Elektro

It's an Atari Jr.

Oh, I forgot why I was gonna post here. When I had a gameboy, my dad used to check out games for it from Origin's testing library, and I got to borrow a lab loaner of one of the origin games that they developed for it. It was huge, so it could support the game ROM and the batteries...it came out from the top of the gameboy at least three inches, and had to be two inches wide both ways. Fun game. Wonder if it's somebody's pride and joy in their collection now.....

I had a special connection to Ultima when I was a kid, cause my dad worked for Origin Systems for at least a couple years. He used to bring home alot of games for me to play when he worked there, around the time Ultima VI came out to after Ultima VII, if I remember correctly. I especially loved one of the Ultima VI offshoots, Martian Dreams. I loved the concept, and I played it for a long time, until a bug in the game kept crashing the computer, and I gave up after that. It had to be one of the cooler places one's dad could work. Richard Garriot (aka Lord Britannia) had the coolest mansion any kid could ever imagine, filled with secret passages, and indoor pool, an observatory on top..... and man, his 4th of July birthday parties were the best. I have alot of great memories, actually....those were good days.

hey orrimarrko....I sent you a private msg.

Thanks alot for you reply. I figured people had forgotten all about this thread. I managed to score about 268,000 a while after I first posted, but I haven't been playing so avidly lately. I got a higher score starting from 0 too, but I forgot to write it down. I know exactly how you feel about it playing in your head....I'm the type who'll just get totally addicted to one game, and play it for days, weeks, months.... I can tell when I've played too much when all I can think about is hypothetical set-ups in tetris and how I'd deal with them given certain pieces..... Nice to see someone else is such a tetris fiend.

I think I may just go ahead and send in my score, if I ever get around to documenting it and mailing it in. Though I am still very curious, does anyone else have a high-score on this game that they want to share? Is my score any good? I want somebody to come out and say that they've either scored way past mine so that I can try for that score, or someone to come out and say that it's really a decent score, so that I actually have some kind of bragging rights..... . Thanks.

I've been playing a lot of Tetris lately on my Nintendo, and I've been racking up a score that no one I know can come anywhere near to beating. The thing is, I know I'm not a very good gamer skill-wise, so I wanted to see how I fared against other gamers. I checked Twin Galaxies scoreboard for NES Tetris scores: http://www.twingalaxies.com/cgi-perl/searc...atformSelect=23 The high score is ranked at like 133,000, which is not a very good score. Is this right? Has nobody bothered to submit a score for the NES version of one of the finest games ever made for any system? My personal high on Game A is about 175,000 starting at level 0, and 233,260 starting at a higher level (six, specifically). Anyhow, what have y'all scored on Tetris? I'm really curious. It's just about the only game I'm really good at, so I'd like to know.

I've never personally tried to fry my systems, as I could never bring myself to possibly hurting one of them (mostly because I know how heartbreaking it is to find an Atari only to discover that it had died). Has anyone tried this on any other systems?

Everytime I get a chance to play two players with someone else, I demand we play surround. One of my all time favorite games.

lol! I was just reading this message, and thinking of the label-less cart I just bought from goodwill yesterday, and it turned out it was Frogger! I haven't found anything in so long, my curiousity got the better of me. I think it's the first label-less cart I've ever bought.

There was that Computer City commercial a little while ago with the man and his wife. He steps in the store and then madly runs into it...as he did, there were sound effects from 2600 Pacman playing in the background. Took me a moment to place them, but it put a smile on my face when I did. Nice to see that advertisers today know where to find good video game sounds.

phooey. you sit and lurk on a board for months and months, then one day someone comes along and steals your handle...what's the world coming to?

Hey, don't forget folks, even if the electronics inside manage to survive another fifty years (and they probably will), the plastic in the systems and cartridges will eventually deteriorate into nothingness. In fact, I recently read an article about how early barbie dolls and some of the first space suits are crumbling into dust! Heck, when I think about it, this is also gonna be a problem for every other piece of plastic in existence! Someday all the precious dolls, and action figures, and everything else will be impossible to preserve. Same thing goes for color photographs too. They'll all fade away with a few years. I guess it all comes down to the fact that virtually everything we make today is not going to last a hundred years like your grandmother's wardrobe.

This actually raises a question I have been thinking about lately...does anyone know where I can find a printable overlay for Star Raiders?

I used to be really into abandonware a couple of years ago, and certain companies would be real curmudgeons about their old software. Most companies didn't care, but it always pissed me off to read about how certain websites were forced to remove games and apps that nobody would ever be able to make another dime off of again. Ugh. I don't think many companies that made console games will bother to try and wipe out ROMs and emulators, though. Mostly that's because the companies that made VCS games are either gone or producing new games for new systems. And their main audience is the folks who buy and play new consoles, not old ones, so the threat to their profits is virtually nonexistent.