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Wouldn't do me any good...I only have super tennis and I wouldn't have that if not for RickR. F-Zero challenge would be nice.

A little better but still far from the top. This was real hardware using a wico joystick. 6850

I played it a couple times last weekend on my NES classic and I sucked. Not even worth posting the score. I'll try again on real hardware with the proper joystick and I hope I can bump it up a bit. Not going to come close to the big wigs in this thread though

5030 in under the gun. Happy Halloween!
 

Nothing to be sorry for at all, I get it and as I attempted to convey in my post,  I agree with your assessment.
We make friends online and over the years being in this hobby  connect with some people BUT THAT SAID it is not the first time I later would disagree or straight up disapprove of someones opinion or actions. This is because, whether or not it is to a fault, I call things out and I always try to be honest and informed in my opinion because, I stand by what I say.
At times, telling it like it is or calling something out can definitely rub someone the wrong way. I have had a slight issue in the past where I advised buying product from a certain source, I was later contacted from a person who in the past, I had reviewed and recommended their product and they did not like that I was sending traffic to a competitor. Thing is, since my initial findings, video, review, I had dealt with another distributor that I felt gave over all a better deal especially for those who liked to tinker a bit or did not need all the bells and whistles included with the product. But this person seemed to take it quite personally, at some point I realized from their dialogue that they just assumed because of some past dealing and association that I was somehow now on "their side" and would should never suggest a competitor. Well, that's not me and really, if my association with someone depends solely on me backing them up and never suggesting to fellow hobbyist and gamer a cheaper or perhaps better alternative well, that is an association I could do without. I felt I even likely sacrificed receiving future product from them but you know, given the chance I would do it all over again because I felt I was true and honest to myself, I will always call it as I see it, I may not always be right but the best I can do is be honest with myself and others and hope those that stick with me are the true friends. 

Sorry Rob I had no idea you were close to Bill and again I want to reiterate I'm not going after him as a person, I'm going after him as a representative of the company he works for. For better or worse he's the face of the company and his words are their words and assuming that's true, I have a big problem with those words.
 
Having said all of this I have not ruled out getting a Flashback 9. As a fellow Canuck you know these are a hundred canuck bucks and at that price point I expect a certain quality from my purchase. As i mentioned over at AA, if the NES Classic is $80, has a superb quality and can be hacked to the teeth (my entire collection is on it now, plus some Mame games) then I would think a product that wants $20 more from me had better be at least close in quality.
 
I asked Bill for a ballpark on the availability and price of the paddles for the flashback 9 and was told when he knows we'll know. How do they not know when the flashback 9's are in store and available (on walmart.ca anyway I haven't gone in the stores). This is especially important because by design it seems the flashback 9's will ONLY work with their paddles FOR THIS YEAR. Previous flashback paddles apparently won't work, neither do original paddles. If they are in short supply that makes portions of the games unplayable with no other options available. 

Eh, I agree with you. I like Bill, we go back to Armchair arcade, some podcasts etc, known him a long time, he definitely has always been more of a "glass half full" type. We have had pleasant exchanges and I would like to think even a friendship and have been supportive of each others endeavours so I never align myself when someone over on AA that straight up calls him nothing more than a shill for AtGames but THAT SAID, I have cut Bill a lot of slack in past, as well, and like you, challenged some ideas BUT lately, yeah I am finding his association with AtGames is definitely imho causing him to lose some objectivity and perhaps with that some credibility.
 
I believe he means to be honest and when pressed I would say he is a good well meaning person but he does seem defensive to a fault where AtGames is concerned. And I agree, the "Causal audience" excuse does not hold water for me anymore, it seems to be the card AtGames often plays whenever they just don't want to admit to the crap quality or have a real excuse for the product shortcomings. Like you say, when AtGames is sending product to Gaming Youtubers for review and giving info to articles etc they cannot then go claiming their product is for the impulse casual gamer the moment they are questioned or called out, and even so that is NOT a good excuse for shoddy product or business practices. To suggest that Atgames does anything more than release (and re-release) the cheapest low end barely satisfactory experience to make the most profit cashing in on nostalgia is just silly at this point. That is exactly the AtGames strategy and on some level I wish they would just own up to it. 

I don't know if he frequents here but I've been getting into it with Bill Loguidice a bit on Atariage. It's nothing personal and I get that he seems to be the PR guy for ATgames (and the one I suspect is behind the twitter comments for Atgames, same type of verbiage) but I find some of his comments defending them disingenuous. I can't put my finger on it but some of his comments don't sit with me as being entirely truthful
 
Frankly I never bought the "casual audience" argument. A company that doesn't care about the atari collector and hardcore enthusiast seems to spend a lot of time having their PR guy post on an Atari fan website and sends review copies to one of the biggest retro collectors out there - John Hancock. Am I wong?

