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  1. I'm not sure if that works. I always thought you had to use one of the printer adapters - you can see them in old issues of the magazines, they plugged into the bitbanger and had knobs to adjust the baud rate to the printer. Obviously the Tandy printers just had the bitbanger port on both ends. Then again, I just found this with a quick google search: https://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue37/coco_printer.php
  2. I don't remember Zelda 2 being such a M$%^$%#@^&ing B*%^h back in the day.  I remember it being fun.

    My new playthough is becoming painful.  Thank the modern nerds for savestates!

    1. Frozone212

      Frozone212

      Nostalgia can be used for good, or it can screw us up so badly that there's no point in reliving the past.

       

      In my case, Rebuying Goldeneye. Was hyped, so disappointed 

    2. Kiwi

      Kiwi

      Select Cancel the first life/magic and go for the attack upgrade.  Those Bubble skulls are killable(Lots a stabbing) and worth 50 exp points.  Find exp bags.  Every 6th enemy you kill will drop a potion/exp bag. Once find a 1up on the overworld, don't collect and remember the location. You'll need it for the Great Palace. Remember where red potion in palace are, they respawn upon leaving/entering palace.  One town folks don't know which way is east or west telling you where Payapa Palace is.  I am not Error.

    3. Frozone212
  3. Cosmotrons has been at MGC for at least 5-6 years I think, I first played it when it was still at the Sheraton. It started as a PC game they were promoting, and just put it in a custom arcade cab for demonstration. Back then they even had a download of the beta you could play on your PC. At the shows their custom arcade cab got so much interest from operators that they decided to instead change it to an arcade product. Great story for them! Somewhere I still have the original beta .exe. Gotta find it, but the game has changed tons since then.
  4. FedEx woes continue.  Now they have my Tron Arcade1Up.  Says to be delivered today.  However this morning it left St. Paul, MN, which is two states away.  What?

     

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    2. digdugnate

      digdugnate

      That's so infuriating when that happens.  Hopefully it gets there soon!

    3. Albert

      Albert

      FedEx is my least favorite domestic carrier, especially FedEx Ground, which is how I assume your package was sent.  Hopefully you have your package soon!

    4. thanatos

      thanatos

      What's funny is that if it's FedEx ground, a friend of mine is the manager of all of the drivers of the local routes - so they'll get immediate feedback if I talk to him.

       

  5. So do the joysticks spin like a paddle from when first announced, or did they remove that feature?
  6. FedEx delivered my wife's Christmas present to the wrong place.  Tracking says "Left at leasing office".  We live in a house.

    1. Nathan Strum

      Nathan Strum

      But they did deliver it. So... job done! Merry Christmas! :roll: 

    2. joeatari1

      joeatari1

      Thanks for the panties.  I've needed some new ones for a while now.

    3. SoundGammon

      SoundGammon

      Had a lady tell me the other day that she stayed home from work to get a FedEx package that she missed the day before, note said they'd try the next day. She saw the FedEx truck pull up and the driver got out with NO package and slapped another note on the door and took off!

  7. Just finished Legend of Zelda (1st quest) for the first time in 30+ years - buying the new Game and Watch gave me the urge to play it on an emulator all the way through.  How nostalgic!

     

    And of course I used all the online maps I could - I am not going to brute force all the secrets me and my friends forgot all those years ago! :)

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    2. Rogerpoco

      Rogerpoco

      AWESOME!!!

      Been about ten years for me.

      Me and my then 4 y/o Grandson got mebbe a good 1/3 of the way thru, a couple of years ago.

      I had confidence that my(original)battery wouldn't fail, short test runs had worked out fine.

      That was a disappointing day, for sure...

      Even worse-I have an Everdrive, just wanted to do it on the real thing...

      :D
       

      I've changed/evolved my tastes recently, but SNES Zelda was my "favorite game ever" for a couple decades.

    3. Cobra Kai

      Cobra Kai

      That game and watch sure is tempting, it looks amazing.

    4. thanatos

      thanatos

      It's neat, super small, but playable.  Feels a bit light, they could have added some heavier materials to make it seem less cheaply made.

      Also for the price I would think they could have at least included some maps and instructions.  The only included instructions is how to plug it into the charger, and then 4 pages of legalese in multiple languages.  Nothing on how to use it at all.

