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our local arcade would give you a token for every A on your report card. suddenly, school work became a priority. ah, paper football. pencil fight on the bus, paper football at school.

i'm afraid it won't help. i know the solution. in a fit of 8th grade atari rage, i ripped the still running cart out of the console, pointed my finger at the game and cursed it to hell, mounted it to a tree and fired 3 rounds into the evil game. i was feeling proud since i taught that game a lesson. well, just to mock me, the game still worked. i gave up and figured the game owns me. that cursed game will not go with me to desert island paradise.

raiders of the lost ark even if i had 10 years, i still couldn't solve that damn game.

moycon, you are my hero. will you sign my boob? they say there is a fine line between genius and insanity. i'm going to mark you slightly on the genius side for this one.

i agree that dig dug and yars revenge are weird concepts but somehow they work. my 7th grade intellect had no problem accepting these because the games were cool. but eggomania - a bird is crapping eggs on a bear? can't ya just imagine the pitch someone gave: stoned dude: ok, there's like this big ... bird. but not a normal bird. a freaky bird. marketing: yes! go on. stoned dude: and he's trying to , like, lay eggs on you. not regular eggs, freaky eggs. marketing: great, then what stoned dude: you're a ... a ... bear! marketing: genius. any more ideas? stoned dude: how bout a picnic game? cake baking game? hey kids! what to play eggomania! huh? a waffle game? no, freaky bird crapping egg bear game!

wow, that was fast ... i didn't even get in one terrible guess.

as the population grows in AA, diversity is certian to follow. with more people, the more likely someone with bad manners is going to join in. after all, jerry springer is still on. a fundamental problem with message boards is that you don't have any visual feedback from the poster other than written word. i know there are smileys but when they decorate and conflict, it doesn't give a indication of the person's mood. other than someone blatantly stating "you suck you ugly monkey", you fill in the emotional content. as a newbie, i have found that you are evil until proven good. uncool until proven cool. the rules are alot like high school.

i just got my tar ship and it's almost as bad as star ship. all time worst game: mcdonald's. sure it's fun staring at the arches for the first hour, but then it gets really boring.

listen up, newbie. i stumbled upon this unwritten rule and got ripped a new ass by 1500 virtual e-brothers. attempting to be funny, i angered the board goddess. it was as funny as a turd in a punch bowl. don't anger the atari ladies (amiee, jun, atariChick, stanJr). just look at the e-mails i got: from: [email protected] dude! what are you doing! even i won't beat that hornet's nest. from: [email protected] ya made my boy cry. he's so depressed, he only got in 300 posts today. from: [email protected] spank the monkey, even we aren't that stupid. you, sir, are lower than sumguy for the love of god, please be laughing ... my ripped ass is finally healing. oh, in an unrelated note: satan wanted me to let you know that Adrian M is doing fine. in fact, he's upgrading hellNet to XP.

that's the facts, jack! don't ya just love how these threads morph to something completely different.

lighten up, francis. my thread was booted to classic game forum. help, help i'm being repressed.

is the main character of the strip moycon? i know there is a lack of bologna references but it sure looks like his pic.

if i had a nickel every time someone has come up to me and said they play the 2600 in a band, i'd have a nickel. i've gotta hear it. please post digital sample. i'm guessing it has a "funky town" sound.

chris, i like the story. btw, i enjoy your diversity (pc for posting psycho). i am a fan. my cousin got adventure and i got dark tower (board game, not atari cart). so many of hours of my life precious wasted on e-adventures. and how many more can i waste posting about it. i hope the police didn't take your "men at work" lp. oh well, i guess you still got you hall and oates collection. i'm hungry like the wolf.

holy crap, a rerun. now i'm really depressed.

the antique roadshow (collectible show on pbs) just did a story on the 2600. they showed ccw, waterworld, and toothprotectors and valued them at ~$100. they showed quadrun, the holy grail as they called it, and valued at $500-$1000. oh yeah, a heavy sixer at $100-$200. great, now every numb-nut in the world will try to get $100 for pac-man on e-bay. not to mention the goodwill atari mofia. anyone remember the glory days of flea malls getting several carts for $1? i'm a depressed cheap-bastard-anti-ebay-ahole-redneck.

good id, chris. monday is almost over.

ne146, chris was being funny (ref humor/sarcasm). see at the end of that line. this board needs closed captioning for the humor impaired. *ha ha ha* and for god's sake, put some clothes on that avatar. *ha ha ha*

the 2 ideas i'm thinking about: 1) rewrite games in java (or whatever) and add user ability to add to the game (ie, adventure flame throwers, 2nd player controls dragon, hand grenages, etc). 2) create an atari age game room. model it after something like yahoo! games. i image this idea has been thought of but our great providers of atari age lack time/resources to provide. the idea here being a pure java emulation of a game where player 1 and 2 are aquired from online. that way, pc vs mac wars could be settled thru online combat rather than message board holy war. just ideas.

i noticed many wanting to learn programming the 2600. tho i don't understand this amish behavior, i understand the desire to hack a game. so, i was thinking ... create a java simulator of the 2600 in which you could easily add new "stuff" to a game. for example, write adventure in java and then add a hand grenade to blow that ****ing bat to hell. given today's tools, this is a relatively easy task. the idea is not to create a java emulator (emu's exist tho maybe not in java) but a "things i wish the game had" simulation. you wouldn't want to go too far and lose the original "feel" of the game. also, this isn't a money making idea. this would be in the spirit of gnu. and java is an example also (just came to mind for portability and cost). opinions?/feedback?/advice?

i agree with everyone ... cool

I'm gonna go with name THIS game

solving the wife problem: for every dollar she spends on longaberger baskets, tupperware, clothes (including shoes), jewelry, hair care products, you get equal dollar amount for atari stuff. good part: you'll be able to store your atari stuff in expensive baskets bad part: you'll be going in debt at an exponential rate

Thanks everyone who helped me ID these carts. Needless to say, AtariAge (and the community of people) is the greatest.

I have the red label Yars and it is NTSC. The label looks exactly as the pic Al posted. I live in Virginia also and have seen many. Perhaps the red label Yars were distributed more in the east.