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  1. Always been more of a Hammer Dracula than a Universal Dracula guy but nonetheless looking forward to watching my new Universal Dracula collection

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    2. DracIsBack

      DracIsBack

      He's a really good actor. Outshines a lot of the acting in that movie actually

       

    3. SoundGammon

      SoundGammon

      Which one has Dracula climbing up the side of the castle where he has that room where his coffin is that is only accessible from climbing to it?

    4. DracIsBack

      DracIsBack

      You might be thinking of the Scars of Dracula, the last one they did before they moved the setting to modern times. First Hammer film I saw.

  2. ♪ Up from the depths, 30 stories high ... ♪

    1. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      Breathing Fire, His head in the sky

    2. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      (I swear this song was in my head last night and I even considered making a Status Update to see who'd get the reference!!)

  3. Fortnite on the Switch!

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    2. Flojomojo

      Flojomojo

      Even if it's just the mobile version with real controls, that's still pretty good.

       

      There seems to be some jackassery if you've connected your Epic account to PS4, and unlinking it doesn't fix it. Sony!

    3. Flojomojo

      Flojomojo

      I have linked my Sony account but I don't think I ever played Fortnite there (I do stuff like that) ... so it seems to work for me.

       

      Now if only I liked Fortnite more.

    4. Atari PAC-MAN Fan

      Atari PAC-MAN Fan

      I actually do genuinely like Fortnite. I just think it's a bit overrated these days.

  4. This second battery of chemo is certainly making me a lot more tired than the first

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    2. Jess Ragan

      Jess Ragan

      Pulling for you.

    3. DracIsBack

      DracIsBack

      Thanks for the kind words of encouragement

       

    4. GaryH917

      GaryH917

      Take care of yourself Drac.

  5. Every time I see someone with an Apple Watch and Apple Airpods, I'm tempted to ask them if they came with a little golden statue of Steve Jobs too

    1. CPUWIZ

      CPUWIZ

      I have the Apple Watch 3, but I didn't get a statue. :( My other ones, I have given away, didn't come with one either.

    2. Keatah

      Keatah

      Seeing thems Applewatches is like a personality alert..

  6. Karate Kid Marathon. First one has its charm. Second one is corny but has its entertainment moments. Third one is - wow - awful

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    2. DracIsBack

      DracIsBack

      The third one has the potential for kitzchy charm on paper. Kreese gets revenge on Daniel and Myagi. The actual film is embarrassing though. It's like Daniel has learned nothing from the first two movies and gets repeatedly beaten up by the "bad boy of Karate" and there isn't a thing he can do about it

    3. Atarian7

      Atarian7

      I do like the part in part 3 when Myagi storms into their dojo and kicks all 3 of their asses.

    4. DracIsBack

      DracIsBack

      That was the only part of III that I really enjoyed.

  7. One thing I have not got used to as this Lymphoma fight has gone on is the burning sensation of chemo behind my eyeballs. Ugh

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    2. Dr Manhattan

      Dr Manhattan

      God bless you brother. My heart goes out to you. Praying your on the mend soon.

    3. Rick Dangerous

      Rick Dangerous

      You can do it! Hang in there. I won't pretend to know what it must be like but hope you are done asap

    4. jd_1138

      jd_1138

      Prayers, wishes, and happy thoughts for a speedy recovery.

  8. Schlocky as they may be, I love old Drive-In B movies!

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    2. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      I saw Maximum Overdrive in the theater! Then multiple times on a VHS dubbing :)

    3. retrorussell

      retrorussell

      I also love the old Grindhouse Releasing flicks.

    4. DracIsBack

      DracIsBack

      I've actually bought a few of those Drive in Collections - one with 200 films and another with 100 films. Some overlap but the price was good for both and enough differing content made them worthwhile.

       

      We used to have a channel called "Drive In Classics" in Canada, but it was replaced by something else.

  9. I'd really love a good Zelda style game on the Atari 7800 finally

  10. Reading youtube comments, there are still people who are convinced the 2600 and 7800 were incapable of scrolling and that the 7800 couldn't have games larger than 128K

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    2. BydoEmpire

      BydoEmpire

      Youtube comments are the dregs. Best to avoid if you want to retain any faith in humanity.

    3. DoctorSpuds

      DoctorSpuds

      HA!! this makes me happy!

    4. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      As long as you're not reading Yahoo comments...

  11. Playing 2600 California Games. As a kid, I picked this up on a trip to Florida and I remembered being impressed they could pull that off on the 2600 as well as they did

    1. save2600

      save2600

      Fun game! I especially like the half-pipe and BMX racing. Too bad it doesn't have the frisbee tossing event, like the computer versions have though.

  12. Reading the old Atarian Magazine review of Touchdown Football (7800). You know they were reaching for positives when they described the "spectacular title screen" as one of the pluses

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    2. n5x

      n5x

      Ye Olde Atarain!

       

    3. save2600

      save2600

      7800 RealSports Baseball is another I was sooooo disappointed in. What a lousy half-assed letdown that was. :-(

    4. DracIsBack

      DracIsBack

      I'm not a sports guy in general but the 7800 didn't really have many sorts games I liked at all. Only Mean 18 and Baskebrawl got play in my house

  13. Continuing my delve into late series 7800 games. Amazing that Atari Corp tried to link Alien Brigade and Planet Smashers together. The difference in quality between the two is pretty astonishing

  14. Nice to see Bon Jovi make peace for the Hall of Fame. After seeing the guys from Blondie and Chicago act like dinks, my faith is restored

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    2. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      The Hall of Fame is kind of stupid (The way some bands are in and some aren't I mean), but if I were in a position to be in it, I'd certainly be happy and humble about it.