       

       

       

  8. Spotted the new Zelda Game and Watch at Walmart today, so I picked one up.  My Amazon pre-order didn't even have a ship date yet, so that's kinda weird.  Guess I will have an extra one soon.

     

    Neat little gadget! (Didn't get the SMB one, so this is my first.)

    1. joeatari1

      joeatari1

      I saw a whole rack of them at my local Wal*Mart.  I probably should have picked one up while I was there.

  9. I had tickets for the Packers/Lions game where it made their last 0-16 season official. But I didn't want to make the drive, so I missed out on history.
  10. I wouldn't say technological limits, more like what they are using in the cabs are probably way too underpowered for House of the Dead.
  11. Wow, how did you join this board 14 years ago and this is your first post? How long have you been working on the game? Looks neat though!
  12. It would be perfect if they could add Revolution X to T2. Probably a licensing nightmare with Aerosmith though.
  13. I was kinda curious what you paid, wow. But welcome to the Jaguar club!
  14. We got ET as a Christmas gift, as well as pretty much everyone else I knew with an Atari that season. And we played it, had fun, and never complained or even thought that it was a bad game. We figured out how to not fall in holes or if you did, get out of them. Later on when we went to other's houses with it where they didn't know how to play, we'd show them how by winning a game. As kids we had no idea there was a "video game crash", I didn't know about it until years later. However, I do remember going to stores and sometimes mom or dad would let us pick a $2-$5 game out of the bargain bin. In hindsight that was obviously a result of the crash, but we had no idea, there was just a tub of cheap games at Kay-Bee!
  15. Is this a company? All I'm getting with searches is tripp lite branded stuff.
  16. I know one year I started the post because nobody else did. But, I'm not going, so I didn't bother. Maybe the one they currently have planned for next May.
  17. Upgrading to a new phone tonight.  I know I'm going to hate it simply due to old man syndrome. Had the current one for 5 years, which is definitely a record.

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    2. jd_1138

      jd_1138

      What kinda phone you going to? I usually keep a phone 2-3 years max. $200-$300 Android phones usually are only given security updates for a couple years and only get maybe 1 OS upgrade if you're lucky.

       

      I did have a Moto E ($120) for a year then upgraded to a Moto G ($200) and had it 2 years. Then I bought a refurb Google Pixel 2 that I thought I'd be able to use a couple years, but it was a lemon and had to return it. Then I went back to a Moto G for a year or so before getting this Nokia 4.2 2 years ago. It's on Android 10 and sadly last Security patch it got was 8 months ago. 

       

    3. thanatos

      thanatos

      I went from a Galaxy S7 to a Galaxy S20 FE.  

      I don't really worry about security update availability, because I don't install many apps, and don't go browsing unknown sites. 

       

      And yeah, I was heavily annoyed last night while in old man mode just due to all the notifications that started streaming in for all the apps I hadn't yet uninstalled or disabled.  And of course all the needless UX changes that aren't needed.  <shakes fist at cloud>

    4. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      I love my Samsung Galaxy (I'm too lazy to go look and tell ya which one) almost as well as my previous Samsung Galaxy.  I need a sticker for it that says, "Don't laugh.  It's paid for."  My goal is to hold onto it until the sun explodes.

  18. Probably around '88, we went to our aunt & uncle's house for a weekend about 2 hours away, and our cousin showed us their 7800. We already had an NES, and my sister and I pretty much laughed it off! "What's this crap? No Super Mario or Zelda?" I still kind of feel bad. Had no idea there was a newer Atari system back then!
  19. In my basement I have an X-Arcade on a table in front of a 55" screen, connected to a PC with all the emulators. We have frequent BBQ parties and any new folks that show up are told by other attendees "You HAVE to go to the basement arcade!" Then I am always asked the questions "Do you have Game X or Y or Z?" And I say every time "I have them all."
  20. Though, kind of useless once they got rid of most of the systems a few years ago... But I will definitely miss the holiday promo to pad your stats up! There go a whole bunch of useless internet points I had!
  21. Yeah, I don't get discord. Old man syndrome. Forums are searchable, now we have yet another chat with infinite scroll. ?
  22. Wow, kind of a shock. I should have used all those custom-free tickets. ?
  23. The whole thing seems crazy to me, since I played the original on launch day (or tried to... servers were down....) The internet was a bit different back then. And then I lost a whole ton of awesome gear because a friend got us into the cow level and we all got wasted. That hurt.
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