The Professor

FANTASTIC SETUP!! Thank you for sharing this with us Omega!! I love the Captain Picard decor on your wall too

Weird Paul has been posting a lot of great videos lately. I think it's time he had a dedicated thread for his YouTube videos This week, Weird Paul posted a video looking at some of the school papers he still has from 1st through 5th grade!

What a profoundly nice thing to say. So true.

Monday is Atari Day for the month of October! Don't forget to share your love of classic gaming with the world around you, and invite friends to the party on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/888696177878983/

That's a nice Atari 2600, it's the 1984 model with the original name plate that Warner had intended. Nice trade Lee & Rick!

That is a VERY good video!

Here's Super Cassette Vision's version of Pole Position II. It doesn't quite hold up to the Atari 7800's version of Pole Position II, but still an improvement to Pole Position on 2600.

Here's an interesting little system that gained some popularity in Japan in the void left by Atari's delay in entering the market, and prior to Nintendo entering with the Famicom. It's graphical capabilities were comparable to Atari 2600 and Intellivision, and it was out in Japan around the same time. This is a Japanese console from Epoch called the Cassette Vision: That model was actually the Epoch Super Cassette Vision JR, a lower-cost "mark II" model of Epoch's earlier Cassette Vision console. Epoch followed up next with another console around the time if the Nintendo Famicom's release. This console was called the Epoch Super Cassette Vision an was comparable in gameplay and graphics to the Atari 5200 and ColecoVision:

I don't think a lot of people even know what it is. Sega Master System probably had the smallest impact on the culture of any system from that time. Comparatively even more people knew about ColecoVision in 1983 than MasterSystem in 1988. Nintendo was everywhere. Movies, TV shows, it's presence was huge! The same could be said about Atari during the 2600 years, and I think some of that cache carried over in minds of the public when they saw the 7800 and recognized it as an Atari. Before the Genesis I don't think most people knew what Sega was. Maybe they would recognize it from Frogger? The Master System wasn't really on the cover of magazines, cereal boxes, or cartoons. I don't think the general public really had much of an awareness of Sega until the Genesis showed up, and it's hard to reminisce about something that you never knew of or cared about in the first place. But get a group of gamers together in a room who've actually spent time playing the Sega Master system, and I think a lot of them would have some pretty positive things to say.

Nice post StormSurge! Sounds like the beginning of an awesome blog

Our friends at The Retroist posted this on their blog this morning in celebration of Atari Day: Happy Atari Day! Enjoy MTV's Exclusive Pole Position TV Commercial! http://www.retroist.com/2015/09/26/atari-day-enjoy-mtv-pole-position/

Yippie ki-yay, RP! Welcome to the blog!!

Saturday is Atari Day for the month of September! Don't forget to share your love of classic gaming with the world around you, and invite friends to the party on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/769361533186968/

That looks great! Very unique design too!

I wonder how often Henry Thomas is asked to autograph E.T. carts

Tomorrow is Atari Day for the month of August! Don't forget to share your love of classic gaming with the world around you Celebrate Atari Day on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/869079699795220/

That is some beautiful work