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In my little collection the rarest are : ... and these ? DUNNO !!! ( they're PAL ) I don't see them with these "strange" boxes, even in the rarity list .

Yeah the old madame became older

hehe , I'm for JUVENTUS .. but seems we have to wait some more time ( years ? ... or LIGHTyears ? ) to win the Champions League again ....... p.s. TOH ! ... a guy older than me ! I see Al's birthday is about 6 month from mine !

Thanks , german friend !!! ... but hope he don't want "charge" prices ... ... maybe only because I got an iPhone and NOT an Android-based smartphone !

Sorry for this little OT ... and , of course , of my bad english ... I wanted to purchase Juno First and other carts from the Store , but it's kinda' 1 month or more that it can NOT be switchable ... I thought I colud buy something and HOPE it will be delivered here ( Italy ) BEFORE X-Mas Any info about it ? ( MANY thnx )

An "almost-forty" man like I am could say : - Insert coin or cartridge - - grab your single-button 4/8-direction-joystick - - Press "1p Start" or "Game Reset" - ... and PLAY ! NOT : - spend 1 or 2 days reading game manual - - put your 1024 bit console almost 1 or more mile far from heating - - put the HDMI-S connector into the 14th port of your little 95" 2:35 widescreen LED TV - - turn on your 802.11z-1TB/s wlan router - - switch on the console ( and hope it would not show you its 43 faulty-status red leds ... ) and wait for the rev.576.99 bios upgrade from the Unet ( UniverseNetwork ) - - insert the 4.3TB AzureRay game disc ( and hope it loads ) - - wear the multi-sensor suit and control your man/woman/foe/pet/transexual/... with your body movements - - play , enjoy it for 20-30 minutes , then unwear all , switch all off and reach minimous safe distance from the console for the next 12 hours -

I think that there could be only one game I'd love to see ( better ) on VCS at the moment . Burger Time - Arcade Personal note: I started a homebrew project over 4 years ago ( when I first came in here ... it was just 1 day I had Internet ) , but I never finished it , due to my scarce programming skills and no time to spend on it ... I already designed some screen ( TIApaint rules !!! ) , although I imagined the game as a 8-direction "false-3D" ( a bit less 3D than Pole Position ) scroll and view from the high . It's not properly an arcade-conversion , because there COULDN'T BE such a thing for the VCS and for ALL THE OTHER consoles but 32-64-128 bits ... What game is it ? ... watch on my Avatar image ...

Ahh , here is a ( lucky ?! ) UK owner of a H6 ! ... and I bet ALL of the PAL H6 were sold in UK and Germany , 'coz here in Italy we had NOT seen one . Never

Thanks , Zoyx ....... er ... I could have used the "search" option in a wrong way ... sorry and thnx again !

I have many PAL and NTSC games that I use to run on my PAL Light Sixer ( of course on a PAL TV , 15" color Salora , 1986 ) , but some of them ( loose carts ... so I don't know what exactly they are ... PAL-(x) or NTSC ?! ) have those color issues you just mentioned . For example in one of my Pole Positions I have a TERRIBLE magenta sky !!!

No one knows ? ... maybe I could post the answer in the 80's consoles italian forum where I use to be ... Thanks

01 The Activision Decathlon 02 Pitfall II 03 H.E.R.O. 04 Pole Position 05 Ms.Pac Man 06 Jungle Hunt 07 Pitfall 08 Moon Patrol 09 Gyruss 10 Combat

Sorry for my question ... I saw many Heavy Sixers and all of them are NTSC . But does a PAL Heavy Sixer exist ?

Also thanks to d-wilson for his "tips" . I only think how could a prototype came here back in 1984 in the hands of a "local" reviewer !?! There's no title screen in the review's photos [ again http://www.retrogaminghistory.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1712 ] , so I'm not sure the game showed is T.& F. or L.A.1984 G. . I only have to believe reviewer's words ... and it's not excluded I'll try to contact him , after all these years ( there are MANY videogames journalists that are still on the way ) !

