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  1. Holy creepy commercial, Batman!

     

    youtube.com/watch?v=4uYSSMPkojY

     

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    2. doctorclu

      doctorclu

      Very interesting advertising done here.   In a time where sex was used to sell items, how to sell baby products?   Get a young soft woman, wearing soft clothing and softly nomming a cookie on a stick? to advertise how soft a product is?

       

      An interesting approach for sure.  Also effective!  I certainly remember this product.

    3. thanatos

      thanatos

      Made me think of this Gong Show clip...

       

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDxDYIQL6Nc

       

      Edit - hah, wow, youtube doesn't even allow it to be embedded!  

    4. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      ^I think they should win!

  2. Always wear goggles when playing with your balls.

     

    youtube.com/watch?v=Tf8OKf-JM9o

     

    youtube.com/watch?v=bs7GAEkJITI

     

    1. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      I bet I still have a pair of these in my dresser drawer...

    2. MarcoJ

      MarcoJ

      @GoldLeader that's where I keep my pair too. Wait are we talking about the same thing?

    3. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      Pretty sure for mine,  the string broke...I may have tied it back together once,  but mostly considered it a dangerous toy.  I don't even remember where they came from,  probably a hand me down toy...Like one day my brother said,  "Here,  it's yours"...

  3. I meant once you scroll down past the constants, it says this: If you already have NTSC or PAL-60 colors in your game without using constants, all you have to do is replace the dollar sign with an underscore, but make sure you only do that to colors, not things like CTRLPF and NUSIZ. So this: COLUPF = $2C becomes this: COLUPF = _2C And this: player1color: $06 $04 $08 $0A $0C end becomes this: player1color: _06 _04 _08 _0A _0C end
  4. Have you seen this? https://www.randomterrain.com/atari-2600-memories-batari-basic-commands.html#color_constants_ntsc_pal60
  5. Have you been to Pooky Park?

     

    youtu.be/ryNtckMT49M?si=IgHWn_seo0ZBRr57&t=4

     

    1. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      Very Twisted!   Well,  I'm going back to bed now...Wish me luck.  I'm hoping for nice dreams and no puppet nightmares!

    2. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      That would make a great horror movie or better yet IMHO,  a great Horror Series!  Especially keeping it very creepy looking but also in Black & White and old school!

  6. Have you seen the reply here? https://forums.atariage.com/topic/361579-sample-code-for-plataformer-game-for-atari-2600/
  7. Here are two: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/179473-fake-gravity-platformer-test/ https://forums.atariage.com/topic/358541-platforming-code-examples/
    1. dudeguy

      dudeguy

      better to be kermasculated than emasculated. 

  8. Remember that you can do just one "collision(playfield,ball)" check to save cycles. Something like if !collision(playfield,ball) then goto _Skip_Collision_PF_Ball" then have your other checks sandwiched in there.
  9. If you think it's butter, but it's snot, it's Chiffon.

     

    youtube.com/watch?v=ijVijP-CDVI

     

    1. Jess Ragan

      Jess Ragan

      I can't believe it's snot butter!

  10. That's exactly how I eat cake. I make a group of people watch as I eat the whole cake by myself, starting from their side so they won't miss a thing. I also wash down the cake with tears that I extract from their eyes using a series of tubes. HTML version of the 7800basic Guide has been updated: https://www.randomterrain.com/7800basic.html If anyone notices any mistakes, please let me know.
  11. Atari 2600 E.T. review from March 5, 1983:

     

    https://www.newspapers.com/article/139805711/

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    2. ClassicGMR

      ClassicGMR

      I enjoy it. It was frustrating BITD but when I beat the game it was sooooooo satisfying.

    3. bent_pin

      bent_pin

      Gotta give it to Atari, the games still cost $29 for a standard cartridge 40 years later.

    4. BydoEmpire

      BydoEmpire

      I like how they gave different Adult & Kid ratings.

  12. Speaking of procrastinating, I made this page years ago: https://www.randomterrain.com/rt-motivation-and-creativity-page-for-programmers.html The bB page has a general Parts of a Program section. There is also a simplistic Bankswitching Example on the bB page. There are so many types of games and compromises where you have to stick code where you may not want it. You run out of room in one bank, so you have to stick code in another bank and the whole thing starts looking like a rat's nest. Templates would be nice, but let's pick platformers as an example. You can't have one template for a platformer because one person wants scrolling left/right or up/down or left/right and up/down and another person wants single screens. Another person wants animated sprites and another person wants zero animation. Another person wants data for sound effects and other person wants sound effects that don't use data. Another person thinks that the sound effect code is too complicated and wants a whole new way of doing sounds for their game. Some people want a complete game template where they can simply insert their own sprites and become a millionaire. That will definitely happen because the 50 people left on the planet who still buy Atari 2600 games will be willing to pay twenty thousand dollars for each copy. When I start working on a new program, I copy and paste from the bB page or from the various example programs on the bB page since I can't remember any of it, then make whatever changes are needed. If I come up with something useful while editing the code, I'll put that on the bB page for copying and pasting in the future.
  13. Nomenclature? More like gnomenclature!

    1. bent_pin

      bent_pin

      Oh gnome you didn't!

    2. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      My friend Magic Cyclops had a song called "Gnomes Gone Wild".

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