[SOLD RickR's Summer 2020 Duplicate Blow Out Sale (or trade)]

17 minutes ago, HDN said:

Where do these duplicates keep coming from?

I keep asking myself this same question !

[The No Swear Gamer]

1 hour ago, HDN said:

Ever since I was about 8 or 9, I have wanted to start a Youtube gaming channel. I don't know how, but I will someday. Someday...

When I was 8 or 9 there was no Internet.

 

[The Atari Creep]

I busted out laughing at "Lets go balls to the walls"

the Pong battery eliminators output 6V DC  .... a single battery is 1.5V time four = 6V

you Atari adapter may damage it as you suspect

great find and thanks for sharing a good couple games ... that last one was close !!!!

[Yaay! It's here!]

20 minutes ago, HDN said:

Working on the Squad Challenge thing. Not as good at this as I am at the 2600 prequel!

That's the beauty of the Squad Challenges. you start off kinda ~meh~ then you improve develop a few tricks & share with the group.

PPii does have a brake that can be useful 😉 it was also the pack-in game that came with the 7800 system so your experience will be like "back-in-the-day"

Congrats

I do have a dupe "Food Fight" some clear tape on the label that make it look a bit rough, shoot me a PM if interested

[Quick question for all you Atari 7800 owners out there]

If your in good with your local game store guy I say support his buisness ... there are a LOT of good ones ..... they usually test the system and want their customers to have a good experience. they usually have some kind of warranty (other than the curb & gutter warrenty .... meaning when it hits the curb you got 'er)

You could prolly haggle for a 2'nd controller tossed in if available .... good for a multiplayer asteroids ....

Is Asteroids a 2 button game ? 

 

[Quick question for all you Atari 7800 owners out there]

lol @ ""PainLine controllers"" if you hold it with the stick vertical like the cx-10/cx-40 Atari sticks then yeah incredible pain in your wrists working the buttons with a thumb and another finger.

If you have the stick horizontal your hand is in a more natural position and much less pain.

There is also the "phelonic ball mod" that shortens the stick so there is less leverage being forced upon the hand holding the controller.

While searching for a system. make sure it includes a working power supply as it's has an odd proprietary connector.

 

[Coleco Telstar Combat!]

I edited above post striking out a line, games 2 & 3 are actually "single player games"

I will still keep my eye out for the proper blades.

[Coleco Telstar Combat!]

10 hours ago, RickR said:

On the broken stick, It's a leaf switch internally, and the middle leaf has broken off.  Fixable, but not too easily.

 

I opened mine up to take a peek and I don't envy you at all.

I do have some switch blades that may work out for you but will have to be worked.

The hole spacing me be an issue on the longer blades I have. some info can be found here http://www.planetarypinball.com/reference/partsmanuals/WMS_Parts_1974-1975/index.html#/50/

if interested for the parts shoot me a PM & I'll toss 'em in an envelope for ya's

 

[Coleco Telstar Combat!]

I haven't had the need to completely take apart my Coleco Combat. but I did successfully remove the handles by heating them up with a hair dryer and a LOT of even pressure ( I think I just used the thumb knuckles as fulcrum ) spade connectors for the buttons

I am not sure how the spring mechanisms work

A great game with another player all hunched-up next to one another. I think game #4 is the robot controlled black tank.

You just have to stay out of "The Abyss" which is is beyond the border down bottom where no matter what you do you can't drive out of there.

My now 13 yr old nephew likes to hit the reset button before I reach the game winning shot. but if HE is about to acheive the game winning shot we sort of wrestle for the button.

[Squad Challenge - Super Breakout (Atari 2600)]

First Congrats to @Scott Stilphen I tried all the extended day & couldn't even reach my previous score & then he sand-bagged in one more to top his own .... nicly done :D

@RickR - Jr posted a score as well putting squad players up to 13 for this challenge and was also good to have Ms. @greenween along as well

30 minutes ago, Atari Creep said:

What a great turn out. If my thumb had not been banged up I would have joined in for sure. On to the next. 

Get well ... don't really wanna ask what happened -BUT- you always tell a great story 🙂

21 hours ago, RickR said:

Today, I took the opportunity to try 5200 Super Breakout.  It's a fun game, but I'm sorry to say, I found it really hard to play with the joystick controller.  I feel like the rubber boot on the stick fought me the whole time, and it wasn't easy to be precise in movement.  I tried and tried.  The best I could do is 318!  "Fair" is that the game told me. 

The fact that Atari made this the pack-in game is (again, I'm sorry) horrifying.  What were they thinking?  Colecovision came with Donkey Kong.  I'm so glad they changed the 5200 pack-in to Pac Man later on.  Much better choice.

 

 

Try it with the trak-ball ... I haven't tried "the paddle" mod yet but prolly make SB5200 much more enjoyable

Most importantly ..... what is that console is that real wood ?

[Squad Challenge - Super Breakout (Atari 2600)]

4 hours ago, Gianna said:

Here is my score so far. I played using paddle controllers. It seems like I go a while on the first ball, and then once I lose a ball I go through them really quickly! You guys  have really good scores!

 

 

2 hours ago, RickR said:

Keep on trying @Gianna!  Practice really helps on this game.  When you lose a ball, take a moment to catch your breath.  Breath in and out a few times before pushing that button.  That's what I do. 

