nosweargamer Posted August 2, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 2, 2020 Looking at the just re-released Transformers: Generation 2 Tiger Handheld Game Gianna and Justin 2 Quote The No Swear Gamer on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChtJuo040EOCTVziObIgVcg Host of The Atari 7800 Game by Game Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher and YouTube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nosweargamer Posted August 4, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2020 After reviewing the other three, I look at the final of the four Tiger Handheld Game re-releases: Sonic 3. Justin 1 Quote The No Swear Gamer on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChtJuo040EOCTVziObIgVcg Host of The Atari 7800 Game by Game Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher and YouTube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nosweargamer Posted August 4, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2020 Atari 2600 Paddle Games Month begins with Ep 635: Night Driver! Justin 1 Quote The No Swear Gamer on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChtJuo040EOCTVziObIgVcg Host of The Atari 7800 Game by Game Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher and YouTube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nosweargamer Posted August 6, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2020 Atari 2600 Paddle Games Month continues with Ep 636: Breakout! Justin and TrekMD 2 Quote The No Swear Gamer on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChtJuo040EOCTVziObIgVcg Host of The Atari 7800 Game by Game Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher and YouTube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nosweargamer Posted August 12, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2020 Atari Paddle Games Month continues with a rare game in Ep 638: Guardian TrekMD and Justin 2 Quote The No Swear Gamer on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChtJuo040EOCTVziObIgVcg Host of The Atari 7800 Game by Game Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher and YouTube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nosweargamer Posted August 18, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 18, 2020 Atari 2600 Paddle Games Month shows that knowing is half the battle with Ep 639: G.I. Joe Cobra Strike Justin 1 Quote The No Swear Gamer on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChtJuo040EOCTVziObIgVcg Host of The Atari 7800 Game by Game Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher and YouTube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nosweargamer Posted August 18, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 18, 2020 Time to check out another rare & obscure game for the Atari 2600. Ep 640: Sea Monster Justin 1 Quote The No Swear Gamer on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChtJuo040EOCTVziObIgVcg Host of The Atari 7800 Game by Game Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher and YouTube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nosweargamer Posted August 21, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 21, 2020 Patreon Supporters can now vote for Septembers theme. Justin 1 Quote The No Swear Gamer on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChtJuo040EOCTVziObIgVcg Host of The Atari 7800 Game by Game Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher and YouTube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nosweargamer Posted August 21, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 21, 2020 Atari 2600 Paddle Games Month continues with a look at this quirky game. Ep 641: Picnic HDN and Justin 2 Quote The No Swear Gamer on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChtJuo040EOCTVziObIgVcg Host of The Atari 7800 Game by Game Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher and YouTube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nosweargamer Posted August 24, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2020 Atari 2600 Paddles Games Month continues with this launch title. Ep 642: Street Racer HDN and Justin 2 Quote The No Swear Gamer on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChtJuo040EOCTVziObIgVcg Host of The Atari 7800 Game by Game Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher and YouTube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nosweargamer Posted August 25, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2020 A show some rare games I got over the past 5 months in my latest pickups video. Justin and socrates63 2 Quote The No Swear Gamer on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChtJuo040EOCTVziObIgVcg Host of The Atari 7800 Game by Game Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher and YouTube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted August 25, 2020 Report Share Posted August 25, 2020 I gotta tell you, I love the 8-bit reviews the best. It was such a great gaming machine, and I think many overlook it as such. Watching some of your reviews takes me back to the mid-80's when I experienced those games for the first time. I'm looking forward to the Caverns of Mars review. "Final Legacy" is another I hope you'll review. It has the most awesome theme music and varied gameplay. Or the cinematics of "Astro Chase". Justin, socrates63 and nosweargamer 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted August 25, 2020 Report Share Posted August 25, 2020 PS - interesting fact about all three of the 8-bit games I mentioned: They all came from the APX (Atari Program Exchange). Written by ordinary users and submitted to the APX to share with others. The very best of the APX software got promoted to actual releases by Atari. How cool is that? nosweargamer, socrates63 and Justin 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nosweargamer Posted August 25, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2020 3 hours ago, RickR said: I gotta tell you, I love the 8-bit reviews the best. It was such a great gaming machine, and I think many overlook it as such. Watching some of your reviews takes me back to the mid-80's when I experienced those games for the first time. I'm looking forward to the Caverns of