JohnBuell

Got mine too, luckily the outer box fit in the mailbox and the inner box is crisp and perfect. I've never photographed an unboxing before, but this is beyond special Just watched the startup/intro movie on my brother's old Lynx II. 'Scuse me while I mop up the drool. I can't thank you folks enough, Brandon, Osman, and everybody that poured heart and soul into this. Looks like my birthday is a day early this year!

I could only _hope_ (since I know nothing about Lynx coding) that perhaps a couple of people could work out an engine, and then change sprites and rules for appropriate eras/genres. Another thought I had would be to combine fighter missions with ship missions in sci-fi - sort of mixing X-Wing/TIE Fighter/XvT with Starfleet Academy, if anybody remembers those

Not familiar with that one, but I really don't do much PC/console gaming (beyond the lynx, or maybe FreeCiv/FreeCol in Ubuntu) anymore. What about cloning Stratego? You could have one screen for setting the map, one piece at a time, then combat begins.... You could even include Stratego 4/Ultimate Stratego (for 2-4 players) as an option. Just can't call it that, maybe Strata-Lynx?

Order placed and paypal confirmed! Woo-hoo!

The way I've thought about it is to make a turn-based game, multi-player possible, with a decent AI, but set it up like Lemmings, so that you have a game screen and a menu screen. Then when you're done, play moves on to the next real person or AI character.... I dunno how playable it would be, because it would go through batteries like mad, but it was a thought

I have long thought that Atari should have ported its own Eastern Front 1941 or something like it to the Lynx. Not necessarily a wargame, but something with long term strategy and lots of replayability (like any of the Civ games, if they could be done without a keyboard ) I only wish I could code where my mouth is

Not easy... that was my biggest worry about this contest. i suck at these type of puzzles and actually figured it out very quickly by luck. (Thank god!) Rygar... can I get just this placed on a cart?! Not sure if I won, but it would be cool to have a winning cart, and then a cart of the rom that we used for the contest. LOL I have to find someone to make me cheapo carts! LOL Hey, that'd be cool. Or old lynx artwork slider puzzles, starting with this one? that's the whole point of the contest. He's releasing a limited edition game of nekkid chicks! I know, but you were talking about a bonus cartridge of other puzzles, so I just expanded on that idea - me and my G-rated mind *cough*

Not easy... that was my biggest worry about this contest. i suck at these type of puzzles and actually figured it out very quickly by luck. (Thank god!) Rygar... can I get just this placed on a cart?! Not sure if I won, but it would be cool to have a winning cart, and then a cart of the rom that we used for the contest. LOL I have to find someone to make me cheapo carts! LOL Hey, that'd be cool. Or old lynx artwork slider puzzles, starting with this one?

These little card games are brilliant. If this had been a cartridge 18 years ago, my brother and I would have had even more trouble keeping our mom from stealing our machines (she became a complete Shanghai junkie). And forget service packs, I'm eagerly awaiting Solitaire volume 2 (Eight-Off anyone?). And if anyone starts working on other card games, e.g. Crazy Eights, Gin, Rummy (i.e. non-solitaire games not already in the Casino cartridge), please let me know!

Rygar, I just wanted to say that even for a 4x2 puzzle, that was no easy thing. And the questions? Hoo. I guess if I wanted to surf round and find the answers, but thanks for the quickie puzzle; great contest idea!

I got a copy of Steel Talons not that long ago. It's complete, came to me still factory sealed, but I've tried it in three different Lynxes (a Ia Ib and II) and can't get it to work. I thought about listing it on eBay to see if anyone wanted a replacement box and/or manual, but decided it's not worth it. So, does anyone HERE want it for a replacement box, manual, or want to see if they have better luck than I did? I'll only charge shipping (US or foreign, I don't care). Send me a message if interested. I should have added that I generally use PayPal for transactions, though I'm willing to use other methods (money orders in US funds, checks drawn on US banks, etc). The cartridge didn't cost that much, and all I'm asking for here is postage, so I'm selling at a loss....

