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  7. Does Anyone use these Paddle controllers?

    in Atari 2600

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    3 hours ago, intellicolecovisonary said:

    All Atari Paddle Controllers compatible games: Astroblast (joystick or paddle) /Bachelor Party/Backgammon/Blackjack/Breakout/Bugs/Bumper Bash/Canyon Bomber/Casino/Circus/Circus Atari/Demons to Diamonds/The Dukes of Hazzard/Eggomania/Encounter at L-5/Fireball #3/G.I. Joe: Cobra Strike/Gigolo/Guardian/Kaboom!/Mangia/Mondo Pong/Night Driver/Party Mix #10/Picnic/Piece O' Cake/Poker Plus/Secret Agent/Solar Storm/Star Wars: Jedi Arena/Steeplechase/Speedway II/Street Racer/Super Breakout/Tac-Scan/Video Olympics/Pong Sports/Warlords/Warplock

    Heh, I didn't know Astroblast could be played with paddles as well. it's a LOT better that way !!!! I always tried with a joystick .... needless to say much less "joy"

  9. Does Anyone use these Paddle controllers?

    in Atari 2600

    Posted

    6 hours ago, HDN said:

    You’re going to want to clean those if you haven’t used them yet! Not a hard process, and it’s worth it. Paddles are the number one reason to own a real 2600.

    I personally recommend Kaboom!, Night Driver, Circus Atari, both Breakouts, and all the rest. Street Racer is surprisingly fun with friends. Canyon Bomber is one of my personal favorites, too!

    I am planning on doing a Paddle Games edition of Atari Night soon. You’re welcome to use footage from that in a video if you wish, since I know you don’t have a capture device quite yet (whenever it comes out of course. I’m thinking sometime next week. Episode 2 will be 7800 games most likely).

    Again, good luck on your Atari journey!

    Yeah paddle games are some of my favorites , a 2'nd set and you can play 4 player Warlords (some reason my nephews like it better than Midevil Mayhem)

    For cleaning the paddles I usually reference "Slowcoders guide" on Atari age https://atariage.com/forums/topic/184296-slowcoders-guide-to-cleaning-up-your-2600/?do=findComment&comment=2316794

    Specifically what console are you playing on ? original hardware or a flashback unit ?

  10. Atari 7800 cartridge shells with shutter door / dust cover

    in Atari 7800

    Posted

    2 hours ago, intellicolecovisonary said:

    My OCD kicks in with the shutter door games always wondering if they are clean enough. Is there a way to OCD clean a shutter door game?

    I usually just use 90% rubbing alcohol and q-tips until a clean q-tip pretty much stays clean.

    I'll do the first swab on the edge connector itself then with the dirty q-tip swab out the othe schmeg whatever it may be around inside the port , same with the 2'nd q-tip ect.

    the 7800 shells with shutter doors just open with a push but the 2600 carts shutter doors have a catch that needs to be released.

    On 11/12/2020 at 11:44 PM, chas10e said:

    hmmmm, at first glance I thought my 7800 had a shutter door on the console but it doesn't. I then determined the pokey-stabbers are to prevent an attempt to insert the carts upside down and damage the PCB.

    At THIS post, I realized the "pokey-stabbers" on the 7800 console prehaps serve a dual purpose as to enable the opening of the door on a 2600 cart for backward-compatibility

    I have used "Wright' Copper Clean" on some really dirty Activision carts in the past and did great job. It basically made a junk cart useable.

  11. Repairing a VCS with a 3D printer!!!

    in Atari 2600

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    4 hours ago, CrossBow said:

    I believe the plastic switch portion is different on the Reset and Select switches as they have a spring inside that attached to that plastic in some way. Also on the original H6 units those two switches were a tad wider than the others so I'm not sure if the internal portion being shown here is the same.

     

    yeah the reset & game start switch have a wider base with a spring inside, I just happened to have a 4 switch board loose ( I forget why)

    anyways there is prolly a seperate file someone already made for that

    the foil is some kind of shielding and duct work silver tape would prolly do the job

    And yeah they the same switches on a heavy sixerIMG_2190.JPG.aacce3061df406b3dd4c30087ca3af42.JPG

    imma put a 3d printer on my birthday wish list 'cause I NEED atleast one more thing in my apartment 😉

  14. Squad Challenge - Video Pinball (Atari 2600)

    in High Score Squad

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    On 1/7/2021 at 9:34 PM, chas10e said:

    Great video & score, it was rather odd the on the bonus count the first time on real hardware so I suspect you score may have been higher but the "squad challenges" here are just for fun to revisit games from when us old timers were young and to expose the young fellows to these games.

