riffraff

Fixed that for you. rofl

jesus.

I chose Mountain King, but I was thinking more of the 5200/400 one. They are all excellent games IMO.

The list of Atari 400/800/XE carts has been moved to Auction Central for a classic r.g.v.c.-style 3-day auction. Thanks for your interest.

I dont think I've played Protector, but Data Storm was one of the best Amiga games ever. It's got to be one of the few games in history that was superior than the coin-op it was based on.

I probably do. Haven't seen it in a while, must be buried deep in a box somewhere.

Thanks for the info guys. I don't know much about this item except I used it once. It's a bit bulky for my taste and don't play my SNES much these days.

I'd be all over CC if I didn't have it CiB. I'm probably going to make a move on Quadrun at some point.

I'll be posting my lot soon.

SUPER NES SUPER SCOPE 6 with BIN It's in excellent shape and comes with everything but the manual. I probably have the manual somewhere, just need to find it. If I find it I'll make sure to include it at no extra cost.

Ok I've since learned that the Dreadnaught Destroyer patch shown is not that rare and that the Digital Press page is showing the rare variant on their site as a mistake (the triangular one). The Beamrider one is another story. Ok, on to where these patches came from: In the summer of 1989 I was working on my first published game for Activision called Beyond Dark Castle for the C-64 which was a port from a black & white Mac game of the same name. For the last week of the project they asked me to come work at the office in California and I did. While there I noticed this fairly large box full of Activision patches. Inside the box were individual plastic bags with various amounts of patches. I asked the producer of my project if I could take 1 of each patch from the box and he laughed, then said it would be ok. So thats what I did! (way before I had done any serious collecting other than NES carts) I think they stopped shipping out patches very soon after that as it was pretty late in the game for that stuff. Here's some other fun info tho... * One of the other patches I got from the box was the "common" Beamrider's patch and I'm pretty sure they were sending that one out at the time when someone wrote in for one. * The programmer who did the Amiga port of Beyond Dark Castle is Michael Schwartz, a life-long friend of mine and gave me my first pro job doing the c-64 port. If this name sounds vaguely familliar he was the programmer/designer for Chase the Chuckwagon. He also programmed some Xonox games like Artillery Duel and Chuck Norris. * Activision was working on Ghostbusters II for the 2600 and other systems at the time and it was nearly finished. I've been out of it for a while so if any protos have shown up since then I wouldn't be surprised. * There was a "secret room" which somehow I was able to get a peek inside. This room only had 1 door and was packed with programmers reverse-engineering, coding for, and developing art for a new system called the Sega Genesis which was not yet in stores. I remember them using Deluxe Paint to draw some art and had some kind of Football field working on one of the units which looked a lot like Madden.

C-64 disk version of Congo Bongo was pretty good! The disk loading between levels was a bit of a pain but beyond that it looked/played well.

I love that model of the NES. All the security gone, will play any cart.

I thought there were some games the Jr wouldn't play tho.. like Starpath or something? I can't remember.

Yeah I had to install & reboot for that garbage.. already regretting it. Cool video tho! Game looks nice.. Warlords is one of my favorites. Love to get a 4-player cocktail someday.

1982 I was 12 years old and BBS's had me hooked, I chose an alias of Pink Panther. Once I started playing games on CompuServe someone else had chosen the alias so I sought out a new one. Being a kid I chose Riff Raff based on a character in the Heathcliff cartoon. Here's what he looked like: A very good description of the cartoon and the characters can be described HERE. Although untrue, I find it way cooler for me to say I got the name from the cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture show (Riff Raff shown in current avatar <----) which I would go see from time to time as I got older. Heck even one of the villans from the Underdog Cartoon would have been a better origin. I did like Underdog a lot when I was 7 or 8 but I admit that's not where I got the name from. Throughtout the 80's growing up I held onto the name and used it on C-64 demos and crack screens. Nowadays there are a lot of people who use the name. Bastards should step aside and give the original cat his due but oh well

Some of my favs I wouldn't leave off any list: Crazy Climber Circus Atari Enduro Spiderman Ms Pac Man Gravitar Activision Boxing (only with 2 players)

something about your avatar there.. it's.. distracting me.

What about the rectangular Dreadnaught Destroyer? I hadn't seen this anywhere either. Also, I can't get a better picture for a few days. The scanner I had is SCSI and none of my computers have SCSI or can't recognize it. It's not really possible to see the excellent colors in these from the bad photos.

Got the machine christmas 1978 and I was 8. As others have said, best christmas ever. Games we got were Space Invaders and Casino. I was glued to the TV and played non-stop Space Invaders. We ended taking Casino back to the store and instead got my choice... "bowling". My sister wanted to get Circus Atari.. Ok so she was right ONE TIME!!

awesome.

1. Bounty Bob Strikes back is just too good of an idea. Miner was fun on the CV and BBSB would have to be fun too. 2. c-64 Bop & Wrestle (what the hell, nobody else will say it) =) 3. Lazer Blast 2600

Ok here's my 3: 1. Crazy Climber (someone mentioned the 2 controllers locked down) 2. Missile Command (rollerball??) 3. Phoenix (someone else mentioned it and I think it would port well) 3a. ok.. forget Phoenix.. instead I choose Make Trax!

Marc O hows it going? I was just thinking of you the other day beleive it or not. Memories of when you were first starting to collect 2600 and bought a lot of games from me. The post office would not ship the box I had packaged them in because it was so large! I had to repackage them into seperate smaller boxes. Fun times! Glad to see you are still around, as with so many others who love this hobby. AA is the place to be!

Out with the crappy old pencam.. in with the Nikon D70s! Here's the mysterious Beamrider patch!