Atari 5200 Guy

I’ve been looking for Desert Falcon and Xenophobe for the 7800.  

And that takes away some of the duplicate games I have.  I think I still have a few you don’t have.  You will have to update us on what games you have now.

Those were the only duplicates I would have had.  So I don’t have any extras I can send you.  Sorry.

Those were the only duplicates I would have had.  So I don’t have any extras I can send you.  Sorry.

Interesting.  But humans don’t need to go to another planet.  We can’t take care of this one, why do we need to go screw up another one?  Aliens fly by this one and roll their windows up as fast as they can. Only the dumb aliens come to visit because they don’t know no better. 

They have been trying for a long time now to find other planets like ours and I do hope they find them.  Some want to find other life forms, others want to simply find other planets like ours that are capable of supporting life as we know it.  But until we can repair our planet we really don’t need to move in to another planet.  It wouldn’t survive our way of living.

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Achievement Unlocked  90000G - A real life achievement! 😁

I just bought a Lot of 10 games that I should get my the end of the month. I have Pole Position 2, Robotron, Mrs Pac-Man, Galaga, Food Fight, Dig Dug, Joust, Asteroids and can't recall the other titles coming. 

I have pieced together a “hi-fi” sound system.  Every piece of it bought not working at Goodwill.  I fixed all of it up.  It includes a 600-watt analog receiver with AM/FM, 5 Disc Changer (you can change other discs while one plays), dual cassette decks with Auto Reverse (remember when that was a huge thing), and two Technics turntables; one direct drive from a radio station according to Goodwill, the other is a fully automatic belt drive model. Both have new stylus setups and the belt drive has a new belt.  Everything else is Sony other than the two TTs.  When I get home I’ll take pics of it.  
 
I know some people say they like the fact they can have all their music in the palm of their hand.  I get it.  I love my iPod and iPhone too but there is just something more interesting, interactive, involving using analog gear that can’t be experienced any other way.
 I’d prefer vinyl and cassettes over MP3s any day.  CDs are even starting to be phased out looks like.  You can’t find a Discman anymore. I’d like to find an old Emerson personal cassette player like I had back in high school. I played the heck out of that thing.  I had my own stereo setup then with tons of vinyl, I’d make mix tapes and take them with me to school.  When teachers were done I’d put headphones on and do my school work.
You have not lived until you have spent hours picking out songs, adjusting the recoding volume per song, timing everything, just for about an hour and a half’s worth of ear pleasure.  I never had a tape that had more than 10 seconds of blank space on the ends.

I’ve had an all-in-one personal stereo ldentical to this one:

Mom was a crazy picky about stereo gear and I don’t know where she got it from.  If the tape decks did not have Auto Reverse she was not interested…at all.  
 
When I turned 15 my mother took me to wal-mart to find me a birthday gift. I couldn’t find anything.  NES games were of no interest, a lot of the music then was not interesting to me.  Mom said to help her find a cassette tape and then we would go someplace else.  
 
Our Wal-Mart had a habit of placing non-Sony branded Walkman units in the middle of their tape shelves.  That’s where we found that little unit above.  I still remember it being $20.  I got a few blank tapes, some of the early gray Koss earbuds for like $5.  And some batteries.
 
 I have to admit that little player impressed me.  It had a really good sound.  Every year after that Mom replaced my players with new Emerson models and would grab her one as well to listen to when she laid out in the sun.  But that model above was my go to unit.  I loved it.

I’ve had an all-in-one personal stereo ldentical to this one:

Mom was a crazy picky about stereo gear and I don’t know where she got it from.  If the tape decks did not have Auto Reverse she was not interested…at all.  
 
When I turned 15 my mother took me to wal-mart to find me a birthday gift. I couldn’t find anything.  NES games were of no interest, a lot of the music then was not interesting to me.  Mom said to help her find a cassette tape and then we would go someplace else.  
 
Our Wal-Mart had a habit of placing non-Sony branded Walkman units in the middle of their tape shelves.  That’s where we found that little unit above.  I still remember it being $20.  I got a few blank tapes, some of the early gray Koss earbuds for like $5.  And some batteries.
 
 I have to admit that little player impressed me.  It had a really good sound.  Every year after that Mom replaced my players with new Emerson models and would grab her one as well to listen to when she laid out in the sun.  But that model above was my go to unit.  I loved it.

I have pieced together a “hi-fi” sound system.  Every piece of it bought not working at Goodwill.  I fixed all of it up.  It includes a 600-watt analog receiver with AM/FM, 5 Disc Changer (you can change other discs while one plays), dual cassette decks with Auto Reverse (remember when that was a huge thing), and two Technics turntables; one direct drive from a radio station according to Goodwill, the other is a fully automatic belt drive model. Both have new stylus setups and the belt drive has a new belt.  Everything else is Sony other than the two TTs.  When I get home I’ll take pics of it.  
 
