Atari 5200 Guy

I like all of the courses but Silence was my favorite. Mute City III was a challenging course for sure. I'd always get those dumb drivers, about to blow up, get in front of me.

4 MB of RAM? Yes. Developing solely on Atari computers? Maybe but makes sense when some ST models had the Blitter processor. Easier to port ST titles to Jaguar? Maybe. The library of games might have helped. But I remember ready Jaguar game reviews in magazines and every one of them praised the system but did not understand why it was getting ports of tired computer games. So, unless those games were missed by the public, porting ST games may or may not have boosted Jaguar. Here is what I would have done. Developed a more user friendly development package. One that is not so difficult to learn. Sign up more third-party developers. The likes of EA, Midway, and Activision would have been great. But, there are a few factors to weigh about Jaguar's downfall. Lack of third-party support, poor marketing strategies, and hard to understand development tools. But I believe the biggest factor was timing. Consider all the consoles at the time Jaguar came out. Sega had Genesis with a new CD add-on, Nintendo was busy with their new Super NES, NEC was toying around with their TG-16, SNK with NEO*GEO. A lot of consoles to go up against. Most of these consoles dealt only with 2D gaming. On the computer side, very little hardware was needed to play games like Doom. You really did not need fancy graphic cards as the graphics were generated by software for the most part. Jaguar was equipped with hardware 3D support, the first of its kind, placing it as the first console to do so. However, 3D gaming on the scale that Jaguar was capable of was a new concept. That jump had not been made prior on any console. Or modern computers for that matter. Jaguar was simply way ahead for its time but should be considered the console that started 3D gaming on a console.

I did a cover art for Dreamcast, too. The copyright is mine. During college I was working on a web site project of my own. It was to be a hybrid social network, history database, buy-sell-trade games, and had 2600 and NES games you could play through a web browser. It was all to be created on the SunFire 1U server I currently own. However, the cost of running that server for one month had a downfall...the electric bill. I simply couldn't afford to run the server so I canceled the project and had to shutdown the server. The copyright name was to be the name of the site.

OK...Love the Samus one. All are cool. I made this for my FB cover photo. Since I don't use FB anymore I might as well move it here.

I believe it would be acceptable. I used a NES Classic Mini in another score challenge not too long ago. Real hardware, dedicated consoles, MAME and emulation are OK.

Oh man. My favorite SNES game...and I don't have it! Too soon! Too soon! I'm not ready LOL. I still need to get a controller for my SNES and this game. Oh such torture.

I know those switches change the firing in 7800's Devious. Left switch turns on/off rapid firing and right one changes firing button properties. Meaning that you can pick whether one button fires main weapon and the other drops bombs or you fire both with a single button. Helps a lot from hand fatigue when using standard 7800 joysticks. I'm surprised Atari didn't mark those somehow.

I do believe the Jaguar has more secrets than Santa's bag of goodies. Always cool to see more stuff turn up about the console's history. It amazes me how the Jaguar and the 7800 were both programmed on ST computers. I wonder what Atari would have used for the 7800 if it remained under Warner's ownership? I don't think the ST would have been thought about nor exist.

No rooftops?!? But Pac-Man is expecting me for a BBQ on the rooftop. Well, guess I will have to cancel the BBQ and go to Fix it Felix's party instead. 😁

I love that illuminated XBOX sign. All of them are cool but I think the XBOX one is my favorite. The Nintendo one just looks off to me. I'm more use to seeing the Nintendo name surrounded by a rounded outline.

WHOOA! I love that XBOX! I have an extra one I could do that to (but it still needs a optical drive and cable that connects both optical and hard drive to the motherboard). Would be a good guinea pig project. My S-Controller needs new thumbstick pads. They are really sticky and yuck. Thumbstick, itself, is still really good. Tell me the XBOX glows green when turned on?

Question for anyone that may know. What are the dimensions of the profile cover photo? I know the size limit is 511MB. I need the X and Y limits, please. Thank you!

OK. So where will the access to the chatroom be? On the main page, across the top?

Sticks are easily replaced and not too terribly expensive. We got lucky...our grape one felt barely used. We use it but we are babying it as much as possible. I'm glad we have the usual standard issue N64 to help keep wear and tear off of the grape model. But you got lucky, too. $20 for any colored N64 is a steal. Might as well used the five finger discount card. LOL

LOL...364 of those, right RickR?

Yes!! Chat is back. As for the issues I mentioned...was just small things I noticed. Web design college training did teach how to spot issues if nothing more. So far every time I have visited the site it has been using a secure link. The Thrift Store thread corrected itself after I posted.

That Jungle Green N64 is extremely rare. Hang on to it. We have the grape one. Those are really cool. Controller looks to be in great shape.

I know this site is still being fine-tuned but I thought I would point to areas I have had issues with so far. Tapping on Thrift Store Finds on right, main index, returns a 404 error. Description for 2-Player score has text background of a different color. It's slight but it is there. I keep getting bell notifications but when I go to view them the forum returns an error message that it can not be found. Just thought I would give a heads up of what I have run into so far. Please try not to make it too much like Facebook because I don't like that site's design. I don't even visit Facebook any more.

"coff coff"... i wondered what happened.

Active listener here as well. While I have know about the ST for a few years now I have no knowledge of its offerings. I am literally just now reading ST magazines to see what was to come and what actually made it. While the ST was in production I was enjoying the NES, 7800, and other game consoles. The ST simply didn't exist in my area, nor Atari for that matter. I got a 386 PC close to the end of the ST's run. But most of my research has turned up games I played heavily on that 386 including Railroad Tycoon and SimCity. I enjoy all kinds of games but when it comes to computers I am a sucker for simulations. I can't wait to see what all the ST has to offer. My major concern is where the ST got the most support...in the UK. I am concerned that games from there will not work correctly on a NTSC setup. And it seems the ST got a majority of the games I would play most in the UK, especially the Sega titles.

If only I had a Vectrex. Rare machine these days.

Is that suppose to be a dragon in that picture?

Don't have this one for whatever reason. May sit this one out.

Wow! Cindy Morgan!! She made it back into the real world? LOL. Just kidding. Cool to see that she was there. And, Tempest 2000!!! I'd be there just for that! And the Project Pinball booth looked interesting. Make's me wish that Pinball Arcade could get back their licenses for Bally/Williams machines. I've still got the ones I purchased but missed those I was going after. Looked like an awesome event.