Lost Dragon

Gosh, the 90s were so Rad.

Finally it’s available. In case you want to start with the Atari ST story just visit my new shop at https://www.microzeit.com

You are a hero. 

Perhaps this will help:
http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/How_to_download_and_run_Doom

There's a link to the final release shareware version of the original Doom for DOS.

This all started due to a P'Tach on facebook.  He asked if anyone had a really old laptop for sale.  I did.  A really nice Toshiba 486 laptop in pristine condition.  The battery still holds a charge.  His idea was to use the old laptop to play the old floppy disk based games.  Most notably, DOOM. 
 
The dude turned out the be a major flake.  I took a bunch of pictures, answered a bunch of questions, agreed to a price, and then....nothing.  No "sorry, I changed my mind" (which would have been fine).  No response at all.  Cowardly flake.  What is wrong with people?
 
So now, I'm stealing his idea.  I think it might be kind of cool.  I plan on installing Doom and whatever classic games I can find on this thing and reporting here how it works.  The only issue -- I threw out all those games eons ago.  I'll do a googlo search, but maybe someone here can more quickly direct me to a download area for Doom (and other game) floppy images.  The idea is to actually create the floppy disks and load them onto the laptop that way. 
 
Who wants to help a brother out?
 
 

This is something I just heard about.  Someone on KLOV posted photos of it:
 
https://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=406928
 
When you're hit (and you're carrying hostages), keep pressing the rotate button to make some (up to 4) jump out and parachute to the ground!  Any hostages that parachute out won't be saved (even if you're over your base!) but they won't die.  I don't know if this feature is mentioned in the instructions on the machine but there's no mention of it in the manual or flyer.  Has anyone seen or heard of this before?
 
I also found a similar feature on the Sega Master System port!
 
http://forums.atari.io/index.php/topic/3313-

There's no parachuting hostages if you get hit (like the arcade version), but you can eject someone! It's not mentioned in the manual, but if you keep pressing FIRE (Button 1), any hostages you're carrying (up to 2) are ejected in what looks like jetpacks as you're crashing (and they'll fly to the base and be saved!).  This was mentioned on another site (http://www.ign.com/wikis/arcade-chea...fter%21_Cheats) but the description of how to do it is wrong.

400 pages about the history of the Atari Corporation and a little East-Westphalian company which developed from the Atari ST demo scene, including 40 pages of interviews with the makers.
 

 
Volume 1 kicks off with the roots of Ataris 16-bit era and the transformation of bedroom coders to professionals. From The Union to Thalion. The Atari ST, followed by the marketing of the STE and TT. After the successful startup of Thalion the young computer freaks are confronted with an unexpected hard deadline business...
 
www.microzeit.com
 
 
 

Electronic Pinball by Tiger

Electronic Baseball by Tiger

Star Trek 25th Anniversary by Konami

Slot Machine by Radio Shack

Toy Story by Tiger

Head to Head Talking Baseball by Tiger

I really dig old handheld games. I grew up with several from Tiger, one from Radio Shack, one Nintendo Game & Watch and a few random others as well. So now you can join me as get out the batteries and try out several electronic handheld games. 
 
WWF Superstars by Tiger

Sega CD FMV games, the games where you felt like you rented a movie instead of a video game...

Now we just need a thread on FMV games from the 90's and we should have it covered - Sega CD and 3DO had it on lockdown.

Why were the 90s so "extreme"? I just don't get it - and I lived it.

Ive got a couple of the Nsider VHS tapes and those guys on there make me cringe so hard.

This sounds like it will be right up our alleys. He's a fantastic writer. I'm looking forward to this.
 
Sting-Ray Afternoons: A Memoir https://www.amazon.com/dp/0316392235/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_RJPtzbVH8NBX8
 
A wild and bittersweet memoir of a classic '70s childhood
 
It's a story of the 1970s. Of a road trip in a wood-paneled station wagon, with the kids in the way-back, singing along to the Steve Miller Band. Brothers waking up early on Saturday mornings for five consecutive hours of cartoons and advertising jingles that they'll be humming all day. A father-one of 3M's greatest and last eight-track-salesman fathers-traveling across the country on the brand-new Boeing 747, providing for his family but wanting nothing more than to get home.
 
It's Steve Rushin's story: of growing up within a '70s landscape populated with Bic pens, Mr. Clean and Scrubbing Bubbles, lightsabers and those oh-so-coveted Schwinn Sting-Ray bikes. Sting-Ray Afternoons paints an utterly fond, psychedelically vibrant, laugh-out-loud-funny portrait of an exuberant decade. With sidesplitting commentary, Rushin creates a vivid picture of a decade of wild youth, cultural rebirth, and the meaning of parental, brotherly, sisterly, whole lotta love.

Mario Zeldenstein

UMMMMMMMMMMMMM!
 
PLAYSTATION!!!!!!!
 
That's about all I got out of that!!!!!

I like the opening for those videos and nice border. However I am really disturbed that my name had been removed from the credits for that 5200 Venture.