RickR

A very good day yesterday.  I found a bunch of good stuff as seen below.

 
Check out this incredible Pac Man record I found.  Copyright is 1980.  I mostly bought it just for the artwork on the sleeve.  Overall, in poor condition, but it will look nice on my game room shelf.


 
The Imagic games were a really lucky find, as I had those two games' boxes in very bad shape and with no plastic insert.  So I created my own cardboard inserts and cleaned them up as best I could.  And now I've got 5 boxed Imagic titles. 

I don't know why I never noticed this before.  I was adding a manual to my Atari Bowling box and noticed something kind of cool.  Whoever had this box before me wrote down their high scores on the top flap!  The box is pretty beat up, but I think these scores make it pretty neat.
 
 
 
 

I thought I'd do a quick write up on the Atari Flashback 9, which has two features that make it VERY worthwhile.
It has an SD card slot (to load any game file you like) It has HDMI output (razor sharp video on a flatscreen TV) These two features work really nicely.  I am getting great output on my flatscreen (my pictures don't do it justice).  And we have all been clamoring for a 2600 that uses an SD card slot.  It does use emulation, but I think it's really well done.  I haven't noticed any sound or graphics glitches. 
I want to thank Arenafoot for his flashback portable gamepack (available from the AtariAge forums), as that's what I used on mine.  There is one small quirk I should mention.  The Flashback 9 won't load a file if there is a space in the filename.  I used a batch file renamer program to remove spaces from all of the files in Arenafoot's pack.  And BOOM, they all work. 
I bought mine used on ebay.  I think you can get them new for $60 or so on Amazon.  IMO, avoid the "Gold" version.  It comes with "wireless" controllers and I don't like the lag those introduce, plus they have to be aimed at the console.  
This product is made by atgames.  In this case (and also with the portable), they deserve a lot of credit and praise.  I really feel that this is an outstanding product. 
Let me know if you have any questions or need help in any way.
 
 

Incredible! 

Quick thoughts: 
The graphics are really nice Sounds are fine.  I like the PP theme music.  Well done Several screens!  And they are pretty varied in the gameplay. Controls.  Well...it is a prototype I guess.  The jumping is very difficult to master.  They should have skipped the tail wag and made the button jump.  Overall:  Fun!  It's so cool that this came to light after all these years.  

Pretty cool.  I'm loading up the new version of Stella now to give this a shot.
 

$30!!  I got one. Its a steal at that price. Pulled from a Facebook group post. 

Quick thoughts: 
The graphics are really nice Sounds are fine.  I like the PP theme music.  Well done Several screens!  And they are pretty varied in the gameplay. Controls.  Well...it is a prototype I guess.  The jumping is very difficult to master.  They should have skipped the tail wag and made the button jump.  Overall:  Fun!  It's so cool that this came to light after all these years.  

The first time those chainsaw guys start chopping heats in RE4 appear....cleanup on aisle 2.  Scary stuff. 

Quick thoughts: 
The graphics are really nice Sounds are fine.  I like the PP theme music.  Well done Several screens!  And they are pretty varied in the gameplay. Controls.  Well...it is a prototype I guess.  The jumping is very difficult to master.  They should have skipped the tail wag and made the button jump.  Overall:  Fun!  It's so cool that this came to light after all these years.  

Pretty cool.  I'm loading up the new version of Stella now to give this a shot.
 

First and foremost I have NOTHING to do with this but just noticed this over on AtariAge. I know some here are members there and some not so I wanted to be sure the news reached all of those who would appreciate the ROM to use in emulation or Harmony / Flashcart. 
PLEASE if you ARE a member over on AA be sure to stop by and give thanks to user Dutchman2000 😎🍻I am sure he will appreciate it,
ORIGINAL THREAD HERE :
https://atariage.com/forums/topic/297125-pursuit-of-the-pink-panther-rom-released/?tab=comments#comment-4368826
Rom attached below or of course in the link to the original thread above, your choice to make it easy! 😜
Pursuit of the Pink Panther.bin

Yes! The last missing Atari released game has now been dumped and is playable on Stella 6.0.1!! Pursuit of Pink Panther from Probe 2000 (1983) has been released!
Game instructions can be found here: http://www.atariprotos.com/2600/software/pinkpanther/pinkpanther.htm
Enjoy!!
 
UPDATE: Pink Panther works on:
Stella 6.0.1 or 6.0.2 (claims Stella 4.0 or higher work)
Retron 77 console
 
does NOT work on:
Harmony cart
Harmony Encore cart
UNO cart
Atari Flashback Portable
 


Pursuit of the Pink Panther.bin

Admin Note: Merged two identical threads into one

Pretty cool.  I'm loading up the new version of Stella now to give this a shot.
 

Cool!

My favorite scary game is Atari "Haunted House".  Honorable mentions to Dreamcast "Typing of the Dead" and Intellivsion "Dracula". 

Thanks!

There is a new store that has gone in to one of the locations of the chain that's closing,  I haven't been yet because I'm a loser (and too busy).  It's called "Sidequest Games" and it's totally game based.  I'll go check it out at some point. 

It's kind of frustrating how the 7800 got buried by Atari's financial issues. 

In the ideal "What-if" scenario, Atari would have never released the 5200 and went with the 7800 instead.  It probably would have been on the market later than the 5200 was.  But man, wouldn't that have been something? 
 

They don't have any displays or anything like that.  It's the kind of place that mostly sells DVD and vinyl, and they have posters and pop culture stuff.  And games.  Mostly loose games.  So for the most part, finding good games was hit and miss, but the prices were always fair.
On that Odyssey power adapter, you're gonna have a hard time finding one.  Your best bet is to find out the volts and amps and find an aftermarket one. 

Found me an odyssey 300 at goodwill a couple days ago. Didnt come with the power cable so cant test it. Anyone happen to have one?

I'm not going to be eligible for NSG's October Giveaway (thanks for hosting it here this month @nosweargamer!) but my favorite scary game is Splatterhouse for TurboGrafx-16! Runner-up would be the original Atari arcade version of Gauntlet if you consider that spooky.

My ALL TIME fav scary game is Silent Hill for the Original PlayStation. 
 
Thanks bud for these generous giveaways. 

Oooh, that's a good choice.  I forgot about that game. 
 

Cool!

My favorite scary game is Atari "Haunted House".  Honorable mentions to Dreamcast "Typing of the Dead" and Intellivsion "Dracula". 

Thanks!

Oooh, that's a good choice.  I forgot about that game.