Once upon a time I had some of the original full-sized boxes with the original box that my Lynx I came in. I even recently had another tiff with my mother about their disposal, that the boxes make the games worth more to collectors... I don't think she was amused So, EricDeLee...you'll give us notice before those games go up for sale, right?

Since we've got a thread about number of games going.... I know a number of long-term collectors have different buttons and pins for Lynx games that they got one way or another. So, which game pins do you have (or buttons), and if you don't mind telling, how did you get them? I dug out a bag I kept of pins and buttons that I wore in the early 90s - in fact I used to wear a bunch of them on the same jacket (either going to or coming from Germany, airport security didn't bother passing me through the metal detector, I just put the whole thing on the xray scanner - who knows what they'd think these days!). The look was something like Ace, for those of you who know Doctor Who, only I'm not anywhere as cute as Sophie Aldred Anyway, I have but two: "Chicago Computerfest by ATARI - MilAtari Gaming Area 1991" and a Tengen Klax button, both from attending said Computerfest. I also attending a similar Atari gathering in Duesseldorf in the fall of 1992, but no pins or buttons - I've got some magazines stashed somewhere, and was a member of the Internationaler Lynx Club out of Germany briefly.

Well my family hasn't quite settled who if anyone gets all the Lynx stuff. I think I'm giving my brother the Jaguar (his) and the Jag CD drive (mine), so that might mean I get the Lynxes. In my household we had three: One Lynx I rev a (8 direction pad), one Lynx I rev b (4 direction pad) and one Lynx II. There's only one working AC adapter left, but the Lynx I's can't use it or the one remaining battery pack anymore (loose adapter plugs). I think my mother pitched the car adapter some years back. Both Lynx I's power up fine with batteries, however. I haven't found any of the Comlynx cables, nor have I found Robotron, which my brother swears he owned. We also have one Lynx I SunVisor, and a piece of the Lynx II model (the front panel, with the Atari logo). His copy of Rygar also got bent and cracked behind/under a bed some years back, and is now useless. There's also three full size official Atari Lynx bags - one is the one I took to Germany, decorated with German stickers. One is my brother's, undecorated, and the third I keep Mac formatted Firewire hard drives in (long story). There's also at least one of the smaller official soft cases, designed for the length of the Lynx I. I believe we have nine pairs of cartridges: Shanghai, Paperboy, Slime World, Gauntlet, California Games, Zarlor Mercenary, Crystal Mines II, Shadow of the Beast and Warbirds. Unique single copies, we have 31, for a grand total of 40 working games.

Thanks for the tip Carl, I just signed up for your mailing list!

In doing some surfing around, I've been finding game hints that aren't posted here, but could be? Here's an example: Wikipedia has a very brief article about Zarlor Mercenary (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarlor_Mercenary ) which used to have several cheats, including a "show the programmers" cheat, but it has been removed from the article as it now appears, as they don't want to get bogged down with cheat codes. But it's not hard to pull them back up. Should these get re-posted? Here? Somewhere else? I'm not sure if the "programmers" do anything for you, but there IS a "start with 99 ships, 99 mega bombs, and fully loaded" cheat that can give you some really NICE high scores, but a rank of "Supreme Cheater" every time

I was just wondering where people go to look for Lynx cartridge deals. I know when it comes to the new new games, the homebrews, there's here (obviously), Songbird's site, Duranik's site, and perhaps a couple of others. Telegames still has four of their recent ones listed, but no longer for sale (although telegames.co.uk redirects to direct4games.com, which does have older and newer Telegames carts for the Lynx, and many others as well, but all prices are in Sterling (double them for prices in US Dollars, not counting shipping)). I've also discovered a couple of accessories (Sun Visor II and the Battery Pack for either generation of Lynx) on Yahoo Auctions, what look like original, full prices for cartridges from Amazon sellers, and LOTS of stuff on eBay. Anyone have an opinion? Found a good bargain? Don't want to reveal a source?