Yeah . I have R'nR , UK , and it gives me the same B/W images ( VCS PAL 6switch , Italy )

Ok , thanks . L.A.'84 games question RESOLVED and ARCHIVED !

Heh , OK , I got it ! BUT ... if it was a WIP , then HOW could you have a screenshot ( and a kinda' flyer ) ? [ Ok ... you're a "Raider of the lost CARTRIDGE" ] Any more infos about it ? ... so I could post them in a local forum ... [ http://www.retrogaminghistory.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1712 ] Thnx

Hi I want to talk about a "strange" case of rarity ... A few years ago I decided to re-purchase some of my "lost" cartridges ... so I re-exhumed my collection of early-80's italian VideoGame reviews to seek out more info , with the HUGE help of ( OF COURSE ) AtariAge-cartridges guide . I discovered that on the guide there is NOT any reference to THIS game ( see attached jpg ) ... Well , this is "our" italian review of a game called "Los Angeles 1984 games" , European "port" for the VCS of the popular Konami's Track & Field . ?!?!?!?!?!?!?????????????? There's NOTHING about it in EVERY site I already watched , 'cause they all talk about the "regular" Track & Field cartridge ( and , of course , its dedicated controller ) . Maybe YOU , members af AE , could know something ...

Hi "restoring" cartridges ? Well , here is a link to an italian forum ( hehe , I'm italian ... so just watch the images and maybe "catch" some essential translation ) in wich I explained how I resumed ( or re-exhumed ? ) some of my old cartridges whose didn't seem to run anymore on my VCS , after about 20 - 25 years ... http://www.retrogaminghistory.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1290

GenITALIANS ...

Thnx

I'm impressed watching all these HUGE collections .................... Well , just want to post , as I have already done in another section , some pics of my VCS' new "house" er... monitor bezel is 'kinda deformed ! I'm gonna fix it RIGHT NOW ... My (few ) carts Hey ! ... look at Missile Command and Bump'n Jump labels... I did NOT find them in the rarity guide ( ??? ) Maybe someone knows anything about it ??? >[ btw: I checked the guide and didn't find rarity rate for those games,too : Beamrider (Activision - PAL - White) Donkey Kong (CBS - PAL - UK color) Kung-Fu Master (HES - PAL - ?) Roc'n Rope (CBS - PAL(UK) - UK white) Smurf (CBS - PAL - UK color) Zaxxon (CBS - PAL - UK white) ]< "Survived" boxes & instruction booklets Me and wife will soon move from our house to another which has a little tavern in the garage... so I think I'm soon goin' to EXPAND my VCS collection ... and maybe get or build (like I did for my DL , Mame and "mini Pac-Man VCS cab !!!) 1 or 2 more arcade machines, too

(wrong place ........ sorry)

The Pac was and still is THE ICON for videogames. And it was for VCS, too. I recently builded a new "home" for my VCS... http://picasaweb.google.it/macdlsa/AtariVCSMiniCab# ... and a little mini"showcab" for the dedicated mobile phone (eeeMame) http://picasaweb.google.it/macdlsa/MacDLSA...813847696849042 This is to show how much I like Pac-Man in ALL his ways. btw: unfortunately I lost my Table-Top http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Coleco/PacMan.htm :mad:

Hey Random...("gypsy", translated from our language) Here in Italy we could not buy the games you mentioned until the first months of the 1985 . So it's not properly "early '80s" for us... Ok,you're right about E.T. , but it' s completely different. Pac-Man is a pure "start&play" action game , while E.T. is a BAD, complicate and awful adventure-like game in which the player have to do much more than eat dots and avoid ghosts . I still think people had to watch "Secret of Nimh" instead of watching "E.T." at the cinemas in 1982 ... and so Atari would NOT sold so many copies of that horrible tie-in ( btw: I bought it , completed it and still have it in my VCS collection ) . Sorry for have just mentioned B.M. ... You're a veteran in this forum (year 2001 , 13k posts...) while I'm "new" , so I know almost NOTHING about it . I'm just a 39yo italian VCS fan.