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What will age well? How will history view this? The answer is that it will always change and you will never find a consensus and most likely they will eventually forget. It will be dug up from time to time, and new consensuses will be formed and dropped, considered and argued. If you approached a human today or 100000 years ago, or if we live, 100000 years from now, I believe that the animal you encounter would find joy and amusement with most of these things. Depending on their lens on the world, it may lead to varied conclusions concerning what games looked better or worse. "Universally recognized as the best" - Cheeky Monkey

It must have been around 1980 or so, I remember my father's friend from work bringing over an assortment of computer equipment and setting it up on our kitchen table. We acoustically coupled the telephone handset to one of the devices and after dialing, logging in to Compuserve or perhaps Micronet, he entered a a few search words and moments later printed a picture of Snoopy Ascii art made up of X's. It was just a big picture of Snoopy. It was a first for me and very exciting. A few years later we had Compuserve and not too much later, I discovered Go Atari! message boards.

His character and comedy are delightful. It's funny to imagine that they would be your introduction as they seem so modern and recent, although the timetable checks out and I realize it has now been so long ago, that such a thing is possible. It's hard to imagine how distorted young people's idea of the pre-internet world must be.

Cybermorph is a great game for playing while listening to podcasts or music. Exploration simulator of a strange colorful world, full of odd aliens that act like they know what you are thinking. When I first got my Jag, I had this and T2K, I was instantly nuts over T2K but my dad, who I had played Star Raiders with as his co-pilot when I was younger, really liked the look of Cybermorph. I tried to explain at the time, how cool the music and visuals and gameplay was on T2K, but he was more impressed with Cybermorph. T2K has never been equaled on other platforms, as the Jag version not only looks, sounds and controls wonderfully, it also is paced better than any other arcade like game I have played. I took the system off to college, where Cybermorph continued to grow on me and I found it ideal for relaxing into couch-lock and exploring strange worlds while listening to other entertainment. Just me and my spaceship. When people came over to my apartment, they usually wanted to play Jaguar as the system was a mystery and curiosity to most people.

Rich, Thank you for everything you have done. Wishing you peace, comfort, and more good times. Chad

For Tanya and James 1. What was your childhood like? Did you play outside? build forts? Ride bikes? 2. Was there a favorite system you had from childhood? 3. Can you name any games that were generally disliked that you learned to love? What was it that allowed you to find enjoyment in that game? 4. Have you had any interesting dreams about video games? Thank you both for what you do.

I'm enjoying the fast smooth action of Star Raiders enhanced and overclocked. I do wish I could have the overclock without the border (enhancements). The "dance" with the enemy ships is so buttery smooth when overclocked that it reveals even more nuance in the act of getting them lined up for a kill, while dodging and shooting down their fire. Using the left and ride buttons to increase and decrease speed feels very natural, I do wish they would let us remap the controls, as I would like to move the shields, computer, and tracking to other buttons, but these are minor picadillo's. Great presentation and value in this collection.

No! Bad fake Atari. Please go sit in the corner.

In 1997 Atari Teenage Riot opened for Beck at Athens Ga. concert. I was there with my college radio station WEGL-AUBURN. ATR was basically an hour of painfully loud sound with a stage covered in out of sync strobe lights, I did love the album however.

I had been a member on Compuserves "Go Atari" forum from around '89 on, and was very excited to get my hands on the new Atari Jaguar from the time I heard rumors of its existence. Does anyone else remember the early gossip that it might involve video overlay over VHS? I remember a guy named Dimitri on the forum, I think that was it, who seemed to have a lot of inside information. It was very exciting to get the Jaguar and I thoroughly enjoyed Cybermorph and T2k as my first games. Then Raiden which was also excellent. I don't remember any attitude of Atarian's thinking that Atari was gonna take over the world or anything, but friends in college loved to play it and check out the games. It was a surprise to most people that it even existed, so it had a certain "What the hell is this" and "I had no idea they were still in business" quality from people who visited my apartment. The Brutal Sports football was a very popular game as was Val D'Isserre snowboarding, which was such a pleasant surprise release at the time. Being an Atari fan from the mid 70's beginnings, I just loved it regardless of it's level of success. By '95 when the CD add on came out, playing with the custom programming on the VLM became my favorite aspect of the system. It was excellent for adding unique visual flare to music and amazed most people who checked it out. In fact, at Auburn I sold VHS tapes with two hours of VLM performance along to local music at Wildman Steve's record shop, perhaps as many as 3 copies were sold. I worked at the college radio station and used the VLM at many internal events, one memorable one was a listening party for SP's, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Rayman, AVP, Doom. I will always consider the Jag fondly.

What system is this game designed for? I like your Skull guy with the 3d glasses, art looks great.

In retrospect the whole phenomenon of the "crash" took place over such a short period of time, that it would have been really hard to appreciate it, unless you worked in retail, or enjoyed the clearance prices on many older games. - From 1983 to the rise of the NES was only a few years, so, imagine if someone told you that videogames totally bombed out and crashed back in 2019 and now in 2022, they are back to a heavy growth mode. It was just too short of a blip to truly be a crash, perhaps it was more of a pause than a crash. It was seamless for me, as I had moved to my Atari 800 for videogaming, because the games were great, and once I got an Indus GT floppy drive, the era of "sneakernet" software copying and making a copies of all of your friends games, or purchasing collections at the flea market had begun. I was flush with games and still playing the 800 when the incredible imagination and fresh ideas brought to market by Nintendo inspired me to purchase my first new console in years in the form of a NES. The combination of Video stores renting games, and flea market game traders made this really fun. Looking back, the technical improvements brought by the NES aren't even that impressive, but the imagine and fresh software they brought to market felt like a true improvement over what had come before. Eating a mushroom and growing, shooting fireballs, with great scrolling all felt amazing, battery powered saves in Zelda. I think we should call it the Great pause of '83.

Cover art idea for a special edition

This is an odd post. The games are very plain and the talk of tape is down right otherworldly. What happen here? Why it happen? Is everyone OK?