    Another great video, I really liked the super short-plung then getting the extra ball off the slingshot right away! the visit from the cat was hilarious as cats & pinball is an "actual thing"

    Again the "squad challenge" is for fun but for high stakes tournament physical pinball, when possible extra balls are turned off and if an extra ball is earned without the possibility to turn it off after setting up a skill shot it is plunged and hands off so that great players don't marathon the machine.

    So lets get along to posting more scores, I thought @ZilchSr had a great idea with a clock running as he played so I incorporated one in the event I rolled it 😉

    509,077

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    I did post a higher score but doesn't really affect the standings , I'd still be in 7'th place :)

    The "format" used for posting a score was off by me in placing it at the end of a post as opposed to the top line of the post is a fault

    Great job everybody & welcome to all the new members

  15. Squad Challenge - Video Pinball (Atari 2600)

    in High Score Squad

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    3 hours ago, Justin said:

    Yes I need to try that. I feel like the IR joystick adds to the lag in the game. I see the strategies for getting a good score, it's making it happen and feeling like I have control of the ball that seems difficult. 

    Yeah there is a muscle memory thing associated with the nudging with the button and you can figger out just about exactly how far you can nudge without tilting. The benefit of how the tiltb-ob work in this game is it "settles" almost instantly the moment you stop moving it :D I would imagine the "lag" has an affect on the ball movement sort of like how people complain about the lag using the Wavebird on the Cube.

    3 hours ago, RickR said:

    Yes, and I think having a helpful kitty might help too. 

    This is what I wear when I'm out playing pinball, The kitty is my friends cat "Marty" who recovered from some serious illness and some costly injections. The "Marty pin" was produced & sold to help others fund the treatment for their kitty's

    The pinball machine pin & the sweatshirt was a gift a couple Christmas's ago from my nieces & nephews :)

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  16. Squad Challenge - Video Pinball (Atari 2600)

    in High Score Squad

    Posted · Edited by chas10e

    On 1/5/2021 at 6:56 PM, Papa Pete said:

    I made my Demon Attack video a little late for the contest, so I didn't post it here, but I've compared emulation to OG Hardware again for this Video Pinball challenge.....and let's just say, there is NO comparison between the two...

    1,413,706

     

    Great video & score, it was rather odd the on the bonus count the first time on real hardware so I suspect you score may have been higher but the "squad challenges" here are just for fun to revisit games from when us old timers were young and to expose the young fellows to these games.

    8 hours ago, ZilchSr said:

    Video Pinball 3A - 10,111,115

    The first objective should always be to get the extra ball.
    Second, clear the diamonds to boost the bumper values to 900.
    Third, spam the bonus lane.

    Pardon the cat.

     

    Another great video, I really liked the super short-plung then getting the extra ball off the slingshot right away! the visit from the cat was hilarious as cats & pinball is an "actual thing"

    Again the "squad challenge" is for fun but for high stakes tournament physical pinball, when possible extra balls are turned off and if an extra ball is earned without the possibility to turn it off after setting up a skill shot it is plunged and hands off so that great players don't marathon the machine.

    So lets get along to posting more scores, I thought @ZilchSr had a great idea with a clock running as he played so I incorporated one in the event I rolled it 😉

    509,077

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  17. Squad Challenge - Video Pinball (Atari 2600)

    in High Score Squad

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    3 hours ago, RickR said:

    It is very tricky!  Be patient, though.  You have to nudge it into existence.  When you get the ball bouncing straight up and down on the stairs lower left, that's the time to strike.  Wait for a nice high bounce, then push it over!  Nudge it away from the spinner on the way up. 

     

    THOSE AREN'T STAIRS !!!! their "slingshots" https://www.ipdb.org/glossary.php#S And don't tell me the ball is square either 'cause balls ain't square.

  18. Squad Challenge - Video Pinball (Atari 2600)

    in High Score Squad

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    4 hours ago, HDN said:

    Really? I thought it was 1981. Wasn't that when the picture labels were introduced?