Well Cabal and GeoDuel I knew because they had shown up in a couple of other magazines - I'd probably have even more old rumors if I'd kept all my old EGMs and GamePros from back then. Intense Gaming I hadn't heard of, but the titles showed up on your list as well - is it possible they were a developer contracted to release games under Atari's own label, such as with HMG? Atari's whole history from the late 70s onward is filled with what-ifs - what if they had done their computers the same way, but under a different division, and marketed under a different name, so as to disassociate with games? I also once read somewhere that Bill G. was -> <- close to demonstrating and selling the Q-DOS he acquired to Atari, when IBM gave him a call. And don't forget, MS's first monopoly was in making BASIC cartridges for virtually every early 8-bit platform! The later Microsoft Basic cartridge was even preferred by some programmers over AtariBASIC....

Forgive me if some of these have been covered before, but I recently re-started playing my Lynx after letting it languish for quite a while. Some background: My family owned a 2600 at the start of the 1980s, and later that decade, after a relocation from Kansas to Illinois, my father uncermoniously dumped the system and all the games We had quite a few at the time. In 1983 he got an Atari 800. My first computer was a Timex-Sinclair, which never did diddley-squat. It too got dumped, and for Christmas 1984 I got an 800XL. Over the years I accumulated many peripherals, and in the late 80's I started going to Atari User group meetings. Towards the end of 1989, at one such meeting, I had the pleasure of getting to play with a then-unreleased Portfolio, and then-unreleased Lynx, with Gates of Zendocon. I HAD TO HAVE ONE that Christmas - though it didn't actually show up until the week between Christmas and New Year's (and I was really supposed to be gone on a camping trip, but came down with a fever - I think my mother to this day thinks I was faking it so that I could get the Lynx instead). So I had a Lynx I, with the 8-direction pad. Later, my brother had to have one, and he first got another Lyn I, with only a 4-direction pad. Its cartridge door broke, and the paint peeled off, and he eventually replaced it with a Lynx II. We still have all three units. Mine went on two trips to Germany, where I kept it "fed" with NiCd rechargables - that type of battery has NO problem with chargers anywhere, I discovered. My original Lynx case is still decorated with German Lynx stickers. Between us, my brother and I wound up with quite a few games (the third Lynx unit wound up going to our mother, who became a total Shanghai junkie - she later got a couple of versions of that game for Windows), and I've recently been acquiring a few more: Steel Talons, Bill & Ted's, Super Skweek, Xybots and Kung Food. I also just did a "Buy it Now" for European Soccer Challenge on eBay. I also still have a number of magazines from the early 1990s, and a couple of posters. One poster, released in 1990, introduced many of the earliest games: Zarlor Mercenary changed radically from the screenshot on the poster (energy level/bombs were moved to the right side, score was changed from $ to Z, and moed from top right to top left, and I don't recognize the game view represented). It also provided a first glimpse at the long lost Vindicators. *sigh* On the Coming Soon page, though, there's one title: 3-D Barrage - I've always assumed this became Robo-Squash, but does anyone know for sure? I've also been going through some old Atari magazines, trying to solve more mysteries. For example, in the August 1991 issue of AtariUser magazine, a game release schedule mentions a September release of "Golf Challenger." I'm guessing, but only guessing, that this became "Awesome Golf." For October and November there's one known unreleased game each: Cabal and GeoDuel, And for "Early '92" there's another one I don't remember seeing anything about at all: "Taxi"? Then there's the October 1991 issue of AtariUser magazine, which mentions a new developer, Intense Gaming, and proposed games: Time Gates, Driving Demons and Space Canyons. Does anyone know what happened to these? Thanks in advance for reading through all this I know there are some other long time Lynxers and Atarians on here, so any information would be helpful!