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  1. Diamond Mine: 6,229 This is my first go - never played Diamond Mine before, but it seems fun! I started to get the hang of it by my last life.
  2. Galaxian: 15,390 It's a lot different than the arcade, but I think I like the 8-bit version better. It seems more fast-paced.
  3. Zaxxon: 24,550 I did a little bit better. Still only ever defeated one robot. BTW, is the round over? If I'm too late to submit, you can ignore this one.
  4. Super Pac-Man: 108,930 I was pleasantly surprised that there's another extra life at 100k. I don't think Pac-Man or Ms. Pac give lives past the first at around 10k, do they?
  5. I got distracted from the high score club in 2023 by all the other things on my schedule, but I'm going to try to play again this year!
  6. Can I jump in and say I'm honestly happy to know that this thread is still going? I added my thoughts here in 2006 and almost 20 years have passed since then! As an update, I did eventually beat Bubsy for the Jaguar a few years back, and can confirm that it's a fun game once you get used to the controls and gameplay. I might not be as much of a fan as @doctorclu but it's a solid platformer. I also 100% agree with Doctorclu's suggested level order - if the developers had put the levels in that order, it would have improved people's initial perceptions of the game immensely. Makes me wonder if some meddling game company executive said, "Well, put Alice in Wonderland first because people are most familiar with that story" after the levels were already created. Because the difficulty progression of the released game doesn't make any sense to me.
  7. ...what would be YOUR vision for the company? I'm talking long-term here. In a perfect world, what do you think Atari's place should be in the greater entertainment ecosystem? Where could they be in 5, 10, or 20 years down the road? Right now, they're mainly looking at leveraging their existing IP, buying well-known classic gaming properties, and creating updated versions that can appeal to modern as well as classic gamers. That includes both hardware and software. My personal opinion is that the current owners are doing that quite well, and I think it's a good first step in bringing some respect (and revenue!) back to a company that hasn't always had that. But where do they go next? What's the next step? I like playing armchair CEO, so... My personal take: I think Atari should lean into one of their earlier, 1970s-era slogans. INNOVATIVE LEISURE. That didn't necessarily box them into being a video game company, although games were obviously the biggest part of their legacy. But they also experimented with some unique ideas like the Video Music (early music visualizer as a stereo system component), holographic handhelds, odd peripherals like the MindFlex, etc. Of course, those things didn't always pan out. But unless someone is TRYING to innovate, we won't know what "could be" and what might catch on in the realm of games, play, and leisure. I can imagine an Atari that focuses less on IP and more on bringing back the spirit of discovery and fun that Nolan's Atari had in the 1970s and early 1980s. I think that the original, pre-Warner Atari's BIG strengths didn't ultimately lie in their IP. They didn't often create sequels, reboots, and updates. Even to this day, there really isn't a character "mascot" that everyone associates with Atari. Old Atari was always chasing what was to come next. And what was to come next was ANYTHING that people hadn't seen before. Unique gameplay ideas Unforseen ways and places to play games New technologies that consumers can have FUN with Things that can bring people together for play (Because the world needs play and leisure right now - real bad.) The people who came up with these innovative entertainment ideas were the real power of Atari. If I were the CEO of Atari, I'd love to bring back that corporate culture and the old Atari spirit of innovation. They could potentially make their own market. While Sony and Microsoft are battling for the top end of the home console market, making incremental improvements on the same old tech and game styles that we've seen for ages, Nintendo is still innovating in this space, so it CAN be done. And it doesn't have to be a HUGE endeavor on the level of what Nintendo does. Look at what PlayDate did with their handheld. I feel like they kind of "ate Atari's lunch" in a way. I LOVE the Recharged series. But it doesn't mean that I want to see these games rebooted every 10 years, forever.
  8. Hello all! A friend of mine found this white box marked "PADDLE" with a lot of Atari items at a yard sale. There was no console in the lot that he bought, but I noticed that the joystick looked like a CX-10, which it turned out to be. The lot seemed to be accessories from a heavy sixer - power supply, CX-10 joystick, paddles, etc. I know the heavy sixers came with paddles in addition to the sticks - I had never seen this white box, though. Is that how the paddles were packed in with the console? We couldn't find a box that was exactly like this one, on Ebay or elsewhere. Does this "PADDLE" box have any value? I'm guessing that most of them were thrown away back in the day. Thanks!!
  9. Finally had some time to play these two! Joust (Advanced): 119,000 Wing War: 550
  10. I haven't played this version of Wing War, but I think it started as a 2600 game (that Imagic only released in Europe). The 2600 instructions might help a little, but I'm not sure how much of a difference there is between the ports: https://atariage.com/manual_page.php?SystemID=2600&SoftwareLabelID=763&ItemTypeID=&currentPage=0&maxPages=4
  11. In Bruce Lee, there's one final lamp on the wall that you have to collect in order to defeat the guy who shoots fireballs and I think it requires a bit of a last-second jump to get it. I don't remember for sure if it's the same way in Eel Ecurb, but I think it might be. Try jumping to the left immediately before you get to the wall and see if there's a lamp that you need to open the exit door?
  12. I'm wondering if it would be possible to make something that replicates the functionality of the Atari Video Music on the 2600. The tricky part would be finding a way to interface the 2600 with an external audio source like a stereo system. The controller ports have analog pins that can be read as inputs... is it feasible to make an adapter that takes a line level output from the stereo system and outputs the proper voltage to a controller port? The cart would then display visualizations based on the audio input. With modern bankswitching, it would be easy to implement even more visualization modes than the Video Music had, and the user could cycle through them with the select lever, a joystick, etc. Are there any pitfalls with this approach? Has anyone tried a similar project before? The original Atari Video Music is very expensive nowadays. I think it would be fun to have a retro music visualizer - am I the only one? 🙂
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