile so big under all that pain is basically what she asked me 😂 She answered her own question saying to the effect that when you love something that much, it can’t be suppressed. Yeah, I’ve been fascinated with video games ever since I first laid my eyes on it as a kid back in the early 80s.
I hope everyone is doing as well as I am minus the hospital stuff.
 

Edladdin's Super Twin 78 Joystick may not be new, but Funkmaster V decides to try it out on a brand new 7800 Homebrew that has had some minor control issues- Attack of the Petscii Robots. See how this twin stick controller also does with Robotron: 2084, T:ME Salvo, Commando, Basketbrawl, and Sirius! #twinstick #atari #atari7800
Check out more Atari 7800 reviews at www.Atari7800Forever.com
Check out Big N Funky Productions movies and projects: www.BigNFunkyProductions.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MistoJ7Mz1g

Atari50 is on sale on Steam right now.  This is a MUST buy for all Atari fans.

It's the LAST DAY to try and catch @Sabertooth in the ClubVCS Yars' Challenge and @socrates63 in the 7800 Asteroids Challenge!
GAME ON PEOPLE!

Atari50 is on sale on Steam right now.  This is a MUST buy for all Atari fans.

It's the LAST DAY to try and catch @Sabertooth in the ClubVCS Yars' Challenge and @socrates63 in the 7800 Asteroids Challenge!
GAME ON PEOPLE!

Paul Reubens is dead at 70. Apparently, he's privately battled cancer for the past several years. Pee Wee Herman meant the world to me as a little boy. Sad to hear.

It's the LAST DAY to try and catch @Sabertooth in the ClubVCS Yars' Challenge and @socrates63 in the 7800 Asteroids Challenge!
GAME ON PEOPLE!

Personal update — I’ve been dealing with back pain for more than a year. Late Monday, I went to the ER and Tuesday morning, I underwent a surgery for a herniated disc. It was diagnosed as a medical emergency. Surgery went well, but I will be in the hospital for another week. I’ve lost some function of my left leg and will be rehabbing in the hospital, and after I’m discharged, I will be returning for more intensive rehab. I am expected to make a full recovery.
In the meantime, should I be worried about my 7800 Asteroids score in the high score challenge? 😂 Game on 🕹️

I feel a summer cold coming on. 🤧

It's been very hectic this month, so I will have to postpone the show one more week to August 2 at 9pm ET. See you then!

The Lower Decks crossover episode of SNW, called Those Old Scientists (TOS) is AMAZING. I gave my first straight up belly laugh in I don't know how long.
That's all.

I was so excited to get this and then I saw the condition of the slip cover.