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  2. Posted

    Title says it all really. Just curious as it seems the obvious choice from a cheap distribution point of view(tapes are much cheaper than carts). Also the extra power must be useful I would imagine. The games quality of the orignal Arcadia/starpath games was very high but I imagine some of todays home brewer folks could do some even more impressive feats.

     

    Best regards,

    Chris

  3. Posted

    Whatever it is you are trying to achieve here you are most certainly going the wrong way about it in my view. This certainly is doing you no favours on the sales of your book cart, I personally was considering a purchase, this thread has actually put me off! Why you seem unable to supply a screen shot and/or a picture of the physical cart itself i cannot understand. This is clearly not a time issue, as you found it to post labels that are completley irellevant. Show us a screenshot/yootube movie, show us a pic of the real item. Tell us how cheap the cart will be and stop pissing about. you are really bugging the best market you have for your products, you didn't work for Atari circa 1984 by any chance?

  4. Posted

    I dig Fireball myself and that Communist Mutants from Space game you got too.I havnt played DragonStomper but i hear good things about it.Congrats on the Supercharger. :)

    Commie mutants in great, love the jellyfish aliens :) have the case for dragon stomper, but no tape, so I guess thats another I need to hunt for.

  5. Posted

    I just got my Arcadia Supercharger with phaser patrol, commie mutants & suicide mission through the post. WOW!!!! This thing is great, it loads very easy with an old Aiwa walkman and those games are really impressive. All three are fantastic, I'm going to be playing them a lot I reckon.

    Anyhow, found this interesting page a day or too ago, have a look.

    http://www.mayhem64.co.uk/interview/caswell.htm

     

     

    Just gotta get Frogger for the supercharger now, any one got one, thay want to sell or could run a tape to tape copy off for me?

    Anyhow, back to phaser patrol!

    Chris

  7. Posted

    Anyhow suggest some game carts I can't be without!

     

    Hi Chris,

     

    Welcome to the A8 community.

     

    The ideas suggested by others are very good and, in most cases, the best way to go. However, if you just want to keep things simple to start off, getting some carts is probably the best idea.

     

    Here are some of my favorites on cart:

     

    archon

    ballblazer

    blue max

    boulder dash

    commando

    crystal castles

    deflektor

    dig dug (either version)

    donkey kong jr

    flip and flop

    frogger

    gyruss

    joust

    jumpman jr

    karateka

    mario bros

    ms pac-man

    pac-man

    q-bert

    rescue on fractalus

    star raiders

    summer games

    tennis

     

    Maybe get a few that sound interesting, and then decide if you want to invest more time/money into other options.

     

    This site will give you good info on the games:

    Atarimania

     

    If you have experience with emulation, you can also download files to play on an emulator at Atarimania.

     

    There are many good carts for the A8 besides the ones that I've mentioned, but many of the jewels for the system are also to be found on the other available mediums (disks/files).

     

    Hope this helps. The A8 is a really great platform.

     

    Thanks! Have got star raiders, frogger(one of my alltime favourite), mountain king, moon patro & Qbert on there way. Also a friend gave me a cop of kaboom! I'll start this way to begin & as you say see how I get on!

     

    Best regards,

    Chrisl

  11. Posted

    My other hobby/passion is classic British motorcycles of which I have 7. The most modern of these is 1968 so the Atari feels quite modern in comparison although I was created only five years before the VCS! As a friend of mine says, anything with a mains plug on the end isn't that old, after all we haven't had electricity THAT long :)

  12. Posted

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    Here is my PAL Heavy sixer, bought from a friend a while back who was the original owner. I used to play on this very machine at his house when I was a kid!

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    It still works perfectly too, wish I had looked after my stuff as well as he did!

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    I had no idea this was a rare model until I found this forum, out of curiosity, what would you say it's value is?

    Best regards,

    Chris

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  16. Posted · Edited by BSA Starfire

    Hi I would like to buy or trade the following games, PAL versions prefered (where available), but NTSC fine too. Not bothered about boxes but manuals would be nice.

     

    Solar Storm Imagic

    Fathom Imagic

    Moonsweeper Imagic.

    Name this Game US Games

    Dolphin Activision

    Any supercharger games except Phaser Patrol, Suicide Mission and communist mutants. Even copies here would be fine, as long as i have them on CD or tape it's all good :)

    Fantastic Voyage.

    Encounter at L5

    King Kong

    Spider Fighter Activision

    Wabbit

    Warplock.

    Tutankham PAL only on this, don't need manual.

     

    Thanks!

    Chris

     

     

     

    Also after Tutankham loose.

     

     

    Have some stuff I could trade if anyone is more into that?

     

    Playstation Koudelka nice SNK 4 disc RPG, boxed no manual.

    Playstation TOCA touring car, complete.

    Playstation Colin McRae Rally, complete.

    Playstation Shadowman, complete.

    Playstation 2 Summoner 2, complete.

    Playstation 2 WWII battle over the pacific, complete.

    Playstation 2 Primal, complete.

    Playstation 2 Lake Masters EX, complete.

    Playstation 2 Giants:Citizen Kabuto, complete.

    Nintendo Gamecube Mario Kart double dash, complete.

     

     

    Loads of master system games, if anyones interested I'll make up a list.

     

    7800 Joust loose.

    2600 Robot Tank loose.

    2600 Fun with numbers (text no end label).

    2600 video touch pad, loose.

    2600 River Raid 2

    2600 enduro white label, salu case type.

  17. Posted

    Hi anyone know if Meltdown is playable without the lightgun? Alien Brigade works with the pad, so maybe this game too? If not then could I use the lightgun from a Sega Master system maybe?

    Best regards!

  18. Posted

    Although most people here are anti-Froggo, I personally really like Sea Hunt, it's one of my favorite 2600 games.

     

    autumn_drag0n

    Yes, I like this game too, one I had as a child, as long as you time your jump from the boat carefully in, no worries.

     

    I going to look for Fathom and Dolphin next as they both sound cool.

    Another I thought of that no one else has mentioned is Frostbite, another of my all time favourites.

    Come on man, a handheld LCD football game can run OS X.
    I wish! My old G3 Imac barely could, glad when it packed up and we got this new Mac Mini!

     

    Thanks for all the replies.

    All the best!

  19. Posted

    Hi Folks!

     

    I have noticed many of the games that I am enjoying the most have a water theme, so I looked through my collection to pick out all the titles that are based around the marine theme, Anyone add any others I can look out for, thought it may be fun to "Catch 'em all!".

     

    Here's what I have:

     

    Atlantis

    Seaquest

    Marine Wars

    Crash Dive

    Skin Diver

    Frogger

    Polaris

    Airlock

    Overkill(Sea Hawk)

    River Raid

    River Raid 2

    Alien Brigade 7800(loose link but it does have that undersea level)

     

     

    I have frogger 2 and bermuda triangle on there way in the mail too, looking forward to those.

     

    So if you can think of any others and maybe add a comment on what the game involves and what you think of it go ahead.

     

    Best regards,

    Chris

  22. Posted

    Pick N Pile is very similar (if not the same game). Distributed by Ubisoft, one of the really big euro distributors. I's a really quirky game. It only works with a joystick in the right hand port for a start. the graphics are fearsomly flickery too.

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