The Professor

Just voted! Thanks for the heads up, Rows!

Great idea!

Live performance of Telephone Line. I so badly want to hook up an Atari Video Music to this song.

A classic track with a good vibe from 1977

I was wondering that about the cartridges format too. There are a lot smaller than I had expected them to be. I'm not sure what I was expecting, but I thought it would look more substantial than a DS cartridge. It makes me wonder if people will look at how small it is and think that there's "less in there". Welcome to the forums RawSteelUT!

Congratulations MaximumRD! 15 Years is something to be proud of, that's truly nice that you've been together so long. It's a nice change to see real life outside of gaming. The Fixx Cafe looks great too, I hope you two had a wonderful time

Welcome to the Atari I/O Forums Starbuck!

LOLOL what is that from Rick? Funniest post in a while!

We'll look at that, dawn is breaking.

Great article Ballblazer! I shared this with everyone I know!

My NES GBA SP has even my go-to choice for travel gaming! I have all of the original NES titles, it's great fun on the plane! Lynx is fun too but SP is so compact it's great for flying.

Mega Drive and PC Engine both sounded to me like game companies were making heir consoles sound like computers.

Also, whenever people ask us "Why did you create another Atari forum when there already was one?" This is partially why.

Not your fault Arenafoot. Don't feel bad. You reported what was going on as it was happening to the best of your ability. You posted newsworthy info without linking offsite and forcing everybody to go elsewhere and leave the safety of Atari I/O. You provided an update when you had new information. We all very much appreciate this. Note: The topic title has been edited to remove "AtariSoft" and "New Game Discovered".

Beautiful looking game, but if this was a hoax to drum up some buzz their actions are abhorrent.

It's incredible to think of Gradius as a ColecoVision game!

Awesome story Rowsdower! I was just searching for info on this! I remember there being a regional version of Dr. Pepper produced by an independent bottler using the classic Dr. Pepper formulation but I couldn't remember where it was or what it was called. I know they were limited geographically to only selling within their territory.. I'm so disappointed to hear that they finally shut it down! How do you think the taste differed from regular Dr. Pepper? Any colas you'd like to mention?

YES! How about a Double-Cola video sometime Weird Paul?

Some history on High Fructose Corn Syrup replacing Pure Cane Sugar in North America: The cost of sugar in the US started to rise in the late 1970s and 1980s due to government imposed tariffs, prompting soft drink manufacturers to switch to high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) as a cheaper alternative to sugar. HFCS has also been shown to create a more addictive product. By the mid-1980s, all of the major soft drink brands switched to HFCS for their North American products. One theory suggests the entire "New Coke" debacle was staged to gloss over Coca-Cola's quiet transition from sugar to HFCS in the Coca-Cola Classic formulation. In most countries, sugar is still used rather than HFCS. By the late 2000s, many soft drink fans wanted a return of sugar in the drinks, citing a slightly sweeter taste, controversies over negative health effects of HFCS, increases in the cost of corn syrup due to increased use of the product for ethanol production, as well as the cost of sugar having since dropped at that time. Even though anything to do with sugar isn't especially healthy for you, cane sugar is a natural, pure ingredient. High fructose corn syrup used in many major soft drinks has been linked to obesity and metabolic disorders, addiction, and manufacturing contaminants.

Let's not get too sidetracked in this thread by my mention of Pepsi Perfect. Point is well-taken though. We're already discussing Crystal Pepsi in greater detail here, and Pepsi Perfect here and here. I brought up Pepsi Perfect because it's the pure cane sugar formulation of Pepsi, comparable to Double-Cola and classic formula Coca-Cola. The past few years have seen a resurgence in regional colas and specialty soft drinks! Pepsi Perfect, Crystal Pepsi and Surge certainly garnered the most media attention. Big soft drink companies like Coke and Pepsi have also given us other cool colas, like Pepsi Throwback. There are many other "little guys" that have flown under the radar though! Many of these are classic regional colas that we grew up with, that are now making a resurgence as local flavors and premium soft drinks. Many of these inherently have a retro theme. This is what I'd like to delve into in this topic. What I really LOVE about the story of Double-Cola is that it's the underdog that made it! It's one of those "what ifs" that actually came true! For all the discussions we have on "what if Atari did this one thing differently", "what if Atari had gotten the rights to the NES", "what if E.T. had been a successful game", this is one of those rare stories where a beloved brand fought to survive and came out even better than before. It's not often that we get a nice story like this. I love it! There are many specialty soft drinks that come to mind. Jones Soda, Stewart's, Nehi, and others. There are also regional colas that have never really gone away, like Vernors, Schweppes, Faygo, and Cheerwine.

Pepsi Perfect was released around this time last year in limited quantities. The drink itself was essentially a "perfected" version of Pepsi-Cola, the difference being that it was made with pure cane sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup. I mention Pepsi Perfect only because it is in the same ballpark as classic formula Coca-Cola and Double-Cola due to its pure cane sugar formulation. Press Release: http://www.pepsico.com/live/pressrelease/great-scott-they-did-it---pepsi-perfect-is-here10052015 Pepsi Perfect commercial (October 5, 2015)

Yes! A pure ingredient and less addicting than high fructose corn syrup. Pure cane sugar would put Double-Cola in the same category as original formula (Mexican) bottled Coca-Cola and what was recently released as Pepsi Perfect.

I was watching Weird Paul's latest video and noticed that his family was drinking Double-Cola!! This really hit home for me! My family and I had Double-Cola in the house when I was growing up. I haven't seen Double Cole in YEARS and thought I'd share a bit about Double-Cola with you today. Double Cola Double-Cola was once marketed as a lower-cost alternative to Coca-Cola and other soft drinks, but Double-Cola is now marketed as a premium brand in that area, with the same or higher price than Coca-Cola or Pepsi-Cola. Double-Cola is a regionally manufactured US brand of soft drink, predominantly distributed east of the Mississippi. Double Cola is a distinctive part of culture in Indiana, especially around Evansville, IN. In 1933, the original drink called "Jumbo Cola" was sold in a 12oz bottle, which at that time was double the size of other colas. The name was appropriately changed to "Double-Cola" and it's been that way ever since. Double-Cola is sold at every single Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, nationwide. So, next time you visit Cracker Barrel pick up a vintage four-pack of glass bottles, made with pure cane sugar. A bit more about Double-Cola can be found online. Double Cola is still in business and they have a pretty nice website which you can view here: http://double-cola.com/about-us/ Double-Cola Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Cola Double Cola Product Line Double-Cola's product line features several well-know drinks, including: Double-Cola Diet Double-Cola Ski (compare to Sun Drop) Diet Ski Ski InfraRED Caffeine Free Diet Ski Caffeine Free Ski Jumbo Flavors Chaser Double-Dry Ginger Ale Oranta MINOKU Coconut Water QUAD Energy Drink Zili Teas Weird Paul Petroskey's recent video that just so happened to feature his family drinking a 2-Litre of Double-Cola. This makes sense as Weird Paul is from the Pittsburgh area and Double-Cola was a regional drink at the time: