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  1. Posted

    Hi All,

     

    I have just ordered my first set of homebrews, made a bit of extra cash on a motorcycle restoration so thought i'd splash out. It's great, feels like ordering new games from the silica shop catalogue in the '80's.

    Anyhow I got Lady Bug, Space Treat, This planet sucks! & Dark mage.

     

    What do you folks reckon on the selections? Wanted to try dark mage as I remember sitting with my dad typing in a game on our Aquarius from a magazine that seems very similar(I never really got into computers much in the 80's, or now for that matter).

    The only other homebrew I have ordered ever is Travi last week, so this all feels new and cool to me.

     

    Best regards,

    Chris

  3. Posted

    Im ignoring ET as its become CLiche...

     

    1) Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom. Sure the graphics stink, but moreso than any other 2600 game I own, I reach a zen like state

     

    2) Reactor. Once again, graphics stink, and its not exactly like the arcade, but damn if it isnt a challenging game.

     

    3) Tac-Scan -- See above

     

    4) Krull. Now THIS is a game Combines many elements of adventure games with several challenging arcade sequences. My brother and I used to have a contest to see who could last the longest on the wedding scene.

     

    5) Fantastic Voyage. Ecxcellent twist on the Scramble formula.

     

     

    Yep, I'll go with Reactor and tac-scan(my favourite paddles game), not played Buck rogers or Krull. Sounds like I should.

    Best regards,

    Chris

  4. Posted

    1. Dig Dug one of Atari's arcade conversions no-one seems to mention, great fun!

     

    2. Tape Worm. Lots of fun and a good memory test on the dark levels.

     

    3. Solar Fox, fast frantic dot collecting.

     

     

    4. Fantastic Voyage, River Raid with a neat premise and saving life, not killing:)

     

     

    5. Crash Dive, good shooter, very underrated in my opinion.

     

    6. Ghostbusters, very original, fun and great music.

     

     

    OK it's more than 5 but well......

    Best regards,

    Chris

    :)

  5. Posted

    OK here we go:

     

    1. Solaris

    Just could never get into it. A glorified Buck Rogers Planet Of Zoom

     

    2. Mountain King

    Haunted House on the side of a mountain != fun

     

    3. Pitfall II

    Pointless, endless and boring

     

    4. Beamrider

    Shoot at stuff. Yeah? And? I guess the pretty lines distract from the fact this game was already done better about 50 times on the 2600

     

    5. Stargate

    The two stick control scheme makes playing this game an exercise in frustration but ooh it has mountains like the arcade version

     

    Honorable mention: pretty much EVERY Starpath game

    Look at those aliens in Communist Mutants, they're so much SQUARER and way more SINGLE COLORED with that extra RAM!

     

    :D

    Got to say I disagree with a lot of these :)

     

    Communist mutants is by far my favorite Galaxian type game, much nicer than Phoenix, Galaxian, Demon Attack, gorf, etc.I really like the alien designs.

     

    Dragonstomper is also a cracking game, far more depth than Adventure in my opinion.

     

    Phaser Patrol is by far the best of it's kind also, The Atari Star Raiders is poor, specially as it was released a year later, Star Voyager is OK but has none of the strategy, Starmaster is good but has none of Phasers polish but not a bad game by any means.

     

    Frogger on 'charger is also excellent it's nearly as good as the superlative Atari 8-bit version, it has all the feature of the arcade, nice graphics and sounds.

     

    OK I'm a Starpath/Arcadia fan, but I don't see much out there that's better than these titles.

     

     

    I'll also defend Beamrider, Yep you only shoot stuff then repeat but that probably describes 50% of the atari library, I like this one too.

     

     

    A couple of games I see mentioned often in a positive light are Wizard of Wor and Chopper command, neither of these are the best of there kind, again only in my opinion of course, enjoy them both for what they are however.

     

    The game I reckon is most overrated on the forum however is Airlock, how anyone can like this I don't get, maybe I am missing something(probably) but I think it's horrible, had it back in 1983 and hated it then too(of course I still have it :) )

     

     

    Best regards,

    Chris

     

    :)

  8. Posted

    Anyone know where I can download the audio tracks or Mp3's for the games, I have a near full original collection of Arcadia/Starpath games but would like to save wear on the tapes, the makewav thing seems to be for windows PC's and I have a Mac. Be nice just to put them all on a CD.

    Thanks,

    Chris

     

    I'd offer to help with mine, but they are all NTSC.

     

     

    All my 'charger games are NTSC, got them in trades with folks here on Atariage, they play fine over here, even the colours are good on most. If you could help much appreciated :)

  9. Posted

    Anyone know where I can download the audio tracks or Mp3's for the games, I have a near full original collection of Arcadia/Starpath games but would like to save wear on the tapes, the makewav thing seems to be for windows PC's and I have a Mac. Be nice just to put them all on a CD.

    Thanks,

    Chris

  16. Posted

    Hi all,

     

    I have a six switch PAL VCS and a number of games with one or both of the tangs that open the dust protector on the slot missing. This makes it either very hard or impossible to insert the carts into the machine. Is there a way of safely removing the dust protector from the console so I can use these carts(why is it always the rare stuff missing these tangs?). I would use the 7800 instead but the cart slot on that is too tight to take a lot of my 2600 carts.

    Thanks folks!

    Chris

  17. Posted

    Does anybody else think the title of this thread meant something else? :ponder: ;)

     

    ET Go Come sounds like a low budget porno...

    LOL :) you should see the box art, really freaky too! Thanks for the playing tips, never would have figured this out otherwise. I'll take a pic of the box later and post, you have to see it.

    Best,

    Chris

  23. Posted

    As the title really, only just getting into the world of homebrews, hacks and repro's (and the internet for that matter), and wondered if anyone had done this game, it's the right era, and was simple & fun! No idea if a playable version would even be possible on the 2600, bet the 7800 could do a cracking job however. What do you folks think?

    Best,

    Chris

  24. Posted

    I actually really like this game. I've sort of got a thing for all of the Bit Corp games, especially Bobby is Going Home. This one is simple and fun, but get's pretty difficult pretty quickly. I like it.

     

    I was going to buy an NTSC conversion of the game from atari2600.com. I even paid for it. But there was some sort of glitch in their system and I got an email saying they had sold out. I was refunded the $35 I paid, bit I didn't get the cartridge. :( Oh well. I'm sure it'll turn up again one day.

     

    Well I am really going to go out on a limb and admit to liking Seamonster. Don't ask me why but I do.

     

     

    Shuffles quietly away.

     

    :)

  25. Posted

    I like my 7800, not had it for long but here in the UK price is a big difference, 7800's are very, VERY cheap, £10 will get you a system from ebay with lots of games. A NES will cost you £40 with 1 game & it probably won't work too well(retched cart ports). Colecovisions will probably cost about £100.Games are also super cheap for the 7800 too, unlike the NES or Coleco. I love the built in Asteroids, Galaga and Centipede are also wonderful. I realise from a American standpoint all this pricing is different, but here the 7800 is fantastic value. We also got the really nice pads as standard. almost makes up for the fact that we never got the 5200 in PAL land at all. Thanks god for the XE GS, another very cheap system here. I also really like the style of the syetm physically, nice looking machine, aged very well in my opinion, unlike the NES.

    Just my tuppence worth.

    Best regards,

    Chris

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