Bountybob

When I got my Atari VCS in Christmas 1980 we couldn't get the TV Tuned to play it we even brought it to my next door neighbours house and couldn't get it to work there either.We thought there might be something wrong with the console.We called up the TV man and he came around with his son turns out we were trying to tune it in on UHF instead of VHF or vice versa.His son got it working and tried out Space Invaders he had a couple of games of it and said to me that's pretty cool.I had to wait a whole week for these guys to get it working because it was during the holidays. The funny thing is something similar happened two years later when I got Defender for Christmas.The Pal Defender came with a heavy European multiple language instruction book .Can you believe when I opened it up Christmas morning no game cartridge inside it.The guy at the store forgot to pack it after demonstrating it us.I was gutted but we rang up the shop a few days later and they checked the stock and had an extra game so I got it a week later better late than never.

There was something nice about the games colorful graphics and sound effects.

I got my Atari VCS Christmas 1980.I'm positive it was a heavy sixer it shipped with Combat and I think it had Captain Atari or Atari Club Catalog.I lived in a small town outside Dublin in Ireland most people hadn't even heard of Atari.I already had because I had an Atari Touch Me game a couple of years earlier.It was cool to be one of the lucky few to own one(Initially I only knew one or other kid who had a VCS and he had the same games I had) but the downside was that meant no game swaps.So I was stuck playing Space Invaders and Combat for a while.Luckily these were Two very good games that had a lot of playability. In 1980 in Ireland new Atari 2600 games where pricey The Activision games where almost half the price.Anyway over the next year or two I ended up getting Laser Blast, Tennis, Defender, Battlezone, Skin Diver, Checkers and Phoenix.After a while the price dropped and more kids had Atari's so I got a loan of Pacman, Superman, ET, Missile Command, Asteroids, Moon Patrol, Vanguard, Empire Strikes Back, Berzerk, Haunted House, Yars Revenge, Pole Position, Jungle Hunt, Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Star Raiders, Demon Attack, and Vanguard plus a couple of others that I can't remember.Then around 1984 I managed to pick up some boxed second games cheap Polaris, Gangster Alley, China Syndrome, Cross Force and Eggomania the first ever game to make use of my original VCS Paddles.By this stage a lot of kids were getting home computers, I got a Sinclair ZX Spectrum at the recommendation of my friend Leo who already had one.I wish I had known better I would have got an Atari 800 or a Commodore 64 instead.I ended giving away my Atari VCS around 1985.I wish I had kept it.It was well played though and I'm glad I had it.

Yes sure but it's hard to get the original boxes without some rub or wear on them not surprising considering the age. The other problem is that the box could be a reproduction.That could be checked with a pocket microscope I suppose.

Imagine if you had all of the original launch games in their original boxes in mint condition.That would be sweet. I would collect them just to admire the artwork.I wouldn't even open them up to play them, well maybe just the once.

Some of the Artwork is really nice especially on the original launch games Air Sea Battle and Combat would look sweet sitting beside each other.I was gutted when my mum chucked out my Space Invaders and Combat Boxes and instructions after Christmas 1980 and my Atari VCS box too.It was my lazy fault for not packing it away in my room.

Thanks guys, you are right dude could you imagine if we had Defender 2 in 1981 Atari would have prob charged us 200 bucks for it.

When did Stargate go on sale initially before it was relaunched later as Defender 2 ? Also what year was Defender 2 relaunched ? Thanks.

If you have 4 or more humanoids and want to avoid the warp you can reverse into the Stargate.Also there is a secret bonus, if the last enemy is a lander and it has picked up a humanoid shoot it and let the humanoid drop then pick it up just as it hits the ground for a 2000 point bonus.

Getting better with Invisio can ram mutants and heavy traffic It definitely adds an extra dynamic to the original game but it's just as difficult to get to grips with as Hyperspace was with Defender.

Mr. Do's Castle was similar to Universal's earlier game Space Panic.

You don't need MisfitMAME to play Donkey Kong 2 it's supported by the latest version of MAME. http://maws.mameworld.info/maws/ Search for Dkongx

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Try this keyboard setup that I use. W - Up S - Reverse X - Down D - Hyperspace O - Thrust P - Fire (Reassign H to Pause on MAME General Input) Spacebar - Smartbomb

When using Inviso, you can still "see" your ships thrust. Use that to determine where you are and ram enemies. I believe with Inviso on, you are invincible. Is Hyperspace redundant when you have Inviso remaining ?