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  • Birthday 05/19/1966

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    Port Townsend, WA, USA
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    Cindy Margolis, The Oakland Raiders, Bowling (especially at the PBA level), Volkswagens, MiniDisc and its related technologies

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  1. Myself also in 1983, got it as my first Atari unit for my 17th birthday (May 19th, 1983), I’m on my second one, a 2-port with a 4-port BIOS in her, my first was an original 4-port with that automatic switch box, in which BITD was so badass because you never had to go to the TV to switch it from the TV to the unit, that then though, meant I couldn’t get the soon-to-be released 2600 adapter unless I got the mod done on her, in which I didn’t do. But yes the 5200 also brought me to Atari, in fact I know we love to call her Big Sexy but she also might as well be called “Rodney”, because somehow she gets no respect even to this day except from all of us loyalists like me and @Ryan Witmer who have done a tremendous service for our small but fiercely dedicated community.
  2. No apologies needed you’re fine after all this is somewhat of an 80s forum in a way it’s just eschewed more towards 80s gaming and culture too more than anything else. BTW, I also liked the Fieros too, but mainly the hatchback version (I believe that was a GT model also) put in the V6 and automatic and I’m good to go otherwise it’s the Knight Rider Trans Am FTW!!! My late mother owned a fully loaded 1979 Trans Am with the gold graphics package and a 6.6 Litre engine and automatic and we were SO BADASS at that time. She owned her from brand new, she even bought me my first ride, my 1999 New Beetle GLS, also from brand new, fully loaded, about a year before she passed away from brain cancer, and I even helped drive her into Seattle for treatment when she needed it too. My 1999 would suffer a rear end collision in December 2016 and with the lawsuit money I got from that crash I got my 2002 Beetle (also fully loaded also a GLS) in January 2017, she had 123,000 miles on her, she now has 305,000+ on her as I speak.
  3. Hey thank you for thinking of me, and my experience in creating content. I have been in the entertainment business since 1994 when I first hooked up with my management Len Enders back in the days when he was still frontman/keyboards with local Port Townsend/Port Hadlock-based "heavy gravel" band Circle Of Fear. We have been best friends since then, and as for Cindy Margolis, I happened to have the good fortune if having gone to high school with her from 1983-84 and I am very proud of her for her great career she had after graduating from the notorious Erik and Joan Erikson Center, in which you would be lucky to survive from, let along graduate like we did, it was part of the Los Angeles mental health system BITD and chances of making yourself into something coming out of there were slim and none (and slim left town deacdes ago), and that's why I look up to her because she "made it" in spite of those odds. I myself continue to push the bar she set for me (and us) because of her, hoping she'll notice me to the point where she can refer me to talent agents, because otherwise for me we are pretty much hermetically-sealed here in sparsely-populated, densely-rural, heavily isolated Port Townsend, Jefferson County, Washington.
  4. Yeah but also, they have a major problem (that they caused and are not willing to fix) with suppressing the lesser-known "smaller" channels (like all 3 of mine) to the point that they don't get noticed enough to warrant people to not put out content for them anymore, like what happened with me, because YouTube's infamous algorithm systems ARE RIGGED towards the corporate content while choking out the independent free-thinking original content creators like myself who want to get noticed or at least get a halfway descent following, in which for me less than 200 subscribers with less than 200 views of any of my videos on either of my 3 channels (BIGHMW TV, The Atari Report, and the Ray Jackson YouTube channel) just will not encourage me (or others like me) to continue to put out content knowing nobody will (be allowed to because of the rigged algorithms systems) view it. I have good-quality content, it's just the numbers do not show a proper view of how good it really is. Judge for yourself, I'm ready to reacquire new filming equipment to put out content on all 3 of my channels, it's just Google has got to put the "you" back into "YouTube" instead of giving into (and promoting) all of this corporate bullshit.
  5. Hey I'm coming up with these ideas in which were mostly inspired by the works of my favorite political commentator on YouTube, the great Brian Tyler Cohen. Brian Tyler Cohen, has several segments and series on his YouTube channel, in which has over 2.6 million subscribers including all 3 of my YouTube channels, including: The Legal Breakdown (with former federal prosecutor and current MSNBC contributor Glenn Kirschner) Democracy Watch (with attorney Marc Elias) Inside The Right (with Bullwurk Media host Tim Miller) Class (with US Representative Jamie Raskin [D - Maryland]) No Lie With Brian Tyler Cohen (BTC's very own podcast, available both on YouTube and on where ever you get your podcasts) BTC x MSNBC (his collaborations with MSNBC produced for YouTube) ....and so much more!!! Maybe I can get at least 2500 subscribers at this point so what do I have to lose???
