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  1. There are many holidays that we celebrate without giving much thought to. We have the day off, we go stand in line to shop or go to the movies. Thanksgiving is one of those holidays that I like to think about the true meaning of when it comes time to celebrate, and what it means to me. On Thanksgiving Day I'm usually around the people and situations that I'm giving thanks for. My family and friends. The wonderful food I get to eat, and the life I live. That got me thinking about all the wonderful friends I've made in the forums, and the "family" that I don't get to see, except for in here. It made me reflective about how thankful I am for these forums, the "Atari I/O Fam", and the past couple years of experiences that have come with it. So I wonder... What does it mean to you to be part of this community? For me it's meant: Exploring in my hobby in a deeply enriching way. To me it's meant being part of something that's a little new and a little different, attempting to pioneer new and creative ways to meet up here every night and include Atari and classic gaming into our lives. It's meant Atari Day, High Score Squad, our old Trivia Nights and celebrating Howard Scott Warshaw Day with a round of Insane Yars' Revenge. Being part of a movement to make things better through small actions. And in my role as a Moderator I've been fortunate in shaping small elements of this website, and hopefully impacted the way you enjoy your hobby as well. Most of all it's meant witnessing a new community form out of nothing and come together in ways that feel like we have a genuine bond with each other. Today I am thankful for having all of you as such a nice part of my life.
  2. Nickelodeon is also bringing back Legends of the Hidden Temple in the form of a TV movie, featuring the cast of the original game show. Follow siblings Sadie, Noah, and Dudley as they try to escape the hidden temple and prove to everyone that the legend is real! Starring Isabela Moner and original host Kirk Fogg. Dee Bradley Baker, the original voice behind Olmec, will reprise the role of this iconic game show character. Be sure to tune in for Legends of the Hidden Temple: The Movie! Legends of the Hidden Temple Movie Complete Schedule: Legends of the Hidden Temple Movie Sat 11/26 Nickelodeon: 8:00p EST, 7:00p CNT, 9:00p MTN, 8:00p PST Sun 11/27 Nickelodeon: 11:00a EST, 10:00a CNT, 12:00p MTN, 11:00a PST Sun 11/27 Nickelodeon: 5:30p EST, 4:30p CNT, 6:30p MTN, 5:30p PST Sun 11/27 The Splat (Teen Nick): 10:00p EST, 9:00p CNT, 11:00p MTN, 10:00p PST Tue 11/29 Nickelodeon: 7:30p EST, 6:30p CNT, 8:30p MTN, 7:30p PST Tue 12/2 Nickelodeon: 7:30p EST, 6:30p CNT, 8:30p MTN, 7:30p PST Sat 12/3 Nickelodeon: 2:00p EST, 1:00p CNT, 3:00p MTN, 2:00p PST Sun 12/4 Nickelodeon: 5:30p EST, 4:30p CNT, 6:30p MTN, 5:30p PST
  3. Complete Schedule: The Double Dare Reunion Special Wed 11/23 Nickelodeon: 9:00p EST, 8:00p CNT, 10:00p MTN, 9:00p PST Wed 11/23 The Splat (Teen Nick): 10:00p EST, 9:00p CNT, 11:00p MTN, 10:00p PST Thr 11/24 The Splat (Teen Nick): 1:06a EST, 12:06a CNT, 2:06a MTN, 1:06a PST
  4. The Double Dare Reunion Special It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for! On Wednesday November 23rd, Marc Summers will be back to host an all-new game of Double Dare! The Double Dare Reunion Special will also feature original announcer John “Harvey”, the fabulous Robin Russo, and cast members from “All That” as the daring contestants! You’ll also get an exclusive look at insider clips from the Nickelodeon vault! Tune in Wednesday November 23rd on Nickelodeon @9pm and The Splat @10pm for the most fun and messiest time of your life!
    1. Arenafoot

      Arenafoot

      watched it.....it was a good show

    2. greenween

      greenween

      Not sure if you watch Workaholics Prof, but Marc Summers is in an early episode and he is awesome!!

