Phosphor Dot Fossils

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He sounds like he's at the end of his rope. Or maybe he's not in the swing of things anymore. All pun-ishment aside, though......WTF!? What brought this on?

I'm 31! I'm higher on the food chain! GET IN MAH BELLY!!! Seriously though, welcome aboard. Always good to see the next generation of retro-gamers embracing the old-school stuff.

It should also be pointed out that Shuttle Orbiter is quite a fun game...if you have patience. I love it.

Evidently he did what the song said, and didn't stop believing!

Auction Schmauction? Auction Watchin'? (Hey, you're in Texas, you could get away with it.)

Y'know, I like the cute factor, but what I REALLY miss is the abstraction factor. With an old-school character like Pac-Man, Pooka, Guzzler, Galaxian motherships or what have you, there's room for you to fill in the blanks in your mind as to what these characters really look like, if indeed you wish to fill in those blanks at all. Now it's all spelled out. To some extent, this also spills over and dovetails with my annoyance with "movie-style" gaming, where the game's creators have already mapped out what they want to have happen, and it's up to you to figure out how to make that course of events progress as they had planned. I kinda resent that - it's like Dragon's Lair writ large, a choose-your-own-adventure book with only one way to "win." This is largely why Pikmin caught my eye when it came out. Kids aren't the only ones looking for non-violent games. I work in TV news, I get my share of violence second-hand. I really don't want to live a Bruckheimer movie when I'm off duty. But then, I think I've gone off on this spiel many times. But this very phenomenon is why I'm a RETROgamer, with the emphasis on RETRO.

Yeah, well you know I've been itching to buy some games from you guys too. So, again, very good for the game shelf, but the wallet is emitting an E.T.-like "oooowwwwwwccchhh."

Someone selling both games and figures? And here I thought I'd have a chance to recover financially after August!

Yes.

Whew. Needed a bigger room already? Excellent. This is gonna ROCK.

Perhaps he's renting, and that's why he only has the soldering iron "tonite only."

...as do we all, apparently.

MTV Music Generator for the Odyssey 2?

Excellent! The package deal is better than I could've hoped for! Thanks so much.

Tasty! This is going to be in the AA store afterward, isn't it?

They're a one-post wonder by the look it, so I wouldn't sweat it. To bring things back on-topic, I'm going to CGE.

Actually, I've got the original 45 with the instrumental (or, as it would doubtless be called today, "karaoke") version of PMF. I really need to burn that to CD sometime.

*snickers* Man, if you're gonna declare yourself a lawsuit magnet, at least do it in style.

Paul, you gonna have any copies of Synthcart on ya? If not, I'm going to order one from AA anyway, but if you did, it'd be a nice bit of one-stop shopping for me.

I read it. Still want 'em.

When the hammer came down at Atari at the beginning of the Tramiel era, two things comes into play here: 1) There was a lot of theft by disgruntled employees. This may have included prototypes (and I'm not necessarily accusing the programmers of doing the thievery) which later found their way into collectors' hands. 2) When the Tramiels took over, they made it clear: the focus was now on personal computers. So some of the programmers, or whoever else may have had the protos, in all likelihood "liberated" works that they felt would never see the light of day.

Well, I'm sure many were near-complete or completed works-in-progress that were delivered just as the industry slumped. When the bottom drops out of the company's stocks, and/or people are being laid off left and right...where's the percentage in going through the expensive motions of manufacturing and marketing a game that there doesn't appear to be a market for? This happened with quite a few games, which is why we've got an interesting gene pool of unreleased but perfectly playable stuff.

I have a pronouncement to make...I think I want some of these games. (I haven't even downloaded the ROMs to check 'em out - this is just from looking at those big beautiful stacks of carts 'n' boxes.)

I'm not sure that's the answer either. That sets the ground even further for a war between homebrew programmers. What the heck ever happened to friendly competition, people? You don't like someone else's work? Come up with your own, do them one better if you like.