  6. ......and yes it would have a segment of the official instrumental version of Hall & Oates' 80s hit "One On One" in the background with myself doing the opening voiceover (I do all my own stunts, so to speak )
  7. I even had pans on bringing it back with all-new content but was advised against it due to a lack of numbers, I had ideas for my channel for new original shows and even barnd new graphics packages for those shows including new title wallpapers and some unique ideas that would've brought the channel more attention and made it competitive with other existing retrogaming channels of the sorts, things like these: .....and even an interview series called "1ON1" in which I currently don't have the graphics package for ready as of this post but yes I DID have plenty of ideas, it's just that (my manager) Len Enders suggested that I only do them if I'm not "shooting for the numbers", so to speak. Now excuse me, but you know my hero and sole role model in the entertainment business and co-graduate from Erikson Center down in California (and believe me you are lucky to SURVIVE that place let alone graduate from there) who graduated from there 40 years ago last month, Cindy Margolis once had her own TV show back in the early 2000s and it didn't last 13 weeks but if you were to ask her (and she can come here on AtariAge and address both us and myself personally) if she would being it back just for fun, she would probably tell you the same thing, that "it's just not worth it". Plus, as WWE (now TKO Holdings COO) Triple H and Stephanie McMahon would both say... "it's what's best for business".
  8. I wanted to continue producing content for it, but the problem was that nobody was watching it, so I stopped doing not only it, but also my other two YouTube channels, because f**king Google suppressed all 3 of my channels (the others are BIGHMW TV and my Ray Jackson YouTube channel) into oblivion and obscurity, look at the numbers, or lack of them, so to say, they speak for themselves, their algorithms are RIGGED towards the corporate content!!! Independent free-thinking original content creators don't have any chance anymore of getting their channels even off the ground, let alone get noticed by iHeartRadio or 102.7 KIIS-FM or Cindy Margolis!!!
  9. Well yes the CX80 DOES work with Tempest Xtreem (I used it with that game on my previous XEGS so I know it works and yes you do maneuver the ball up or down to activate the Superzapper much like with a joystick) and I swear it’s pretty good with it much like the CX53 is with 5200 Tempest but I’d rather see 5200 Tempest ported over to the A8/XL/XE/XEGS for official authenticity’s sake and I wonder why @Albert won’t do it, 8-bit fans would love it as much as they do Adventure II XE that he put out years ago, what’s keeping him from putting this out???
  10. Yeah I do have the demo ROM of it but since I’ve played both I prefer to support the brilliant work of Keithen Hayenga and it’s a shame that this hasn’t been ported over to the A8/XL/XE/XEGS as I think it would be a smash for it, all you have to do is move the joystick up or down to activate the superzapper on it the same you would do with Xtreem or Elite, and while the added powerups and bells and whistles on V61’s offerings are nice for authenticity I prefer the classic version instead. I just wish someone would port 5200 Tempest to the 8-bit so there’d be no bickering, there are also other games that are also 5200 exclusives like Castle Blast as well as the entire Mean Hamster series of titles and a few homebrews but other than that that’s it.
  11. Well then I already have it for the 7800 so I’m good but you would think that maybe with the advances of what we can do with a 2600 that a version for it would now be doable.
  12. @Ben from Plaion one question, coming from a longtime Atarian (since 1983) will the new games also work on the older original hardware (like my 2600 Jr.)? I'm looking forward to trying the newer titles out on her, I never thought Food Fight would be doable 40 years ago like we know now that it COULD BE due to all the built-up knowledge of what a 2600 CAN and cannot do.
  13. You want a REAL, THIRD opinion/option? 1986 2600 Jr. Short Rainbow with TRRS-modded 1988 2600 Jr. Long Rainbow circuitry (due to its superior internal circuitry it being a Rev. A) with a RetroTink 2x (or since I have issues with certain games when using it I use my Insignia composite-to-HDMI converter). If you want 4:3 "fuzzed-out" old-school gaming use your television's onboard controls to do so and designate it for that particular HDMI input on your TV (most TV's nowadays have separate custom settings you can use for each individual input)
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