BIGHMW

Put me down for one. I have been waiting for Tempest on the 5200 for 25 years. Me too. I have been waiting for it to come out since the legendary Cindy Margolis and I both graduated from high school together at Erikson Center in Tarzana, California back in 1984. BTW, speaking of Erikson Center, you are lucky just to even survive Erikson Center, let alone graduate from there like we did.

You would think that maybe Atari Canada may have had it available, especially with NHL Hall Of Famer Wayne Gretzky's national popularity in that great nation rivaling that of the Prime Minister of Canada at the time (1980-88), but apparently not. As both a league bowler and also a hardcore Denny's PBA Tour fan http://www.PBA.com I second that RealSports Bowling idea as well. Also a RealSports Basketball (which was slated to come out for it originally in 1983) and a hacked and completed version of Asteroids would be nice too.

Wow, the Redmption being discontinued (?!?!) Good thing I got two 2600 adapters and two 7800 adapters back in 2002, after finding this great site thanks to some Atari 5200-related auctions (hosted by AtariAge) on eBay.

I myself use the Wico Keypad with a Redemption 5200 2600/Sega adapter for use with either my Wico 2600 "red-ball" stick for regular games like Pac-Man or Space Dungeon, or, the Atari 2600 Trak-ball for Centipede and Millipede, but, this setup won't work with either Missile Command or Super Breakout as they rely on the analog "feel" of the stock or Wico 5200 stick (if set to "non-centering"), which leaves me no other choice but to use the 5200 Trak-ball in whick the fire buttons are a bit inconsistant and suspect in critical situations (MIRV's in Missile Command, repetitive fire mode in Centipede/Millipede, etc) To get back on the subject of the Wico keypad brought up earlier, imagine this touch-tone-quality bad boy being used with a stick for either Star Raiders or Space Shuttle where you can have three persons participate, "Star Trek" style (not the game), where one could fly the star cruiser and activate the photons with the stick, one could activate the defense controls with the very-reliable Wico keypad, and one can play "Captain Kirk" and command the action (easy chair anybody?) Pretty cool, huh?