The No Swear Gamer

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Looking at the just re-released Transformers: Generation 2 Tiger Handheld Game

 

 

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After reviewing the other three, I look at the final of the four Tiger Handheld Game re-releases: Sonic 3.

 

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Atari 2600 Paddle Games Month begins with Ep 635: Night Driver!

 

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Atari 2600 Paddle Games Month continues with Ep 636: Breakout!

 

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Atari Paddle Games Month continues with a rare game in Ep 638: Guardian

 

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Atari 2600 Paddle Games Month shows that knowing is half the battle with Ep 639: G.I. Joe Cobra Strike

 

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Time to check out another rare & obscure game for the Atari 2600.
Ep 640: Sea Monster

 

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Patreon Supporters can now vote for Septembers theme.

 

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Atari 2600 Paddle Games Month continues with a look at this quirky game.
Ep 641: Picnic

 

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Atari 2600 Paddles Games Month continues with this launch title.
Ep 642: Street Racer

 

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A show some rare games I got over the past 5 months in my latest pickups video.

 

[RickR]

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". 

[RickR]

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?

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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]

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. 

 

 

[RickR]

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]

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. 

[RickR]

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. 

[Justin]

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.

[socrates63]

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?

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Atari 2600 Paddle Games Month continues with a trip to the Cosmic Carnival!
Ep 643: Demons to Diamonds

 

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This game features one of the longest game over screens of any Atari 2600 game.
Ep 644: China Syndrome

 

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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

 

[HDN]

Thank you, @nosweargamer. Atari paddle games month was wonderful!

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Sega Genesis Super Hero Games Month begins with a game full of cats, bats and penguins!
Ep 646: Batman Returns