Welcome to "The Squad" @Gianna 🙂 

I generally hit the launch button right away out of frustration from losing a ball. I did have to leave the game once between balls and the screen went in color-shift mode but hitting the launch button picked the game up from where I left off.

It's easy to burn through 5 balls in this game ... even though they are square.

[Squad Challenge - Super Breakout (Atari 2600)]

5 hours ago, RickR said:

Damn fine score, and I'll bet that last brick was playing hard-to-get.  

 

Yeah when you go around the screen 6 times & the ball won't hit it then ya gatta risk using the bottom paddle to try & get a different loop.

 

 

[Squad Challenge - Super Breakout (Atari 2600)]

3369   \o/

 

 

12 hours ago, atarilbc said:

I kept playing last night and all I got for my efforts was a busted paddle set. The brittle plastic gave way on both paddles. 😭😭😭🤷‍♂️

You could first super glue them bits in to get the "D" back then fill outer cavities with hot-melt glue (or play-doh or epoxy

[Squad Challenge - Super Breakout (Atari 2600)]

2459

A thing I was curious about happened this game .... cleared a screen with 2 balls in play, hoping one would be trapped above the bricks (that wouldn't have happened in this instance anyways) ... when the bricks reset one of the 2 balls I had in play got disappeared. So I guess no more than 3 balls on the screen at one time.

 

[Squad Challenge - Super Breakout (Atari 2600)]

1964

New personal best I suppose, I started screwing up by looking at my score during play 🙄 .... just hitting one point blocks at the time made it even worse

 

1 hour ago, greenween said:

My goal for today was to break 2,000. 3,041!

I was inspired by trying to break the 2k mark ..... great score @greenween

[Squad Challenge - Super Breakout (Atari 2600)]

From what I recall , the ball in the beginning is always blue & the captive balls are always brown even in MULTIBALL !!!

To bad you can't shoot jackpots :P

[Squad Challenge - Super Breakout (Atari 2600)]

13 hours ago, Kid A said:

1864

Wow you really got the jitter ouuta them paddles -or- is that score WITH the jitter :P

Is that a real nintendo TV ? oh nvm I see the Sony label Trinitron I'd imagine 😉

[Squad Challenge - Super Breakout (Atari 2600)]

1,469

After selecting game #5,  if you find don't like the tone of the ball hits, hit the reset button again (and again) til you find a tone you like.

[Price Tag Thread]

what a great thread idea .... just the first couple I thought might have old price tags

Kay-Bee Toys in the mall was a favorite of mine when I was younger .... I wasn't buying Atari games at the time though ... wished I did

 

I never heard of "Gold Circle" but looks like they had some good prices

[Squad Challenge - Go Fish! (Atari 2600)]

Congets @RickR ! I hadn't played many INTV games, never played "Shark shark" so I can't compare the two.

Yeah "Go Fish" seemed to start slow waiting in the weeds for some morsel to swim by

last night I had troubles with the electric eels and didn't improve my score 😬 just when I thought things were going good too

Oh well ... there's always the next squad challenge

[How Often Do You Play Board Games?]

took this pic awhile ago ...figgered it'd make good wall paper every once inawhile they will fall off the little ledger I have there

I look for 'em at thrifts open 'em up the instructions usually have a parts list so I'll take the time too see if it's complete I try and find stuff from the earliest patent of the game (like first editions I guess) ... IMHO ... if it looks old its pretty cool ... my family doesn't alway agree ... I still haven't played my 1934 Monopoly yet ;"(

for family gatherings I usually take 4 or 5 games with me. they also have favorites of their own. some winners I brought were "The Amazing Race", "Score Four", "Trouble", "Dynamite Shack" ... they always have a "scabble-off" "Settlers of Catan" ( or just Catan ) is wildly popular

the card games like D&D ain't my thing

I would like to learn how to play "Go" I have one with the stones & all .... one of these days I guess 

 

 

[Squad Challenge - Go Fish! (Atari 2600)]

I think extended version was made only because people were maxing out the score and I think perhaps it doesn't revert back to zero.

I am guessing the extra digit capabilities makes the ROM size much larger than the origonal 2k

I dunno the file size of what's on my cart

ok the AA store says the filesize is 8k .... NOW the question is .... what's that 2k file that's on your Harmony :P

I'm ok with the 1368 score just put an asterix beside it 😉

[Squad Challenge - Go Fish! (Atari 2600)]

On 3/21/2020 at 9:38 PM, RickR said:

1368 is my score. 

 

where did all them extra zero's come from ? ( I hope ya' don't need 'em :P )

[Squad Challenge - Go Fish! (Atari 2600)]

831

wow a shark came outta nowhere while I was trapped between 2 long fishes ... I was a pretty tasty treat for him

I have been starting with the difficulty on "B" or beginner as a tiny fish .... I dunno what Default is on Stella but curious to know

[Squad Challenge - Go Fish! (Atari 2600)]

273

I do happen to have the cart & manual

game-play: "eat or be eaten"

eat fish your size or smaller ....

your fish will grow @ 5; 19; 55 & 132 on novice setting

avoid jellyfish , electric eels & sharks

I am going with this image thinking I had more than one life, hitting the button after death starts a new screen (new score)