Atari 5200 Guy

Come on, @RickR! You can do it! And you can take too spot, too. I have faith I you young Jedi.

BTW...Happy Atari Day!

I finally broke 100k! 104,250.

I like the 7800 manual personally. Documents are hard for me to come by these days. I've never played Karateka on the 7800. I also lack Ballblazer for it which I need to fix soon.

Wow. Nice set!

Ah. Just seen that.

I'm digging that Missile Command. That thing looks sick!

Is it just the console or does it have controllers too?

Flashback 2? I'll have to research that one. I forget what one that is.

All of these have a 1987 year. And I know some 7800 games have year variations. Does anyone have a boxed Asteroids from another year? Or, just it can be verified, a loose cart with a different year on it.

My Grandmother, Mom, and Great Aunt all gifted me 7800 stuff one Christmas holiday. I already had an NES and SMS at the time. I was probably 15, 16? And a trip to a mall that was out of town is what made all that happen. I have already posted elsewhere how that trip went. For that reason I won't repeat myself. But my dear Grandmother I believe forked all the money for all those gifts that year and just let Mom and my Aunt pick which they want to gift. The console and majority of the games came from her, though. I ended up with PPII, Xevious, Galaga, Asteroids, Joust, Centipede, Robotron, Dig Dug,, and Ms. Pac-Man. I'm glad I got it that year or I would have never been able to again. Shortly after the holiday that her the toy store those came from up and left. No warning. I never seen another 7800 again until 1999 in a secondhand store. I kept the boxes to every 7800 game and the console... something I did t do with my NES. I loved that little console.

What?!? No light gun or trakball support? 😞. Kind of along the same lines as a movie quote from Doc Brown. "No wonder this sucked failed, it says 'Made in Japan'." "What do you mean, Doc? All the best stuff comes from Japan." 😲 I have to agree with you, though. As much as I love the 7800 and its games those controllers were tendonitis-inducing weapons of destruction. The balance is way off. Another design should have been tried or both regions should have received the pad controllers with the system. At least with that it would have had a bit more success. Maybe. That was the only thing that kept me from enjoying it like I wanted to BITD otherwise I would have played it more than the NES.

My original Cyber morph was a pack in that came with my Jaguar. I always thought the morphing logo screen was iconic and seemed to enhance the story. Now that I know ...

Dang it. I have the 1 MB version. That explains why I remember the morphing title but never see it on the cart I have now. I originally had the 2 MB version.

When I was a kid I enjoyed the reading materials that came with my 5200 stuff. I would take the poster, owner's manual, game catalog with Asteroids advertised, and sometimes manuals to newly acquired games, with me to school and read them. Today I still enjoy reading the materials that comes with the NOS games. Especially Atari games because the stories they would come up with to support the game was very imaginative. I remember when I started taking care of my grandmother. My 5200's game catalog was found in her bedside night stand. I have no clue how long it had been there because I thought I lost it at school. I like reading them because you never know. Let us know what your Asteroids says.

This one looks extremely interesting.

I have a boxed Asteroids for the 7800 and I was looking it over and noticed something odd. See if you can catch it. Looks normal, right? Screenshot of Asteroids, what it's for, some of it features. Keep looking. Here...I'll zoom in. I'll leave now for you all to comment about it.

I was just about to respond. I have done it one time but you have to be very accurate. Your tiny javelin leaves no room for error. I don't know if you get points for the kill or not.

Awesome score. You're not making this easy for me 😁 Just kidding man. Nice score. Care to share any secrets?

Color issue solved. The 2600 colors needed adjustment.

I'm actually using the LCD of an older portable DVD player. Wanna see? When I modded my 7800 to fix the bad RF modulator I also added a pulled headphone jack from a broken genesis. I was able to use that to connect it to a portable DVD player with inputs. Kind of neat actually. While I'm here score update: 75650. I'm knocking on someone's door...I just don't know who's door.

Is my color off? I notice the bottom of some screenshots are brown, mine is purple ish.

Improved my score. 68,150.

I had help. Google. Nuff said.

You mention how it is sad that Jack's Atari didn't give us nicer things. By the time I got my 7800 I had already owned an NES and SMS for a couple of years at least and had acquired a substantial amount of games for each. In was probably on my 2nd year subscription to NP magazine so I wouldn't miss anything. So, yea, I had all 3 at the same time during my teenage years. And, no, I'm not trying to brag...I'm just expressing where I'm coming from. If not for that one trip to find something I would like for Christmas from my dear grandmother I would have never known about the 7800. She bought me most of my game consoles but the 7800 I remember the best. I'm glad we went because my grandmother and me were not going to go originally. Neither one of us was feeling too good. Atari Jack might not have done something's right but the 7800 really didn't need anything other than a stronger presentation on the market. The NES, unfortunately, had pretty much cornered the market. The SMS nor the 7800 stood a chance. In its defense, however, the 7800 is a remarkable console and I have fond memories of it when I owned all 3 systems. Just like my SMS the 7800 fed a need the NES simply could not satisfy...arcade entertainment. I turned to 5he SMS for some good Sega Arcade enjoyment. Likewise the 7800 filled in the arcade games that were not Sega games. Asteroids and Ms. Pac-Man were easy targets, Ballblazer always blew my mind, mom liked Centipede. The 7800, even then, filled a gap that was much needed and it continues to hold that spot proudly. The 7800 maintained the Atari feel that may only be understood by those who lived through it. It was not a disappointment. What games both the NES and 7800 got just seem better on the 7800. That's my opinion of it.