I know some people say they like the fact they can have all their music in the palm of their hand.  I get it.  I love my iPod and iPhone too but there is just something more interesting, interactive, involving using analog gear that can’t be experienced any other way.
 I’d prefer vinyl and cassettes over MP3s any day.  CDs are even starting to be phased out looks like.  You can’t find a Discman anymore. I’d like to find an old Emerson personal cassette player like I had back in high school. I played the heck out of that thing.  I had my own stereo setup then with tons of vinyl, I’d make mix tapes and take them with me to school.  When teachers were done I’d put headphones on and do my school work.
You have not lived until you have spent hours picking out songs, adjusting the recoding volume per song, timing everything, just for about an hour and a half’s worth of ear pleasure.  I never had a tape that had more than 10 seconds of blank space on the ends.

I’ve had an all-in-one personal stereo ldentical to this one:

Mom was a crazy picky about stereo gear and I don’t know where she got it from.  If the tape decks did not have Auto Reverse she was not interested…at all.  
 
When I turned 15 my mother took me to wal-mart to find me a birthday gift. I couldn’t find anything.  NES games were of no interest, a lot of the music then was not interesting to me.  Mom said to help her find a cassette tape and then we would go someplace else.  
 
Our Wal-Mart had a habit of placing non-Sony branded Walkman units in the middle of their tape shelves.  That’s where we found that little unit above.  I still remember it being $20.  I got a few blank tapes, some of the early gray Koss earbuds for like $5.  And some batteries.
 
 I have to admit that little player impressed me.  It had a really good sound.  Every year after that Mom replaced my players with new Emerson models and would grab her one as well to listen to when she laid out in the sun.  But that model above was my go to unit.  I loved it.

I have pieced together a “hi-fi” sound system.  Every piece of it bought not working at Goodwill.  I fixed all of it up.  It includes a 600-watt analog receiver with AM/FM, 5 Disc Changer (you can change other discs while one plays), dual cassette decks with Auto Reverse (remember when that was a huge thing), and two Technics turntables; one direct drive from a radio station according to Goodwill, the other is a fully automatic belt drive model. Both have new stylus setups and the belt drive has a new belt.  Everything else is Sony other than the two TTs.  When I get home I’ll take pics of it.  
 
I know some people say they like the fact they can have all their music in the palm of their hand.  I get it.  I love my iPod and iPhone too but there is just something more interesting, interactive, involving using analog gear that can’t be experienced any other way.
 I’d prefer vinyl and cassettes over MP3s any day.  CDs are even starting to be phased out looks like.  You can’t find a Discman anymore. I’d like to find an old Emerson personal cassette player like I had back in high school. I played the heck out of that thing.  I had my own stereo setup then with tons of vinyl, I’d make mix tapes and take them with me to school.  When teachers were done I’d put headphones on and do my school work.
You have not lived until you have spent hours picking out songs, adjusting the recoding volume per song, timing everything, just for about an hour and a half’s worth of ear pleasure.  I never had a tape that had more than 10 seconds of blank space on the ends.

My parents had a Magnavox brand console stereo for a few years.  It was fried twice in Italy due to failing/faulty power converters.  Then somewhere between 76 & 78 Dad switched to a component setup, which was real nice.  It's interesting now that many people do not even have stereos anymore, but use bluetooth soundbars to use with their cell phone or TV.

This is the closest image I could find. Not my picture.

I use to keep my feet under the TV to keep them warm from the heat the TV would put off.

My great grandmother use to get on to me when I was a toddler. Mom would sit me in the floor in front of great grandma’s stereo and I figured out how to spin the knobs off the front of it.  She’d slap my hands and tell me to leave her knobs alone.  Worked for about five seconds. I ended up with that stereo.  They had a huge sound.  
 
Our family TV when I was little was an all-in-one RCA unit.  It was about a 25” TV with stereo/8-track on one side and record player on the other.  I will see if I can find a picture of it online as I have absolutely no family photos.

I’ve got a small bunch if 8-tracks I found but no way to play them. One tape is the Grease soundtrack and I have Three Dog Night with the song Old Fashioned Love Song.

This is the closest image I could find. Not my picture.

I use to keep my feet under the TV to keep them warm from the heat the TV would put off.

My great grandmother use to get on to me when I was a toddler. Mom would sit me in the floor in front of great grandma’s stereo and I figured out how to spin the knobs off the front of it.  She’d slap my hands and tell me to leave her knobs alone.  Worked for about five seconds. I ended up with that stereo.  They had a huge sound.  
 
Our family TV when I was little was an all-in-one RCA unit.  It was about a 25” TV with stereo/8-track on one side and record player on the other.  I will see if I can find a picture of it online as I have absolutely no family photos.

This is the closest image I could find. Not my picture.

I use to keep my feet under the TV to keep them warm from the heat the TV would put off.

Ok. JavaAtari is cool but I don’t believe I’ll be winning any high scores on it.  Touch controls are iffy most of the time.

Hmmm…you just gave me an idea.

I figured out a way to play 2600 games.  I remembered JavAtari website.