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That's a really good tactic, to try searching for mispelled words for games every so often, like the rare ones. If they were spelled correctly, a rare game would go FAST especially with "buy it now".
It might work kinda well with games that are 6,7, or 8.
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I can't describe how much I loved this show, and maybe you've noticed this about yourselves.
Some things as a kid were twice as fun and wonderous as now.
I must own a video tape of these shows, I'll try my best to find good copies (but really just to see it again at all would be sweet).
Maybe if the recording is bad, I can just sit in front of the TV, and drool over the barely noticeable sounds.
"Hey I think that was Gyruss playing!"
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Ok, fine- you convinced me that Americans did step foot on the moon. Good job, those conspiracy theorists are all idiots.
But I still need an answer to my simple simple question:
When was the last time Americans set foot on the moon? You don't need to know the exact date, I just want a year.
Please?
I'm begging you PLEASE provide me with an answer, I'm really curious.
[ 05-23-2002: Message edited by: KAZ ]
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It was a TV show back in the 80's that came on every Saturday or whatever.
It would be an arcade video game contest. Some of the games played would be Burger Time, Krull, Zoolander, and a bunch of others.
It was perhaps the coolest show I had watched as a kid.
Does anyone know of anyone who has taped shows of this?
I think it was called: Johnny Arcade but I'm not too sure.
Can anyone help me out?
[ 05-24-2002: Message edited by: KAZ ]
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If I had a time machine, I'd go back in time 1 second each time....
Then I'd determine how many times I could make 1 second leaps into the past before things start to go wacky
Like when you walk on carpet enough times it starts to wear it out.
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I could hardly believe it. This place is about 20 minutes from where I live-kind of near the Mall of America. They sell all sorts of classic gaming stuff. In addition to selling snes and nes games, they have intellivision, 5200, and 2600 games. I saw a colecovision and an Atari 7800 there. This guy has only been in business since December of 2001.
His prices are "about" right, but I understand he also has to worry about profit. Somewhat more convenient than getting carts off ebay, having to mail money orders (some won't take Paypal). Worth the extra price for the convienience and "wild" status. So my days of searching in the wild are over, tho this isn't quite as "wild" as a thrift store might be.
He had a swordquest waterworld there
I'm not gonna spend $100 on it, even if it was a mega awesome unbelievable deal.
If he had a Quadrun for that price, I'd buy it. I've seen how valuable that thing is.
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Eventually I want to get this component, but first I'd need a 2 port Atari 5200.
I was just wondering, since I don't actually know, how well do the Atari 2600 games play on the Atari 5200 (I'm for sure NOT talking about controlling the games). Are they graphically/sound the same? Are there differences? Or could you not tell the difference between playing it on the VCS adapter vs. the real thing?
And while on the topic, how well does the 7800 play VCS games? Better/worse/more/less vibrant graphics, and how bout the sounds?
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I'm still having a good time going through the history of your trip Stan.
Gets me pretty excited that I'm actually going to a classic gaming convention in June.
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So from reading that article, then we should know the exact location of the missing carts (steamrolled as the case may be).
And cement poured in.
But the fact that these carts could no longer function after so much destuction, doesn't alter the supposed fact that they exist inside a cement encasing.
If this site could ever be exavated (not that I myself could do this), might there be a solvent that can react to the cement but not the flattened carts? Like disolve away the cement encompasing all these smashed carts.
What you'd get of course is a 1 ton piece of flat metal waste, but it would be the cartridges, and a portion of it could still contain value to a collector, wouldn't you think?
The other logistical nightmare is that there might be businesses or homes atop this dumping site perhaps?
I can see looting as being a problem back in 1983, but I doubt anyone, including Atari, would care if someone dug up the remains today.
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Playing an opponent at Atari 2600 Boxing, and getting locked into a series of blows, each one you may escape barely, whereby you can lock your opponent in the very same move until he his frustration reaches dangerous levels. This continues for the entire round, until there is finally the let up at the very end.
Thing is you may NEVER escape a series of shots till KO, and you pray that your opponent gets out of rhythm.
How bout trying to cross the road portion of Porky's? And then on top of that trying to use that pole vaulting thing for hours and hours.
