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Bill, Here's the Roaring 20's announcement: AFAIK the WIP names of Bank Heist were: Bonnie and Clyde Holdup Roaring 20's BTW: were you indeed the programmer of Monstercise and Peek A Boo? see you guys know more about my games then I do. I don't remember the roaring 20's name but your right it must have been one of the choices at some point. no I did not do Monstercise or Peek A Boo don't recall either of these...

Hi all -- bill here again yes - the auction completed and a lot of last minute bidders. Still waiting for payment but hope to have it shipped to its new owner soon. Now for the other rare collectibles I appear to have in my closet I am going to see if I can find some time to take a closer look at those in the next couple of weeks... You guys will be the first to know!! thanks for everyone help. bill a

wow nice unit. the funny thing is your controller buttons look the same as mine. does the select and reset button work on yours. if so is there any tactical feedback. maybe I am doing something wrong and mine work as well?? does the buttons on the front panel work? I sure wish I remembered more about mine when I got it...

OK OK here is a picture. is there other pictures of these on the internet. if so where? is there an apple forum like this one?

OK guys -- I know this is the wrong forum for this but since you guys have been so helpful I thought I would ask. while digging through my closet to see which source code listings I still had on paper. Yes I have both pigs and stargate. I found an apple product prototype. the product was code named sweet pea and was a co-development between apple and toshiba. here is some info yet I did not find a picture online. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EK...v38/ai_12429519 is it worth anything???

yes I would easily autograph the bird repeller

we did not even get as far as doing a game design on Rocky Horror. as far as we got was to order the movie up from the 20th century vaults and watch it one night.

frankly I am scared to open it given that I do not want to damage it in anyway now that it is listed on ebay. hopefully the new owner will do that for all of us.

Yeah, I agree with you. I'm just another random Atari fan who mostly lurks here. When I heard about this find and the auction, I felt kind of sad. I would have suggested that the current owner either use it for shows (take it around to the various classic gaming shows) or find a museum that can take it so people can see it. Who knows? The person who buys it may yet do this very thing. I sure hope it doesn't wind up in a closet. (I realize the current owner may not have wanted attention enough to go around to the shows (even if some may have paid his way), but imagine one of the bigger shows being able to get this on loan for display. Wow.) Although it is super rare, there are many others out there. They had several focus groups that tried them out and even had the boxes produced. I am sure these have been on display at many classic gaming shows and expos. I also think it is super strange when people look down on collectors for well... collecting things. True, but what makes this unit more special are the red buttons.....I have never seen those (my unit doesn't have the red buttons). does yours have real buttons? Yes.....they are the same color as the unit itself. The pic from the Atari museum is the one that looks like mine......the one in the pic might actually be mine. Are your red buttons glued to the system or screwed in or something???? screwed in

Yeah, I agree with you. I'm just another random Atari fan who mostly lurks here. When I heard about this find and the auction, I felt kind of sad. I would have suggested that the current owner either use it for shows (take it around to the various classic gaming shows) or find a museum that can take it so people can see it. Who knows? The person who buys it may yet do this very thing. I sure hope it doesn't wind up in a closet. (I realize the current owner may not have wanted attention enough to go around to the shows (even if some may have paid his way), but imagine one of the bigger shows being able to get this on loan for display. Wow.) Although it is super rare, there are many others out there. They had several focus groups that tried them out and even had the boxes produced. I am sure these have been on display at many classic gaming shows and expos. I also think it is super strange when people look down on collectors for well... collecting things. True, but what makes this unit more special are the red buttons.....I have never seen those (my unit doesn't have the red buttons). does yours have real buttons?

That's my worry with stuff like this all the time as well, out of one closet and in to another. Hopefully whoever buys it is someone that is actually willing to bring it out in public once in a while rather than buying it for just another notch in their collection belt. I agree -- that is part of the reason I am selling it.... does no one any good in my closet...

1) kinda retired -- last company I was at was PowerTV which was bought by scientific Atlanta (well they owned most of the company anyway) and then they were bought by cisco. 2) NO when the game industry died -- that was it for me. I don't even play video games anymore. not because I don't like them it is because they are to addicting (i.e. time sync). 3) it was over 25 years ago. I am sure there were a lot of games planned that never shipped. the only one I remember is fox games wanted me to do a playboy game. I thought it was a stupid idea and I wanted to do a rocky horror video game. I did the game concept but then ended up quitting to go to atari. bill a

fox video games was a company started by a couple of investors and sold to 20th century fox. they saw TW making all of this money with Atari and they wanted a piece of the pie. at my level there was little involvement other than what I wrote above and having a swanky dinner with the 20th century fox CEO at CES one year. after Atari crashed and burned they shut the company down. I went to the garage sale and bought a few games and things... sorry I don't have more info to help out...

according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_2700 The basic case design for the Atari 2700 was later used for the Atari 5200. thanks again to everyone who loves playing stargate... another story. so my boss left 20th century fox and went back to atari. tom R. He told me that he would hire me at Atari as soon as he could. well he did. so I get to atari all excited to do more games. I am thinking it is going to be the meca of game development. well first day they had no where for me to sit and then finally I got a development environment. the environment was terrible compared to what we had at little 20th century fox. I couldn't believe it. Yet we did have the best game room on the planet. I spent a lot of hours in there. All excited I waited weeks to get assigned to a game. Then one day my boss's boss comes in and says we need you to do a game but it has to be done in 2 weeks. Actually it was a sub-game. ala the pasta game in pigs in space. I had never heard of pigs in space or knew anything about the muppets. Of course I said yes. The other 2 engineers that were building the other 2 sub-games in pigs in space had been working on the project for months. turns out the engineer on the 3rd game had done nothing because he was to burned out??? So it was kinda funny - I had nothing to do for weeks but then was given 2 weeks to build a game. so I came up with a very simple game design and actually built it in 2 weeks. My boss's boss game into my office after the 2 weeks and said that when he asked me to do it in 2 weeks he didn't really believe it could be done. He was totally surprised. Funny thing was the game testers all told me my game was the most fun to play. So it got the most testing... of course then it took weeks to test it, integrate it with the other games and package it. Oh well it was fun and I think I got 25% of the sign off royalty check. after that I was determined to do a coin-op conversion. I was tried of original games that used a lot of creative talent but never sold well. so some how I was given stargate -- I don't even remember how.

yes please do. that is part of the reason I put so many in the add.