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So not much yet, but a work in progress. I have not been on here much but I finally made a little video of the game room.
 

So not much yet, but a work in progress. I have not been on here much but I finally made a little video of the game room.
 

So not much yet, but a work in progress. I have not been on here much but I finally made a little video of the game room.
 

So not much yet, but a work in progress. I have not been on here much but I finally made a little video of the game room.
 

So not much yet, but a work in progress. I have not been on here much but I finally made a little video of the game room.
 

So not much yet, but a work in progress. I have not been on here much but I finally made a little video of the game room.
 

Yeah I have seen the videos on replacing it and does not look hard at all. Just need to make the time oh and order the part. Lol. ....... My oldest is 14 and she likes the room as a game room. She lost interest in toys at about 10-11 so hoping by then the 4 year old will be a gamer like the rest of us. Lol Fingers crossed ????

Your 72 pin connector is the culprit you speak of on the NES.   Cheap for a replacement, or you can clean the pins.  Either way, there's YouTube vids that will walk you through it.

So not much yet, but a work in progress. I have not been on here much but I finally made a little video of the game room.
 

So not much yet, but a work in progress. I have not been on here much but I finally made a little video of the game room.
 

So not much yet, but a work in progress. I have not been on here much but I finally made a little video of the game room.
 

I lived in Texas as a young child and we had Show Biz and Chuck E Cheese. We always went to Show Biz, it was so much cooler! I still to this day can vividly remember how it looked and the felling I had being there! When I was 9 we moved to NJ which had no Show Biz, only Chuck E Cheese. It was not long after that Show Biz was bought and then crushed. I still have a Show Biz watch I got as a prize, the only thing I have left of those great childhood memories.

Wow, had no idea that was the case, I was just a snotty nose kid who loved show biz and was absolutely gutted when chuck e cheese took over the scene when I was living in St. Louis. But kids don't get whet business is all about. I have to say that today's Chuck e cheese is not as cool as it was back then. The ball pit, where you hang out when your out of tokens and try to find tokens that someone else lost in there.

We updated the Atari Arcade page this week more detail on the history of Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theater, including this GREAT video of Nolan Bushnell at Google, telling the fascinating story behind ShowBiz Pizza and the Chuck E. Cheese concept. More here: http://www.atari.io/atari/atari-arcade-games/#cec
 
 
 
http://youtu.be/Dq_V0Vh2tN4

I admittedly did the same thing. What was up with that?! Lol

I admittedly did the same thing. What was up with that?! Lol

I admittedly did the same thing. What was up with that?! Lol

Long story short, I was watching this video on the Jaguar and Jag CD by someone named Adam Koralik.  I posted a comment at least a year ago.  Through out the night there has been someone going by the name Gorilla Jones that has been replying to my comments.  I asked to share those posts on the forums here and even sent him an invite to the site.  But...wow...I don't even know what category to put this under.  Adjust accordingly.
 
We'll start with my original post that got the ball rolling:
 
Michael Allard Highlighted comment The Jaguar had the capabilities a Falcon was suppose to do.  Jag's only downfall is that Jack was a penny pincher.  With that said, sadly, the Jaguar only got 2 MB of RAM instead of 4.  That is the true bottleneck of the system...lack of RAM.  If it had more memory to play with then more might have been done with it.  What it got was impressive.  I've been a Jag owner since 1993 and consider it one of Atari's better ideas done wrong.  It's good but should have been better. Gorilla Jones Michael Allard ding ding ding. I visited Atari many times back in the day. We posed this question and Jack said it was still undecided. This was before Jaguars release. With a competent toolset, documentation, and 4MB of RAM it would have been a different story, truly.   Me: It does make one wonder "what if" if the Jaguar would have had that extra bit of RAM for developers to play around with. I have read the documentation that developers got for the system and it really isn't any wonder that they had trouble understanding it. To me it seems to bounce all over the place and it isn't really clear on how they system works from a programmer's point of view. It's still an awesome console and testament of what made Atari what it was.
 
 
Gorilla Jones  
+Michael Allard​​ what a lot of people don't realize is that Atari wasn't really corporate or professional about a lot of things. If you ever got to visit Sunnyvale you'd notice how messy things were. In reality, most of the Atari staff were just 70s nerds who were doing something cool. They were a cool bunch. And yes, Jack was a massive penny pincher. I always thought Leonard was afraid of Jack LOL. I remember during the official Jag reveal conference how laid back it was. Just some fold out tables covered with table cloths from a wedding caterer. They all had Jag T shirts, and pretty much addlib the conference. At the end they handed out Jaguar duffle bags filled with Jag goodies, like the chocolate CD, super soakers, hats. The **** people at the airport confiscated the super soakers lol. Still have the bag and other stuff though. The chocolate CD turned to dust. Jack was cheap, but when it came to media he spared no expense. He would pick us up in stretch limos and put us up in nice hotels, take us to amusement parks, dinners. Wish he would have put that money into the console.    Michael Allard Wow! It sounds like Jack had his good points, too. I agree that the money would have been beneficial if it were spent on the hardware he was trying to market. Would it be OK if I copy-pasted your comment with my friends at Atari.IO?  
Gorilla Jones +Michael Allard Sure. I'll try and remember more. It's been a long time and I'm an old man lol. I met Minter a couple of times. Such a cool laid back guy. I interviewed him for an article, but have spent years looking for the **** audio cassette. A funny story about one of our visits. We were on a stop over flight with the EGM guys. They were really obnoxious. When we landed since me and my partner only had carry on we went straight to the limo. When the driver asked us if there was anyone else we said no. We arrived at the hotel and registered as the EGM guys since they had a suite. The next day they were furious. Yeah, kind of childish but they deserved it. They were ****. Trying to remember the Atari employee who showed us around that day, he had false vampire teeth implanted surgically, so weird. I think he was involved with black ice white noise but can't remember. He was super nice.   
For family-friendly reasons I did edit some of the posts.  If you want to view the postings in full I will link to the video.  Mine should be the top-most post.
 

 
Sounds like an interesting guy.  If you guys know Gorilla and don't want him here for one reason or another then my apologies.  It just sounds like he has a lot of information pertaining to Atari that might be of interest. 

This is a pre-cursor to the C64 load and warez screens!  Gave you something to see and listen to while waiting 30 minutes for the game to load

E.T. (Some really neat ones here)

Kool Aid Man

Carnival

Realsports Volleyball (One of my favorites of All Time)

Yes, beside the BIB, there are the little rainbow and big rainbow models.
 
I'm not sure, but somewhere out there could be a grey prototype of the 2600jr.
 
Ahh, here it is:
 
https://s14-eu5.ixquick.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.atarimuseum.com%2Fvideogames%2Fconsoles%2F2600%2Fwhite2600.JPG&sp=3d44ca4756e0c3a1b4b772d75f7bf707
 
or
 
http://www.atarimuseum.com/videogames/consoles/2600/white2600.html

Yep just came across it on Amazon!