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Has the US had people go to the moon in the last ten years? And if they haven't, why not? Is it just too pointless to go there? I don't think we went to the moon in the 80's either.
I have heard from a semi reliable source that they knew a former nasa security director, that director supposedly said that Neil Armstrong, on his return from the supposed moon landing, had to undergo radiation procedures in case he and the others were exposed to that on the moon.
Why don't you hear about the moon anything on the news or special edition or anything like that. I haven't seen or heard anybody speak about it in the longest time. I am dead serious people.
I like E.T. too, don't forget that!!!
I think E.T. and Ross Perot are behind the whole cover up, and maybe condelezza pork chops and rice.
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I simply have not heard of many cartridges failing on people, from all the time I've been on this message board. If it really were a horrible "epidemic" I'm sure it would come to everyone's attention very fast.
Myself, I've had three non-working cartridges out of 59. Two were from Goodwill, and I can probably determine what the cause was there. The other one was Q-bert, that I cannot figure out why it doesn't work, since I've cleaned and cleaned and cleaned it. It didn't work before or after, or since.
Quadruns are most likely VERY well cared for, so I'm sure their longevity will be longer than 20-25 years, or longer than my lifetime, tho perhaps I'm wrong.
When cartridges start failing in mass, the entire market on ebay will crash HARD. Only manuals and boxes would have value then.
[ 05-22-2002: Message edited by: KAZ ]
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I think he's like some of us where it is sometimes more pleasurable to COLLECT for systems, than to actually play the games.
He's feeling guilty that he doesn't play on the systems he collected. That's ok, they can just be for show too-it is perfectly alright just to say that you have the systems and games too.
Collecting can take on a life of its own, and he's probably asking what stuff would be good for a collector to have from the pre-NES systems.
Who knows when you might get an itching to either play or collect for the Intellivision. A day might come up where you want to examine a game that you bought, to compare it to a game on a different system, or whatever.
I have a 5200 4 port and a 2600 vader, and I want to COLLECT a 5200 2 port (so it can have the VCS adapter capability), and I want to get a heavy sixer 6 switch 2600 also, just cause they look neat, and the buttons are configured differently.
[ 05-21-2002: Message edited by: KAZ ]
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This is the FIRST time I actually sat down and read this whole contest. And although I'm not even a contestant, I'm willing to take a stab at an answer.
I don't care about winning those two carts either, so it doesn't matter if I'm wrong either (which I likely am, since this contest is so dam complex).
clue 1:
"The answer lies south of the border"
clue 2:
"The journey starts somewhere within"
Well if the journey starts somewhere within, I'd say it starts in MY STOMACH
Answer 1: MY STOMACH
And what lies south of the border that could feed my hunger? TACO JOHN'S
Answer 2: TACO JOHN'S
But I figure that these two answers are so simplistic, that they couldn't possibly be the correct answer with all this color and braille stuff floating around.
But then again, Pitfall Harry said the answer would stare you in the face.
Answer 3: YOU
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Organized 2600 crime sindicate:
Buyer: "Do you have the 'item'?"
Crime Boss (looking around suspiciously): "Look in here..."
(Takes out a black box)
Buyer: "This looks like an eprom, is this some sort of trick?"
Crime Boss: "Look at the initials on the back."
Buyer (in amazement) "This is from Fat Tony's Private Stash!"
Well I tried to make it like a mafia story line with 2600 games. I tried!
Can anyone do better?
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Since he played this game using the Atari 7800, I vote that the moderators move this to the 7800 forum immediately!
Do not soil this golden 2600 forum with filth such as this!!
j/k, I like the 7800.
But move it, cuz I said so.
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It is the fact that you've got a type of "leveling up" system for people who post that you have such a lively place here. People want to be "Atari Pro 2" or whatever.
If you somehow had even more "levels", I think people would even want to post more.
Implement other fun features that link directly to people's posts, and you'll get even more activity I'd say.
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Phoenix, far and above any others. I love this game now, and never ever saw it as a kid.