    3. DeathAdderSF

      DeathAdderSF

      Danny Seraphine, Chicago's original drummer, was the exception as he was thrilled as a kid in a candy store to be reunited with his former bandmates and let that enthusiasm show throughout his speech. He also made sure to mention & thank every other band member that had been canned over the years. A class act, even if his speech was a bit awkard at times and profanity-laden. :-P

    4. DracIsBack

      DracIsBack

      Yeah - and Seraphine was thanked by a) Being invited only to play on a single song; b) being sat at a completely different table (Try to find a photo of him with the others when not on stage), and c) being subjected to Robert Lamm's nasty blog about him and his "reject" band

  15. Had a round of Midnight Mutants for the first time in a long time. Always enjoyed this game. Wish Radioactive Software made a sequel for the 7800 but alas

    1. SINGLE TOOTH

      SINGLE TOOTH

      never played it but I want it. It's sad that the good games for the 7800 are so hard to find. Can only play so much Pac-Man.

    2. save2600

      save2600

      Grampa from The Munsters... such a cool license to snag. Haven't spent a lot of time on the game sadly, but I did watch a walkthrough once. lol

  16. Continuing my sprit of 7800 play by trying out some old, incomplete demos made by various homebrewers. Some cool concepts that I hope get made into games.

    1. Trebor

      Trebor

      A LOT of promising demos are out there for the 7800. Indeed, hoping at least some come to fruition as a full game.

  17. Jinks takes a lot of shit from 7800 fans, but I'd still take it any day over Fight Night or Karateka or Touchdown Football etc

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    2. RJ
    3. retrorandy

      retrorandy

      I like Jinks on the 7800 too. I never got far, but I thought it seemed like an original game for the system. I didn't know there was a version for the Amiga. I will definitely try it out. :)

    4. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      Now that I've seen video of the Amiga version,...Well, it looks like a Super Nintendo game...I kind of wish there was a SNES version! Anyhow, I still like the 7800 version!

  18. Dug out Atari XE Karateka and played a few rounds. They really should have given the 7800 license to a better dev shop. Needlessly terrible

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    2. save2600

      save2600

      Good luck with that. ;-)

    3. Nathan Strum

      Nathan Strum

      I never knew there was a good version of Karateka... I've only played the 7800 version.

    4. cybercylon

      cybercylon

      Karateka for the 7800... what a mess and literally painful to play

  19. Enjoying rewatching the original Star Trek but I wish they'd left the CGI out of it. Looks too jarring. Give me the original fx, however primitive.

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    2. Nathan Strum

      Nathan Strum

      ...lu-ray.

       

      Really hope the next forum update tells you when you've run out of characters.

    3. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      Yeah nothing is more annoying than when you're just typing along...saying stuff and things, man yeah things and stuff and you're talking about doing's a transpirin' and then all of a sudden,...It's like you're cut off right in the middle of your sent

    4. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      Speaking of FX, A while back my friend and I were watching Battlestar Galactica which he got on BluRay. (I have it on DVD in the cool Cylon head). Anyway, We watched the episode where they fight the fire in space and when they're out in space, you can totally see the wires holding them "weightless". I began to die laughing and said was it always like this? He said, Yeah our TVs, especially being picked up on antennas, weren't high enough picture quality for us to notice.

  20. I really like KevMos3's artwork for Atari 7800 Rampage. Away with the muppet babies and detail on the building artwork! Spectral Dimension's art was needlessly poor in the original

    1. doctorclu

      doctorclu

      KevMos3 does some great graphics hacking work!

  21. Retrying Atari XE Thunderfox in emulation. Game is as damn hard as I remember ...

    1. BassGuitari

      BassGuitari

      Yeah, I really WANT to like that game (I have the XE cart), but it's way too bitchy. Too bad: one of the few original titles for the XEGS, and it's essentially an exercise in aggravation.

    2. DracIsBack

      DracIsBack

      Same. And I just never could, dying every few seconds.

  22. I'm looking forward to being done chemotherapy. All of these various medications are making me so damn edgy. Ugh

    1. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      Sounds Rough!! I wish you the Best!!

    2. Rick Dangerous
    3. Franko ATARI

      Franko ATARI

      Stay strong - I'm praying for you Drac

  23. I'd really like to get another Co Co 3, but the amount of space it takes up is too much for my finite room

    1. jd_1138

      jd_1138

      Could build a rack of sorts to sit on the desk that stacks up. Made of wood.

  24. How many Atari XE Game Systems did Atari actually sell?

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    2. xucaen

      xucaen

      I just read this on wikipedia:

       

      "Atari sold 100,000 XE Game Systems during the Christmas season in 1987, every unit that was produced during its launch window."

    3. MegaManFan

      MegaManFan

      Damn. I still wish I had one.

    4. jd_1138

      jd_1138

      Yeah it's a cool system. I like it's pastel 1980's design. Someone gave me a complete XEGS when I first started getting into the vintage gaming hobby in 2001 on Freecycle. Heck it was only 14 years old then. I love it. I wish I had kept all my original systems -- Mattel Aquarius, ColecoVision, NES, Genesis, SNES.

  25. RetroPie is nice on the surface, but has some really annoying problems.

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    2. Keatah

      Keatah

      RetroPie, the gutter of emulation!

    3. S1500

      S1500

      I have a keyboard connection, and that only works half the time.

    4. Flojomojo

      Flojomojo

      I'm thinking of scaling back what mine does to a small subset of emulators and ROMs, just my favorites. Focus and curation, like a Nintendo Mini.

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