  5. A.V. Club published a new article today about the history of the Double Dare obstacle course, and the special commemorative episode of Double Dare celebrating the show’s super sloppy 30th anniversary year. If you're interested in Double Dare or television history it's a great read: From A.V. Club: “It smelled like death”: An oral history of the Double Dare obstacle course Slip on your big, white Reeboks; grab a set of kneepads; and get reading. http://www.avclub.com/article/it-smelled-death-oral-history-double-dare-obstacle-245939
  6. PILOT EPISODE! - ANOTHER DIRTY ROOM Ep. 0 : Horror Hotel! Bloody Mattress, Bed Bugs, Thieving Owner! Country Hearth Inn - Greenville, SC
  7. That's very cool that you and chas got to meet in person!
  8. Q: Who knows how Betamax got its name?

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    2. Justin

      Justin

      It had a double-meaning: beta is the Japanese word for the way signals are recorded on the tape; and the shape of the lowercase Greek letter beta (β) resembles the course of the tape through the transport

    3. Atari 5200 Guy

      Atari 5200 Guy

      Had one during my high school days. The way the tape was fed around the video drum was very weird compared to VHS. That thing must have pulled out about a foot of tape. Interesting to see and by far the better video quality was on Beta. I wish I would have kept it but I couldn't find any movies or more blank tapes.

    4. The Professor

      The Professor

      I never knew that was the reason. It seems so obvious now.

