MickG

First Try - but there's more to come. The game is even more competing if you try not to use the point scoring hints. Shame cheating that easy in this game! Would have been a nice Dig Dug clone, despite of the poor graphics... I played the NTSC ROM on Stella and yes - the screen jumps sometimes. Btw - clearing a level seems to be rewarded with 5,000 bonus points!

To me it's definitely the wood-grain 6-switch. It was my first 2600er and the one all my friends had back in the early 80's. When I started a new 2600 collection about a year ago I started it with another 6-switch woody!

Shame I didn't find this forum earlier... Sounds like great fun. Here's my score (not much though...):

short form of Mick Garcia, my stage name and alter ego (see www.mickgarcia.com)

I'll be 40 in December... I restarted collecting 2600 items only a few moths ago. At Ebay I shot a good old 6-switch in "as new" condition for about €50 (approx. $55), coming with 1 just as good joystick and an original Pac Man cartridge with picture label. I also shot some more cartridges like Space Invaders, Circus Atari, Donkey Kong, Football and Combat. Unfortunately I crashed the reset switch function somehow by plugging a digital Competition Pro joystick of my old Commodore Amiga into the 2600er. Ever since I did that to play Space Invaders together with a friend the reset switch refused to work anymore! So I just bought another 2600er to play Space Invaders (that needs the reset switch to start playing). It's a 4-switch "Darth Vader" in quite poor condition (at least it was cheap: < €10). But the video quality of the Darth Vader is crap on a new TV set, compared to the good old 6-switch. So I'm looking for somebody to replace the reset switch of the great 6-switch with the one from the Darth Vader. Anyway - I started my first collection in 1982 with another 6-switch. I personally owned about 20 cartridges til the late 80's and as we founded a club of 2600 owners in 1982 we had most of the most popular games to share and play together (must have been about 100 different cartridges). Shame I sold my first 2600 collection in the early 90's as I changed to playing computer games only further on.

1. Space Invaders 2. Dream Flight 3. Donkey Kong 4. Combat 5. Superman 6. Adventure 7. Frogger 8. Barnstorming 9. Pitfall II 10. River Raid

I bought my first 2600er back in 1982 mostly because I was impressed by almost ANY of its games! A couple of friends and me were so impressed by that "magic machine" that we founded a club to promote playing the games together in small competitions with up to 10 players. It was the first Lower Saxony club listet at the German ATARI fan clubs list, the 2nd ever in Germany. And it still exists, 25 years after! Okay then, the top 5 games that impressed me the most were: 1. Space Invaders (yep - still my favourite after all those years! ) 2. Superman (maybe the most innovative game for the 2600er ever!) 3. Adventure (the great-grandfather of all adventure games!) 4. Donkey Kong (I beaceme an addict to that game from the first time I saw it) 5. Dream Flight (IMHO the best shoot-em-up after Space Invaders, but it's THAT rare, it isn't even listet on atariage.com! I can't remember the label, but it was some low budget label late in the 80's. I bought the game at a wholesale just because it was cheap: 10,- DM = about $4,- and I loved it. It was a great mix of Space Invaders, Galaxians, Circus and a whole bunch of innovative, new, crazy ideas. Shame I sold it with my first 2600er a few years after!