I like Cosmic Ark and Gravitar also, those are really fun on my emulator, and I'll get those soon enough
Artillery Duel, how could I forget that?? Dang it is fun (I have the Chuck Norris/Art Duel double ender).
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The reason you'd want to get the Atari 2600 version of Kung Fu is merely to have it as part of a collection on how far the home game has progressed through the systems. That's why I'm going to collect the game for my 2600, since I'm eventually going to get a 7800.
How many Kung Fu games has there been across the systems? I can only count three (2600, 7800, and NES).
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Buying expensive games isn't a bad idea, and here's why.
Ok, so what if they are $500. They retain their value. It is like buying a valuable painting, and then 5 years later selling it for 2 times as much.
Now if you buy a Quadrun for $500, and then let your 3 year old kid play with it, now that's just ****ing insane.
How long is TOO long to sit on an expensive game tho? If you don't intend to give it to a relative for an inheritance, then it is prudent to eventually sell it, wouldn't you say?
I paid $20 for an Atari 2600 game, but that's as high as I've ever gone. Thing is I could probably sell it for approximately the same price, so I have assets that have value.
Am I making much sense? You just gotta think more deeply about it, and you discover that it isn't necessarily an unhealthy obsession, but rather just acquiring valuable items. The fact that it is a GAME makes no difference, and doesn't change the fact that it is valuable.
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As far as the moon thing goes, that isn't to say I don't believe that we've gone into space/and that there are space stations and satellites up there.
Those are readily visible with telescopes, and can be independently verified by people as true.
I played E.T., and I think the theme song is ok, and the game is probably alot better than some I've seen on the Atari 2600.
But when WAS the last time we went to the moon, seriously? Or was it ONLY that ONE time? That is just wacky that we'd just go once, doesn't this seem odd to others?
Unless my theory is true, that we didn't ever go. I'm sure we've sent plenty of probes there tho (but not people).
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Yes, I think it has just become part of Atari 2600 Lore.
Except that I heard that alot of people were returning these E.T. cartridges to get refunds, because they thought the game was horrible. What would a company do with a bunch of "bad" cartridges? I doubt they'd just give them away, who would they give them to? Perhaps the trash was the appropriate place for them.
The story SOUNDS like it is true, but doesn't mean it is.
When is the last time a human stepped foot on the moon? Why haven't they done this in long time? When IS the last time a human WAS on the moon? Have you heard anything on the news lately about astronaunts going to the moon? Maybe they never went, eh?
Or is the moon so barren and boring that there really has never been any point to going there, but since we were in competition with the soviets, we had to have a good story for the public.
I know i'm off on a tangent, but I'm talking about how stories, even ones that we all assume are true, may actually NOT be true.
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Who cares if they were all smooshed into a giant square metal thing. That would make a hell of a "trophy" for any Atari collector, eh?
And yes, even if I did locate a burial site from hounding former Atari workers, what would I do with this information?
Last I checked I don't own a shoveling machine (whatever they are called). Excavating machine? Steamshovel? Digging Thingie?
I also would imagine that there are countless landfills in some states, piled high full of junk that would take centuries to dig through.
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How hard can it be, seriously?
I have some time on my hands. Who could I write, or call to find out information about this secret burial site of E.T. cartridges in Nevada supposedly.
I assume that others have already gone looking, or perhaps oddly enough they haven't even tried (thinking that others have already tried it). The concept of diffusion of responsibility.
Someone who used to work for Atari must know something, wouldn't you think?
Unless, and this is my theory, that it is NOT true that millions of E.T. cartridges are buried, because if they were, someone would undoubtedly have dug them up by now (if you consider all the avid Atari collectors and stuff out there). It is just logical.
I read about people hassling the Purina Dog Chow company asking about their cartridges, so these same people must have hassled someone about these cartridges??!
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Yes, this is the one! Thanks for providing that awesome link.
Yeah, they did play Dragon's Lair ALOT on that show, and the players were often REALLY good at the game-which made it even better to watch.
Now if I could only find full videos of it online, that is my next big goal.
This is where alot of video games were introduced to me for the first time. Zoolander was a big example, where I haven't seen the game in the wild, but I played it on Mame not long ago.
Why did they abandon these awesome shows?