HAHA  Best comment EVER!!!

But did you have fun????? Thats the point I would say bro!!
 
But it gives him focus!!!! haha

Not my vid but had to share. Cheaper and better than AtGames options at least! 
 
 

A little better but still far from the top. This was real hardware using a wico joystick. 6850

3260 for a warm up.
 
Using an Original 2600JR w/ original joystick because the RetroN77 is an amazing pile of poo poo cha cha!!!! lol

A little better but still far from the top. This was real hardware using a wico joystick. 6850

A little better but still far from the top. This was real hardware using a wico joystick. 6850

I played it a couple times last weekend on my NES classic and I sucked. Not even worth posting the score. I'll try again on real hardware with the proper joystick and I hope I can bump it up a bit. Not going to come close to the big wigs in this thread though

I played it a couple times last weekend on my NES classic and I sucked. Not even worth posting the score. I'll try again on real hardware with the proper joystick and I hope I can bump it up a bit. Not going to come close to the big wigs in this thread though

I may get the paddle one since there are not many modern alternatives to play those games with a proper paddle controller. The rest I can leave. I use my NES Classic for everything else that requires HDMI.
 
I am curious about the 1UP style full size arcade cab with 400 games. The optimist in me sees great possibilities but realistically it'll probably be a train wreck.

Thought some here might be interested.     
 
http://priorartgames.eu/2018/10/20/assembloids2600-binaries-for-free/

For sale -- asking $45 shipped in the USA.
 
An Atari 2600 with composite mod.  I did not do this mod myself.  This console came to me broken, and I simply had to resolder several wires.  It works perfectly.  Repair and clean-up are all I did to it.  Full disclosure -- the A/V ports were placed a little too close together for my taste.  Normal composite cables work just fine...but larger cables (example:  Monster) will not fit.  The mod itself was done properly and looks good to me. 
 
This is for the console only. 
 
Upgrades available for extra:
After-market power adapter - $7 A/V cables (yellow/white/red) - $3 Joysticks - $6 each Games - PM me.  I have a bunch of common games.  Probably $1.50 each (to account for extra shipping cost).  

I bought a SMS on eBay, and the seller said it was broken.  It was described as "no up or right movement".  Sure enough, when I got it, that was the case.  It looked like someone had dropped something right on the left controller port.  I got a good deal on it.  I figured it would be worth the gamble.
 
I was able to fix the "Up" portion just by resoldering pin 1 on the P1 controller connector.  But resoldering pin 4 did not fix "right".  I ended up testing continuity with a volt-meter and figured there was a bad trace between Pin 4 and the weird buffer looking part on the board.  So I ended up putting in a wire between the two...and now it works!  I'm so excited. 

Please pardon the poor solder job.  I will clean it up.  For now, I just wanted to see if that would fix it, and it did. 

And for kamikaze -- this particular SMS has Hang-On built in.
 
 

Thank you, Justin, for bringing this topic up.  Now that I've got my collection out (to take the picture), I'm really looking forward to looking through some of the reels.  Some of these things are really like time-machines...you actually feel/smell/taste your memories from 30, 40 years ago.  Just like music or art can do. 

I LOVE the View Master.  View Master was invented in my hometown of Portland, OR.  The factory that made them was here for most of my childhood. 
 
Here is a picture of my meager collection.  I have about 50 reels.  The old viewer is long gone, but I kept the one we bought when my kids were young.  Mid 1990's.  You guys are right that the older viewers were really special.  They were heavy and had glass lenses and metal cases.  I have no idea what happened to ours.  The modern ones work well, but feel cheap. 

My favorite reels are the "travel" ones (example:  Yellowstone, Crater Lake, etc).  They really capture landscapes of things that in many cases no longer exist.  The other really cool ones are the ones where they made and photographed little 3D vignettes.  A lot of the old Disney ones (Snow White, Pinoochio) were done this way, and those ones have a "Rankin / Bass" style of art and a 3D effect to them.
 
As far as collecting goes, these things just don't come up that often that I've seen.  But when I see them, I usually grab them.
 
Also pictured is my Fisher Price movie viewer.  I need to find more moves for that thing too.
 
 

My older brother, who has since passed away, used to have a fairly large viewmaster collection. Stuff from the 60's and 70's mostly I believe. Now that I think about it, I don't know what happened to it after he died. Man those pictures bring back memories. I would think that some of those would be worth quite a bit. I'm not up on Viewmaster value but it would be a really fun hobby to get into.

My older brother, who has since passed away, used to have a fairly large viewmaster collection. Stuff from the 60's and 70's mostly I believe. Now that I think about it, I don't know what happened to it after he died. Man those pictures bring back memories. I would think that some of those would be worth quite a bit. I'm not up on Viewmaster value but it would be a really fun hobby to get into.