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Lol those takes on games based on their names are hilarious. Why wouldnt ace of aces be a card game right? Awesome stories Justin

This thing better have Bubsy 3D or I'm out

Fantastic story. I love stuff like this, it makes those experiences we all had more real, knowing that others have felt the same thing. Summer/Fall 1993 was also around the time I started collecting for the 2600, back in the wild west, before the internet and before there was any perceived value in these old games and systems. That wonderful time when I could put a wanted ad in the local paper for atari and people would come to me with boxes and bags of systems and games for pennies on the dollar. thanks for posting this Justin 😀

I would assume at least one crash game would be on it. Crash Racing would be fantastic and a no-brainer. Possible to get some heavy hitters like Castlevania: SOTN, Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil, Tomb Raider, Tony Hawk? Parappa the Rapper would be a good all around family title that kids even today would get a kick out of. Personally I'd love to see the first Colony Wars and Road Rash Jailbreak but I kind of doubt it, Colony Wars is a niche title and first person space combat games aren't that popular with the plug and play crowd but I could be wrong and would EA even licence their games for this? I kinda doubt it. I wish it came with the analog controllers but it is what it is and I guess is an indication that the games will most likely be early, non-analog style games. So at $100 US I'm assuming $130 - $140 Canadian which will most likely put it outside my personal price/interest Venn diagram but ultimately that will come down to the actual game list. Wish it had more than 20.

Looks like Atari Corp, 1986

More pics. International version perhaps?

Looks like it sold, congrats Rick

I do have a boxed junior. I don't know if these are Canadian versions. I usually see the reddish/brown box but this one is grey with a $64.99 Kmart price tag. I should say I didn't actually buy a boxed junior. I bought some atari 8-bit carts years ago from a local collector and he was nice enough to show up with all those carts in this little junior box.

Sorry I don't have any of those available Rick.

Well since I haven't made a new video in months, and it's almost hockey season again, I thought I'd post one of my old videos - A history of hockey video games. I had removed several videos from my channel years ago and put them on Dailymotion to avoid youtubes copyright crackdown because of music in some of them. (Does anyone even use Dailymotion?) There are some goofs in the video, it's not in high def, and yes I realize the Jets exist again now but when I made this in 2011, they were still the Atlanta Thrashers. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xesapd

Wow I remember that video Rob. GoldenAxe, that guy had some health problems didn't he? I don't think he's been on Atariage in years. He was one of the biggest sellers on the site IIRC.

Out of curiosity, what kind of trades are you looking for? Chances are I don't have it but I'm curious nonetheless.

Well if I come across any 4 switch parts machines in the future I'll just grab the rf shield out of one of those. Wouldn't I have to cut a slot out of the shield since I'm running one wire soldered to the base of a resistor that sits inside the shield area?

It's a possibility. The AA user who did the original mod did say he replaced the voltage regulator but I don't think he mentioned if it was 500ma or 1amp. I may have some extra's from Console5. I believe these were the ones I bought, I believe they're 1amp https://console5.com/store/7805-5-volt-regulator.html PS - I didn't take a pic but I used strips of that metallic tape and bridged the switches on each side and then from the innermost one to the metal strip that runs along where the rf shield would normally sit. I hope that is sufficient to preventing and static issues. So far so good though.

Well after several months I finally got around to installing a new mod from ebay. I took the original apart and started from scratch. Unfortunately the problems still persist so it's not the mod itself after all. I'll attach pictures but if you go to the first post you can see the output is the same. Lady bug in particular looks horrible but I had that problem from the beginning even on unmodded systems through RF. It's hard to tell on the Draconian picture but there are wavy lines all through the picture. So should I take an RF shield from another Vader and put it in this one? The original was thrown out by the person I bought the modded system from. Or is there another possible reason for this RF looking interference on a composite modded system. Again this only seems to happen with 3 homebrews - Draconian, LadyBug and Fall Down. Space Rocks, Juno First, and Colony 7 seem fine and all original games look great too. So other than 3 games this mod seems to work fine. It seems to be a homebrew issue but Al mentioned he's never seen anything like it and considering how many hundreds of homebrews and systems he tests, I trust it's something peculiar to my Vader. PS - This was my first attempt at modding a system myself so other than the original problem being present, I'm pretty proud of myself

What is a good modern source for replacing the metal tape and if I can't find a replacement shield can I at least ground the tape to the metal on the board that the shield attaches to?

I did get in my mod kit from ebay, similar to the one RickR posted a picture of in post 35. I'll install it next weekend when I get time. I didn't think grounding to the metal strip was the way it was supposed to go. I can get an RF shield off another vader I suppose and you're right I should get that metal tape to ground the switches I don't know why they're missing. I'm assuming the person who modded it thought the rf shield wasn't needed anymore. Of course I'd have to remove the current ground since it would be in the way of putting the shield back so the new mod kit is probably the best way to go anyway and I can run the ground from the mod chip as it should be.

Dammit they don't ship to Canada. You can only preorder if you live in the States?

I stopped following the ataribox because it just became some weird thing about tacos. Now I'm fascinated again, not because of the product or my desire to have one but to see what happens next.

Frankly I'm shocked

I really liked it. The only weird part is how he got the name "Solo". Seemed contrived and unnecessary but other than that, yea I really liked it.

I was wondering the same thing. This is not the NES classic and if the price point hovers around $100 I can't see anyone other than the diehards buying one. I'm not an Intellivision guy but I'd be interested if the price is right and hopefully they don't just do throwback controllers. It's the reason I don't own a real one. Those things are awful.

One of the other hobbies of mine is refinishing old furniture. Old wooden dressers, real wood not that particle board crap, can sometimes be found fairly cheaply at yard sales or goodwill, etc especially if it's kind of beat up. You can then strip and sand them and re-stain them, put on some new hardware and you have a nice storage solution. Dressers I find are great for storing games or items you don't necessarily want displayed and they're great and strong enough for putting smaller CRT's and consoles on top for playing.

Am I the only one who kind of looks at my collection in parts as in these games are part of my collection but these aren't? By that I mean I do own some Big box older PC games and I have a PS3, a PS4 and a Wii but I don't consider them part of my "collection". I view them as separate. My collection is my Atari and NES stuff and the rest are just video games I own and enjoy. Is that weird?