    If we're going by the timeline laid out by Kevin Bunch of Atari Archive, who has already finished his chronology of the Atari-published VCS games of 1980, than it must have come out later. According to the copyright date on the cartridge itself, it also says 1981.

    I do know that this was one of the earlier picture label games, though. It's got the lowercase letters.

    I'm fairly certain that this was 1981. I'll do a little digging in some old 1980 catalogs and see which one of us is right. You've brought up an interesting topic, @RickR. 

    And by the way, dude-- you're really good at this! @chas10e as well, but he's a pinball wizard so that's kind of expected! This is one of your games for sure. According to "legend", my dad and his cousin were quite good at this game as well, though nowadays he kind of sucks. That may be chalked up to damn near forty years of rust, but he may just be stretching the truth.

    I personally won't have to worry about rolling over the score; I suck!

    I got both lower case & upper case , think I was playing the lower case , I imagine the tilt is a little looser :P

     

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  19. Squad Challenge - Video Pinball (Atari 2600)

    in High Score Squad

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    15 hours ago, Justin said:

    @RickR @chas10e Do you guys have tips on how to get such high scores?

    Along with nudging skills , there are also plunging skills, took a tip from @nosweargamer actually & go for the extra ball right away just a little more than a half -plunge will get it in the fuji-lane

    After getting the extra ball, if you can get it back in the shooter-lane a full plunge will get mebbe a couple of the 3 top roll-overs to increase the pops. with an extra ball the value is held 😉

    Then constant nudging throughout the game trying to work the bonus-lane and keep it from draining

    I'm usually just "ape-flipping", can't really do a "slap-save" but I suppose it's possible.

  21. Squad Challenge - Video Pinball (Atari 2600)

    in High Score Squad

    Posted

    14,029

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    14 hours ago, socrates63 said:

    10,932

    Man, this game is tough. It took me three or four tries to break 10k. I don't think I need to worry about rolling the score anytime soon 🤣 Just like in real life, I suck at pinball although I love them. Video Pinball feels a bit like I'm playing a pachinko machine just watching the ball bounce around on its own most of the time. I'm trying to learn when to use nudge the table.

    Neat game! It's another 2600 game that I've never played before.

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    There are many skills in physical pinball to develop, nudging skills is one of them, in many cases you're trying to transfer energy to the ball to manipulate it's trajectory. timing the "bump" on the machine with your hand when the ball is in contact with a post or a rail is key. you can "bump" the lockdown bar forward on either side or even downward (helps with ball rattle I think), you can even nudge the side of the cabinet halfway up the side to make the ball move out slightly towards the center of the table to miss the top of a sling-shot so you can catch it on the flipper. nudging works not just to keep your ball from danger of the outlanes, you can what I call "work the top lanes" to get the ball in the desired top lane if not controlled by the flipper.

    It is best to learn these skills on a machine properly setup with a relatively tight (but fair) tilt-bob also best if the machine is on "free-play"

    I never tried to play "Video Pinball" on difficulty "a". those open holes are death !!!! Reminds me of Bally's "Future Spa"                 We call that hole to the lower right "the spa hole"

  22. Harry’s Game Room Redux

    in Video Game Room Tours

    Posted

    The house I grew up in, my brother bought a pool table and was down in the "cellar" it was never "fixed up" in any way but during one period we had thick cardboard on the wall and was able to perform some graffiti with the chalk. 

    A few private pinball pinball locations I had played at are in the basements of homes, one is a "finished basement" with hardwood floor and Sheetrock, another is just wall paint on the foundation wall with posters and "wall hanger" play-fields & backglasses and yet another is painted walls with murals painted, one area is like castle walls , another is Mario world , I think the steel columns are painted green to resemble the pipes.

    On 12/30/2020 at 1:19 PM, RickR said:

    Here's pictures of my childhood basement room that was dedicated to us kids.  That spot in the corner under the hidden electrical panel was where we had a TV on a cart with Atari hooked up.  It took a lot of hard work to get it cleaned up like this.  And frankly, it was very sad.  I'm glad I took pictures and video of the whole house, though. 

     

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    Those are prolly asbestos floor tiles , very durable material 😉 doubt you can get any today, also might have a hard time finding that wall paper print too! I imagine it could be custom made. That countertop/ bar area does really display some fine craftsmanship with the steel-edging and the "wood rope" trim. actually it all looks like fantastic work, I'm trying to figger-out if that is real brick and I'm leaning towards that it is.

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