  9. Great post Ballblaɀer! Hopefully this will contribute to getting the word out about this wonderful book!
  10. Dan Bell, creator of the Dead Mall Series, has created a new series called "Another Dirty Room" exploring and exposing the horrible things found in dirty hotel rooms. I'm posting this thread under "New Adventures" because the series is like a "Urban National Geographic Explorer" and has little to do with the everyday video game community on YouTube. The first episode of "Another Dirty Room" went up last night. What you are about to see is pretty gross, but nothing too surprising. Each episode is followed a week later by "Check Out Time" which is the commentary, bonus footage, and Luminol results for the previous episode of "Another Dirty Room". Enjoy! ANOTHER DIRTY ROOM Ep. 1 : Cesspit From Hell: The Midtown Inn Baltimore Follow Dan: https://www.youtube.com/user/moviedan https://www.facebook.com/thisisdanbell/ https://twitter.com/ThisIsDanBell https://www.instagram.com/ThisIsDanBell/
  11. One of the more popular animated short films that aired during Night Flight’s 80s heyday was Wes Archer’s cult fave Jac Mac & Rad Boy, Go!, a wonderfully frenetic cartoon about two party-bound teens who inadvertently destroy a city on their way to hell, which Archer admits he may have also been inspired by his own wayward youth in Houston, Texas. Archer also claims his characters were inspired by by a comic strip called Skank, Arms & Bud by John Holstrom & J.D. King (it appeared in the comic Weirdo, issue #3, the first credit for future editor Peter Bagge). Jac Mac & Rad Boy would, in turn, have its own profound influence on yet another Texan animator’s 1992 short film, Frog Baseball, which originally aired on Liquid Television before executives at MTV asked its creator, Mike Judge, to turn its two party-hard protagonists into a manic animated TV series that you might have heard of, called Beavis and Butt-head. Jack Mac & Rad Boy, Go! was the third year project the Film Graphics/Experimental Animation program at Cal Arts, initially inked out in 1983, and then, a year later, color was added for its first public exhibition, before it aired on Night Flight in 1985. It was later included in the Outrageous Animation movie in 1988, and licensed for use in Back to the Future Part 2 in 1989, and finally leased to Liquid Television in 1992. Wes Archer — born November 26, 1961 — has enjoyed an incredible career in TV animation. He spent a few years working on the Savage Steve Holland movie One Crazy Summer, before joining two other animators, David Silverman and Bill Kopp (that’s Kopp, by the way, who voices “Rad Boy”; Archer himself voiced Jac Mac), at a tiny, obscure animation studio Klasky/Csupo, where they elaborated on Matt Groening’s rough black-and-white sketches for the first season episodes of The Simpsons, starting with the earliest ones that aired on The Tracey Ullman Show, a variety TV show on Fox. Executive Producer James L. Brooks had wanted Groening’s animated cartoon as a kind of bumper, between the acts on Ullman’s show. At the time, animation had not been seen during prime-time for more than a generation, not since The Flintstones. Silverman and Archer developed an efficient use of movement that added snap and also made the animation more cost efficient by limiting the number of in-betweens required in the timing of the animation. In particular, their decision to use a palette of only two hundred colors (the average cartoon employs more than one thousand) brought The Simpsons a highly distinctive look that has become as much its signature as Homer’s bleated “D’ohs!” (It was actually colorist Gyorgyi Peluce who decided to make them yellow). Archer, Silverman and Kopp would create a minute and a half each week, jumping on the next as the one they’d finished was being colored and then shot the following week, followed by another week of post-production, sound mixing and color timing. They were animating a new episode each week, and each one was produced on a four week schedule. Archer and the other Klasky/Csupo animators were instrumental in the fight with the Fox network to keep the show unpolished, to the extent that it was actually negotiated into their contract that network execs were not allowed to interfere with the show’s content. Here’s a drawing of Maggie Simpson, after she’s been given a pacifier to suck on that her siblings Bart and Lisa have dipped in hot sauce — you see the same kind of frenetic energy here that was initially seen in Jac Mac & Rad Boy: Archer subsequently directed a number of The Simpsons episodes (many of which had John Swartzwelder is an episode writer) before becoming supervising director at King of the Hill, another Mike Judge animated TV series. Archer’s name, incidentally, appears in an episode titled “Death and Texas” in season 3 of King of the Hill, in which Peggy is tricked into smuggling cocaine to an inmate on death row. The inmate was named Wesley Martin Archer, a combination of both Wes’ and his brother and co-worker, Martin Archer. A few years later, Archer moved on from King of the Hill, working as an Animation Director at Icebox.com, before he became a director on Matt Groening’s Futurama series, but he eventually returned to King of the Hill, where he continued to supervise the episodic direction of the series until the show’s final season, when he became a consulting director. He later moved on to Starz Media, on a series called Eloise: The Animated Series, before he joined Mike Judge’s The Goode Family as supervising director. Since then, he’s been working on a number of different shows (Bob’s Burgers, Murder Police, a pilot for Comedy Central, and Rick & Morty for Adult Swim). From Night Flight: Remembering “Jac Mac & Rad Boy, Go!” Wes Archer’s Influential 80s Animated Short http://nightflight.com/remembering-jac-mac-rad-boy-go-wes-archers-influential-80s-animated-short/
  12. I LOVE KING OF KONG! Seeing it for the first time was so much fun! It really reignited my love for Arcade gaming. For a long time until then I had really only been interested in classic consoles, I almost forgotten what keeping Arcade Life alive was all about. This was a superb movie and I can see this thread sparking many more conversations to come...
  13. That's a phenomenal find KidA! I think that's the nicest looking Q*bert's Qubes I've seen in the wild!
  14. Videos should really be uploaded to YouTube, then you can copy and paste the YouTube link to embed the video in the post. Often times videos are too big to upload to the forums. It also makes it easier for people reading your post to click play and view the YouTube video right on the site. Let me know if you need help
  15. That is too cool! We'll be having more High Score Squad Challenges for the NES starting in 2017 once everybody's had a chance to get their hands on one of these!
  16. CONGRATULATIONS CUBS FANS!!

    1. Arenafoot

      Arenafoot

      Wow! It took them 108 Years, 7 Games, 17 min rain delay and an extra inning to win another one!!

    2. Atari 5200 Guy

      Atari 5200 Guy

      Awesome. Way to go, Cubs. I only wish my grandmother was here to see that game.

  17. SECRET SANTA 2016 IS UNDERWAY! Please make sure to sign up by November 15th to participate! http://forums.atari.io/index.php/topic/2597-atari-io-secret-santa-2016/

  18. I haven't seen that game before, but it looks cool!
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