Mars review. "Final Legacy" is another I hope you'll review. It has the most awesome theme music and varied gameplay. Or the cinematics of "Astro Chase". I've really enjoyed my time with my 800xl so far. Of course, it helps that almost all the games I've reviewed so far are pretty good. But maybe the Atari 8-bit library is simply of a higer quality than most systems. I never even played an Atari computer until I got my XL, so this has been a fun experience. I don't have Final Legacy, so I'll have to keep an eye out for it. 2 hours ago, RickR said: PS - interesting fact about all three of the 8-bit games I mentioned: They all came from the APX (Atari Program Exchange). Written by ordinary users and submitted to the APX to share with others. The very best of the APX software got promoted to actual releases by Atari. How cool is that? I was today years old when I learned of the APX! That is very cool, and smart of Atari to do. RickR, socrates63 and Justin 3 Quote The No Swear Gamer on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChtJuo040EOCTVziObIgVcg Host of The Atari 7800 Game by Game Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher and YouTube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted August 25, 2020 Report Share Posted August 25, 2020 It was a great gaming machine! That's why I'm kind of "meh" on the 5200. It's not that I don't like the 5200, it's just that the 8-bit computer already did most of the exact same games years earlier. socrates63 and nosweargamer 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted August 25, 2020 Report Share Posted August 25, 2020 Oh, and it's interesting to note how big the 8-bit community was in the early 80's. These were very popular machines with such an elegant design. As in the "Froggo" thread, it's Jack Tramiel who blew the whole thing up. Not when he bought Atari, but when he was with Commodore. He just kept lowering the price of the C54 over and over again until all the other competitors couldn't compete anymore. Atari had to redesign the 400 and 800 to make them cheaper to produce (hence the 600XL and 800XL), but even that wasn't enough. Commodore owned MOS, and they had an insurmountable cost advantage. Commodore would do things like put cardboard RF shields in the 64 that Atari would not stoop to doing. Cheap, cheap, cheap ruined the 8-bit computer generation. Justin, socrates63 and nosweargamer 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted August 25, 2020 Report Share Posted August 25, 2020 34 minutes ago, RickR said: Commodore would do things like put cardboard RF shields in the 64 that Atari would not stoop to doing. Cheap, cheap, cheap ruined the 8-bit computer generation. That's a huge bugaboo of @Video 61. Atari liked to build things solidly. nosweargamer and socrates63 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted August 25, 2020 Report Share Posted August 25, 2020 28 minutes ago, Justin said: That's a huge bugaboo of @Video 61. Atari liked to build things solidly. Mine too. That's why most Atari computers you find now still work with no issues, while it's not easy to find a working Commodore 64. nosweargamer, Justin and socrates63 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted August 25, 2020 Report Share Posted August 25, 2020 3 hours ago, RickR said: Mine too. That's why most Atari computers you find now still work with no issues, while it's not easy to find a working Commodore 64. On the same note we’re fortunate we didn’t have Atari XEs with cardboard RF shields or anything quite as extreme as that. nosweargamer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
socrates63 Posted August 26, 2020 Report Share Posted August 26, 2020 While the 520ST (maybe 1040ST too) was my primary computer back in the 80s and early 90s, I've never fully embraced it from a nostalgia perspective because of the connection to Jack Tramiel. Where's that angry old man shaking his fist emoji? Justin, RickR and nosweargamer 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nosweargamer Posted August 26, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 26, 2020 Atari 2600 Paddle Games Month continues with a trip to the Cosmic Carnival! Ep 643: Demons to Diamonds Justin and socrates63 2 Quote The No Swear Gamer on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChtJuo040EOCTVziObIgVcg Host of The Atari 7800 Game by Game Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher and YouTube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nosweargamer Posted September 1, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2020 This game features one of the longest game over screens of any Atari 2600 game. Ep 644: China Syndrome socrates63 and Justin 2 Quote The No Swear Gamer on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChtJuo040EOCTVziObIgVcg Host of The Atari 7800 Game by Game Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher and YouTube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nosweargamer Posted September 1, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2020 I wrap up Atari 2600 Paddles game month by looking at this cute & tiny plug n play. Ep 645: Atari Paddle Keychain Plug n Play socrates63, Justin and Sabertooth 3 Quote The No Swear Gamer on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChtJuo040EOCTVziObIgVcg Host of The Atari 7800 Game by Game Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher and YouTube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HDN Posted September 1, 2020 Report Share Posted September 1, 2020 Thank you, @nosweargamer. Atari paddle games month was wonderful! socrates63, Sabertooth and nosweargamer 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nosweargamer Posted September 5, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2020 Sega Genesis Super Hero Games Month begins with a game full of cats, bats and penguins! Ep 646: Batman Returns Justin, Sabertooth and socrates63 3 Quote The No Swear Gamer on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChtJuo040EOCTVziObIgVcg Host of The Atari 7800 Game by Game Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher and YouTube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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