It did come!!!

[Malix]

What a pleasant surprise. I thought the guy from ebay had hosed me but he was just a late sender. I received my atari 4-switch woodgrain yesterday afternoon and let me tell you. It should not be called Nintendo finger but atari finger. I played asteroids and pitfall for a good 5 hours yesterday and I can barely type without bleeding all over the keyboard. The system is as good as I remember it and I cant wait to get some more games. One thing I am sure has been answered before but what is the difficulty switch there for. I assume to change teh difficutly level but it does not seem to make a difference.

[Alex]

Difficulty switch - you guessed it, but not all games utilize it. It usually does things like speed up enemies, make them smaller (harder to hit), make your character slower/larger/whatever, in order to make the game more difficult. Check the individual game manual to see what it does, if anything.

[Joel D. Park]

Congratulations!!!

 

I'm glad your Atari came, that makes me feel all the better about ebay.

 

I've never been actually shafted out of money but I have won a few things Cheap then failed to get emails back from the seller.

 

I also bought a copy of Paint Shop Pro and ended up getting a Pirated Copy. I sent the CD back for a refund and haven't recieved it yet.. So I guess that was a shaft out of money..

[NE146]

The difficulty switches in Asteroids allow for Saucers to come out and attack you. Of course you want this on otherwise it just wouldn't be Asteroids!

 

I also think it's also advisable to play the "even" game numbers which allow the asteroids to travel at angles other than just the boring up&down but I'm sure you knew this already.