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  1. I was just watching a recent Rifftrax, Hangmen, and was pleased to see this:
  2. Yes, if the Amiga 500 came out alongside the 520 ST I would feel differently. But the Amiga 1000 was just way too pricey for me. I would have liked to see Atari update the ST more aggressively but they did fall behind. I would also rank the Amiga as one of “the greats”, of course.
  3. For me I think the following are all-time greats: - 2600 - Atari 8-bit computers (they were amazing when they came out) - Atari ST - Made 16-bit computing attainable to so many people - Atari Lynx - the credit here goes to Epyx for making a revolutionary handheld And if you wanted to look at all-time greats for arcade cabinets, I obviously think some of Atari’s cabinets would be among them.
  4. I personally never had Sega games on the ST. Honestly, though, I think of those games as closely being linked to the Sega Genesis and not the ST. I really wouldn’t consider Sega a partner in regards to the Jaguar. They were in litigation with Atari and settled to allow Atari to bring some IP to the Jaguar but it never happened. They were also a direct competitor in the console space.
  5. Just curious - have you played on any real hardware in the past? If so, do you remember what model(s)? Or will this be your first experience with the real thing? I personally really like the look and footprint of the Jr. But it is hard to not like the wood grain on other models 😁.
  6. You might also want to consider a 7800. It would give you access to some more games.
  7. I think one of the weaknesses of the Lynx were the original titles. Tramiel Atari never seemed to really do a good job with original titles developed internally. When I think of the best original Lynx games, they were the originals that were developed by Epyx - Electrocop, Blue Lightning, Zarlor Mercenary, Gates of Zendocon, Todd's Adventures in Slime World, Chip's Challenge. I thought the arcade conversions were great. The fight was always going to be an uphill battle, though. It isn't like it was just the Lynx and Gameboy being judged solely on their technical merits. Nintendo was a juggernaut and they had such an outsized advantage over Atari when it came to developing a library of games. I get the tradeoffs of the Lynx with battery life and size but looking at just the hardware and the price, IMO, there is no way the Gameboy should have been so dominant. I am not saying that Atari could not have done a better job getting third party support but they were starting at a much worse position than Nintendo. Atari had taken Nintendo to court over their exclusivity agreements with developers.
  8. 1. Dungeon Master 2. Oids 3. Llamatron 4. Asteroidia by Dave Munsie 5. Elite II 6. Starglider 2 7. Time Bandits 8. Xenon 2 9. No Second Prize 10. Substation 11. Super Sprint 12. Oxyd 13. Midwinter 14. Populous 15. Stardust 16. Obsession 17. Sundog 18. Sensible Soccer 19. Zero 5 20. Attack of the Mutant Camels 21. Cannon Fodder 22. Rod-Land 23. Bubble Bobble 24. Gauntlet II 25. Lemmings Obviously some of these have better versions on Amiga. But these were the games I thought of.
  9. Yup, that was my thought. My fault for waiting until the last minute. I am going through a move, though, so I specifically unpacked and set up the VCS in order to use the code. Oh well. It prompted me to get the system set up.
  10. Apparently not until the end of February… I just tried to use it and it said it had expired.
  11. I did as well 😁. There were definitely some frustrating levels to get through but I really enjoyed it.
  12. This doesn’t really make sense to me unless there is something special on the drive. I can see paying a little extra for something external with the Fuji that you would see (like the PC mode stick). But the SSD you would only see the logo when installing. I can’t imagine paying extra for that and I assume it would cost more than just a regular Kingston SSD. The market of people wanting an SSD drive for their VCS, who haven’t already gotten one, must be really small.
  13. It is very frustrating because it seems like they are listening to fans and releasing some stuff that people really want. And then they drop the ball on things like this. They should take a look at how Ben from Plaion interacts with the community here and emulate it. Delays happen but not communicating with people who have bought a premium product from you is inexcusable.
  14. You could check out Easy to Learn, Hard to Master: The Fate of Atari. I wasn’t blown away but it was interesting that they interviewed Warner execs which is something I have not seen much of. It has been a while since I’ve seen it - I don’t remember how much was early days vs. the collapse.
  15. Oh, and I should point that I have absolutely no idea what the problem actually is. So my musings are totally uninformed speculation. The use of the Pokey seemed to be be a variation from the other 7800 games released on the VCS so I was just curious.
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